Friday, 17 March 2023

History is written into the stuff we are made of

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For my birthday my partner bought me a 23andme genetic ancestry testing kit. This is where family oral history and legends meet science. Puz...
Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Do monotheists have a monopoly over religion?

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I feel the Religious Society of Friends would be misrepresented if the marriage declaration was altered along the lines suggested in the F...
Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Participation mystique: inherited guilt & reparations

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Reparations for slavery (The Friend) 5 Jan 2023 | by Rebecca Hardy Decision to make reparations for the transatlan...
Friday, 10 February 2023

The Eternal Triangle: Rendel Harris, Irene Speller (Pickard) & Helen Sheerlock

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When I started investigating Irene Pickard's archive and using it as a lens to see her life and times through, I did not expect to find ...
Saturday, 21 January 2023

Windy Doctrines

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Lately we were visited at our Sunday Meetings by a devout and recently born again "Christian" of a somewhat evangelical bent. Dur...
Friday, 26 August 2022

Tumbling into war: 1914 and all that

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Remember the butterfly flapping its wings in a jungle clearing? The unpredictability of chaos where overwhelmingly the turbulence caused by ...
Friday, 19 August 2022

Warp and Weft: an anthological approach to history

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Adjective. anthological (not generally comparable, comparative more anthological, superlative most anthological): of or pertaining to anthol...