The badge ‘I’m a Quaker – ask me why’ encourages and challenges us all to articulate our own responses. Sharing with one another why we are Quakers, what belonging means to…
I have been attending the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Commission meeting for many years on behalf of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC). In April…
Devon and Cornwall Friends recently hosted a public event to draw attention to the large-scale changes in education that have affected the teaching of Religious Education (RE). It…
There have been a lot of contributions in the Friend recently on the subject of God and what could be termed the ‘God/no God controversy’. Whether we like it or not, we are a…
What is this silence in which we sit? Yes, a solemnly maintained sacrament, Yes, a strange keeping of the sabbath, But also, much more, Silence is the builder of HaMakom, a…
In 1981 I was a postgraduate student at the University of Warwick, living in Earlsdon, one of Coventry’s satellite villages, and periodically attending the lovely, modern Quaker…
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