How I became a Quaker. My parents were Quakers and I was enrolled as a “birthright Friendâ€. They sent me to a Quaker school at aged 10, principally to avoid the blitz in 1940-41. We had daily Assembly and compulsory attendance at Meeting for Worship on Sundays. I joined a small group of pupils to…
The 1950 Swarthmore Lecture by Konrad Braun, reviewed by John Hall Written by a former Berlin Supreme Court judge who escaped from the Nazis and became a subsequent convert to Quakerism and a lecturer at Woodbrooke, potentially this is an ideal read, written as it was, only five years after the end of the war…
The eleventh Nayler podcast is Simon Best’s George Gorman Memorial Lecture given at Yearly Meeting Gathering in Canterbury, Kent in 07/2011. Click here to access the podcast. Nayler podcasts are also available on itunes (Nayler’s posterous).
By Michael Jardine  The Friends Meeting House by Hubert Lidbetter (William Sessions Ltd, 1961, 2nd Ed. 1979). This book is concerned with the history and descriptions of Meeting Houses and burial grounds, and covers the British Isles and the United States, but principallyEngland. Its author was the architect responsible for the post-Blitz reconstruction of the…
By Simon Best If my article in Friends Quarterly and my George Gorman lecture could have one outcome it is that we talk more as Friends, in our meetings and in other Quaker groups. I believe that all Quakers need to talk about the issues I have raised, but most importantly we need to talk…
Materials to complement the Friends Quarterly article by Simon Best will appear within the next couple of days. Simon gave the George Gorman lecture at Britain Yearly Meeting in 07/2011. Quakerism has a tradition of continuing revelation, of evolving expression, theology and practice to respond to the challenges of the age. What does this mean for…
The Quaker Meeting for Worship at Occupy LSX outside the cathedral of saint Paul has produced a minute backing the “ring of prayer†if the Occupy camp is evicted. The ring of prayer was first mooted in 10/2011 but an initiative this month from Christianity Uncut, a group of Christians campaigning against government cuts, gives…
Rachel Brett is set to deliver the annual Swarthmore Lecture as part of Quakers’ Britain Yearly Meeting assembly in 05/2012. Rachel Brett will speak about Quaker processes and ways of working and how they have been applied to the United Nations sphere. She will particularly talk about this work in the context of human rights,…
A Quaker is set to become a Member of European Parliament in 02/2012. Rebecca Taylor, 36, was in ‘list place 3’ at the last European Parliament elections for the Yorkshire and Humberside region. The first candidate, Diana Wallis, was elected but has recently announced that she is stepping down for health reasons at the end of 01/2012.…
A video by Chris Petit, featuring Quakers holding Meeting for Worship at Occupy London.