A new colleague put his head round my office door late one Friday afternoon. He was not a Quaker and had been hired short-term for particular professional skills, but found himself…
An extraordinary meeting is to take place tonight. It may be not far from you, but you will not hear much about it, if anything. Four or five carefully selected and trained…
I can’t believe I’m here again, four years after my last stint in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Much has changed in my own life in four years; most importantly I have…
For many people the peace testimony is what marks out Quakers, and it is often admired as a living example of putting faith into action. The basis of our peace testimony is a…
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