In 1957 I received a small brown envelope that contained my call-up papers to join the British army as a national serviceman. I was eighteen years of age. After some training I was…
‘Academisation’ is one of those ugly, newly minted words that has entered the language and whose popularity will probably soon enter the Oxford English Dictionary.
Friends are prompted to ‘live their faith’ through their actions in the world. One important area in which many Quakers do this is in the workplace. It is a challenge that…
Currently, we hear much in the news about evil. In America, the word has been liberally thrown around at both presidential candidates. Meanwhile, the actor Will Smith has been…
It’s been the elephant in the room for a while. Quakers are predominantly middle class, white and well-educated. While inequality in the UK has risen, and austerity has hit the…
Many Quaker Meetings struggle to maintain an active children’s group. This may not be so much to do with what Quakers are offering or not offering but more to do with the…
The powers of the West, the greatest and the best, agreed to make a plan for no more war. After days and nights of labour, each resolved to love his neighbour by spending more on…
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