We Friends are often perceived as a negative lot. Asked what we believe, we tend to reply with a string of negatives. We are against credal formulations, against doctrinal dogmas…
Friends are concerned about advocacy and how best to ‘speak truth to power.’ There are many ways in which we can do this. The internet and ‘new media’ have introduced…
Among the astonishing stories of leaders of the world’s great religions, none is more astonishing than that of Jesus. More than two thousand years ago, a peasant from the…
‘Pavel and his wife and two children get on a train at about 6am on Sunday morning. He usually has his accordion with him. The train journey to Prague takes three and a half…
West Scotland Area Meeting covers a vast area, including the inner islands and the Mull of Kintyre. This presents obvious travelling problems for those who need to attend Area…
It’s the end of a long, tiring day. A hundred teenagers and volunteers come together, sitting on chairs, cross-legged or lying down… the floor is a sea of flickering…
‘As representatives of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain, called Quakers, we offer our congratulations on the occasion of your Diamond Jubilee. We give thanks…
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