by australianfriend | 14 Feb, 2012
John Green, Tasmanian Regional Meeting. It seems to me that there is never a normal year at The Friends’ School. In all my reports to the Yearly Meeting I have always been able to describe remarkable achievements by members of the School community as well as...
by australianfriend | 14 Feb, 2012
Grace Verity, Western Australia Regional Meeting. I have made some spectacularly bad decisions in my life, and at other times, apparent miracles have fallen into my lap. The unpredictable results of my decision...
by David Swain | 11 Feb, 2012
Ian Hughes, New South Wales Regional Meeting The James Backhouse Lectures were instituted by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia on the day it was established, January 1, 1964. They have been delivered during Australia Yearly Meeting in January...
by David Swain | 10 Feb, 2012
Mark Johnson, New South Wales Regional Meeting A book I recently read, Sources of the Self, The Making of Modern Identity by philosopher Charles Taylor, maps some of the paths which have led to contemporary understandings of identity as realised throughout the Western...
by David Swain | 10 Feb, 2012
Bev Polzin, Alternatives to Violence Project Nine of us travelled on from Yearly Meeting 2012 to Guildford Grammar School, to participate in the Asia West-Pacific Gathering of AVP. There we joined a number of others, including four from overseas (Singapore,...
by David Swain | 10 Feb, 2012
Grace Verity, West Australia Regional Meeting I pray back to front: Not black mass or anything of that sort, Simply wrong way round. I say: Please help me God, or Be near me God, or Whatever it is I ask As if God is not doing these things. Yet, is God ever not near...
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