March 2024 – Spring
March 2024 – Spring The daffodils are out! There’s more than a whiff of Spring in the air and with it, new life.
March 2024 – Spring The daffodils are out! There’s more than a whiff of Spring in the air and with it, new life.
February 2024 – How does love grow? February is often thought of as the month of love. It’s a time when many people send out cards, flowers, and chocolates to show they care. But love isn’t just for Valentine’s Day – we can celebrate our love for our friends, family members, and even ourselves all … Read more
January 2024 – Caring for our world. Caring for ourselves. Caring for others “I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not … Read more
December 2023 – Living a Full Life Perhaps the most neglected of all the advices is that we should live adventurously. If there is one wish I would pray the Spirit to put into our Christmas stockings, it is warmth, openness, passion, a bit of emotion that doesn’t mind making a fool of itself occasionally. … Read more
November 2023 – Worship Worship is the response of the human spirit to the presence of the divine and eternal, to the God who first seeks us. The sense of wonder and awe of the finite before the infinite leads naturally to thanksgiving and adoration.
October 2023 – Black History Month “Black history is OUR history and a steppingstone for our future. We must be connected to our past in order to change our future.” Chandelis R. Duster
September 2023 – Getting Ready for Quaker Week Each year Quakers in Britain have a week dedicated to exploring new ways to share their stories and strengthen their faith. In 2023, Quaker Week will run from 23 September to 1 October. This year’s theme is Simple. Radical. Spiritual.
August 2023 – Lights, Camera, Action In 2024, the Quaker community will celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of George Fox’s birth. To commemorate this occasion, the Quaker Arts Network, is inviting Quaker schools, summer camps, children’s meetings, and other Quaker groups to create short films that showcase an aspect of George Fox’s life and message. These … Read more
July 2023 – Outdoors All species and the Earth itself have interdependent roles within Creation. Humankind is not the species, to whom all others are subservien to, but one among many. All parts, all issues, are inextricably intertwined. Indeed the web of creation could be described as of three ply thread: wherever we touch it … Read more
June 2023 – Belonging How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the things which are eternal, bear the burden of each other’s failings and pray for one another. As we enter with tender sympathy into the … Read more