Every generation there is a revision of the Book of Discipline, Quaker faith & practice. The subject, when raised at Meeting for Sufferings, prompted a lot of questions.…
Jennifer Barraclough, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting trustees, reported on their latest meeting. She talked about some of the subjects raised, such as giving, and said that…
Quakers have welcomed the historic vote last week at the UN General Assembly to adopt a treaty to control the trade in conventional arms. The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) was…
Quakers in Britain have joined other religious groups from across the G8 countries in calling on heads of government to follow the UK in fulfilling existing commitments to spend…
Swarthmoor Hall in Cumbria, the home of Margaret Fell, features in a new three-part series on BBC Four. In the series, The Century That Wrote Itself, author Adam Nicolson…
An interesting development is set to proceed at one of the most historic Meeting houses in Britain. An informal group of conservative Friends have asked to meet at Bunhill…
A Colchester Friend was an advisor on a major BBC documentary screened on Good Friday that looked at the life and legacy of Mary Magdalene. Joan Taylor, professor of…
Quaker author Tim Gee has broken fresh ground with his book on the Occupy movement. You Can’t Evict an Idea, which analyses the impact of the movement, was initially…
In his Easter message, the president of the Methodist Conference challenged the myth that poverty is the fault of the poor.
Michael Bartlet, parliamentary liason secretary for Quakers in Britain, is to leave Friends House at the end of April. Michael has given seventeen years service in this…
Friends at the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva are celebrating a significant breakthrough over a long-standing concern. The UN has announced that in September,…
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