We have the best welfare state in the world; or perhaps we did, but surely if that were so, what follows can’t be us? Education performance has dropped to twenty-third out of the…
Heard the one about the bishop, the Turner Prize winner and the Quaker? The Church of England has ‘jumped on a middle class bandwagon of horror at the Brexit vote’. So thunders…
I learnt recently that Rabia Basri, the female Sufi saint of the eighth century, warned us not to complain. This advice spoke to my heart, but I had to think carefully about it.…
What image do you have of prison and the prison community? Perhaps you see high walls and ‘razor’ topped fences? You might imagine groups of thugs and villains moping around…
For many years, Quakers in Britain have been deeply reluctant to share the riches of the Quaker way with others. We have labelled any attempt to welcome potential new Friends as…
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