16th December 2011

The Spirit: alternative views

by Julian Brotherton

‘No, I’m not religious, but I am spiritual!’ We regularly hear this nowadays and often from members of the Religious Society of Friends. It could mean various things. For…

9th December 2011

Thought for the Week: Quaker business method

by Jill Segger

One-upmanship, adversarialism, having the last word, getting the upper hand. All these destructive tendencies are commonplace in our daily lives – in the workplace, at…

9th December 2011

Love thy neighbour

by Lois Lodge
9th December 2011

Lessons from Zambia

by Lyn Schumaker
9th December 2011

How you share it

by Anne Eardley

‘The people demonstrating on the steps are Quakers. They say that everyone suffers when we have millionaires on the one hand and homeless have-nots on the other. For the richer…

2nd December 2011

Gambling: time for real change

by Helena Chambers
2nd December 2011

The spoils of addiction

by Howard Reed
2nd December 2011

Vocable (for John)

by Philip Gross

Ninety now, you’re adrift on the vowel-stream, the crisp edge of all your five languages gone and we’re back to the least of language. It’s all one, your, his or my slight…

2nd December 2011

The gambler’s tale

by Kevin

I kissed my fiancée goodbye, but this wasn’t going to be a normal working day. I had left a note on the bed and, as I walked through the park on my way to the police station, I…

2nd December 2011

Cathedrals, tents and boardrooms

by Roger Iredale

In Bath this week I saw a small park with fifteen tents in it and notices declaring: ‘We are the 99%’. Such camps are in cities around the globe.  The Occupy London camp…

2nd December 2011

Still waiting for a law

by Christine Downes-Grainger
2nd December 2011

Quakerism versus chaos

by Bob Johnson

Darwin misjudged it – it’s not so much survival of the fittest, it’s survival. In the Arctic, the woolly mammoth grew fur, which its African cousins didn’t; bats can’t…