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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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