by David Swain | 4 Mar, 2018
During the Same Sex Marriage debate I searched Quaker Faith & Practice for some insights. Section 22.33 tells us that “Marriage is a context for a relationship, not a guarantee of its quality.” While acknowledging that many good relationships exist outside the...
by David Swain | 4 Mar, 2018
Evan Gallagher, Canberra Regional Meeting On 15 November 2017, we had a historic moment that should never have occurred; a majority of Australians supported marriage equality in a national postal survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. As a gay man, who has...
by David Swain | 4 Mar, 2018
I was born in Frankfurt A/M (am Main) in Germany on the 24 February 1938. In March the following year my parents, my two sisters and I left Germany as refugees for Australia. My parents, Max and Erika Wohlwill almost immediately fell in love with Australia. My mother...
by David Swain | 4 Mar, 2018
Wies Schuiringa, New South Wales Regional Meeting Although many families in Australia today are not “normal” (that’s a hetero-sexual married couple with two or three children) the personal characteristics of children from “not-normal” families are often...
by David Swain | 4 Mar, 2018
Jackie Perkins, QSA Administrator In all of QSA’s projects, there is a strong connection with the family of the project participant, which begins early in the establishment of the project. The process begins with the project partner talking with the leaders of the...
by David Swain | 4 Mar, 2018
Yearly Meeting 7-14 July 2018 Avondale College, Cooranbong NSW Regional Meeting warmly invites Friends to attend YM2018 at Avondale College, a Seventh Day Adventist tertiary college at Cooranbong, near Morisset in the lower Hunter Valley. Avondale College was also...
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