3rd February 2012

Equality in our buildings

by Julia Smith

The proposed redevelopment of the Large Meeting House at Friends House in London provides both challenges and opportunities. When members of the Quaker Disability Equality Group…

3rd February 2012

Quakers and the Tobin Tax

by Mark Frankel

There has been comment in the Friend about a Tobin Tax, or Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). I offer the following based on some professional knowledge. To call the FTT a ‘Robin…

3rd February 2012

Quakers?

by Fran Handrick

For the first fifty-seven years of my life, to my knowledge, I had never encountered a Quaker. Now I find they are everywhere. I almost feel as if I am being pursued!

3rd February 2012

Are we afraid to die?

by Jill Allum
27th January 2012

Reaching Out: Publishing truth - Quaker Quest style

by Michael Hennessey
27th January 2012

Thought for the Week: Speak up, speak out!

by Stevie Krayer
27th January 2012

Olympic opportunities

by Peter Green
20th January 2012

Thought for the Week: Living in unity

by Michael Wright
20th January 2012

Reaching Out: Crossing continents

by Mary Jo Clogg
20th January 2012

Taking the right road

by Indigo Redfern

About twenty years ago my two sisters, quite independently, went travelling and, somehow, never got further than the USA. Personally, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to…

20th January 2012

Restorative justice: A ray of hope

by Lynda Farrington

Robert Buckland, the Conservative MP for Swindon South, described the event as ‘the best public meeting I have ever attended’.  It was full. It was business-like. It was…

20th January 2012

The ‘Iron Law’

by Bob Johnson

Exasperation would drive my mother to exclaim ‘“I-Don’t-Care” was MADE to care’. She was looking for an Universal Moral Law to counter some egregious act that had caught…