The days of rioting, looting and violence in August, which culminated in the killing of three young men in Birmingham – Haroon Jahan, Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir – shocked us…
The room was full of Friends from every corner of Britain. A gentle hum of voices had calmed to stillness. Meeting for Sufferings was settled. Worship began. The…
Dear Lee I was touched when you told me last Sunday that, as you sat in your first Quaker Meeting for Worship a few weeks ago, you felt you had come home. Many of the early…
… Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come, that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you…
We met in silence, the cows and I in the long wet grass, in worship they, ruminating I. They sat. I stood by the wooden fence that set apart the sprawling house from the winding…
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