by Julia Lim In this short and engrossing book, Small change big deal, Jennifer Kavanagh explores some of the major themes in recent spiritually- and ethically-based thinking about the problematic nature of our current financial systems. She does this through writing about a very specific area: the microcredit schemes developed by Mohammed Yunus (Grameen Bank),…
By Ben Jarman Before this summer, I wouldn’t have thought of Quakerism as raw material for board or card games. Several games of Unable, Unwilling, a satirical card game based on Quaker nominations, while I was at YMG this year changed my ideas. On 29 November, twenty or so Friends gathered to play Unable, Unwilling,…
Why I am a Quaker is first of all because faith took me over. About sixteen years ago, in response to trauma and in a dark time, something was going on within me that I did not understand but felt powerless to resist. I went into churches and ran out. Not what I was looking…