9th November 2012

Waging total peace

by Howard Grace

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…

9th November 2012

War graves at Cabaret Rouge

by Mike Perks

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…

9th November 2012

Churches Together in England

by Janet Scott
2nd November 2012

Going deep inside

by Sam Settle
2nd November 2012

Susanna’s sisters

by Simon Webb
2nd November 2012

Vote on changes in policing

by The Friend Newsdesk

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…

2nd November 2012

Why economic justice?

by Mike Norris, Ian West, Douglas Rennie, Graham Taylor and Joel Wallenberg

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…

2nd November 2012

Speaking out

by Bob Rogers

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…

2nd November 2012

Putting the sparkle back in Area Meeting

by Judy Kirby

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…

2nd November 2012

A Meeting of Friends

by Michelle Letowska

We sit together in Silence let the quiet sink in settle into ourselves

2nd November 2012

Thought for the Week: Why I support a Living Wage

by Sarah Holtam

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…

26th October 2012

Lessons from Cuba: fifty years on

by Frank Boulton