“Last year, three children drowned while trying to get to school from Ambohidava, can you imagine that?†Theresa Haine, a Welsh Quaker who is dedicated to helping people in Madagascar to improve their lives, is explaining why her charity has just been helping to build a new secondary school in Ambohidava, Madagascar. For the past…
by Valerie Graves I joined Friends with my husband in the 1960s. I had been a rather lukewarm Anglican and he was fleeing from the rigours of a very stern Baptist Church – everything nice was forbidden and there was no rejoicing in anything. We had been much impressed by a publication called Quaker View…
by Stuart Masters Advices and Queries no.35 – Respect the laws of the state but let your first loyalty be to God’s purposes. In the authorised version of Quaker history it is received wisdom that James Nayler, although a man of deep spirituality with a significant gift for preaching and writing, was an unstable and…
by Jay Clark James Turrell is a light artist and an architect. He is also a Quaker, and created one of his skyspace installations for Live Oak Friends Meeting in Houston, Texas. His installations are site specific, and often change with the time of day. People often say that they are hard to describe, and…
by Brian Beecroft Alfred Salter was a man of principles – a pacifist, a teetotaller, and determined to improve the lives of the poor in Bermondsey. He preached and put into practice these principles. He was active in temperance movement as a result of his experiences as a doctor, work on the Board of Guardians…
 David Bucura is a Rwandan pastor and is clerk of the Africa Section of Friends World Committee for Consultation. Involved with many peace and reconciliation programmes, he has recently been appointed as part-time coordinator for Central Africa for the African Great Lakes Initiative. What is the role of the clerk of the Africa Section…
Back page interview, from the Church Times ‘I found myself staring at this Quaker poster every day for three weeks’ Geoffrey Durham Quaker, magician I went straight into working as an actor in Glasgow after leaving university, and then became a theatre director at the Everyman, Liverpool. Through a series of accidents, I found that…