It was a Saturday in May. There were about fourteen of us. The venue was the old Meeting house at Wandsworth in London. At the end of long, not-very-creaky wooden benches were…
‘Sexual morality is an area of challenge and opportunity for living our testimonies to truth, nonviolence, equality, integrity and love.’ Quaker faith &…
As a Quaker and a Jew, I fear the Religious Society of Friends may be about to forfeit its ability to be effective peacemakers in the Israel/Palestine conflict. No longer will we…
Initially, the ride – a trip round all our Meeting houses – was called ‘Area Meeting on the move’. By the time we finished we had become the ‘Barmy Barmoor…
A nursing home. At ninety-three, your memory almost gone, You wonder where your mother is, and where is brother Don? You do not know what place this is, nor whether you belong.…
The Olympics and the Paralympics were more than just a defining chapter in the story of British sport. They raised important social issues, challenged perceptions and prompted…
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?
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