There is one certainty in life: that it will end. One of the golden nuggets within the Quaker approach to our spiritual journey is the encouragement to prepare for that certainty.…
On 4 October the Religious Society of Friends issued a news release titled ‘Quakers oppose unfair government cuts.’ Following discussions with Friends in Oxford, I have been…
No matter how much things change they remain the same, in Libya this is true. Tribe fights against tribe brutality is returned by more brutality.
On 22 July, exactly three months ago, Anders Behring Breivik, a thirty-two year old Norwegian, set off a car bomb outside government buildings in Oslo. It killed eight of his…
It is Monday, 3 October, at 8.30 in the morning, and I am hanging out my laundry. I have a small whirligig line placed in a bed of low-growing alpines – plantaholics like me…
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