Early in my journey as a member of the Religious Society of Friends, when I had just commenced my first triennium as an overseer, I had an experience that affected me and prompted…
‘Figures are poor things to represent the tale of service done in these nine short weeks by the Friends’ Ambulance Unit. But it may be of interest to record briefly the results…
It isn’t the heat that strikes us, or the torrential rain, or the wide, ex-colonial boulevards of the Harare suburbs, or the poverty-stricken settlements that line the main…
Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Trust them as leadings of God whose Light shows us our darkness and brings new life. (Advices &…
Jeanmarie Simpson is an American Quaker actor and playwright. She is bringing her one woman show ‘Mary’s Joy’ to Europe this month and will be performing it in Britain and…
Earlier this month MPs voted to permit a radical new procedure, using the genes of three people to form a baby. If the House of Lords agree, children could be born from this…
on summer nights she cupped love in her heart tasted the honey of a gentle kiss and the heat of an exotic garden, she roamed in a rabble of wild colours, with rows of chillies …
Imagine worshipping, feeling a close connection with nature, bathed in dappled sunlight. This led to powerful ministry when we held our Meeting for Worship in the 1647 Garden of…
No wonder they love a laugh, the physicists. What ever they find or don’t, it’s OK. Symmetries of the world just remnants of those which, if perfect, would only have led to no…
When Quaker Business Method goes well it is an uplifting experience, but sometimes there are difficulties. The first difficulty is the gleaning of the discernments in the minds of…
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