11th March 2016

Passing the problem by

by Ian Beeson
11th March 2016

Thought for the Week: A silent prayer for peace

by Jane Taylor

The invitation was issued by Mo: to join in a silent prayer for peace, in Lancaster market square, on the museum steps, from eleven o’clock to noon on Saturday 20 February. Her…

11th March 2016

Moving beyond difference

by Gretchen Castle

At the World Plenary Meeting I had the distinct feeling that we, as Friends, are evolving. Someone described our time together in Pisac, Peru, as ‘soft’, as an experience of…

11th March 2016

Pisac and equality

by Daniel Hewitt

We met together for nine days (19-27 January 2016) in a beautiful valley 10,000 feet up in Pisac, Peru. The Inca culture, ancient terraces and the remains of cities from the…

11th March 2016

Housing and inequality

by Fred Ashmore

A deep concern for the future of social housing in Britain was one of the main themes to emerge from a one-day conference organised by London Quakers that was held on 20 February…

11th March 2016

‘Fierce Feathers’, ambulance trains and surrealism

by Simon Colbeck

Oxhey Grange, near Watford, was the home of James Doyle Penrose, the artist of two familiar Quaker paintings: The Presence in the Midst and None Shall Make them Afraid (perhaps…

11th March 2016

Water of Life

by Bob Morley

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