10th October 2014

Words: Minister

by Harvey Gillman

According to the Quaker Jargon Buster online, ministry is what a person gives when he or she is led to stand up and speaks during Meeting for Worship. Thankfully, it adds the…

10th October 2014

Curtailing the Convention

by Andrew Lane

The UK helped to negotiate the European Convention on Human Rights and was a pioneering signatory in 1950. But now, over sixty years later, the Conservatives have promised to…

3rd October 2014

A sense of wonder

by Trish Carn
3rd October 2014

Robert Spence

by Sarah Richardson
3rd October 2014

Surveillance, secrecy and sovereignty

by Alison Leonard
3rd October 2014

‘In the manner of Friends’

by David Boulton
3rd October 2014

Thought for the Week: A religion of the Spirit

by Ian Kirk-Smith

When he began his travels around England in the 1650s George Fox, who is regarded as the founder of Quakerism, did not set out to create a new sect – nor did those who gathered…

3rd October 2014

A spirit of openness

by Harry Albright
3rd October 2014

Words: Worship

by Harvey Gillman

I love words just as I love silence. In fact, each takes value from the other. A self-declared nontheist Friend at Meeting tells me that if I need to know what a word means, I…

3rd October 2014

Icons

by Stevie Krayer

Vaideeni, Romania It’s a long way from gothic-gaunt steeples meant to prod God beyond reach. This one’s a gingerbread loaf. Colours like a country fair, flocks of saints up the…

3rd October 2014

Open to new light

by Ian Kirk-Smith
3rd October 2014

From the archive: Service for peace

by Compiled by Janet Scott