29th July 2016

Thought for the Week: Faith, hope and love

by Trish Carn

Over the past few days the chorus of a song keeps repeating in my brain: ‘Faith, hope and charity, that’s the way to live successfully. How do I know? The Bible tells me so.’…

29th July 2016

No deterrent

by Ken Veitch

On 18 July MPs voted by a large majority for the continuation/renewal of Trident, the UK’s weapon of mass destruction, with only the Scottish National Party MPs voting solidly…

29th July 2016

The Chilcot Report

by Richard Stewart

Several months before the publication of the Chilcot Report our Ipswich Meeting decided to organise a silent vigil in the middle of town. We picked Friday 8 July, which gave enough…

29th July 2016

Europe

by Ruth E Jones

The referendum has been a wake-up call across the voting and non-voting spectrum and many of us have learned a huge amount about our own myopia. While many are paying a very high…

29th July 2016

Feeding the darkness

by Lynn and David Morris

The challenge offered to us was that of creating and delivering a theatre piece that would address head on the issue of state-sponsored torture in relation to the UN Universal…

29th July 2016

Is compassion failing or just ailing?

by Dorothy Buglass

Where can you go to listen to a Tibetan lama, a Jesuit priest, a Sufi Muslim activist, a Quaker and a social anthropologist in a single weekend? Answer: the Quaker Universalist…

29th July 2016

From the archive: A variety of service

by Janet Scott

The Battle of the Somme, which began on 1 July and continued until November 1916, was one of the bloodiest battles in human history. More than one million men were wounded or…

22nd July 2016

Thought for the Week: Values and value

by Jonathan Griffith

During the period of December to February I gradually lost all functions in my right arm. This would be bad enough normally but, having cerebral palsy, that arm was essential for…

22nd July 2016

Quakers and Business

by Denise Stanley-Chard
22nd July 2016

Which Meeting house?

by Andrew Backhouse

We’re six floors high – a lovely building on a lovely street, close to the railway station and with natural lighting into the basement. The central staircase has original iron…

22nd July 2016

Reading the ‘Red Book’

by Terry Oakley
22nd July 2016

The sense of presence

by Noël Staples

Recently I ministered about how my sense of the presence seemed that morning to delight in itself and how I shared in that delight. It isn’t always thus. Sometimes I seem to…