Bits of Truth come as Certainty. Where do they come from? Is that Gnosis? Does Certainty come via Intuition? A Knowingness that its Guidance is from the Holy Spirit? Yes, a…
8:16 am 6 August 1945 American pilots dropped the world’s first atom bomb on Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the explosion. At least…
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…
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