Quakerly Inquiry For Living Systems

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?...

Participatory Spirituality

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...

An Open Letter on Behalf of the World’s Poor.

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...

Wisdom: Knowing What’s Important.

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,...

Quaker Responses to Violence in Kenya.

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...