In April 2011 when Meeting for Sufferings endorsed a boycott of goods from the Israeli districts in the disputed territories, I was horrified at such a misguided and illiberal…
As thousands suffer and die every day and new life is born, often with scant hope of survival, it is each life and each death that is of inestimable value. An Easter letter has…
Beccles Meeting Friday midday worship is followed by a picnic and forty-five minutes of discussion. We average seventeen, mainly new attenders. Outreach was our sense of…
I marched these hills not long ago, I travelled north in search of foe, Wild blue-faced tribes, encountered there, Barbaric people, caused such scare. We captured some, and sent…
Good Friday draws nigh, and again we stand outside this nuclear submarine base at Faslane, gathered in this act of public worship, this ‘Witness for Peace’ of Scottish…
One of the key aspects of Quaker life that is likely to be struggled over when the next revision of Quaker faith & practice begins is what to do about membership. Should there…
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