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…
I recently enjoyed participating in a Woodbrooke course that explored the issues arising from Karen Armstrong’s book The Case for God. We heard from Timothy Peat Ashworth,…
We train them to fire bullets that we have sold them And wonder why they kill the rioting crowd.
Why do you suddenly get hit between the eyes? My favourite book is Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy, written in German in 1917 and translated in 1923. Here is true…
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