Time passes so quickly it seems, even in prison. It seems like yesterday that I was in a darkness I had never experienced before. My thanks to my Quaker mentor still lingers in my…
I start the weekend with Love. I have been stressed, and arrive with my protective masks on. I meet one whose strong love is particularly beautiful – you know Quakers like this…
Last week a man killed himself and more than twenty other people at a metro station about 200 metres from Quaker House Brussels. Two other explosions at the airport killed eleven…
‘It’s changed my life!’ This is not a phrase teenagers often use about a school trip connected with peace education. It’s Monday morning back in school after a weekend at…
It is a natural tendency, as we get on in years, to take stock of our lives. This process inevitably involves both acknowledging what we have done and coming to terms with what we…
Very little is reliably known of Jesus of Nazareth. A vast amount – enough to fuel a world religion for almost 2,000 years – is claimed of him. There are fewer than a handful…
Is it possible to have social justice and property in a world of ‘monopoly money’ speculation and quantitative easing? Is it a challenge, a cause or just an oxymoron? For many…
In the edition of the Friend published on 31 March 1916 there was a contribution from the leading American Quaker Rufus Jones. It contained the words: We must set ourselves to…
On Palm Sunday traditional Christians process around their churches, politely flourishing palm crosses. They are celebrating the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, riding a donkey…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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