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‘It’s the rich what gets the money’
Some newspaper articles have recently referred to the growth in the number of the world’s population going hungry, one article quoting a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation official to the effect that for the first time in history more than 1,000,000,000 people would be going to bed hungry that… -
Getting down to business
The pamphlet The Mind of Christ: Bill Taber on Meeting for Business edited by Michael Birkel, is one in the series produced by Pendle Hill, a Quaker study centre in Pennsylvania, USA. It follows the typical format, being just over thirty pages long, and I think it is a brilliant…
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Morality versus religion: Mary Warnock on politics
What part should religion have in politics? What influence should it have on legislation? Mary Warnock, in her latest book, Dishonest to God, sets out to explore religion and politics as they are currently practised in Britain. She deliberately restricts herself to the present and to recent legislation. And she… -
Elfrida: the story of a personal witness
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Medical contributions of Quakers
Some years ago, I was curious whether Quakers held a particularly prominent role in medicine. A booklet that summarised a selection of their careers and medical discoveries was the result. -
Science isn’t everything
In 1938 a group of like-minded people in Stevenage shared a concern: What was wrong with the western way of life that could produce a world on the brink of war? They began writing and distributing pamphlets, sending letters to the press and organising meetings; but this was not enough.… -
All for one!
Many Friends will be familiar with the plot and characters of Alexander Dumas’ historical romances first serialised in 1844. The many adaptations, films, TV shows and even cartoons like my own 1980s favourite Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds mean the characters of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and their sidekick d’Artagnan,…
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Being wrong
Being wrong: Adventures in the margin of error by Kathryn Schulz. Ecco. ISBN: 978 0 06 117604 3. £16.50. ‘Consider it possible that you may be mistaken’: this famous Quaker advice is given far-ranging support in this book. Animals and computers cannot make mistakes as we do. Computers cannot jump…
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A life without work
Today poverty and unemployment are living realities for hundreds of thousands of people. In two imaginative and challenging films, A Life without Work, the BBC considered a ground-breaking investigation into the lives of people trapped in poverty and without work in the early twentieth century. They addressed a fundamental question:…
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Lucy Faithfull: mother to hundreds
Lucy Faithfull: mother to hundreds by Judith Niechcial. ISBN 978-0-9532305. £12. ‘Take out your chewing-gum,’ demanded Lucy Faithfull, as she welcomed a group of ‘her children’ to take tea with her in the House of Lords shortly after she became a peer. The obedience was instant, and later, when the…
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