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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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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