The Quaker and Eva Koch Scholar Naomi Richards has researched how ‘meetings for nourishment’.can facilitate conversations on the climate crisis.
The Retreat has outlined its heritage plans for the Heslington Road site as the final stages of the planning approvals process approaches. The site was put up for sale in late 2022…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has produced a pamphlet after its research found widespread targeting of schoolchildren by the armed forces and arms companies. This has been sent to…
In the first afternoon session on 4 March, Friends heard reports on how central committees have been responding to Yearly Meeting (YM) concerns. In 2021, Quaker Peace & Social…
Mike Coote, co-clerk of QPSWCC, described its work supporting Quaker action at COP26 and ongoing efforts for the Make Polluters Pay campaign, as well as the Insure Our Future…
Klaus Huber, clerk of QLCC, then updated Friends on the group’s work encouraging reflection on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), which is sometimes run in collaboration with…
Friends then heard recommendations from Church Government Advisory Group (CGAG) on changes to Quaker faith & practice.
The day ended with Friends hearing from three Quaker chaplains. Robin Fishwick, a Quaker chaplain at the University of Leeds, said he is often asked how many Friends are at the…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has criticised the findings of the long-awaited review of Prevent, the government’s counter-terrorism programme. The report calls for its focus to…
Churches are often seen as ‘white, middle-class spaces’, a new report has shown, underlining that to reach more people, they need to reflect ‘the diversity of the UK’. This…
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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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