A Friend has spoken about Quakers and peacemaking on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’.
Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has joined a new project involving a global community of religious and spiritual institutions to champion sustainable living.
Heaven on Earth: Quakers and the Second Coming, first published in 1998, has been reprinted as a twentieth anniversary edition.
In the 13 July edition of the Friend the story ‘March against Donald Trump visit’ contained a mistake. The sentence ‘A Quaker contingent to the main “Stop Trump”…
Quakers in Ireland made a major decision at Ireland Yearly Meeting in Limerick at the weekend. A statement released on 21 July said: ‘The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)…
The first ever ecumenical eco-conference took place this month, featuring a speech by Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting. ‘A Future for All… Implementing…
Ruth Cadbury, the Quaker MP, recently hosted the launch of a campaign aimed at making London roads safer for cyclists.
Roundhay Meeting House in Yorkshire hosted a talk this month by the shadow minister for peace and disarmament. Fabian Hamilton, Leeds North East MP, gave the talk on 13 July.
A small exhibition of artworks devised as a response to the arms trade and first shown at the Art the Arms Fair in September 2017 was opened this month.
An attender at Lewes Meeting in Sussex has cited Quakers as the inspiration behind her new play set in a Quaker community during the Napoleanic wars. Charlotte Jones, writer of The…
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