We are delighted to announce that our first monthly meeting for worship and sharing will be by Zoom on Wednesday July 20th at 7.00 p.m. We intend to begin the meeting with a short talk; then there will be a period of silent worship, leading into worship sharing. We intend to continue these meetings every…Continue reading QUG Monthly Worship and Sharing

This year’s conference was QUG’s first to offer both on-line and physical opportunities to join the event. This development enabled us to welcome a wider audience as well as involve speakers who could not otherwise attend. It was a successful event that was well received by the participants. All the lectures were recorded and are…Continue reading QUG Conference 2022 – Health and Healing – Lecture recordings now available

We are delighted to say that we will definitely be going ahead with our blended conference. We hope to have 30 or more of us at Woodbrooke and similar numbers online.  For full details see here We urge you to apply early for Woodbrooke, to guarantee your place in April.  The application form is available…Continue reading QUG Conference 2022: Health and healing – update

Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham – April 1st to 3rd As promised, we are updating you on our annual conference in 2022. We are working closely with Woodbrooke to plan how we should proceed, with all the uncertainty surrounding Covid. In summary we are hoping to run the conference physically at Woodbrooke blended with participants…Continue reading Conference 2022 – Health and Healing – Update

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