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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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