Jean Brown is British born, now married to an Australian and based in South Australia. Of her 35 years spent working in a full time capacity with Initiatives of Change, 11 have been in India and 5 in the USA. In recent years she has been particularly engaged in running programmes for young people in Australia and Asia and in the development of the IofC programme 'Creators of Peace'.

The message of the Golden Rule—treat others as we would like to be treated—is found in the teachings of all religious traditions and in the secular tradition as well. It has been around for ever, so why do we not hear it?

Some days my sense of nothingness and being a nobody is as addictive as my sense of really being something and somebody.

Step Four to Remaking the World

Step Three to Remaking the World

Step Two to Remaking the World

Step One to Remaking the World

At various times in their lives some people revisit that longing to have a calling more than a job. And during the proverbial mid-life crisis, it makes itself uncomfortably felt, when we ask ourselves yet again, 'What is life really all about?'

Ordinary people have chosen to know and 'own' the shameful side of Australia's history.

Jean Brown eavesdrops on relationship between two 'large souls'-- and comes home to herself.

At one week old, Avis was taken away from her mother by the Aboriginal Protection Board to be brought up by the United Aborigines' Mission at the Colebrook Home, some 500 miles away in Adelaide.

The road of selflessness and honesty, of love and purity is less travelled than some. It has superb views but is strenuous going.

As the bandwagon of rights rolls on its way, gratitude is the victim that falls most frequently beneath its wheels.

We try to establish our worth through our fullness. Plugging all the gaps becomes an obsession.

There is a small but not insignificant tree newly planted in a garden in the Alpine region of northern Victoria, Australia.

What was the bridge, I was asking myself, that would aid our understanding?