One of the ways that contemporary Quaker practice has become impoverished is by the loss of a shared spiritual language. Instead of a common vocabulary for sharing our experiences…
I sometimes hear Friends substituting ‘that of good in everyone’ for George Fox’s words ‘that of God’. Both ‘good’ and ‘God’ have such wide connotations that they…
The one thing we can say with certainty about the EU referendum is that there will be a lot of unhappy people waking up on 24 June. It may be that one of the most helpful things…
Oxford University Press recently announced ‘Refugee’ as the ‘Children’s Word of the Year’ for 2016. They chose it because so many children had been using the word in…
Yearly Meeting in 1916 was deeply aware that as it met some of its members were in prison for conscience sake, and many others were engaged in service to relieve suffering.…
In a broadcast Good Friday meditation given by an ex-colleague I was surprised to hear him speaking about the way in which listening to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos had been the…
Our vision for Europe is of a peaceful, compassionate, open and just society, using its moral influence to encourage other countries and peoples towards the same goals. It is of a…
The quality of public debate on the forthcoming EU referendum has, sadly, rarely lifted above the level of pantomime. Are we better off in the EU? The media seems to be filled with…
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