by David Swain | 1 Mar, 2020
K Woodhouse, New South Wales Regional Meeting Queer? When Wies Schuiringa and I collected the resources from Devonshire Street Meeting House for our stall at the Mardi Gras Fair Day, we made a quick decision to use the same banners and placards that we’d used in 2018,...
by David Swain | 1 Mar, 2020
Peter H Bennett, Victoria Regional Meeting Duncan Frewin’s article on spoken ministry (The Australian Friend, December 2019) is a carefully written and thoughtfully constructed appeal to us to dig deeply before rising to speak. Duncan begins by presenting us with...
by David Swain | 1 Mar, 2020
Charles Stevenson, South Australia and Northern Territory Regional Meeting “Can’t you sit in silence at home? Why go to your Meeting to do the same?” This question was posed quite recently to me. I flashed back an unconsidered reply. “Well. It is an occasion when we...
by David Swain | 1 Mar, 2020
Bev Polzin, Victoria Regional Meeting Our Friend, Duncan Frewin, in December 2019, laid out in the Australian Friend some thoughtful comments on spoken ministry within our Meetings for Worship. Duncan inferred that to be moved to speak in a Meeting for Worship is a...
by David Swain | 1 Mar, 2020
This is our regular feature in which we briefly record interesting publications and websites that have come to our attention. Inclusion of an item in this format does not preclude a possible longer review in a later issue. We welcome suggestions for inclusion. This is...
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