I watch the night sky and my eye catches a shooting star, a streamer of light drawn across the face of oblivion. As it dies, it throws out its brightest light. A doomed,…
What is it that makes a peaceworker? More particularly, one for whom peace and nonviolence are such passionately held convictions that peacework takes over his entire life?
A nonviolence trainer said recently, ‘I went away for a few days, and when I came back, Occupy was happening at St Paul’s. I hadn’t seen it coming.’ Rosa Parks, a…
In the introduction to Advices & queries there is the following: ‘There will be a diversity of experience of belief and language. Friends maintain that expressions of faith…
Seven or eight years ago I discovered an exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington that comprised an aerial view of a small family group in the yard of their home. At the…
So, the Olympics came, we saw them, and they utterly conquered me, and many, many others. I was, I confess, sceptical of the commitment of the nation to the event. I was…
Diana was first appointed clerk soon after she became a member of Bewdley Meeting in 1960. The Meeting was on the point of being laid down at the time. With the guidance of…
"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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