Quakerism grows on me. As I fast approach my eightieth year, and am continually intrigued and puzzled by life’s changing and challenging experiences, I relish its solidity all…
The overriding sensation on first arriving at the Quaker Christmas Shelter is one of bustle, of things getting done. It is evening and in the basement of Islington’s Union Chapel…
Brag, sweet tenor bull, descant on Rawthey’s madrigal. Basil Bunting, Briggflatts We straggle across a stubble field, tuned in to the rasp of straws, squeak-clunk of a…
The current slaughter by militant Islamists of fellow religionists of a different tradition has parallels in the way in which Christians behaved in the aftermath of the…
What can we say about Syria? Simply that bombing it, like all acts of war, is against our beliefs, as ‘contrary to the mind of Christ’? That’s a good start. I would expand…
Friends often assume that I grow my own vegetables. It’s part of a green stereotype, perhaps influenced by the 1970s sitcom The Good Life. That stereotype has some validity. The…
In his day, George Fox had good reason to raise objections to the established church: its rigid doctrines; its hireling priests and their demands for the payment of tithes to keep…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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