Daisy comes to Meeting, greets us as she enters with a throaty wruff, lifts her big body round to nose each person, fur softer than silk, eyes wet with doggy love. We sit in our…
Quakers have been less than successful in growing their Meetings. Membership is steadily declining. However, modern communications may help. When our Local Meeting in Barnt Green…
In the opening worship on the Saturday morning of Yearly Meeting I was more than a little disturbed to hear a Friend in ministry assert, with apparent pride, that ‘As Quakers we…
Last year more than 3,000 babies, children, women and men were drowned in the Mediterranean, having set out from North Africa in unseaworthy ships operated by pirates in a…
A central Quaker tenet is the divinity in all humans, that ‘we are all children of God’. This has implications for how we want people to be treated and what we do. Sometimes…
Recently in Uganda I mediated a dispute between a wife and her husband. They were poor smallholders and he was a deacon in the church. One of their three goats was killed by a…
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