First- and Second-Generation Quakers

First- and Second-Generation Quakers

by | 1 Sep, 2024

First- and Second-Generation Quakers Michael Corbett, Queensland Regional Meeting Imagine if you would that you are amongst the first 2 or 3 people in the world who came to be named “Quakers”. To use a phrase from Professor Brian Cox describing when the Big-Bang...
Happy 400th George!

Happy 400th George!

by | 2 Jun, 2024

Happy 400th George! Tony D’Sousa, Finchley Meeting, UK Happy 400th Anniversary George Fox! George Fox was a truly great man. I know this because his spiritual discoveries have transformed my life, but it is only now, after many years, that I have discovered how...
Quakers and Sin

Quakers and Sin

by | 2 Jun, 2024

Quakers and Sin Rae Litting, New South Wales Regional Meeting Quakers don’t like the word “sin”.  Perhaps this is because it has become closely connected to the word “sex”, and applied to a number of sexual practices that we would consider perfectly normal.  I...
For it is the light which makes all things visible

For it is the light which makes all things visible

by | 3 Mar, 2024

For it is the light which makes all things visible David Johnson, Queensland Regional Meeting For it is the light which makes all things visible (Eph. 5:14 NIV) – so what is this light? It is not the normal daylight of the Sun shining upon the world. Nor is it...
Happy 400th George!

Hill of Vision

by | 3 Mar, 2024

Hill of Vision (A Ballad of George Fox at 400)  Tune: Slane*  It was to the hill of visionThat a young man was calledAnd upon it he soundedThe day of the LordAnd there he had a visionOf a people near and farWho were there to be gatheredAnd now here we are. He had...