The institutions which society once regarded as generally trustworthy are crumbling. Serious wrongdoing, greed and self-interest has been exposed among MPs, the press and the…
I think of being bisexual and think first of who I fancied: childhood feelings for girls, later re-evaluated feelings towards men. Thanks to bi and bi-friendly friends who cared…
If only he hadn’t had to conduct a marriage ceremony. Had he come, it might have felt like an historic moment of ecumenism. Local Friends had invited the vicar of Meifod in…
Would it be fair to say, George, that your commitment to nonviolence and your faith grew together? Very much. It was a mercy to discover the seventeenth-century Quakers, who…
Quakerism, for me, is a sense of community and inclusivity, a sense of belonging and a sense of friendship. The story below reflects this. I was at Woodbrooke Quaker Study…
Greece Greece is gripped by the spectre of isolation beneath the surface is deep fear and anger A bloated and corrupt centre has sucked the economy dry Most Greeks want to stay in…
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