from Jenny Gant Local Development Worker for East Anglia Regional Online Worship From 2026, our regional online worship gatherings will take place monthly on Tuesday evenings, 7.30–8.30pm. Each session will include half an hour of worship, followed by half an hour of informal socialising in small groups. Conversation prompts will be available for those who find them helpful, but Friends are warmly encouraged to let the conversation flow naturally. A reminder with the Zoom lin

a personal view by John Myhill War, like  all violence and cruelty, is possible because those committing the  actions, do not believe, that those they hurt are properly human.  (This is easy to understand as most of us have at some time eaten animals, whilst ignoring the cruel treatment and terrible deaths of those we eat.)  The other main driver, is a sense of unfairness: "they" have done something terrible to us, so we have a right to do something terrible to them (the firs

by Teresa Belton An excerpt of the published record of the Quaker Earthcare Gathering held in Derbyshire in October 2025. 114 Friends of all ages gathered to explore how our Quaker faith and communities can help us to meet the Earth crisis with hope, strength, and compassion.  As we meet, Hurricane Melissa approaches Jamaica. Climate catastrophe is forecast to cause billions of human deaths this century amid ecological collapse and ongoing mass extinction. We have heard that

Saturday 15th November 2025 Area Meeting takes place at Norwich Meeting House on Saturday 15 November.       There will be a discussion in the morning on Slavery and Reparation, to be introduced by a member of the Quaker Reparation Working Party.  We will open the doors for refreshments at 10am, begin the discussion in the Large Meeting Room at 1030am, finishing no later than 12.30pm. All welcome . The Meeting for Area Business begins at 1pm.

by John Myhill Over at least the last hundred years, each generation of parents, teachers, politicians, professionals and sales people; have increasingly refused to make young people over six years old  adult responsibilities for tasks at home, in school and in the community.  I first became aware of his amongst Quakers 50 years ago, and I foolishly followed the fashion. This goes against the entire history of Evolution, which develops in the young of every species, the genet