For the past eighteen months I have been funded by a Gerald Hodgett Award to visit Meetings in Britain Yearly Meeting to talk about gender and the Divine: more specifically, to…
‘Friends are standing on the brink of a new depth in their concern for housing and action is bubbling up in many quarters.’ Jenny Brierley, clerk of the Quaker Housing Trust,…
A hundred and thirty children and young people took part in programmes for under-eighteens at Yearly Meeting. They reflected on inequality and injustice through a range of creative…
A renewed commitment to address the root causes of social and economic injustice in the world and to take action, individually and collectively, prompted by a spirit of love, was…
Jude Kirton-Darling, a Quaker, MEP and long-time labour activist, began the 2015 Salter Lecture by telling listeners to look ‘right at the centre of the struggle for social and…
At 11.45am on Saturday 25 April the earth literally moved under my feet and continued to move for about four minutes. It seemed much longer. I was in Lalitpur over the river from…
Loving Greetings to Friends everywhere, We have come together with joy, seeing one another’s faces and hearing one another more clearly in our new light-filled Meeting house. We…
‘Living out our faith in the world’ is the theme of this year’s Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM). It follows three years in which BYM addressed the question: ‘What it means to…
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