Over the last twenty years I have been aware of a continuing trend for Quakerism to become more liberal as it has moved away from its Christocentric roots. As a member of the…
Many associate Quakers with chocolate making. Some mistakenly think Quakers were also involved in producing porridge oats. Few people associate the production of leaf tea with…
For me a foundation of Quaker faith is the idea that there is no division between the sacred (spiritual, meditative, religious, sacramental) and the secular (material, busy,…
The Human Rights Act (1998) stems from the European Convention on Human Rights (1950). This Convention was set up after the second world war in order to ensure that never again…
It is not just because I am deaf that I think ‘afterword’ is a very bad idea. I do not know how widely this practice has been taking hold in Britain Yearly Meeting as a whole…
‘Slavery and Liberation’ was the theme of the North East Thames Area Meeting All Age Gathering held in April. The weekend covered the history, current situation and role of the…
In June Charles Tauber reached twenty years living in Vukovar, a town near the Croatian-Serbian border. Vukovar was devastated by violent conflict during the Yugoslav wars of the…
Bits of Truth come as Certainty. Where do they come from? Is that Gnosis? Does Certainty come via Intuition? A Knowingness that its Guidance is from the Holy Spirit? Yes, a…
8:16 am 6 August 1945 American pilots dropped the world’s first atom bomb on Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the explosion. At least…
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