Amongst the many events intended to keep alive the memory of the Nazi genocide of Jews, in January I attended a Holocaust Memorial Day event in York. A Jewish Quaker gave a…
With some trepidation, I find myself wanting to write about God and membership of the Religious Society of Friends; and about that old-fashioned word, convincement. I first found…
The Cross today might seem obscure. Not so, in the so-called ‘Islamic’ State’s recent video of beheading twenty-one Coptic Christians. Its captions make two mentions. The…
The role of Quakerism in education was a central concern at the recent Friends School Council Annual Governors’ Conference. The conference brought together forty-six governors,…
Equality is a core value in Quakerism. It has been a testimony of the Religious Society of Friends for centuries and has its roots deep in faith and personal experience. A key part…
The Friend is published by a charity, The Friend Publications, which has a board of Quaker trustees and a small number of paid staff. Both editorially and in governance, we are…
Labels are a method of shorthand that we use to embrace a concept. They are very useful and very powerful. However, the power of labels can also be misused and can be very…
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