14th August 2015

Thought for the Week: All life is sacred

by John Myhill

For me a foundation of Quaker faith is the idea that there is no division between the sacred (spiritual, meditative, religious, sacramental) and the secular (material, busy,…

14th August 2015

Human rights

by Jan Sutton

The Human Rights Act (1998) stems from the European Convention on Human Rights (1950). This Convention was set up after the second world war in order to ensure that never again…

14th August 2015

Whither goeth the bus?

by John Anderson

It is not just because I am deaf that I think ‘afterword’ is a very bad idea. I do not know how widely this practice has been taking hold in Britain Yearly Meeting as a whole…

14th August 2015

Modern day slavery

by Rebecca Fricker

‘Slavery and Liberation’ was the theme of the North East Thames Area Meeting All Age Gathering held in April. The weekend covered the history, current situation and role of the…

14th August 2015

Changing lives in Bolivia

by Denise Gabuzda and Chris Stotesbury
14th August 2015

Listening to trauma

by Andrew Lane

In June Charles Tauber reached twenty years living in Vukovar, a town near the Croatian-Serbian border. Vukovar was devastated by violent conflict during the Yugoslav wars of the…

14th August 2015

Lanterns and reflections

by Ken Veitch
14th August 2015

Gnosis?

by Elizabeth Angas

Bits of Truth come as Certainty. Where do they come from? Is that Gnosis? Does Certainty come via Intuition? A Knowingness that its Guidance is from the Holy Spirit? Yes, a…

7th August 2015

Thought for the Week: Seventy years ago

by The Friend

8:16 am 6 August 1945 American pilots dropped the world’s first atom bomb on Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the explosion. At least…

7th August 2015

On poppies, wreaths and oak trees

by Friends in Witney
7th August 2015

Inside Out/Outside In

by Anne McNeill-Pulati
7th August 2015

Historical relics

by Barbara Pensom

Burning books is agreed to be an outrage. Books are the repository of the history and culture of the forebears of a people and are revered as the representation of shared…