The 2011 Swarthmore Lecture by Pam Lunn , reviewed by Jez Smith. Costing not less than everything: sustainability and spirituality in challenging times, the Swarthmore Lecture 2011. “The task may appear impossible We must take the first step.” Australia Yearly Meeting epistle 2011, paraphrasing Pablo Casals. When hundreds or thousands of Quakers gather for their Yearly…
Thomas Swain of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is due to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme Soul Music on Tuesday 8th day of 3rd month at 1:30pm. It will be repeated on Saturday 12th day of 3rd month. It will be available for 7 days afterwards on BBC iplayer. Thomas was interviewed for the programme in 9th…
Breakthrough to Unity by Roswitha Jarman By Harvey Gillman Roswitha Jarman has called her Kindlers’ booklet ’Breakthrough to Unity’ as if the human condition (or is it just Quakers?) , were lost in multiplicity. The subtitle ‘The Quaker way held within the mystic tradition’ is ambiguous. The word ’held’ confused me a little but I…
A chance encounter with a kangaroo led to Heather Curridge’s first encounter with Quakers. This sentence may have had some credulity if Heather was in Australia but she was in Maryland, USA. She is the heroine of Lisa Samson’s novel, Quaker Summer. This is a tale of a middle class American mom’s angst at the…