The most unexpected gift of spending six weeks, as an Eva Koch Scholar, at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham was the stimulation of the seemingly free-form…
Last January my husband and I travelled to Tunisia for a winter break near Sousse. While the weather was colder than we had been expecting, the welcome was warmer. We took two…
To Friends everywhere, Loving Greetings, Srdečné pozdravy, kærlige hilsener, Hartelijke groeten, Lämpimin terveisin, salutations affectueuses, Liebe Grüße, Szeretettel…
It was a warm sunny day with, as one speaker said, the winds of change preventing it becoming stifling. The women inside Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre near Bedford…
When I was nine we went to live in Egypt. I was lucky, being the daughter of a journalist, as I had already travelled a lot. I liked languages and foreign places. I started school…
When religions engage with sustainability, they often start by revisiting scripture. Christians and Jews may refer to Psalm 24, which asserts that ‘the Earth is the Lord’s, and…
Summer morning come heat on the wine-field and the lizards crinkle understone. In olive groves cicadas chirr and the blunt lion-gate lies open to the…
I am 83 and intend to start a debate about how we oldies ought to manage. We have been dealt a double whammy by fate. For some 800,000 years of man we had several advantages…
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