17th January 2014

Using language

by Martin Pennock
17th January 2014

Zero Carbon Britain

by Anne Adams

The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has released a summary of the key findings of a significant report: Zero Carbon Britain. CAT has been working on this for some years,…

17th January 2014

Thought for the Week: Stopping

by Richard Thompson

There are phrases that jump off the page at a particular period in one’s life and make a huge impact. Two such phrases were in some notes I took from the Pendle Hill pamphlet…

17th January 2014

The Fox Report: Democracy unmasked - ‘Some reporters bark, very few ever bite’

by Judy Kirby

In his book Fraudcast News – How bad journalism supports our bogus democracies, Patrick Chalmers, a former Reuters financial reporter, contends that conventional journalists are…

17th January 2014

The Fox Report: Democracy unmasked - United Kingdom – but for how long?

by Patrick Chalmers

Public trust in British politicians and the institutions they inhabit is in tatters – with more than half the electorate wondering whether to bother turning out to vote. Yet,…

17th January 2014

Quaker Meeting

by Rosie Adamson-Clark

Facing shafts of light without, within a brighter place we begin, to whisper then to shout   fractures of the outer core dropping of the daily mask, conversations deep and raw……

10th January 2014

Seeds of inspiration

by Tim Firth
10th January 2014

A Quaker of the people

by Graham Taylor
10th January 2014

Thought for the Week: A philosopher looks at science

by Reg Naulty

What would they know about it? Quite a bit, actually. Scientists have replaced philosophers as gatekeepers of the real and, as a result, philosophers study science and scientists…

10th January 2014

Prayer and presence

by Lesley Morris

I often moan to myself that Friends don’t talk enough, for me, that is, about what we feel God to be – how we experience it/him/her; but I also know I don’t talk about it…

10th January 2014

The power of Quaker values

by Mark Frankel

From time to time there is the suggestion in the pages of the Friend that Quaker values are not the same as the values of society as a whole and that we have special messages for…