Quakerism

The welfare State is in a state of crisis - at least that is what British public thinks. Nearly nine in ten agree that welfare state is currently "facing severe problems",...

Inspired by a childhood memory, Susanna had always wanted to face the challenge of walking from John O’Groats to Land’s End. So, on retiring, she joined the gym, bought a rucksack and set about planning her epic adventure.

This book and video series "encourages Friends to move beyond a cognitive faith into an experiential, everyday, in-every-way kind of Quaker faith--walking in this world as a Friend.” ~ Beth Collea

Alex Wildwood's 1999 Swarthmore lecture enquires into the experience at the heart of Quaker faith.

The Quaker movement in Britain is beset with problems - growing secularisation, incompatible belief systems, ideology as a substitute for faith.

World renown astronomer and Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell reflects on the big issues confronting scientists who also have a strong spiritual belief system. How can the principles of science be reconciled with the faith required by religion?

The Friends Ambulance Unit 'China Convoy' 1945-1951. China in the late 1940s was an ancient society still in the grips of feudalism, desperately poor and in need of modernisation. Jack Jones wrote a contemporary account of day to day life there.