The bad weather that hit UK shores last week was named ‘Storm Jocelyn’ in honour of Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
The novelist Maggie Brookes discussed her new book about Quaker aid in the Spanish civil war in Friends House last week.
Quakers have called on the UK government to use peaceful means to resolve conflicts in the Middle East, following the attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen.
The social aspects of sustainability are crucial to progress in tackling climate change, a Quaker professor said last month. Yet around ninety per cent of funding – ‘certainly…
Friends joined a thousand people on a ‘Peace is Every Step’ walking silent prayer and vigil in London last weekend.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM)’s peace and disarmament team has highlighted a study showing that the first months of the conflict in Gaza produced more planet-warming gases than…
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) briefed parliamentarians on a bill dealing with boycotts of foreign states before its third reading in the House of Commons last week.
Quaker groups and Children’s Meetings are being invited to make a short film to celebrate the 400th anniversary of George Fox’s birth.
Friends have been sharing thoughts on the links between Quaker worship and meditation.
Two families from the Quaker Social Action (QSA) Cook Up project have been given ten days or fewer to leave their accommodation. This is despite rules that say refugees claiming…
"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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