Was it an accident or a fine sense of timing that Channel 4 scheduled its documentary-drama ‘Mo’ for the same week that was to see the signing of an agreement at Hillsborough,…
How should we respond as Quakers to the Copenhagen summit? After the build up to the Copenhagen conference, people are sifting through the embers to see what went wrong. Ed…
It might help us consider in a friendly and supportive manner matters such as non-theistic Quakerism, belief, and language, if we appreciate that each Friend’s own position can…
Quakers in Britain are almost wholly white, middle class, educated and over fifty. We pretend to have a wide range of faith positions and spiritual practices, but in fact…
Confronted by 460 pages of this report, or forty-five pages of summary, you may be daunted or confused. As Peter Kenway said (Poverty breakdown, 15 January), even if you focus on…
A literal reading of the Old Testament is seriously damaging the Palestinian people. For it is written within the Old Testament, clearly and repeatedly, that God has given the…
The Bible seems to be much neglected in British Quakerism these days. It is largely a foreign rather than a familiar book to many of us. We mostly seem to hear of it from ‘Bible…
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