by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
Cathy Davies, New South Wales Regional Meeting When I first started attending Wahroonga Meeting – many, many years ago – there were a number of teachers and other exceptionally educated Friends amongst the large group. They were extremely confident, used to speaking...
by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
David Swain, New South Wales Regional Meeting Well, I’m sorry, but I have. And I’ve been reading the articles on Speaking in Meeting in the last couple of issues of The Australian Friend. Apparently, the last thing you should do when preparing to speak in Meeting is...
by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
Dear K Re your interesting report in The Australian Friend[1], I am one who feels a certain reluctance with the use of the word “queer” for a couple of reasons. One is that according to two dictionaries the word queer not only means “strange” but also “odd, shady,...
by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
This impressive book by Douglas Gwyn is unusual in that it has something of the character of an encyclopaedia. Pendle Hill, the Quaker Study Centre in Philadelphia, has been operating for eighty years. In the main, each of the chapters in the book is given to a decade...
by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
There is language which describes an experience. Have you ever been to Florence? There are fountains and sculptures everywhere you look, stone castles and vineyards occupying the surrounding countryside, ornate churches, murals painted on unsuspecting walls…. Then...
by David Swain | 31 May, 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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