Coupledom

  Letter from Reg Naulty In the September edition of The Australian Friend (page 20), Roger Sawkins asks what is so special about ‘coupledom’. The answer, in a word, is complementarity. Together, the two parts make a whole. The individuals concerned bring...

Seeing my whiteness: An appreciation

Letter from Roger Keyes, South Australia Regional Meeting Duncan Frewin’s article, ‘Seeing my whiteness’ in the September 2010 Australian Friend (pp. 16-17) impressed me greatly in its depth and breadth of vision. ‘Would I ever really be able to transcend the...

Weereewa/Lake George – A response

Poems with editorial assistance from Jean Talbot, NSW Regional Meeting. The poems in this edition of The Australian Friend were created in response to the landscape at Silver Wattle Quaker Centre, on the shores of Lake George (or Weereewa in the local Indigenous...
Joseph Wood 1750-1821

Joseph Wood 1750-1821

  Book Review by Roger Sawkins, Queensland Regional Meeting A Yorkshire Quaker; an introduction to his life, Ministry and writings PAMELA COOKSEY QUACKS BOOKS, 2010, £10, 110 PAGES, WITH COLOUR AND B & W ILLUSTRATIONS. AVAILABLE FROM FRIENDS BOOKSHOP IN...

The case for God: what religion really means

  Book Review by Tony Arden, Queensland Regional Meeting KAREN ARMSTRONG VINTAGE BOOKS, LONDON, PAPERBACK, 376 PAGES, RRP $8.99. Sometimes, I fear, we can become so excited by the wheel we have just invented that we can forget to check who else has invented it....

Paths to Quaker parenting

  Book Review by Margaret Clark, Canberra Regional Meeting PATHS TO QUAKER PARENTING EDITED BY HARRIET HEATH THE QUAKER PARENTING INITIATIVE, A WORKING GROUP OF THE PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING, 2009 Here is a handy little reference book about parenting as a...