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...

Is Quakerism a ‘Religion For Atheists’.

Review of  Alain De Botton (2012) Religion for Atheists. London: Hamish Hamilton. Ian Hughes, New South Wales Regional Meeting. I have heard interviews on radio and watched interviews on television. I’ve also read reviews in newspapers, and now wonder if Quakerism...

How can Friends realize the Kingdom of God?

By Valerie Joy, Queensland Regional Meeting, FWCC/AWPS secretary.   The world has changed remarkably since the Fifth World Conference of Friends in 1991, both for good and for ill. The 6th World Conference to be held this year has as part of its theme Friends...

Soulful Discernment

Grace Verity, Western Australia Regional Meeting.                                                     I have made some spectacularly bad decisions in my life, and at other times, apparent miracles have fallen into my lap. The unpredictable results of my decision...

What is a Friend?

Mark Johnson, New South Wales Regional Meeting A book I recently read, Sources of the Self, The Making of Modern Identity by philosopher Charles Taylor, maps some of the paths which have led to contemporary understandings of identity as realised throughout the Western...