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SPIRITUAL LIFE AND THE WRITTEN WORD Edltor•Manager Among Friends Vinton Deming Associate Editor Kenneth Sutton Assistant Editor A Continuing Path Timothy Drake Art Director at more appropriate place to tell this story than in an issue on writing. Barbara Benton orne of you may recall an article in our September 1995 issue, "A Long Production Assistant Alia Podolsky Path to Becoming a Quaker." The author, Kerttu Kay Barnett, told of an Development Consultant incident from her youth in Finland in the 1940s. While walking with a friend in a Henry Freeman beautiful wooded area, they had come upon a human skeleton, likely the remains, Marketing and Advertising Manager Nagendran Gulendran they thought, of a Russian soldier who had fallen during a fierce battle several years Administrative Secretary earlier. Protected inside a leather wallet still at the skeleton's breast, with a bullet MariaMe De Lange hole through it, was a photograph of five young men. Bookkeeper Over the years Kerttu has kept the photo. She has often wondered about the Nancy Siganuk Poetry Editor identity of the young men. Was one of them the dead soldier? Might he be the one in Judith Brown the center? Her own brother had been killed by Russians during the war, so she Development Data Entry knew the pain of losing a loved one. In time she came to feel a close bond to the Pamela Nelson Russian family who must have awaited news of their own son or brother missing in Circulation Assistant Nicole Hackel Finland. llclltorlal Assistant Following publication of her article with the photograph, Kerttu mailed copies to Claudia Wair six embassies in Washington, D.C., asking them to publish the photograph in the Volunteer Robert Sutton newspapers of their countries-Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and others. Board of Managers Subsequently she learned that a man named Anatole Repin translated her article into Irwin Abrams (Clerk), Jennie Allen, Russian, and it was published in at least two newspapers in May. And then Kerttu Lucinda Antrim, Paul Buckley, Susan Carnahan, Sue Carnell, Elizabeth Cazden, Barbara Coffin, began receiving letters. Phoebe Cottingham (Treasurer), John Farmer, "It is amazing," Kerttu writes, "how these letter writers are able to write such Deborah Fisch, Marty Grundy, Ingrid Holcomb, Robert Kunkel, Mary Mangelsdorf, Judy Monroe, loving letters to the person whose countrymen, maybe my relatives, Finns, may well Caroline Balderston Parry (Recording Clerk), have killed their relatives. All the letters," she says, "except one were written in Lisa Lewis Raymer, Margery Rubin, David Runkel, Russian; a friend translated them into English for me." One letter in particular, sent Larry C. Spears, Larry D. 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6 Books for Nicaragua 2 Among Friends Gracia Fay Ellwood and Jeanne Nash Concerns rooted in childhood make a difference in the lives of 4 Forum children in Nicaragua. 12 Thanking Our Enemies Special Books Section Anthony Manousos We are dependent upon everyone around us for healing. 24 Leading by Serving: 14 The Friend's Shop (A Parable) One Friend's Witness Francis D. Hole Lee Neff Imagine a place that has everything we need. A review-essay: three books on servant-leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf Quakers and Writing 27 Reviews The editors received a wealth ofwisdom and inspiration in response to our call for essays on Quakers and writing. The portion presented here shows that when it is filled with the Spirit, 40 News of Friends the letter, too, gives life. 42 Bulletin Board 15 New Scriptures Marcelle Martin 43 Calendar 16 On Paying Attention Amy Runge Gaffuey 44 Milestones 17 In the Silence 45 Classified Vic Kryston 18 Buttoned Gillie Bolton 19 A Through Line Nancy Wick 20 My Most Appreciative Audience Robert Kunkel 22 A Journal about Meeting for Worship Mariellen 0 . Gilpin 23 Art, Life, and Light Lucy Aron

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Great wisdom approved our revised Faith and Practice "Way will open." Let's help it by seeing I wish to thank Roland Warren for his with the following testimony against capital what suggestions may come in from Dan's interpretation of the Apostle Paul (FJ punishment: initiative. August). It is important, I think, to be "We have consistently opposed capital Andy Tow/ reminded that Paul wrote when times and punishment. Capital punishment rejects the Lexington, Mass. circumstances were very different from the message of forgiveness. In some cases, it present. His attitude about women may be legally destroys innocent persons, and in all taken in the context of that long ago period cases it degrades the humanity of the Denies "adjectivity" of history. executioners and of the society that endorses I've been trying to think of a good way to This article also brought back to me the the act." express my appreciation for Teddy Milne's times Roland Warren reported to American Steven Ross, clerk "Summer Puzzler'' in the July JouRNAL. Let Friends Service Committee staff in New York Yearly Meeting this card signify my thanks. Philadelphia about his work in East and However! I ~ deny the adjectivity of West Germany some 40 years ago. He the underlined word! [See clue H.-Eds.] spoke on one occasion of how he was able Encumbered? Thanks again for the great work. John Woolman was influential in to communicate with both sides at a time Charley Brown forming many ofour testimonies, simplicity when the Cold War was at its peak of Wiscasset, Maine hostility. He said he was always careful to for one. He refused to take on more business speak as though persons on the other side than he needed, referring to excess and were in the room. That point was most "cumber." Everyone is subject to cumber, Nantucket welcome helpful to me later when I was working in but when Quakers take it on, should we call difficult and hostile race relations situations. it "Q" cumber? Nantucket (Mass.) Meeting was John Kriebel inadvertently left out of the Meeting Thelma W. Babbitt Chambersburg, Pa. Directory in August and October. We just Hancock, N.H. want Friends to know that the meeting is alive and well and that visitors are welcome. The autumn is a particularly beautiful time Eyes and hearts to attend. Meeting is at 10 a.m. each First God bless you for the article in your May Day at Fair Street Meetinghouse, telephone issue: "Jesus Among Friends," by John Pitts (508) 228-0136. Corry. I, too, have come to know Jesus Bob Leach Christ-to experience great joy in his Nantucket, Mass. inward presence and love-since I became a Quaker 35 years ago. My experience has paralleled Corry's closely. I'm sure his article has opened the eyes Traveling Friendly and hearts of at least a few Friends who Having made a trip by auto to have been critical of the presence among Philadelphia, Barbara and I were returning them of those of us who love Christ. That's to Oklahoma, driving round robin for the 40- good. hour trip. We drove through Pennsylvania, Jack Daniels and in deference to the local plain folk I had Cobleskill, N.Y. donned my own plain clothes, which I wear most of the time when it is not too hot. Way will open About 2 a.m. we stopped at a rest area in Oppose death penalty Dan Conlon and I began getting central Illinois. I immediately noted a To: Governor Christine Todd Whitman, acquainted with each other and Friends 60 refreshment stand set up on behalfofthe Trenton, N.J.: years ago in a group of young adult Friends Make a Wish Foundation, staffed by what The New York Yearly Meeting of the in Philadelphia. Dan, then and since, has appeared to be Klingon warriors from the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), been full of thought-provoking suggestions Star Trek television odysseys. Not wanting which includes Friends of northern New (Forum, Aug.). to pass up a good conversation I, dressed in Jersey, has watched with concern as the "Bum out" ofemployees is a symptom plain clothes, marched over and inquired State of New Jersey prepares for execution. of a very complex problem for Friends about their activities. They were fun-loving We reaffirm our long-standing opposition to organizations that promises to get worse. folks wanting to make some contribution to the death penalty. We ask that you allow no The global rift between the "haves" and their community and dying youths. one to be executed by the State. ''have nots" and the testimony of simplicity As we spoke, I noted, out of the comer of We share deep reverence for human life are involved. When we want to be of my eye, several men dressed in plain clothes and know that our religious beliefs deny us service, but don't have the time and skill, we standing in the darkness beyond the trees the right to take another life, whether in war, hire others; the issues multiply. lining the rest stop. A couple were talking murder, or as punishment. We state Consider what happened to AFSC when among themselves and pointing-perhaps at emphatically that our government should not it tried to become an "equal opportunity the Trekkies and perhaps at me. kill in our name. Our testimony is that there employer'' as well as a committee of Friends Beckoned by Barbara I ambled back is that of God in everyone, that each person for service. As Pendle Hill and various toward our truck. As I approached a van is valuable and sacred, and no one is totally Friends schools try to pay staff at a near where we had parked, a man about my beyond redemption. We believe that conscionable level, a younger generation of age, in plain clothes and moderately everyone can respond to God's Light. concerned parents and seekers cannot afford trimmed chin whiskers, addressed me in Last year New York Yearly Meeting to participate, at least in traditional ways. German, to which I responded in

4 November 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL Grandmother's best Rhinelander Deutsch. I My grateful thanks to you and to Michael was unfamiliar with the Amish dialect S. Glaser for the message on your August though, and quickly we dropped into cover. Recovering as I am from major English. He introduced himself as Dan surgery, it has met and filled a deep need for Zook, a conservative Mennonite. He was "more than hope." I have memorized the transporting several Amish!Mennonite poem and repeat it frequently to myself. I fellows to some activity in Indiana from have also sent a copy to a close fiiend who Pennsylvania in a windowless van. He then loves poetry. This will go into our joint asked me about the strange apparitions at collection. the refreshment stand: Margaret H. Stevens "Do you know anything about those Lake Elmo, Minn. folks?" "Yes," I replied. "Are they devil worshipers?" In solidarity "No, they are just celebrating their Many of you are aware of the legal favorite science fiction characters." controversy in Hawaii concerning same-sex "Science fiction? ... Explain?" marriage. You may not, however, be aware Well, that was a tall order. So I briefly of the part that Friends there have played in explained that it was a story about future life building the case for legal recognition of in another part of the galaxy where same-sex couples. We at Friends Meeting of humankind developed differently than it did for a service project to complete my "Spirit Washington (D.C.) wish to publish our here. of the Truth" Girl Scout religious medal. I support for Honolulu Monthly Meeting and Dan then nodded and declared: "They decided I could help Mariellen Gilpin by the AFSC Regional Office in Hawaii. should be spending their time considering making cards for her. Reaching clearness and unity on the issue of their sinful nature." During the month of June I made plans same-gender unions is seldom easy. Our I responded, "But they are celebrating the and got my idea approved by business meeting only came to clearness after more diversity of God's creation both real and meeting and Mariellen. During July and part than seven years of painful seeking and imagined." of August I worked with the elementary discernment. Since then we have celebrated We both nodded on this and discussed First-day school children. I taught the First­ six same-gender unions under the care of the concerns of our own spiritual day school class and helped them design meeting. We have grown and been enriched experiences. As we talked, a large Klingon fronts for the greeting cards. We used by this. We therefore invite you to reflect brought me a cup of coffee. I returned to the everything from crayons to watercolor to upon our letter to Honolulu Friends. Our truck, and both Dan and I returned to the cutouts from magazines. I used the money hope is that Friends who have found similar highway and its diversity. that I received for baby-sitting the children clearness may be reminded that they do not during and after meeting to pay for the stand alone. Clarence M. Cullimore greeting card stock and stamps. Then I Oklahoma City, Okla carefully cut the children's pictures to fit the Grant Phelps Thompson, clerk blank cards and glued them down. After Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) stamping the envelopes and finding a pretty box to put them in, I sent them to Mariellen Outreach ideas Dear Honolulu Friends: Our tiny meeting is interested in any Gilpin. I have enclosed several for you to look at. (See above--Eds.) Because of the controversy surrounding outreach ideas other meetings can share with same-sex marriage in Hawaii, you must us. Bess Fulmer sometimes feel caught in a maelstrom. Visalia (Calif.) Meeting recently related Coppell, Tex. Please be reassured that many, many an idea in a short letter in FRIENDS JOURNAL Friends elsewhere are mindful of your ("Expect a Crowd," July 1996) for a six­ struggles and appreciative of your support of session course called Quakerism I 0 1 that Inspiring poems lesbian and gay people. As we ·understand it, they use for outreach. Perhaps they could What a manielous, sensitive, inspiring you adopted a supportive minute for lesbian/ write an article for FRIENDS JOURNAL detailing poem: "Sara in Quaker Meeting," by gay relationships in 199 I, took under your the structure and content of this course, Elizabeth Addison (FJ, May). care a same-sex couple in 1993, and, along with any other helpful hints for being Sorry it took me so long to write about through members of your meeting, have most effective in attracting attenders and the effect of this poem on this "old" poet. been involved with important developments keeping them throughout the course. in the Baehr case. You may think that the What tips do others have for making the Thank you Elizabeth and Sara-it will stay with me forever and is well worth reprinting. part you have played is small, but we think meeting so welcoming and spiritually not. We thank you and commend you for enriching that people just can't resist coming Shirlianne Gunther your faithfulness. back? Cape May Court House, N.J. We believe that you have been about Charity B. Gourley God's work. You testify to the equality of all Galveston, Tex. people as children of God and to the power I am renewing my subscription because and preeminence of Love, which sanctifies of the poem "Smashing the Idol" (FJ, Aug.). all relationships-homosexual as well as Friendly greetings It says to me that many diverse ideas can heterosexual. Because so many in society do Reading your article, "A Letter Writing appear in a Quaker journal. not understand these truths, they fear you Ministry" by. Mariellen Gilpin (FJ, June), Dina Wills and your words. Your courage in the face of helped me solve a problem. I was looking Bethlehem, Pa. ignorance and hostility has been evident.

FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1996 5 Stay calm and strong in the power of Divine indebted, attracted, or flattered?" Love. We hold you in the Light and in our It hurts me that, even though I love you prayers and will continue to do so as events with all my heart, I cannot fully guarantee in Hawaii unfold. that you will never be hurt in this way. Our meeting knows firsthand the Please know that whatever happens you divisiveness that can attend the question of can tell me about it. I will be very angry at same-sex marriage. We know how difficult the person who touched you in a bad way, it is to achieve clarity and unity on such an but not at you. If you ever can't or don't emotionally charged issue, and how much want to talk to me, keep telling people you Books hurt can be inflicted on individuals as think you can trust until you find someone Friends expose their fears and vulnerabilities who will believe and protect you. to one another. We labored seven years I worry about you because you are so towards unity. In the process, we discovered beautiful and perfect, and we live in a lor that we were strong. We persevered. We world that is sometimes ugly and even experienced healing. Many gifts came imperfect. to us as a result of the process: a clearer I will always love you. vision of what makes a union holy and Lauren Ungar Nicaragua good; a desire to nurture and support loving Pittsburgh, Pa. relationships better; a deepened sensitivity and spirituality in our meetings for worship; and an increase in the number of people Another version drawn to meeting. In February 1992 we adopted a minute John Lepke's comment on the hymn "Blest Be the Tie that Binds" was very supportive of same-sex relationships, affirming that our procedures of clearness, thoughtful, I thought (Forum, Aug.). by Gracia Fay Ellwood oversight, and care are the same for all I have another version I like to sing as I drive from my home to Albuquerque, N. couples, regardless of gender. In the four and Jeanne Nash Mex.: years since 1992, we have taken six same­ sex couples under our care. While we feel "Blest be the tie that binds ere begins a tale of two projects to pleasure and pride in our progress, we Our hearts in friendly love; build libraries in Nicaragua. Opera­ recognize that we are not finished. We still The fellowship of kindred hearts tion Bookshelf and Libros para Is what we all dream of." H labor with many of the same issues as before Jill Oglesby Somotillo were conceived and brought and strive for greater understanding, Los Lunas, N.Mex. forth separately and remain sister projects, patience, and love within our meeting. but joined forces very profitably during a In closing, please know that we are with nine-day stay in Nicaragua in August of you in spirit. We join you in your continuing 1995. work in the name of Love. We send our best Habla espafiol? wishes and our love. I'm just back from Cuba; I was honored and delighted to visit five Friends churches Grant Phelps Thompson, clerk in eastern Cuba and one unprogrammed Operation Bookshelf Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) worship group in Havana. Jeanne Nash Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could ne never quite leaves one's early publish Spanish issues of FRIENDS JouRNAL concerns behind. The seeds of the A parent's love or take outstanding articles from one year Oproject were sown in my childhood I thought this letter I wrote to my and publish them in a Spanish issue? out in the country, far from public librar­ daughter might be a useful contribution to Cuban Friends want information, but in a ies. My parents were both writers, so the the ongoing discussion among Friends about sense are kept from the Friends mainstream written word was highly valued in our sexual abuse: by the language barrier. I know there are home, but because we were unencum­ My precious Little Daughter, many obstacles to doing this, most bered with wealth, there were not many I want for·you that you should never be importantly money, but one can dream. books at home for me. I was isolated and touched except by people you love and who Peg Morton grew up longing for the companionship love you. I know that for this to happen you Eugene, Oreg. of books-a longing that was amply rem­ must grow up and live in a different world edied when I grew up. than the one I grew up in. As you grow up, I In the 1980s I was engaged in a Read­ will try to help change the world so that it is FRIENDS JoURNAL welcomes Forum con­ Aloud program in Fort Collins, Colorado. safe for you. tributions. Please try to be brief so we Until you are old enough to speak and to may include as many as possible. Limit I had accumulated quite a number ofjun­ stand up for yourself I will try to protect letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to l ,000 ior books on my shelves, and I became you. When you grow ·up, you will need to words. Addresses are omitted to main­ more and more aware that they could fmd feel free to say " I don't want you to touch tain the authors' privacy; those wish­ me" and to leave or get the other person to ing to correspond directly with authors Gracia Fay Ellwood is a member of Orange leave if they don't respect you. You will may send letters to FRIENDS JouRNAL to Grove (Calif.) Meeting and teaches in the need to be able to talk to people you love be forwarded. Authors' names are not Department of Religious Studies at Califor­ and trust to sort out "Do I really love him to be used for personal or organiza­ nia State University, Long Beach. and want to touch him, or am I just feeling tional solicitation. - Eds. Jeanne Nash is a member of Fort Collins bored, lonely, angry, vengeful, obligated, (Colo.) Meeting.

6 November 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Students In the courtyard of Escuela Luis Velasquez near Managua a better place in the hands of impover­ of the Sandinista regime by a very com­ town ofSomotillo in Chinandega, located ished children who had little or no chance mitted woman, Fanny Maria Silva. At in the northwest of Nicaragua, where a to know the joys of reading. present she has over 350 children, taught grassroots organization called El Bloque In 1991 I was in contact with a woman by ten accredited volunteer teachers in Intercomunitario had for some years been who had spent time on an island in the shifts. None of these children would be fostering liberation theology and work­ Grenadines, in the Caribbean. She told receiving an education otherwise, for their ing toward improving the quality of life me of children there who were in just families cannot afford the fees, books, among the peasants and townfolk. I was such a situation, and as a result Operation and uniforms now required by the public particularly moved by the efforts to edu­ Bookshelfbegan with two boxes ofbooks schools; many of them have little more to cate the campesino children. sent via her. In the early years books were eat than the meal of beans and rice the One scene that stayed with me was a sent to Kenya, Uganda, Mexico, and Gua­ school serves each day. To save money, girl of eight or ten sitting on a stump in a temala, as well as other points closer to Doii.a Fanny has given up her house and courtyard, doing her homework while home. In 1994 I decided it would be bet­ moved into the school together with some chickens and turkeys ambled past. It stirred ter to concentrate on sending books to a abandoned children. Operation Bookshelf strong memories. I had grown up on a single country; Nicaragua recommended concentrated on building a library for farm, going to a small parochial school itself because of the interest in reading Fanny's school and by rnid-1995 had sent where a library was not a high priority. awakened by the literacy crusade in 1980 enough books that Luis Velasquez can While I did not do homework on a stump, and thus became the new focal point. now claim to be among the very few as in Jeanne's case my desire for books Operation Bookshelf is now under the schools in Nicaragua to have a real library. far outstripped my school's and my care of Fort Collins (Colo.) Meeting. One of the major frustrations of this family's resources, while public libraries I came to be in touch with Southeast­ work is the difficulty that Fanny and oth­ were out of reach. em Yearly Meeting's center in Managua, ers engaged in such work have realizing I fervently blessed the efforts to bring which works in support of various self­ the importance of regular reports. I re­ learning to the children of the Nicaraguan help programs in Nicaragua. Since the ceived some secondhand accounts via the countryside, but no particular avenue of days of the embargo in the midst of the. Friends Center in Managua, but became involvement suggested itself at that time. contra war, SEYM's project Pro-Nica sent more and more aware that it would be In 1988, when I was living for several shipments of goods by sea to that belea­ necessary to visit the school and inform months in Wellington, New Zealand, I guered country. Until the shipments were myself about the situation. learned that a mobile library stopped on discontinued in late 1995, I was able to the hill several streets above our apart­ send my books in Pro-Nica's containers. ment. Another poignant memory awak­ One of the groups they were (and still Libras para Somotillo ened: the great excitement my siblings are) supporting is Escuela Luis Gracia Fay Ellwood and I felt when the county "bookmobile" Velasquez, a school in the desperately his project arose from a Wit­ began to make stops a mile or two from poor barrio of San Judas, bordering ness for Peace delegation in which I our farm. We would make the biweekly Managua. It was begun in·the early days Tparticipated in 1986. We visited the trek, returning heavily and happily laden FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1996 7 with books that we read through long managed to contact them about a year our nine-day visit. Most of our travels before the next scheduled stop of the trea­ later by telephone and were told that took place in this vehicl~we got a lot of sure vehicle. schoolchildren were reading the books. curious stares, as though people were Fantasies and plans began to form in Once or twice we got brief reports from thinking "Ifthose gringos are rich enough my mind: a mobile library centered in Pro-Nica's representatives based in to come down here, what are they doing Somotillo, making the rounds of the vil­ Managua. The program coordinator, in the back of that heap?" lages ofChinandega, bringing to the book­ Jenny Atlee, wrote that there was a thirst starved the joy I had known. A Salva­ for books, but also that there was little Escuela Luis Velasquez doran friend suggested early in 1992 that awareness of the concept ofa public lend­ ur first visit was to Dona Fanny's there was no reason not to begin right ing library; promotion was needed. She school. At the end of a steep and away on a smaller scale. So I wrote to El added that the library room was rather 0 bumpy road in the southwest part Bloque describing my plan, and receiv­ dark, so we arranged to send several lan­ of Managua we found the inconspicuous ing an encouraging letter from them, I terns. Without direct reports from El and rather battered front of the school. began to collect Spanish books. Since Bloque we could not get clear answers to We found Dona Fanny resplendent in most of the funds came out ofmy pocket, our main questions: how many people pink and running over with compassion in addition to buying new books, I were using the library, and what sorts of for the suffering poor, enthusiasm for the stretched my dollars with used books from books should be emphasized and which school and those who contribute to it, and the discard shelves of the local public omitted? Why did we get no letters? Had love for all. It was hard for her to remem­ library. I developed techniques of repair­ the library fallen into disuse, and were ber to pause for the translator. We tried ing damaged ones; I also reinforced new our efforts now largely going to waste? to be low-key in presenting new books paperbacks with pieces of posterboard Clearly it was time to go back to Nicara­ and school supplies, but Fanny was al­ cut to size. It was (and remains) so much gua and investigate the situation for our­ most tearful in her gratitude on behalf of fun as to seem positively self-indulgent. selves. the children. At one point she picked up a I mailed three boxes directly to bag of donated crayons, hugged them to Somotillo in 1992, fmally receiving word her bosom, and said, "This is a treasure!" after several months that they all arrived In Nicaragua She proudly showed us the "Biblioteca safely and that a library room was being he six members of the Friends Jeane Nash," two shelves stuffed with prepared "con gran entusiasmo." That Library Delegation arrived in slim books, and stood with Jeanne for summer I made contact with Pro-Nica TManagua on August 9, 1995. The photographs. and began to send the boxes to them for group was comprised of two from Ft. We learned a little more about the inclusion in their yearly shipments to Collins, Colorado (Jeanne Nash and Carol school; Luis Velasquez was a boy who Managua; from here they were trucked Nees), two from Altadena, California was hunted down and shot by Somoza's up to Somotillo. While this route was (Gracia Fay Ellwood and Richard troops during the 1970s for his imprudent slower, it was both cheaper and more Ellwood, mother and son), and two from shouts of"Patria libre o muertef' ("Free secure. After Pro-Nica discontinued their St. Petersburg, Florida (Louise deGregory Homeland or Death!") The school is a shipments we were able to send a number and Hugo deGregory, spouses). None of little larger on the inside than it appears, of boxes with a Pastors for Peace caravan the pairs of delegates had met the others its cramped classrooms opening onto a in November 1995, but now have to de­ before. spacious central courtyard. Here the chil­ pend on the U.S. mails again. Our plane flew in accompanied by dren of the morning shift were lined up, "I" became "We" when the Central near-continuous lightning and thunder, neat in their navy and white uniforms, America Committee of Orange Grove and we were quite delighted to reach the two in front holding a banner welcoming (Calif.) Meeting adopted the project; a ground safely and step into the sauna bath "Jeane y su grupo." After the welcome, knot of us now occupy our committee of Managuan weather. We were met by with a song and a bouquet, we sat at a meetings with posterboard, scissors, and Marc Forget, the newly installed program little table under a tree drinking soda pop contact paper. coordinator for Pro-Nica, who was to be while children milled around, some com­ After two letters I received from El our translator and guide. He drove us in a ing by to hug Fanny or one or another of Bloque in 1992, in response to our vari­ battered pickup to the El Centro guest us. Their warmth was wonderful. Fanny ous queries there was only silence. We house, also known as Casa Cuaquera, for told of her hopes to raise funds to have a roof constructed over this courtyard to protect the classrooms from rain, which enters freely through the unglassed win­ dow openings. She also has dreams of procuring sewing machines so that the school's alumnae and other penniless women of the b~o will have a chance to learn a marketable skill. But as it is, even getting enough rice and beans each day is a struggle.

The courtyard entrance to Escuela Luis Velasquez

8 November 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL Managua without being able to visit any of the villages where the children's books had been sent. We were able, however, to visit several other literacy projects based in Managua. Acahualinca Community Center o Managuans, Acahualinca is known as the site of the vast city dump. TOne-third of Managua's sewer sys­ tem dumps here, as well as the effluent from tanneries. Fourteen thousand people live in this maze of twisting dirt roads and open sewer channels, in shacks jerrybuilt from wood scraps, flattened steel drums, palm thatch-anything to give a little pri­ vacy and relief from the insistent sun and rain. Despite the primitive living condi­ "A book is strength, courage, power, food; it is the igniter of thought, tions, we often saw people sweeping their and the wellspring of love": motto in the Mateare Public Library floors and yards; sometimes we saw little patches of vegetables and flowers; we Somotillo of the books. They immediately became noted that nearly everyone's clothes were ur visit to El Bloque, the project very absorbed. Gracia Fay read a copy of clean. supported by Gracia Fay and Or­ Donde Viven los Monstruos (Where the We also found that some Acahua­ 0ange Grove Meeting, took us out of Wild Things Are) in her uncertain Span­ lincans have a serious interest in culture. Managua. The road northwest to Somotillo ish to a threesome and was pleased to see As we clambered out of the back of our was paved (this had not been the case in the oldest girl following with her lips. pickup we were met by three community 1986) and heavily traveled by large trucks Asked to finish reading it aloud, the girl leaders and ushered into a simple wooden and buses, not to mention oxcarts and did so quite competently. Jeanne kept community building that has one or two occasional herds ofcattle. The town itself several smaller children totally absorbed small rooms and a large room used for looked much the same, with unpaved with a book illustration dealing with the meetings, classes, dance lessons, and the roads, oxcarts, trucks, pigs, chickens, and human body. Richard, our staffphotogra­ library. The building was erected during turkeys in evidence. El Bloque house was pher, took yards of video film. the early Sandinista years with the help of also largely unchanged. Estevan Calderon, We were of course concerned about grants from Europe. The library, consist­ the executive director of the organiza­ the apparent non-realization of our hopes ing of about 1,500 books and periodicals, tion, proposed to give us a presentation to bring books to the children ofSomotillo. was started by a nun six years ago. We on the activities of El Bloque. I was al­ We asked one of the El Bloque staff, Juan were surprised to see on the shelves a few ready familiar with them and was eager Benito Espinal, to go with part of our of the books we had intended for to see the library, but Sefior Calderon was group through the increasing rain and Somotillo. not to be hurried. Finally we had the big show us the local school. This he did. The library is the province of a ca­ moment of entering the library, with Escuela Felix Pedro Osorio is quite large, pable young woman named Maria Elena. an estimated total of a thousand books. occupying several modem buildings. We Children's books were in short supply, There were some surprises. It was good diffidently interrupted a teacher leading a and this library is much used; children to see a number ofbooks, including ency­ class, talked to her for a time, and were from a large primary school not far away, clopedias, that we had not sent. But there directed to the principal, Rosael Soriano which has no library, come here. We were very few of the hundreds of Martinez, who was open and welcoming. resolved to make substantial contributions children's books we had sent. We were Contact with U.S. Americans was not in the future. told that they had decided to pass them on new to him; among the posters on the to the schools in the comarcas, the neigh­ wall of his office was a drawing ofa New Ubros para Niiios boring small villages, and to a preschool England covered bridge, sent by a school few days later we had the opportu­ in town. in Bennington, Vermont, Somotillo's nity to visit the Managua offices of We unloaded the cartons of books we sister city. He also showed us a large ALibros para Nifios, an indigenous had brought, including a book ofEmesto child-authored book they had sent. Lan­ organization concerned with supplying Cardenal's poetry purchased in a super­ guage difficulties limited communica­ library books to Nicaraguan schoolchil­ market in Managua. (Managua supermar­ tions, but Rosael Soriano seemed to be dren. It is headed by Eduardo Baez, kets are too much like U.S. ones, catering telling us that he was unaware of the El son of Adolfo Baez. Adolfo was tortured to the haves, but they ·do have a few Bloque library. We encouraged him to and killed by Somoza' s Guardia Nacional redeeming features.) There was no sign have the school take advantage of it and for his part in the 1954 April Rebellion, of any of the townspeople using the li­ of the Libros para Nifios project (see be­ an event immortalized in Ernesto brary at the time, and we suspected that low). Cardenal's poem Hora Cero. Gracia Fay the children of the town seldom darkened Because of tight scheduling and the had read this, so meeting his son was a the door. We invited in a group of chil­ inconvenience ofhousing six visitors over­ little like meeting a man out ofa storybook. dren passing by and showed them some· night in the country, we returned to Like the father he venerates but never

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1996 9 knew, Eduardo Baez is dedicated to social Join Friends renewal, a Sandinista veteran now commit­ in searching ted to nonviolent methods. He and his together associates showed us the small, brightly­ for peace painted mobile book­ cases that they build testimonies and fill with books for participating schools. in the post The bookcases can be wheeled from class­ cold-war room to classroom, and teachers are given world ... a short training course in storytelling and en­ The Pendle Hill 1997 couragement of free reading. Eduardo also Quaker Peace went with us to the nearby town of Roundtable Mateare, where a pub­ lic library has been Plenary Speakers: built, and a gifted teacher held a room­ ful of children ab­ sorbed with her dra­ matic storyreading. Preparations were going forward in this town for a celebration of the 15th anniver­ sary of the Literacy A child reading in the Somotillo library Crusade, which was to be the week after our visit. Fernando and push in, with I 00 still outside. Lon Fendall, Sallie King, Emesto Cardenal, priests and the minis­ She got funding from friends in Eu­ distinguished leading scholar in ters respectively of education and culture rope and use of an old church-owned evangelical Quaker Buddhist-Christian under the Sandinistas, are both supporters building from a Jesuit priest in Managua. peace scholar: dialogue: "Engaged of Libros para Nifios. After extensive repairs and remodeling in "Can We Bring Buddhism," basis the building the new community seemed Christ-Centered and disciplines for Quincho Barrllete to be all set, but the wealthy parents of the Friends to the peace and justice. children in the church-run school next Peace Table? What we can learn. erhaps our most moving encounter was with the small commu­ door objected to the outcasts' presence, Pnity ofQuincho Barrilete in the hills and they had to mov~ut only after Martin Luther King, Jr. south of Managua. The community is the Zelinda told them what she thought of Holiday Weekend creation of an Italian woman named their Christianity. Zelinda Roccia, a former professor of At present there are four houses of Jan. 17-19, 1997 literature. She visited Nicaragua several these ex- street children. Quincho Barrilete Arch Street Meeting times during the 1980s and in 1991 carne is one of them, an Edenic farm (once a House in Philadelphia to stay and give her heart to the homeless coffee plantation) above the heat of children of Managua, many of them war Managua for 20 of the boys who have orphans who live by their wits and still shown responsibility. As we sat at an For More Information: their hunger pangs by sniffing glue. She outdoor table, an affable green parrot on Write: Pendle Hill Issues . approached thetn in the marketplaces the table dined elegantly on a slice of Program where they hang ·out, inviting them to green mango; one boy stood with his arm 338 Plush Mill Road meals. At first they pitched rocks at her, around Zelinda, who talked and gestured Wallingford, PA 19086 but after a time some found out that this with traditional Italian vivacity. We were Phone: 1 (800) 742-3150 incredibly good news was real. Some took told that the boys go to the local school longer to come around, she said, while (one or two proudly showed us their E-mail: [email protected] still others never did. She reported that by highly-graded papers); they do their chores and practice crafts and skills. They also ' the time she was feeding 20 of them, she could open the door and 70 more would have a swimming pool (really a large tank

10 November 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL of murky water) and enjoyed showing off tively welcomed. That is what both as they jumped in and splashed about. projects, with undiminished enthusiasm, Zelinda told us that swimming was good are doing. for their lungs, still damaged from glue­ During the trip we found ourselves sniffing. They have a common room and frequently moving between distress and a large bookcase, but only a handful of inspiration. Everywhere there are signs books; one boy was deeply immersed in a of the crushed hopes of the Revolution, book while others performed for us a bottomless need, rising cynicism and Valuable jazz-type dance they had learned. They crime, and commercialization. But there Resources showed definite talent. is also the lush beauty of the country and Zelinda remarked that when she began the beauty of bronze faces and glossy this work she did not believe in Provi­ black hair; there is the dogged work of dence, but now she does. Though hun­ those who refuse to despair: those who dreds and probably thousands of aban­ believe in themselves despite their life of doned children continue to suffer on scraps and rags; those with some resources Managua's streets, the way has opened who keep working to empower hundreds for her 200 reclaimed children. or scores ofpeople, though they had hoped It was clear that books sent here would to change the lives of millions. be more than welcome, that Zelinda would The pictures and knowledge we gained encourage their use. The boys especially from the trip are proving invaluable in like adventure stories and how-to craft planning for and promoting our library books. Since returning to the states we projects. We invite others to join us. Do­ have sent a set oflarge Disney storybooks Papers from the t::_ nations of Spanish books may be sent to Quaker Peace ll:.... as well as various other works for chil­ the Central America Committee, Orange Roundtable fil.::c-. dren and teens, including a book on mak­ ~= e- Grove Friends, c/o Friends House, 980 .,C>Io..O,.... ing paper airplanes. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103, or r... -"'~ -­ to Operation Bookshelf, 1828 Busch Reflections Court, Ft. Collins, CO 80525. Children's books of all sorts will be appreciated, but ne notable insight we gained during especially science books and books for for our visits was that most of the chil­ children of middle years and for teens. Modern dren responded eagerly to the idea O Donations of funds are also welcome and Friends of books and libraries; some adults were are tax deductible when made through also enthusiastic, while many others had the sponsoring meetings. Ifany individual from the Papers from the =..! no conception of the idea of a public Issues OuakerTheology -R or group is interested in beginning a li­ A=~= library and the enrichment it can bring. brary project of their own, we will be glad Program at __M ..:: ~ We have decided that at present it to send them photos and more informa­ Pendle Hill ...... _ makes sense to send our books to Fanny's tion about any of the above groups, or school, the Acahualinca center, and about other fledgling libraries. The Bible, The Church Quincho Barrilete, where they are ac- 0 & The Future of Friends Quaker Issues Roundtable 1996 A Continuing Journey Quaker Peace Roun.dtable 1995 New Voices • New Light Quaker Theological Roundtable 1995 Collections of provocative essays by Quaker thinkers $9.95 each or $7.50 each for orders of 3 or more To order call the Bookstore 1 (800) 7 42-3150 E-mail: [email protected] o r http://www.quaker.org

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FRIENDS JouRNAL November 1996 11 THANKING • OUR

by Anthony Manousos As Jesus was going into a village, ten 1\. men who had leprosy met him. They 's story of the ten lepers is a puzzling one. Why is it that one leper offered thanks stood at a distance and called out in a loud r; when he was cured, and the other nine did voice, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!" When not? Was it because the nine lepers were so excited by their healing that they simply forgot to give he saw them, he said, "Go, show yourselves to thanks? Many of us have had the experience of forgetting to thank someone in the midst of our the priests." And as they went, they were excitement. When our excitement dies down, how­ cleansed. One of them, when he saw he was ever, we usually remember to give thanks, espe­ cially if someone has saved us from a dreaded healed, came back, praising God in a loud disease. If you asked the ungrateful lepers why they voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and failed to thank Jesus, they would probably have given answers like these: thanked him-and he was a Samaritan. Jesus "Sure, this guy Jesus cured us, but so what? He's a prophet: healing is his job. Anyway, he's not a asked, "Were not all ten cleansed? Where are real prophet: our religious leaders say that he's the other nine? Was no one actually a magician in league with the devil. In any case, he's not one of us; he's spreading a lot of found to return and give questionable ideas about our religion. Besides, he hangs around with the wrong kind of people-tax praise to God except this collectors, foreigners, and even subversives like the foreigner?" Then he said to zealots. They say he wants to change society, create a revolution or something. If I go back to Jesus and him, "Rise and go; your offer thanks, people would get the wrong idea. They might think that I belong to his cult." faith has made This kind of thinking has not disappeared. We you well." frequently do not thank others for their help when we are suspicious of their motives or when we feel - Luke 17: they are not "one of us." Not to give thanks is 12- 19 sometimes a way of saying: "I don't accept your help, and I don't accept you." Withholding thanks can be the ultimate form of rejection. This kind of ingratitude can be incredibly pain­ ful. To paraphrase Shakespeare: "Sharper than a serpent's tooth is an ungrateful person." It is no accident that gratitude and grace are rendered in Spanish by the same word, gracias. To be truly ungrateful (and not simply forgetful) is to have fallen from grace and to have lost touch with God and your fellow human beings. How do we become ungrateful? Are we born that way, or is it a learned response? Anyone who observes children realizes that they may be born with selfish tendencies, but they are

Anthony Manousos worships with Whittier (Calif) First Friends Church. He is the newly appointed editor of Friends Bulletin.

12 November 1996 fRIENDS JOURNAL not born entirely ungrateful. Even though through the ritual of thanking people. It's gan reflecting, and as the Holy Spirit children have to be taught how to say called "being polite," and it usually pays opened our hearts, it became clear that we "thanks,'~ the word and the concept are off by procuring friends and respect. had to thank Reagan for all that he was usually not hard for them to grasp. Most Thanking our friends is usually easy. It's doing. So we wrote a gracious letter, gath­ children have no trouble recognizing that like giving oneself a pat on the back. ered as many signatures as we could, and they are dependent on others for the good When a friend does us a favor; we uncon­ sent it off to Reagan with our prayers. things oflife; nor is it hard for children to sciously assume that we actually deserve Thanking someone you dislike is hard express their pleasure and appreciation the favor: "I'm a nice person; that's why at first, but it's also liberating. You realize when they get what they want. This kind my friend was nice to me." Expressing that God works not only through "good of gratitude is so natural that even ani­ gratitude to a friend requires little effort people" (those who are "like us"), but mals feel and express it. Just give a cat a and produces little by way of spiritual also through those who do not seem good dish of food and watch the way that it growth. (those who dislike us or whom we dis­ rubs up against you and purrs. Isn't that a like). Being thankful even for our oppo­ eat's way of expressing thanks? hat's hard is thanking people nents is probably the surest sign that God's But something happens to children we don't like, those whom we grace is at work in our lives. when they turn into adolescents. They no Wlass as our enemies. Whenever The hardest test of one's faith is being longer like to think of themselves as de­ such a person does us a good turn, we are thankful to a difficult person who is close pendent on others; they pride themselves apt to look for ulterior motives: "Sure, he to home. Thanking a political leader you on being self-reliant. If a father drives his was nice to me, but he was just showing disagree with is easy compared with daughter to band practices, she is apt to off. He really hates my guts. His being thanking someone in your meeting or in reason: "Why should I thank him? Chauf­ nice didn't mean anything." No matter your immediate circle of friends who has feuring is Dad's job." If a coach spends what good turn our "enemy" does for us, treated you coldly. "How can I be thank­ hours after school or on weekends trying we find fault with the gift. ful?" you ask yourself. "I've been treated to whip the team into shape, the teenage It's possible of course that we are like dirt. How can I possibly affirm such a players are apt to think: "Hey, big deal, right-sometimes people do good deeds person without being a phony?" that's what a coach gets paid for." Teen­ for the wrong reasons-but how can we It isn't easy. In fact, it's probably im­ agers often equate ungraciousness with know for sure what's in another person's possible without divine help. To express being grownup, independent, and cool. heart? How can we judge another's mo­ thankfulness to one's antagonist, and to This kind of ingratitude is not mere tives? Isn't that God's job? When we mean it sincerely, one has to pray hard thoughtlessness; it is an act of rebellion. condemn the motives ofothers, aren't we and deeply. But grace (i.e., gratitude) It's also a sign of spiritual immaturity. also condemning ourselves? comes to everyone who is open to it. When teens are ungrateful, mature adults This carne home to me when I was When you express appreciation to those usually excuse this phenomenon by say­ involved in citizen diplomacy with the you disagree with, you are lifted above ing that they are "going through a phase." Soviet Union in the mid-1980s. At that personal likes and dislikes and beyond Unfortunately, some people never out­ time, Ronald Reagan was building up our feelings of self-interest and superiority. grow this phase. As a college professor, I arms stockpiles and talking about the "Evil You realize that G<;>d has placed each of have worked with economically disad­ Empire." It seemed very clear to progres­ us here for a reason, and that we owe each vantaged students, and I have worked sive people that our president was acting person a debt of gratitude. Acknowledg­ with those who are affluent; the former, I stupidly, if not wickedly. Having made a ing this, we enter into a state of grace, fmd, are usually much more grateful than commitment to peace, I felt very good which really means a state of uncondi­ the latter for help that is sincerely given. about myself and what I was doing. In tional thankfulness. What a joy that state Successful, middle-class people are often fact, I felt so good about myself and the of thankfulness is! prone to believe in the myth of individu­ uniqueness of my work that I was shocked alism: "I have worked hard for what I when Reagan went to Moscow and made he Gospel parable concludes with have achieved. I have no one to thank for peace overtures to Gorbachev in 1986. profound paradox. When the Sa­ my success but myself." Middle-class Not only that, Reagan gave Gorbachev a T maritan returns to offer his people often feel they deserve help and copy of the movie Friendly Persuasion humble thanks, Jesus turns the tables on are thus less ready to give thanks. and paid a glowing tribute to Friends! him and responds, "It is you who have It usually takes a serious illness or When I talked about this to Friends at healed yourself, through your faith." some tragedy to shake such people out of Pacific Yearly Meeting, they all seemed What an amazingly gracious turn­ their egotism and make them realize how incredulous. "A speech writer wrote this about! Thinking that his cure carne from dependent we human beings are on God tribute. Reagan didn't really mean it,'' an outside source, the Samaritan learns, and on each other. The mature person was a common reaction. Then it hit me: if through thankfulness, that healing actu­ understands that the most important things there is "that ofGod" in everybody, there ally comes from within. "Your faith has in life-love, good health, happiness­ must be "that ofGod" in Ronald Reagan. made you whole," Jesus assures him. Sud­ cannot be achieved through individual Not only that, at some level Reagan wants denly we realize that the ungrateful lepers effort alone. A truly fulfilled life is a gift, peace just as much as I do ~ Whether he were cured physically, but they were not not an achievement. Such gifts are meant wrote the words himself or not, Reagan healed, they were not made whole. By to be shared. paid us peacemakers a gracious compli­ being thankful, by humbly admitting our Sometimes thankfulness is a mere ment. We owed him our thanks. need for others and for God, we discover ritual, not a deeply felt understanding of When I proposed writing a "thank you" our Wholeness, and a new and abiding our human condition. As we get older and letter on behalf of Friends, I was initially source of strength is revealed to us: the acquire social skills, we learn how to go met with skepticism. But as Friends be- Christ Within, Who is our true Healer. Cl

FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1996 13 Parable by Francis D. Hole

t is as if the divine compan­ lieved of burdens (fear-anger­ ion (the Friend) were a turmoil weigh tons) and sup­ Imerchant who keeps a shop. plied with fresh peace (which The shop has no lock on the is like a many-colored balloon). door and no cash register. The So I just walked away. For counters are piled high with years and years I walked away goods that we all need. We may from the little shop ''just-for­ discover that besides this gen­ thee." I turned my back on it. I eral store (it is a big shop ... never considered what an in­ big enough to serve the entire sult that was to the Merchant­ human race), the Friend has a Friend. It took that long for me small shop for each of us, per­ to get the Divine message. To sonally. "I keep this one just make a long story short, the for thee!" whispers the Mer­ message was that the ''just-for­ chant-Friend in each person's me" shop was actually a ''just­ ear, if the person lends an ear for-us" shop, the "us" being for the in-whispering. the Friend and me. When I first came to the The third time that I sought Merchant's just-for-me shop, out the shop, I was heartened my arms were too full for me to to see it was still there, door get .in the door, not to mention wide open, counters piled high to pick up free goods from the with goods that people need­ counters. On that day I was that I need-and the Merchant­ loaded with fears and accom­ Friend, standing radiant, ready panying anger and turmoil, all to give eternal goods to me. I of which I hid under a nice~ was embarrassed, then abso­ looking gray (Quaker-gray) lutely swept in by a rush of sheet. I wanted any passersby love. My fears lost all their to think of me as a nice person power, and so did my anger carrying something well and my turmoil. I laid them wrapped to some proper desti­ down and used them for step­ nation. The expression on my face would ting new supplies in those days. Since ping stones. I turned the gray sheet inside have given me away, if anybody had no­ nobody else was about, I made bold to out, and it became a rainbow-colored cape ticed. I was not happy. call out to the Divine Merchant: "Please upon my shoulder, as I entered easily into The second time that I sought out the come take my fear-anger-turmoil burden the ''just-for-us" shop. The Friend filled little ''just-for-me" shop, nobody was from me. And please replace it with a pile my arms with a supply not only of peace around . . . nobody but me outside the of fresh peace from the front counter." but also of strength. shop and the Merchant-Friend inside the The Friend stepped out lightly and "What else have you got?" I asked as I shop, waiting to give me goods. I was still kissed me on both cheeks and my fore­ turned to go. carrying a neatly covered fear-anger­ head. "Our shop does not provide "Well," said the Friend: "We've got turmoil stack, so I could not wedge my dumpster service. As soon as thee man­ plenty ofwhatever is true, honorable, just, way into the little just-for-me shop, and I ages to dispose of the burden that thee pure, lovely, gracious, excellent, and wor­ couldn't have accepted any goods from staggers about with, do come in and get as thy of praise. Think about these things!" the Merchant even if I had squeezed in. much fresh peace as thee can carry!" In I plan to return to the little "shop-just­ My fear-anger-turmoil stack was not the next moment, the Merchant was back for-us" daily. I might even like to take up yesterday's stuff. It was fresh. I kept get- in the shop, tending the goods that we all residence there. The chief good that I need. wish now is the Merchant-Friend. Just Francis Hole has been a member ofMadison I felt insulted. "What kind of Friend is being in that Presence is so fme! It is (Wis.) Meeting since 1938. He is a retired that!?" I asked myself. "That Merchant beyond all the goods piled high. I love to professor of soil science. won't help me out when I ask to be re- feel where good comes from. [J

14 November 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL book is hard, because you are 'giving yourself away.' But if you love, you want New Scriptures to give yourself." It was her experience of a fulfilling by Marcelle Martin love with her common-law husband and the joy oftheir daughter's birth that moved Dorothy Day, until then a secularly ori­ That all may know the fication process, during which he was ented social radical, to tum to God with shown that within him were the seeds of gratitude and praise, thereby reorienting 1 dealings of the Lord all evils in the world. In his early years of her entire life. In contrast, many spiritual with me, and the various seeking God, he was "brought through autobiographies, including George Fox's, the very ocean of darkness and death, and reveal that the point when an individual exercises, trials, and through the power and over the power of turns away from worldly values to focus troubles through which he Satan," into what he testified was "the increasingly on the Divine often comes same power and Spirit that the prophets after a painful recognition of something led me in order to and apostles were in" and a sinless state. very wrong in themselves or in the Divine Light, Truth, and transforming surrounding culture, or both. Dan prepare andfit me for the power were manifested through Fox's tire­ Wakefield's recent spiritual autobiogra­ work unto which he had less ministry in subsequent decades. Thus, phy, Returning, opens with a vivid de­ by the time he began his autobiography, it scription of a crisis when he was over­ appointed me, and may was evident that all his trials and troubles whelmed by the destructiveness of his thereby be drawn to had served as preparation for his later worldly ways: work. · admire and glorify his One balmy spring morning in Hollywood, a Those who write their spiritual autobi­ month or so before my 48th birthday, I woke infinite wisdom and ographies at an earlier stage in their lives, up screaming. I got out of bed, went into the however, or whose life's work is not so next room, sat down on a couch, and screamed goodness, I think fit striking, may write in order to understand again. (before I proceed to set for themselves the workings of God in their lives. I began keeping a journal as a The crisis in which he found himself forth my public travels in young child, but since my early 30s have gradually forced him to tum away from the service of Truth), been feeling and responding to inner his former ways ofliving and return to the promptings to record the story of my life spirituality he had abandoned in child­ briefly to mention how it in a different way, focusing especially on hood. Part of this process involved taking the inner and spiritual dimensions of my a course offered at his new church in was with me in my youth, experience. Some of the chief results of "religious autobiography." Remembering, and how the work of the that work have been to see more clearly sharing, and writing about memories con­ the shaping hand ofGod in my life, gradu­ nected to his sense and experience ofGod Lord was begun and ally to comprehend more of my life's gave him a new way to see his life. Writ­ gradually carried on in purpose, and to have an ever clearer sense ing this religious autobiography enabled of where I am being led. I can therefore him, he says, "to discern the spiritual di­ me, even from my echo the words of Dorothy Day from the rection of my own 'wandering path.' " childhood. opening of her autobiography, The Long Returning grew from this, and he began Loneliness: "I can write only of myself, to teach the process to others. His subse­ what I know ofmyself, and I pray with St. quent book, The Story of Your Life: Writ­ hus begins the autobiography of Augustine, 'Lord, that I may know my­ ing a Spiritual Autobiography, is now a George Fox, called his journal, which self, in order to know Thee.' " guide for many who wish to use writing he began dictating in 1674 or 1675, I am not motivated to write of my life to see the shape of their spiritual develop­ T ment and connect more consciously to more than 20 years after he proclaimed merely to receive personal illumination, the year of the Lord to a multitude from a however. Like so many writers of spiri­ the Divine. Wakefield insists that a clear rock on Firbank Fell. By the time Fox tual autobiography, I, too, hope through concept or belief in God is not necessary: started composing his life story, it was written accounts of my life to testify to Anyone who feels the awareness of[the] uni­ evident what work God had prepared him the reality and power of God, that others versal force in their life can write a spiritual to undertake. During the difficult years of might be helped to know the divine Pres­ autobiography. A person who feels no such his early seeking he suffered periods of ence and be transformed. The opening awareness but wants to discover it, or to find a tremendous unhappiness and temptation lines of John Woolman's journal tell that meaning in the absence of it, could write to despair and underwent a difficult puri- it was love that motivated him to write an about that search: this would also be spiritual account ofhis spiritual experience: "I have autobiography. Marcelle Martin has led "Writing a Spiritual often felt a motion of love to leave some Wakefield's recent books are not the Autobiography" at the Friends General Con­ hints in writing of my experience of the only useful guides available to those wish­ ference Gathering and at Newtown Square goodness of God." Dorothy Day speaks ing to write a spiritual autobiography. (Pa.) Meeting, where she is a member. of the same loving impulse: "Writing a The Intensive Journal Process, developed

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1996 15 in the 1960s and Progoff developed the Intensive Jour­ addition to George Fox's journal, those '70s by Ira Progoff, nal method not only to help people con­ that have had the most profound impact a proponent ofdepth tact their deep psychological and spiritual on me include Carl Jung's Memories, psychology who resources for individual integration, but Dreams, Reflections; Grace and Grit by studied with Jung, also to encourage the process whereby Ken Wilber; Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and provides a system­ holy s'criptures ofand for our time may be Work in Her Own Words; and The Auto­ atic method of recalling all the important created by the collective testimony of nu­ biography of a Yogi by Paramahansa elements and experiences of one's life in merous lives, as a valuable addition to the Yogananda. I look forward to reading a way that evokes wholeness and con­ sacred scriptures of the past. Early Quak­ many more, including classic autobiogra­ nects individuals with the spiritual nature ers, who kept spiritual journals and auto­ phies of Christian mystics. and purpose of their lives. biographies in great numbers, may have The patterns of the spiritual life that After World War II, Progoff was been prompted, in part, by a similar moti­ are revealed by reading Scripture and spiri­ haunted by the· Nazi burning of sacred vation in co1p0rately testifYing to the work tual autobiographies can help us under­ books. He often lay awake wondering of God as manifested in their lives and stand the deep inner purpose of many of what would happen ifall the scriptures of times. our experiences and help us to accept the world were destroyed. One night he I have been helped in the ongoing pro­ more fully the joys and challenges of the heard a voice, speaking in everyday tones, cess of writing my spiritual autobiogra­ spiritual journey. Reading how the Di­ that answered his question: "We would, phy by workshops in the lntensive Jour­ vine has manifested intimately in the daily the voice said, simply draw new spiritual nal Process and by Progofrs wonderful lives of numerous individuals gives me scriptures from the same great source out book, At A Journal Workshop; by Life's glimpses of how humanity is being col­ ofwhich the old ones came." His opening Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiri­ lectively shaped by God in ways proph­ is much like the one George Fox received tual Quest by Christina Baldwin; and by esied in the Hebrew and Christian Scrip­ that became a guiding principle for many other courses and books on using tures, scriptural promises that the first Friends, namely, the understanding that writing to tap into the deep springs of Quakers recognized as being fulfilled in each can come into the same power and inner and spiritual experience. their day through their direct experience Spirit that the prophets and apostles were I have learned that direct experience of being taught and led by God and Christ: in when they wrote the Scriptures. The of the Divine cannot happen just through I will put my law within them and write it on answer Progoff received to his question the thinking process; my mystical experi­ their hearts. I will be their God, and they will led to further inquiry and insight: ences have engaged not just my head but be my people. None of them will have to also my heart and my whole being. I am teach his fellow countryman to know the Lord, If mankind has the power to draw additional interested in Truth as it is revealed to, and because all will know me, from the least to the spiritual scriptures out of the depth of itself, experienced by, actual people in the con­ greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no why do we have to wait for a tyrant to bum text of their lives. I know God primarily longer remember their wrongs. [Jer. 3 1:33- our Bibles before we let ourselves create fur. 34] ther expressions of the spirit? . . . It may through my own direct experience, and indeed be that the creation of multiple spiri­ secondarily through the lived experiences Though I love to read the spiritual tual scriptures, and especially the extension of others, shared personally or in writing, stories of others, both in scriptures and in of old scriptures, is an event that needs to including the Scriptures. biographies, I repeatedly feel called to happen in our time as part ofthe further quali­ I have read dozens of moving and turn away from books to read what God tative evolution of our species. instructive spiritual autobiographies. In has written in my own heart. This process feels lonely and painful at times. It takes time and patience. Ultimately it requires facing everything I have been; even more On PaYing ADention frightening, it requires me to awaken to what I am called to become. by Amy Runge Gaffuey ln the particulars, if not in the larger The disciplines writers practice quandaries from which there seems to patterns, our lives are unique, and we are I ~re mostly internal and self­ be no escape. ln this way, a writer's each uniquely called. Writing the story of imposed. Perhaps the most challeng­ discipline can be personally challeng­ our spiritual experience, in journal or au­ ing is that of paying attention. Paying ing. The alternative to paying atten­ tobiography, can help us to discern that attention to what is truly going on tion to life's realities-and ambigu­ call, step by step. Many of the most im­ around and within us takes effort. ities-is an endless number of small portant experiences in our lives are like The "bug under the rug" is that the deaths: of experiences gone unrecog­ time-release capsules. When they hap­ discipline of paying attention will in­ nized and unappreciated; of missed pen, we learn from them in·a certain way, evitably push us at times to realiza­ opportunities to experience the world, but often their transforming energy is not tions that are difficult or painful. Some to learn and grow. Lifeless writing is released all at once but gradually, bit by will require us to take actions we'd a result as well. Closing our eyes and bit, as we become ready to integrate the rather not take; others will place us in our hearts to the truth of our experi­ transformation they activated. When we stop to reflect on our experiences at inter­ Amy Runge Gaffney is a member ofChico ence reduces our observations to pap. (Calif.) Meeting. D vals later in our lives, as we do when Continued on page 18

16 November 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL tant as successes. Nor do we In the Silence mean significant in other people's terms; learning to by Vic Kryston blow bubbles with bubble gum was a significant mo­ speak out of the silence. About ment to me, but perhaps not I 20 of us have gathered at Goose to anyone else at the work­ Creek (Va.) Meetinghouse one fall shop. All of our lives have morning, not for meeting for worship both high and low points, but for a workshop in Ira Pro goff's and it is a good thing to look Intensive Journal. I tell those gathered back over these highlights the general idea behind the structure to catch the rhythm oflife. of the Intensive Journal. Unlike tradi­ We list quickly, allowing tional journaling, the Intensive Jour­ only a phrase or two to sum nal is a structure that presents exer­ up these moments. The cises designed to have us look at our somewhat arbitrary goal and lives in fresh and affirming ways. I limit of 12 Stepping-stones explain that we should work toward are enough to give us a sense making our writing as free, open, hon- ~ ofour life's movements, but est, and spontaneous as possible, and ~ few enough to cause us to not to be concerned with issues of ~ make some forced choices. grammar or rhetoric; we are here to ~ The connections become witness our thoughts, not to judge .5- more and more clear as we them. We will write knowing that no ~ work to re-enter those times. one else will ever read our journals Q':; Each Steppingstone event without our permission. carries with it an embedded We look at the journal book itself. time in my life when ... ," and we write, collection of memories, ideas, feel­ It is a three-ring, loose-leaf binder, an the silence broken only by the soft whis­ ings, and the like. We write to re­ easy device to add future writings. pers of pens marking our lives across member as much of them as we can. The book comes equipped with 21 journal paper. This writing will act as an And as we write we find we are color-coded dividers that mark offpar­ anchor, a place to which all of the other flooded with details and observations ticular kinds of writings. All of our work we do this weekend will connect. of those distant moments, discover­ work is dated, this so we may return Writing the Period Log is a fairly ing, perhaps, that making those in future years and read what we have straightforward description, but a straight­ choices, or having choices made for written on any given day: an invalu­ forward description is not the only way to us, resemble in no small way the pro­ able aid to discovering all of the move­ account for what we experience. In doing cess we experience making choices in ments in our lives. On the cover is a this kind of journaling it is important to our lives today. circle surrounding a center point from honor a deeper, more symbolic way of After the workshop, having learned which-or is it to which?-radiate a thinking. And so we sit in the silence, the process, people will write what­ full supply oflines. Or rays? Or direc­ witnessing the random images that come ever exercises to which they feel tions? to us all day long. Ephemeral glimpses of drawn. But in the workshop there is a In my training to become an Inten­ images that seem too meaningless, too structure. During the closing exercises sive Journal consultant, I learned to irrelevant, to be of any use. When we are we look at the structure and what has end each set of directions with the asleep, we call these images "dreams." happened to us individually: our his­ phrase, "in the silence." Everyone is When we are in an Intensive Journal tories, our relationships, our inner and delighted by how particularly fitting a Workshop, we call them "Twilight Im­ outer lives. phrase this is given our location. I'm ages." Come to find out, the images that We review what we have written, sure George Fox would approve. present themselves are another way of making notes to ourselves about what In the Period Log we describe our thinking about the concerns we describe might be written next. And then, we own particular present moment. What in the Period Log. I notice more and look at ourselves standing on the edge is happening in our lives now? Who more heads nod as people begin to see of a present moment, making written are the people, the projects, the feel­ how their own connections play out. testament about where we've been ings, the activities that fill our lives at Who we are today is formed by what and where we are going. a this time in ourjourney? I suggest as a we've experienced before. We list 12 or way to begin the words, "Now is a so "significant" events in our lives that come to us from the silence. "Significant" Vic Kryston is a member ofGoose Creek is meant to be a neutral term; it is neither (Va.) Meeting. good nor bad. Failures are equally impor-

FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1996 17 writing our autobi­ Guide, we will all be led to play our given ing inward deeply enough to be truly ography, we learn roles in blessing others. The act ofchang­ purified; maybe we are not reading the from them in new ing the world must come as a conse­ law that is written on our hearts; maybe ways. quence ofour inner change and as a mani­ we have not digested our own spiritual Some may fear festation of God's intention; it must not experiences well enough to make a trans­ that writing a spiri­ merely be an acting out of our own agen­ forming testimony; maybe we don't know tual autobiography is not time well spent. das, however lofty. As John Woolman the Divine as intimately as we are invited Though we can indeed become self-in­ explained, while discussing how he was to do; and maybe we are not surrendering dulgent when writing about ourselves, taught to become a "channel of the true to the Light, individually and collectively, ultimately recounting and understanding gospel ministry": · sufficiently to become channels of the the story of our inner development is not From an inward purifying and steadfast abid­ true gospel ministry, as John Woolman solipsistic work, for if we go deeply ing under [the pure Spirit], springs a lively was. To become the agents for the Spirit's enough within, we discover our intimate operative desire for the good of others. All transformation of human culture that we connections with all creation and with faithful people are not called to public minis­ aspire to be, we must become highly sen­ creation's Source. Doing so leads us into try, but whoever are, are called to minister of sitive to the operations of the Light within more profound spiritual experience and that which they have tasted and handled spiri­ us, that it might flow through us without understanding, and ultimately takes us tually. impediment. Keeping a journal of one's out into the world to share our transfor­ If Friends are not having the trans­ inner life and writing a spiritual autobiog­ mation. If Friends tum inward intensively forming effect in the world that we once raphy can be powerful ways to open one­ enough to contact and clearly hear the did, perhaps it is because we are not go- self to the movement of the Spirit. Cl

I run courses offering them space to set one musing and exploring in writ­ Buttoned explore aspects of their professional selves ing. A pile of buttons, laid out on the and whatever aspects of their private floor and played with by group (an in­ by Gillie Bolton selves seem appropriate. The medium we service training day school at Leeds use for these explorations is a powerful University), made one woman remem- pening the button box can be tak­ and sensitive therapeutic ber her first pair ofjeans­ 0ing the lid off a Box of Delights. tool that, having practiced, bought by herself aged 13. No one has button boxes these days, they can use with their cli­ veryone We had begun with group I'm told: worn clothes are thrown ents or patients. comes members each choosing a away. I have two. One contains prac­ We write together. We E set of buttons for a partner. tical all-sorts and lives near needles listen intently, laugh, and thinking We were all strangers to and cottons. cry at each other's stories. each other, so this became The other button tiri is kept with Everyone comes thinking only a delicate and delightful sort my work equipment, alongside shells, only writers or academics writers or of introduction. skulls, birds' nests, and so on (if you or very clever people can Many of us wrote about can imagine what such a so on could write. They go home academics childhood clothes. One man be). Its use is to create magical jour­ clutching a new knowledge or very . explored feelings of being neys: whether out into fictions of who to themselves: they can buttoned in, buttoned up in could possibly have worn such outra­ write vivid accounts. These clever his work.. Another woman geous glittery things; or inwards, per­ stories have not only cre­ people can wrote about the ·way but­ haps towards memories of the clothes ated intense interest and re­ tons connect two halves to­ mother made. sponse for the rest of the write. They gether temporarily, as in sex My work is with all kinds ofdiffer­ group, but have opened up and love. ent people. Some are groups of unem­ fresh avenues of thinking go home A button box could be a ployed people at one ofthe residential and feeling, fresh experi­ clutching a Pandora's Box, offering colleges. Most of them, however, are ences. images to one of my health professionals who expend en­ Writing about things new group's patients for the ex­ ergy, time, and love caring for other helps sort them out; it gen­ knowledge. ploration in writing of oth­ people. They have little time and al­ tly pushes understandings erwise impossible memo- most no encouragement to reflect pro­ deeper; it creates fresh ries or fears. Oddly enough, ductively on the sometimes painful, angles and insights; it is pri- for a female-associated and sometimes elating, aspects of their vate-no one need read it, ever; it can be feminine-shaped object, the word but­ work. burnt along with the angry or fearful feel­ ton derives from one meaning strike Gillie Bolton is a member ofBalby (Brit­ ing; it can still be there the next day in the or thrust. I certainly fmd they have a ain) Meeting and the author of several same form to be extended, drawn upon, swprising impact. Cl adult religious education resources for reconsidered, perhaps opinions reversed. Reprinted with permission from The Britain Yearly Meeting. And buttons? Many, many things can Friend.

18 November 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL really mattered to me, it became entangled with my second enemy, ego. AThrough Line I have said that journalistic writing came easily to me. That was both a bless­ by Nancy Wick ing and a curse. The blessing is obvious; the curse came about because newspaper editors are busy, harried people. They was 16 the first time it happened. A mean to imply that my first pieces of tend to pay attention to that which de­ junior in high school, I was a walk-on writing were of professional quality; mands attention and to slough off that I for the newspaper staff, with abso­ rather, I was like the person who has which doesn't. They knew and I knew lutely no experience in journalism. I 'got perfect pitch but still needs to train his or that I could write an acceptable story with my first assignment, did the interview, her voice. I just had this strong feeling: I minimal editing, so I did, and they let me and boom, I found myself doing some­ know how to do this. When my first story do it. Over time I began to feel that I thing I knew how to do, even though I'd was published with minimal changes, I didn't need editing, so in the years when I never done it before. was affirmed in that belief. So why­ should have been seeking out feedback Fast forward ten years. I was unem­ after begging my parents to send me to and working to improve, I was turning ployed and reading what was then a new the University of Missouri, one of the out story after story on my own. book, What Color is Your Parachute? finest journalism schools in the country­ The results were predictable. I got bet­ The exercises made it clear that whatever did I not major in journalism? ter and better at doing the same things, I did next, it had to include writing. A The answer is fear, which has been but I didn't grow much. One might have year later I was in the newsroom of the enemy number one. At said I was arrogant, but local newspaper, feeling unmistakably at Missouri, one spends two that wouldn't have been home, even though I'd never been in a years in the liberal arts true. I was fearful and so city newsroom before. before entering the jour­ TITriting personally invested in my Ten more years went by, and I was in a nalism school. I did my VVjust writing that I couldn't dis­ new city with no job and no money. I told two years, was accepted tinguish editing that myself I would take anything that paid to j-school, then changed wouldn't go would help me from a per­ the rent, but I was lucky. The local uni­ my mind and my major away. I tried to sonal attack. In my own versity wanted me to help produce its at the last minute. I told defense, I also lacked a faculty/staff newspaper. I wrote my first myself it was because I leave the field mentor. From the time I story and felt that feeling again: at home, loved theater (which I several times, joined the newspaper at my center. did) and wanted to spend staff, I was steadfastly un­ Another decade takes me up to last more time on it, but the but I always interested in the attention­ year. My friend Tom, who edits an alumni truth was, I was terrified. returned. When getting beats: city govern­ magazine, called me and begged me to do What was I afraid of? ment, the courts, social a last-minute assignment. It was a histori­ Strange as it sounds, I opportunities services. I knew myself cal story, like nothing I'd ever done be­ think I was afraid to be are repeatedly to be a feature writer, and fore, but as I sat in the library poring over myself. I had the "Who as such I attracted little the personal papers of my subject, I felt am I?" problem: Who am thrown at your attention from the hard­ the excitement, the feeling of''yes, this is I to think I can succeed at feet, you can be nosed newsmen who ran just where I'm supposed to be." the best journalism my paper. It sounds like a through line, and in school in the country? sure spirit has After all, these "soft" one sense it is. Viewed all at once, there is Who am I to think I can stories didn't really mat­ no mistaking the promptings of the spirit: go around asking impor­ a hand in it. ter. It was then that my I am led to write. It's that simple. But tant people questions and third enemy, guilt, began being human, I have made it complex. I getting answers? to enter the picture. have delayed it with my fear. I have con­ And the real kicker: Who am I to think Whenever I thought seriously about what founded it with my ego. And I have con­ my writing is good enough? In high school I was doing, I couldn't help questioning fused it with my guilt. Fortunately, spirit I had been a big fish in a little pond; at it. Not only were attacks on "the media" is stronger than I am. I always come back Missouri, I was just one of many talented everywhere, but since I wasn't writing home. writers. I was in awe of the others; I was the sort of thing that would, say, bring My first stirrings, back in high school, jealous of them. I was afraid to join the down a president, I had to ask myself, were like being touched by magic. To race for fear a loss would hurt too much. "What good do I do in the world?" Writ­ discover something you can do well al­ But as I said, the promptings of the ing a nice feature on the newly started most without effort is exhilarating. I don't spirit are strong. Five years after graduat­ ballet troupe or the theater production ing from college, I was back in journal­ opening next week was all very well, but Nancy Wick lives in Seattle, Wash., where she ism, having convinced the local newspa­ in the grand scheme of things it was mean­ is a member ofSalmon Bay Meeting. Her life per editor to give me a chance on the ingless. Why, then, did my writing mat­ can be summarized in the inscription on a strength of clips from my student news­ ter? Why give so much energy to making sweatshirt she sometimes wears: "Writing is papers. I didn't lose my fear though, and it better? Why strive to overcome my fear, a life sentence. " now that I had dared to work at a job that put my ego on the line? But if I didn't,

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1996 19 how could I go on collaborated with another member of my the following things have happened: with my life? There meeting to form a group called Leadings. • I presented an academic paper to a con­ would then be no The group, which is still meeting, sup­ ference, and the paper was accepted for pmpose. ports its members as they follow their publication. . There is only one leadings. • I won eight writing awards. answer to all these Then there was The Artist's Way. Julia • I got the prospectus for my dissertation questions. I can't say I found it in a blind­ Cameron's book helped me to see myself approved and began the dissertation. ing flash of light; rather, it came to me as an artist-a writer instead of a daily • I acquired an accomplished editor with gradually, in a series of events. hack. I adopted the practice she recom­ whom I am working to develop a longer, First, there were books. There was mended of doing morning pages- three more literary piece. Barbara Sher's Teamworks, a book that pages of longhand writing first thing in How did all this happen? It would be argues people need a team of supportive the morning. The purpose is to dump incorrect to say I have defeated my en­ friends if they are to achieve their goals. everything onto the page, to clear the emies. These are enemies that do not die. Most people fail not because they are lazy worries and fears away so as to make Let us say I have learned to dance with or unmotivated, Sher says, but because room for creativity. my enemies. More important, I have they need others to help them and cheer In the 18 months I have done morning learned that I do not fight alone. them on. Shortly after reading this book, I pages and attended the Leadings group, If I could sum up Barbara Sher's mes-

step into the same rivers; we are and Mv Most Appreciative Audience are not." As it happens, I have excellent rea­ by Robert Kunkel son to believe that my collaborator knew virtually nothing about n 1818 the Chief Justice of Ceylon I wrote this poem, or a draft of it, some Heraclitus when he placed his unfm­ Iwrote that the Governor spent his years ago while staying in a house by the ished poem in my desk drawer. How­ time "writing himself to death about Neuse River in North Carolina. The Neuse ever, his title for the poem, "River," every trifle and nonsense that entered is there a tidal river, a variable mix of salt although apt enough in its own right, his brain." I know the temptation. and fresh water, and very wide. On the suggests to me that he may have been I write a great deal, taking pleasure rainy afternoon I wrote the poem I had a thinking, if only half-consciously, of in the act of composition even when fever and sat quietly for several hours by the saying, "You can't set foot in the my words are unlikely to be read by a window staring at the river, the rain, and same river twice." Anyway, it's evi­ anyone other than myself. In fact, nar­ the mist. dent to me that he was thinking about cissistic as it may sound, one of my When I couldn't get the poem to come the mutability of the world we live in. keener pleasures is to find amuse­ out right I soon gave up on it. When I It turns out, though (look at that last ment or edification in words that I came upon it recently, though, it seemed fragment again), that what Heraclitus myself once wrote and have since obvious what needed to be done to it. I may have been thinking is not that forgotten. "How nice," I think, ''to ruthlessly lopped off an additional two rivers change, but that we change. Or rediscover a half-forgotten author with and a half stanzas that had gone nowhere, maybe, that we and the world are a mind so like my own." made a few minor changes in what re­ changing simultaneously. I recently found a poem in a drawer mained, and came up with a new title. I We long for permanence. "Oh thou where I tend to "flle" things that I am also came to see clearly for the first time who changest not, abide in me." And not yet ready to throw away. what the poem was really about. That, of to some extent we get it; when I read All Things Stream Away course, might mean that I decided what I something I wrote and have forgot­ wanted it to be about now, but I prefer to ten, I am pleased to flnd someone The rain that taps the roof think that to some extent I discovered who so much resembles myself, and I And murmurs in the spouts what my half-forgotten collaborator actu­ fancy that this erstwhile "me" would Falls softly on the Neuse, ally had in mind, five or six years back, be glad to know how much I appreci­ Whose further shore, aloof, although he himself didn't realize it. ate him. But I also note our differ­ Hides in a veil of mist. My new title, "All Things Stream ences. That half-forgotten writer knew The tide turning, the day Away," is a loose translation of a saying . things I don't, and I know things he Ending, the river blending, attributed by Plato to the pre-Socratic phi­ didn't; sometimes I like him very much, and sometimes he makes me Somewhere, with the bay, losopher Heraclitus, "All things flow; nothing abides," which Plato couples with wince. And I see that he lived in a All things dissolve, sway, another supposed saying of Heraclitus, world that both resembles and does Ebb, flow-world without end. "You can't set foot in the same river not resemble the one in which I fmd Robert Kunkel is a member ofChapel Hill twice." Similarly, in what may or may not myself today. 0 (N.C.) Meeting and the FRIENDS JoURNAL be an authentic fragment of Heraclitus' Board of Managers. lost book, we fmd, "We step and do not

20 November 1996 FRIENDS JouRNAL sage in one sentence, this would be it: return I tried to pull the threads together, "Isolation is the dream killer, not your find the through line, write it like the bad attitude." This is a sentence she re­ drama it was. Very often I would receive nI~ ~~,e~~~ peats like a mantra, and I think of it often thanks from the subject after it was pub­ • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. as I work to overcome fear. I had been lished, saying something like "I can't be­ writing professionally for 20 years before lieve you took my disjointed ramblings • 42 apartments for independent living, I entered the Leadings group, but I had and made something interesting out of 60 private personal care rooms, 120 never won an award for my work. Some it." I was proud of these stories, felt at­ nursing home beds. years I would send off one entry I ago­ tached to them. Yet I kept thinking, "What • Peace of mind. Supportive medical nized over and not win anything; other good is this? So I make my subjects and and social services throughout your years I didn't enter at all. I also had been a their friends happy for a little while-so stay. graduate student for several years, but what?" had never submitted a paper to a profes­ Then came the day 1 was assigned to • An active lifestyle in a beautiful, sional conference. In both cases there do a profile of a man who had run a graceful setting. was the fear of not being good enough, university press for many years. I was on • Meals, housekeeping, transportation, the inability to put the ego on the line. a tight deadline. I was interviewing him cultural and social activities. With the group's encouragement, I Thursday afternoon, then had Friday and began to take risks. I went to a colleague Monday morning to write it. He was leav­ • A history of caring since 1904. to get help picking entries for two differ­ ing town Tuesday morning, and I needed ent contests; I went to a fellow graduate to show him the copy before he left. He Stapeley In Germantown student to seek advice on the paper I rambled. I thought as I sat there making 6300 Greene Street wanted to submit. When it was time for notes and watching my tape recorder turn, Philadelphia, PA 19144 the presentation, I practiced-with my "How am I ever going to make something Call Carol Nemeroff Leadings group and with a graduate col­ out of this?" Admissions Director league. The presentation went so well The interview concluded, I went home (215) 844-0700 that the chair of my panel invited me to and forgot about it. Or I thought I did. The submit it to a publication; a number of my following morning as I stood in the contest entries won. shower, the lead carne to me. I wrote it Guilt was a more difficult, though less down quickly. When I got to work, I obvious, opponent. Fear and ego kept me transferred what I had written into the Coming to D.C.? from putting what I had done out into the computer and kept on going . . . and Stay with Friends on Capitol Hill world; guilt would discourage me from going. By the time I went to lunch I'd doing anything to begin with. After all, finished what looked like half a story. why do it? It's just another feature story The rest came just as easily Monday morn­ WILLIAM PENN HOUSE in a publication that will be thrown away ing. I read it, polished it, and faxed it off 515 East Capitol St. SE tomorrow. It didn't help that over the to my subject. He loved it. It had been Washington, DC 20003 course of my career I had developed a easy, almost like taking dictation. My speciality in the personal profile. When I hands were on the keys, but the words Individuals, Families and Groups could have been writing about important came from somewhere else. If someone $25 to $40 issues that affected people's lives, I was had asked me where I got the idea to tell Seminars on Current Issues writing about people's lives-ordinary the story in that particular way, I wouldn't people's lives. have had an answer. for Schools, Colleges, and Meetings It all started when I was on the arts Did that mean it wasn't me doing the (202)543-5560 beat and was frequently called upon to writing? Did that mean I was just a ste­ [email protected] write about individual artists ofall kinds­ nographer for the great writer in the sky? visual artists, dancers, actors, directors, If so, why did I feel most myself when I musicians. In each case, we talked about was doing this? I thought of my profile what they did, but we also talked about subjects, ofthe thing that had always struck how they had come to do that thing. I was me about people's lives. It was the flukes, Friends' fascinated. I began seizing upon any pre­ the seemingly random events that led them C E N T R A L text to ask people about their lives beyond to do what they did. The press director I For over ISO years ... the specific assignment I'd been given. had just talked to had been heading to Each time there was a characteristic reac­ Harvard for a graduate degree in Ameri­ • Excellence in academics tion. The person would stop, smprised, can studies when he was offered a year's • Respect for the individual look at me with a smile, and begin to tell internship in scholarly publishing. "I'll • Community service the story. I learned that if I just acted do this for a year," he thought. ''Then I'll • A diverse student body interested and listened, people would tell go to graduate school." Of course he • Outstanding college me almost anything-even private things never got there. Spirit had other ideas for placement they rarely spoke of. him. I thought of my own life, of how I'd Friends' Central School I didn't have to fake my interest. I felt joined the high school newspaper staff ( 61 0) 649-7 440 ext. 208 privileged to receive a person's story. In "on a whim." I thought of how I'd shrunk

FRJENDS JOURNAL November 1996 2 1 from the challenge an ability had to be a gift of the spirit; my of the way and hook up to something of a journalism ma­ obligation was to use it and develop it to greater. My best work, in other words, jor, only to end up the fullest extent possible. Second, when­ comes through me and not from me. It working for a news­ ever I was doing this writing I felt at belongs to my Self but not to my self. paper. home, at my center. How could such a I would be lying if I said I was able to I thought of how feeling lead me astray? And third, writing do this with everything I write. I am still I'd left the newspaper and moved to an­ just wouldn't go away. I tried to leave the dancing with my enemies just as often as other city believing I would do something field several times, but I always returned. I leave them behind to be the wallflowers else for a living. But within two years I When such opportunities are repeatedly they deserve to be. But with every in­ was back at it. Were these really flukes? thrown at your feet, you can be sure spirit stance of letting go, of letting the words Mightn't they instead be nudgings from has a hand in it. come through me, I experience a free­ spirit, hints about where I was "supposed" So it seems my writing is a leading, but dom. My ego is not on the line so there is to be? I began to think that just as I had to go back to my earlier questions, is it nothing to be afraid o£ And how could I three enemies, so too, did I have three really my writing? The answer, I have feel guilty when spirit is my partner? I friends-three reassurances that I am fol­ finally decided, is yes and no. At its best, still have no idea what good there is in lowing a true leading. my writing is the most authentic expres­ writing the things I write. But then, it isn't First, I knew how to write newspaper sion of myself that I know. But to achieve my part to know, is it? It's my part to stories before I had ever written one. Such that best, I must move my "little self' out follow where I am led. Cl AJournal about Meeting for Worship by Marie lien 0. Gilpin

Twenty-five years ago, I began writ- in his or her own way, about his or her meeting for worship from a conversa­ 1ing about meetings for worship to own issues; God deals with each of us in tion. Sometimes all the ministry of a help me reflect on the ministries. the terms most appropriate for us. particular meeting follows a single Sometimes I have recorded in a jour­ I try to reflect on the speaker's needs; theme, as in a memorable Easter Sun­ nal and sometimes in letters. Currently sometimes I am moved to pray about the day when many Friends shared their I am writing about worship experi­ worshipper's issues. More often, I am deeply felt experience about forgiv­ ences to two Friends who are far from filled with a sense of wonder as I observe ing. I spent that afternoon lovingly a meeting; it's a way of helping them the individual finding his or her own sense reconstructing not only the words of keep in touch with our meeting and of direction over the lifetime of an issue; each speaker, but the order in which with their own spirituality. Keeping a ifl pray, it is a word of gratitude for what ministries occurred and the deep si­ journal helps me listen in the Spirit. has been given to my friend in meeting lences between. It seemed to me that Often I am still listening several hours for worship. each ministry followed on what pre­ after completing the journal entry, re­ I try to reflect on my own issues in vious speakers had said, and that the inforcing the attitude of openness to light of what the speaker has shared. Spirit was also in what was not said. the wind of Spirit that meeting for Sometimes it leads to ministry during My letter was an attempt to follow the worship brings about. meeting, in which case I record it in my Spirit from speaker to speaker, re­ I try to remember the gist, the ker­ journal. Often I reflect and do not share cording also the silences so that the nel, of each ministry. Sometimes I in meeting at that time, and then I record Spirit's work in the silences could be can retain a ministry almost intact: the my private thoughts. Sometimes the ef­ sensed. words, the images, the dynamics that fort to write down what I've thought dur­ When there is only a little spoken lead from introduction to conclusion. ing meeting helps me listen further to the ministry, I journal what happened Sometimes I only remember the bar­ Spirit and get closer to a resolution of my for me in the silence-I started meet­ est outline of the ministry; whatever I issues. ing dealing with an issue, ascended can remember, I try to write down. I began my journaling of meetings for into the wordlessness of deep inner Sometimes a phrase will linger in worship in order to reflect on the spoken silence, returned refreshed sometime my mind long after a ministry, often ministry, but rapidly was reminded that later, and looked around me to realize repeating itself in my worship. I try to Spirit was in the silences. Trying to de­ that others had been beyond words record those phrases in as much ofthe scribe a silence in words has been a chal­ for a while as well. It's as if we all speaker's context as I can remember. lenge I have frequently failed to meet. I breathe in at once, and realize that we I record what I know of the wor­ fmd myselfsharing someone' swords, and have been Elsewhere. The wind of shipper's spiritual journey. Each per­ simply recording that the ministry was Spirit has held us, and has let us go. son in meeting is wrestling with God followed by a living silence, or that the (J silence deepened. Mariel/en 0. Gilpin is a member of When there is a lot of ministry, record­ Urbana-Champaign (Ill.) Meeting. ing the silences helps to differentiate

22 November 1996 FRJENDS JoURNAL Arl, Life, and Light byLucyAron need to write. And I need to wor­ I ship. When I pick up my pen or sit flective. I began to find my voice, my turbulence. Sometimes, through an in­ down at the computer, I engage in a reality. I did not intend to use language as explicable alchemy-and grace-all process not unlike what happens when a means for achieving insight or discern­ coalesce into something unique. The I center down at meeting. Time slows. ment. I simply wrote and wrote. In my Light blazes. I become contemplative. There is a naivete, I believed that writing consisted At other times, however, I see only silence and a waiting. Both can try the of recording what I knew, or thought I a dimness. I'm learning to make peace patience. Both I have learned to trust. knew. What I discovered is that clarity with the mystery, with times of cre­ Without the silence and the wait­ and illumination emerge from writing. ative or spiritual desiccation. Again ing, what needs to be They are its effect, not its and again they call upon my capacity expressed will not source. to trust, to open my heart, to let go. emerge. The more I TJ Then I pick Writing is communi­ They're lessons in acceptance. allow them space and cation as well as self­ I'm also learning to embrace what time, the richer, more VVupmy expression. The words I do see. In 1908, Caroline Stephen authentic the out­ pen or sit down communication and com­ wrote, "Many a painful revelation is come. Though it munity have the same lin­ made to us in these hours; many an sometimes feels like at the computer, guistic root. Both, so in­ unwelcome duty opened before us; a void, the waiting is I engage in a tegral to the corporate many a secret weakness laid bare." dynamic. When I am worship of Friends, im­ There are times, indeed, when I feel immersed in the si­ process not ply a sharing. In the gath­ that I'm being devoured by my own lence, a communion unlike what ered meeting, the Light shadows. I want to resist. But when occurs between my­ of each enhances the I'm willing to honor those crabbed selfand what Thomas happens when whole. It's about con­ comers and gnarled, murky niches Kelly calls "the Be­ I center down nectedness-with each of the self, the darkness generates yond that is within." other and with something its own light. It is an arduous, exquis­ Like the exchange of at meeting. more, higher, deeper, ite journey from the opaque .to the oxygen and carbon brighter. When the writer pellucid. dioxide in my body, Both can try the speaks her truth, she be­ Perhaps had I had the choice I the interplay fosters patience. Both comes a conduit ofsome­ would have chosen a more comfort­ my growth and sus­ thing more, higher, able religion or a less demanding art. tains me. I have learned deeper, brighter. The But probably not. I distrust facile an­ I began writing out to trnst. Light of that truth gener­ swers, institutionalized mandates and of desperation. Be­ ates a sympathetic reso­ homilies, a paint-by-the-numbers re­ cause of a long ill- nance between herself sponse to life. They engender com­ ness I could do little else. I did not feel and the reader. placency. I'm certain that, in a sense, that I was in possession of any par­ In meeting, as in writing, I'm often my religion and my art have chosen ticularly profound take on reality. I drenched in doubt. Yet a sense of rever­ me because I need them for my un­ just had to write. ence for the process gives me courage to folding. Like nature or music or friend­ The creative process is therapeu­ confront the initial chaos of thought with ship, they teach me about what mat­ tic, but as I continued, my writing its convoluted pathways, to explore the ters. They increase me. The challenges became less cathartic and more re- infinite nuances oflanguage and the com­ energize, the revelations fortify. There plexities of emotion. Ideas, words, and is power, magic, and miracle. I am Lucy A ron is a member ofSanta Barbara feelings spin, wheel, transmute, ferment. amazed and humbled; I am unspeak­ (Calif) Meeting. There is more silence. More waiting. More ably grateful. Cl

FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1996 23 Special Books Section • Re·view-h'ssay for students with learning differences Leading by Serving: Delaware Valley Friends School One Friend's Witness 730 Montgomery Ave. Bryn Mawr, Pa. College Preparatory Grades 7-12 by Lee Neff and Summer School n the early 1980s, did you receive an invi­ Coil {610} 526-9595for info & a VUfeo tation to become a part of the John Seeker and Servant, ed. by Anne T. Fraker I Woolman Institute of Persuasion? Neither and Larry C. Spears. Jossey-Bass, San did I. But we shouldn't feel too neglected by Francisco, Calif, 1996. 359 pages. $30/ the Institute's selection panel, for both it and hardcover. the institute itself were born of the imagina­ Fyfe & Miller On Becoming a Servant-Leader, ed. by Don FUNERAL SERVICE tion of Robert K. Greenleaf, a Quaker who died at Crosslands retirement community in M. Frick and Larry C. Spears. Jossey-Bass, 7047 Germantown Ave. 1990. He had been a member of Monadnock San Francisco, Calif, 1996. 394 pages. $28/ Philadelphia, PA 19119 (N.H.) and Kendal (Pa.) Meetings who hoped hardcover. (215) 247-8700 for building and supporting institutions with a Reflections on Leadership, ed. by Larry C. commitment to community and to the growth James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller Spears. John Wiley and Sons, New York, of all those whose lives they touch. N.Y., 1995. 352 pages. $25/hardcover. Simple earth burial As Greenleaf wrote in a 1983 "Fable," the and cremation service John Woolman Institute of Persuasion was available at reasonable cost. set up by six foundation representatives who (George Fox, John Woolman, Nikolai had concluded that, Grundtvig, Pope John XXlll) are invariably informed by the best Friends attributes. They ... with the exception of the evangelical churches, are good listeners, mediators, consensus find­ all the rest of the churches were declining in influ­ CREMATION ers, healers. They listen for the truth and be­ Friends are reminded thaJ the ence, and some were declining in members as well. lieve that truth is continually revealed. Anna T. Jeanes Fund Most of them seemed not to have in them, or have will reimburse cremation costs. available from denominational bodies or seminar­ Part Three, "Seminaries, Churches, and (Applicable to members of ies, the self-regenerating capacity to rebuild their Foundations: Partners in Spirit," and Part Four, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) influence or sustain their members.... The basic "Toward the Caring Community: Reflections deficiency seemed to be that churches were not For information, write or telephone of Seeking, Giving, and Receiving," chal­ SANDY BATES adequately serving contemporary society. They lenge contemporary religious institutions and 5350 Knox Street were not healing or immunizing society from wide­ individual seekers to "improve the serving Phllad•lphia, PA 19144 spread alienation; and they were not preparing and quality of all institutions." In one of the es­ supporting people as they build and maintain serv­ ing institutions in business, government, educa­ says, "On Being a Seeker in the Late Twenti­ tion, health, and social service. eth Century" (originally published in FRIENDS JOURNAL, Sept 15, 1975), Greenleafcompares To find out what Greenleaf s fictional John the times in which Quakerism was founded to Woolman Institute of Persuasion accom­ the late 20th century. plished by the year 2000, you will have to What made George Fox's service to seek­ obtain a copy of Seeker and Servant, a collec­ ers (and their response to him) so exemplary tion of primarily unpublished essays by was the significant move to new and more Robert K. Greenleaf published earlier this exacting ethical standards, the force of which A ~ker Con.ference center year and edited by Anne T. Fraker and Larry carries to this day. Fox's major contribution 340 HIGH STREET C. Spears, executive director of the Robert K. was not his theology, not even his encourage­ P.O.BOX246 Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership and ment to care for suffering-important as these BURLINGTON, a member of the Religious Society of Friends. were. Rather, it seems to me, what gave dura­ NEWJERSEY08016 The collection is subtitled Reflections on Re­ bility to the Quaker tradition was the practical Available for day and overnight use ligious Leadership, and it is divided into four result that so many of those who called them­ 609-387-3875 sections, all offering sustenance to Friends selves Friends behaved more lovingly toward who wish to provide leadership within their all creatures and assumed an impressive level meetings, families, businesses, and contem­ of responsibility for their society and its insti­ porary society as a whole. tutions. Perhaps the most innovative result In Part One, "Nurturing the Spirit: The was that, by the effort of those whom Fox Fundraising Consulting for Challenges of Religious Leadership," and Part inspired, the quality of some contemporary Educationallnstiwtions and Two, " Leaders and Inspirited Persons," institutions, notably commerce, was mark­ Nonprofit Organizations Greenleaf focuses on qualities of leadership edly improved. Currently serving Midwest, that can lead "toward a more caring and less Robert K. Greenleafs life and work are Southeast and East Coast power-ridden society." His ideal leaders witness to the beliefthat we, Friends who live clients our faith, can continue to improve the quality Henry Freeman Consulting Lee Neff is a member of University (Wash.) of contemporary institutions. We can see our­ 713 S.W. 15th Street, Richmond, Indiana 47374 Meeting and a jormer member ofthe FRIENDS selves as part of a nonexistent but powerful 1-800-707-1920 JOURNAL Board of Managers. 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Small classes, strong FRIENDS academics in a SELECf supportive, caring environment SCHOOL emphasizing Quaker our faith and sustenance from Friends, we can making, and the integration of personal and values. find renewed energy to "build and maintain spiritual growth with work. In fact, it is through • Pre-K thru 12th serving institutions in business, government, Greenleafs writing on servant-leadership Day School education, health, and social service." Either that many aspects of Quaker belief and pro­ • After School Program for Friends who have given themselves to the cess have been introduced to nonQuaker e • Summer Day Camp service sector fora lifetime or for Friends who organizations. have only recently begun to wonder how to Also published in 1996, On Becoming a 17th & the Parkway fully connect faith and work, Seeker and Ser­ Servant-Leader is edited by Don M. Frick Philadelphia, PA vant is a powerful and inspiring collection of and Larry C. Spears. In Part One, Greenleaf (215) 561-5900 writings. traces his own becoming a servant-leader in a Seeker and servant are also two apt words previously unpublished manuscript entitled to describe Robert K. Greenleafs approach to "The Ethic of Strength." Focusing on his be­ his own life and work. For 36 years Greenleaf lief that change in family, political system, or worked for AT&T in management research, society always begins with the individual, " development, and education. His primary mis­ this series ofessays describing his own search sion was to use his unique gifts to influence for personal strength was written for young the institution from the inside. In On Becom­ people, as was Part Three, "Leadership and ing a Servant-Leader, a companion collec­ the Individual: The Dartmouth Lectures." tion to Seeker and Servant, Greenleaf reveals Greenleafs work on college campuses in the • ma}Z~aqe ceRC1F1cates that an AT&T president once described him 1960s might have left him, as many others, • 3.W3.l20S •1t25Cl21PCtons • as a "kept revolutionary." feeling depressed about the alienation of In 1964 Greenleaf retired from AT&T to young people. Rather he found hope in the • t;112ct2 announcemencs • think, write, consult, and teach. In 1970, after "widespread disenchantment with this soci­ • Cil200C:ttx:j ca£0 bestqns • reading Herman Hesse's Journey to the East, ety among contemporary young people and •1t2Vtcac1ons • SCl20Lts he wrote his inspiring essay, "The Servant as their determination to do something about its Leader," the first of many writings on the failures." He energetically sought to help $anz~:l:Tm'esr servant-leader concept, which he defined like young people defy cynicism and heal the dis­ 609-786-182+ this: trust and alienation characterizing their el­ The servant-leader is servant first. .. . It begins ders' institutions. · with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to In fact, he had the same message for able serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to young people who want "to use their lives aspire to lead.... The difference manifests itself in well in a progressively more structured, more the care taken by the servant-first to make sure complex, more organized world" that he Display Ad Deadlines that other people's highest priority needs are being had for the older generation in control: pre­ served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: pare to both serve and lead. He often used Reservations are required for display ads do those served grow as persons; do they, while John Woolman, " the model of the great in FRJENDS J OURNAL. being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more and gentle persuader," as an example of one January issue: Reserve space by Nov. 4 . autonomous, more likely themselves to become Ads must be received by Nov. 11. servants? And, what is the effect on the least privi­ whose work changed a fundamental, societal leged in society; will they benefit, or at least not be institution: February issue: Reserve space by Dec. 2. further deprived? By 1770, almost a hundred years before the Civil Ads must be received by Dec. 9. War, no slaves were held by Friends, almost wholly Ad rate is $28 per column inch. Well known in business and nonprofit lead­ the result of the single-handed effort of John ership circles, Greenleafand the servant-lead­ Woolman, who, over a period of30 years, traveled Call (215) 241-7279 ership concept are seen as the "grandfather" by foot and horseback up and down the East coast with your reservation FRIENDS of contemporary leadership models that talking to slaveholding· Quakers one at a time, or questions. JOURNAL emphasize service to others, shared decision- persuading them to free their slaves .... His main

FRJENDS JoURNAL November 1996 25 \ITFSTIOWN VVsc H o o L argument was not that it would be better for the writings profoundly helpful. These three vol­ slaves, although he believed it would be. His main umes provide more than an introduction to Westtown, Pennsylvania attack was questioning the slaveholder: "What does Greenleafs teachings. They can help Friends (25 miles west of Philadelphia) slaveholding do to you, as a person? What kind of relate servant-leadership to their own relig­ moral institution are you binding over to your ious seeking; follow the path of one indi­ children?" POSITION OPEN vidual as he applies the fundamental testimo­ The question is a good one in this time: nies and practices of Quakerism to the oppor­ Business Manager - What kinds of moral institutions are we bind­ tunities we have to improve all of the institu­ Chief Financial Officer ing over to our children? tions we work with and for; and hear current Throughout his entire life, Greenleaffound witness to the successful and practical appli­ new wisdom in reflecting on his own past cation of Greenleafs ideas. Westtown School, founded in 1799, experiences and the lives of individuals he In the foreword to Seeker and Servant, is a Quaker, coeducational, day and board­ admired, new ways to share those continuing Parker Palmer writes, ing school of 600 students, located on revelations with others, and the foresight I had the privilege of knowing Bob Greenleaf and 600 acres in Chester County, PA. The to know that hope for improving our society of spending time with him in conversation. He was School's endowment is $40 million with rests with all people's commitments to a realist about institutions and leadership, and his an operating budget in excess of $10 ·~ustice (rather than order)," and concern "for discourse was always tinged with the sadness that million. the performance (rather than the form) of comes when one is too experienced to expect our institutions, and for the appropriate­ miracles. But at the same time, his discourse was As a result of a retirement effective ness (rather than the result) of power and laced with the liveliness that comes when one authority." Whether we who are Friends are knows that the human heart has the potential to July 1, 1997, the School seeks a person transcend the most demanding of circumstances­ with proven management and leadership working within Quaker organizations or those and even to find in those very circumstances the skills and experience in Finance and Fund secular organizations that link us with wider energy of transcendence itself. society, we can learn from Greenleafs Accounting, Information Technology, example to become more effective servant­ The ultimate test of Robert Greenleafs Building and Grounds, Human Resource, leaders. hope for institutions is not to be found in a and Student Support Services. Reports A third recently published volume, Reflec­ critical analysis of the words he left behind. It directly to the Head of School and the tions on Leadership, examines "How Robert is to be found in the willingness ofthose ofus governing board. K. Greenleafs Theory of Servant-Leadership who read these words to incarnate them in Influenced Today's Top Management Think­ the living ofou r lives. Engineering and MBA background ers." Again edited by Larry C. Spears of the As Max DePree writes in the foreword of desirable. Salary competitive and com­ Robert K. Greenleaf Center, this collection of Reflections on Leadership, "Servant-leader­ mensurate with experience. School hous­ essays focuses on the application and practice ship is never permissive. It always sets high standards of being and doing. It is an idea and ing. ofGreenleafs principles in a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Among this col­ a process that follows a path of study, reflec­ tion, practice, and evaluation. It is the one Send letter of interest, resume, and lection of essays are particularly thoughtful setting in which the mystery of potential can three references by Dt

26 November 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Special Book Section • Reviezvs The Covenant Crucified: medieval certainties under attack by compet­ DAILY ing new ideologies and practices. Quakers Quakers and the Rise of offered a breathtakingly revolutionary syn­ READINGS thesis of personal salvation with socio-politi­ Ft'bm Capitalism cal-economic transformation through a spiri­ By Douglas Gwyn. Pendle Hill Publications, tuality of desolation. This was a direct chal­ Quaker*itings Wallingford, Pa., 1995. 403 pages. $16/ lenge to the powers and to the newly emerg­ ~c:ientVModerb paperback. ing capitalist ideology that called for total This is a large book packed with provoca­ secularization and commodification of every­ tive ideas. Among them is the theme of God's thing, including religion. Gwyn sees James covenant, of which there are two sorts in the Nayler's ride into Bristol as the symbolic Bible. Gwyn sketches covenant theology as point of confrontation and gives this event experienced by Hebrews, early Christians, cosmic significance. 'E4ited liT and mid-17th-century Friends. Covenant is The second phase followed the collapse of CLINDA'HILL CRENFEJt juxtaposed with the contracts of capitalism, Commonwealth dreams in the renewed per­ which seek to make everything and everyone secution of the restored monarchy, church, into a commodity that has a value (or not) in and aristocracy of birth and wealth. Under the marketplace. Gwyn uses a Marxist lens to George Fox's leadership Friends developed "It's a wonderful book!"-.N.M. view the paradigm shift in modes of produc­ the institutional structures that enabled the tion from feudalism to capitalism, and sees movement to survive and provide the space in "Daily Readings has rapidly beome a early Friends offering a rap.ical challenge at which Christ's Spirit could continue to teach Quaker classtc... We expect this the focal point of the shift. As history un­ and lead his people. While usually seen as the excellent work to be in demand for folded, capitalism won, with the result that beginning of a long decline, Gwyn suggests years to come." -Quaker bookstore spirituality and the sacred are banished to the that as God works in history, the importance realm of personal opinion, and the secular, of"the times" needs to be taken into account. " ....I keep one COI>Y in my classroom and scientific, rational marketplace is seen as As the times change, might not God lead one at home ... "-Teacher, Canada "reality." Friends in new directions? Instead of continu­ Gwyn's major thesis is that early Friends ing the confrontational challenge to the world, "Don't be misled-DAILY READINGS is not the ordinary daily meditation book combined personal salvation with socio­ Friends turned inward, building a model of but an extensive antliology of Quaker political-economic transformation through a family and gender relations that invited even­ literature and history." spirituality of desolation. The Light showed tual acceptance and imitation. - Librarian of a Quaker collection them not only their own dark, shadow selves, Gwyn sees a third phase in the work of but also unmasked the political, economic, Robert Barclay and William Penn who, per­ "111is book stays on my bed table." -Indiana social, and religious idols of their time. The haps unknowingly, further shifted the Quaker resulting crisis of despair was resolved by understanding from its early radical vision to "A wealth offiuniliar as well as not often­ yielding to Christ Within, who consoled them, a reasonable, liberal faith offered as one of ·quot¢ pas_§ages from a wide variety of but also led them to be a Jiving challenge to many faiths in the marketplace of ideas. By (.luakerS-P~ipg this resource Will the status quo. They experienced the para­ diminishing Quakerism's powerful and chal­ enrich the hbrruy ofevery Friend" doxical reality of inward freedom, peace, and lenging vision, they made it respectable and -Review, Quaker life joy while enduring the violent opposition of therefore safe to be tolerated. Gwyn sees Penn the enraged power structure. They called "The years, the centuries-melt away. By this spiritual exercise "the cross." It is their timelessness, they beCome oontem,poraries. We are given an the necessary refining fire by which we insiders view of history ... "- preface of learn, in each moment, to follow God's Vo/.JJ. will rather than our own. But this in­ tensely private, individual "inner work" was organically connected to the group. DAILY READINGS and its companion, Friends as a corporate entity embodied VoL II, are deluxe hardbacks, with God's hand reaching into history at a ribbon bookmarks, each containing one specific time and place. It was Friends' communal life, their communal covenant, year of page-length readings of notable through which they offered a new politi­ Friends from 300 years. cal, social, ecclesiastical, and economic possibility. But such a covenant was ob- ] This is your shipping label. For your copy, send tained only by individuals experiencing with check @ US$31.95, plus 3.75 shipping ~ (4 .25 for) for each volume to: "the cross." ~ Serenity Press, 131 Meadow Lane, Grants Pass, Perhaps the most easily accessible 5 OR97526USA theme of the book is Gwyn's penetrating 5 ------~---><------analysis of the stages through which ~ Check box: D Vol. I 0 Vol.II Quaker theology moved in its first half- ~ century. They were directly related to ~ Name:______events in England; Friends both chal- t; lenged those events and were shaped by ~ Address: ______them. The first, radical phase was made 6 possible by the chaos ofthe civil war and J§ City: Commonwealth, by the crumbling of the ~

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Community: An WllJJAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 Autobiographical Memoir 307 Years of Quaker Education By Donald Calhoun. Schenkman Book, Inc., The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school Rochester, Vt., 1995. 187 pages. $14.951 stressing high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter paperback. is committed to nurturing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an Don Calhoun has written an engrossing atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her memoir about his lifelong participation in vari­ fullest potential. Kindergarten through twelfth grade. ous communities and broad social movements, such as the Labor Movement, the Peace Move­ Earl J. BaD 10, Head of School ment, and the Civil Rights Movement. 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 Don is the son of Arthur and Mildred (215) 844-3460 Calhoun. Arthur, Don's mentor, was a distin­ guished sociologist and radical Christian so­ cialist. Mildred, a teacher, also was a person of independent views. Their married life in­ cluded many moves and family resettlements. I found especially fascinating Don 's memo­ FRIENDS HoME AT WooDSTOWN ries of his childhood at Brookwood, a school founded to train workers for leadership in A {)Jtaker-Sponsored Retirement Facility labor unions. A. J. Muste was director and • One-bedroom Woods Court • 60-bed Medicare & Medicaid Arthur one of the teachers. While being edu­ Apartments for People over 60 cated at home, Don was exposed to the views Certified Nursing Home of many distinguished people who flocked to • Residential facility with • Pastoral Setting Brookwood, including Norman Thomas, Scott community dining • Caring, supportive staff Nearing, and the Reuther brothers. WOODSTCM'N • Delicious, nutritious meals At the age of eight, Don learned to type stencils and helped produce "The Holy Ter­ P.O. Box457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (609) 769-1500 ror," a one-page mimeographed daily news bulletin. When only seven, he delivered a lecture on coffee in the social hall one evening. "After I had extensively covered the dangers of coffee addiction, I was asked to comment on the current price of coffee. My reply was worthy of a budding professor, 'I am not prepared to discuss the economic aspects of the question."' These were early indications of the life ahead. Don was to become a professor at a Scattergood offers a rigorous college preparatory program for approximately number of institutions, including the Univer­ sixty students, grades 9 through 12, in a caring, close-knit community of boarding sity of Miami, where he taught from 1962 until his retirement in 1988. Along the way, students and resident staff living and working together in a beautiful rural setting. he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Chi­ cago, grew organic citrus fiuit in Florida, and • Coeducational wrote a number of books, including Social • Graduation requirements include Science in an Age ofChange and Persons in Quaker Studies and an off-campus Groups. • community service project The year 1968 was tragic and life-chang­ • Strong programs in the arts ing for Don. His wife had recently died, leav­ • Four-year Spanish language ing him, at 48, a single parent to an adopted program with work-camp child of two, when he was in an automobile experience in Mexico accident that resulted in a depressed skull and • Daily campus and farm work crews a paralyzed left side. After months ofrehabili­ • Outdoor and wilderness programs tation, he was able to walk and to resume • Cooperation emphasized over teaching. Don credits his spiritual recovery to competition the practice of giving and receiving uncondi­ • More than one-third of students and tional love. staff have Quaker backgrounds Don' s relationship to the Religious Soci­ ety of Friends has been ambivalent. While serving as a conscientious objector during To learn mort about Scattergood, or to arrange a visit, contact the Director ofAdmissions, World War II, he was highly critical of the Scattergood Fr~Nls School, 1951 Delta AveniU!, West Branch, Iowa 52358-8507, phoM (319) 643-7628 or (319) 643-7600, FAX (319) 643-7485. American Friends Service Committee. He be­ lieved that by setting up opportunities for Under the care oflowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (C) since 1890 alternative service, AFSC was collaborating

FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1996 29 Now Available from FGC Bookstore with the military. Although attracted to the Quakers on the Move: service programs of AFSC, it was 1964 be­ fore he became a member of Miami (Fla.) A Story Book of Quaker History from 1652 to today Meeting. ILLUS. BY L UCY SIKES Don writes extensively of his experience Follow generations of 10 year old Quaker children on adventures in history and in communities, especially Quarry Hill in service. Sixteen illustrated stories with full parent and teacher follow-up ideas, Vermont, where he continues to live part­ make this a perfect gift as well as a flexible teaching volume. • FGC, 1996, 150 time with his fourth wife, Barbara. He sug­ pages, paperback $9.00 gests reasons why some communities suc­ Silver Rights ceed while others fail and discusses various types of charismatic leaders. Friends thinking BY CONSTANCE CURRY of joining or organizing a community may The remarkable story of the Carter family who, in 1965, sent seven of their children find much of interest in this book. to desegregate an all-white school system. This story of determination and eventual tri­ umph is told by a woman who worked in the AFSC from 1964 to 1975, aiding de­ -Yvonne Boeger segregation efforts in Mississippi. • Workman, 1995, 258 pp. $21.95 A past contributor to FRIENDS J ouRNAL and a member of Live Oak (Tex.) Meeting, Yvonne The Grace of Coming Home Boeger lives at Crosslands in Kennett Square, BY MELANIE M ORRISON Pa. Celebrating her lesbian and Christian identities, the author encourages people of all sexual orientations to let go of alienation, shame, homophobia, disempowering images of humanity, and fear-based images of God to reclaim Christianity as part of What the Scarecrow Said a whole identity. • Pilgrim, 1995, 166 pp. $11.00 By Stewart David Ikeda. HarperCollins, San All the Colors of the Earth Francisco, Calif, 1996. 445 pages. $241 BY SHEILA HAMANAKA hardcover. Exquisite illustrations of the many colors of humans and love. Pictures and This novel, extraordinary in its own right, has special meaning and interest for Quakers. words as beautiful as the message they convey. • Morrow, 1994, 32 pp. $15.00 The American saga of William Fujita's The Gospel According to Jesus family begins with his birth in 1897 as the ship carrying his parents from Japan reaches BY STEPHEN MITC HELL Los Angeles, Calif. According to family leg­ A new translation and guide to his teachings for believers and end, his creative and highly opinionated unbelievers. • Harper, 1993,312 pp. $13.00 mother demanded that her husband bind her legs together to assure that the baby would be a Gospel According to Jesus" , g! born in the United States. ~ BY NORRIS J. 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FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1996 31 1996 Guilford College and responses to a questionnaire. The seven lacking in some of these respects, especially Guilford welcomes selected include four considered most effec­ commitment ofstaff to the organization' s pro­ AFSC's annual tive by the respondents. The author visited fessed values. The penultimate chapter con­ •College corporation each and conducted interviews with the chief tains a perceptive treatment of usual and ideal Admission Office meeting executive officer, board members (where there relationships between executives and boards. 5800 West Friendly Avenue November were boards), staff members, and other em­ Finally, after summarizing the book's con­ Greensboro, NC 27410 ployees or volunteers. Each organization will­ tents, the author attempts to formulate a phi­ 15-17 ingly supplied pertinent printed material. All losophy of management of Christian service . 910-316-2100 were related to one or more religious denomi­ organizations. FAX 910-316-2954 Quaker Educ:adon nations. The book is necessarily full of abstrac­ http://www.guilfnrd.edu Since 1137 The book notes the extent to which each tions. Its difficulties are enhanced by aspects was Christian. Those considered most effec­ of its style: too many sentences are five or six tive strongly emphasized the need for divine lines long. Working definitions of"religious" leadership, a committed staff, and a close and "Christian" would have been helpful. The HO:ME relationship to their founding churches. The words "Friend" or "Quaker" are virtually ab­ RULE least effective of the seven organizations were sent from the book. "Quaker" is used once, GLOBALLY Humanity needs subsidiarity, For Young Friends decentralism & world federalism Essays by John R. Ewbank and others Hannie sacrifices of being an older sister to the two little girls. Literature packet $5.00 By Barbara Luetke-Stahlman. Butte The reader is privileged to see a special 1150 Woods Road Publications, Inc., Hillsboro, Oreg., family strive to create a normal environment Southampton,PA 18966-4545 1996. 186 pages. $10/paperback. for each member as they recognize and ac­ Hannie, written for fourth-grade-level commodate the special needs presented by readers, is a special book, not only for two deaf children. The family is involved in fourth graders, but also for their parents activities not only with the public school and others. It is not an ordinary story classes of each child, but also with programs book, for it is based on one year in the life that enhance the particular needs of the little OUTREACH COMMITIEE Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Hannah, a real nine-year-old girl who sisters as they learn to live in both deaf and 15 r5 Cherry Street has a father, a mother, an older sister, and hearing worlds. 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Capitalized dialogue who died in an automobile accident in 1994. 16 pps on unprogrammed Quakers, denotes words that are signed as well as In one chapter, Hannah is depicted as watch­ with faith & J?ractices, brief history and resources- for seekers. $.80 verbal. The book contains a number of ing Lydia with admiration as she reflects on photos borrowed from the Luetke­ Lydia's life as a physician for underprivi­ "Secular" edition of above eliminating Stahlman family album. leged persons. the invitational by replacing pps I & Hannie opens on the Fourth of July, This is a unique, educational, and readable 16 with "facts". $1.00 the day before Hannah's ninth birthday, book. ABCs of Quakerism, an easily and continues with the travels of the sum­ -Reva Griffith understood infOrmational fl yer. $.25 mer and glimpses into the early months of school, followed by Halloween and Reva Griffith is a member of Penn Valley Welcome - post card for followul? for Meeting in Kansas City, Mo. first time visitor. $.25 Thanksgiving. Then comes Christmas, drastically altered from previous years because of Daddy's severe injuries from a collision with a train. During the follow­ Lucretia Mott: ing months his recovery, ofgreat concern A Guiding Light JOURNEY'S END FARM CAMP to Hannah and the family, is chronicled. is a farm devoted to children for sessions of Other events of the year are trips to see By Jennifer Fisher Bryant. William B. two to eight weeks each summer. Farm ani­ friends, the fall festival at Winfield, Kans., Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, mals, gardenin~, nature, ceramics, shop. Non­ violence, simpliCity, reverence for nature are an Easter visit from friends who live in Michigan, 1996. 182 pages. $8/hardcover. emphasizect In our program centered in the Illinois, then the end of school, with Increasing interest in Lucretia Mott and life of a Quaker farm family. For thirty-two her pioneering role in 19th-century reform boy·s and girls, 7-12 years. Welcome all races. Hannie's tenth birthday in the offing. Apply in December-January. Sprinkled throughout are Hannie's reflec­ has led in recent years to more materials on CARL & KRISTIN CURTIS tions on her relationships with friends and her life prepared for children. In 1991 Kern Box 136, Newfoundland, PA 18445 family, and especially of the rewards and Kapp Sawyer published a lively picture book Phone: (717) 689-3911; 0604

32 November 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL referring to Herbert Hoover. In this book, references are in the text in parentheses. How­ ever, numbered footnotes would have aided a careful reader concerned with sources for factual statements or origins of ideas. Nevertheless, and despite these caveats, many of us will find When the Bottom Line is • Insight and Action: for board or Faithfulness rewarding. It contains helpful oversight committe members and staff of suggestions for those involved at any level Quaker organizations * -Jan.31-Feb. 2 with Quaker organizations, especially those engaged in Christian service. • Introduction to Quakerism -Ralph H. Pickett . -Feb. 7-9 • Clerking -Feb. 28-Mar. 2 Ralph H. Pickett, a retired history professor, is a member of Providence (Pa.) Meeting. • Partners in Change: for chief executives and clerks of Quaker organiza­ tions* -Mar. 21-23 • Training for First Day School Teachers -April 4-6 for younger children, Lucretia Mott: Friend of Justice. Now Jennifer Fisher Bryant, an author of junior biographies, * Co-sponsored with Friends Board Training and Support Project has written and published the first Mott biography for junior high children since PENDLE HILL . A QUAKER CENTER FOR STUDY AND CONTEMPLATION Dorothy Sterling wrote Lucretia Mott: (8oo) 742~150 Box F • 338 Plush Mill Road • Wallingford, PA 19086 Gentle Warrior in 1964. This new biography was prepared for a series called Women ofSpirit , empha­ sizing the role of faith in the lives of DISCOVER QUAKER PHILADELPHIA Experiential women who made significant contribu­ Two-hour walking tours of William Penn's Designs Organizational development tions to society. The biographer has done original city of brotherly love, in honor of Ellen Brownfain, and consulting worldwide a good job of describing the flow offaith Penn's 350th birthday. Principal & friend Specializing in team building, into action that was at the heart ofLucretia Send a SASE for schedule to: QUAKER 415-241-1519 leadership development and Mott's pioneering. Drawing on previ­ TOURS, Box 1632, Media, PA 19063. 1218 Leavenworth St diversity training. Ask about ously published biographies, especially Sf CA 94109-4013 our upcoming spirit quests ... my own Valiant Friend, she has pre­ pared a comprehensive story of Lucretia Mott's many-faceted life, with chief em­ phasis on her Nantucket childhood and Friends Journal is designed to nourish the mind as well as the soul with on the events leading up to the Seneca articles on social and political concerns, spiritual journeys, and Quaker Falls Convention of 1848. news. Our readers enjoy the stimulating articles, sensitive poetry and Mott's life story is a complicated one, illustrations, thoughtful book reviews, timely news features, and lively and the use of secondary sources results readers' forum. We invite your participation in the dialogue. in a few mistakes. Mott was a member of the joint committee on Indian Rights of Three free issues 16 issues for the price of 12 the three Hicksite Yearly Meetings, not If you enjoy your free issues, Only $25. a New York State committee. Elizabeth consider a subscription. (Overseas subscribers add $6 for postage.) Cady Stanton did not attend the London Convention as a delegate and was there­ I am a new subscriber. Please sign me up for: fore not barred from participation. There 0 3 free issues. are a few errors in dates. 0 16 issues for the price of 12. (Check enclosed/Bill me) None of these are important enough to detract from the usefulness of this book in introducing junior high students Name :·------~------to one of the most important women in Address:--'------­ U.S. history. We are thankful to Jennifer City/State/ZiP'------'------Fisher Bryant for undertaking this not ~: ~~------inconsiderable task. ______Return to -Margaret Hope Bacon 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 Margaret Hope Bacon is a member of Phone: (215) 241-7115 Fax: (215) 568-1377 Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting and editor ofWilt Thou Go on My Journey. FRIENDS JOURNAL

FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1996 33 Reports Oakwood Friends School located in the historic H~n Valley 75 miles oorth of New York City Friends United Meeting Drawn from Acts 3:6, the theme "In the name of Jesus rise up and walk" infused the 1996 triennial sessions of Friends United Meeting, held in Indianapolis, Ind., July 3-7. From Indiana Yearly Meeting's Wednesday­ night welcoming celebration to the Sunday­ morning closing worship, Friends considered the place and power of Jesus through wor­ ship, business, fellowship, and speakers. Louise Wilson, from Virginia Beach (Va.) Meeting and North Carolina (Conservative) Yearly Meeting, gave the Johnson Lecture. Coming from a childhood environment where Jesus was felt but not named, Louise shared stories from her life, telling of encounters with Jesus and his invitation to call him by Coed boarding and day school for grades 7-12 and postgraduate name. Louise encouraged us to live into three disciplines, beginning with giving thanks. Rigorous college p-eptratoty c.un1a.Uum Small class sizes Building up<)n Meister Eckhart, she strives to Visual and performing arts Unique Senior program "give thanks for everything as though I prayed Strong, nurturing community Athletic p-ogram for it." In the early days of this discipline, she said, she just kept on until she did believe it. International program Community service The discipline of love enables God's love. Louise warned against pity: "Nothing lower than pity. Never helped anyone with it, so Please contact the Admissions Office: 515 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 don't try it." Finally, the discipline of forgiv­ (914)4624200 ing brings home the need for inward transfor­ mation. The second major speaker, Tony Campolo, an American Baptist pastor and educator. chal­ lenged the meeting, "It's one thing to believe in what Jesus did for you, but what will you let him do to you here and now?" Preaching with passion and humor, Tony insisted upon WESTTOWN SCHOOL the need to take the beatitudes deeply into ourselves. He scolded Friends for our homo­ geneity and our lack of true simplicity. The audience responded with "amen" and "mm­ hm" until Tony turned to "the pure in heart" and "those who are persecuted for righteous­ ness' sake." After making clear his belief that Romans 1 prohibits homosexual acts and gay marriages, Tony accused the Christian church of an unwholesome unwelcome to gays and lesbians. Noting that while Jesus said nothing about homosexuality but was very explicit about divorce and remarriage, Tony ques­ We invite you to discover the value of a Westtown education... tioned the ways in which churches exclude under the care ofthe Philadelphia Yearly Meeting since 1799. gay people. Telling how some Christian book­ stores no longer sell his books because of this stance and recalling his sense of responsibil­ *Challenging programs in academics, the arts, and athletics ity as a Christian for the suicide of a perse­ *Strong Quaker presence in student body and faculty cuted gay high school classmate, Tony testi­ *310 day students in grades pre-K through 10 fied that he believes Christian witness and Jesus' example compels us to stand in soli­ *290 boarding students in grades 9-12 (boarding required, 11-12) darity with gay and lesbian people. *Diversity of racial, geographic, economic and religious David Phillips is pastor of Wabash (Ind.) backgrounds among students and teachers Friends Church, one of the most vibrant and fastest-growing congregations in Indiana *Weekly meeting for worship and strong sense of community Yearly Meeting. On Saturday night, he shared are central to school life. three things crippling to meetings: dialoguing without deciding, trusting in dying forms, and accepting without discerning; and five heal­ Westtown School, Westtown, PA 19395 (610) 399-7900 ing things, which David called reclaiming our

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Chris Jorgenson, New England Yearly Meeting, and Dorothy • Boarding Option Grades 9 to 12 • Day: Pre-K through 12 Grannell, Indiana Yearly Meeting, at the FUM triennial Five or seven day programs sessions Outstanding college preparatory curriculum heritage: knowing Jesus, knowing Scripture, based on traditional Quaker values loving each other, loving people, and wor­ shiping intimately. David LeShana, president ofWestem Evan­ • Upper School AP courses • Strong arts and athletics programs gelical Seminary, in three Bible hours drew from Acts 3 that the focus of Christian wit­ • Required community service • Travel abroad opportunities ness is the Son of God; the message of wit­ Situated on 140 acres in historic Quaker country, an hour's drive ness is the Kingdom of God; and the commu­ from Washington, D.C., Baltimore, or Annapolis. nity of witness is the people ofGod. Through­ out the triennial sessions, the music ministry ofMauri and Sheny Macy ofNewberg (Oreg.) For further infonnation: SANDY SPRING FRIENDS SCHOOL, Box 3, Friends Church drew Friends into fellowship. 16923 NORWOOD ROAD, SANDY SPRING, MD 20860 During congregational singing, Mauri would frequently stop and invite Friends to truly Phone: (301) 774-7455 Fax: (301) 924-1115 consider the words we were singing and to make them real in our lives. The triennial sessions also included workshops, ranging in topic from "The Inward Cross" and "Praying with the Bible" to "Support Groups, Counsel­ ing, and Other Ways to Meet the Needs of People" and "Friends in Ramallah Today." Business, of course, is a major element of FUM triennials. In these sessions, East Africa Yearly Meeting-North ("K.itale" Yearly Meet­ ing) was accepted into membership, and it was noted that East Africa Yearly Meeting­ Pendle Hill balances South has split amicably into two new yearly meetings. Among extensive changes in orga­ solitude and community, nizational and business procedures that were approved was the addition of the new West­ contemplation ern Association of the Religious Society of and action Friends (Quakers) as an "affiliated organiza­ tion." This will enable Whittier (Calif.) Meet­ so gracefully that all.who ing, formerly a member of FUM through Southwest Yearly Meeting, and other meet­ come can be refreshed. ings to participate in Friends United Meeting. The most contentious item of business -Flise Boulding was membership in the National Council of Churches ofChrist in the USA and the World Council of Churches. Despite the strong op­ position ofsom e Friends in Iowa Yearly Meet­ ing to continued participation, the triennial sessions accepted the recommendation of the Residential Study · Weekend Conferences · Sojourns · Publications General Board that FUM continue its mem­ bership in the ecumenical councils. Financial support of the councils will depend upon ear­ marked contributions, but concerned Friends PENDLE HILL . A QCJAKER CENTER FOR STUDY AND CONTEMPLATION within FUM will be enabled to participate as Box F · 338 Plush Mill Road Call toll-free: representatives of a member organization. Wallingford, PA 19o86 1-Soo-742-3150 Over 400 representatives and visitors par­ I ticipated in the sessions, which were held for

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the first time in a hotel. Meals, sessions, dis­ plays, and accommodations were all avail­ able in convenient, if a bit expensive, proxim­ ity. The 1999 triennial sessions will be hosted Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ by Baltimore Yearly Meeting at the College educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. ofWilliam and Mary in William·sburg, Va. The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: - Kenneth Sutton • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (IB) • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service Britain Yearly Meeting • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls Epistle 1996 For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547. This year's theme, "Worship, faith, and witness are all inseparable," guided Britain Yearly Meeting Friends as they met at Friends House in London, May 3-6, for their annual gathering. Faith in action: being and doing. Our 1996 yearly meeting was truly a meeting for worship for church affairs, in which we were vividly reminded that worship, faith, and witness are all inseparable. The diversity ofform and non-form in the kaleidoscope of Quaker worship around the world may take us by surprise, but epistles from other yearly meetings reflect that at the center is the same Spirit, the universality of the leadings of God. The stirring social witness ofthe past chal­ lenges us. We must now face squarely the problems of the present, however uncomfort­ able that may be for us. May this creative unsettling lead to transformation in our per­ sonal and corporate lives. We must listen to the world's needs and to what God wants us A Quaker co-educational college preparatory day school to do about them, becoming active dissenters for students in Preschool through Grade 12 once more. We need to think now about the processes involved in linking our local and central cor­ porate work and be prepared to take responsi­ bility at all levels. Witho1,1t strong links, our corporate witness will come to nothing. For more information, please call We have felt how unity can be won through an often painful and passionate spiritual exer­ 215-886-4350 cise that still leaves room for individual lib­ erty. With love and trust we will find the courage to speak openly to one another and so discern the way forward. There is much to be gained from the in­ sights of all generations of Friends. By shar­ ing the being and doing, the teaching and

36 November 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL learning, the life of our meetings can be set AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE alight. We need to have a vision in which we go BOOKSTORE out into the world in joy and conviction from a life rooted in the Spirit. The silence of our carry a unique selection ofbooks about socialjustice, Quakers, meetings is not an end in itself but a means to we an end. It is through a holy expectancy that we peace, conflict resolution, women$ andmens studies, African will be led into important places and find that Americans, the Middle East, Asia andthe Pacific, Mexico, Latin which is pleasing to God. Only then will we come to the realization that we dwell in God America and many other topics. and God in us. we offer books for children andyoung adults, including First Day God of the Prophet Elijah, set light to our pale hopes. God of Jesus of Nazareth, teach School materials, and bilingual or Spanish language books, us that passion is both suffering and a fire in emphasizing multi-cultural andpeace themes. the heart. God of Julian ofNorwich, enfold us in love; give us courage. we are open Monday through Friday, 11:00 am to 5:00pm. -s. Jocelyn Burne//, clerk Write or callfor booklists. we will special order books for you. You can order books by mail phone, or e-mail .Ohio Valley Yearly we accept Vira & MasterCard. Meeting 980 N . Fair Oaks, Pasadena, CA 91103 A near record number gathered for the I 76th sessions of Ohio Valley Yearly Meet­ phone: (818) 791-1978, ex. 123 ing in Georgetown, Ky., July 17-21. The fax: (818) 791-2205 campus setting and the town had seen many changes since Ohio Valley brought its spirit e-mail: [email protected] to Georgetown just two years before. The sessions themselves were exciting as this growing yearly meeting moved towards actions in new areas. Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting began the process to take on a sister relationship with Central Alaska Friends Con­ ference. CAFC consists of four unprogrammed monthly meetings and several small worship groups that had sought help and advice from ,]LJ FGC. Ohio Valley now offers to step into what we are sure will be a meaningful two­ way relationship. 10 Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting also accepted an invitation to take over the 51-acre Braddock BARCLAY PRESS farm in Ohio. This historic Quaker site has many assets that make it ideal for a confer­ ence ground or camp. The bike trail from PLACES TO FIND US - Columbus to Cincinnati cuts through the farm. \ One of its boundaries is a river used for recre­ 1 • Your Friends bookstore ational boating. In addition to a farm house, \ • www.barclaypress.com there is an apartment and a wash house for campers. The yearly meeting, in true Quaker \ • 503/538-7033 (fax) fashion, appointed a committee to begin work on details and think about possibilities. • 800/962-4014 The sessions were saddened by the leav­ • I I 0 South Elliott Road ing of our youth director, Becky Sharp, but ...... llll,\ll!lllllllOI>

FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1996 37 Now Available from Friends General the middle of the year. The incoming clerk, Conference Bookstore Christine Snyder, looked to our Discipline for guidance in her tasks and found the Disci­ pline wanting. It became clear to her that the Worship in Song: A Friends Hymnal structure arid tasks of the yearly meeting had • Music for All Ages! changed without written procedures or changes to the Discipline. A request had come from • Over 300 Hymns and Songs! Dayton (Ohio) Meeting, through Miami (Ohio) • Reflects Friends Diversity and Quarterly Meeting, to consider changes to the Testimonies! structure of the yearly meeting, and the pro­ cess was begun by appointing a committee. • hardcover $20.00 each plus postage Many other exciting actions by the yearly (also available in softcover spiral for the meeting made this a memorable session. This year the budget was approved on its first same price) reading. It helps when growth makes it pos­ • $18.00 each by the case {12 copies) plus sible to lower the assessment. postage The informal part of the gathering, follow­ ing our theme, "Gifts of the Spirit," was up­ lifting: an evening of song by Susan Stark, another evening with a panel of adults and For more information or to order call the young people, an afternoon of remembering with Barbara and Sterling Olmstead their many FCC Bookstore at 1-800-966-4556! years together in Quaker service, workshops, worship sharing, and late evening pizza while socializing or watching the Olympics. li5P.a 1216 Arch Street, Suite 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107 · There were moments to remember, like the session, running only slightly behind ~ (800) 966-4556 e-mail: schedule, that was interrupted for half an hour by the campus fire alarm. They were testing a furnace. Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting will gather next year at Earlham College.

-Ron Haldeman Intermountain Yearly Meeting Intermountain Yearly Meeting met for its annual gathering June 19-23 at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colo., with 319 Friends registered. Thunderstorms interspersed with ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL periods of calm sunshine seemed an appropri­ ate setting for this year's guiding theme: "Maintaining Your Spiritual Base in Busy Friday, November 1 Times." In a keynote address early in the meeting, to Tuesday, November 5, 1996 Douglas Gwyn offered food for thought on spiritual maintenance. Doug reminded us that Featuring: our seeldng for the Inward Light opens the way for the seed of God in each of us to Preview reception for flourish. Striving to tum conflict into concern On This Same Ground: and enthusiasm into ecstacy and resentment into resolution can benefit us all. Voices from 300 Years of Abington Friends School; Young Friends enjoyed a trip to Tremble authors' and illustrators' book signing; Hot Springs and while in transit had a rousing visits by historical characters, discussion about George Fox, Lucretia Mott, and Obadiah. The Young Friends have an storytelling, and books for sale. impressive knowledge of Quaker history-a credit to our First-day school programs. Again we find ourselves a yearly meeting Abington Friends School in transition, struggling with the formalities of 575 Washington Lane, Jenkintown, PA 19046 a structured gathering and seeking to estab­ (215) 886-4350 lish an institutional memory to help future coordinators. We are grateful for the diligent efforts of Continuing Committee and pointed

38 November 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL suggestions from coordinators and often not­ so-brief concerns expressed at meeting for worship for business. We are tackling the obstacles of formality and look forward to smoother sailing at future gatherings. Interest groups were plentiful this year with topics on "Verbal Ministry in Meeting," "Quaker Anger and Personal Relationships," "Service and Study Opportunities in Mexico City," and "Religious Education for Children," to name a few. Reports from the Joint Service Projects were very positive, with the theme of " Hope and Life Carrying Friends into Without Service." -shir/ Olmstead Quakers Uniting in APa~!ogy Theology for Publications the 21st Century

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FRIENDS JOURNAL November 1996 39 Guidelines for Writers News of Friends The articles that appear in FRIENDS Three Friends were awarded leadership mit nominations for 1997-98 grants to Allen j OURNAL are freely given; authors scholarships by the trustees ofthe Clarence Bowman, Clarence and Lilly Pickett Fund receive copies of the issue in which and Lilly Pickett Fund for Quaker Leader­ Coordinator, William Penn College, their article appears. Manuscripts ship this summer. The 1996-97 grantees, who Oskaloosa, Iowa 52577. subrnirted by nonFriends are will share $4,000 in stipends, are Arden Buck of Boulder (Colo.) Meeting; Aaron Fowler, New flooding has again raised calls for welcome. We prefer articles wrirten in an active member of Northridge (Kans.) contributions to the Korea Relief Fund, a fresh, nonacademic style, using Friends Church and the Friends ofJesus Com­ sponsored by the American Friends Service language that clearly includes both munity; and Daniel Rouse, a member of Committee. In 1995 floods destroyed 40 per­ sexes. We appreciate receiving Germantown (Pa.) Meeting. Arden Buck, who cent of North Korea's farmable land and left Quaker-related humor. holds two electrical engineering degrees, will half a million people homeless. According to •:• maximum 8-10 double-spaced, use his grant to develop further an acoustical Edward Reed, AFSC's Quaker International typewrirten pages (2,500 words) device to detect land mines. Aaron Fowler Affairs representative, "New flooding and •:• include references for all quotations took a leave of absence from public school destruction of crops due for harvest this sea­ •:• author's name and address should teaching for "Hope Street Publications." son will compound already severe grain appear on the manuscript Through a special curriculum for children shortages resulting from last year's floods." ages 5-18, he is teaching life skills with an AFSC has already raised over $35,000 from •:• enclose a self-addressed, stamped emphasis on goal-setting, problem:..soJving, Korean American and Quaker groups, and a envelope for return of manuscript decision-making, communication, self-respon­ cooperative shipment of rice from AFSC, Submissions are acknowledged sibility, refusal skills, self-concept, positive Mennonite Central Committee, and others ar­ immediately; however, writers may action, and critical thinking. Daniel Rouse, a rived in North Korea in August. For more wait several months to hear whether primary school teacher at Germantown Friends information, or to make a contribution, con­ their manuscripts have been accepted. School, is working on a project to support, tact Korea Relief Fund, 1501 Cherry St., For more information contact validate, and affirm educators doing service Philadelphia, PA 19102, telephone (800) 226- Kenneth Surton, Associate Editor. work and to explore more deeply the concept 9816. of service in Quaker education. He seeks to build a curriculum concept. of "service as Correction: The author of the quote in the fRIENDS 1501 CherrySt. learning." Individual Friends, Friends organi­ July issue's "Summer Puzzler" by Teddy Philadelphia, PA zations, and meetings are encouraged to sub- Milne is Louise Dunlap. JOURNAL 19102-1497 Telephone (215) 241-7282 E-mail: [email protected] 7heFRIENDS JOURNAL Ozmpaign

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Office of Admission • Wihnington College • Wilmington • Ohio 45177 • Phone 1-800-341-9318 fRIENDS J OURNAL November ] 996 41 - Bulletin Board !~ ~~·~------~ •"Reflections on the Friendly Pursuit of Sci­ ~m~ ence" is the theme for the Friends Historical HAVERfORD 851 Buck Lane Early Birds Association's annual meeting, Nov. II at Haverford, PA ExtmdedDay 6 p.m., at the Arch Street Meetinghouse in (610)642-2334 Philadelphia, Pa. The featured speaker will be Joseph Taylor, a Friend and a professor at A COEDUCATIONAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Princeton University who won the Nobel Prize PRESCHOOL THROUGH SIXTH GRADE in Physics in 1993. For more information, contact Ann W. Upton, Friends Historical Friends School-lcomu stJuie11ls ofany race Association, Haverford College, Haverford, religio1t alld ttatiolltll or e/Julic origi11 PA 19041, telephone (610) 896-1161, e-mail [email protected]. •Investors are being sought to support Quaker meetings. Friends Extension Corporation, an affiliate of Friends United Meeting, loans The next generation and those tl come need to know your life story. We will money to Friends meetings for various needs, travel to you. record you as you share the especially that of meetinghouse construction experiences that have shaped your life. and improvement. Currently, applications for Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. For more in­ and gather the richness of your memories loans exceed the money available. The loan formation, contact Kiri Smith, 175 Bell Hagg into a beautiful book-a cherished legacy fund is accepting deposits, for which inves­ Rd., Walkley, Sheffield, S6 5DA, United King­ for those you love. tors will receive a 6.5 percent rate of annual dom. (From the June issue of Conscience interest. For more information, contact Canada) Margaret Bennington, Administrator, FEC, Uncia Lyman & Marty Walton •The global nuclear abolition campaign is 505 Willow Road. Bellingham. WA 98225 101 Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374, circulating a "Citizen's Pledge" to establish 1-360-738-8599 or 1-800-738-8599 telephone(317) 926-7573, fax(317)966-1293. support for the elimination ofall nuclear weap­ (From the July/August issue of the Adelphi ons. Signers include 11 Nobel peace laureates Friends Newsletter) and prominent U.S. religious leaders. The •Peacemaker Congress III, "Joining the Non­ pledge, signed by over 10,000 individuals One pathway to peace violent Struggle: Getting in the Way," will and some 300 citizen action groups represent­ take place Dec. 27-30, in Washington, D.C. ing millions of people throughout the world, leads right through the The event is sponsored by Christian Peace­ reads: halls of Congress maker Teams and New Call to Peacemaking, Nuclear weapons threaten life, liberty, and projects of Quaker meetings and Church of security of person. A world free of nuclear the Brethren and Mennonite congregations. weapons is a human right for us and future Keynote speakers will be Lucius Walker of generations. Pastors for Peace and Kathleen Kern and Art Nuclear weapons serve no justifiable mili­ A6k how you can he:lp Gish, CPT volunteers working in Hebron, tary putpose, and pose a threat to all forms of brine Frie:nd6' conce:rn for Palestine. In addition to workshop sessions life. Reliance by governments on these weap­ peace and ju6tice: to Capitol Hill such as Theory and Practice of Nonviolence, ons of indiscriminate mass destruction is im­ FRIENDS COMMITIEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION Mediation for Activists, Women's Experi­ moral and must be ended. The responsibility 245 Second Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 ence in Nonviolence, and many more, the for ending this reliance lies with all people on gathering will feature worship and singing, a Earth, particularly the citizens of the nuclear concert, folk dancing, public witness, and net­ weapons states. Quaker Universalist Fellowship working with other participants. For more Article VI ofthe 1968 Treaty on the Non­ 121 Watson Mill Road information, contact NCP, P. .O. Box 500, Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed by Landenberg PA 19350-9344 Akron, PA 17501 , telephone/fax (717) 859- some 178 states, calls for "negotiations in (61 0)27 4-8856 1958; or CPT, P.O. Box 6508, Chicago, IL good faith on effective measures relating to New Titles 60680, telephone/fax (312) 455-1199, e-mail cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early [email protected]. date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Backhouse Lectures- Australia YM treaty on general and complete disarmament •Friends Committee for the Abolition of the under strict and effective international control." Quakerism: A Mature Religion for Death Penalty is seeking coordinators for a 10day...... David Hodgkin ...... $2.35 We support the goal of nuclear disarma­ number ofstates throughout the United States. ment. Friends and Other Faiths Otto van der Energetic Friends with a concern for the death We urge all governments, and especially Sprenkel ...... $3.50 penalty who are interested in serving in this the nuclear weapons states, to initiate nego­ capacity may contact Kurt Rosenberg at tiations immediately for an International Treaty FCADP, P.O. Box 18106, Washington, DC on Comprehensive Nuclear Disarmament. 20036, telephone (301) 881-8024. (From the We pledge to seek the abolition of all Spring 1996issueofTheQuaker Abolitionist) nuclear weapons in the world, and to take •"Taxes For Peace Not War'' is the title of the actions toward realizing this goal. Ward Lecture-Guilford College .. A sixth international conference on peace tax To add your name to the "Citizen's Pledge," g~g~~/~/~~~.~~~~ ~~ ~~~. ~~~~~ $2~b' campaigns and war tax resistance, Nov. 29- contact Methodists United for Peace with Jus­ .. .. .·.·... Dec. 1. Cosponsored by Quaker Peace and tice, 1500 16th St., NW, Washington, DC Literature List available Service, the gathering will be held at the High 20036, fax (301) 896-0013. (From the July- _Leigh Conference Centre in Hoddesdon, August Christian Social Action) ·

42 November 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL Calendar NOVEMBER FRIENDS 1-Church Women United's World Commu­ nity Day. This year's theme is "Women and Violence and the Church." Contact Church UNITED MEETING Women United, 475 Riverside Dr., Room 812, New York, NY 10115, telephone (800) 298-5551, ext. 3339. 101 Quaker Hill Drive • Richmond IN 47374 • (317) 962-7573 1-The Peace Concert with Sri Chinmoy, 8 p.m., at the C01-estates Spectrum in Philadel­ FRIENDS UNITED PREss phia, Pa. The evening will include music and meditation to transcend barriers of race and nationality and lay the foundations for a world Inner Tenderings by Louise Wilson, of profound abiding peace. Admission is free. $12.00 Contact Peace Concert, 37421 Walnut St., Living Longer & Other Sobering Suite 430, Philadelphia, P A 19104, telephone Possibilities by Tom Mullen, $9.95 (215) 222-8200. Gentle Invaders by Linda Selleck, 1-3-"Couples Enrichment for Friends," a $15.95 conference led by Jenny and David Foster at Practiced In the Presence edited by Woolman Hill in Deerfield, Mass. This is not Neil Snarr & Daniel Christopher Smith, a therapy-encounter program but an opportu­ Festschrift to T. Canby Jones, $18.95 nity for couples to grow as they develop in­ sights and skills. Cost is $90. Contact Woolman Hill, 107 Keets Rd., Deerfield, MA 01342, telephone (413) 774-3431. QUAKER CURRICULUM ELECilVES First week of November-Guatemala Yearly Friends United Meeting offers First Day School curriculum written from a Quaker Meeting, Amigos de Santidad, Chiquimula, perspective for all ages. Available through Quaker Hill Booksto re, 1-800-537- Guatemala. Contact Apartado 5, 20901 8838. Ask for full listing of our Quaker Curriculum Electives. Chiquimula, Guatemala, telephone (502-9) 420-362, fax c/o Madrid 420-290. My Book of Friends: Stories of early Friends in a manner that helps students learn about honesty, individual worth, peacemak­ 7- 10 - German Yearly Meeting, Bad ing, missions, justice and listening for God's word. Twelve sessions. Pyrmont, Germany. Contact Religiose Ges. Grades J-2 Teacher $2.95 Storybook $2.50 der Freunde, c/o Quakerbiiro, Planckstrasse 20, D-1 0117, Berlin, Germany, telephone (49- Friends Through Time: Friends' topics explored through histori­ 30) 2082284. cal and contemporary Quakers focused on themes of stewardship, caring for others, peace and listening to God. Thirteen sessions. 8-1 (}-"Intentional Living: Where Inner Work Grades 3-<5 Teacher $5.50 Student $2.95 Meets the World," Common Boundary's 16th Junior High Mini-Courses: A course on Leadership called Lead annual conference, in Arlington, Va. Keynote the Way; a study of the book of James called Religion for Real speakers include Margaret J. Wheatley, Ufe; a study of FUM mission projects called World in Focus. Each Angeles Arrien, and Ram Dass; evening pro­ four-week course provides a Leader's Guide that includes Bible grams will feature The Voice of Spirit with study ideas, learning activities and reproducible worksheets. Michael Meade and Malidoma Some and An · Grades 6-9 Teacher $5.95 each Evening with Sweet Honey in the Rock. Cost Testimonies: Studies o n basic Friends Testimonies. lbirreen ses- for the weekend is $299. Contact Common sions. Boundary, 5272 River Rd. , Suite 650, High school through adults Student/teacher $6.95 Bethesda, MD 20816, telephone (800) 937- 8728. Friends Way: A good introductory course o n Friends beliefs. Thir- teen sessions. 15- 17-"Mysticism Among Friends," a High school through adults Student/teacher $4.95 weekend to examine the movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives personally and among us as a community of faith. Led by Elaine Place your book or curriculum order by calling Wadle, Jean Roberts, and Walter Sullivan at Quaker Hill Bookstore at 1-800-537-8838 Quaker Center, Ben Lomond, Calif., the gath­ ering is extending a special invitation to per­ sons serving on monthly meeting ministry and/or oversight committees. Cost is $110. Contact Quaker Center, P.O. Box 686, Ben Lomond, CA 95005, telephone (408) 336- 8333. Quaker Life Stay in touch with what Christ is doing among FUM Friends. $19.95 for 10 issues. Call for sample copies.

FRJENDS JOURNAL November 1996 43 GRASSROOTS AND NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP: Milestones A GUIDE FOR ORGANIZATIONS IN CHANGING TIMES

by Bertt M. Lakey, George Lakey, Rod Napier, and Janice M. Robinson Births/Adoptions Coates--Milogre Coates, on Jan. 8, to Nancy Consistent with Quaker values and tested for and Jim Coates, of Red Lodge (Mont.) Worship practical application in the world, Grassroots and Nonprofit Group. Leadership will help the reader: Grace-Isaiah Robert Grace, on May 29, to - build diversity in membership, staff, and board, Eden and Jim Grace, members of Beacon Hill (Mass.) Meeting. - improve staff and member morale, - supervise staff and volunteers more effectively and Matteson--L/iam Forrest Matteson, on May 27, to Mare Tracy and Sumner Matteson, of Madison humanely, (Wis.) Meeting. - develop creative plans for outreach, Rlchie-Lucas Shoemaker Richie, on May 6, to - banish boring meetings, Cynthia Terrell and Rob Richie, of Germantown - plan strategy more dynamically and democratically, (Pa.) Meeting. - tum internal conflicts into creative and productive Schmidt- Thomas Hargett Schmidt, on June 12, outcomes, to Holly and Mark Schmidt, of Winston-Salem - and much more! (N.C.) Meeting. Selker-Jordan Thomas Selker, on May 5, to Long-experienced Quaker administrator on Laurie Childers and John Selker, of Corvallis Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership: us. $16.95 (Oreg.) Meeting. ·Its perspectives and eminently practical suggestions on paperback, Sou den-Timothy John Souders, on June 16, to Margaret Hopkins Plank and David Monro such pivotal Issues as mission and structure, power and 224 pp. Souders. Margaret is a member of Storrs (Conn.) authority, diversity, and supervision are as relevant to a New SOdety Meeting. well-established Quaker school as they are to a fledgling Publishers. Urban--Nathaniel David Urban, on March 6, to grassroots advocacy network.· To order toll-free, Margaret Joan Urban, of Minneapolis (Minn.) -Warren A. Witte, Executive Director, call Meeting. Friends Services for the Aging 1 (800) .333-9093. Marriages/Unions Anderer-Dew- Kevin William Dew and Lynda Jean Anderer, on June 7, under the joint care of Milwaukee (Wis.) Meeting and Wilmington (Del.) Meeting, of which Kevin is a member. Quaker Inner City School Ashworth-Scholz- Howard Scholz and Sara Ashworth, on July 6, under the care of Rogue Valley (Oreg.) Meeting. Sara and Howard are Endowment Fund attenders of San Jose (Calif.) Meeting. Child-McCue-Thom McCue and Linda Child, A small group of well integrated Quaker schools are doing a on June 29, under the care of Santa Cruz (Calif.) terrific job in inner city environments. Help them gain needed Meeting. endowments to provide long-term financial stability. For infor­ Dycus-Hinshaw- Robert E. Hinshaw and Linda F. Dycus, on Feb. II. Robert is a member of mation contact Imogene Angell, 150 Kendal Drive, Kennett Boulder (Colo.) Meeting. Square, PA 19348. (610) 388-0935. Goodwin-KIInkman--Pau/ Klinkman and Liberty Goodwin, on June I , at and under the care of Providence (R.I.) Meeting, of which both Paul and Liberty are members. Snow-Lisi- Roy Lisi and Leila Snow, on April Quaker Volunteer Service, National conference 20, under the care of Eugene (Oreg.) Meeting. Training, and Witness April :18-20, :1997 Tabbutt-Fink-Arthur Jab/ow Fink and Ann Burlington Meetinghouse Conference Center, Burlington, NJ. Foster Tabbuu, on June 22, under the care of Portland (Maine) Meeting. Friends from Yearly Meetings and Quaker Service and Witness Programs: Waddington-Sorrel-Margaret Sorrel and Lynn 0 learn about other Friends' projects Waddington, on April 13, under the care of 0 look at setting up an ongoing network on service and witness University (Wash.) Meeting. o work together-across different traditions-to develop queries on how Zee-Johnson--Lany Johnson and Lisa Zee, on Friends connect faith, service, work, and witness. June 23, at Quaker Center in Ben Lomond, Calif., under the care of Santa Cruz (Calif.) Meeting. For how your Yearly Meeting or program can participate: illinois Yearly Meeting, Quaker Volunteer Service and Training Committee, Deaths cjo Judy Jager, 1002 Rorence Ave., Evanston, IL 60202, (847) 864-8173, Chllson--Rachel Edna Chilson, 85, on March 13, e-mail: [email protected], website: http:/ ;www.uic.eduj-conantj qvstc in Kenya. Rachel was born in Kaimosi, Kenya, in Also available: a directory of 1996 Quaker service opportunities, 1910. Her father was one of three missionaries in hard copy, or see our website. from the U.S. who established the Friends African Mission at Kaimosi in 1902. Rachel graduated

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For Information call (215) 241-7279. from Wichita Friends College in Kansas in 1932 grandsons, Stuart Lloyd Kent and Jackson Ross 55¢ per word. Minimum charge is $11. Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for three and returned to Kenya to work with her parents. Kent; a brother, William Wendell Kent; and a consecutive insertions, 25% for six. During the 1940s she worked with the Kenyan sister, Hazel Burgos. Appearance of any advertisement does not imply endorsement by Friends Journal. government's Social Service Department, uplift­ Minshali--Frederic Mortimer Minshall Jr., 91, ing the welfare of indigenous Kenyan women. She on April21, in Atlanta, Ga. Fred graduated in 1925 was fluent in Luhya and Kiswahili languages, and from the University of South Carolina, where he Classified Ad Deadlines: she could communicate in other local dialects such edited the school's newspaper and yearbook. He January issue: November 11 as Kikuyu, Kalenjin, and Luo. Rachel never knew played clarinet and piccolo in the college band, February issue: December 9 retirement in the traditional sense. Age moved her and he loved ragtime music. While in college he Submit your ad to: out of service with the Kenyan government, so she took up the hobby of cartooning, and he was able joined World Gospel's Bethany Bookshop. Thir­ Advertising Manager, Friends Journal to sell his cartoons now and then for nearly 60 1501 Cherry Street teen years later, she established Christian Video years. Fred graduated with a degree in journalism Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 shows. Rachel was a tough, uncompromising au­ and worked for two newspapers in South Carolina thority on the sustenance oftruth and justice. Many during the 1930s. In 1938 Fred met and married who met her admired her strong spiritual charac­ Peggy Woods. In 1939 their only child, Janet, was ter. Rachel is survived by a sister, Esther Choate. born. During World War II, he was the city editor Accommodations Cook-Elizabeth Malcolm Conant Cook, 74, on of The News and Courier in Charleston, S.C. After Comfortable Seattle Accommodations, University Meet­ March 18, in Harrisburg, Pa., Hospital, of a heart the war, Fred took a job as a feature writer for The ing. Private bedroom, shared bathroom with shower, attack. Betty was born in Littleton, Mass., and Louisville Courier-Journal in Kentucky, where he short walking distance to restaurants. Easy access to grew up in Southampton, Mass. In 1943 she gradu­ worked for the next 25 years in various reporting public transportation. Donations accepted. Reservations, ated from Mt. Holyoke College with honors in and editorial capacities. His assignments included (206) 632-9839. NYC midtown B&B bargain! Charming, one-bedroom history and married Donald B. Cook. The couple coverage of union meetings during the Kentucky apartments of your own in historical, Eastside neighbor­ lived in New York City from 1943 to 1950 and coal mine strikes in the 1940s and ' 50s. In the late hood, $70-$125 double, plus $15 per additional guest. attended Friends meetings then held at Riverside 1950s and early '60s he covered the local courts From simple to sublime. (212) 228-4645. Church. During this time she was employed by the during the earliest demonstrations of the Civil Ocala, Florida: Lovely, spacious, modern; two twin­ geology department at Columbia University. After Rights Movement in Louisville. In 1970 Fred and bedded bedrooms with baths; couple $550 monthly; 1010 moving to Wilmington, Del., in 195 1, Betty be-. Peggy retired to Clearwater, Fla. Fred was forced Northeast 44th Avenue, 3447()-8151; (352) 236-2839. came a member of Wilmington (Del.) Meeting, to stop drawing his cartoons when he began to lose Pittsburgh-Affordable, comfortable third floor (walk up) bedrooms with shared bath for visiting Friends. Single or where she was active in Ministry and Worship and his sight from glaucoma. He then became known double occupancy. Short to medium term. Kitchen avail­ authored the Friends General Conference publica­ in his community for his efforts to clean up area able. Convenient to universities, shops, hospitals, and tion "Let's Listen." She was gifted in enlightened beaches. He enhanced his retirement income by cultural attractions. Send inquiries with introductory letter from Clerk to: House Manager, Friends Meetinghouse, ministry and skilled in reaching consensus in com­ recycling metal and glass containers that he col­ 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. (412) 683- mittees. She served for 15 years on the board of lected from the beach twice each day. Following 2669. Wilmington Friends School, which she chaired the sudden death of his wife in 1989, Fred moved An oasis of calm In the heart of London? Yes, at the from 1972 to 1978. Later she was employed by to Atlanta, Ga., to be near his daughter. At age 90 Quaker International Centre, where short-, medium-, and Head Start and worked as a secretary for the he became a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting. On longer-term accommodation is available as well as con­ ference facilities. Excellent homemade food. For further Eleutherian Mills Historical Library. After retiring that occasion, he expressed that he felt like he had information contact telephone: (0171I 387-5648, fax: in 1986, the Cooks moved to Spring Run, Pa., and been a Friend all his life. Fred was preceded in (0171) 383-3722, or write to: 1 Byng Place, London became sojourning members of Menallen (Pa.) death by his wife of 51 years, Peggy Woods WC1E 7JH. Meeting, where she served as recording clerk in Minshall. He is survived by a daughter, Janet Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home 1994. Betty is survived by her husband, Donald Hemphill Minshall; three grandsons; and a sister, in pleasant suburbs nearby. By day, week, or month. For Cook; two 9llughters, Dorothy Cook and Elisabeth Rachel Minshall Waters. details call (301 I 27Q-5258. Coady; three sons, Roger, Alan, and Avery Cook; NYC-Greenwich VIllage Accommodation. Walk to 15th nine grandchildren; and a brother, Frank P. Conant. Neal--Margaret Ruth "Peg"ColbeckNeal, 79,on Street Meeting. One-four people; children welcome. (Two April 2, in Asheville, N.C. Born in Blackwell, cats in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. Ellis-Hudson Ellis, 74, on April 14, in St. Peters­ Okla., Peg grew up in Joplin, Mo. She earned a BA Hawaii-Island of Kaual. Cozy housekeeping cottages. burg, Fla. Hudson grew up in Heightstown, N.J., in 1938 from Ohio State University, where she was Peace, palms, privacy. $80/nightly. 147 Royal Drive, and was a graduate of Princeton University. He vice }'resident of the YWCA, and she attended Kapaa, HI 96746. (808) 822-2321 . was a member of Crosswicks (N.J.) Meeting and graduate school at Chicago Theological Seminary Chicago-Affordable guest accommodations in historic Friends meetinghouse. Short- or long-term. Contact: worked as a stockbroker in Philadelphia before and Western Carolina University. Much of Peg's Assistant Director, Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn moving to Florida in 1963. Hudson was preceded early career was related to the YWCA in several Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. (312) 288-3066, mariew@ in death by his sister, Margaret Ellis Wright, in Midwestern cities. She later served under the Board miso.wwa.com. January. ofG lobal Ministries ofthe United Methodist Church Quaker House, Managua, Nicaragua. Simple hospitality; as a church and community worker in western shared kitchen. Reservations: 011-505-2-663216 (Span­ Kent-Ernest Daryl Kent, 83, on April 15, at Ish) or 011-505-2-660984 (English). Friends Homes at Guilford, Greensboro, N.C. Born North Carolina. Deeply committed to the cause of equality for women, she taught women's studies at Coming to London? Friendly B&B just a block from the in Woonsocket, R.I., Ernest graduated from British Museum and very close to London University. A Guilford College, received his bachelor of divinity Warren Wilson College near Asheville from 1976 central location for all tourist activities. Ideal for persons degree from Hartford Theological Seminary in to 1982. She also was a past president of the traveling alone. Direct subway and bus links with Heathrow Asheville branch of the American Association of Airport. The Penn Club, 21 Bedford Place, London WC1 B Connecticut, and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia SJJ. Telephone: (0171) 638-4718. Fax: (0171) 636-5516. University. He also did post-doctoral work in East­ University Women. Peg was the author of several one-act plays and pageants and a three-act play, Looking for a creative living alternative in New York em thought at the University of Pennsylvania in City? Penington Friends House may be the place for you! "No Church Is an Island," which was produced Philadelphia. During World War II, he served as a We are looking for people of all ages who want to make a chaplain in the U.S. Navy. Ernest became the Cra­ several times at Methodist conferences. After be­ serious commitment to a community lifestyle based on coming a member of Asheville (N.C.) Meeting, Quaker principles. For information call (212) 673-1730. ven Professor of Religion and Philosophy at We also have overnight accommodations. Guilford College, where he also served as aca­ she served with her husband as co-clerk of that demic dean and filled a number of other adminis­ meeting, and she also served as clerk of the Long­ trative positions during his 39-year tenure. A re­ Range Planning Committee. Her cheerful activity Assistance Sought on various committees and her regular attendance corded Friends minister, he was a member of New Help us find these members: Loretta Feller Bosserman, Garden (N.C.) Meeting, where he served as clerk at meeting for worship, even after her health began Una (Caroline) Carter-Mears, Edward Kevin Deren, Paul to fail, were much valued by Asheville Meeting. McGregor Dickie, Robert Dale Doane, Elizabeth Taylor and taught the men's brotherhood class for many Doane, Taylor Dale Doane. Please send any Information years. Ernest is survived by his wife, Mary Elizabeth Peg is survived by her husband, J. Philip Neal; two daughters, Edna Neal Collins and Emily Neal; two to Friends Meeting of Washington, 2111 Florida Avenue (Ebbie) Osgood Kent; two sons, Peter Kent and NW, Washington DC 20008. Telephone: (202) 483-3310, Robert Kent; a daughter, Louise Kent Haltom; two grandsons; and a brother, Joe W. Calbeck. Fax: (202) 483-3312.

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Quaker institutions, are bilingual English-Spanish, love Three historic Friends meeting­ Upcoming Conferences at Pendle Hill children and working with people, have excellent commu­ houses come alive with exciting Writing from Life Experience, Kendall Dudley, Nov. nication and consensus-building skills, are available by stories of their past, including the Colonial period and 15-17. July 1997, and are willing to consider committing for Abolijion: Flushing, Nine Partners, and Shrewsbury, N.J. Jesus and the Kingdom: Rediscovering the Reign of three years. While the salary is low, the experience is Narrated by Friends who have intimate knowledge of God, William O'Brien, Nov. 15-17. rich. Simple housing included. Please apply by January these meetinghouses. Appr. 50 min. V.H.S. $35. New Year's Celebration: choice of three workshops: 31 to Katy VanDusen, Apartado 32-5655, Monteverde, Also available in V.H.S. Video: Who Are Quakers? De­ Reeding and Writing as Contemplative Practice, Mary Puntarenas, email: [email protected]. scribes Friends worship, ministry, and decision-making. Rose O'Reilley; Celebrating Your Playful Spirit, Louise 27 min. $29.50, and Crones: Interviews with Elder Brill; Silent Retreat, Elizabeth McClung. Includes evening Monteverde Friends School needs K-12 teachers to begin August 1997. MFS is an English-dominant, bilin­ Quaker ~omen. Quaker women speak unselfconsciously fun; New Year's Eve candlelight worship. Dec. 29- gual school with multi-graded classes in Costa Rica's abou~ beong Quaker women and their feelings about aging. Jan. 1. 20 mon. $18. Excellent tools for outreach and education. Our Stories, Cosmic Stories, and the Biblical Story, rural mountains. While salaries are low, the experience is All prices include postage. Allow three weeks for deliv­ Walter Wink and June Keener-Wink, Jan. 1Q-12. rich. Simple housing included. Please apply by January ery. Quaker Video, P .0. Box 292, Maplewood, NJ 07040. Insight and Action (for staff and board of Quaker organi- 31 to Jean Stuckey, Monteverde Friends School, zations), John Carnell and Karen Thomas, Jan. 31- Monteverde-5655, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Tei./ Fax: Feb.2. (506) 645-5302. email: [email protected]. Contact Registrar, Pendle Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill Ad., Wallingford, PA 19086-6099, (610) 566-4507 or (800) William Penn House. Quaker seminar and hospitality Books and Publications center seeks dynamic Executive Director to lead WPH to 742-3150. prominent role in areas of peace and justice education Wider Quaker Fellowship's mailings (in English and/or and conflict resolution. The successful applicant will have Spanish) are a view into the wider Quaker world. 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46 November 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Quaker-based, rural, desert community Invites indi· Westtown School: Under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Desktop publishing, statistical analysis, and viduals, families, or small groups. We rent homes to Meeting since 1799, Westtown seeks Quaker children technical writing services to make your good prospective community members and space for modest fo r day (PreK-10) and boarding (9-12). Boarding is idea better-completed easier. Information retreats. Write Satya, Friends Southwest Center, McNeal, required in 11th and 12th grades. Significant Quaker searching. APA manuscript formatting. Newslet· I>Z. 85617. presence among 600 students, 80 teachers. Challeng­ \: ters prepared. Brochure available. (302) ing academics, arts, athletics, in a school where students 653..()769, [email protected] or 1436 Clayton­ Bald Head Island, N.C. Panoramic view of ocean, dunes, from diverse racial, national, economic, and religious Delaney Road, Clayton, DE 19938-9794. lagoon, and golf course from four-bedroom, two-bath· backgrounds come together to form a strong community room, beautifully furnished house with wrap-around deck, of shared values. Financial assistance is available. Friendly Financial Services. Let me help you prepare for two electric golf carts. 14 miles of beach, championship Westtown, PA 19395. (610) 3W.7900. retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially respon­ golf, tennis, croquet, swimming, and fishing. 13,000 acres sible investments-my specialty. Call Joyce Moore, of maritime wilderness. Many birds and wildflowers. No The Quaker School at Horsham, a value-centered el· LUTCF, Joyce Moore Financial Services at (610) 258- cars on Island. Peaceful, friendly. Rental by day or week. ementary and middle school tor students with learning 7532 or e-mail JoyceM1955@AOLcom. (Securities offered (215) 6W.9186. differences. Small, remedial classes, qualified staff, serv· by Washington Square Securities, 1423 N. 28th Street, ing Philadelphia, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties. 318 Allentown, PA 18104, [610)437·2812.) Meeting House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674· 2875. Retirement Living Socially Responsible Investing Foxdale VIllage, a Quaker life-care community. Lansdowne Friends School-A small Friends school Using client-specified social criteria, I screen invest· Thoughtfully deslgned cottages complemented by attrac­ for boys and girls three years of age through sixth grade, ments. I use a financial planning approach to portfolio tive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and full medical rooted in Quaker values. We provide children with a management by identifying individual objectives and de­ protection. Setting is a wonderful combination of rural quality academic and a developmentally appropriate pro­ signing an investment strategy. I work with individuals and university environment. Entry fees from gram in a nurturing environment. Whole language, and businesses. Call Sacha Millstone; Raymond, James $42,00~147,000; monthly fees from $1,205-$2,437. thematic education, conflict resolution, Spanish, after· & Associates, Inc., member NYSE, SIPC. (202) 789-0585 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Department F, State College, school care, summer program. 110 N. Lansdowne in Washington, D.C., area, or (800) 982-3035. PA 16801.£269. Telephone: (800) 253-4951. Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050. (610) 623-2548.

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FRIENDS JoURNAL November 1996 47 Choices in how and where to live tn• your retirement• years. One choice: To continue living where you are now. It undoubtedly has At Woolman Commons, you'll enjoy the charm and conve­ some advantages, but you'll still worry about maintenance nience of historic Mount Holly. You can walk to Mount costs, costly repairs, and rising real estate taxes. Holly Meeting, banks, the post office, many nice restau­ You'll also still worry about health care costs and the rants, and the lively business district. Nearby public trans­ difficulty in arranging for help when faced with illness or portation takes you to Philadelphia or New York City, and injury. Even more, you're concerned about the quality and shopping malls are just a short drive away. cost oflong-term nursing care should you ever need it. you'll be stimulated by friendly, caring neighbors who are active like yourself--involved in civic and cultural activities, A better choice: volunteer work, worship groups or in pursuing favorite interests in the common hobby room, woodworking area, Woolman Commons in Mount Holly, N.J., a satellite greenhouse, and flower and vegetable gardens. community of Medford Leas. Woolman People still energetic and spirited enough to Commons is a "partial-service" com­ enjoy and get the most out of life. munitywith lower monthly fees than those ofa full-service community. In fact, at Woolman Commons you'll That means you continue do- have the best of both worlds-the ing things for yourself that you fulfillment and security of a enjoy-cooking, arranging small, close-knit "neighbor- your own transportation, hood" and you'll enjoy all the and housekeeping (al­ additional facilities, programs though you can use and services available at the Medford Leas' housekeep­ Medford campus. ing service for an additional Woolman Commons of charge). We do the things Medford Leas . . . one- and you don't want to do like two-bedroom units in colonial maintenance, repairs, and gen­ brick buildings and four restored eral groundskeeping. historic houses ... a community in And with Medford Leas covering the the Friends tradition ofcare and concern. costs of most of your health care needs-for your lifetime-including wellness care, all prescription For more information and a brochure giving many drugs, primary and specialist care, and long-term more specifics, including the very affordable prices, care--you know that we'll always be there please call: (609) 654-3000 or (800) 331-4302 helping you maintain as high a quality oflife (except N.J.) and ask for the Director of as possible. Admissions.

Medford Leas is a Quaker-related Continuing Care Retirement Community conducted by the Estaugh, a nonprofit corporation founded in 1914. Medford Leas has scholarship monies available to assist Friends with limited assets or income who EQUAL HOU!'HO ate interested in living as part of our community. OPPORTUNITY