5th February 2016

Area Meetings: what is the future?

by Gillian Blunden Grant

Our Friend, Ian Beeson speaks to my condition (1 January) and the thoughts I have been having since reading the report of Meeting for Sufferings 11 December 2015. This is what the…

5th February 2016

What lies beyond

by Roger Seal
5th February 2016

Meaning and life

by Don Mason

Recently a friend of mine made the observation that ‘Life is hard’. I did not ask why she had said what she did, but it was hardly necessary. Whether we look at the world…

29th January 2016

Thought for the Week: A matter of conscience

by Jennifer Kavanagh

Tomorrow is the centenary of The Military Service Act, which brought conscription into the first world war. Many people listening will have had relatives who fought in one of the…

29th January 2016

Working for peace in Afghanistan

by Ellis Brooks
29th January 2016

From the archive: Freedom of conscience

by Janet Scott

In January 1916 the Military Service Act was passed and introduced conscription enlisting unmarried men aged between eighteen and forty-one in the regular forces for the duration…

29th January 2016

A blessing in disguise

by Richard Thompson

The first Quakers were encouraged to ‘look within’ and see themselves as they really were. George Fox exhorted them: ‘Your strength is to stand still, after ye see…

29th January 2016

Friends gather in the Andes

by Tara Craig
29th January 2016

Healing when all seems hopeless

by Elizabeth M Angus
29th January 2016

Reading the Bible

by Richard Seebohm
22nd January 2016

Thought for the Week: Words and silence

by Patricia Gosling

For a group of people who value silence, and whose mode of worship is based on deep silence, we Friends do get hung up about words: ‘theist or nontheist’, God-language or…

22nd January 2016

Letter from Calais

by Anne M Jones