I love words just as I love silence. In fact, each takes value from the other. A self-declared nontheist Friend at Meeting tells me that if I need to know what a word means, I…
Vaideeni, Romania It’s a long way from gothic-gaunt steeples meant to prod God beyond reach. This one’s a gingerbread loaf. Colours like a country fair, flocks of saints up the…
A few weeks ago while I was sitting in Meeting for Worship, holding Gaza in the Light, I was struck by the thought that the part of the world which is the cradle of three…
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,…
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