I have always preferred action to words, and doing rather than telling others what to do. A large part of my life has been spent in work in Africa, the Pacific and Britain…
The government is planning to construct ways for offenders to make amends to victims. Addressing the All Party Parliamentary Penal Affairs Group in July, justice minister Tom…
And this is the word of the Lord God to you all, and a charge to you all in the presence of the living God: be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations,…
The majority of lesbian, gay or bisexual students have been bullied at school because of their sexuality. New research, published by the charity Stonewall and based on research it…
Something dangerous is happening to our spiritual and moral values. Should we, as Quakers, sit by and ignore our testimony to equality while our poorest and most vulnerable…
On 19 June I had the privilege of offering the Quaker perspective to parliamentarians who came to an event organised by Christian Aid to call for a ban on trade with illegal…
‘An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself…
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