By Joel Wallenberg It seems that much of the world has come to a consensus over the last few years: the banking industry has made some rotten decisions, and somehow it’s managed to muck up a whole lot of our personal finances in the process. But surprisingly, there has been very little activity on the…
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by Simon Colbeck To answer this question like a Quaker I’ll start by saying “It depends what you mean by “why””. No single answer is enough. In one sense I’m a Quaker because my parents made the decision for me. They were quite religious people and when I was about ten they decided that the…
by Wess Daniels I found old school Quakerism in a place that may surprise my liberal unprogrammed F/friends, in an Evangelical Friends college that had largely forgotten its historical Quaker roots. I grew up a nominal Catholic and in my early teens my family began attending a charismatic Evangelical church. It was there that I…
By Sam Barnett-Cormack On my bag, I have a badge, and on social media, I have an avatar, and both say “I’m a Quaker – ask me whyâ€; that last one was just for Quaker Week, though. People are still slow to ask, but every little helps when letting people know what Quakers are really…
By Hannah Brock War Resisters International are urging people to take action to support Kimberly Rivera, who served with the US Army in Iraq before developing a conscientious objection, and who was taken into military custody in late September. Having joined the army voluntarily, Kimberly later came to believe that the war in Iraq was…
By Paul Levy For me being a Quaker is about thinking about others and the world when I make decisions, not something I find easy, I think that in me there is a very selfish person whom Quakerism helps keep in check. I found Quakerism because of spending a life changing two weeks with a…
This is a x-post from the blog by participants at the FSSE Summer School taking place this week. All 70 of the participants are aged 11-14. Expectations were high as everyone piled into the assembly hall to be quizzed about Quakers! Teams were formed, and ‘interesting’ team names were thought up, such as Nobbly Bobbly, Burnt…
by Sam Challis Around 25 young Friends gathered at Westminster meeting house in mid-August to discuss ‘political’ issues in a Quaker context. The weekend event, with support from YFGM and financial assistance from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, brought together young Friends who were in political parties, engaged professionally or otherwise in government or campaigning…
The 2012 Swarthmore Lecture by Rachel Brett, reviewed by Mark Hoda After attending the Quaker United Nations Summer School in 2001, I remember feeling really uplifted by all the behind the scenes diplomatic conciliation that the Quaker United Nations office (QUNO) in Geneva facilitates. Students who attend QUNO’s annual summer school hear scores of diplomats, officials…