The project group worked with the key question: ‘Do conscientious objectors in world war one matter?’ Using this question they have explored the historical significance of…
If you gathered a group of fifty- to ninety-year-old Quakers together and asked them what they would prioritise for their own older age, what do you think they would say? A…
Over the past three years we have been looking at ‘What it means to be a Quaker today’. From 2015 to 2017 Yearly Meeting will explore ‘Living out our faith in the world’. I…
The news pages of the Friend in August and September 1914 show many Meetings taking action. Darlington offered its Meeting house as a hospital: Llandrindod Wells and Devonshire…
Joan Armatrading at St George’s Hall, and we are in front stalls with the fans (having sneaked downstairs in the interval). Joan takes the mike in eloquent dark hands, begins her…
‘What it means to be a Quaker today: commitment and belonging’ was the theme of the 2014 Yearly Meeting Gathering. The spiritual basis of trusteeship and of service had been…
The report of Britain Yearly Meeting trustees at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) was enhanced by the imaginative use of a commissioned film. The film took a geographic area – the…
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