18th June 2021

Friends in Scotland consider poverty action

by Rebecca Hardy

Scottish Quakers are considering how they can respond to a new initiative for churches to unite to fight poverty.

18th June 2021

US Friends push for landmine ban

by Rebecca Hardy

Two US Quaker organisations joined thirty-four other leaders in calling on Joe Biden to adopt a new landmine policy after the administration announced that it was conducting a…

11th June 2021

Quakers lobby against controversial bill

by Rebecca Hardy

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has submitted evidence to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill Committee on a controversial bill that is now passing through parliament.…

11th June 2021

Rare manuscript of Quakers’ US exodus

by Rebecca Hardy

A rare manuscript has offered insight into the Welsh Quaker exodus into the US in the seventeenth century.

11th June 2021

Clergy make stand against Exxon

by Rebecca Hardy

Two members of the Anglican clergy have glued themselves to furniture in the reception of Church House in London in protest at the Church of England continuing to invest in Exxon…

11th June 2021

Quakers send postcards for COP26

by Rebecca Hardy

Friends have been taking part in a ‘Make COP Count’ initiative, which involves sending Boris Johnson a postcard supporting the twenty-sixth United Nations Climate Change…

11th June 2021

PPU accuses education secretary of ‘misrepresentation’

by Rebecca Hardy

Peace campaigners have accused education secretary Gavin Williamson of ‘bending the truth’ over cadet forces in schools. According to the Peace Pledge Union (PPU), which…

Vigil for George Floyd
4th June 2021

Vigil for George Floyd

by Rebecca Hardy
4th June 2021

Friends hear from Gaza

by Rebecca Hardy

Quakers came together online last week to hear the voices of people affected by the bombing in Gaza and the West Bank. The webinar called ‘Hearing from Gaza and the West Bank’,…

4th June 2021

Honour for enslaved woman at Quaker house

by Rebecca Hardy

A historic house in the US is to honour an enslaved woman who saved the Quaker-built home from a fire set by the British during the American revolution. The woman, known as Dinah,…

4th June 2021

Quaker universalists ponder ‘life, time and eternity’

by Rebecca Hardy

‘Life, time and eternity’ was the theme for this year’s Quaker Universalist Group’s conference, with speakers including an anthropologist, a Christian retired vicar, a…