How much is our Meeting like a tree? Do we remember the importance of roots below the surface [as made so clear in much Indian art]? Do we appreciate their strength in stopping our…
A television documentary screened earlier this year told the story of the ill-fated convoy PQ 17 carrying tanks, planes and ammunition from Iceland to Russia. The protective naval…
Once upon a time I was a barrister. Barristers are close to the police. Robert Mark was then commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Once when asked by a student at a police…
My mother died in June and my brother, sister and I have been clearing her flat. I picked up a small book there by Amos Oz, How to Cure a Fanatic. Writing about the roots of…
In his Journal, George Fox tells of an encounter with a priest in Leicester: He asked me what a church was? I told him the church was the pillar and ground of truth, made up of…
General Meeting for Scotland met in Inverness on Saturday 13 September, just five days before the Independence Referendum. During opening worship, the poem ‘The Morning After,…
Nobody quite knows what an assistant clerk does, or should do. It’s the one question that always comes up on the Woodbrooke courses for new clerks and, of course, the answer is…
"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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