Participatory Spirituality

Ian Hughes, New South Wales Regional Meeting. Review of Heron, J. (2006). Participatory Spirituality: A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. Morrisville: Lulu Press. This book, first published in 2006, remains innovative and creative. John Heron has constructed a...

Quaker Responses to Violence in Kenya.

David Purnell, Canberra Regional Meeting. Review of Lumb, Judy (2012) Ending Cycles of Violence: Kenya Quaker Peacemaking Response after the 2007 Election Washington: Madera Press, Washington. This is a fine collection of Quaker voices about violence that erupted in...

Quaker Networks Targeted in International Scam.

Susan Addison, Australia Yearly Meeting. Friends in Australia were this week targeted by a sophisticated scam operation. It is believed that the callers used names and phone numbers readily available from the Australia Yearly Meeting and Britain Yearly Meeting...

The Word Was With God

David Swain, New South Wales Regional Meeting. It’s becoming more and more difficult to be an old-fashioned atheist.  In my salad days when I was green in theology, I knew what God was, and I could decide whether I believed in him or not. Now atheists seem to be...

Night Garden, Easter Thursday.

Virginia Jealous, Western Australia  Regional Meeting. There is mystery here, in this night-altered garden, where things are not quite what they seem. High waxing moon spotlights a shadow that might be a man kneeling alongside keening frogs in the dam. A drum roll of...