The speakers at the 2021 made many references to additional reading and other material during their talks. These have now been collated and are now posted on the website under the 2021 Conference heading here

The 2022 QUG Annual Conference on the topic ‘ Health and Healing’ is now scheduled for Friday April 1st – Sunday April 3rd 2022 to take place at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, and online using Zoom. We are very hopeful we will be able to return to Woodbrooke next year after a three-year gap. We…Continue reading QUG Annual Conference 2022 – ‘Faith and Healing’

Rex Ambler spoke at the QUG Special Interest Group meeting under the title of Time and Eternity in which he continued our recent conference theme from a Quaker point of view. Recordings of his talk are available now and can be accessed here as a video or as audio-only

All the presentations of the recent, very successful, QUG Conference 2021 – ‘Life, Time and Eternity’ were recorded. These recordings are now available on the website. To access them, use the menu to navigate to the Conference 2021 summary (Conferences/QUG Conference 2021 – ‘Life, Time and Eternity’). The recordings are accessed through links at the…Continue reading QUG Conference 2021 – ‘Life, Time and Eternity’ – Session recordings are now available

Non-Theist Friends Network are running their 2021 conference via Zoom. So three keynote speakers will join the conference on three successive Wednesdays in July 2021, each bringing us a different perspective on spirituality, what it means to them, and what relation it might have to religion and the secular world. Spirituality, spiritual and spirit are…Continue reading That’s the Spirit! – Dimensions of Spirituality – Non-Theist Friends Network Conference 2021

Two experiences have led me to reflect on God’s gifts of creativity, and how they might relate to the spiritual life. Briefly: the first was some 20 years ago, when travelling back to Cannes in the sunshine from one of the small offshore islands. I felt God’s presence embracing me and after that experience I…Continue reading Thoughts about spirituality and creativity during the lockdown

From Peter Varney These  thoughts began as a response to reading Nick Vesey’s* book ‘Living the life-Force’ about the way the world’s religions all suggest we need a place of waiting, a place where we accept and go with the flow of life. Lao Tzu asks:   Do you have the patience to wait Till…Continue reading Transition and Transformation

Hannah Gilbert was one of our great speakers at the 2016 QUG conference “Compassion: Why is it Failing?. It is very good to see her and her dad are still spreading the word in this Guardian article . Paul and Hanah help us to look out rather than inwards at the frustrations that the present…Continue reading Compassion and self-compassion

Our 2020 Conference ‘Life, Time and Eternity’ has been postponed until May 14th – 16th 2021. The topic will be the same and we will try to recruit the same speakers (though it is too early at this stage to make any commitments). We are returning all 2020 payments to the participants and will advertise…Continue reading QUG Conference 2020 – ‘Life, Time and Eternity’ has been postponed until 2021

The 2019 QUG Conference on Forgiveness inspired these personal thoughts. 1 My take on forgiveness: Still in my teens, I heard the expression “Tout savoir c’est tout pardonner”, “To know all is to forgive all”. I knew this was true about me — I had mild Aspergers and my mind worked differently, and my actions…Continue reading Three personal conference thoughts on forgiveness