Studying to Create God in Our Own Image?

Ivan Himmelhoch, Victoria Regional Meeting It is always profoundly humbling to visit a person in a hospice at the end stage of their life’s journey. Such encounters have also made me reflect very deeply as to why that shrivelled, yellow-skinned human being before me,...

Primary and secondary messages within Quakerism

  Sue Doessel, Queensland Regional Meeting The early Quakers found that that it was possible to have direct experience of God, and to use that to guide their lives. I would see this as the primary message of Quakerism. It is possible to live as the early Quakers...

Quaker Essentials— A Study on Quaker Holiness

  Glennda Susan Marsh-Letts and Barbara Lumley, New South Wales Regional Meeting   In 2010 the Upper Blue Mountains Worshiping Group began a study program concentrating on ‘The Essential Elements of Quaker Holiness’. The study program was inspired by Carole...

Tasmania’s Meeting for Learning

By Fiona Gardner, Victoria Regional Meeting. The Meeting for Learning Retreat offers Friends a year-long program with a week retreat at the beginning and end of the year. The program provides a structure within which Friends can explore and nurture their own spiritual...