Renewing a right spirit within

by | 1 Mar, 2020

Charles Stevenson, South Australia and Northern Territory Regional Meeting “Can’t you sit in silence at home? Why go to your Meeting to do the same?” This question was posed quite recently to me. I flashed back an unconsidered reply. “Well. It is an occasion when we...

How we nourish our Spiritual lives: Contemplative practice

by | 2 Jun, 2019

Wilma Davidson, Canberra Regional Meeting To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender oneself to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence....

“Shall we begin with a few moments of silence?”

by | 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...

Going Nowhere

by | 1 Jun, 2015

Clémence Overall, Victoria Regional Meeting When a friend sent me a copy of article “Going Nowhere[1]” I discovered a commonsense response to a world increasingly frantic with technology, information, and busyness. Echoing the teachings of all major religions, Pico...

The Voice of Mindfulness and Silence.

by | 20 Aug, 2012

Stephen Burns. Guest Contributor. The late liturgical historian James F. White took a very positive view of Protestant pluralism, noting that the fifty tumultuous years from 1520 produced what became the Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Anglican and Puritan traditions,...