A letter to Quakers: principled impartiality

A letter to Quakers: principled impartiality

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...

Growing up in a Quaker family

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...

Shared Experience of the Light

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;...

“Child Conscription – Our Country’s Shame”

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...

Margaret Watts – an extraordinary worker for peace

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...