9th December 2011

How you share it

by Anne Eardley

‘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…

2nd December 2011

Gambling: time for real change

by Helena Chambers
2nd December 2011

The spoils of addiction

by Howard Reed
2nd December 2011

Vocable (for John)

by Philip Gross

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…

2nd December 2011

The gambler’s tale

by Kevin

I kissed my fiancée goodbye, but this wasn’t going to be a normal working day. I had left a note on the bed and, as I walked through the park on my way to the police station, I…

2nd December 2011

Cathedrals, tents and boardrooms

by Roger Iredale

In Bath this week I saw a small park with fifteen tents in it and notices declaring: ‘We are the 99%’. Such camps are in cities around the globe.  The Occupy London camp…

2nd December 2011

Still waiting for a law

by Christine Downes-Grainger
2nd December 2011

Quakerism versus chaos

by Bob Johnson

Darwin misjudged it – it’s not so much survival of the fittest, it’s survival. In the Arctic, the woolly mammoth grew fur, which its African cousins didn’t; bats can’t…

2nd December 2011

Love is God

by Barbara Harris
25th November 2011

Thought for the Week: Spiritual truth

by Ian Kirk-Smith
25th November 2011

The Angel of Newgate

by Deborah Swiss
25th November 2011

Experiment with Light: Movement of the Spirit

by Hilary Pinder