Openings

In an earlier post, I suggested the idea that a spiritual convincement experience, involving a direct experience of the Divine, might be ...

This might seem a strange title for me. After all, I rarely use the word “God” in reference to my own beliefs – surely I should be happy ...

People get hung up a lot on sexuality. What does it mean? Is it an abstract element of our being, or does it describe what we are attract...

Quakers are proud of our historical support for important issues of social justice – prison welfare, slavery, women's rights. I wonde...

A bench in the Meeting House at Scattergood Friends School, Iowa. Photo by David Morris , used under CC-BY 2.0 license . Discernment, ...

It's a question we often ask. Sometimes it's because we managed to go into Boots or Marks & Spencer during the lunchtime rush...

When we talk about our different conceptions of the Divine, we tend to speak in positive terms. That is to say, we talk about what we can...

In researching this post I am indebted to the PhD thesis The Relinquishment of Plain dress: British Quaker women's abandonment of Plain...

Those who are familiar with meditation, often from the popularisation of Buddhist meditation methods, but not with Quaker worship practic...