Quaker Week is over. Phew. This has been the sixth. Quakers all over the country have been thinking creatively, putting up posters, throwing open their Meeting houses, hosting…
One Sunday morning in 1651, George Fox visited Warmsworth Church. According to his autobiography:
Our Meeting today (7 October) prayed for April Jones, her family, friends and community. We also prayed for the person who abducted her, remembering that he, too, is a child of…
Exhausted and miserable, I staggered over the finishing line of the third-year cross-country course. Everyone had gone home and forgotten all about me. Naturally, I was never…
The spirit that was displayed by everyone who participated in and witnessed the Olympic and Paralympic Games of London 2012 has been widely celebrated.
It is very difficult to write down mystical experiences. There are no adequate words. Attempting to fit words to ineffable experiences is also emotionally draining. To try to…
When Maximilien Robespierre was challenged to justify the new French Republic’s wars with neighbouring countries, he replied: ‘without war there can be no terror – without…
Teilhard de Chardin called them ‘diminishments’ – in common parlance ‘the disabilities of old age’: stark words for what is (when all’s said and done) a natural process.
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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