26th April 2013

Thought for the Week: Live adventurously

by Anthony Wilson, Quaker Service Memorial Trust clerk

During the war years, in a world engulfed in violent conflict, members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) and Friends Relief Service (FRS) witnessed to their pacifist…

26th April 2013

Answering that of God

by Martin Wainwright

In the first year of the second world war a tribunal heard evidence about a ‘fine young man’, a Methodist Sunday school teacher and Cambridge graduate, whose conscience…

26th April 2013

Memories

by Alan York
26th April 2013

The Friends Relief Service

by Edith Snellgrove

Walcheren 1944  I was sent in 1944 with a Friends Relief Service Team to Holland. We worked on the island of Walcheren, a saucer-shaped island at the mouth of the Scheldt. It…

26th April 2013

Friends Meeting House, Frenchay, Bristol

by UA Fanthorpe

When the doors of the house are shut, Eyes lidded, mouth closed, nose and ears Doing their best to idle, fingers allowed out Only on parole; when the lovely holy distractions, Safe…

26th April 2013

Here

by Rebecca Dyde

Here, silence amongst the great and the fallen nearby, a meadow of cornflower blue and poppy red, a place of remembrance, reflecting sorrow and loss: of sacrifices given and honour…

19th April 2013

The China Convoy: A great leveller

by David Brough
19th April 2013

The journey is the destination

by Chris Knott
19th April 2013

Thought for the Week: What is Quakerism for?

by Craig Barnett

One of the ways that early Friends differed most from modern Quakers is that they were able to say with great clarity and conviction just what the purpose of the Quaker Way…

19th April 2013

Meeting for Sufferings: Orthopraxia rules OK

by Jamie Wrench

As we gathered to be collectively eldered on Right Ordering of The Microphone, some of us heard a still small voice that the rest could not. The mystics were ecstatic, others made…

12th April 2013

Money and morality

by Caroline Humphries