Would it be fair to say, George, that your commitment to nonviolence and your faith grew together? Very much. It was a mercy to discover the seventeenth-century Quakers, who…
Quakerism, for me, is a sense of community and inclusivity, a sense of belonging and a sense of friendship. The story below reflects this. I was at Woodbrooke Quaker Study…
Greece Greece is gripped by the spectre of isolation beneath the surface is deep fear and anger A bloated and corrupt centre has sucked the economy dry Most Greeks want to stay in…
I blow another soap bubble as my son laughs. It jumps and dances on the floor: a skin of constantly reforming rainbow colours. Move in closer and we find the atom: a building…
We can now see that the economic order is not a peripheral concern, but central to the whole relationship between faith & practice… It is rather that economic affairs are…
‘If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could…
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