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.
Monday night was a bit of a letdown for watchers of the sky across the greater part of Scotland. It was billed as the night of the ‘supermoon’ – that time, once in a…
In 2014 I went to the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham with my husband to have a holiday and an opportunity to explore the lovely village of Bournville. I had always…
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