Transformation seems to be the ‘in’ word today. Both recent Swarthmore lecturers used it. It was in the title of the event ‘Transforming ourselves, transforming the system’…
I am one of the ‘bereaved people who may see, hear or vividly dream about their loved ones’ that Angela Howard wrote about in an article, ‘An eternity before us’, which was…
The 27 January is the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Holocaust Memorial Day, held annually on this day, will be commemorated…
In 1969 I was a student in Paris, disillusioned with organised religion and excited and alarmed by the revolutionary fervour of post-1968 France. One day, on a wander through the…
Those who claim journalistic privilege in seeking the right to satirise religion, and religious figures, may have never viewed the original cartoons that enraged some Muslims to…
From early in the first world war there was discussion amongst Friends about the attitude to be taken to members of the Religious Society of Friends who enlisted in the armed…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, in the Latin, contingit stercore - which is most decorously translated as ‘bad things happen’. Now, it is equally true that when…
Christmas and the New Year holiday season is a time when the stark contrast between those who have and those who have not pricks the conscience of most of us, if only fleetingly.…
In my career as a journalist, I have riled people. At The Elmira Independent in Canada and at the Friend I have published and written things at which people have taken umbrage.…
It was followed by fifteen minutes of silent worship and then everyone in attendance sang the song ‘Simple Gifts’. The Union Chapel hosts the Quaker Christmas Shelter each…
"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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