Transition Quaker

  I have started a new blog on Substack to explore the renewal of Quaker spirituality and practice.  So far I've written about the diffe...

I have just returned from The Future of British Quakerism conference, organised by Quakers in Britain and Woodbrooke . There was, understan...

"Here is the real core of the religious problem: Help! Help!" William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience In thirteenth c...

Quakers sometimes make a distinction between ‘activist’ Friends, who are attracted by the social action, and ‘mystics’ whose focus is the Me...

  Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. (Rumi, from 'Story Water', in 'Selected Poems...

We are all ageing. If we are fortunate, each of us will pass through young adulthood into middle and old age; and yet our culture is strange...

White people in the UK are usually very reluctant to talk about race. We are anxious to avoid getting it wrong and causing offence, but ab...

There seems to be a traditional list of excuses for why so many Quaker Meetings fail to reflect the racial and social diversity of their l...

This is a guest post by John Gray, Zélie Gross and Wess Daniels. Together they are currently co-tutoring an online Woodbrooke course, Lea...

This is a brief introduction to my new book  The Guided Life , which is part of the ' Quaker Quicks ' series of short books about ...

As part of the work of the Book of Discipline Revision Committee , we have been experimenting with different approaches to what we are cal...

Most human beings who have ever lived have experienced an enchanted world. In every society on earth until recent times, people have lived...

As part of the work of the new Book of Discipline Revision Committee, we have been exploring the nature of a Quaker community, and what di...

Photo: Alan Paxton The religious path is often presented as a way to achieve inner peace and happiness, and to avoid suffering. Much pop...

My new book, The Guided Life , isn't officially launched until November, but it is already available to buy from the Quaker Bookshop ...

This is the second and final part of Rex Ambler's talk to Lancashire Area Meeting in February 2019 on the theme of 'God, Words and...