31st August 2012

Thought for the Week: Religion and spirituality

by Mike Price

In the introduction to Advices & queries there is the following: ‘There will be a diversity of experience of belief and language. Friends maintain that expressions of faith…

31st August 2012

Encountering God

by Noël Staples

Seven or eight years ago I discovered an exhibit in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington that comprised an aerial view of a small family group in the yard of their home. At the…

31st August 2012

London 2012

by Terry Wood

So, the Olympics came, we saw them, and they utterly conquered me, and many, many others.  I was, I confess, sceptical of the commitment of the nation to the event. I was…

31st August 2012

Walking a tightrope

by Paul Simon

Diana was first appointed clerk soon after she became a member of Bewdley Meeting in 1960. The Meeting was on the point of being laid down at the time. With the guidance of…

24th August 2012

The Quaker camper

by Alison Parkes
24th August 2012

The Boy’s Own Paper

by Jill Allum
24th August 2012

Thought for the Week: Divine Light and the light of reason

by Mark Frankel

The dichotomy between the divine and the secular, theism and nontheism, science and religion, God and man has occupied Friends for decades. Some Friends ask whether we are willing…

24th August 2012

The Snettisham Saga

by Helen Davies
24th August 2012

All together now

by Lisa Hoyle

For the past year Liverpool Meeting has been supporting All Together Now, a small project to deliver ‘mindfulness’ to Liverpool schools. Whilst mindfulness is central to…

24th August 2012

Personal queries

by Tommy Gee

I have always preferred action to words, and doing rather than telling others what to do.  A large part of my life has been spent in work in Africa, the Pacific and Britain…

23rd August 2012

Punishment enough

by Juliet Lyon

The government is planning to construct ways for offenders to make amends to victims. Addressing the All Party Parliamentary Penal Affairs Group in July, justice minister Tom…

27th July 2012

Walking through silence

by Harriet Hart