Just sitting. Just waiting. Trusting the Light. This is not an easy thing to do, especially when I find myself in limbo with nothing much going on. When thoughts stray into this…
Quakers have a rich heritage of both extraordinary and ordinary actions that have, in some cases, been transformative. We talk of examples like the abolition of slavery, good…
Have you heard a Friend talk about ‘God, or the Light, or the Spirit, or Allah, or whatever you want to call it’? Have you heard someone ask what kind of God Quakers believe…
In 2012 the Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) Crime, Community and Justice Sub-Committee (CCJS) happened to meet following the publication of the Independent Report on the…
The path to sainthood for John Paul II was the fastest in modern history, raising eyebrows among traditionalists for packing a painstaking process that can sometimes take centuries…
May I un-burden myself? They would call me non-theist…
This slim volume, mainly recording talks given one Sunday afternoon at Manchester Mount Street in 2013, splendidly encapsulates the progress of the subtitle’s fifty years of…
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