What is Quaker leadership? This was the question running through my mind when I applied for the Young Adult Leadership Programme (YALP) at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre. The…
In the 1990s I was on writing teams for several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This UN body carries out definitive assessments of climate change,…
Art benefits us in so many ways. It nourishes our spirits and provides sanctuary for our troubled souls. It encourages peaceful, joyful collaborations, cements communities and…
In the entrance to St James’s Church in Piccadilly are some words of welcome: ‘Our community is widely representative of partnered and single people, straight, gay and…
The Friends’ War Victims Relief Committee was very active in the late summer of 1915. These extracts from a report of the Committee, published on 10 September, convey the scope…
In Genessee Diary, an account of staying for seven months in a Trappist monastery, Henri Nouwen, the Dutch priest, writes about the discomfort of living as a contemplative while…
"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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