28th June 2013

Travelling in ministry: Lift up your gifts

by Thomas Swain

In the small groups that I work with helping Friends see their Spirit given gifts, I have found that British Friends are reluctant to own their own goodness and gifts. In a recent…

21st June 2013

A Balkan story

by John Corsellis
21st June 2013

Thought for the Week: Discernment and trust

by Roland Carn

It is Yearly Meeting in session. Six hundred Friends are in the Large Meeting House taking part in all age worship. A three year-old bursts, joyfully and spontaneously, into song…

21st June 2013

A significant moment

by Kelvin Beer-Jones

My partner Clive and I sat and watched on television the entire second and third readings of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill as it passed through the House of Commons. The…

21st June 2013

Surprises and delights

by Marisa Johnson

Thank you for publishing a range of reflections on Yearly Meeting in the last couple of issues. It has made me ponder how widely we differ in our expectations of the event. I…

21st June 2013

Getting around

by Faith Kenrick
21st June 2013

Hope in troubled times

by Marigold Bentley

If I opened this report with a description of the ecumenical instruments in these islands you would most likely stop reading. Can I, then, encourage you to see ecumenical…

21st June 2013

Spiritual healing and Quakers

by Andrew Backhouse

Are there issues you know we should talk about, but don’t really want to? Issues that make you uncomfortable in some unspecific way and for no absolutely obvious reason?…

21st June 2013

In the Large Meeting House

by Lesley Morris
14th June 2013

A soaring space

by Susan Craggs

Sometimes, a celebration marks a personal milestone, such as a birthday, and, at other times, the anniversary of a community or a building. In April 2013 Heswall Meeting celebrated…

14th June 2013

Consensus voting

by Peter Emerson
14th June 2013

Thought for the Week: Hope in the Holy Land

by Anna Seifert

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out John 1:5