8th May 2015

When the earth moves

by Tracey Martin

At 11.45am on Saturday 25 April the earth literally moved under my feet and continued to move for about four minutes. It seemed much longer. I was in Lalitpur over the river from…

8th May 2015

Britain Yearly Meeting 2015: Faith and action

by Elinor Smallman
8th May 2015

Thought for the Week: Britain Yearly Meeting 2015 Epistle

by Britain Yearly Meeting

Loving Greetings to Friends everywhere, We have come together with joy, seeing one another’s faces and hearing one another more clearly in our new light-filled Meeting house. We…

1st May 2015

Bearing the keys

by Harvey Gillman
1st May 2015

Thought for the Week: Be the message

by Ian Kirk-Smith

‘Living out our faith in the world’ is the theme of this year’s Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM). It follows three years in which BYM addressed the question: ‘What it means to…

1st May 2015

The housing crisis: putting faith into action

by Dorothy Hamilton
1st May 2015

Promises and plain speaking

by Roland Carn
1st May 2015

Space for the Spirit?

by Paul Parker and Helen Drewery

For Yearly Meeting 2015 we have been given the gift of space: the precious temporal space of three days to spend in Meeting for Worship together, in prayerful listening for the…

1st May 2015

Where to for religion?

by Gillian Metheringham

Richard Dawkins is well known for doing battle with religion in general, and with what he calls the ‘interventionist, miracle-wreaking, thought-reading, sin-punishing,…

1st May 2015

Quakers and the European Union: the future

by Oliver Robertson

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union (EU) in 2012 was widely mocked in Britain. Yet its achievements have been among the most impressive of all Nobel…

1st May 2015

Worship God, don’t use God

by Peter Speirs

‘Worship God, don’t just use God’ was just one of the messages given by Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations, during a two-day…

1st May 2015

The Book of Discipline

by Rhiannon Grant

Before any revision of the Book of Discipline can take place – before the Yearly Meeting can even decide whether or not any such revision should take place – there needs to be…