by Noel Staples | 24 Feb, 2025
Encountering God & Further Encounters with God Noel Staples is a member of Cambridge & Peterborough Area Meeting, UK. These two pieces never intended initially for publication were stimulated at Noel’s Quaker meeting by a Member who felt that Noel would...
by David Swain | 31 May, 2020
There is language which describes an experience. Have you ever been to Florence? There are fountains and sculptures everywhere you look, stone castles and vineyards occupying the surrounding countryside, ornate churches, murals painted on unsuspecting walls…. Then...
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2019
Sally Kingsland, Canberra Regional Meeting To listen another’s soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another. – Douglas Steere[1] Spiritual growth has been the central feature of my...
by David Swain | 5 Jun, 2016
Duncan Frewin, Queensland Regional Meeting Yearly Meeting is coming up, and with it a week of business meetings that we commonly open with “Shall we begin with a few moments of silence?” And of course there are all the local or regional business meetings, the...
by David Swain | 1 Jun, 2014
David Johnson’s book is undoubtedly a significant contribution to our understanding of prayer, but one that will speak to the condition of some Quakers more than others. With this in mind, the editors of The Australian Friend have commissioned two reviews in an...
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