In January 1916 the Military Service Act was passed and introduced conscription enlisting unmarried men aged between eighteen and forty-one in the regular forces for the duration…
The first Quakers were encouraged to ‘look within’ and see themselves as they really were. George Fox exhorted them: ‘Your strength is to stand still, after ye see…
For a group of people who value silence, and whose mode of worship is based on deep silence, we Friends do get hung up about words: ‘theist or nontheist’, God-language or…
Quakerism grows on me. As I fast approach my eightieth year, and am continually intrigued and puzzled by life’s changing and challenging experiences, I relish its solidity all…
The overriding sensation on first arriving at the Quaker Christmas Shelter is one of bustle, of things getting done. It is evening and in the basement of Islington’s Union Chapel…
Brag, sweet tenor bull, descant on Rawthey’s madrigal. Basil Bunting, Briggflatts We straggle across a stubble field, tuned in to the rasp of straws, squeak-clunk of a…
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