What is the reality of the culture in a typical Local Quaker Meeting in Britain today? What do the participants in those Meetings actually believe? These questions have puzzled me…
Quakers in Criminal Justice (QICJ) brings together those interested in various aspects of criminal and community justice in Britain today. Some forty-five members of the…
No names, just two friends who meet regularly - one a Quaker, one a Seventh Day Adventist - both committed to values of truth, equality and simplicity and living as sustainably as…
Recently, a Friend quoted in Meeting words by the Austrian-born Israeli-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, writing as God: You think I am far away from you; but in your love…
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your…
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