I am doing this for practice, nothing more. We practice all the time, preparing for The Real Thing.
What can it mean to hold you in the Light? It cannot change God’s Will, or Fate, or Chance, The chain, the world-without-end linear dance Of causes and effects, turn wrong to…
Many in the United Kingdom are affected by fuel-poverty. Six million low-income homes are now believed to be living with insufficient and inefficient heating and lighting. The…
For the past few weeks there has been a protest, mostly on a Monday, just after noon outside the front doors of the headquarters of British Quakerism: Friends House in central…
Transformation seems to be the ‘in’ word today. Both recent Swarthmore lecturers used it. It was in the title of the event ‘Transforming ourselves, transforming the system’…
I am one of the ‘bereaved people who may see, hear or vividly dream about their loved ones’ that Angela Howard wrote about in an article, ‘An eternity before us’, which was…
The 27 January is the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Holocaust Memorial Day, held annually on this day, will be commemorated…
In 1969 I was a student in Paris, disillusioned with organised religion and excited and alarmed by the revolutionary fervour of post-1968 France. One day, on a wander through the…
Those who claim journalistic privilege in seeking the right to satirise religion, and religious figures, may have never viewed the original cartoons that enraged some Muslims to…
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