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A place for insight, analysis and action.
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18 December 2024
George Fox 400: Expanding the narrative
by Ellie McCarthy
Ellie McCarthy examines the part George Fox played in Quaker attitudes towards enslavement.
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21 November 2024
Foundations and future: meeting for worship and the confident voice of early Friends
by Jonathan Baynham
Jo Baynham reflects on early Quaker insights around Quaker ways of worship and how this forms the foundation of Quaker worship today.
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17 October 2024
George Fox's 59 rules for good government
by Lucy Saint-Smith
Lucy Saint-Smith reviews George Fox's rules for good government and asks what we can learn from these today.
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6 June 2024
Meeting for Sufferings: a changing body for changing times
by Chris Skidmore
Former Yearly Meeting Clerk Chris Skidmore reflects on Quaker history and its influence on our current structures.
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30 May 2024
Reparations reflections: reading into the silence
by Susan Seymour
Susan Seymour reflects on two passages from Helen Minnis's 2022 Swarthmore Lecture, Perceiving the temperature of the water.
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18 April 2024
Reparations reflections: truth and reconciliation
by Ann Morgan
Ann Morgan reflects on a passage from Ros Martin's book Before I am rendered invisible: resistance from the margins.
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7 March 2024
The women of Swarthmoor Hall
by Lucy Saint-Smith
Lucy Saint-Smith shares the stories of four of the women of Swarthmoor Hall whose lives and work were central to the success of the early Quaker movement.
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8 February 2024
Refusing to kill: conscription and conscience
by Rosemary Rich
Conscription has been in the news in Britain – but young people should know about our proud history of conscientious objection, writes Rosemary Rich.
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4 October 2023
Reparations: addressing harm and restoring right relationships
by Ginny Baumann
As Quakers consider next steps on reparations, Ginny Baumann of Streatham and Brixton Meeting suggests we address the harms we have inherited alongside working to be 'good ancestors' on the decisive issue for our times: climate justice.
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26 April 2023
Quaker marriage: a history of celebrating a spiritual commitment
by Michael Booth
Married in the eyes of God or the eyes of the law? Michael Booth looks at the Quaker commitment between two people and God, and its occasionally strained relationship with the law of the land.
