6th November 2015

Thought for the Week: Free will

by Gerald Drewett

Hurricane Patricia, in October, was the most powerful tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. Fortunately, Patricia didn’t materialise as a killer. The most…

6th November 2015

The worst of human failures

by David Lockyer

‘Support our Heroes’ the poster, emblazoned with the poppy logo, declared. On it there was a photo of a gun-carrying soldier in battle fatigues, striding manfully. How…

6th November 2015

All roads lead to Birmingham

by Tara Craig

Driving rain failed to prevent sixty Quakers from finding their way to Bull Street Meeting House in Birmingham on 24 October, for the ‘Road Maps to Equality’ conference,…

6th November 2015

Milk for Babes and Meat for Strong Men

by Stuart Masters

Previously, we considered James Nayler’s tract The Lamb’s War against the Man of Sin, which was written in prison following his brutal punishment for blasphemy (9 October).…

6th November 2015

A very Quakerly Humpty Dumpty

by Bob Johnson

Would you welcome scientific proof for Quakerism? There is one, buried in the opening page of our Quaker faith & practice (1.01). Or, Option B, do you really cherish the sense…

30th October 2015

Thought for the Week: Hospitality

by Andrew Backhouse

How is your Meeting’s exploration of Quaker faith & practice going? We recently had our first discussion, after Meeting for Worship, in Wilmslow, using the advice from the…

30th October 2015

Scouting for outreach

by Hilary Cox, Laura Conyngham, Elaine Harrison and Joan Bond
30th October 2015

Paris, here we come!

by Laurie Michaelis

Last week, in Bonn, negotiators held their last round of talks before the Paris climate conference in early December. They must now hand over to politicians to make the decisions.…

30th October 2015

Mental health in prisons

by Denise Renshaw
30th October 2015

To All the Nations

by Stuart Masters

The opponents of early Friends often wrote lurid accounts of charismatic behaviour taking place within their Meetings in order to portray the movement as an outrageous and…

30th October 2015

From the archive: The hospital train

by Janet Scott
23rd October 2015

A democratic UK?

by Rebecca Fricker