8th January 2016

The Good Syrian

by Martyn Kelly

The parable of the Good Samaritan has an often overlooked companion piece in the New Testament. I write ‘often overlooked’ not because the passage is not very familiar but…

8th January 2016

War and peace

by Jim Graham

Two conflicting views about the use of force by an individual were reflected in the Friend in the edition of 11 December 2015. One, in an article, states the one hundred per cent…

8th January 2016

Forgiveness and reconciliation

by Tommy Gee

Our excellent Asian doctor in Uganda was called doctor Ahmedi. He was a Muslim. In the nineteenth century some Ugandans had been converted to Muhammadism by Arab slave traders long…

8th January 2016

A New Zealand Psalm 23

by Volker Heine

How the shepherd loves his little woolly charges! Trot, trot, trot they run on their little stubby legs towards the spring green pasture tingling in their nostrils where he has…

1st January 2016

Restoring Blue Idol

by Kim Hope
1st January 2016

Are we still pagans?

by Anthony Boulton
1st January 2016

Castle or community?

by George Thurley and Oliver Robertson
1st January 2016

Clinging to the wreckage

by Keith Wedmore
1st January 2016

Thought for the Week: The Museum of Procrastination

by Nick Tyldesley

I don’t usually take much notice of the adverts screened before a feature film – distracted no doubt by a tub of popcorn – but recently one caught my attention. It was for a…

1st January 2016

A long, long race

by Tara Craig

Social media campaigner Lucy-Anne Holmes, warden at Welwyn Garden City Meeting House, ran a popular workshop at the recent Quaker Activists Gathering at Friends House on her ‘No…

1st January 2016

Old Man

by Chris Roe
18th December 2015

Thought for the Week: Hope

by Ian Kirk-Smith

It would be understandable if many Friends approach this Christmas as Friends may have done one hundred years ago – with a growing sense of apprehension. There has been much…