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…
Sometimes in the Experiment with Light meditation an image, or an insight, can come up that is not only helpful for us personally, but which seems to have a universal relevance…
Truth is such a big Quaker word. Almost as big as love. It often has a capital T. It has been big from the start. Early Friends came out of the churches falling away from…
For me, spiritual experience is that which reaches me from ‘beyond’ – beyond the physical, the intellectual and the emotional, and beyond words. If I am to communicate what…
The issue of how to support people in the way they want to be supported can be complex and challenging. Some years ago a birthright Friend, ‘John’, returned to Quakers…
We can do little more in this life than speculate about the impalpable, nonphysical soul. I feel that it lies at the root of consciousness; a real dimension or attribute of life.…
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