Editorial

by | 1 Jun, 2012

Mark Johnson. June Coordinating Editor. Most Christians celebrate May 27 as Pentecost, remembering the event when those disciples of Jesus – frightened, disoriented, and uncertain – were dramatically inspired by the Holy Spirit to leave their refuge and...

Robert Barclay : Who He Was and Why He Matters. Part 1.

by | 30 May, 2012

Paul Copeland, NSW Regional Meeting. If one were to start talking of Robert Barclay many modern Quakers may wonder whom he actually was. While George Fox and William Penn are now noted for their role in early Quakerism, Barclay goes relatively unnoticed. I feel this...

Finding Your Rainmaker

by | 28 May, 2012

Fiona Gardner. Victoria Regional Meeting. A Chinese village is besieged by drought and unless there is rain quite soon the village will starve to death. They have tried everything they know, so they finally decide to send at great distance for the famous rainmaker. He...

A Reunion of the Worldwide Family of Friends

by | 26 May, 2012

Susan Addison, Australia Yearly Meeting.  Some 850 members of our worldwide family of Friends from 51 countries came together from 17 to 25 April at Kabarak University in Kenya to share food, lodgings and spiritual nourishment. Expectations were high that we would...

What Gives Life? Holistic Inquiry For Living Systems.

by | 22 May, 2012

Yoland Wadsworth, Victoria Regional Meeting. Why can’t we create a world which is much more on the side of routinely ‘giving life’? And much less on the side of diminishing or damaging it?–Whether within us as individuals, or between us within groups, or within and...