7th August 2015

Call to adventure

by Laurie Michaelis

Looking around the circle of Friends in Meeting for Worship, I am conscious of the diversity of our journeys. Most of us are probably in the second half of our lives; we have had…

7th August 2015

Being

by Alex Thomson
31st July 2015

Thought for the Week: Patterns of Life

by Jonathan Doering

There is a possibly apocryphal story about a monastery where the monks honoured the sacredness of every human encounter by saying of visitors, ‘Jesus has arrived’. The…

31st July 2015

Friendship knows no barriers

by Leonora Davies
31st July 2015

Trade deals and transparency

by Jude Kirton-Darling

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a series of trade negotiations being carried out, mostly in secret, between the EU and the US. TTIP was the subject of…

31st July 2015

Pacifism in war

by Daisy Doncaster

Conscientious objection to military service during the second world war is a significant chapter of Quaker history. The Religious Society of Friends has a long history of pacifism…

31st July 2015

Where do I stand?

by Noël Staples

In saint Bernard of Clairvaux’s sermon ‘The Roe and the Young Fawn’ there is a beautiful, mystical passage in which he writes of his experience of the Divine Spirit: I admit…

31st July 2015

Midsummer Meeting

by Clare Banham

On a bright summer’s day in a small country town Meeting began when the first Friend sat down. Hard on her heels came a youth at a jog, A hiker, a biker, a dentist, his dog. A…

31st July 2015

From the archive: Moving towards conscription

by Janet Scott

Letter to the Friend ‘Do we not owe a… duty to our young men and those who are of enlistment age who are like-minded, in view of the insidious danger of forced labour and…

24th July 2015

Darkness of the soul

by Isobel Lane
24th July 2015

Science and God

by Edward Hoare
24th July 2015

Quakers in Mosedale

by Friends from Mosedale