QSA Notes: Refugee Amir is an Ideal Permaculturist

Written by Boniface S. Gomes, Bangladesh Association for Sustainable Development (BASD) I am Amir Ali (35 years old), living in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Camp No. 19 in Bangladesh since August, 2017. Before starting this camp life, I was growing up in a very respected...

Backhouse Lecture 2020 – Fiona Gardner

In Seeking Union with Spirit: Experiences of Spiritual Journeys, Victorian Friend, Fiona Gardner shares her spiritual journey, beginning with her childhood sense of spirit influenced by her family’s religious practice as Scottish Presbyterians. Born in Scotland, Fiona...

Friends and the National Redress Scheme (NRS)

 Jennifer Burrell, New South Wales Regional Meeting January – May I have been working since 20 January to prepare “Australia Yearly Meeting Participating Group” to join the NRS – a more complicated task than it may seem. First of all, we had to determine who...

Know thy Friend

David Evans South Australia and Northern Territory Regional Meeting Now aged 84 for both of us, it is 50 + years since Topsy and I moved to Tasmania, sent by my employer to work at the Commonwealth Pathology Laboratory in Hobart. After 10 years of moving from here to...

Some thoughts on Ministry in Meeting for Worship

Felicity Rose, Tasmania Regional Meeting What an awesome, amazing thing that it should be possible to access that space where Spirit (insert all your favourite words such as God, Christ, the Inner Light), can communicate some wisdom that, if heeded, can guide us in...