by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
Felicity Rose, Tasmania Regional Meeting What an awesome, amazing thing that it should be possible to access that space where Spirit (insert all your favourite words such as God, Christ, the Inner Light), can communicate some wisdom that, if heeded, can guide us in...
by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
Cathy Davies, New South Wales Regional Meeting When I first started attending Wahroonga Meeting – many, many years ago – there were a number of teachers and other exceptionally educated Friends amongst the large group. They were extremely confident, used to speaking...
by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
David Swain, New South Wales Regional Meeting Well, I’m sorry, but I have. And I’ve been reading the articles on Speaking in Meeting in the last couple of issues of The Australian Friend. Apparently, the last thing you should do when preparing to speak in Meeting is...
by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
Dear K Re your interesting report in The Australian Friend[1], I am one who feels a certain reluctance with the use of the word “queer” for a couple of reasons. One is that according to two dictionaries the word queer not only means “strange” but also “odd, shady,...
by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
This impressive book by Douglas Gwyn is unusual in that it has something of the character of an encyclopaedia. Pendle Hill, the Quaker Study Centre in Philadelphia, has been operating for eighty years. In the main, each of the chapters in the book is given to a decade...
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