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Christian Faith and Practice in the Friends Church: Friends United Meeting in East Africa | Imani na Matendo ya Kikristo katika Kanisa la Marafiki: Muungano wa Mkutano wa Marafiki, Afrika Mashariki (in Kiswahili)

As you may have heard, last November a team of four Woodbrooke tutors travelled to Western Kenya to run a Woodbrooke on the road with Friends from several yearly meetings…

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What’s the question? Reading Quaker faith & practice, Yearly Meeting 2018, and books of discipline

In May 2018, Britain Yearly Meeting will again consider the question: is it time to revise our book of discipline? I want to take this question apart a bit and…

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What is Quaker Discipleship?

Course tutors Michael Eccles and Ruth Wilde chat about what the concept of discipleship might be for Quakers and what they hope to explore on their course which will take…

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Building a Diverse and Transformative Movement for Change

From 16th – 18th March Woodbrooke will be hosting a course exploring how to build a diverse and transformative movement for change. We caught up with one of the facilitators,…

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Visit to Friends Theological College

In this post, Michael Eccles reflects on his visit to Friends Theological College, Kaimosi. During the recent Woodbrooke on the road in Kenya, it was arranged for us to visit…

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The American Academy of Religion – a Quaker perspective

Rhiannon Grant talks to us about her time at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) conference in November.

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Woodbrooke-on-the-road… in Kenya!

[clickToTweet tweet=”Woodbrooke tutor, Martin Layton, shares his reflections on a recent trip to work with Quakers in Kenya.” quote=”I sense that Kenya needs a confident and resilient Quaker presence and…

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Deep Roots for Strong Communities – how do we nurture the people who serve our meetings?

Rhiannon Grant talks to us about her first experience of being an elder at her local Quaker meeting and how the spending time with other role holders helped her to better understand her role.

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My Feminist T-shirt

I recently purchased a T-shirt which says Feminist quite clearly on it; I received more comments wearing this T-shirt than any other slogan based item of clothing I have worn. So why did I wear a Feminist tee?

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Book review: Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey

Stuart Masters reviews Marcelle Martin’s book ‘Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey’.

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