My Experiences as an Aotearoa Young Friend

 Rosie Remmerswaal, Quakers in Aotearoa New Zealand  With curiosity and enthusiasm, I travelled to Melbourne. I felt treasured to be chosen to represent Aotearoa Young Friends at Australian Yearly Meeting and Young Friends Camp, and valued this brilliant opportunity....

Supporting and Empowering Our Teens and Youth

Sally Kingsland, Canberra Regional Meeting The place of young people in our Australian Quaker community has been of great interest, and some concern, to me for many years. It has been a question of direct personal relevance as I have journeyed as a committed spiritual...

Epistle from Australia Yearly Meeting 2014

To friends everywhere Greetings from Australian Friends, meeting in the undulating bushland setting of the Nathan campus of Griffith University in Brisbane, situated on the traditional lands of the Yuggerah people. The temperature on the day of arrival for our Yearly...

Reflections on Backhouse Lecture 2014

Maddy Walker, Tasmania Regional Meeting Tracy Bourne’s Backhouse Lecture Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness: Bringing children into the centre of Quaker life and worship follows in a series of Backhouse lectures calling us to rethink the ways children are...

Now and Then – 2014 back to early 1950s

Sally Herzfeld, Western Australia Regional Meeting As a Young Friend in the 1950s I thoroughly enjoyed Young Friends camps and attended the Yearly Meetings which followed. In those days I found Yearly Meeting sessions boring and frustrating. “Why can’t they just take...