17th March 2017

No room?

by John Lampen

Ioften feel proud to be British – and occasionally very ashamed. One such occasion was when our government said they would only admit 350 unaccompanied refugee children into…

17th March 2017

Observing Quaker bureaucracy

by Peter Bevan

I attended Meeting for Sufferings in early February as a substitute alternate for our Area Meeting and found myself slipping into the role of observer rather than participant – a…

17th March 2017

Reflections on the ‘Red Book’: True spiritual experience

by Noël Staples

‘Imprisonment… offers some protection to society by removing the offender. But consider how limited that protection is compared to what it could be. It puts the offender…

17th March 2017

Exploration into God

by Kris Misselbrook

As a student of the Cathars, and a Quaker concerned with the spiritual challenge of our times, the age old question of a battle between the forces of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ is a…

17th March 2017

A snowdrop in our midst

by Brenda Claxton
9th March 2017

Quakers and youth hostels

by Duncan Simpson
9th March 2017

Calais

by Anne M Jones
9th March 2017

Thought for the Week: Oversight and eldership

by Alison Leonard

I was looking around for something to counter my drift towards despair about the present political landscape when a friend, who works at the Bradford School of Peace Studies, sent…

9th March 2017

Peacemaking in a troubled world

by Linda Murgatroyd

At this time, when tensions within and between many countries and communities in the Western world have been rising, we need to remain grounded in that ‘Spirit which… delights…

9th March 2017

We love conflict!

by Marian Liebmann, Zélie Gross and Roger Cullen

Ajoint initiative between Quaker Life, the recording clerk’s office, the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and the Living with Conflict project brought together twelve people for…

9th March 2017

Knowing what to do

by Stephen Allen

In my view, one of the greatest strengths of our Quaker way is how our processes, in particular our business method, can embrace our individual ‘unknowing’ about being in a…

3rd March 2017

The long shadow of war

by Julia Bush and Ruth Whitehouse