by David Swain | 1 Jun, 2015
Jackie Perkins, Administrator, Quaker Service Australia Pleased but saddened We are pleased to report that the latest round of cuts to the Australian Aid budget have not had an impact on QSA’s funds for the 2015 – 2016 project year. We are saddened however by the...
by David Swain | 1 Jun, 2015
Clémence Overall, Victoria Regional Meeting When a friend sent me a copy of article “Going Nowhere[1]” I discovered a commonsense response to a world increasingly frantic with technology, information, and busyness. Echoing the teachings of all major religions, Pico...
by David Swain | 1 Jun, 2015
Helen Gould, New South Wales Regional Meeting I was going to write “a magic day”, but there’s nothing supernatural about what happened yesterday. Paul the apostle wrote, “All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to his...
by David Swain | 1 Jun, 2015
A Safe Place to Live by Bic Walker, (Bic Walker, 2011) and Ziba Came on a Boat by Liz Lofthouse, illustrated by Robert Ingpen (Penguin Group, 2007). Putting these two children’s books together provides new insights and unique perspectives on Australia’s refugee...
by David Swain | 1 Jun, 2015
What we wake up from, on Harris`s showing, is the illusion of the self. In other words, we discover “that the sense that we are unified subjects – the unchanging thinkers of thoughts and experiences – is an illusion.”[p.205] Buddha, Harris tells us, awoke from the...
by David Swain | 1 Jun, 2015
The Quaker survey I have a strong concern about the conclusions reached in the Quaker Survey article in the latest Australian Friend. There was a 20% response rate, and the article then goes on to say x% of Quakers do this, y% of Quakers believe that. I do not...
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