‘Worship God, don’t just use God’ was just one of the messages given by Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations, during a two-day…
Before any revision of the Book of Discipline can take place – before the Yearly Meeting can even decide whether or not any such revision should take place – there needs to be…
Some years ago I spent three summer days with a group of Young Friends at Pardshaw in the Lake District, exploring their witness to ‘that of God in all creation’. In the…
Living in the present has long been a Quaker practice, but now the concept is intensified by mindfulness, which has become almost a cult movement. Like Christianity, the original…
Coverage of the Holocaust, relating to Holocaust Memorial Day, has prompted some odd memories. In the mid-1950s I was a national serviceman and was posted to northern Germany. On…
The NHS Reinstatement Bill 2015 seeks to reinstate the legal duty of the secretary of state to secure and provide a National Health Service in England. This Bill has the formal…
A webinar (online seminar) organised by Britain Yearly Meeting on 17 April saw Jenny Brierley, clerk of Quaker Housing Trust, and Judith Moran, director of Quaker Social Action,…
Throughout the war the Society kept its regular meetings and committees, though all the work was affected by wartime conditions. In April 1915 committees were preparing and…
Thirty years ago, on Easter Monday 8 April 1985, what is reputed to be the largest gathering of Friends in the twentieth century assembled in the Royal Festival Hall, London. It…
It is February: wet, blustery, and bitterly cold. A time to gaze out at the garden from behind insulating glass doors, pitying the plants as they shiver in the wind. But a day…
"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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