Dear Friends, In theory all days are equally holy to Friends, but we live in a country which celebrates Christmas as a family festival and makes an effort to turn … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 18th December 2022
Dear Friends, Rejection of creed is not inconsistent with being possessed by a living belief. We have no creed in science, but we are not lukewarm in our beliefs. The … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 11th December 2022
Dear Friends, “Are you able to contemplate your death and the death of those closest to you? Accepting the fact of death, we are freed to live more fully. In … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 4th December 2022
Dear Friends, The death of David Blamires was recorded in ‘The Friend’ last week. I knew David from in the early 1970s when he was a member of the Woodbrooke … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 27th November 2022
Dear Friends, There are lots of major issues being played out this moment, which I doubt I have the wisdom to address: the budget and its effects especially on the … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 20th November 2022
Dear Friends, I have been thinking a lot about the importance of certain words in both religious and in secular language. Words such as compassion, faith, equality, integrity, responsibility, honesty, … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 13th November 2022
Dear Friends, “A traditional Quaker; thou comest to meeting as thou went from it, and goes from it as thou came to it but art no better for thy coming; … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 6th November 2022
Dear Friends, When I had just joined an Explorer’s Group, I was given a little booklet entitled ‘The Quaker Testimonies’. The date on it was 2003. It seems to me … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 30th October 2022
Dear Friends, In 1373 a woman aged 30 became seriously ill, close to death, and she experienced what might have been visions or hallucinations. She became an anchorite (a person … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 23rd October 2022
Dear Friends, ‘What’s that on the shelf?’ my artistic friend asked. ‘A turbine blade. I designed it’, I replied proudly.‘Oh’, she said. Visiting three weeks later she asked, ‘Why is … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 16th October 2022
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