1st May 2015

Worship God, don’t use God

by Peter Speirs

‘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…

1st May 2015

The Book of Discipline

by Rhiannon Grant

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…

1st May 2015

Gleanings: The holy mountain

by Laurie Michaelis

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…

24th April 2015

Quakers and the European Union: the past

by Oliver Robertson
24th April 2015

Thought for the Week: Beyond mindfulness

by Peggy Heeks

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…

24th April 2015

The secret history of torture

by Michael Still

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…

24th April 2015

The NHS: protecting a universal service

by Sylvia Melville

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…

24th April 2015

Housing and humanity

by Tara Craig

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,…

24th April 2015

From the archive: Home and abroad

by Janet Scott

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…

24th April 2015

The Gates of Greenham

by Alec Davison

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…

24th April 2015

How do we grow acceptance?

by Alan Johnson and Chris Love
17th April 2015

Thought for the Week: In our being

by Rosemary Brown

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…