by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2014
As is usual, our March issue is devoted largely to articles arising from Yearly Meeting. As basic AYM reports are published in other places, we have tried to concentrate on more reflective articles. We also have two articles from overseas Quakers, one from the USA and...
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2014
Tom Louderback, Louisville Friends Meeting, Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting, Friends General Conference, USA “What is the role of the Society of Friends, this tiny body of less than two hundred thousand people, in this great process stretching from creation to doomsday?”...
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2014
To friends everywhere Greetings from Australian Friends, meeting in the undulating bushland setting of the Nathan campus of Griffith University in Brisbane, situated on the traditional lands of the Yuggerah people. The temperature on the day of arrival for our Yearly...
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2014
Maddy Walker, Tasmania Regional Meeting Tracy Bourne’s Backhouse Lecture Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness: Bringing children into the centre of Quaker life and worship follows in a series of Backhouse lectures calling us to rethink the ways children are...
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2014
Jenny Turton, Victoria Regional Meeting, Children and Junior Young Friends Coordinator YM 2014 in Brisbane was not only the first Yearly Meeting I have attended, but also the one in which I took up my role as the Children and Junior Young Friends Coordinator...
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2014
Sally Herzfeld, Western Australia Regional Meeting As a Young Friend in the 1950s I thoroughly enjoyed Young Friends camps and attended the Yearly Meetings which followed. In those days I found Yearly Meeting sessions boring and frustrating. “Why can’t they just take...
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