The sun shone on the huge white tent and Quakers, who had descended from near and far, made their way into the largest indoor space British Friends had ever worshipped in. It was…
Ben Pink Dandelion of Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre gave this year’s Swarthmore Lecture at Yearly Meeting Gathering on Sunday 3 August. Speaking to a packed Big Top, Ben shared…
Friends responded quickly, in August and September 1914, to the needs of wartime. One of the responses of which we are now proud was, at the time, contentious, as shown in these…
Equality was chosen by Jessica Metheringham, parliamentary engagement officer for Quakers in Britain, as the theme for this year’s George Gorman Lecture, which was delivered in…
When George Fox asked his famous question – ‘what canst thou say’ – I wonder if he was foreseeing the internet, for there has never been a development so perfectly moulded…
‘We did conclude among ourselves to settle a meeting, to see one another’s faces, and open our hearts one to another in the Truth of God once a year, as formerly it used to…
I can think of no more fundamental question for social justice than this: how big should our state be? Those who argue for a small state place themselves within the right or…
"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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