Amongst the many events intended to keep alive the memory of the Nazi genocide of Jews, in January I attended a Holocaust Memorial Day event in York. A Jewish Quaker gave a…
With some trepidation, I find myself wanting to write about God and membership of the Religious Society of Friends; and about that old-fashioned word, convincement. I first found…
The Cross today might seem obscure. Not so, in the so-called ‘Islamic’ State’s recent video of beheading twenty-one Coptic Christians. Its captions make two mentions. The…
The role of Quakerism in education was a central concern at the recent Friends School Council Annual Governors’ Conference. The conference brought together forty-six governors,…
Equality is a core value in Quakerism. It has been a testimony of the Religious Society of Friends for centuries and has its roots deep in faith and personal experience. A key part…
The Friend is published by a charity, The Friend Publications, which has a board of Quaker trustees and a small number of paid staff. Both editorially and in governance, we are…
Labels are a method of shorthand that we use to embrace a concept. They are very useful and very powerful. However, the power of labels can also be misused and can be very…
"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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