Circles of Support and Accountability have two main, interconnected aims: to protect the public and to reduce re-offending. A Circle comprises trained volunteers, usually four,…
A moment of quiet. A collection of my thoughts. A ragbag stuffed with the past: overfull sometimes, memories spilling out of it and spitting venom at me. Then the silence of the…
This year is the tenth anniversary of the birth of Quaker Quest. It began as a tentative idea. Friends in London had a concern. A concern about the future of their faith. How…
In a recent Australian census, seventy-five per cent of the population put themselves down as religious believers, but only about fifteen per cent attended any kind of religious…
Most of us are road users and probably drivers too. So there must be a Quakerly approach to driving, where personal behaviour and actions on the road reflect the principles of…
The protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral has raised the public’s consciousness of the inequalities of our present economic system, yet even the protesters themselves admitted…
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