12th October 2012

Thought for the Week: After Quaker Week

by Geoffrey Durham

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…

12th October 2012

Sorry, George!

by Digby Swift

One Sunday morning in 1651, George Fox visited Warmsworth Church. According to his autobiography:

12th October 2012

April

by Heather Bacon

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…

5th October 2012

Kicking the bucket

by Liz Rothschild
5th October 2012

Natural burial

by Carol Rowntree Jones
5th October 2012

A Quaker Olympic legacy?

by Roland Carn

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…

5th October 2012

Olympism

by Trevor Evans

The spirit that was displayed by everyone who participated in and witnessed the Olympic and Paralympic Games of London 2012 has been widely celebrated.

5th October 2012

Further encounters with god

by Noël Staples

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…

5th October 2012

War on terror

by Anthony Boulton

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…

5th October 2012

What’s in a word?

by Lloyd Kemp

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.

28th September 2012

Why am I a Quaker?

by Linda Murgatroyd
28th September 2012

Of bath water and plastic ducks

by Ann Barnes