Burning books is agreed to be an outrage. Books are the repository of the history and culture of the forebears of a people and are revered as the representation of shared…
A momentous debate in parliament is likely to be held this autumn, according to comments trailed by David Cameron, the prime minister, and Michael Fallon, secretary of state for…
The ‘Friends of Nature House’, a hostel set in lovely wooded country near the university city of Wageningen, was the venue for Netherlands Yearly Meeting 2015, which took place…
Looking around the circle of Friends in Meeting for Worship, I am conscious of the diversity of our journeys. Most of us are probably in the second half of our lives; we have had…
There is a possibly apocryphal story about a monastery where the monks honoured the sacredness of every human encounter by saying of visitors, ‘Jesus has arrived’. The…
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a series of trade negotiations being carried out, mostly in secret, between the EU and the US. TTIP was the subject of…
Conscientious objection to military service during the second world war is a significant chapter of Quaker history. The Religious Society of Friends has a long history of pacifism…
In saint Bernard of Clairvaux’s sermon ‘The Roe and the Young Fawn’ there is a beautiful, mystical passage in which he writes of his experience of the Divine Spirit: I admit…
On a bright summer’s day in a small country town Meeting began when the first Friend sat down. Hard on her heels came a youth at a jog, A hiker, a biker, a dentist, his dog. A…
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