In his Journal, George Fox tells of an encounter with a priest in Leicester: He asked me what a church was? I told him the church was the pillar and ground of truth, made up of…
General Meeting for Scotland met in Inverness on Saturday 13 September, just five days before the Independence Referendum. During opening worship, the poem ‘The Morning After,…
Nobody quite knows what an assistant clerk does, or should do. It’s the one question that always comes up on the Woodbrooke courses for new clerks and, of course, the answer is…
According to the Quaker Jargon Buster online, ministry is what a person gives when he or she is led to stand up and speaks during Meeting for Worship. Thankfully, it adds the…
The UK helped to negotiate the European Convention on Human Rights and was a pioneering signatory in 1950. But now, over sixty years later, the Conservatives have promised to…
When he began his travels around England in the 1650s George Fox, who is regarded as the founder of Quakerism, did not set out to create a new sect – nor did those who gathered…
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