Over the past two years I have been privileged to assist in the birth of a phoenix. Rising from the ashes of the original community at Bamford, which disbanded after more than…
A few days before we were due to hold our January Area Meeting (AM), the forecast was for heavy snow. We cover, in Ipswich and Diss, quite a wide geographical area: many of our…
What are our Meeting houses for? To meet in, yes, as our very own places for worship, Quaker business, coffee and biscuits, all that committee stuff. But is that all? Are we…
David Cameron’s recent unexpected idea of using aid funds to strengthen peace activity appeared, at first glance, to be an inspired vision of how things ought to be. It is well…
I sometimes feel I have never got over the first world war. This is an odd thing to say, since I wasn’t born till long after, and my father only enlisted in 1918. But it still…
The ‘Kingdom of God’– also called ‘the Way’ – is the very heart of contemporary Quakerism, although few know it. This has always been the case. The first Friends…
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