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,…
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).…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
These days, when I’m talking to people, I tend to bring up the subject of refugees. It’s interesting how they respond. My plumber, who makes a point of employing ex-offenders…
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