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…
Last Friday saw the first instalment of the Fifth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): the summary from Working Group I, on the science of…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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