What is psychic numbing?

Trish Johnson, Queensland Regional Meeting and Dale Hess, Victoria Regional Meeting Everyday, each of us faces situations that threaten to overwhelm us. The threats of war or climate change are two of the big ones. The question is how we respond to a situation that...

Let me be Led

Poem by Gina Price, West Australia Regional Meeting I work with joy, when I feel led I don’t look for thanks, when I feel led I radiate peace, when I feel led I don’t voice complaint, when I feel led I care for myself, when I feel led I overcome obstacles, when I feel...

The Spirit of the Quakers

Book review by Topsy Evans, South Australia Regional Meeting The Spirit of the  Quakers by Geoffrey Durham (Published in the Sacred Literature Series by Yale  University, 2010. ISBN 978 0 300 16736 8  242pp) The author, Geoffrey Durham, was  a...

The deification of Barack Obama

John Michaelis, University Monthly Meeting Click here to read an article by a Quaker minded blogger writing under the pseudonym Arkan2.  Arkan writes: ‘a President of color … is a great symbolic victory, and I wouldn’t want to take that away from anybody. But...

Thanksgiving fund depleted

  Letter from AYM Thanksgiving Fund, under care of Tasmania Regional Meeting A large number of recent applications for financial support from the Australia Yearly Meeting Thanksgiving Fund has meant that the amount remaining the Current Account is rapidly...