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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
*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…
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…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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