Six weeks after the start of the first world war, between 25-30 September 1914, a group of men and women, representing different Christian denominations, met in Llandudno in Wales.…
Llandudno has sent us again on an old search – for the way of the Cross. A second-rate religion may do for less strenuous times, but the new demands ask more than we can give,…
…the sudden uprush of elation, breath that catches me round my heart and under my armpits – this mix of gasp and joy, tenderness and wonderment – it comes unexpectedly, which…
Turning the Tide (TTT) is a Quaker Peace & Social Witness programme. It supports groups working for social justice and equality to understand and use nonviolent methods in…
By now, the result of the historic referendum will be known. It has been an intoxicating period in Scotland, with an intense debate across the country about what kind of vision of…
My first impression of Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) 2014 in Bath was of a building site. We were thinking about the transition to being Quaker. A building site is a place in…
Each day there are reports of alarm and atrocity. We are being asked almost daily to seek out those amongst us whose lifestyle, culture or views are unfamiliar and inimical to us.…
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…
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