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Quaker Light in Australia and New Zealand

Author(s): Carl Abbott, Margery Post Abbott

Last summer (last winter there), we spent several weeks traveling among Friends in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. During those travels, we gained some insights about ways that our yearly meetings in the U.S. could share our Quaker faith more openly with the world around us.

Issue: On Insight (March 2017)

Resisting the Temptation to Polarize

Author(s): Margery Post Abbott

I want to start with a story of a “popcorn meeting.” This is a type of Meeting for Worship that most Friends dread – full of distractions and superficial messages – including messages that are purely political, purely personal, or even incomprehensible – messages that actually seem to block us from finding a deeper Unity together.

Issue: On Temptation (November 2014)

Archive Articles

Friends Bulletin - September 2001 - A Tender Broken Meeting A Talk at Intermountain Yearly Meeting
Friends Bulletin - May 2008 - Are We Willing to Hear Our Enemy? Listening to Iranian President Mahoud Ahmadinejad
Friends Bulletin - March 1999 - Prayer: Beginning Again (book review)
Friends Bulletin - March 1999 - What Does It Mean to Call Onself A "Friend"?
Western Friend - July/August 2009 - Ministers and Prophets
Western Friend - November 2009 - Council to the Christian Traveller (book review)
Western Friend - March 2010 - The Journal of Elias Hicks (book review)
Western Friend - April/May 2010 - Sifting Through Fears
Western Friend - July/August 2012 - Salt and Light: Reflections from the 6th World Conference of Friends
Western Friend - December 2012 - What Is a "Western" Friend?

Books

To Be Broken and Tender

Authored by: Margery Post Abbott

“This book will help Friends explore some of the spiritual depths of our tradition by going past resistance we may have to theological terms we have rejected. Both Christian and …