13th December 2013

Coming together

by Andrew Backhouse
13th December 2013

The Light

by Peter Coltman

The Hospitality Company is the ‘trading arm’ of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM). It makes very good sense – and it is a Charity Commission requirement – to use our resources…

13th December 2013

Low carbon sustainable community – going global?

by Laurie Michaelis

Reading the decisions from last month’s UN climate conference in Warsaw, you can feel the delegates’ anguish. They know the scale of the task before them. They express…

6th December 2013

I wouldn’t start from here…

by Jamie Wrench
6th December 2013

The housing crisis

by Tony Crofts
6th December 2013

Thought for the Week: The joy of the gospel

by Alastair McIntosh

Last week saw a remarkable ‘irruption of the Spirit’ in the Roman Catholic Church, one that could be instructive for Friends. The occasion was the release of pope Francis’s…

6th December 2013

Drugs: gambling with legalisation

by Mike Beranek

Quaker Action on Alcohol and Drugs (QAAD) held a lively discussion this year at Westminster Meeting House on the idea of drug ‘decriminalisation’. My experience, as a former…

6th December 2013

The Religious Society of Friends: where next?

by Patricia Gosling

In her 2013 James Backhouse lecture – ‘A Quaker Astronomer Reflects’ – Jocelyn Bell Burnell commented that, in another age, she would probably have been regarded as a…

6th December 2013

Varieties of response to the Eternal

by Tim Baynes

For eighteen years I have been an attender. Recently, I was at Woodbrooke for an event that explored ‘What does membership mean today?’, the first stage of a consultation…

6th December 2013

Opening to new light

by Vivien Whitaker
6th December 2013

Bedside Beelzebub

by Ralph Hill

*Niets is kostbaarder dan de tijd, Want hij is de prijs van de eeuwigheid. *Netherlands proverb: Nothing is more precious than time, For it is the price of eternity. Rapt in…

29th November 2013

Invisible violence in Kenya

by Laura Shipler Chico

On a recent Saturday afternoon a man and his thirteen-year-old daughter walked out of a shopping centre and climbed into their car. Moments later, the girl was shot in the leg…