In February Oliver was invited to Burkina Faso to make a one-hour presentation on how churches in Kenya had responded to the 2007 post-election violence. The meeting was arranged,…
The annual Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) watch is over for another year and Springwatch is around the corner. I am sure that many Quakers enjoy both. Taking an…
In 2013 a team based at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and associated with the universities of Birmingham and Lancaster carried out a major survey of British Quakers. The…
Luton and Leighton Area Meeting recently held a workshop-based discussion on financial inequality. The subject is the cause of major social ills and far more marked than most…
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, posed an important question in the first issue of the Friend in 2015. He wrote: What is your ministry? Ministry, he…
Amongst the many events intended to keep alive the memory of the Nazi genocide of Jews, in January I attended a Holocaust Memorial Day event in York. A Jewish Quaker gave a…
With some trepidation, I find myself wanting to write about God and membership of the Religious Society of Friends; and about that old-fashioned word, convincement. I first found…
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