This time last year, Elizabeth the second said to a meeting of faith leaders ‘the concept of a Jubilee is rooted in the Bible’. Whilst looking forward to her own celebration,…
Jeanette Fitzsimons, one of the key speakers in the seminar, was the recent co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 1995 to 2009. The title of her session posed…
Last year, I returned from Canada. I had been there for seven years spending time and worshipping with Canadian Friends: something which our Toronto Friend, Gordon McClure,…
Because I did not die, Two strangers Continue to live in a world of darkness. Another two to suffer the half-life offered by dialysis. All made poorer by my survival.
Over a year ago I watched, fascinated, new-born Aidan and his grandmother getting to know each other; without language, copying each other, looking into each others’ eyes and…
He has no-one else to talk to or share his life with, being in a single cell in Norwich prison. He prefers to be alone and finds it difficult to share a room with other inmates.…
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