As we have come to the end of Ramadhan, the end of the month of fasting for the world’s two billion Muslims, I want to reflect upon what it means to ordinary people, both Muslims…
Friends have made vital contributions to the environmental movement. Canadian Quakers Irving and Dorothy Stowe were co-founders of Greenpeace. British Friends have been closely…
If you’ve never been to Quaker House in Brussels, you’re missing something. It’s a fine Art Nouveau former townhouse, recently restored to its original splendour by the…
What if… this really was the one answer to everything What if… there was absolutely nothing else to do but be still, and ask to know God
The title of Quaker MEP Jude Kirton-Darling’s Salter Lecture at Britain Yearly Meeting 2015 was ‘Trade deals: realistic concerns or rabble rousing?’ For me the wording either…
Women and children are rarely, if ever, instigators of war; but, according to the UN, they account for the majority of those affected by armed conflict. ‘Women in War in Their…
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