15th April 2016

Leaveners collaboration highlights workers

by Tara Craig

Leaveners, the Quaker arts group, has worked with Dudley Museum & Art Gallery to bring together works of art that give historical insight into the lives of Black Country…

15th April 2016

Friend takes drugs concern to UN

by Tara Craig

A member of Bournemouth Coastal Area Meeting will take a statement to the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the global drug problem.

15th April 2016

Vatican hosts event on Catholic peacemaking

by Tara Craig

A groundbreaking conference took place at the Vatican this week, when eighty delegates gathered to review the Catholic teaching on peacemaking.

Oakham Friends return to Meeting house
15th April 2016

Oakham Friends return to Meeting house

by Tara Craig
15th April 2016

Turning the world upside-down

by Tara Craig

Some eighty people, among them ten members of Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) staff, gathered recently in Derbyshire for the department’s spring conference.

Framing the Quaker Tapestry
15th April 2016

Framing the Quaker Tapestry

by Tara Craig
8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Risks and logos

by Tara Craig

Some of the risks now faced by the Religious Society of Friends in Britain were highlighted at Meeting for Sufferings held at Friends House, London, on Saturday 2 April. Ingrid…

8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Living out our faith

by Tara Craig

Britain Yearly Meeting is moving through a three-year arc, ‘Living out our faith’, Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore explained in the papers. At Yearly Meeting 2015,…

8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Minutes from Meetings

by Tara Craig

A number of minutes from Area Meetings were brought to Sufferings. A concern over the use of the phrase ‘Quakers in Britain’ came from Cambridgeshire Area Meeting. A response…

8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: QWRC renewed

by Tara Craig

Anne Bennett, clerk of the Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC), spoke to its first annual report.

8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Concerns are a concern

by Tara Craig

Meeting for Sufferings clerk Ethel Livermore described testing concerns as ‘something that a lot of Friends struggle with’. Her thoughts were echoed by Friends, one of whom…

8th April 2016

Meeting for Sufferings: Ireland Yearly Meeting

by Tara Craig

Each year, Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) sends representatives to other Yearly Meetings in Europe.