13th February 2015

Mary’s Joy

by Ian Kirk-Smith

Jeanmarie Simpson is an American Quaker actor and playwright. She is bringing her one woman show ‘Mary’s Joy’ to Europe this month and will be performing it in Britain and…

13th February 2015

Genetic therapy

by Stephen Cox

Earlier this month MPs voted to permit a radical new procedure, using the genes of three people to form a baby. If the House of Lords agree, children could be born from this…

13th February 2015

Winter sestina (6 December 2014)

by Lesley Morris

on summer nights she cupped love in her heart tasted the honey of a gentle kiss and the heat of an exotic garden, she roamed in a rabble of wild colours, with rows of chillies …

13th February 2015

Worship without walls

by Vivien Whitaker

Imagine worshipping, feeling a close connection with nature, bathed in dappled sunlight. This led to powerful ministry when we held our Meeting for Worship in the 1647 Garden of…

6th February 2015

Thought for the Week: Hunting the Higgs

by Anne Cluysenaar

No wonder they love a laugh, the physicists. What ever they find or don’t, it’s OK. Symmetries of the world just remnants of those which, if perfect, would only have led to no…

6th February 2015

Peace work in Ukraine

by John Lampen
6th February 2015

William Henry Davidson

by Janet Ridley
6th February 2015

Discernment and making decisions

by Alick Munro

When Quaker Business Method goes well it is an uplifting experience, but sometimes there are difficulties. The first difficulty is the gleaning of the discernments in the minds of…

6th February 2015

On using this laptop for the first time

by Roy Stephenson

I am doing this for practice, nothing more. We practice all the time, preparing for The Real Thing.

30th January 2015

The story of ProNica

by Hilary Beynon
30th January 2015

Thought for the Week: Holding in the Light

by Joanna Dales

What can it mean to hold you in the Light? It cannot change God’s Will, or Fate, or Chance, The chain, the world-without-end linear dance Of causes and effects, turn wrong to…

30th January 2015

Cold Homes Week

by Raymond Mgadzah

Many in the United Kingdom are affected by fuel-poverty. Six million low-income homes are now believed to be living with insufficient and inefficient heating and lighting. The…