The need to review Green Belt policies has been in the news and recently prompted two letters in the Friend. One was from Jonathan Riddell (3 February), which refers to a previous…
The United States of America has a new president. There are huge differences between Donald Trump (2016) and other Time magazine ‘Persons of the Year’ like Mohandas Gandhi…
‘As we enter with tender sympathy into the joys and sorrows of each other’s lives, ready to give help and to receive it, our Meeting can be a channel for God’s love and…
The first piece is the deepest, the root from which peace grows; the silence that calms and heals; the point of is-ness when there is no I; no me, no not me; no knowing, no not…
There is, today, a practical, ethical and Christian debate on the subject of death and dying. London Quakers addressed this important concern at a one-day conference on 28 January.…
There were signs of spring in the gardens at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre with the conference on ‘Forced migration: how can Quakers respond?’ took place over the first…
The recent conference held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, on 3-5 February, raised many important and challenging questions regarding forced migration and, in particular,…
1917 began with a severe winter. At Sidcot, the Quaker school in North Somerset, the thermometer registered three degrees Fahrenheit. It was the coldest it had been for twenty-two…
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