The Quaker Peace Testimony was a focus for discussion at a recent ‘Becoming Friends’ evening in our local Newbury Meeting. It brought back university memories from fifty years…
Military beyond the last you wait in neat rows for the last trump. Orderly and regular headstones on parade you form a hollow square to look on the great stone altar where grateful…
A new website was launched on Friday 26 October to inform voters about the upcoming election for Police and Crime Commissioners in all of England and Wales other than…
A year ago a conference on ‘Economic Justice and the Sustainable Global Society’ was held at Friends House. Delegates were asked to take away a number of questions to be…
In his 1978 book, The Seventh Enemy, Ronald Higgins outlined six major global threats. The ‘seventh enemy’ was humanity’s inability to tackle them. Twenty-five years…
It was always the cue for making excuses and leaving – the monthly request: ‘Who will be our Area Meeting representatives?’ Eventually, we faced up to this reluctance to…
We sit together in Silence let the quiet sink in settle into ourselves
This Sunday sees the start of the first Living Wage Week. The Living Wage campaign highlights fair pay as an urgent moral and practical necessity to eradicate poverty. It…
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