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Quaker Education Opportunities

Quakers are encouraged to live their lives adventurously. Jane King shares her experience of teaching in the small town of Brummana in Lebanon.

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Harbour or ocean?

Helen Drewery describes how a Quaker Meeting can feel like a safe harbour providing shelter from the storms of our daily lives – or is it the other way round?

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A Labour of Love

Lucy Price shares her thoughts on the meaning of ‘worship’ and how it is the affirmation of what is of worth.

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A Quaker's Blank Canvas

Angela Arnold shares how as a writer and artist she finds commonalities in the creative process and Quaker Meeting for Worship.

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Experiment with Light

Amanda Jones describes the experiment with light practice and compares it to Quaker Meeting for Worship and Transcendental Meditation.

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Walking with my Quaker God

Steven Johnson writes about being enlightened by God. Quakers have different names for God, including Love, Light, Spirit, Energy, Mother, Father, Parent, Ineffable, Being. Whatever we call God it is felt within us, always loving, a peaceful inner warmth.

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Paths to Meeting

Helen Drewery reflects on what brought her to a Quaker Meeting and the various paths others take.

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Caring with Time

Amanda Jones shares how being a carer from an early age has helped her manage her time and appreciate her Quaker community.

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When we Minister, Something Stirs - Daniel Flynn

In the fourth post of our series on ministry, Daniel Flynn explains how reading Quaker Faith and Practice influenced ministry at his Meeting and how ministry has become part of his life.

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My Quaker Journey - Barbara Childs

Barbara shares how exploring the practices of early Quakers through Experiment with Light helped her make sense of Quaker writings and enriched her life.

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Living Adventurously – Joe McRoberts

Joe talks about how the Quaker advice to ‘live adventurously’ resonated with him when taking the leap to start his own business and how sitting in Quaker meeting guides him.

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The Gift of Pilgrimage

Marina Raywood shares her experience of her first pilgrimage, including her excitement, fears and what she learnt along the way.

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When we Minister, Something Stirs - Angela Arnold

In this first of a series of articles by Quakers about their experience of ministry, Angela Arnold shares the variety of what has ‘come to’ her during Quaker Meeting for Worship.

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Finding a spiritual home

Sean Jacke outlines why trying a Quaker meeting might feel like a homecoming for those who are spiritual but without a spiritual home.

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