Greetings to all Friends everywhere. ‘How far, how deep, how wide can you go this weekend?’ was the question Rex Ambler asked us to consider as seventy-one of us from…
A quiet revolution has been progressing amid the worst financial crisis for decades. It is one that Quakers helped to pioneer and that they are continuing to develop. It is a…
The assignment that strikes fear in most reporters’ hearts is: the workshop. These mini-conferences are greatly favoured today for stimulating debate and furthering ideas in a…
Faith, hope and love, these three, but the greatest way to enhance and develop these qualities in each of our spiritual lives is through hospitality. (the Friend,…
Having agreed to speak on ‘My Spiritual Life’ I might have been expected to accept an invitation to do so on ‘Christianity in the marketplace’ – but I declined. Had it…
While earth, great dumb stepchild of the sun lumbers slowly round First Day again, a dusty caravan clops and pads up the steps to the Meeting house.
When I typed up our Monthly Meeting minutes in the 1980s, there would regularly be forty-four members plus three attenders. Now, we usually have around half that number.…
Gathered from the grass around the Meeting house, the gravestones are laid together here, huddled close, slab against slab, face upwards, lapping up the sun and rain of so…
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