Editorial

In this issue we reflect on our first ever Australia Yearly Meeting by Zoom.  The first reaction seems to be astonishment that it was done at all, and admiration and gratitude for those who arranged it at short notice.  There have been positives in this new...
YM2020 – About Community

YM2020 – About Community

YM2020 – About Community K Woodhouse, New South Wales Regional Meeting The cover page of the printed version of the June issue of The Australian Friend (AF) shows a photo of a sole penguin with the caption “Isolation.”  Blessedly, the content of that issue does not...

A View of Yearly Meeting

Clémence Overall, Camden Friends Meeting, Delaware, USA I come from Camden Friends Meeting, a 200-year-old meeting tucked away in the small state of Delaware – that little peninsula shadowed by Philadelphia and only two hours from the nation’s capital. William Penn...

A first timer’s reflections on AYM

Lauren Porter NSW Regional Meeting As one of the newest members of the Religious Society of Friends (December 2014) it was with nervous excitement that I attended AYM 2015. I was joined by my English fiancé, Mark Lockwood of Chichester meeting who has attended Britain...