So, what is going on in Scotland? Encounters with English Friends at Yearly Meeting, just before the general election, revealed that few understood the predicted surge of support…
Last year at Yearly Meeting Gathering in Bath Friends were informed that Britain Yearly Meeting has ‘divested from fossil fuels’. The response of Yearly Meeting when hearing of…
When parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act on 25 March 1807 many Quakers said ‘job done’ and focused their attention on other issues. Yet slavery has never…
Some extracts taken from the column are followed by other news items showing the impact of the first world war on Friends. This, at the time, was the news that people were allowed…
‘Are you open to new light from whatever source it may come?’ Advices & queries 7 The Friend had arrived on a recent Thursday morning, and I had read the letters page over…
‘Making change happen’ was the theme of the Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) Annual Spring Conference, held at Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, Derbyshire, from 13…
Does vocal ministry come from God or from the Friend who speaks it? How does it happen? Is it distinctive from utterances made at other times? How do we recognise ‘true’…
The amount of discernment given to the main theme – ‘Living out our faith in the world’ – was one of the successes of Yearly Meeting 2015, held at Friends House between 1-4…
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