by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
Judith Pembleton, Queensland Regional Meeting Many Australian Friends are involved with the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), and many more have heard the name, but may wonder how AVP is linked with Australian Quakers. The Australian website describes AVP...
by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
Sue Doessel, Queensland Regional Meeting The early Quakers found that that it was possible to have direct experience of God, and to use that to guide their lives. I would see this as the primary message of Quakerism. It is possible to live as the early Quakers...
by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
Glennda Susan Marsh-Letts and Barbara Lumley, New South Wales Regional Meeting In 2010 the Upper Blue Mountains Worshiping Group began a study program concentrating on ‘The Essential Elements of Quaker Holiness’. The study program was inspired by Carole...
by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
Shalome Knoll Shalome Knoll writes of her mother, Susan Nelson’s wedding to Gerard Fahey. Susan and Gerry were married under the care of Victoria Regional Meeting. We are seated in a series of concentric circles, like the rings that eddy out from a stone...
by David Swain | 28 Nov, 2011
Susan Clarke, Queensland Regional Meeting I was led to Silver Wattle by so many things. I wanted to go on a retreat to explore in writing my future, my past, my spirituality, I wanted to explore the adult almost fully emerged from a chrysalis in which she’d been...
by David Swain | 28 Nov, 2011
Jackie Perkins, Quaker Service Australia I have just returned from a monitoring visit to Cambodia where the widespread flooding in that country has caused major problems for the people, especially those living in remote, rural locations. There has been very...
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