Know one another: A long love affair with Quakers

Know one another: A long love affair with Quakers

by | 1 Dec, 2013

David Purnell, Canberra Regional Meeting  I have had a long love affair with Quakers. I was brought up within the Congregational tradition, which had a strong sense of independence of thought and action. When I first attended the Canberra Quaker Meeting in the...

What is a Quaker?

by | 1 Jul, 2012

Sabine Erica, New South Wales Regional Meeting.   ‘What are Quakers? What do they believe? There are many answers to these questions but I always think of the advice to ‘let your life speak.’ Friends do not proselytise so it is only in doing and being that we are...

My faith and how it intersects with my work.

by | 1 Jul, 2012

Wies Shuiringa. New South Wales Regional Meeting. The foundations for my faith come from growing up in the Mennonite Church in a rural region in the Netherlands. The liberal Protestants did not socialise with the Calvinistic Protestants; farmers did not socialise with...

What Gives Life? Holistic Inquiry For Living Systems.

by | 22 May, 2012

Yoland Wadsworth, Victoria Regional Meeting. Why can’t we create a world which is much more on the side of routinely ‘giving life’? And much less on the side of diminishing or damaging it?–Whether within us as individuals, or between us within groups, or within and...

Quakerly Inquiry For Living Systems

by | 22 May, 2012

Ian Hughes, Garry Duncan, Mark Johnson (New South Wales Regional Meeting), Gerard Guiton, Yoland Wadsworth (Victoria Regional Meeting). Seeking truth has been at the heart of Quakerism since the birth of our movement. Do we bring the whole of our lives to this search?...