Quakers make the bold claim that we do not need to keep ‘Times and Seasons’, that every day is a day for remembering the meaning of the great Christian festivals and for…
It is my first Quaker Meeting. Driven by a need that requires that I look elsewhere than conventional church services, I have spoken to relatives who have attended Meetings over…
Over the past two years I have been privileged to assist in the birth of a phoenix. Rising from the ashes of the original community at Bamford, which disbanded after more than…
A few days before we were due to hold our January Area Meeting (AM), the forecast was for heavy snow. We cover, in Ipswich and Diss, quite a wide geographical area: many of our…
What are our Meeting houses for? To meet in, yes, as our very own places for worship, Quaker business, coffee and biscuits, all that committee stuff. But is that all? Are we…
David Cameron’s recent unexpected idea of using aid funds to strengthen peace activity appeared, at first glance, to be an inspired vision of how things ought to be. It is well…
I sometimes feel I have never got over the first world war. This is an odd thing to say, since I wasn’t born till long after, and my father only enlisted in 1918. But it still…
"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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