There’s nothing like a good debate to clarify positions. The wits are sharpened, the arguments refined and defined, and we finish with a clearer idea of where we stand. …
Sue Jarvis, in her piece on ‘Inclusion’ (16 October) describes the first and later visits of three people ‘with special needs’ to Doncaster Meeting. They came for a ‘few…
Having been stimulated by Mark Dowd’s article in the Friend about Operation Noah, the Christian campaign focusing on climate change (9 October), I went to their website to find…
Doncaster Meeting House is in the middle of a large housing estate in an area of social and economic deprivation. There are high-rise flats, council housing and sheltered…
When dipping into Howard Brinton’s The Religious Philosophy of Quakerism I came across the following piece and found myself smiling at the thought: ‘Here we go again!’ Dated…
Truth and integrity in the conduct of business affairs was one of the keystones of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Quaker reputation. It is received wisdom that the honest…
Quakers have been deeply involved in the green movement in Britain since its emergence around fifty years ago. Friends have tended to join with others in their political engagement…
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