by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
Jo Jordan, South Australia and Northern Territory Regional Meeting In the fertile valley at Pisac in Peru, nestled between enormous Andes mountains, 320 Friends met from 19 to 27 January 2016 for the FWCC world plenary, held for the first time in Latin America....
by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
Pamela Leach, Tasmania Regional Meeting As a student, Friends invited me into making regular visits to detention centres. In truth, I had never given those hidden away from society more than a moment’s thought until then. But of course it was a perfect way to live out...
by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
Jackie Perkins, QSA Administrator When you hear the word education does your mind immediately go to a classroom you remember? QSA would like to tell you of a different interpretation of education and share with you some of the practical applications responding to the...
by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
Dawn Joyce, Queensland Regional Meeting Recently I watched the film The Man Who Saved the World, a true story about a Russian man who trusted his instincts rather than a computer and thus avoided a nuclear catastrophe. The film was also about the man’s personal...
by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
Moira Darling, Victoria Regional Meeting In statistics the pieces of data that are unexplained and vastly different are called outliers, and they are deleted from the data set because they affect the results. I wonder if this is also the way we treat our mystical...
by David Swain | 18 Mar, 2016
David Swain, New South Wales Regional Meeting In the December 2015 issue of The Australian Friend Reg Naulty had an interesting article titled “A parable about science for our time”. I don’t want to argue about Reg’s main point, ways of finding God, but he makes some...
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