by David Swain | 22 May, 2012
Ian Hughes, Garry Duncan, Mark Johnson (New South Wales Regional Meeting), Gerard Guiton, Yoland Wadsworth (Victoria Regional Meeting). Seeking truth has been at the heart of Quakerism since the birth of our movement. Do we bring the whole of our lives to this search?...
by David Swain | 20 May, 2012
Ian Hughes, New South Wales Regional Meeting. Review of Heron, J. (2006). Participatory Spirituality: A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. Morrisville: Lulu Press. This book, first published in 2006, remains innovative and creative. John Heron has constructed a...
by australianfriend | 20 May, 2012
By Jenny Madeline, NSW Regional Meeting. Devonshire Street Meeting House is the 2nd oldest Meeting House in use in Australia. Built in 1903, it is somewhat younger than the Adelaide Meeting House which arrived from England in 69 packages (together with 3,300 slates)...
by australianfriend | 20 May, 2012
Jackie Perkins, New South Wales Regional Meeting. In 2000, Australia agreed to play its part in global efforts to halve the number of people living in poverty by 2015. Australians can be proud that, so far, their leaders have kept this promise made in our name. This...
by David Swain | 18 May, 2012
Reg Naulty, Canberra Regional Meeting. Review of Hall, S. (2010) Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. Stephen S. Hall asks whether there is any real place for wisdom in our frenetic, postmodern, quasi-apocalyptic,...
by David Swain | 17 May, 2012
David Purnell, Canberra Regional Meeting. Review of Lumb, Judy (2012) Ending Cycles of Violence: Kenya Quaker Peacemaking Response after the 2007 Election Washington: Madera Press, Washington. This is a fine collection of Quaker voices about violence that erupted in...
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