Deadline: 12.30pm British Standard Time. Pat had arrived with ten minutes to spare from the other side of the Pennines, caught up behind infuriatingly slow agricultural machinery.…
The Friends Therapeutic Community Trust approaches its fiftieth birthday. The Trust has run a residential therapeutic community for older teenage boys since 1969. This project –…
Sixty years ago I worked at The Retreat, the pioneering Quaker mental hospital in my home town of York. I was about to start medical school and this was a holiday job as an…
Firstly, make the meat sauce warning: this may disturb the supersensitive mask your eyes, muffle your ears bodies explode from planes wars always mangle us indiscriminately life is…
Recently our Local Meeting, in conjunction with the interfaith group in Inverness, were invited to ‘tea at the mosque’. It took place on a Saturday afternoon in June just…
‘Friends, meet together and know one another in that which is eternal’. Jane, who is a former NHS clinical psychologist specialising in mental health and the elderly, began her…
Words are but poor vehicles to convey the depths of human love; and I wondered –
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