On Friday 5 August Britain Yearly Meeting Gathering in Canterbury will decide what to say or do – if anything – about sustainability. Unusually there are no proposals or…
For some time now we have been putting a lot of time, effort and resources into trying to adapt our organisations, central and local, to demands from without. In doing so, we have…
Yearly Meeting Gathering promises to be full of inspiration – a chance for Friends to share what we are doing to sustain the world we live in, and to consider new leadings. It…
I am very concerned about the future of British Quakers – it is not an exclusive secret society for the white, privileged, educated few. Once our over-sixties die out, the…
A paragraph on the Eye page in a recent issue of the Friend (1 July) drew attention to the difference in the new Book of Meetings between the number of members recorded for each…
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