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A place for insight, analysis and action.
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5 March 2026
Women's preaching still justified
by Rhiannon Grant
For International Women's Day, Rhiannon Grant reflects on early Quaker support for women's religious leadership ahead of a modern translation of Margaret Fell's seminal text.
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10 December 2025
Is your Christmas simple, radical, spiritual?
by Rhiannon Grant
Rhiannon Grant reflects on how Quaker traditions and testimony influence how she marks the festive season.
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4 December 2025
Walking with history: reflections on a reparations walking tour
by Zephyr Blofeld
On Saturday 20 November, despite the relentless drizzle, fourteen of us, seven adults and seven young people, set out together on a guided reparations walk through Bristol.
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24 November 2025
A day with Korean Quaker Bongsoo Kwag
by David Mowat
David Mowat toured South Korea in August, making friends across the country. He shares with us his interview with Korean Quaker Bongsoo Kwag.
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21 August 2025
Still here – making connections by exploring Quaker history
by Rhiannon Grant
Quaker history is well known and intriguing. Rhiannon Grant shares how Quaker heritage can create a starting point for conversations about Quakers today.
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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.
