Openings

From the title of this post, you might have supposed that it was going to be a sort of tailpiece biography, covering the time shortly bef...

The most procedurally important output of the Book of Discipline Revision Preparation Group (BoDRPG) is probably their report to Meeting ...

If we are to examine Lent in a meaningful way, it should be in connection to the story from which it derives – Christ's time in the...

It is not enough for the door to be open. People need to know it is there, and have some idea about where it might lead. I have often...

As I write, I look forward to a time of great joy – my upcoming marriage. It's not without stress, true, what with the planning and o...

In hardship, I do not expect God to help me. For all change in this world comes through us, you must see. As I hurt, as I fear, still I...

In my experience, Quakers don't much like to talk about governance. As I write this, however, I am in the process of putting together...

Whether you believe it began with Lupercalia, Or with the romanticism of a Christian martyr, It is the time, or so they say, For gestu...

It is something of a pat phrase, among Quakers, to respond to the difficulty of others by offering to “hold them in the light”. I do not ...

Is the coin heads, or tails? These might seem to you to be two words that mean the same thing, subtly different terms, or completely di...

I wasn't at Yearly Meeting in 2015, nor the Swarthmore Lecture given at it. I have read the minutes , however, and minute 36 gave me ...

It's an interesting time to be a Quaker in Britain – and many other Yearly Meetings are having their own interesting times, albeit ov...

As previously mentioned , Britain Yearly Meeting is in the process of deciding whether to start a process of revision of our book of disc...