Jan Sellers of Wansteaad Meeting, London, is speaking on BBC Radio 4’s programme Something Understood on Sunday 18 May at 6.05am and then repeated at 11.30pm.
Two stories of violence are dominating the news, the kidnapping of girls in Northern Nigeria and the unrest in Ukraine. It is natural for Friends to find such events disturbing,…
On Sunday 2 August 1914 Britain saw the country’s biggest ever anti-war demonstration (before 2003): fifteen thousand people in Trafalgar Square led by Keir Hardie, fifty…
Next Thursday, 15 May, is International Conscientious Objectors Day, which this year has special significance as the nationwide centennial commemorations of the first world war get…
Marriage is a useful and easily recognised concept carrying many privileges of practical use. But as Friends our first aims are to face reality and avoid hypocrisy. It is time our…
First, the bad news. Over the last three months our electricity usage has almost trebled. Now, the good news. Our spending on fuel has fallen from about £140 a month to almost…
Dad hated those processions: strangulated distant bugles, rifles butting Whitehall tarmac, doleful incantations from the comfortable clergy resurrecting Albert, Chalky and those…
"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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