‘Rich countries must not become gated communities, their people averting their eyes from the bloodstains in the driveway,’ said Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN high…
As Friends, we are part of a worshipping community that is embedded within the much wider secular community. We are necessarily influenced by the changes in society generally, and…
In 1916 T Edmund Harvey, a prominent Quaker MP, was asked to visit the Friends’ Ambulance Unit (FAU) in France and Belgium and to take a message of goodwill from Friends to…
Quakers were born and began in times of much greater crisis than we are experiencing right now. When George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement, preached in Malton in North…
Faith is a difficult word. I looked it up in a dictionary to check what it means: the confidence or trust in a person or a thing, or a deity or teachings of a religion. What do I…
How can we harness the power of the group? Scottish Friends, meeting in Aberdeen on 10 September, heard a provocative address from Glasgow Friend Michael Hutchinson challenging us…
I didn’t join the Quakers; After Mass I attended their Sunday service. ‘Isn’t Mass enough for you?’ I understood Colleen’s question.
Michael Servetus (‘The Friends of God’, 8 July) was a polymath who realised that the theological concept of the Trinity was a product of Greek philosophy and not of the Bible.…
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