So many paths and ways to God: some where you pray and some where you chant, So many rules and instructions: things you can do and things you can’t.
Many readers may have been struck by the incongruity of the two photographs shown on facing pages (4-5) of the Friend of 9 January: one showing Manchester and Warrington Friends…
Early in my journey as a member of the Religious Society of Friends, when I had just commenced my first triennium as an overseer, I had an experience that affected me and prompted…
‘Figures are poor things to represent the tale of service done in these nine short weeks by the Friends’ Ambulance Unit. But it may be of interest to record briefly the results…
It isn’t the heat that strikes us, or the torrential rain, or the wide, ex-colonial boulevards of the Harare suburbs, or the poverty-stricken settlements that line the main…
Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Trust them as leadings of God whose Light shows us our darkness and brings new life. (Advices &…
Jeanmarie Simpson is an American Quaker actor and playwright. She is bringing her one woman show ‘Mary’s Joy’ to Europe this month and will be performing it in Britain and…
Earlier this month MPs voted to permit a radical new procedure, using the genes of three people to form a baby. If the House of Lords agree, children could be born from this…
on summer nights she cupped love in her heart tasted the honey of a gentle kiss and the heat of an exotic garden, she roamed in a rabble of wild colours, with rows of chillies …
Imagine worshipping, feeling a close connection with nature, bathed in dappled sunlight. This led to powerful ministry when we held our Meeting for Worship in the 1647 Garden of…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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