22nd May 2015

Turning the tide of injustice

by Sila Collins-Walden

‘Making change happen’ was the theme of the Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) Annual Spring Conference, held at Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 13…

22nd May 2015

Vocal ministry

by Ian Kirk-Smith

Does vocal ministry come from God or from the Friend who speaks it? How does it happen? Is it distinctive from utterances made at other times? How do we recognise ‘true’…

15th May 2015

Britain Yearly Meeting 2015: Yearly Meeting celebrates diversity of witness

by Ian Kirk-Smith, Elinor Smallman, Roland Carn, Tara Craig and Philip Austin

The amount of discernment given to the main theme – ‘Living out our faith in the world’ – was one of the successes of Yearly Meeting 2015, held at Friends House between 1-4…

15th May 2015

Junior Yearly Meeting 2015: Epistle

by Junior Yearly Meeting
15th May 2015

Friendship and discovery

by Elinor Smallman
15th May 2015

Thought for the Week: An ocean of awareness

by Christopher Goodchild

‘The end of words is to bring men to the knowledge of things beyond what words can utter.’ These words by Isaac Penington, said some 300 years ago, speak so much to me with…

15th May 2015

Gender and the Divine

by Jennie Barnsley

For the past eighteen months I have been funded by a Gerald Hodgett Award to visit Meetings in Britain Yearly Meeting to talk about gender and the Divine: more specifically, to…

15th May 2015

Housing as a tested concern

by Tara Craig

‘Friends are standing on the brink of a new depth in their concern for housing and action is bubbling up in many quarters.’ Jenny Brierley, clerk of the Quaker Housing Trust,…

8th May 2015

Britain Yearly Meeting 2015: Children and young people

by Elinor Smallman

A hundred and thirty children and young people took part in programmes for under-eighteens at Yearly Meeting. They reflected on inequality and injustice through a range of creative…

8th May 2015

Britain Yearly Meeting 2015 in photographs

by Trish Carn, Junior Yearly Meeting and Anne van Staveren

8th May 2015

Living out our faith

by Ian Kirk-Smith

A renewed commitment to address the root causes of social and economic injustice in the world and to take action, individually and collectively, prompted by a spirit of love, was…

8th May 2015

Trade deals: realistic concerns or rabble-rousing?

by Tara Craig

Jude Kirton-Darling, a Quaker, MEP and long-time labour activist, began the 2015 Salter Lecture by telling listeners to look ‘right at the centre of the struggle for social and…