by Michael Griffith | 24 Feb, 2025
The Quaker way was grounded in George Fox’s search for truth and his belief in “that of God in every man”. His path embraced mysticism grounded in silence and social action challenging the world’s insensitivity to creation and to the experience of the divine. This...
by Reg Naulty, Canberra Meeting | 24 Feb, 2025
Stan Grant. Murriyang. Song of Time. Bundyi Sydney. 2024. P.257. 978161427909 [hardback] This book could have been entitled “Meditations.” In some ways, it is similar to the meditations of Marcus Aurelius: the homage to his father, the way that the physical world...
by Noel Staples | 24 Feb, 2025
Encountering God & Further Encounters with God Noel Staples is a member of Cambridge & Peterborough Area Meeting, UK. These two pieces never intended initially for publication were stimulated at Noel’s Quaker meeting by a Member who felt that Noel would...
by Rose Griffith | 24 Feb, 2025
Death Came to Call Rose Griffith is an Attender at the Hunter Valley Meeting in Mayfield, NSW Death visited and Joe, at ninety-four was the obvious host. My father-in-law, legs and brain lost strength Almost motionless and often asleep. “Any pain Joe?” I asked, a nod...
by Mary Oliver | 24 Feb, 2025
The Wren from Carolina Mary Oliver (1935 –2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Being in nature was her passion and the means through which- despite many difficulties in her life- she found the capacity to open to the...
by Rae Litting | 24 Feb, 2025
Forgiveness Wahroonga Local Meeting I have been thinking a lot about forgiveness lately. There seem to be so many awful things happening in the world, and I feel that without a great deal of forgiveness these wrongs will fester over many generations. On...
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