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 [...]
The December E News has just been published. Use this link to read current news about Quakers in the Asia West Pacific Region.
About the Quaker Conversation Webinar Series In its role of providing connective tissue, FWCC is offering a series of Quaker Conversation sessions to any Friends who want to listen and learn and contribute to concerns important to Friends, particularly during this time of grief and reflection and, transformation. Session 6 Please join us on November [...]
Here is the link to the latest AWPS E newsletter and includes a link to the video of the World Quaker Day Webinar with staff from the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) Geneva.
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.
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 [...]
Read about plans for a Webinar with QUNO Geneva staff on World Quaker Day, Sunday October 4th in the AWPS newsletter that is available from this link.
The AWPS September 2020 E Newsletter now available
What does it mean to be a Quaker today? Living into a Faithful Life in a Changing World World Quaker Day 2020 – save the date and time AWPS Webinar – A Conversation with Quaker United Nations Organisation (QUNO) Geneva The Asia West Pacific Section Committee would like to invite you to participate in a [...]
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 [...]