21st November 2014

Thought for the Week: Becoming the prayer

by Jill Allum

All my life I have felt that prayer is saying words to God. I have hunted for the words and felt a failure when I could not find them. Recently, I wrote a letter to the Friend…

21st November 2014

Letting our lives speak

by Sarah Dodgson

The Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship (QLGF) is presently looking at the broad issues of ethics, domestic violence, how to rear children and the objectification of the male body…

21st November 2014

Psychological firewalls

by Nuala Watt

The current government’s disability welfare reforms are wrecking vulnerable people’s psychological firewalls. If you have a serious and/or lifelong condition, you need to…

21st November 2014

Holding people in the Light

by Michael Hennessey

In a minute made at our Area Meeting in October, we are ‘encouraged to again engage in the practice of observing a minute’s silence at nine o’clock each evening to hold in…

21st November 2014

Words: Testimony

by Harvey Gillman

All of our life is testimony to faithfulness. – Open for Transformation by Ben Pink Dandelion When outreach secretary for Quaker Life, I was asked more than once: where is the…

14th November 2014

Quakers: Agriculture needs you!

by Judy Kirby
14th November 2014

Citizen journalists

by The Friend Newsdesk
14th November 2014

There’s a light that is shining

by Anne van Staveren
14th November 2014

Shades of black and white

by Dorothy Searle
14th November 2014

Words: Elder

by Harvey Gillman

In 1653 the Quaker leader William Dewsbury wrote, in a letter: That in every particular meeting, Friends, there be chosen from among you, one or two who are most grown in the power…

14th November 2014

Quaker prison chaplains

by A Quaker prison chaplain

The Quaker Prison Chaplains’ Conference was held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre on 3-5 October and the centre did its usual magic to the weather. The beautiful trees were…

14th November 2014

Profound moments of light

by A Quaker prison chaplain

I have been the Quaker prison chaplain at a prison for nearly three years. The prison is for women of all categories, from those who are serving time for council tax non-payment to…