Quaker Origins, Worship and Identity

Book review by Topsy Evans, South Australia Regional Meeting Quaker Origins,  Worship and Identity: Reflections from Kenya by Donald Thomas (Hill of Vision Pamphlet 3, Kaimosi Friends Press, 40pp) Donald Thomas is a British Friend who  has spent much of his...

Diary of a Lucky Migrant

Poetry by Sue Parritt, Victoria Regional Meeting July 1970 I’m migrating to Australia seeking a better life My father helps me pack my few belongings My mother weeps The ship is crowded with hundreds of other Optimistic souls Week after week we plough through ...

Chocolate Wars

Book review by Roger Sawkins, Queensland Regional Meeting Chocolate Wars: from Cadbury to Kraft:  200 years of sweet success and bitter rivalry by Deborah Cadbury Harper (Collins 2010 RRP$35) Cadbury’s Milk Tray, Rowntree’s  Black Magic, Kit Kat, Dairy ...

Summer School 2012

The theme for Yearly Meeting 2012 is ‘What does love require of us’ and we are using this also for Summer School. A number of  Friends in WARM have offered to facilitate groups and we are now ready to receive offers from the wider AYM community. Summer School...

Yearly Meeting 2012

In the presence of Derbal Yarragan Yearly Meeting 2012 will be held  overlooking Derbal Yarragan (The  Swan River Estuary) at Christchurch  Grammar School from Saturday 7 to  Saturday 14 January 2012. We will be using different buildings  within the school to those...

News: The Online Australian Friend

By Wies Schuiringa, New South Wales Regional Meeting This issue of The Australian Friend  will appear experimentally on  the web. You won’t find it using a  search engine (even Google doesn’t know  about it yet) but type ‘http://olaf.yerin. info’...