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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’,…
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