The deification of Barack Obama

John Michaelis, University Monthly Meeting Click here to read an article by a Quaker minded blogger writing under the pseudonym Arkan2.  Arkan writes: ‘a President of color … is a great symbolic victory, and I wouldn’t want to take that away from anybody. But...

Thanksgiving fund depleted

  Letter from AYM Thanksgiving Fund, under care of Tasmania Regional Meeting A large number of recent applications for financial support from the Australia Yearly Meeting Thanksgiving Fund has meant that the amount remaining the Current Account is rapidly...

Coupledom

  Letter from Reg Naulty In the September edition of The Australian Friend (page 20), Roger Sawkins asks what is so special about ‘coupledom’. The answer, in a word, is complementarity. Together, the two parts make a whole. The individuals concerned bring...

Seeing my whiteness: An appreciation

Letter from Roger Keyes, South Australia Regional Meeting Duncan Frewin’s article, ‘Seeing my whiteness’ in the September 2010 Australian Friend (pp. 16-17) impressed me greatly in its depth and breadth of vision. ‘Would I ever really be able to transcend the...

Weereewa/Lake George – A response

Poems with editorial assistance from Jean Talbot, NSW Regional Meeting. The poems in this edition of The Australian Friend were created in response to the landscape at Silver Wattle Quaker Centre, on the shores of Lake George (or Weereewa in the local Indigenous...