Friends of all ages came together in an unprogrammed Meeting for Worship for the first time in the Large Meeting House on Sunday. Meeting began with a Friend reading God’s…
Friends continue to embrace the benefits of new technology and to explore imaginative new ways of presenting information. The presentation of the centrally managed work of…
There were helpful presentations from Quaker Peace & Social Witness, the Quaker Council for European Affairs, the Quaker United Nations Office and Living Witness at a special…
We look on games as just fun pastimes, but increasingly games are used for serious education and training. We were reminded at the special interest group on Sunday that Monopoly…
Many special interest groups at Yearly Meeting were full to overflowing. Those who met on Saturday to talk about mental health in Meetings filled the seats, sat on the floor…
Bubbles were in the air at Yearly Meeting on Monday morning. In the ‘As Led’ session a Friend spoke of her concern over the ‘bubble’ of Friends associated with…
Rhiannon Redpath and Owen Everett invited Friends to join them in celebrating twenty years of the Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) peaceworker scheme with an interactive…
Climate change. Peacebuilding. Control of seeds. Children of prisoners. What do these issues have in common? They are all work areas at the Quaker United Nations Office…
A small group of Friends gathered on Saturday evening to explore how the Gospel message preached by George Fox and the early Friends is still relevant to us today. The New…
The Kindlers packed out their special interest group as they promoted three new publications on Saturday: Early Quaker Women by Elaine Hobby, Quakers and Christ Today by Doug Gwyn…
Images of refreshment and renewal, prompted by a reference to the famous Roman baths, were raised in a short presentation promoting the 2014 Yearly Meeting Gathering of Friends to…
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