1 February was quite a day! I went for a sigmoidoscopy to check for diverticulosis. This revealed a normal, healthy sigmoid. Then my life fell apart.
Firstly, put on your reading glasses to prevent your vision clouding over. These glasses change the word God into the word Life with a capital ‘L’. The glasses will also work…
There is a chamber of the mind prepared for me. When I am ready, willing to surrender. When I am quiet, I may enter there To find a place of stillness, a place already occupied By…
Early on the morning of 27 March, twelve of us met for worship in Friends House. In the stillness, one person spoke of her deep sense of belonging and responsibility for the day…
Many of us are aware that quality of life, whatever part of the planet we happen to inhabit, is intimately related to economic justice – a huge question and one that, over the…
We Friends are often perceived as a negative lot. Asked what we believe, we tend to reply with a string of negatives. We are against credal formulations, against doctrinal dogmas…
Friends are concerned about advocacy and how best to ‘speak truth to power.’ There are many ways in which we can do this. The internet and ‘new media’ have introduced…
Among the astonishing stories of leaders of the world’s great religions, none is more astonishing than that of Jesus. More than two thousand years ago, a peasant from the…
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