A Dorset Quaker has been recognised in the New Year Honours List for supporting people who are facing poverty in her local area. Margaret Barker was offered, and accepted,…
With many Meetings struggling with low turnouts at Meeting for Worship for Business, Friends in Nailsworth in Gloucestershire are experimenting with a radical new format.
A leading housing charity has predicted an increase in the number of people dying from the cold while sleeping on the streets. Housing Justice, an ecumenical Christian group, said…
Quakers have welcomed the prime minister’s decision to back the right of religious groups to host same sex marriage ceremonies.
Quaker campaigners have condemned proposals for an Israeli military base on the Mount of Olives. The plan has caused controversy because the Mount has sacred significance for…
A Quaker will cycle to George Osborne’s constituency office this week – to give him a copy of Charles Dickens’ festive classic A Christmas Carol. Alan Pinch from Manchester…
The number of Christians living in England and Wales has fallen by four million in the past decade, the 2011 census reveals.
The main agenda item of Meeting for Sufferings, held at Friends House on Saturday 1 December, was the commitment made at Canterbury in 2011 for Quakers to become a low-carbon…
Jonathan Fox, who has been a model of calmness and lucidity over the years, gave his last Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees report. Was there a hint of sadness in his voice?
Meeting for Sufferings were informed, very clearly, that no firm decision on the future of Swarthmoor Hall in Cumbria had been made. The Swarthmoor Hall Project Group told…
The new treasurer of BYM, Peter Ullathorne, gave a very measured presentation to Meeting for Sufferings on the status of the finances.
Quakers in Ireland have just marked two hundred years of pioneering healthcare. The anniversary celebration was held at Bloomfield Care Centre in Rathfarnham, Dublin, a…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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