Such is Life

Such is Life

Such is Life David Swain, New South Wales Regional Meeting When a person possessed of an active mind explores nature, or ponders in imagination the broad range of organic creation, no single one among the manifold impressions that occur to him has so deep and powerful...
Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, will be held at 3 pm on Sunday 16 January 2022 in an online meeting, via Zoom. For the meeting details please contact the Australia Yearly Meeting Secretary...
A Second Virtual Yearly Meeting   4-10 July 2021

A Second Virtual Yearly Meeting 4-10 July 2021

Sue Parritt, for YM21 Host Planning Committee Following Standing Committee’s acceptance of VRMs offer to host a Zoom YM21, the Committee began work in earnest, focusing particularly on the business process and IT. We agreed that Zoom meetings should be limited to 1½...

One non-theist’s tale

One non-theist’s tale David Swain, New South Wales Regional Meeting Let’s start with my history.  I came from a nominally Anglican family.  We didn’t go to church often, partly because we lived on a farm some distance from town. Services at our local village...

Editorial

The articles received for this issue of The Australian Friend cluster around the theme of Relationships.  Friends have been writing poetry touching on this theme, and we have articles about relationships with other Quakers at Yearly Meeting and in Geneva. Brendan...