I have a confession to make: I’m reluctant to wear a ‘Quakers for Peace’ badge. Like ‘god’, peace means different things to different people. To some, it is avoiding or…
Spiritual truth is not like maths and physics, where we have a universal language precisely defined and understood in the same way around the globe ‘from Tokyo to Timbuktu’. I…
New Milton Meeting has spent time on how we might be able to ameliorate the current immigration crisis. We opened our meeting with a quotation from Quaker faith & practice…
Friends met at The Pales, originally a burial ground for Friends in the seventeenth century, since they could not be buried in churchyards. Today there is a Meeting house there…
A year or so ago our Local Meeting introduced name labels for members and regular attenders. Like some other Friends, I felt a resistance to the idea but have begun to feel more…
My interest in illegal drugs policy began when I went to work as a psychologist in the English prison service in 1974. Other influences have been meeting with Bolivian Quakers…
A Friend recently wrote, in a book review of A Man that Looks on Glass by Derek Guiton, that ‘The Society of Friends is in crisis’. Is it … and in what way? A few years ago…
Suzanne (Jill) Bennett is fifty-seven and a member of Sidmouth Meeting. She took off to travel through South America on her own earlier this year with the intention of making her…
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