The concerns of investors, looking for convenient and attractive profits, and environmentalists looking for sustainability seem at odds. Take three countries – X, Y and Z…
Whilst visiting a Meeting in England a few months ago, a Friend’s ministry was highly critical of current government policy on the matter of state benefits and greatly…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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