11th March 2016

God is reality

by Abigail Maxwell

I am a materialist. I do not believe in Spirit as some sort of miasma, or ether, or non-baryonic thing, which in some way interacts with the physical world in which I have my…

4th March 2016

Thought for the Week: Grace-full Quakers

by Rosalind Smith

Who can you call to mind that has grace? What is this elusive quality exhibited unconsciously by some, and seemingly completely missing in others?

4th March 2016

Plane Stupid

by Paul Honigmann

While I have sympathy with the sincerity of the Plane Stupid demonstrators at Heathrow last July, who have now been given suspended sentences, I also have misgivings. The blockade…

4th March 2016

Facing the end

by Jan Arriens

We are in the visiting room at Florida State Prison. Mike Lambrix, condemned to death, on one side, holding court behind glass and speaking through a small disc with slots. On the…

4th March 2016

Drugs: a contentious issue

by Voirrey Faragher
4th March 2016

Laurence Lerner

by Laurence Lerner and Philip Gross
4th March 2016

The deep pit

by Lydia Vulliamy
4th March 2016

Where is the Spirit?

by Martin Pennock

Never having spent more than a day in a hospital it came as a shock to the system to be wheeled into Critical Care at West Suffolk Hospital and then transferred to Papworth…

26th February 2016

Thought for the Week: Objection sustained

by David Boulton

I am honoured to have been invited to guest-edit this special edition of the Friend, and I thank Ian Kirk-Smith and his hard-working team for helping me put it together. I hear the…

26th February 2016

2 March 1916: D-day for conscientious objectors

by David Boulton
26th February 2016

Archive photographic montage: Conscription and conscience

by The Friend

Above top left: Conscientious objectors put to work in Dartmoor prison (courtesy of The Peace Pledge Union). Above top right: T Edmund Harvey, Quaker Liberal MP who drafted the…

26th February 2016

The politics of conscription and conscience

by David Boulton