It is February: wet, blustery, and bitterly cold. A time to gaze out at the garden from behind insulating glass doors, pitying the plants as they shiver in the wind. But a day…
My current service with Meeting for Sufferings has seen a change in meeting venue, meeting size and (as the clerk of trustees pointed out on 28 March) a change in tone from mutual…
‘Refugees are the human face of international injustice. They are the place – in this country – where we see the real impact of inequality: armed conflict, the inability of…
‘I am interested in what constitutes loneliness and in the difference between solitude and loneliness.’ Jennifer Kavanagh is best known for a series of thoughtful non-fiction…
Hands can be used in many ways. They can attack or they can succor. For years I have been fascinated with my own hands. One regret I have is that I didn’t photograph them when I…
Fifteen Quakers are contesting the general election, all of them in English constituencies. Seven of the candidates represent the Green Party, four the Labour Party, three the…
The international dimension to the general election was the subject of the first hustings to be organised in the Large Meeting House at Friends House in London. It was a revealing…
For over 500 years Leicester was the resting place of a ruler and warrior. This man, who died a violent death, was taken into protective and prayerful custody by the grey friars.…
At the beginning of February around twenty Friends involved in various forms of Quaker chaplaincy met together at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham for a weekend…
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