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…
Friends have been urged to take part in the Drones Week of Action, running from 5-12 October. It is organised by the Drone Campaign Network – which was co-founded by Quaker…
He’s an ‘expert in communication’, his interest is plugged-in to copper wires and unseen radio-waves, his safely-distant coffee grows cold skin, two biscuits are softening,…
I was deeply affected by Ian S Woods’ report on education in Ireland (30 August). In my current third career, as a would-be playwright/memoirist, I was reminded of a line I…
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