In his day, George Fox had good reason to raise objections to the established church: its rigid doctrines; its hireling priests and their demands for the payment of tithes to keep…
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…
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