Backhouse Lectures
The
James Backhouse Lecture, commonly known as the Backhouse Lecture, is a
public lecture on contemporary issues delivered annually at the national
gathering of Quakers in Australia. The lecture is recorded and published,
and is available :
for
downloading (see below)
for
purchase as a booklet or e-book fromInteractive
Publications.
Any
Friend can nominate a proposed Backhouse Lecturer, download the Backhouse Lecturer nomination form.
The
lecture is given in memory of James Backhouse (pictured right), who walked
around a great deal of eastern and southern Australia to enquire into the
condition of the penal settlements in Australia and the welfare of the
Aborigines and the free settlers. He had as his travelling companion George
Washington Walker, and there is no doubt that the visit of these two
Friends marked the beginning of the history of Friends in Australia.
James Backhouse
James Backhouse Lectures, 1964 to date
A fee of $5 is charged to download James
Backhouse Lectures for two years after delivery at Yearly Meeting, after
which they are free.
2015
Sally
Herzfeld
This we
can do : Quaker faith in action through the Alternatives to
Violence Project
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2014
Tracy
Bourne
"Our
life is love, and peace, and tenderness”: bringing children into
the centre of Quaker life and worship
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The following lectures are free to download
Date
Lecturer
Lecture
file size
Audio
2014
Tracy Bourne
"Our life is love, and peace, and
tenderness”:bringing children into the centre of
Quaker life and worship
68 mb
mp3
2013
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
A Quaker astronomer reflects: Can a scientist also be religious?
77 mb
mp3
2012
David Atwood
From the inside out: Observations on Quaker work at the United Nations
540 kb
2011
Rowe Morrow
A Demanding and Uncertain Adventure
393 kb
2010
Young Friends
Finding Our Voice, Our Truth, Community and journey as Australian
Young Friends
541 kb
mp3
2009
Helen Gould
The Quaking Meeting
455 kb
mp3
2008
George Ellis
Faith, hope & doubt in times of uncertainty,combining the realms of scientific and spiritual
enquiry
221 kb
2007
Jenny Spinks
Support for our true selves, nurturing the space
where leadings flow
201 kb
mp3
2006
Polly Walker
One heart and a wrong spirit
213 kb
2005
David Johnson
Peace is a struggle
147 kb
2004
Ute Caspers
Growing fruitful friendship
647 kb
mp3
2003
Helen Bayes
Respecting the rights of children and young people: a new perspective on Quaker faith and practice
696 .kb
mp3
2002
Mark Deasey
To do justly, and to love mercy: learning from Quaker service
1.1 mb
mp3
2001
Hendrik W. van der Merwe
Reconciling opposites: Reflections on peacemaking in South Africa
270 kb
mp3
2000
Susannah Kay Brindle
To learn a new song. A Quaker contribution to real reconciliation
with the earth and its peoples
336 kb
mp3
1999
Norman Talbot
Myths and stories, truth and lies
614 kb
1998
Charles Stevenson
Embraced by other selves. enriching personal nature through group
interaction
344 kb
mp3
1997
Richard G. Meredith.
Learning of one another. The Quaker encounter with other cultures and
religions
557 kb
mp3
1996
Elise Boulding
Our children, our partners - a new vision for social action in the 21st century
82 kb
1995
Donna Kyle Anderton and
Barbara Baker Bird
Emerging currents in the Asia-Pacific
709 kb
mp3
1994
Di Bretherton
As the mirror burns: making a film about Vietnam
143 kb
1993
Ursula Jane O'Shea
Living the way: Quaker spirituality and community,
213 kb
1991
David James and Jillian Wychel
Loving the distances between: racism, culture and spirituality
201 kb
1990
Jo Vallentine and Peter Jones
Quakers in Politics: Pragmatisn or Principle
565 kb
1989
Erica Fisher
A new-born sense of dignity and freedom
106 kb
1988
David Purnell
Creative conflict
131.kb
1987
Carol and Dougald McLean
The vision that connects
205 kb
1986
Susumu Ishitani
Looking for meanings of my A-bomb experience in Nagasaki
82 kb
1985
Gerald Priestland
For all the saints
82.kb
1984
Peter Jones
Pilgrims for justice and peace
311.kb
1983
Sabine Willis
An adventure into feminism with Friends
70 kb
1982
Ormerod Greenwood
Celebration: a missing element in Quaker worship
78 kb
1981
Roger C. Wilson
What Jesus means to me: Jesus as the liberator
57 kb
1980
Hector Kinloch
Quakers and Sacramental History: Reflections on Quaker Saints by a Quaker
Sinner
119 kb
1979
J. Duncan Wood
Quakers in the modern world: the relevance of Quaker beliefs to problems of the
modern world
57 kb
1978
Margaret Wilkinson
Wisdom: the
inward teacher
98 kb
1977
Mary Woodward
Papua New Guinea: third world on our doorstep
94 kb
1976
Charlotte and
Stewart Meacham
Imperialism without invading armies
106 kb
1975
W. A. McNaughton
A time to reap, a time to sow: retirement
131 kb
1974
Yukio Irie
Pilgrimage toward the fountainhead: Quakerism and Zen Buddhism today
119 kb
1973
Otto van der Sprenkel
Friends and other faiths
102 kb
1972
L. Hugh Doncaster
The Quaker message
85 kb
1970
Keith A. W. Crook
Security for Australia?
123 kb
1969
A. Barrie Pittock
Toward a multi-racial society
122 kb
1968
William N. Oats
In the spirit of the family
127 kb
1967
Douglas V. Steere
On being present where you are
94 kb
1966
Rudolph Lemberg
Seeking in an age of imbalance
123 kb
1965
Clive Sansom
The shaping Spirit
61 kb
1964
Kenneth Boulding
The evolutionary potential of Quakerism
