by David Swain | 20 May, 2012
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...
by David Swain | 17 May, 2012
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...
by David Swain | 16 May, 2012
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...
by David Swain | 15 May, 2012
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...
by australianfriend | 7 May, 2012
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...
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