To all Friends everywhere: For JYM this year, 106 young people between the ages of sixteen and eighteen gathered for a sunny week in Canterbury from the 30 July to the 6…
New Shoots (0-2 year olds) We have done an on-going picture minute of all we have done together. We’ve enjoyed toys, walks, songs, sleeps and lots of paint and sticking.…
We send our loving greetings to all Friends everywhere. Friends from Britain, together with Friends from other countries, gathered in Canterbury, a city with a special…
It was uncomfortable. It was unsettling. It was wrong. And yet there was a sense that we all knew where it was coming from: from people who were all too human and felt…
When Nick Perks finished the introduction to the Friday morning Yearly Meeting (YM) session, I wept. The minute that followed makes a ‘strong corporate commitment’ to becoming…
More humility, please. For we did not ‘Abolish slavery’. The record also shows How slaves at fearful cost themselves arose To fight, forgive, and change the global plot.
A Quaker was there also, as ye wistė That I had almost forgot from my listė So silent was he – when that it was Sunday, But talkėd more than any by the Monday.
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