Eye hears about soft furnishings in 1947, sees the youngest attender at Fritchley Meeting, and offers familiar words for Friends to colour…
by Elinor Smallman
The area around Lancashire and Swarthmoor, near Ulverston, is the birthplace of Quakerism – it is where George Fox travelled in 1652. It is the focus of many Quaker pilgrimages,…
Found in fiction John Lampen, of Stourbridge Meeting, popped into Eye’s mailbag with a fictional Friend penned by Daniel Defoe. He writes: ‘Your mention of a fictional Quaker…
Celebrating seventy-five years The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) represents Friends at the United Nations, and has done for seventy-five years! At an event in June to mark…
Maltsters, manufacturers and merchants Given that many Quakers were involved in the temperance movement, Eye was surprised to hear about the connection between Friends and brewing…
"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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