If everyone is equal before the law, why should women prisoners be treated differently? And if people are meant to receive the same punishment for the same offence, why should…
Portraits of early Quakers are extremely rare. One of the reasons for this was strictly practical – most Friends did not come from the social class that could afford painted…
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…
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