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.…
There is a question that becomes evident as I travel in ministry among British Friends. The question is ‘Why?’ It might be surprising to Friends that the ‘Why?’ is not a…
A statue of Robert Owen, visionary mill-owner and father of cooperation, stands outside the Co-operative Bank in Manchester. His experiment at New Lanark, of providing housing for…
The Fox Report on borrowing highlights the tragic personal and societal problems caused by excessive borrowing. As Patrick Chalmers reminds us, ninety-seven per cent of the money…
They had set off walking from Iona on 14 May and were due in Riding Mill at lunchtime on Tuesday 18 June. The parish hall was to be full at lunchtime and I was down to provide…
"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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