I’ve stopped attending Meeting and I’m not sure I’ll return. Why? I feel abandoned and unsupported, uncared for. How come? My mother died recently, yet I’ve had no contact…
I am searching for something I have lost or mislaid: I long for a ‘good’ period of worship in which I turn to the God of my younger years. Such occasions have now disappeared;…
For the best part of forty years I’ve been involved in, tried to influence and been impressed by public policy-making in the UK. I’ve been equally appalled too. Here, at…
When I was four years old, I set out on adventures in a little walking frame, discovering the world and solving how to overcome the obstacles that were in the way. That little…
When poets go to war, they tell a dreadful tale, They tell of crucifixion, nail on bloody nail. They tell the tale of Cain again, slaughtering his brother. They tell of orphaned…
The Quaker Peace Testimony was a focus for discussion at a recent ‘Becoming Friends’ evening in our local Newbury Meeting. It brought back university memories from fifty years…
Military beyond the last you wait in neat rows for the last trump. Orderly and regular headstones on parade you form a hollow square to look on the great stone altar where grateful…
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