10th July 2015

Finding peace and justice

by Lisa Hoyle

Nimrod Evron is an Israeli citizen who stands in opposition to Israeli state policy and the occupation. He has played a pivotal role in setting up organisations working with youth…

10th July 2015

Kirchentag 2015

by David and Marjorie Rolfe
10th July 2015

Fountains of ideas

by David Lockyer

The most unexpected gift of spending six weeks, as an Eva Koch Scholar, at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham was the stimulation of the seemingly free-form…

3rd July 2015

Thought for the Week: Tunisia

by Trish Carn

Last January my husband and I travelled to Tunisia for a winter break near Sousse. While the weather was colder than we had been expecting, the welcome was warmer. We took two…

3rd July 2015

Gathering at Woodbrooke

by EMES-FWCC

To Friends everywhere, Loving Greetings, Srdečné pozdravy, kærlige hilsener, Hartelijke groeten, Lämpimin terveisin, salutations affectueuses, Liebe Grüße, Szeretettel…

3rd July 2015

Set her free

by Chris Gwyntopher

It was a warm sunny day with, as one speaker said, the winds of change preventing it becoming stifling. The women inside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre near Bedford…

3rd July 2015

God and Allah

by Lesley Morris

When I was nine we went to live in Egypt. I was lucky, being the daughter of a journalist, as I had already travelled a lot. I liked languages and foreign places. I started school…

3rd July 2015

A reason to hope

by Laura Shipler Chico
3rd July 2015

Pedalling the Kingdom

by Jonathan Doering
3rd July 2015

Gleanings: Living with diversity

by Laurie Michaelis

When religions engage with sustainability, they often start by revisiting scripture. Christians and Jews may refer to Psalm 24, which asserts that ‘the Earth is the Lord’s, and…

3rd July 2015

Mykene

by Roger Iredale

Summer morning come heat on the wine-field      and the lizards crinkle understone. In olive groves cicadas chirr and the blunt lion-gate lies open to the…

26th June 2015

Thought for the Week: Our relationships

by Keith Wedmore

I am 83 and intend to start a debate about how we oldies ought to manage.   We have been dealt a double whammy by fate. For some 800,000 years of man we had several advantages…