21st March 2014

Playing God

by Brian Baxter

Fourteen years ago agriculture in Britain was changing dramatically. A new technology, which had already been carried out for several years in America, was being introduced here…

21st March 2014

Sustainability - Transforming ourselves, transforming the system

by Laurie Michaelis

Government negotiators have just completed a week of talks on climate change in Bonn – their first meeting since Warsaw last November. There will be several more such gatherings…

14th March 2014

Towards the Source

by Angela Arnold
14th March 2014

Sustainability - Responding to Canterbury

by Jill Green and Sandra Figgess
14th March 2014

Thought for the Week: Lent

by John Punshon

It’s a funny old world nowadays. You can have strawberries when you want them instead of just at the beginning of June; you can have daffodils all year round and hot cross buns…

14th March 2014

Age and mental health

by Andrew Backhouse

What do Quakers do about mental health? Where is the spiritual drive? Obviously, we have some good history from The Retreat in York – but an Area Meeting looking at dementia? Is…

14th March 2014

Beliefs and traditions

by Marisa Johnson

‘Where two or three are gathered together… there’s a schism.’ I don’t know where this saying originates, but I first heard it from the wife of an Evangelical Lutheran…

14th March 2014

Glimpses of the divine

by Oliver Robertson

The first time I knowingly came across testimonies to the grace of God as shown in the lives of deceased Friends was in Quaker News. For a period until the mid-2000s, it had a…

14th March 2014

The changing landscape

by Mike Nellis
14th March 2014

Visiting Coolham

by Susan Richardson
7th March 2014

Sing globally, act locally

by David Boulton
7th March 2014

Thought for the Week: Monkshood

by Malcolm Edmunds

As I took the small vase of flowers to Meeting last summer I noticed that three of the six spikes of monkshood flowers were upside down. Monkshood has deep blue flowers and is…