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…
Trauma pickles the mind. If you break a leg, everyone can see the damage. The mind is different. With physical injuries: you know you can’t walk – it’s obvious. This is…
The resignation of Keith O’Brien, the Scottish cardinal, and the tenth anniversary of the Iraq war have both been headline news. The accompanying publicity, or lack of it, has…
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