21st January 2010

Making welfare less taxing

by Philip Barron

Some readers of the Friend will have heard the two BBC Radio 4 programmes in which Melanie Phillips recently explored the effect that the welfare state has had in what came to be…

14th January 2010

Alternatives to violence work in Ukraine

by Mary Morris
14th January 2010

Venice: a city marked by genius

by Paul Millward
14th January 2010

When Quakers began to shake

by Rosemary Emmett
14th January 2010

Same sex marriage developments

by Simon Beard

The introduction of an amendment to the UK Equality Bill provides an opportunity for Quakers to show our support for same sex marriage. We should not squander it. The amendment,…

14th January 2010

Listening, or waiting to speak?

by Peggy Heeks

Come and share with me four different scenarios.  In the first I’m at a seminar, here by invitation because the subject is relevant to our research interests. As we proceed…

14th January 2010

Poverty breakdown

by Peter Kenway

With the next general election set to be the first in which poverty and what to do about it is a matter of open disagreement between the political parties, the New Policy…

14th January 2010

Not a job, more a way of life

by Vicky Darling
31st December 2009

Deborah Warner: an interview

by Joe Mugford

31st December 2009

Different kinds of friends united

by David Boulton

31st December 2009

A serious search

by Beth Allen

31st December 2009

New Year’s resolutions…?

by Jenny Webb