The growth of several new Quaker groups in the former Soviet Union, partly due to the influence of the internet, was one of the interesting facts to emerge from a lively…
The Meeting House at Swarthmoor was gifted to Friends by George Fox in 1686. Much of the structure is probably at least 350 years old, has exterior walls two foot thick, is not…
‘No, I’m not religious, but I am spiritual!’ We regularly hear this nowadays and often from members of the Religious Society of Friends. It could mean various things. For…
One-upmanship, adversarialism, having the last word, getting the upper hand. All these destructive tendencies are commonplace in our daily lives – in the workplace, at…
‘The people demonstrating on the steps are Quakers. They say that everyone suffers when we have millionaires on the one hand and homeless have-nots on the other. For the richer…
Ninety now, you’re adrift on the vowel-stream, the crisp edge of all your five languages gone and we’re back to the least of language. It’s all one, your, his or my slight…
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