29th April 2011

Lessons from Fukushima

by Frank Boulton

Recent columns in the Friend understandably focus on the challenges to our faith and practice posed by Libya and Palestine. Friends in Medact and other peace groups are equally…

29th April 2011

Trustees:  creating time and space

by Peter Ullathorne

‘A remarkably rich experience’ was how one trustee described her experience of trusteeship at the first national conference of Area Meeting (AM) trustees, held at Woodbrooke…

29th April 2011

Gene Sharp:  a quiet revolutionary

by Jonathan Doering

‘Nonviolent weapons are very important because… if [people] can’t see that they are very powerful, they will go back to violence and war every time.’  So commented the…

29th April 2011

All you need

by Peter Daniels

22nd April 2011

A perspective on the Eternal

by Howard Grace
22nd April 2011

Clive Stafford Smith speaking truth to power

by Rosemary Hartill
22nd April 2011

Noel’s story

by Michael Golby

Kenneth Clarke, secretary for justice, wants to see a decrease in the prison population. He knows that short term sentences are a revolving door to more crime and too short for…

22nd April 2011

Boycotting Israel:  Quaker action is justified

by Stuart Yates

Meeting for Sufferings’ decision to boycott goods made by Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories is welcome and the least we should do in view of Israel’s…

22nd April 2011

A Quaker boycott

by Sarah Lawson

Meeting for Sufferings is urging us to boycott goods produced by ‘Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories’. This is not a boycott of ‘Israeli goods…

22nd April 2011

Carnival Day

by Dai Jenkins

Slugs ‘Mucous gastropods without shells,  bilious brown and green,  chocolate box black and blue’  slaughtered our delicate shoots on carnival day in our market…

22nd April 2011

Piero della Francesca’s ‘Resurrection’

by A M Rossett

The eyes of Piero’s risen Jesus gaze with the compelling blankness of a man who, just this very moment, has walked out of hell. It is a face that even atheists have found they…

15th April 2011

Life in Bethany

by Marigold Bentley