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2025
From Vol 107 No 4 September 2025
- Common Grace Aotearoa - Challenging unjust structures with love and determination - by Michael Harcourt [Acknowledgement: Photograph of 2024 Hikoi to Parliament taken by David Cook]
- Rethinking penal reform - Programmes as a human right - by Murray Short
From Vol 107 No 2 May 2025
- Provenance of Land - Wellington Monthly Meeting Premises - Lucas Davies and Quentin Abraham
- How to read the Bible ... like a Quaker - Tim Gee
- Towards a Testimony of Nonviolence - An opportunity for Transformation? - Jane Banfield
From Vol 107 No 1 March 2025
- Do we need a Quaker Testimony on Social Media? - Tim Gee
- Friends House Waiheke - History of Land - Robin Watts
2024
From Vol 106 No 5 November 2024
- The Early Quaker Movement - the seeds of spiritual equity - Annabel Taylor [Version with references]
From Vol 106 No 4 September 2024
- Climate Science and Denial Thoughts - Richard Milne
From Vol 106 No 3 June 2024
- Understanding Treaty Issues Today - Anne Potaka [Full transcript of Talk]
- Provenance of Land (including Palmerston North Meeting House) - Robin Watts, Alistair & Anne Hall
From Vol 106 No 1 March 2024
- Musings: A Quaker Reflects on Spirituality (Part 2) - Murray Short
2023
From Vol 105 No 5 November 2023
- Musings: A Quaker Reflects on Spirituality (Part 1) - Murray Short
From Vol 105 No 4 September 2023
- Visiting Letterfrack - Brian McNamara
From Vol 105 No 3 July 2023
- Preparation Day: How Quakers became organised: the history of the new Quaker Handbook - David James
- Waiheke Friends House: A meeting house by the sea - Sue Stover, with input from Ian Upton and Robin Watts
From Vol 105 No 2 May 2023
- Walking Cheerfully on Whose Land? - Quentin Abraham [Version with References]
- Bilingual AVP Resources - Graeme Storer and Esther Cowley-Malcolm
From Vol 105 No 1 March 2023
- Statement on the Peace Testimony and Ukraine - Tim Gee
- Reflections on visit to Countries bordering Russia and Ukraine - Tim Gee
2022
From Vol 104 No 4 September 2022
- Are Quakers Past Their Use-by Date? - Jan Marsh
- Memories of Earthquakes and their Aftermath - Rosemary Tredgold
From Vol 104 No 3 July 2022
- Letter to America - Jan and John Schmidt
- Ten Quakers in a Van - Jillian Wychel
From Vol 104 No 2 May 2022
- The Kaupapa Game - Murray Short
- Mark's Gospel - Vincent Wijeysingha
- Decolonisation: a Postscipt - Murray Short
From Vol 104 No 1 March 2022
- Quaking Things Up - Graeme Storer
- Decolonisation: Challenging a unilinear theory - Murray Short
- Ancestry and Colonisation - Heather Denny
2021
From Vol 103 No 4 September 2021
- Archibald Baxter: A conscientious objector - By Kevin P Clements
- NZ Conscientious Objectors: Alfred and Russell Gregory - by Linley and Claire Gregory
Supplement to Volume 103 No 3 July 2021
- Care for the Planet: toward a Quaker Story - By Murray Short
Historical
Supplement to Volume 94 No 3 July 2012:
- Beyond ‘us’ and ‘them’: A broken-ness in the eye of the beholder - The address by Thomas Owen to the World Conference of Friends Kabarak, Kenya, April 2012
Common Grace Aotearoa
Challenging unjust structures with love and determination
- by Michael Harcourt
This article introduces Quakers to Common Grace Aotearoa, a recently established activist group that has nonviolence as one of its guiding values. In addition, the article reports back to the wider community, detailing some recent Quaker financial support of this group and its mahi.
As a Christian Quaker, brought up in liberal and high Anglican circles, the two major Christian festivals of Christmas and Holy Week create a tension for me. Do I go to church or Meeting? Meeting
for Worship doesn’t feel quite ‘Christian’ enough and Church doesn’t feel quite Quaker enough. This tension has grown in recent years, and Common Grace Aotearoa has allowed me to bridge my two faith traditions in ways that speak to the prophetic position that both demand. 
By this I mean speaking and acting against injustice while simultaneously recognising that I am embedded and implicated in the brokenness of the world. The prophetic position moves beyond outrage and the sense of superiority that comes with aligning with certain groups and values, no matter how honourable they might be. It is, of course, a difficult position to find in a world with so many issues of injustice demanding our attention.
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