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…
Money must be important to us since we have so many words for it. There’s loot, buck, dime, quid, dough, bread, dosh, cash, readies, lolly, lucre, moolah, wonga, bob, tanner and…
Everybody is a prisoner of time. We cannot avoid the inevitability of mortality. Shakespeare’s ‘seven ages of man’ (As You Like It) elegantly explains how our lives change.…
It was an extraordinary week in Ireland. First, we had the visit of prince Charles and Camilla. Their friendly visit to the West of Ireland and, especially, to Mullaghmore, where…
Between 1414-18, in the midst of wars over three rival claimants to the papacy, the Council of Constance brought together European religious and secular leaders for protracted…
In my twenties a friend took me to see Gandhi. The film portrayed Mohandas Gandhi as a role model for nonviolence and integrity – principles that shaped his choice of food and…
I looked at the tree with an upward glance When its thousands of leaves were in merry dance, Wrestling in joy with the boisterous breeze Like a sailing-ship on surging seas.
Early Friends were not united by a creed, but they were united by a desire to know the Spirit and teaching of Jesus Christ and by a commitment to live what they understood that to…
For the second time in three years Ireland Yearly Meeting (IYM) was held in a new venue. This year we met in Dromantine Retreat and Conference Centre, near Newry in County Down,…
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