11th February 2010

Same-sex marriage

by Sylvia Hilken
11th February 2010

Don’t let arms traders off the hook

by Symon Hill

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has dropped their corruption investigations into the arms company BAE Systems in return for an admission of guilt over ‘accounting…

11th February 2010

Speaking truth about the Bible?

by Nick Bagnall

Prompted by the two articles on the Bible, I have two suggestions to make to Friends.  I was brought up to believe that the Bible was the word of God. However, I have now come…

11th February 2010

The language of the Bible and its use

by Eva Pinthus
11th February 2010

‘Bequeathed to one another’ from Belfast to Hillsborough via St Andrews

by Janet Quilley

Was it an accident or a fine sense of timing that Channel 4 scheduled its documentary-drama ‘Mo’ for the same week that was to see the signing of an agreement at Hillsborough,…

4th February 2010

Kenya: Eldoret testimonies

by Jez Smith
4th February 2010

Eldoret testimonies 1

by Esther Kinadoso, Jessica Luvai, Robai Namaemba, and Phillis Nahumicha
4th February 2010

Eldoret testimonies 2

by Wilson Ngaira Shirambira and Simon Wanyama
4th February 2010

Moving on from Copenhagen

by Gerald Conyngham

How should we respond as Quakers to the Copenhagen summit?  After the build up to the Copenhagen conference, people are sifting through the embers to see what went wrong. Ed…

4th February 2010

Listening to each other with appreciation

by Stephen Petter

It might help us consider in a friendly and supportive manner matters such as non-theistic Quakerism, belief, and language, if we appreciate that each Friend’s own position can…

4th February 2010

Diversity myth guarantees Quaker extinction

by John Myhill

Quakers in Britain are almost wholly white, middle class, educated and over fifty.  We pretend to have a wide range of faith positions and spiritual practices, but in fact…

4th February 2010

A look at the report of the National Equality Panel

by Martin Wilkinson

Confronted by 460 pages of this report, or forty-five pages of summary, you may be daunted or confused. As Peter Kenway said (Poverty breakdown, 15 January), even if you focus on…