No names, just two friends who meet regularly - one a Quaker, one a Seventh Day Adventist - both committed to values of truth, equality and simplicity and living as sustainably as…
Recently, a Friend quoted in Meeting words by the Austrian-born Israeli-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, writing as God: You think I am far away from you; but in your love…
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your…
During the war years, in a world engulfed in violent conflict, members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) and Friends Relief Service (FRS) witnessed to their pacifist…
In the first year of the second world war a tribunal heard evidence about a ‘fine young man’, a Methodist Sunday school teacher and Cambridge graduate, whose conscience…
Walcheren 1944 I was sent in 1944 with a Friends Relief Service Team to Holland. We worked on the island of Walcheren, a saucer-shaped island at the mouth of the Scheldt. It…
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