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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]

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
Quaking Things Up	- 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

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

Friend Thomas Owen addressed the World Conference of Friends in Kenya 2012. You can read his speech at left.

The Kabarak Call for Peace and Ecojustice was approved on 24 April 2012 at the Sixth World Conference Friends, held at Kabarak University near Nakuru, Kenya. It was the culmination of the FWCC World Consultation on Global Change which was held in 2010 and 2011.

Read the full document by clicking the link below.

Kabarak Call for Peace and Ecojustice