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…
Quakers throughout Britain took part in a national day of fasting on 4 April. They were supporting the End Hunger Fast campaign, which was launched on Ash Wednesday to draw public…
On 31 March the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its new assessment of current and future impacts of climate change, and of the measures needed for human…
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