If the object of the exercise is to ‘Let your life speak’, then perhaps Friends might care to look for a suitable role model as inspiration? I have always turned to Albert…
The Friend carried an evocative report in the issue of 7 April 1916 that conveyed some of the effects of the battle of Verdun, which had brought a stream of refugees from the…
Advice & queries number 5 urges us to ‘take time to learn about other people’s experience of the Light… As you learn from others, can you in turn give freely from what…
We are bombarded with what are supposed to be facts from both sides in the argument about whether Britain should leave the European Union (EU) or remain in it. It’s obvious that…
In his poem ‘Aubade’, Philip Larkin writes of ‘the dread of dying, and being dead’. The poem’s tone is bleak. Religion is dismissed as a trick ‘to pretend we never…
Living simply can be anything but simple. At the Britain Yearly Meeting Sustainability Gathering last month, Friends spoke of their dilemmas in cultivating low carbon lives; air…
When in Italy I have a problem explaining what Quakers are and what they believe. For that matter, I even find it difficult to translate the name ‘Quakers’, as very few people…
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