A new A&Q. Do you care for your body?

A new A&Q. Do you care for your body? Helen Gould, New South Wales Regional Meeting Learn to listen to your body.  It is through our bodies that we experience the sacred.  Caring for your body benefits your family, community, and the earth.  Be in Nature whenever...
Christmas, Quakers, and Incarnation

Christmas, Quakers, and Incarnation

Christmas, Quakers, and Incarnation   Helen Gould, New South Wales Regional Meeting Early Friends did not believe in times and seasons, because every time was sacred.  However, they were passionate about Incarnation – the divine spirit becoming human, in us: “the...
Being animal, eating animals

Being animal, eating animals

Being animal, eating animals Helen Gould, New South Wales Regional Meeting The Australian Quaker Advices and Queries number 44: “All life is interrelated… Do you treat all life with respect, recognising a particular obligation to those animals we breed and maintain...

“Thank God” or “Thank god”?

“Thank God” or “Thank god”? Helen Gould, New South Wales Regional Meeting In the past few years, some people have taken to writing “god” where previously people would have written “God”.  I first noticed this in a journal I read regularly, New Scientist, which...