23rd September 2016

Inter Faith Week celebrates eighth year

by The Friend Newsdesk

National Inter Faith Week takes place this year from 13-20 November.

23rd September 2016

Meeting in the Sky

by Tara Craig

Twenty Friends held Meeting for Worship in the James Turrell designed Deer Shelter Skyspace at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, near Wakefield, on Friday 9 September.

23rd September 2016

Sustainability gathering

by Tara Craig

The future development of the Living Witness group and how Friends address the challenges of implementing the Canterbury Commitment is to be addressed by Friends.

23rd September 2016

Break up the banks?

by The Friend Newsdesk

The contentious, difficult, knotty and puzzling issues of how money does and doesn’t work for people are to being addressed by London Quakers in early October.

23rd September 2016

Friends urged to be creative in Quaker Week

by The Friend Newsdesk

Quakers throughout Britain will be marking the ninth annual Quaker Week from 1-9 October by welcoming visitors to share the stillness of silent Quaker worship in their Meetings and…

16th September 2016

Friends support call for revised refugee policy

by The Friend Newsdesk

Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, is one of 200 leaders of faith communities who have signed an open letter to Theresa May calling for urgent changes to the…

QPSW introduces latest peaceworkers
16th September 2016

QPSW introduces latest peaceworkers

by Tara Craig
16th September 2016

Australian Quakers voice concern over plebiscite

by Harry Albright

Quakers in Australia have written to Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister, to urge him to put marriage equality before the Australian parliament rather than holding a plebiscite on…

16th September 2016

Peace Hub reveals theme for autumn

by Tara Craig

The Peace Hub in Birmingham has chosen ‘Think Global, Act Local, Get Equal’ as its theme for September and October.

16th September 2016

Interest in early Quakers

by Tara Craig

A free online course on early Quakerism has attracted more than 5,000 students from all over the world.

16th September 2016

Young Friends reflect on ministry

by Tara Craig

Eighty-two Friends aged from fifteen to eighteen joined eleven adult volunteers for this year’s Senior Conference for young Friends in the southern half of England.

New face at The Retreat
16th September 2016

New face at The Retreat

by Harry Albright