Editorial

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...

Epistle from Australia Yearly Meeting 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...

Reflections on Backhouse Lecture 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...

Reflection On YM, Children and JYF

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...

Now and Then – 2014 back to early 1950s

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...