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
15th April 2011

Walk the walk

by Leo Vincent
15th April 2011

Gaddafi and Quaker faith & practice?

by Alexander Macpherson-Glasgow
15th April 2011

The Coalition, the cuts and the costs

by Tom Jackson

It is just nine months since the coalition government assumed power. Even before the election, it was well known that the country’s finances were in a parlous state.  The…

15th April 2011

April in Paris

by Anthony Boulton

It is a sunny spring late afternoon and a young American, attached to his nation’s embassy, saunters back to his apartment in a quiet part of Paris. As a foreign diplomat he is a…

15th April 2011

All truth is a shadow except the last

by Jan Arriens

David Boulton inspiringly describes (25 March) how three Quaker groups coming from different angles – including humanists, agnostics and atheists – found common ground at…

8th April 2011

Through European eyes

by Rosemary Rimmer-Clay
8th April 2011

Roy Head - Developing medical campaigns to save lives

by Rosemary Hartill