A renewed commitment to address the root causes of social and economic injustice in the world and to take action, individually and collectively, prompted by a spirit of love, was…
Jude Kirton-Darling, a Quaker, MEP and long-time labour activist, began the 2015 Salter Lecture by telling listeners to look ‘right at the centre of the struggle for social and…
At 11.45am on Saturday 25 April the earth literally moved under my feet and continued to move for about four minutes. It seemed much longer. I was in Lalitpur over the river from…
Loving Greetings to Friends everywhere, We have come together with joy, seeing one another’s faces and hearing one another more clearly in our new light-filled Meeting house. We…
‘Living out our faith in the world’ is the theme of this year’s Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM). It follows three years in which BYM addressed the question: ‘What it means to…
For Yearly Meeting 2015 we have been given the gift of space: the precious temporal space of three days to spend in Meeting for Worship together, in prayerful listening for the…
Richard Dawkins is well known for doing battle with religion in general, and with what he calls the ‘interventionist, miracle-wreaking, thought-reading, sin-punishing,…
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union (EU) in 2012 was widely mocked in Britain. Yet its achievements have been among the most impressive of all Nobel…
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