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…
‘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…
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…
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…
Although the post-cold war global inventory of nuclear weapons has declined dramatically from its peak of 70,000 during the late 1980s, the 17,000 or so remaining are still enough…
On 8 September last year I travelled from Yorkshire to London. On arrival at the Excel Centre in east London, location for the Defence and Security Equipment international…
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