by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2014
It’s often hard to sustain hope these days. How can you watch Islamic State terrorists killing thousands of “non-believers”, abducting women and girls and beheading prisoners, and still believe that there is that of God in all people? It takes a stubborn faith in the...
by David Swain | 28 Nov, 2014
Chris Warner, Victoria Regional Meeting I am told that during blizzards in very cold climates, visibility can be so reduced that the snow-filled sky cannot be discerned from the snow-covered earth. The whole world turns white, the horizon disappears, and it is...
by David Swain | 27 Nov, 2014
Susan Addison, Queensland Regional Meeting What I believe is in me. What I do will prove what I believe. This is how Abel Siboniyo used to explain his Quaker faith to fellow refugees in Africa when he was an Evangelical Friends’ Church pastor in refugee camps in...
by David Swain | 27 Nov, 2014
Wuna Reilly and James Reilly, New South Wales Regional Meeting The history of Quakers’ engagement in China begins, appropriately, with opposition to war. During the Second Opium War in China (1856-1860), Adam Davidson was a 24-year-old Methodist from Ireland, and a...
by David Swain | 26 Nov, 2014
Valerie Joy, Queensland Regional Meeting My search in the outer world of the intellect via mass communications would not sustain me for long unless thinkers like Michael Leunig were there to challenge and comfort me. He has a powerful message conveyed through an...
by David Swain | 25 Nov, 2014
Reg Naulty, Canberra Meeting. In some of the mainstream churches, there used to be the view that they were the Kingdom of God on earth, and that the rest of the world would become the Kingdom of God when it joined them. The unkind comment about that, is that they...
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