What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?

by | 17 Aug, 2012

Susannah Brindle. Victoria Regional Meeting. Aboriginal people have taught me more about Australian history than ever I learnt at school or university. The real history, not the nationhood stories the media feeds us. Privately sceptical about the extent of the...

Some thoughts on Quakerism and science

by | 14 Aug, 2012

David Swain and Rae Litting, New South Wales Regional Meeting Quakerism and modern science both arose from the maelstrom of 17th Century England.  In that relatively short period many previously accepted paradigms changed.  In politics, the Civil War ended for ever...

Pelagius; a Celtic Christian & Quaker Forerunner.

by | 4 Aug, 2012

Helen Gould, NSW Regional Meeting. Karl Barth the German theologian once described the British as ‘incurably Pelagian’. And indeed, as I have learned about the Celtic Christian Church of which Pelagius was an early Father, I have found much in common with Early...

Water and Cooperation.

by | 4 Aug, 2012

Steven Heywood. Programme Assistant, Human Impacts of Climate Change Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, Switzerland.   “Countries have not tended to go to war over water,” Ed Davey, the UK’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change recently...