30th August 2014

Prompted by conscience

by Esme Weeks

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…

30th August 2014

Our aging process – a wish list

by Chris Kell

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…

22nd August 2014

Diversity of art at Bath

by Rowena Loverance
22nd August 2014

Llanfoist

by Christine Trevett
22nd August 2014

Young people at YMG

by Ian Kirk-Smith and Elinor Smallman
22nd August 2014

Thought for the Week: A gift of a week

by Deb Arrowsmith
22nd August 2014

YMG Special interest groups

by Roland Carn, Tara Craig and Roger Plenty
22nd August 2014

Spiritual connectedness

by Jan Arriens

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…

22nd August 2014

From the archive: Meetings in wartime

by Janet Scott

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…

15th August 2014

Thought for the Week: My arm round you

by Gerard Benson

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…

15th August 2014

Being a Quaker: membership

by Ian Kirk-Smith

‘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…

15th August 2014

Britain Yearly Meeting trustees

by Ian Kirk-Smith

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…