I remember vividly the first Meeting of Friends in Wales held in 1992, in Llanwrtyd, just across the mountain from me. It was experimental, it was new, but it had a clear role to…
It is Monday afternoon and here we are again, sitting in a circle of silence, waiting. Some of us find it easier to wait than others. It’s only twenty minutes, but to some of us…
At Remembrance, when the British nation’s focus is so intently on the fighting (mainly) men and the victories and prosperity they helped provide, even voicing another opinion –…
Kansas City, Missouri was once the western frontier of the United States. The sprawling Mississippi flanks its border with the state of Kansas. It marks a boundary, the former…
On Saturday 1 August 1914 the German kaiser telegraphed his cousin George V: ‘The troops on my frontier are in the act of being stopped by telephone and telegraph from crossing…
It was a lovely warm late afternoon in June. I was visiting the local Quaker Meeting to observe a new tutor teaching her second course for the Workers’ Educational Association…
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