Britain Yearly Meeting 2009 epistle

The epistle is here on our epistle site. Our epistle blog is intended as a central place to find epistles from all over the world. As of yet, few people have sent epistles to us, preferring to use their traditional methods, but we hope in time that as well as using those methods, Friends might [...]

business method

‘The purpose is, quite simply, to reside in the light. To allow ourselves to be led to a transcendent place of unmistakable harmony, peace and tender love. And then to live out what that has revealed about what life is like when a loving God rules over all. The role of the clerk is to [...]

Speaking out in the world

In the past few days we have seen and heard coverage about a Quaker decision at Yearly Meeting on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, in the Times, Guardian, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror newspapers, a piece from the Press Association and regional coverage such as on the BBC Lancashire website. All this coverage [...]

Guess how many Quakers

Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent for The Times writes: ‘ At their annual gathering in York this week more than 1,600 Quakers agreed “to treat same-sex, committed relationships in the same way as opposite-sex marriages, reaffirming our central insight that marriage is the Lord’s work and we are but witnesses”.’ Alec Mackinson at BBC Lancashire goes [...]