Educational Materials

Jo Vallentine – Australia Yearly Meeting FWCC Quaker Conversation #6 November 28, 2020 What Is Mine To Do?

By |2023-01-05T16:33:23+11:00May 13th, 2021|Climate Change and Sustainability, Crossing Cultures - Sharing Stories, Educational Materials, Recent AWPS achievements, Recent Events|

Jo Vallentine and Gerry Yokota both spoke at the Webinar organised by the FWCC World Office in November 2020.  This is the text of Jo’s presentation. Perth Western Australia (FWCC Asia West Pacific Section) Greetings to everyone, wherever you are! Firstly, I want to acknowledge that I’m on Whadjuk-Noongar land in the south–west of Western [...]

One Quaker’s Journey in Japan – Gerry Yokota – November 28, 2020

By |2023-01-05T16:33:24+11:00May 10th, 2021|Educational Materials, Epistles and Reports, Recent Events, Uncategorized|

What Is Mine To Do? One Quaker’s Journey in Japan Gerry Yokota Osaka Monthly Meeting, Japan Yearly Meeting (FWCC Asia West Pacific Section) for FWCC Quaker Conversation #6 November 28, 202   I am an American Quaker who has been living in Japan permanently since 1992. I am not a birthright Quaker. I only attended [...]

FWCC Quaker Conversation : Gerry Yokota and Jo Vallentine speak on What is Mine to do?

By |2023-01-05T16:33:29+11:00December 22nd, 2020|Crossing Cultures - Sharing Stories, Educational Materials|

FWCC Quaker Conversation in partnership with AWPS What is Mine to do?  Sunday 28th November 2020 Did you miss out on FWCC Quaker Conversation Number 6. Gerry Yokota from Japan and Jo Vallentine from Australia spoke beautifully about how being a Quaker is woven in to their everyday life and work and activism as they [...]

Reminder to sign up to World Quaker Day webinar.

By |2023-03-26T11:25:58+11:00October 1st, 2020|Climate Change and Sustainability, Crossing Cultures - Sharing Stories, Educational Materials, Newsletters - Archive|

World Quaker Day is coming up this coming Sunday 4th October.   Join Friends from around the Asia West Pacific Section in a conversation with Jonathan Woolley and Lindsey Fielder Cook from the Quaker United Nations Office. Read about this in the latest newsletter.    

A Review of Human Kind – Rutger Bregman

By |2023-01-05T16:33:35+11:00September 23rd, 2020|Educational Materials, Epistles and Reports|

Humankind. A Hopeful History  Rutger Bregman. Bloomsbury Publishing. London. 2020. p. 463. $ 32-99 ISBN  TPB 978-1-4088-9894-9 A review by Reg Naulty, Canberra Quaker Meeting, Australia In this book, Rutger Bregman presents scientific evidence showing that a  more realistic and positive view of human nature than is commonly held, is reasonable. For example, many environmentalists see [...]

The Spiritual Roots of Quaker Ways: Stuart Masters September 2020

By |2023-01-05T16:33:39+11:00September 6th, 2020|Educational Materials|

Responses to Questions from Module 2 of Woodbrooke/AWPS Study Program Equality Early Quakers argued that "God might teach, transform and speak through any person" but that the person needed salvation first. This appears to conflict with Fox's injunction to "walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone". Is there a conflict between [...]

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