Dear Editor, I am not sure many letters come from this sort of establishment. Maybe this is the only one or one of the few. But it was important for me to relay the fact…
Give over thine own willing. Give over thine own running. Give over thine own desiring to know or be anything, and sink down to the seed which God sows in thy heart, and let that…
The features that made the international financial system a source of enormous instability for the real economy have, since the crisis of 2008/9, remained substantially unchanged.…
Homo sapiens are a social species and, probably, the only species with the ability for self- reflection. As all social animals do, we find that life in community works far better…
Throughout the worship-sharing phase of the ‘Being a Quaker’ session at the recent Britain Yearly Meeting various thoughts floated across my mind as possible pieces of ministry.
Alarmed, I looked at the boy; was I a kill-joy? Did I look askance at fun?
Once in a Catholic church in the Netherlands I saw a statue of Joseph the carpenter holding the infant Jesus. It was carved from wood and Joseph’s hands were those of a workman,…
At yearly meeting I met my grandmother on the way to a session on ‘What it means to be a Quaker today’. She said it was a question that every Friend should think about, young…
Can you imagine a different world? One where society is seriously grappling with the main challenges that face us today: climate change, corporate greed, poverty? Now,…
I arrived at the special interest group entitled ‘Firbank Fell’ by one of those mistakes that sometimes show the hand of God working in mysterious ways. In his…
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