Sexism in the Senate – my Experience.

Jo Vallentine, West Australian Regional Meeting. Many Friends would have been distressed to witness the degree of vitriol in our Parliament lately. It’s embarrassing, and it’s demeaning for all concerned. Whether you think Julia Gillard’s stirring fifteen minutes of...

Salt and Light.

Pradip Lamichhane, Nepal Friends Evangelical Church. This is an edited extract from a talk given by Pradip at this year’s FWCC conference in Kenya. When I first heard the theme of the world gathering I found it difficult to understand. After long silence and...

What is a Friend?

Mark Johnson, New South Wales Regional Meeting A book I recently read, Sources of the Self, The Making of Modern Identity by philosopher Charles Taylor, maps some of the paths which have led to contemporary understandings of identity as realised throughout the Western...