Quakers in Lancaster have installed a plaque to acknowledge their forebears’ role as ‘slave traders’ and ‘slave owners’.
Ninety-three per cent of teachers do not agree that nuclear disarmament education is too political to be taught, a new survey from the Nuclear Education Trust has found. It reveals…
A Quaker from Malvern Meeting has highlighted the issue of high broadband costs and how Friends can get more help. Asking ‘Are You Paying Too Much for Your Broadband?’, Richard…
Quakers had a presence at the Yorkshire Festival of Story last month, where they highlighted the value of storytelling at a time of climate emergency.
At December’s Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) last week, Friends agreed to explicitly ask Area Meetings (AMs) to cease using the name ‘overseer’ and to replace it with another…
The first main item on Saturday saw Sarah Donaldson, convener of the Yearly Meeting Review Group (YMRG), which is appointed to review Yearly Meeting (YM), Yearly Meeting Gathering…
Next, the Book of Discipline Revision Committee (BDRC) clerks shared a timeline for the revision project.
The morning session ended with Friends agreeing a way forward on the issue of Quaker non-members serving on Central Committees.
The announcement of a new loss and damage fund at COP27 marked ‘a moment of extraordinary significance for climate justice’, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said, but the UK…
Further cuts to public services will hit those already struggling with the cost of living crisis, Quakers have said.
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