Sharing groups are good experiences. The men’s sharing group I attended at Pendle Hill for a year was wonderful. But should a sharing group claim to be a religion?
You were warned what would happen if you invaded Iraq but you left us facing a predictable fate with bombs. We needed friendship, not an attack.
Some years ago I read that the thing to do with pain was to give it as a gift to God. Dear heavens, I thought, what kind of a ‘gift’ is that? The author clearly didn’t mean…
One of the most important of the original Quaker insights is that our testimony is what we do. It is not what we say we believe or what we claim to value that matters, but what we…
With the parliamentary approval of Trident renewal, our witness for nuclear disarmament must find a new way forward. Along with my fellow Young Quakers within Young Friends General…
About sixty people gathered around tables in Hebden Bridge Town Hall on Sunday 9 October to discuss what human security meant for them – as individuals, in our community, country…
Ystyriwch, Gyfeillion annwyl, gymhellion cariad a gwirionedd yn eich calonnau. Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Friends in Wales hold…
Church and Peace, the European ecumenical network which grew out of dialogue between the peace churches following the second world war, has had a fairly low profile in its Britain…
During 1916 the Friends Foreign Mission Association of the Religious Society of Friends celebrated its jubilee. The Association was set up in 1866 in the wake of the religious…
I beg you to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart. Learn to love the questions like locked rooms or books written in a foreign tongue.
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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