by David Swain | 6 Dec, 2015
Sabine Erika, New South Wales Regional Meeting In October this year, with the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN), I visited a Gaza Strip still reeling from the 2014, 51 days of destruction. There are 10,000 houses which remain destroyed with little...
by David Swain | 5 Dec, 2015
Interviewed by Pamela Leach, Tasmania Regional Meeting AF: What does it mean to you to be a Friend today? To me the Quaker community is a warm family of like-minded people of all ages, surrounding and helping me in my spiritual growth. The belief that each person has...
by David Swain | 5 Dec, 2015
forgotten children they give us pencils to draw with feeling pleased at their generosity they do not wait to see the pictures that appear childish scrawls with haunting undertones of pain and sadness tears drip from the pages in blue crayon blood splatters in pink...
by David Swain | 5 Dec, 2015
Sue Wilson, Queensland Regional Meeting (A plea to listen to each other’s spiritual experiences rather than debate our beliefs) In my thirty years among Friends, the thing I’ve most appreciated has been the way we allow ourselves and each other to seek, grow,...
by David Swain | 5 Dec, 2015
Kerry O’Regan, South Australia Regional Meeting The “About the Author” section of Tracy Bourne’s 2014 Backhouse Lecture tells us that, in her childhood, Tracy had been “impressed by the dedication to social justice and religious mystery of the Sisters of Mercy”. I too...
by David Swain | 5 Dec, 2015
Rae Litting, New South Wales Regional Meeting Since Jocelyn Bell Burnell delivered her Backhouse Lecture A Quaker astronomer reflects in 2013, I have been trying to frame a reply to it. This I have been reluctant to do, knowing that I do not have half her intellect,...
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