Two Quakers with a background in environmental and peace activism have been appointed as the new senior staff at the Quaker Council for European Affairs.
Quakers in Britain have responded to the government consultation on equal marriage and called for the proposals to allow same-sex couples to marry in religious premises.
“The finances are in a mess, the Meeting House is a mess, it's ridiculous. You sitting here on your own. God knows who wandering in and out. It's not safe.” Thus spoke a reasonable man to an obstinate and visionary woman.
Quakers in Britain, Unitarians and Liberal Jews have urged the Prime Minister to stand firm on his commitment to change marriage laws to enable same-sex couples to marry.
Bristol is facing an epidemic of homelessness fuelled by housing benefit cuts. That’s according to campaigners in the city who are planning a ‘Poverty Hearing’.