Like many people, I was initially attracted to Quakers by the peace testimony. In my case, it happened in the early 1990s, when the country was rushing into the first Gulf war.…
I am happy to call myself a Quaker, less happy to call myself a Christian. So, as I arrived as a participant at ‘3Generate’, the Methodist Youth Assembly, I was not sure what…
The story of George Fox meeting up with the Westmorland Seekers and the Fell family is so extraordinary, and was so transformational, that it is rightly the core of what visitors…
This time last year, Elizabeth the second said to a meeting of faith leaders ‘the concept of a Jubilee is rooted in the Bible’. Whilst looking forward to her own celebration,…
Jeanette Fitzsimons, one of the key speakers in the seminar, was the recent co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 1995 to 2009. The title of her session posed…
Last year, I returned from Canada. I had been there for seven years spending time and worshipping with Canadian Friends: something which our Toronto Friend, Gordon McClure,…
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