It’s been the elephant in the room for a while. Quakers are predominantly middle class, white and well-educated. While inequality in the UK has risen, and austerity has hit the…
Many Quaker Meetings struggle to maintain an active children’s group. This may not be so much to do with what Quakers are offering or not offering but more to do with the…
The powers of the West, the greatest and the best, agreed to make a plan for no more war. After days and nights of labour, each resolved to love his neighbour by spending more on…
The night that the old Liverpool Meeting House was blitzed Gordon Henderson was a young member of Liverpool Meeting. The old Hunter Street Meeting House, which dated from 1791, had…
Quakers have always had a certain sympathy for the Jews. Like them, we were once excluded from the professions, so went into banking and commerce, and we were particularly active…
‘Self-serving obfuscation’ is a fancy phrase, but what does it mean? It is about using language to confuse and to avoid real dialogue and communication.
Some years ago, I read an article about the growth of extreme nationalism in the south-west of England. This was manifested in antisemitic behaviour and actions. Yet the south-west…
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