I am a Quaker because I like the sense of being part of a supporting community. I make lots of new friends and have lots of fun. I also like being quiet and listening.
Yearly Meeting decided, on Sunday evening, to defer a decision on asking Meeting for Sufferings to begin the process of revising Quaker faith & practice. The session was…
The sun shone on the huge white tent and Quakers, who had descended from near and far, made their way into the largest indoor space British Friends had ever worshipped in. It was…
Ben Pink Dandelion of Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre gave this year’s Swarthmore Lecture at Yearly Meeting Gathering on Sunday 3 August. Speaking to a packed Big Top, Ben shared…
Friends responded quickly, in August and September 1914, to the needs of wartime. One of the responses of which we are now proud was, at the time, contentious, as shown in these…
Equality was chosen by Jessica Metheringham, parliamentary engagement officer for Quakers in Britain, as the theme for this year’s George Gorman Lecture, which was delivered in…
When George Fox asked his famous question – ‘what canst thou say’ – I wonder if he was foreseeing the internet, for there has never been a development so perfectly moulded…
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