Dorothy Parfitt

Dorothy Parfitt is a homemaker and freelance writer living in Queensland, Australia.

Articles by Dorothy Parfitt

No Need To Starve (Concluded)

November 1969

I HAVE overcome my initial embarrassment at putting our plain, wholesome food before guests. True, not all visitors are equally polite. There was the pig breeder given breakfast at our place when his home was flooded who was openly skeptical…

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No Need To Starve (Part 1)

October 1969

DURING married student days I thought of writing on "How to Live on Love" for the encouragement of fellow strugglers for survival. A short time on internship surprised me with little change—improved income was matched by increased demands.…

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Adventist Women in Purdah?

January 1971

AUSTRALIAN women might as well be in purdah, secluded, in the tradition of the East, from all social contact except with their husbands. They are the most uninteresting women outside the Arab world, the most intellectually unstimulating .…

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As others see us

August 1980

The official bulletin board in the reli gion department of the leading uni versity in our area recently pro vided a rare opportunity for Seventh-day Adventists to see themselves through the eyes of others. Believing, as we do, that this church…

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