For Yearly Meeting 2015 we have been given the gift of space: the precious temporal space of three days to spend in Meeting for Worship together, in prayerful listening for the…
Richard Dawkins is well known for doing battle with religion in general, and with what he calls the ‘interventionist, miracle-wreaking, thought-reading, sin-punishing,…
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union (EU) in 2012 was widely mocked in Britain. Yet its achievements have been among the most impressive of all Nobel…
‘Worship God, don’t just use God’ was just one of the messages given by Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations, during a two-day…
Before any revision of the Book of Discipline can take place – before the Yearly Meeting can even decide whether or not any such revision should take place – there needs to be…
Some years ago I spent three summer days with a group of Young Friends at Pardshaw in the Lake District, exploring their witness to ‘that of God in all creation’. In the…
Living in the present has long been a Quaker practice, but now the concept is intensified by mindfulness, which has become almost a cult movement. Like Christianity, the original…
Coverage of the Holocaust, relating to Holocaust Memorial Day, has prompted some odd memories. In the mid-1950s I was a national serviceman and was posted to northern Germany. On…
The NHS Reinstatement Bill 2015 seeks to reinstate the legal duty of the secretary of state to secure and provide a National Health Service in England. This Bill has the formal…
A webinar (online seminar) organised by Britain Yearly Meeting on 17 April saw Jenny Brierley, clerk of Quaker Housing Trust, and Judith Moran, director of Quaker Social Action,…
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