Remember your responsibilities as a citizen for the conduct of local, national and international affairs. Do not shrink from the time and effort your involvement may demand.…
I write from Paris, and the international climate change conference, known as the Conference of Parties, or COP21. There are Quakers here from all over the world! The COP21 is an…
It is 100 years since the first world war – the ‘war to end all wars’. Yet the British armed forces have been deployed in conflicts around the world every year since then,…
As Quakers, we are called to work for the peaceable Kingdom of God on the whole Earth, in right sharing with all peoples. We recognize a moral duty to cherish Creation for future…
I need to spend time with my kind. For a day together we came from Edinburgh and London to Manchester. The gathering was organised by the QLGF, the Quaker LGBT+ Fellowship. We seek…
I am a natural hermit. Of the last forty-two years, I’ve shared a home for only twelve. I thrive on solitude and have developed a peculiar low-input lifestyle that few people…
This issue of the Friend is devoted to words, writing and books. Quakers, since the seventeenth century, have had a very close association with the written word. Books, despite a…
The inspiring story of how the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) ‘China Convoy’ brought medical and relief supplies to a devastated China in the dark years of the 1940s is told in A…
David Bleakley’s father worked in the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast and once put rivets into the hull of the Titanic. His son followed in his footsteps and did an…
At a meeting held in London on 2 November Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, announced the new London rate for the Citizens UK Living Wage. It is £9.40 an hour – up from…
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