by David Swain | 2 Jun, 2019
When I reflected on how I came to be a Quaker, I kept going back and back, following the strands of influences in my life, to my earliest memories of childhood. So I think, in order to answer the question, I’ll have to start there and develop the answer in a meandery...
by David Swain | 2 Dec, 2018
David Swain, New South Wales Regional Meeting We went to North Korea, or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), not knowing what to expect. We knew from history that the Korean Peninsula had been controlled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II...
by David Swain | 3 Sep, 2018
This book by Pamela Leach is the result of a project undertaken by the Quaker Peace & Legislation Committee (QPLC) – with an Anzac Centenary grant – to focus on alternative perspectives on war and peace, and to encourage dialogue about peacemaking. A series of...
by David Swain | 4 Jun, 2017
Rosemary Turle, West Australia Regional Meeting For me it becomes a spiral as I think of a visual symbol for my expanding path towards what I have come to know as my truth. It helps give a shape to all the learnings and realisations of what my true identity is. It...
by David Swain | 4 Dec, 2016
On October 20th 2016, at Devonshire St Meeting House, the NSW Quaker Peace and Justice Committee hosted a screening of several peace related films. One of these was War on Trial directed by David Bradbury. War on Trial premiered at Australia Yearly Meeting 2016. This...
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