Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has set up a new working group to support Quaker action against nuclear weapons at what it describes as ‘a time which is clearly particularly…
The Quaker author John Lampen has reached out to Friends asking for help in supporting and publicising Quaker music including what he calls ‘closet’ Quaker composers.
The Chester Quaker Economic and Climate Justice Group hosted a talk this week exploring how moving towards environmental sustainability could simultaneously bring real improvements…
The ground-breaking anti-war artist Peter Kennard made a passionate case for the role of art in communicating and driving climate action at the launch of the Grantham Art Prize…
Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) joined thirteen other civil society organisations last week to express their ‘deep concern’ about proposed EU military spending in…
Quakers took part in the protests at Westminster Abbey this month against its thanksgiving service for fifty years of constant patrols by nuclear submarines.
Over 100 people gathered at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution for a local-election hustings last month convened by Bath Quakers on the theme of climate and…
Norwich Quakers are hosting a public debate this week asking the question: ‘What’s spiritual about economics?’
Lincolnshire Friends are celebrating the centenary birthday of one of the oldest surviving Quaker conscientious objectors (COs) by hosting a play about the pacifist training farm…
Around forty-three per cent of British Quakers do not profess a belief in God, according to an article last month in The Economist magazine.
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