‘I am interested in what constitutes loneliness and in the difference between solitude and loneliness.’ Jennifer Kavanagh is best known for a series of thoughtful non-fiction…
Hands can be used in many ways. They can attack or they can succor. For years I have been fascinated with my own hands. One regret I have is that I didn’t photograph them when I…
Fifteen Quakers are contesting the general election, all of them in English constituencies. Seven of the candidates represent the Green Party, four the Labour Party, three the…
The international dimension to the general election was the subject of the first hustings to be organised in the Large Meeting House at Friends House in London. It was a revealing…
For over 500 years Leicester was the resting place of a ruler and warrior. This man, who died a violent death, was taken into protective and prayerful custody by the grey friars.…
At the beginning of February around twenty Friends involved in various forms of Quaker chaplaincy met together at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham for a weekend…
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) experience has an uncomfortable place within faith groups. Quakers have gone much further than other faiths in embracing…
Often I am drawn to experiences of early Friends and their talk about the movements within that they felt and shared with the early Quaker community. Sometimes George Fox’s words…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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