by Aletia Dundas | 3 Mar, 2024
A letter to Quakers: principled impartiality Aletia Dundas, New South Wales Regional Meeting Dear Friends, I feel like I’m standing up in meeting with my heart racing and a heaviness that I can’t shake. Friends, over the past few months when the humanitarian crisis in...
by David Swain | 3 Sep, 2018
Martin Fallding, New South Wales Regional Meeting During my days at 2018 Yearly Meeting I was asked to write a reflection on being a child in a Quaker family. Being remote from day-to-day Quaker contact, I find it good to spend time with others having similar ideas...
by David Swain | 3 Dec, 2017
Andrew Brion, Victoria Regional Meeting In the new Victorian Friends’ Centre (VFC) a group has started to meet each fortnight. The group is convened by David Parris and we meet for ninety minutes, being three half hours of: silent worship; contemplation and writing;...
by David Swain | 31 Aug, 2014
Jenny Madeline, New South Wales Regional Meeting This is the title of a passionately-worded, 16-page, booklet authored by John F. Hills, a South Australian Quaker, in 1912. It was issued in response to the implementation in 1911 of the Defence Bill of 1909 that...
by David Swain | 31 Aug, 2014
Sabine Erika, New South Wales Regional Meeting “Our testimony against war if it is to be vital must not be mere testimony against the use of armed force – it must cut at the roots of war.” John William Rowntree [during the Boer War] This was a favourite quote of...
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