5th July 2013

Thought for the Week: The cooperative vision

by Nick Matthews

A statue of Robert Owen, visionary mill-owner and father of cooperation, stands outside the Co-operative Bank in Manchester. His experiment at New Lanark, of providing housing for…

5th July 2013

Money is debt: a vicious circle

by George Penaluna

The Fox Report on borrowing highlights the tragic personal and societal problems caused by excessive borrowing. As Patrick Chalmers reminds us, ninety-seven per cent of the money…

5th July 2013

Prayer

by John Anderson
5th July 2013

The peace pilgrimage

by Maura Brown

They had set off walking from Iona on 14 May and were due in Riding Mill at lunchtime on Tuesday 18 June. The parish hall was to be full at lunchtime and I was down to provide…

28th June 2013

The Fox Report: Payback time

by Patrick Chalmers
28th June 2013

The Fox Report: The turning point?

by Howard Reed
28th June 2013

Responding to inequality

by Enid R Pinch
28th June 2013

The Fox Report: Student debt

by Patrick Chalmers
28th June 2013

Travelling in ministry: Lift up your gifts

by Thomas Swain

In the small groups that I work with helping Friends see their Spirit given gifts, I have found that British Friends are reluctant to own their own goodness and gifts. In a recent…

21st June 2013

A Balkan story

by John Corsellis
21st June 2013

Thought for the Week: Discernment and trust

by Roland Carn

It is Yearly Meeting in session. Six hundred Friends are in the Large Meeting House taking part in all age worship. A three year-old bursts, joyfully and spontaneously, into song…