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…
The dichotomy between the divine and the secular, theism and nontheism, science and religion, God and man has occupied Friends for decades. Some Friends ask whether we are willing…
For the past year Liverpool Meeting has been supporting All Together Now, a small project to deliver ‘mindfulness’ to Liverpool schools. Whilst mindfulness is central to…
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