‘Making change happen’ was the theme of the Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) Annual Spring Conference, held at Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 13…
Does vocal ministry come from God or from the Friend who speaks it? How does it happen? Is it distinctive from utterances made at other times? How do we recognise ‘true’…
The amount of discernment given to the main theme – ‘Living out our faith in the world’ – was one of the successes of Yearly Meeting 2015, held at Friends House between 1-4…
‘The end of words is to bring men to the knowledge of things beyond what words can utter.’ These words by Isaac Penington, said some 300 years ago, speak so much to me with…
For the past eighteen months I have been funded by a Gerald Hodgett Award to visit Meetings in Britain Yearly Meeting to talk about gender and the Divine: more specifically, to…
‘Friends are standing on the brink of a new depth in their concern for housing and action is bubbling up in many quarters.’ Jenny Brierley, clerk of the Quaker Housing Trust,…
A hundred and thirty children and young people took part in programmes for under-eighteens at Yearly Meeting. They reflected on inequality and injustice through a range of creative…
A renewed commitment to address the root causes of social and economic injustice in the world and to take action, individually and collectively, prompted by a spirit of love, was…
Jude Kirton-Darling, a Quaker, MEP and long-time labour activist, began the 2015 Salter Lecture by telling listeners to look ‘right at the centre of the struggle for social and…
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