by David Swain | 30 Aug, 2014
Theme: Life in the Light Summer School YM 2015 will be held on Sunday 4 January, beginning after Meeting for Worship in the morning and ending at about 5.30. Our theme Life in the Light and has prompted a plethora of possibilities, the outlines of which appear below....
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2014
Sally Herzfeld, Western Australia Regional Meeting As a Young Friend in the 1950s I thoroughly enjoyed Young Friends camps and attended the Yearly Meetings which followed. In those days I found Yearly Meeting sessions boring and frustrating. “Why can’t they just take...
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2014
Neil Chadwick, Darwin Worshipping Group My main impression of the Yearly Meeting 2014 was that it was revolutionary. The rigid orthodoxy for years based on the principle that yearly meeting must be held in the first two weeks of January each year was seriously...
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2014
Tessa Spratt, Victoria Regional Meeting and Cathy Davies, New South Wales Regional Meeting. When Cathy Davies and I submitted Friends in Stitches for a Summer School Programme, momentarily there was a hesitation from the organisers about it fitting with the...
by David Swain | 1 Dec, 2013
Aletia Dundas, New South Wales Regional Meeting It’s 6 am, my alarm has just gone off and I can hear two older Quakers in the corridor speaking earnestly about the time and energy saved by drinking tea with cold water. Yep, it’s Day 1 of Yearly Meeting,...
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