The Friend is a weekly magazine in which Friends speak to each other and to the wider world, offering their insight, ideas, news, nurture and inspiration.
Nurturing Quaker community, each issue offers a space for Friends to share their concerns, and to support each other in faith and witness.
The Friend: enriching, inspiring and connecting the Quaker community since 1843.
As you can see, we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes, bringing the website into the twenty-first century. We hope you enjoy the new look, but most importantly, we hope you find it a great deal easier…
Easier to access
The new design is built to industry standards in terms of accessibility, and should more compatible with screen readers for those who are visually impaired.
Easier to read
No matter which device you use to visit the site, it will adapt automatically to the screen - so reading on the go with your mobile phone just became a lot easier on the eye.
Easier to share
Have you ever read an article and wished you could share it with a friend, only to be thwarted by the paywall? We want to help nourish your online conversations, so if you share a link, new visitors to the website can view up to three articles a month for free!
As is the custom among Marsden Friends, Anne read from Advices & queries at Meeting this morning. Numbers 20 & 21, on sharing and friendship. In so doing, she handed me a key which I was able to use to unlock the ministry that had been percolating in me since I’d seated myself. It happens thus, sometimes, and I am always surprised by it (when I ought not to be).
Britain Yearly Meeting has been holding a wide range of online preparation sessions ahead of Yearly Meeting proper (which begins on 26 July). Special interest groups and Quaker Recognised Bodies have also been running events. Staff from the Friend have been getting to as many as possible (see last week for 5-7 July). Those small few we’ve missed will be covered in other ways. This week’s coverage takes us up to the last of the preparation sessions.
A US project honouring an enslaved housekeeper of a Quaker family has won a prestigious award.
The Dinah Memorial Project set up at Stenton Museum in Pennsylvania has received an Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH).
"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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