The dire effects of the present monetary system and its failure were recently pointed out by our Friend George Penaluna (‘Money is debt: a vicious circle’, 5 July). These…
Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age; the guilt must of necessity live too. You are the devil’s gateway; you are…
About two years ago I started keeping a journal. I began it at a time when I was starting to attend Quaker Meeting regularly and was also facing the prospect of early retirement,…
Nuclear weapons are unique in their destructive power, in the unspeakable human suffering they cause, in the impossibility of controlling their effects in space and time, in the…
One of my requests to Meetings that invited me to share about Spirit given gifts, was to gather on Friday evening with elders of the Meeting. It would be helpful for these Friends…
In 1938 my family and I were saved from the Nazis by members of the Religious Society of Friends. My brother and I, when we came to Britain, were then given two free years at…
Four churches – the Methodist Church, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Church of Scotland and the United Reformed Church – recently produced a report that addresses six…
At Britain Yearly Meeting in 2012, by pure coincidence (or synchronicity), I sat next to a London Friend in one of the sessions where we shared, for a couple of minutes, our…
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