4th February 2011

The wrong silence

by Miriam Yagud

Friends with diverse conceptions of God and relations to Christianity often say that they feel inhibited: that it is difficult to express their outlook freely with other Quakers;…

4th February 2011

Referendum result in Southern Sudan

by Anthony Wilson
4th February 2011

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4th February 2011

If an armed person entered… (my Meeting)

by Andrew Clark

In her appeal for ‘fresh thinking’ about the peace testimony entitled ‘Dilemmas of a pacifist stand’ (21 January), Jill Allum makes good points about its mid-seventeenth…

4th February 2011

At the chink:  a reflection on music

by A M Rossett

One of the most painful consequences of losing my hearing was no longer being able to listen to and so to experience music; one of my greatest regrets is that I had not been taught…

4th February 2011

Rethinking our Peace Testimony

by Gordon Matthews

Jill Allum is right to call for fresh thinking about our peace testimony (21 January). As the context in which we live changes, so we need to change the ways in which we express…

26th January 2011

A Quaker/Conservative coalition?

by Margie Savory

The Christmas column in the Bridport News (19 December 2010) proved to be a wonderful present for Quakers in west Dorset and all groups who undertake long term campaigns. It was…

26th January 2011

Old sailors’ tales

by John Lewis

Howard Wright’s article (‘Talking Point’, 14 January) has carried me far away. There used to be a plaque in the docks in Calcutta that recorded an extraordinary feat: the…

26th January 2011

Mind and mystery

by Ian Flintoff

Stephen Petter is concerned for the flight from Quakers’ origins in Christianity (14 January) and the shunning, by some, of the terms and concepts that this implies: ‘god’,…

26th January 2011

A Quaker and the Underground

by David Burnell
26th January 2011

The Puritan and the Quaker

by David Burnell
26th January 2011

Grace Cathedral; a personal pilgrimage

by Stuart Donnan