8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Living out our faith

by Tara Craig

Britain Yearly Meeting is moving through a three-year arc, ‘Living out our faith’, Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore explained in the papers. At Yearly Meeting 2015,…

8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Minutes from Meetings

by Tara Craig

A number of minutes from Area Meetings were brought to Sufferings. A concern over the use of the phrase ‘Quakers in Britain’ came from Cambridgeshire Area Meeting. A response…

8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: QWRC renewed

by Tara Craig

Anne Bennett, clerk of the Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC), spoke to its first annual report.

8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Concerns are a concern

by Tara Craig

Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore described testing concerns as ‘something that a lot of Friends struggle with’. Her thoughts were echoed by Friends, one of whom…

8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Ireland Yearly Meeting

by Tara Craig

Each year, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) sends representatives to other Yearly Meetings in Europe.

8th April 2016

Online exhibition highlights matters of conscience

by Tara Craig

Friends House Library’s new online exhibition gives an overview of the introduction and impact of the Military Service Act, which came into force in March 1916.

A confident Quaker voice
8th April 2016

A confident Quaker voice

by Tara Craig
1st April 2016

Carmichael controversy prompts concerns

by Tara Craig

Six leading Scottish academics are among those who have made public their concerns over the confusion that has resulted from a recent decision by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust…

1st April 2016

It all adds up for QSA

by Tara Craig

Quaker Social Action (QSA) has turned its attention towards the criminal justice sector with its latest financial education project, ‘Adds Up’.

1st April 2016

Investigation gives nod to Quaker legacy

by Tara Craig

A recent episode of Channel 4’s investigative current affairs programme Dispatches focused on the Cadbury chocolate firm, contrasting current business practices with those of its…

1st April 2016

Archive of eighteenth century Friend goes online

by Tara Craig

The diaries, letters and notebooks of Yorkshire’s Joseph Wood are now online, part of the University of Leeds’ Quaker collections.