june 2001 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today
DILEMMAS OF OUR PEACE TESTIMONY
GRIEVING IN THE LIGHT: FRIENDS MINISTRY , . ( "-·... .. ~ . , ...... TO THE DIVORCED
U.S. QUAKERS: HYBRID CORN? An Among Friends independent magazine serving the Working for Peace Religious Society of erhaps one of the most difficult dilemmas presented by our Quaker testimonies Friends is the tension between seeking to address that of God in every person and those Ptimes when we feel clear that speaking Truth requires advocacy for justice in Editorial active confrontation with one constituency or another. One of the compelling Susan Corson-Finnerty (Editor-Manager}, Kenneth challenges of Quakerism- not always realized- is to find the higher Truth that Sutton (Senior Editor), Robert Dockhorn (Assistant Editor), Judith Brown (Poetry Editor), Ellen speaks to the condition of all parties concerned. Michaud (Book Review Editor), Brent Bill (Assistant In "Dilemmas of Our Peace Testimony" (p. 11), Judith Reynolds Brown addresses Book Review Editor), Joan Overman (Book Review some of these issues. She reminds us that peace and justice are inextricably bound Assistant), Christine Rusch (Milestones Editor), Julie Gochenour, Robert Marks, Cameron McWhirter together and that we must work for worldwide peace in community with others who (News Editors), Kara Newell (Columnist), Lisa Rand, share this aspiration. But she also recognizes that there is a place for confrontation and Marjorie Schier (Copyeditors}, Ellen Knechel (Intern} dialogue about differences. In the spirit of this latter insight, we offer you a collection Production ofletters in the Forum (p. received in response to our March issue, which focused Barbara Benton (Art Director}, Alia Podolsky 4) (Assistant Art Director) on the Palestinian perspective in the current conflict in the Middle East. Judith Circulation and Advertising Brown asks if it isn't healthy "to air ... reservations, deal with those tensions rather Nagendran Gulendran (Marketing and Advertising than complacently to leave them lying? Dialogue can bring out our differences, give Manager}, Nicole Hackel (Circulation Assistant}, Kay Bacon, Ruth Peterson, Robert Sutton (Volunteers) life to our meetings, and tolerance to our hearts. We need it." I hope that you will Administration dialogue about the issues raised by our letter writers and share your thoughts with us. Marianne De Lange (Office Manager), Pamela This month we also touch on the work of two remarkable Friends whose lives were Nelson (Development Assistant}, Tom McPeak committed to the pursuit of peace, freedom, and social justice. Margery Post Abbott's (Accounting Services}, Martin Kelley (Web Manager), Terry Fowler (Volunteer) "Emily Greene Balch, Pioneering Peacemaker (1867- 1961)" (p. 9) gives a wonderful Board of Trustees profrle of the first secretary/treasurer ofWomen's International League for Peace and Lucinda Antrim, Aaron Buckley, Paul Buckley, Freedom (WILPF), one of two women with Quaker connections to win the Nobel TylaAnn Burger (Treasurer}, Katharine Clark, Peace Prize. It is interesting to note that a person ofBalch's stature in the peace Linda Coffin, John Darnell, William Deutsch, Maty Ann Downey, Marsha Green (Recording movements of her day struggled deeply herself with the dilemmas presented by our Clerk}, Dan Hewitt, Linda Lyman, Barbara Mays, Peace Testimony. Larry Miller, Ruth Peterson, David Runkel, Larry D. Spears, Wilmer Tjossem, Elizabeth Yeats (Clerk) On page 25 a book review of Peacemaking in South Africa: A Life in Conflict Resolution by H.W. van der Merwe lifts up the life work of this South African FRJENDS jouRNAL (ISSN 00 16-1322) was established in 1955 as the successor to The Friend (1827-1955) sociologist whose 24 years as director of what is now the Centre for Conflict and Friends !ntelligencer (1844-195 5). Resolution played a significant part in bridging the gap between the apartheid regime • FRJENDS j OURNAL is published monthly by in South Africa and elements of the African National Congress in prison and exile. As Friends Publishing Corporation, 1216 Arch Street, 2A, Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835. Telephone Judith Brown points out (p. 11), van der Merwe believed that "peace and justice are (215) 563-8629. E-mail [email protected]. complementary," and his obituary (p. 36) tells us that he emphasized not only justice Periodicals postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa., and in his peacemaking work, but forgiveness as well. additional mailing offices. • Subscriptions: one year $29, two years $54. Add On a separate note, I am delighted to announce that FRIENDS JouRNAL has just $6 per year for postage to counrries outside the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Individual copies $3 each. launched a new website at
2 june 2001 FRIENDS JouRNAL June 2001 FRIENDS Volume 4 7, No. 6 OURNAL Features Departments
6 U.S. Quakers: Hybrid Corn? 2 Among Friends William Edgerton Are the branches ofFriends like crop varieties: more 4 Forum productive when cross-fertilized? 5 Viewpoint 9 Emily Greene Balch, Pioneering The challenge ofnonviolence Peacemaker 20 Witness Margery Post Abbott Prayer vigil no. 88 Balch sadvocacy ofnonviolence was tested and honed by two world wars. 21 Life in the Meeting Friends as healers 11 Dilemmas of Our Peace Testimony Decision making via electronic communication Judith Reynolds Brown A paradox awaits anyone who tries to work for peace. 23 Reports and Epistles Friends Women International 14 The Unbowed Head Ken Southwood 24 Books Friends' "upright waiting" does not deny our dependence on a greater power. 28 News 16 Being Silent 30 Bulletin Board Christopher L. King 32 Milestones "Stilling the mind" is more than just being quiet. 39 Classified 18 Grieving in the Light: Friends' Ministry to the Divorced Lynn Johnson Poetry A meeting can do many things to alleviate feelings of aloneness. 8 The Secret Kiss Dane Cervine 12 Vietnam War Memory Janeal Turnbull Ravndal 15 Quakers Marry, Late in Life Joyce B. Adams
Cover art by Lucy Sikes
FruENDs JouRNAL]une2001 3 Forum Thanks for Middle East taken the advocacy role. Palestinians from lands with optimum access When you have a series of articles on the to water aquifers, pogromization of coverage subject, would it be asking too much for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the FRIENDS jOURNAL to run one article giving settlements; the list is long indeed. The I want to commend you for your series of articles on "Crisis in the Middle East" (Fj the pro-Israeli point of view? Israelis will have collected over $1 billion Mar.). As Quakers we recognize that justice Israel, with a population of 6 million, is from Germany in reparations for the surrounded by Arab neighbors, with a Holocaust when payments are complete, is an essential prerequisite for peace. Israel has subjected the Palestinians to military population of over 200 million, who would and recently with U.S. help have collected on both slave labor claims from German occupation for 33 years since the UN like to wipe them from the face of the earth. corporations and Swiss insurance and safe Security Council called for its withdrawal Israel is the only true democracy in the from Palestine. Moreover, Israel has region. In many of these Arab counuies, no keeping claims, yet fob off the Palestinians' claims for compensation by saying "that's to committed gross violations of international Christian church or Jewish synagogue is humanitarian and human rights law as tolerated. be negotiated." described by Mary Ellen McNish and Jean While the Palestinian refugee siruation is U.S. hands are equally as bloody as the a problem, please remember rwo things: no Israeli's military on the deaths of Zaru. Can security for Israelis be based on these violations? While we do not condone Arab country wishes to welcome any of Palestinians-who can forget seeing the TV the acts of terrorism committed by the them, and in 1948 there were 800,000 Jews image ofU.S.-supplied Blackhawk Palestinians, we must recognize the in the neighboring countries and now helicopters rocketing Palestinian buildings in (2001) there are 8,000. retaliation to youths with slingshots? The frustrations they must feel by the repressive and prolonged narure of military You do not mention that every Israeli U.S. continues to supply billions each year to Israel in both military materiel and direct occupation. How would we react if put crackdown is preceded by a Palestinian under those circumstances? While as the suicide bombing or terrorist attack. The cash payments plus satellite intelligence, all under the fig leaf of helping "stabilization" editor suggests we must pray for those Palestinian school curriculum emphasizes hate against Jews and does not even show and "peacemaking" in the Middle East. caught in this struggle, that is not enough. As Quakers, both individually and in our Israel on the map of the region. Many of the Quakers and many others of faith and conviction protest each year at the U.S. monthly and yearly meetings, it is my hope Arab countries surrounding Israel practice Army's "School of the Assassins" at Fort we shall appeal to our Congress men and terrible religious and gender discrimination. women, and our President and Secretary of Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Syria are on the State Benning, Georgia, and rightly so, where our neighbors to the south have their military State (1) to do everything we can to stop the Department list of nations that sponsor trained in ways and means of repressing immense physical, social, psychological, and terrorists. economic harm that Israel {with multi Please give more balance in reporting. their own citizens. Are there similar protests over the Israeli brutalities to the Palestinians, billion-dollar U.S. aid support) is inflicting Bob First for instance in protest of one uprising when upon the Palestinians, (2) to suspend the sale Olympia, Wash. over 500 Palestinian youths were killed? No, of U.S. weapons that are being used upon and not likely to be; the right-wing Zionist civilians and civilian property in violation of U.S. and international law, and (3) to lobby is a well-oiled political machine firmly Peace in Israel should not be clamped on our senators and congressional support (not oppose as the U.S. has done representatives. recently) a UN peacekeeping mission in the from the barrel of a gun And yet, there is a strong peace faction in Palestinian territories. The recent Sincere gratitude is most certainly due to Israel, and it is to be hoped that U.S. foreign Department of State human rights report on policy in the furure may be vectored towards Israel recognized these violations by Israel, FRIENDS jOURNAL for giving U.S. Friends supporting those courageous women and but they are yet to have any meaningful the privilege of reading and contemplating men instead of the "terminator" types whose implication for U.S. policy. upon the four Palestinian-Israeli conflict articles written by Mary Ellen McNish, Jean policy seems to be "peace" from the barrel of john P. Salzberg Zaru, Colin and Kathy South, and Maia a gun. These human rights violations would Carter. It is indeed refreshing to read not be tolerated elsewhere, nor condoned by Washington, D.C. factual and on-site reports on the plight the political leadership in this country. of the Palestinians, absent the spin applied Phillip Hartley Smith by the daily press and the wire services. More balanced reporting Pirtsburgh, Pa. The four articles strip naked the hypocrisy please: where is the Israeli of U.S. foreign policy toward this viewpoint? siruation. Where is the Israeli When one looks back over the past five perspective? I am disturbed by your articles on decades, the Palestinians are suffering a "Crisis in the Middle East," in the March plight very similar to the Jews in prewar I am most disappointed with the March 200 I issue. When analyzing or approaching Europe, particularly in Germany. The role issue of FRIENDS j OURNAL. any conflict, one can either become an reversal however, puts the right-wing Israeli Once again it has presented a jaundiced advocate for one side or recognize that both governments and the Israeli army in the view of the Middle East conflict, presenting sides have valid points of view and try to be position occupied by the Nazi Gestapo and rwo articles that are virulently pro a mediator or facilitator for peace. With S.S. at that time. The invasion of Lebanon Palestinian and anti-Israeli. I believe that regard to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by Sharon, shelling of a UN refugee camp in FRIENDS JouRNAL has a responsibility to unfortunately Friends organizations in Lebanon, bulldozing of Palestinian homes present more than one side of such a general, and AFSC in particular, have always and olive groves, dispossession of provocative issue. Surely the editor could
4 june 2001 FRJENDS J ouRNAL Viewpoint have asked a Friend to write an article from the Israeli perspective. Allan Kohrman Nonviolence: The Law of Love Newton, Mass. ention the Middle East, the whoever is injured carries the trauma of that A shared memory of Congo, or Northern Ireland, for life. Whoever inflicts the injury is acting M and eyes roll, shoulders rise, and out of fear that isn't relieved by the violent Ram allah expressions of helplessness take over as act, but only gathers strength. Very soon, people contemplate what seem to be irrec his or her world seems to grow more dis Thank you for your March issue with the oncilable conflicts. obedient and chaotic in answer to a closing cover stories on the crisis in the Middle East. The talk begins and can go something down of parts of the personality that pro I appreciated all the written accounts like this: vide a balanced view of every situation. especially that of Jean Zaru, who writes with "Well, it's built into human beings to It's said that the two primary emotions both facts and fervor. Long ago, when Jean fight back when they're attacked. Call it a are fear and love. If people perceive that was my student at Friends G irls' School, takeover by the hunter-gatherer genes they they are not taken seriously and if they're teachers and students went caroling on a carry. The code says they can't survive if deprived of material and emotional sup starlit night in Ramallah. It breaks my heart they don't shoot down the tiger or the ports, they begin to feel like nonplayers in to know that the Ramallah grizzly bear. When it comes their particular surroundings. As time passes of my childhood has been to life on the streets, some and their fates seem more and more out of deeply wounded by the people are so fur out, so their control, fear gives way to resentment reality of war and bubbling over with rage that and can change to anger so that measured, occupation. a bullet is the only answer." constructive responses to what is happen May Mansoor Munn "Maybe so, but aren't ing are lost in the shuffle. Houston, Tex. there other ways to deal Psychologists say that it's harder for a with out-of-control types?" child to be ignored than to be yelled at. To Why no Israeli "What do you mean? wonder if he even exists is a fearsome expe Guys like Hider or Stalin rience and can translate into behaviors that photographs? or Pontius Pilate deserved range from depression to all-out assault. If to die. If we'd gotten to them before they The touching photograph of two whole populations feel overlooked or taken Palestinian women on the front cover of the did all that damage, the world would be a advantage of, resignation can be countered different place." JouRNAL's March 2001 issue illustrates only by gathering rage that demands an outlet. half the story. Why not give equal "People let them be in charge. Suppose People begin to abuse each other with the overlords tried giving a war and no one words, fists, and guns. photographic billing to pensive Israeli women? came. Citizens could begin to line up be Mahatma Gandhi said that violence Irving Barnett hind all kinds of passive resistance like sit springs fi:om seven root causes: Sonia Blumenthal ins, boycotts, efforts to negotiate with those Wealth without work. in charge. They could stand up and refuse Pleasure without conscience. Clinton Corners, N.Y. to carry out orders." Knowledge without character. "They'd be shot, wouldn't they?" Commerce without morality. Blood still cries out from the "What if there were too many to shoot Science without humanity. ground down. ) " Worship without sacrifice. "That doesn't sound practical." Politics without principles. I've "slept on it" a.k.a. prayed and sought "How practical is all-out death and de All of these speak to a lack of regard, guidance from God about it. I know I must struction?" respect, and caring for one another even as at least write this letter whether it gets This imagined conversation grows out these qualities provide the essence of love. included in the Forum or not. T he March ofsee ing the PBS program, "A Force More To counter them calls for living lives that 2001 issue of FRIENDS jOURNAL focuses on Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Con take others' fu.tes into account, that hear "Crisis in the Middle East." flict" and a replay of the movie Gandhi. the drumbeat ofso rrow and loss and can, at I too have made a group trip to the Holy T hey both challenged the idea that humans the same time, celebrate our commonali Land-<>ne sponsored by Pax World Fund are inherently aggressive and have no choice ties and special gifts. in which I'd invested decades ago. I also but to act on that instinct. To bear this out, As this occurs, lethal outbursts would fulfilled an obligation on my return to talk there have been societies where the word fade. In time, nonviolence would seem as about it to as many as would listen. "war" was not in the lexicon. In our time, natural a choice as a walk on the beach or My Quaker roots go back to the 1640s Costa Rica gave up its standing army and hugging a needy child. This isn't some when England was torn by religious urges other countries to do the same. thing that can be prescribed by others, a upheaval and an ancestor lefi: there for the For ourselves, we can be sure that vio convenient pill to be swallowed when threats New World on Long Island-where the lence leads to more of the same. Whether it to our equilibrium arise. It's an inner pro natives helped out and celebrated at a occurs in households, on the streets ofcities cess, a lengthy prayer that can lead us to Thanksgiving feast with the white men (and and towns, or on the preplanned battle ward fearless acceptance of the law of love. of course, women and children!). grounds our leaders devise to ward off Ready everyone? History as I know it did not start at the threats, it will build in intensity. No matter Cynthia Fisk where it occurs, we need to understand that Gloucester, Mass. Continued on p. 37 FruENDS)OURNALjune2001 5 $1.59 20G U.S. Quakers: QUAKER~ VARIETIES in the 1880s and 1890s Corn? because so many of them Hybrid were lifeless. She said she was one of the young radi cals who had helped to in by William Edgerton troduce such things as pre pared sermons, music, and systematic Bible study into North Carolina Friends heritage and become a kind of homog meetings in an effort to keep them from enized Protestant. The strengths of the dying out entirely. liberal unprogrammed meetings are their Even after this history lesson from my intellectual vitaliry and their social con aunt it took me some time to realize that cern; their weaknesses are their occasional the most important thing in the Religious lack of spiritual depth, their difficulty in Society of Friends is neither the pro holding their children within the Reli grammed, pastoral type ofmeeting, against gious Society of Friends, and frequently which I had rebelled, nor the unpro and most serious of all-their loss ofcon grammed meeting based on silence, in tact with the Christian roots of Quaker which I have since felt so comfortable. ears ago I heard our gifted Quaker ism. The extremes in this religious spec Both of these forms of worship are noth economist-philosopher-poet Ken trum tend at one end toward Billy Gra ing more than that--outward forms. They neth Boulding compare U.S. ham and fundamentalists, and at the other have value not in themselves but only to YQuakers to hybrid corn. His inter toward a type of Unitarian humanism the extent of their usefulness in helping esting observation was that, just as highly that some wisecracker has called "the be human beings discover spiritual reality. productive hybrid corn can be created by lief that there is at most one God!" Neither unprogrammed nor pro cross-fertilizing two less productive strains, After growing up in a pastoral meeting grammed worship should pose a threat to so has much of the leadership in U.S. inNorth Carolina and then spending more the other. In the same way, religion need Quakerism come from the cross-fertiliza than half my life in various nonpastoral not be threatened by science. Jesus said: tion of the theologically conservative, meetings, I have sympathy and apprecia "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth Bible-oriented, Christ-centered, pro tion for both, and a sense of distress that shall make you free" Oohn 8:32). When grammed meetings of the Midwest, Far we no sooner make progress in healing old the Italian astronomer Galileo in 1632 West, and South with the more tradi divisions in Quakerism than we find new refuted the old belief that the sun revolved tional unprogrammed meetings of the ones appearing. My first acquaintance with around the earth and proved that the earth eastern United States. an unprogrammed Friends meeting carne revolved around the sun, this filled the Among all the different strains in the in 1934, right after graduation from leaders of the Church with alarm. Galileo cornfields of U.S. Q uakerism, none can Guilford College in North Carolina. I was arrested by the Inquisition, threat produce an entirely satisfactory crop by spent a year working for an M .A. at ened with torture, forced to recant, and itself. The strengths of the evangelical, Haverford College and went every Sun sentenced to prison. This controversy did programmed, pastoral meetings are their day with Douglas and Dorothy Steere to not shake the followers ofGeorge Fox and ability to give the next generation a good Radnor (Pa.) Meeting, which they were in Robert Barclay, because their religious con solid preparation for life, with a stable process of resurrecting after many years, victions were rooted in vital personal ex family environment, often in a rural set during which that fine old meetinghouse perience. As Barclay said: "The scriptures ting; a fairly thorough acquaintance with had stood empty. I remember corning .. . are not to be considered the principal the Bible; and a sturdy set of values to live horne full of enthusiasm for this new ex foundation of all truth and knowledge. by. Their weakness is their tendency to perience and talking about it with my . . . We know them only by the inward lose sight of their distinctively Quaker aunt Annie Edgerton W illiams, who was testimony of the Spirit .. . . The Spirit is a recorded minister and had spent seven the primary and principal rule of faith." I William Edgerton is a member ofBloomington years in India as the first Quaker mission find it interesting to imagine how reassur {Ind.) Meeting. Gratefolly dedicated to the ary from North Carolina Yearly Meeting. ing Barclay would be if he had been born memory of Kenneth Boulding {1910-1993), She put my new enthusiasm into histori in our time, when some of our fellow Quaker economist, philosopher, poet, and spiri cal perspective with an account ofher own Christians are still as disturbed by what we tual Leader. rebellion against unprogrammed meetings know now of evolution as others were in 6 june2001FruENDS]OURNAL the 17th century by the discovery that is continuous and never the sun does not revolve around the ending. Under the guidance earth. I can imagine the 21st-century of the Light Within, we dis- Barclay expressing his awe before cover new evidence of the God's creative power and meditat greatness ofGod in every ing in wonder about the further, thing that history and sci spiritual evolution that God un ence reveal tO us about doubtedly has in store for each the universe. When the of us after the end ofour physi astronomers' telescopes cal existence on this earth. The show us that our earth is Quaker proceeds on faith only one tiny speck in a that beyond the physical re universe so vast that the ality of the universe is a light from some of the greater reality that is spiri more distant stars has tual, and that all human traveled 186,000 miles beings have the possibility every second for more of growing spiritually and than 10 billion years in knowing the will of God order to reach our eyes, through meditation and and it had already trav prayer, which are a kind of eled more than half mystical equivalent to the of that distance be experimental methods of fore our earth was the scientist. even created four and This comparison with a halfbillion years ago, science leads naturally tO we can joyfully pro what is distinctive in our claim with the Psalm Quaker heritage. There are ist: "The heavens de three great sources of au clare the glory ofGod thority in religion: the au and the firmament thority of the group, the showeth his handi authority of a sacred book, work." Our Quaker and the authority of individual experi doctrine of the Inner ence through direct communion with Light frees us from any God. In general, the Roman Catholic conflict between religion Church and the Eastern Orthodox and science. In fact, Quakerism .~ Churches emphasize the authority of the and science can be seen as parallel ~ group. Islam and most branches ofProtes ways of seeking truth. ~ tantism-especially such denominations With such a strong foundation in ~ as the Baptists--emphasize the authority There can be little finding multiple pathways towards ~ of a sacred book. Quakerism emphasizes doubt, however, that truth, as well as a reputation as peace- c-. the authority of direct religious experi what gives Quaker makers, how is it that Quakerism has ~ ence, coming from "the true light, which ism its only real claim become fractured from within? Today, "'-l lighteth every man that cometh into the to distinction is the 174 years after that first great split be- ~ world," as we read in John 1:9. Ofcourse, doctrine of the In tween the Orthodox and the Hicksites, it would be a serious oversimplification tO ner Light. If there is a spark of God in the lack of real understanding and even of assume that these three kinds ofauthority every single human being on earth, the a common language between pastoral, pro are separate pigeonholes, and that you implications of that are breathtaking. It grammed meetings and nonpastoral, un have to put all your faith into only one of implies the equality of all races and na programmed meetings is serious enough them. For most religious groups it is a tionalities. It implies the equality of men to justifY embarrassment when we hear matter not of choosing between the three and women. It implies that God's revela praise about Quaker peacemaking from but of relative emphasis of each of the tion to human beings has existed as long outsiders who do not know us well enough. three. as the human race has existed, and that it Today the variety of beliefs and prac-
FRIENDS jOURNAL june 2001 7 The Inner The Secret Kiss light is the At the heart of the Universe one thing that is a secret rices among U.S. Quak offers any hope important for the health of ers is so bewildering that the Religious Society of around which we might wonder whether of overcoming Friends as it is for the health the Religious Society of of American politics. the Friends in our country has the divisions Experienced Quaker ebb and flow ever been more fractured, farmers may be quick to of more divided than it is that separate point our that hybrid corn all existence right now. And yet there cannot reproduce itself. I are signs of hope in the us. think Kenneth Boulding circles midst of all this disagree might have answered that ment. First of all, there this is just the point. The as a dog has been no trace of the actual physical greatest contribution all of us can make to sniffing violence that marked the conflicts between the spiritual health and vigor of Quaker for Hicksites and Orthodox Quakers in New ism is through vigorous and constant spiri York and Ohio Yearly Meetings after the tual cross-fertilization among all the crops a safe place to lie down. split in 1827. And second, there are nu of Quakerism-Conservative, Evangeli merous efforts today to maintain a mean cal Friends International, Friends United In the heart of each one of us ingful dialogue across the differences that Meeting, and Friends General Confer is separate Friends from one another. ence. Here are a few Friends out of many The Inner Light is the one thing in who have done this: Clarence Pickett, who the answer Quakerism that is distinctive enough to grew up in Midwestern Quakerism and justifY our separate existence as a Religious was a Quaker pastor before he became the around which Society of Friends. It is also the one thing first executive secretary of American the that offers us any real hope of eventually Friends Service Committee; Thomas Kelly, ebb and flow overcoming the divisions that separate a Quaker farm boy from Ohio whose of Friends from one another. Ifwe mind the Testament ofDevotion has a unique place our lives Light Within, we shall follow cheerfully in international Quaker literature; Leonard in George Fox's footsteps, answering that Kenworthy, whose roots were deep in Mid circle ofGod in everyone--even in fellow Quak western Quakerism and who lived most ers. If we faithfully follow the leadings of of his adult life in unprogrammed Eastern as a hummingbird the Inner Light, we shall not only trans meetings while working through his writ this form our personal lives; we shall trans ings to bridge the gaps of misunderstand form the whole Religious Society of ing among Friends; Kara Newell, who nectared flower Friends. Our present differences in out grew up among Evangelical Quakers in inside ward forms of worship may very well be Oregon, ably served for eight years as field gin to reflect this transformation, leading secretary of Friends United Meeting, and the kiss to new combinations of the best elements then became executive secretary ofAmeri that in both the programmed and unpro can Friends Service Committee; and Cilde melts grammed patterns of worship. Pastoral, Grover, executive secretary· of Friends programmed meetings will no longer drifr World Committee for Consultation, Sec secrets toward a kind of watered-down Protes tion ofthe Americas, who attended George and tantism; and non-pastoral, unprogrammed Fox College in Oregon and Earlham answers meetings will no longer drift toward a sort School of Religion in Indiana and has her of Unitarian humanism. Under the guid membership in Northwest Yearly Meet into one. ance of the Inner Light-which is only ing, which is a part of Evangelical Friends another term for the Holy Spirit and the International. Christ Within-Quakers of all varieties Thanks to the wisdom of our spiritual - Dane Cervine will be able to join together as explorers of forbears we have in place right now the the spiritual reality that underlies our physi very organization we need to carry on this Dane Cervine lives in Santa Crnz, cal universe. United in what is essential, process: Friends World Committee for California, with his wife and two we shall recognize that the tension be Consultation. Let us vigorously support it children. tween liberalism and conservatism is as and make use of it. 0
8 june 2001 FRIENDS jOURNAl. Emily Greene Balch PIONEERING PEACEMAKER (186 7-1961)
by Margery Post Abbott
mily Greene Balch, along with her women working in the tobacco industry full and unquestioned cooperation where friend and inspiration, Jane Addams, and as telephone operators. the responsibility of choice is mine." Ewas one of two women with Quaker Throughout her life she saw and em The consequence of this stance in the connections to win the Nobel Peace Prize. phasized the interconnections between midst of the fervor generated by U.S. en Both were part ofthe large group ofwome n peace, the way people treat one another, try into the war was that her contract as advocates for peace during the first half of and the conditions in which people live. chair of the Department of Economics the 20th century who formed Women's Even after she decided that she could have and Sociology was not renewed by the International League for Peace and Free the greatest possible effect by teaching Wellesley trustees. dom (WILPF), one of the most enduring others, she maintained her involvement in During the course of the First World peace organizations of our time. Balch's social work, occasionally missing classes at War, Balch joined Fellowship of Recon life is an inspiring expression of the inter Wellesley because she was organizing ciliation as well as becoming one of the connections between economic justice and women, serving on the Massachusetts Fac central figures in the international women's peace. She also offers us a glimpse of her tory Inspection Committee, or chairing peace movement. She was a delegate to struggle with her pacifist position in light the Minimum Wage Committee, which the 1915 women's international peace con of the Second World War. successfully advocated the first minimum ference at The Hague, which proposed Balch is not widely known in Quaker wage law in the U.S. recommendations advocating the forerun circles, as she joined London Yearly By the opening of the First World ners of the League of Nations, the World Meeting in midlife while she was living in War, Balch must have been a distinctive Court, and international peacekeeping Geneva. Raised in a well-off Boston figure whose dress reflected her beliefs, forces. Following the conference she par family with Unitarian leanings, she had but with a sense of humor. O ne observer ticipated in the delegations visiting nu been introduced to Friends at Bryn Mawr states that in her late 40s, in 1915, Emily merous heads ofs tate in Europe, advocat College, where she was a member of its Greene Balch "was tall and thin, reserved ing and seeking the practical commitments first graduating class. Much later, she real but not conservative, someone who delib leading to a mediated end to the war. O n ized her match with Quakerism during erately dressed plainly in order to be class her return home, Balch, along with Jane a period when she was working for less and who had been known occasion Addams and others, met with President WILPF and lobbying the newly formed ally to wear her hat back to front." W ilson in the same cause. Many of the League ofNations. In the complex interconnections ofher points the women stressed later became Balch was deeply inspired by the settle life, Balch saw no conflict between her incorporated in Wilson's famous Four ment house work of Jane Addams. Her teaching, working for peace, and working teen Points. resolve to base academic theory on first for social justice at home and abroad. Her leave of absence from teaching hand knowledge led to her work with When the United States entered the First during these years, followed by the loss of poor Italian children in Boston as she World War Balch was not willing to com her teaching position, freed her for full prepared a handbook on laws and institu promise her pacifism in the face ofa threat time dedication to peace work and al tions related to juvenile delinquency. She to her beloved teaching position at lowed her to take the position of the first helped start Denison House in Boston in Wellesley. In fact, in 1917 and 1918, she secretary/treasurer of the newly created 1892 and became the first head worker at took a leave of absence from teaching, WILPF in 1919. Qane Addams was the this early settlement house. In 1894 she aware that her pacifist position was an first international president). joined the American Federation of Labor embarrassment to the college. When the T hrough all her activities, Balch re as she became involved in the plight of Wellesley trustees became upset at her tained time for a rich inner life, family, vocal pacifist position in 1918, she wrote and deep friendships. She filled portfolios Margery Post Abbott is a member ofMultnomah to them: "I believe so deeply that the way with sketches and pastels and in 1941 Meeting in PortkJnd, Oregon. She is the author ofwar is not the way ofChristianity. I find published a book of her poems. Balch of A Certain Kind of Perfection and various it so impossible to reconcile war with the became a Friend within London Yearly articles and pamphlets. truths of]esus' teaching, that even now I Meeting in 1921 while she was working © 2000 Margery Post Abbott am obliged to give up the happiness of a for WILPF in Geneva. Because of the FruENDsJouRNALjune2001 9 U.S. delegates to the 1915 women's international peace conference at The Hague. Emily Greene Balch is on the left end, third row; Jane Addams is second from left, front row.
neutrality in the face of Nazi aggression. Two years later, she de scribed her anguish in another letter: When the war broke out in its full fury in 1939, and espe cially when, after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, the USA became a belligerent, I went through a long and painful mental struggle, and never felt that I had reached a clear and consistent conclusion. "How can you reach inner unity," I said, "when in your own mind an irresistible force has collided with an immovable obstacle?"
Despite her differences at divisions among U.S. Friends, she could and allowed them to hold together even times with WILPF's public stance, and never bring herself to transfer her mem under considerable differences of opinion. newspaper columns indicating her resig bership to the United States. She spoke of Hitler brought Balch to the point of nation, Balch and other dissenters re her decision to join Friends in this way: reconsidering the nature of her pacifism, mained active in the organization, a fact something the personal threat posed by she attributed to the similarity of its busi A drawing toward the Society of Friends the Wellesley trustees could not do 20 ness method to that of Friends and the which I had felt for some years grew into a years earlier. She, like many other Friends, place it left for individual conscience and definite desire to become one of them. It was wrestled with her response to what she respect for differing convictions within not alone their testimony against war, their called "the religion of violence" posed by the organization. WILPF, with its strong creedless faith, nor their openness to sugges tions for far-reaching social reform that at Nazi Germany. She regarded the initial Quaker leadership, was one of the very tracted me, but the dynamic force of the U.S. policy of neutrality as a failure to take few peace organizations to survive the Sec active love through which their religion was an economic and moral stance against ond World War intact. expressing itself in multifarious ways, both violence. At the start ofthe Cold War in 1946, at during and after the war. In a private letter to a friend before the age of 79, Emily Balch addressed the Pearl Harbor, she stated that: first postwar conference ofWILPF as the Her duties as secretary/treasurer for women sought to rebuild their work fol WILPF included setting the new organi [There are) 100 percent absolutist reli lowing the end of the armed conflict. The zation on its feet and lobbying on its gious pacifists ofwhom I have never been one. fresh memory of Hitler was all around behalf before the newly created League I stop being nonresistant when it is a question them as they met in Luxembourg, and ofNations. She also led important studies of offering my neighbor's cheek for the blow. Balch offered this vision of hope: such as one in 1926, at the request of ... At the same time I thank God for the the women of Haiti, that resulted in the conscientious objectors . . . . They fulfill a Human nature seems to me like the Alps. function which [Elton) Trueblood in his ex book Occupied Haiti, which documented The depths are profound, black as night and cellent article in the December Atkmtic ac conditions and contributed to the even terrifying, but the heights are equally real, cepts as the sole justification of pacifism uplifted in the sunshine. It is not realistic to tual withdrawal of U.S. troops from that that of"bearing witness." ... The question is country. concentrate our attention on the recent rev how is peace, or any chance of peace, to be elations of the depths of evil to which human WILPF was largely Quaker-inspired secured. The answer that I could make before beings can descend. To do so leads to stum and throughout its history has been led Hider is not the same . . . . bling feet, weakness and discouragement .... almost entirely by Quakers or women We must draw a deep breath and fill our with strong Quaker connections such as Balch thus sided with the European selves with the fresh air of courage and confi Jane Addams. Among the procedures it WILPF leaders rather than her fellow dence, of a sober goodness, a love which is established was the use of consensus, a Americans who preferred an absolutist universal and all-embracing without losing its method that allowed all voices to be heard position on the issue of nonresistance and vivid personal quality. 0
10 june 2001 FRIENDS JOURNAL he history of the Quaker Peace T es political power than the Religious Society timony is full ofdilemmas and never of Friends does at the moment, as in the T a simple docttine. Indeed, it seems latter 1700s in Pennsylvania and Rhode to me that when the Religious Society of Island, they made a distinction between Friends asks of itself both the tolerance the "magistracy," or what was required of that derives from speaking to that of God those governing in legislatures as Quakers, in every person and the commitment that and the more personal, pacifist stance that is necessary for a strong stand for peace, it any individual Quaker might feel called to thereby asks for dilemmas! take. For example, when the king taxed To reconsider some of the dilemmas Quaker legislatures to conduct war and our Peace Testimony has given us, I looked they reluctantly paid that tax, they devel oped a euphemism for talking about it. They said the tax was "for the king's (or queen's) use." However, the Quaker DILEMMAS OF legislature's payment of that tax did not alter the stance many individual Friends of the same body took to steadfastly op pose war and their own participation in war. In short, I was intrigued to see signs Our ,Peace that Quakers in certain periods have been pragmatic as well as absolutist about their opposition to war. I sense there are three broad areas we present-day Friends should consider as Test· ony integral to our work for peace. Peace in today's world is inextricably bound with by Judith Reynolds Brown at Peter Brock's book, The Quaker Peace justice. Testimony 1660 to 1914. My meeting has also looked at peace issues stimulated by H. W. van der Merwe of South Mrica the book published in 1996 by the Pendle said in FruENDS JOURNAL (April 1997) that Hill Issues Program entitled A Continuing "peace and justice are complementary. You journey: Papers from the Quaker Peace can't have one without the other. Also, Roundtable. they are in tension with each other in the My reading of Quaker history regard sense that peacemakers are ttying to over ing the Peace Testimony both jolted and look injustice because they want peace at reassured me. Jolted in that I saw how all costs. The prophet who is for justice is much more our meeting could be doing not a good peacemaker because he es for peace, regardless of how much we are tranges the party that he attacks." Van der committed as persons to the pacifist point Merwe felt peace and justice are unattain of view. Reassured in that I learned that able-"you can strive towards them but Quakers have seldom agreed and often you can never get there," that none of us struggled with how to make manifest our can ever keep a good balance between the opposition to war and violence. I had two, that our personality and circumstances heard that George Fox said to William incline us toward the one or the other. Penn, "Wear thy sword as long as thou This does not mean to me, however, that canst," but I had not realized that William we should hesitate to work for both peace Penn had some difficulty convincing the and justice. Does it not mean that we king he was a loyal subject. This difficulty must decide where our personality and was bound to influence what Wtlliam Penn circumstances incline us and plunge in? allowed himself to do to continue to hold One of the despicable things about the reins of power. I found it particularly war and violent struggles of any nature is interesting that when Quakers had more that they deny all chance for justice. Nuclear weapons and the United Nations judith Reynolds Brown is poetry editorojFRJFNDS have perhaps helped to keep the world out JouRNAL. Her book A Glove on My Heart: of the huge conflagrations we call world Encounters with the Mentally Ill was pub wars for a bit over 50 years now, but lished in January. terrible, smaller wars and terrorism have FruENDS)OURNALjune2001 11 been almost steady problems since the We need to equip ourselves in our com with violence in our workplace. Can we end ofWorld War II. The sense of injus munities to be either confrontive in the train ourselves to know how to be a con tice, wherever it occurs, breeds the seeds face of injustice or to be mediators. If we structive force for calm in the face of that of war. It causes violence to lash out of decide to be resolvers of conflict we need violence? To live out the traditional Quaker human beings. to equip ourselves with the techniques volunteer spirit we may have to take a This means to me the obvious: we and acquired temperaments to take the low-key position in programs that build must be proactive, not merely reactive, middle road that refuses to see "the devil" justice and peace. when it comes to avoiding war. We need in either side ofany conflict. To do this we Deep ecology has made us aware that to promote the laws and enact the pro have to know ourselves. Most of us have not just humans, but every creature, ani grams in the United States and abroad an innate desire to feel akin to the messi mate and inanimate-indeed the whole that are going to bring about the experi ahs of this world, the resolvers. Instead, universe- is interconnected and in need ence of equality and justice. We need to can we learn to keep our own manipula of justice and equal consideration. To think about what restorative justice means tive power in check and let the Spirit take adopt this view of the world requires a in our prison and governmental systems. charge? Some of us these days steadily deal radical version ofour Testimony on Equal ity. And does not a determination to stew ard the world's resources and bring about economic justice in the world require a Vietnam War Memory radical version of our Testimony on Sim plicity? This is a witness we can make in our daily living, and I see it as an integral Once, at our Quaker boarding school, part of our Peace Testimony. a local military man, w:e can join with the many retired, model citizen, groups now studying and agreed to come and share his point planning to bring about the of view. institutions and build the infrastructures needed for Standing alone before those Friends, peace in the world. outside our small society, The most obvious institution is the with proper, warm civility United Nations. But we can rejoice that he told the story of his life, the world is now peppered with peace academies, peace universities, and non his war, governmental organizations whose most immediate aim is to bring about peace in the world. I was intrigued to learn that then took spasms of anger aimed William Penn fashioned a peace plan for to take no prisoners, a reign his day that included a parliament of Eu rope. We are not lone voices crying in the of liberal scorn sharpened with wilderness. We can be grateful to the Spirit Bible belting, other cheek of God working in the world that cur rently peace-building organizations have napalm. mushroomed. As we recognize that political bodies have begun to enact international laws, The man was bright enough. He could lay sanctions on each other, and appoint have had us by our bloody means. peacekeeping forces, we are confronted with other dilemmas. How much and But someone somewhere must have taught what kind of use of such restraints and him tact and manners, for he kept force is in keeping with our Peace T esti mony? Most of us accept police restraint his peace. in civil disorder to enforce our laws. How much is proper, how much is too much, and should we not be active in supporting -]aneal TurnbuO Ravndal ]aneal Turnbull Ravndalllives the proper training of the users of restric at Pendle Hill in Wallingford, tive force? Police forces need to know we Pa. She is a member ofStillwater support them, and we need them sorely, Meeting in Barnesville, Ohio. in restraining violence, but we also insist
12 june 2001 fRIENDS jOURNAL they do not overstep their legitimate ac tions. In today's world this is a dilemma that pinches us hard. Individuals in Community In opposition to our present governmental systems, c~inconjronriveand refusing actions may be required ofus. The first two areas above seem givens, even perhaps platitudes, in connection with our Peace Testimony and what it asks of us in the present day. This third area, where we are asked to be more negative and obstinate, may trip some of us up. One cannot read Quaker history without being aware that countless Quakers have ASCHOOL IN 7HE l'fltKiRESSNf TRADmON, THE CAM8RnxiE SaiooL OF Wmrw OFFERS HIGHLY PfRSONALIZED, 1HOIJGHTRIL been principled and obdurate towers of COUIGE PREPARATION FOR INTELIKTIJAU.Y CURIOUS root«i PEOPfi; AN EIHKAL SCHOOL COM/rllllfTY BASED ON DEEP resistance for religious reasons. What about MIII1IAL 7111/ST AND RESPECT; A PUCE WHERE IN1E6RIJY AND DNERSl1Y ARE APPfllOATED; AND AN APPROMJI WHICH draft resistance? Refusal to register? Do we I'IACESASMUCH EMPHASIS ON ASitlll6 THE RIGHT QUESTIONS AS ON GMNG THE RIGHT ANSMRS. pay taxes for war? Do we insist there be alternatives when the military recruits in (OEDUCA~ BOARDING AND DAY, GRADES 9-12 AND PG. (Au (781) 642-8650. our high schools? My reading made me glad I was not a Quaker in Civil War times. What stand did young men take on the northern side in the Civil War when The Cambridge School of Weston • 1886 they saw that to refuse conscription meant they refused to fight against slavery and for the preservation of the union? It may be a given that Quaker men and women resist governmental systems that accept war and promote injustice. But how? Can we be vitally committed to such a stand ourselves and still accepting ofother Quak iii Wood brooke ers who do not see it that way? ~tflt Quaker Study Centre In our meetings, examining our nega tive stances may well bring out our differ ~ ences. Is it not healthy though in our Eva l(och Research Fellowship 2002 meeting communities to air those reserva tions, to deal with those tensions rather We are now taking applications for two Woodbrooke Fellows. than complacently to leave them lying? The Research Fellowship in 2002 offers full board and an honorarium of up Dialogue can bring out our differences, to £500. It is tenable for 14 weeks and is to be taken in 2002. We are give life to our meetings, and tolerance to seeking proposals in any area of Quaker Studies. The majority of the research our hearts. We need it. will take place at Wood brooke where Fellows will have access to our well This analysis of the present require stocked library with its major Quaker collection. Successful applicants will ments of our Peace Testimony is not in also have opportunities to draw on our wide range of research experience. tended to be exhaustive. Since none of No postgraduate qualification is necessary. us can work at everything, we must be Closing date for applications 15 September 2001. tolerant of each other's choices. I have not Successful applicants will be contacted by early October 2001. even touched on what peace requires in our inner lives where the Spirit sweeps Interested? For an application form please contact. Admissions, Woodbrooke, in on us. No one path we might choose Quaker Study Centre, 1046 Bristol Road, Birminghan1 B29 6LJ, UK is sure to bring peace. I know, however, E-mail: [email protected] that I need to ask myself which active Phone +44 (0) 121 472 5171 • Fax: +44 (0) 121 472 5173 aspect of our Religious Society's Peace For informal discussion please contact: Doug Gwyn, Quaker Studies Tutor at Testimony fits my talents and interests Woodbrooke or e-mail [email protected] demands my commitment-and then I Website: www.woodbrooke.org.uk need to get cracking. 0 FruENDS]OURNALjune2001 13 THE UNBOWED HEAD by Ken Southwood hen they fight, animals of the act of bowing, varying from the formality same species often have an of the Japanese bow, through the kneeling W mstinctive way of submitting bow to Queen Elizabeth when she knights and signaling obeisance to others that pre one of her subjects by the touch of a vents them from being killed or badly sword's flat blade (such symbolism), to mauled. I used to enjoy seeing a half the full kneeling crouch with forehead to grown pup chasing excitedly after other the ground ofearlier times. A petitioner to dogs on campus until the pup went too far the Sultan of Brunei addresses, verbally, and an older dog turned on it and snapped. not his person, but the dust beneath his The pup would yield, cower, and lie down feet. (And in Thailand 40 years ago I on its back, flopping its legs helplessly. observed a railroad clerk prostrating him The older dog would stop and slowly turn selfbefore the stationmaster.) In bowing, away. Then the pup would get up and those in earlier times must not only have lope off, accepting its subordinate posi placed themselves in the position ofbeing tion. I once viewed a nature film sequence unable to defend their necks from attack, that showed a young and inexperienced but even of being unable to see what the cheetah stalking and pouncing on a pair other was doing. Bowing still induces a of frolicking lion cubs who responded in deep feeling of submission. this way two or three times, each time It is not surprising that bowing is used leaving the young cheetah confused and in religious obeisance. In prayer the Mus discouraged but leaving the lion cubs safe. lim faithful kneel facing Mecca and bow The gesture of submission inhibits both low with forehead touched to the ground...... - -~ parties from any further fighting and it Christians kneel upright with hands '\\ maintains peace by claril)ring the domi pressed together and head bowed. Bud nance hierarchy. dhists have no Great God but bow in { : I Human beings have very weak obeisance to Buddha, while Mahayana !;, '·· l instincts, and we do not have that Buddhists have many minor gods to whom /:; ! ,• 1 , ; instinct-bound integrity. An aggres- they bow. Hindus perform the namaste 1 / , ii' • ~- j ' \ sor does not refrain from massacre with hands lightly pressed together with ~! l b f th . . ' b . . t < ,i• ': varying depths of bowing. 1 y 1 i ecause o e vtcnms su rrusstve \. ~ \• 't:/ behavior, and, if a victim should The image ofQuaker worship used for \ ',1 ~ submit, the antagonist had better the cover of Geoffrey Hubbard's original ~J~ J·. ·· !I \ not turn away as the submitter Pelican paperback, Quaker by Convince
1.' l ..1 111·~ · ~ \· · , ., might stab him or her in the ment, shows a sculpture by Friend Peter f j\ \ \ • • .~ ~ back. We use our brains and emo- Periofamansittingwithkneescrossed and • ''-6 . ' •. ·-.:.._ __,.}· ..... --.J~. tlo'..•lll:i _,..__"'. •, ::.,.·"" tions to govern what we do, hand to chin as if in deep thought. From l~: ,.. , .. .· . ~- - but this leaves us with earliest days Quakers rejected mere sym ·' -- ·. .f · ___....---""~ the Holocaust, bolism, insisting that ritual behavior and f '\,,..._ '\ . t -~ 1. ethniccleansing, particular words, songs, buildings, days, 1 places, or things had no special sacred '•' ~ '] { , , l ( l and the seesaw- \.\ .•:. t\ ~- J } ~ ing conflict be- quality, and that attention to them could \ " • • .. \ i: ,, 1' .... (' tween Tursi and give external appearance of spiritual sub · .•,.l~' / 1 Hutu, as there is mission without the necessary integrity. ' always tradition, Moreover, God was not out there, in front memory, suspicion, and the fear of treach ofpeople, nor up there above them, nor in ery and further attack or manoeuver. shrines or sculpted figures, nor approach There is, nevertheless, a submissive hu able only by specially anointed interces man gesture with a deep psychological sionary priests. The spirit of God was to meaning and which humans have used be sought within each person by him or and still use over all the world. This is the herself, and seen and felt by others when he or she acted upon that spirit. Just as each Ken Southwood is a member of Urbana/ person sought God in himself or herself, Champaign (IlL) Meeting and currently attends he or she should seek that spirit in others, San Antonio (Tex.) Meeting. whatever the barriers ofwealth or poverty,
14 june 2001 F RIENDS JoURNAL virtue or vice, familiarity or strangeness, Quakers marry, late in life nationality, race, or sex. God was not to be found by any technique or physical posi tion but simply by waiting in silence. Here, in the place of promises, This produces the occasional peculiar ity such as the statement by an Ann Arbor as their juniors speak of faithfulness and trust, Friend many years ago that she was not they sit part of the kingdom of God but of the republic of God, a statement received en with amazed eyes and quick smiles, thusiastically by those present. It can be yet secure in joy as a boiled egg confusing for new attenders at Quaker meetings when they are not taught how to in its china cup. seek the inner Spirit with special rites, techniques, mantras, or positions. T hey aren't even taught how to recognize the Before now, each has known blissful days, Spirit when they think they may have known also the long nights experienced it. T hey are left to sit upright in silence, like Peter Peri's sculpted figure, when train signals and to listen, both within themselves and spelled out seldom comfort. to the words of others out of the silence. They may ask others about this process and receive a different answer each time, Their presence in the place of vows yet, perhaps they will be able to find a common thread; different routes to the says to the rest of us: same spirit of love and concern. Quakers look. We chewed our meat, all of it, do not kneel, or bow, but sit upright, even the gristle, looking not upwards nor downwards, but seeking a center that is both within and and are hungry for more. without. It is all worthwhile. he bowed head is still, for me, Reach in there, take hold of this life, present in my upright waiting. It is pull it to you through pain, T implicit in the feeli ng ofwaiting.lt is in humility, an acceptance of the will of eat the honey with the comb. God, ofwhat is to be, a recognition of the vastness of the invisible creative energy behind all things, so much greater than I. It is in an absence of supplication, an acceptance of my own inability to deter -Joyce B. Adams mine what is best. It is in an acceptance that the world, with all its uncertainty and evil, may still mysteriously be, in the words ofVoltaire's Dr. Pangloss, "the best of all possible worlds," a world in which deci sions have real and vitally important con sequences. It is in a phrase sometimes used by individual British Friends in meeting for business, "I hope so," which was ex plained to me as indicating an acceptance Joyce B. Adams lives in ElDorado, Arkansas. that the will ofGo d may differ from theirs but without entreaty to change it. In meeting I bow, without bending my neck or knee, without beseeching, and with no words, in willing acceptance. 0
FRIENDS ]OURNAL]une 2001 15 Being Silent by Christopher L. King
ast Sunday was another of those ence and am frequently dis /_fear that there meetings for worship. In the first tracted, often by my own . . . 20 minutes when the children mind, which is so abuzz with IS {!Jl tJilpat!eJICe Lwere present no baby cried, no the business of the world that toddler kicked the bench, no little voice it cannot seem to settle down /or the still Sillall 'Voire whispered. into what Douglas Steere called After the children left, quiet returned "the presence of the Listener." to speal~ to us. and there were no obvious coughs or loz Often I am disappointed with enge wrappers. No stomachs growled, my fellow worshipers. For just and no Friends made unexpected trips in as you can feel the true centering of a days seem to have minds buzzing with and out. meeting and even a Divine presence in it, "have ro"s. Outside the meeting room the traffic you can also fed a general distraction, a Then on Sunday morning there is that was distant, airplanes only a low grumble; restlessness-feel us becoming peevish chil scramble to get to meeting to be silent for no leaf blowers, games of tag, or scolding dren who want ro go out and play, or are an hour, well, 50 minutes really, because mobs ofcrows. eager for someone to entertain us with maybe you arrive a little late, or really 40 As meeting neared its end no one snored insight or profundity. minutes after the kids go ro First-day school -and no one spoke. We returned to the When I have questioned Friends about and we all settle down again. Then per world with friendship and conviviality. their similar experiences of worship they haps a couple of messages were kind of It had been one of those meetings for may acknowledge that they are often dis grating, so that leaves only about 30 min worship in which no one was moved to tracted by thoughts of work or family or utes, and my mind wanders, trying to speak, but I would not have called it a the beautiful day waiting tO be enjoyed. remember if I fed the fish, if I should silent meeting. For I did not feel that the They may say that worship is always a shop on the way home, if I am ready for worshipers were eager for the silence. struggle and that each comes to it in his or work tomorrow. Someone's hearing aid In the 1960s I anended Wtlron (Conn.) her own way. They may say something begins to squeal-and so it goes, as Kurt Meeting from time to time with my grand like, "It is up ro each of us ro get what we Vonnegut would say. parents, Clarence and Alice King. I re can out of it." member the silence at those meetings be I can agree with this argument but I am illiam Penn wrote in hisAd ing almost palpable, as though the air in not content with it. In fact, I would go a ce to His Children: "Love the room had changed, the atmosphere step further. I believe that many of us have ilence even in the mind; for somehow gaining weight. When some lost the ability to find pleasure in silence, thoughts are ro that, as words one spoke in that meeting, the sound was lost the eagerness for silent worship. are to the body, troublesome.... True like a fish rising from a great depth and Think about your average day and the silence is the rest of the mind, and is ro the splashing into the air. The odd thing was daily lives of your children and grandchil spirit what sleep is to the body, nourish that despite the beauty of the message, dren. Many of us live in cities and even ment and refreshment." there seemed to be an eagerness in the suburbs in which there is a constant din I fear that because of the nature ofour congregation to get back into the silence from the machinery of the city itself. Add current busy lifestyles we have lost the again. I have had this experience a few radio alarms, yammering TV shows, con belief in Penn's statement. I seem to dis times in subsequent years in a few meet stant commercials, "drive time" music and cern a fear of true silence. We are willing ings. On these occasions, even when the talk, and the general exterior and interior to be quiet for a bit, but with our shorter messages are frequent, they fall back into a noise of highly programmed families. attention spans there is an impatience for deep pool ofsile nce, which nourishes them We have cell phones, beepers, and that still, small voice to speak to us before and joins them in a whole. But these pocket computers to keep us constantly we have to go ro our next venue. occasions seem to be increasingly rare. connected. We rate our success on the In this way we are losing Quaker wor I come to meeting eager for that experi- number of things we can multitask. Our ship, because one needs to prepare for children try to do homework with two or worship. Rufus Jones writes"... the wor Chris King attends Wellesley (Mass.) Meeting. His bread and butter comes from helping to three kinds of media humming. Even our shiper, if he is to enter into this great create communications software. His amusement vacations may be highly scheduled so as to anainment, must cease his occupation with comes from writing plays and children s books. "get our money's worth." external affairs, his thoughts of house and His insight comes in discovering the grace in the Bynowyoumaybesaying, "Hey, that's farm and business, and center down into diversity ofpeople. not me. I lead a preny simple life." But those deep levels of his being where he can © 2001 Christopher L. King even the simplest Quakers I know these feel the circulation of spiritual currents
16 june 2001 FRIENDS JoURNAL and have healing and refreshment and your midst?" Each Friend can develop a let us know we have a divine Presence in restoration and fortification flow in from different habit of how he or she comes our midst. beyond himself This is not worship, but silently into that presence. Some may read There is a very real sense that the it is preparation for it." Scripture and then lay the book aside. silence we share is not between us but I would guess that we all value the Some may offer a prayer and then let the rather within us. Dogs may bark outside, restoring power of that deep silence. I prayer fall silent. Some may draw near to a babies cry in the meeting room, and win- would also guess that many are afraid to palpable presence of Jesus. Some may be ter winds hammer fiercely at the doors go there. For it requires letting go of your inspired by other spiritual or secular poets. and windows. The peace will continue control ofyour mind for at least that short Some may reach upward and inward for because the meeting is not a physical space. period of worship each week, letting the the Divine Spirit. As Tom Bodine of Hartford (Conn.) words that you use to order your life fall Meeting has described: "The worshipers away, trusting that they will be there on ~ n my experience ch
Hold both partners in the Light. Know that they are each hurting, no matter who leaves whom. The prayers of Friends have truly sustained me. I had an experience of prayer I have never had before. It was on a day when I was in my worst state of dark WESTTOWN ness and despair, with no thought of God. I suddenly felt a strange sensation, as if the darkness was being removed by unseen hands. In this moment I knew that some one was praying for me and helping me to turn to the Light when I couldn't do it on my own. Never underestimate the power of your own prayer in the life ofsomeo ne who is suffering. Prayer is something we can all do, at any time and under any circum stance. It is a beautiful gift from God to both the giver and receiver. Praying, inviting, sharing, and being sensitive to the variety of emotions experi enced during the painful loss ofdivorce is a ministry in which everyone in the meeting can participate. Doing so, you'll be helping the person out of the shame and isolation of their grief, to grieve in the Light. That is a great comfort! 0
FRIENDS ]OURNAL}une 2001 19 Witness Gree~!~~j
"the small school that Vigil No. 88 makes big people" by John Andrew Gallery t was a Sunday this past February, only the edy happened to others and not to her. God's second time that I'd been at the vigil since answer, she said, was very clear. God shrugged I early December, and the first time when I his shoulders (if he would have had shoulders .g;: was feeling well enough to focus on being and been a he), and said, "I don't know." .;:: there. Nothing had changed in my absence. I That seemed like the right answer to her, for 11 saw the man on the bike I always saw ride by her understanding of God, and the right one ~ making a delivery, although it might have to me too. So yes, this guy was right: praying ~ been another, on the same bike doing the to God is in some way pointless. I don't ~ same task. The Independence Mall visitor expect God to intervene no matter how fer- ~ Greene Street Friends School center under construction was now a skeleton vent our prayers, so why then do I carry this ~ 5511 Greene Street Philadelphia, PA 19144 of steel. If I inquired, I am sure I would fmd message? ~ out that we were still dropping a few bombs I've wondered about this a lot since. I'm ~ • every week on Iraq and more children had coming to think that the act of prayer doesn't Pre-K through Grade 8 ~ Founded in 1855 died as a result of economic sanctions. It really have anything to do with God. It has ~ seemed to me that nothing had changed. to do with us. When I pray, not very fre- ~ Please call TODAY for a Twice in the hour two young men yelled quendy I will confess, I am basically asking <; at us from a distance, somewhat angrily. I God to help me change-to pray for peace tour. 215-438-7545 couldn't hear either clearly. The first said something about God and God's weakness; the sec ond about our cause ~ being worth as ~ VJDVDffX""'_L' Retreatand XOSf. J.'l.I~'IU(JL StudyCenter much as Jesus and that was nothing. The "picket and pray" place with Neither stopped ecumenicity at its heart is pleased to just rattled off their announce these events sentence without breaking stride. Per You Are My Beloved: haps I put my own A Retreat for Singles reservations and un Debra Farrington certainties into their mouths. Jesus stood August I 0 - 12 for peace and look what happened to Labyrinth him, was a phrase I Beth Haynes thought of for the August I 7 - I 9 second man. For the first, the thought was more complicated: "If in the world is to ask God to help me be a God believed in peace why would God let all peaceful person and to take action tO promote Centering: this killing go on? What makes you think that peace. It isn't asking God to do me a favor The Call to Creativity God will listen to your prayers? Just take a and straighten everything out. And what I'm Marjory Zoet Bankson look at the world." praying for and asking for when I ask other A friend recently told me of a conversation people to pray is for all of us to change. I guess August 24 - 26 she had with God. She asked why are people I'm praying for all the others, hoping that Kirkridge is on the beautiful Kittatinny Ridge always getting killed in earthquakes and disas they will look into their hearts and repent, of eastern Pennsylvania, only eighty-five ters? She knew she was also asking why trag- change their ways from hate and killing to miles from New York City and Philadelphia love and helping. And asking everyone else john Andrew Gallery, a member of Chestnut to pray for one another too. Because I imagine Visit our website for more Hill (Pa.) Meeting, has been a .frequent partici that if we were all on our knees sincerely information about Kirkridge's pant in the weekly prayer vigils for peace in in prayer for one another an hour a day every exciting events the world that are held in Philadelphia every day it might change the way we lead the rest Sunday ftom 4 to 5 p.m., in font ofthe Liberty of our lives. 0 www.kirkridge.org Bell on Market Street between 5th and 6th or call (61 0) 588-1793 Streets. For more information on the vigils, e mail
20 june 2001 FRIENDS jOURNAL Life in the Meeting fi spirite~ Friends as Healers communlty ... wenty Friends sit comfortably in a circle in the warming sunshine of T Powell House retreat center. While some Friends gaze around the room, upward, or out the windows overlooking the snow covered landscape, most have their eyes closed and are settling into the F.uniliar silence and where life continues gathering ofSpirit common to a Quaker meet to bloom. ing for worship. One thing, however, distin guishes this meeting from the usual worship: Since 1967, Foulkeways has two empty chairs stand within the circle. operated under the Quaker ideals The sense of warmth and worship, the of mutual caring and respect. We are a non-profit, gathering of love and Spirit begins to settle Residential Apartments, more fully around the group. Shortly, a young accredited, continuing care retirement community. Assisted Living & woman rises from her seat on the couch and Skilled Nursing walks to the chair in the center of the circle and sits, with eyes closed, in quiet waiting. In a few moments, another woman steps in and gently lays hands upon her shoulders. They are soon joined by a man who comes and holds her hands. Time seems to suspend itself as the energy 1120 Meetinghouse Rd. in the room becomes more vibrant and fo Gwynedd PA 19436 Call ancy Gold, cused. The young woman's face responds to [email protected] Director of Admissions, the love and care, and she begins to cry. Her www.foulkeways.org at 215-643-2200. body tenses and then relaxes. Another mem ber joins those gathered in the center; he kneels and cradles her feet, while those sur rounding continue to sit in silence and hold the now palpable energy. After several minutes, first one and then the second and third Friend gently release their hands and step back. For a moment they stand in a small circle with arms outstretched around the woman while she continues to sit, the last tears slowly moving down her cheeks. One by one, they resume their sears among the wider circle, joined a moment later by the young woman, visibly changed. A spiritual healing among Friends has 0 Residential occurred. Degree program Over the next hour or so, several more MA i\1inist:ry or Divinity people come to the inner chairs and Friends MA of Arts m Religion are drawn to step in and lay hands upon heads 0 ESR Access Program and hearts and, very quietly, powerful healing Non-residential work is done. After this, names of loved ones To Stan- Aug 6, 2001 are spoken into the center to be held in the Audit or Credit, roward Degree or Continuing ed Light of love and distant healing. The meet 6 courses per year ing closes with hands held around the circle, which abounds with gratitude and healing 0 Residential- energy flowing through all. Non-degree program Two such "worship for healing" meetings T heoTogicafReflection Year (T.R.Y.) were held during the First Annual Gathering 0 Occasional Students- of Quaker Healers. Friends who practice a ~ Non-degree variety of healing work, both independently Up to 2 classes per semester and within Quaker meetings, came together Audit or Credit, Residential or ESR from Maryland, New York, Vermont, Massa Access Program; Intensive Two Week or \Veekend Options chusetts, and points between at Powell House, the retreat center of New York Yearly Meet ing, over the weekend of February 22-25, esr.earlham.edu or (800)432-1377 2001, to share our knowledge and experience
FRIENDS JouRNAL june 2001 21 of healing work as Friends and to begin a we think we want to do? Often the call to network to connect us. healing is something we have not planned Decision Making via We took time to learn about the role of out nor ever would have imagined for our Electronic Communication early Quakers as healers. From numerous his selves. We may not come to it by choice or torical examples, we heard ofFriends' struggles even willingly. It is a journey of sacred learn n regards to our yearly meeting presence to do healing work and maintain their integ ing that calls for surrender to what we think on the World Wide Web and our use of rity; how they had to face persecution; and, we cannot do and may even be afraid of. The I electronic communication, we have con sadly, how fear eventually drove many Friends courage to persist is not the absence of fear, cluded that this medium cannot replace the healers into obscurity and caused the destruc but rather doing something in the face of that sense of the meeting created in the personal tion ofGeorge Fox's Book ofMiracles . fear. When a true leading is followed, the face-to-face meeting in the presence of God. In our more recent past, we have been impossible appears possible and exciting, and We believe there is a sharp distinction be witnessing a return of healing activity within then, by grace, the task at hand becomes easy tween sharing information over long-distance the Religious Society of Friends. There have and joyful. We must trust and remember that (electronic communication and telephone) and been increasing requests for healing-related we are never alone. attempting to come to a decision that reflects workshops within the settings of Friends Gen In this journey of healing, it is important the sense of the meeting. eral Conference, yearly meeting gatherings, to know the nature of our own path and to In Faith and Practice, under the "Conduct Pendle Hill, and other Quaker retreats. These maintain balance in our lives. As healers who of Business," we read: have been well attended, and the work is in so many ways nurture others, we also need being carried back to individual meetings in to remember to nourish and protect our Searching for the truth in a spirit ofworship the form of healing worship. selves. As a group, we shared many valuable and waiting for a sense ofthe meeting to grow What does it mean to be a Quaker healer? ways to practice self-care, physically, emo among all members are characteristics ofthe way How do we discern what is just ego-based and tionally and spiritually. It is essential to our Friends conduct their business. The meeting for what is a true leading? Once we recognize that well-being that we create space in our lives for business is not a body whose members engage in we have this gift of healing, then what? What peace and quiet reflection. In this work, where debate; rather business is raised and decisions are is healing, anyway? These were just a few of we often deal with much pain, humor can be made in the same expectant waiting upon the the many queries that arose and were explored a great balm and cleanser. Spirit as in the meetingfor worship. In searching during this snowy weekend gathering in Old The most controversial issue among us together for the will ofGod in matters before the Chatham, New York. was the title "Quaker Healers." Some feel meeting, Friends are seeking the Truth so that all In talking about healing work, one discov their healing work should not be named within may join in its affirmation. It is the responsibil ers how limited our ordinary language is. a religious context, while others feel it is essen ity ofall members to participate in this search. Words do not convey the profound experi tial to have their leading identified in the . . . The right conduct ofbusiness meetings, ences we have, and much of what happens in context of their Quaker faith and practice. even in routine matters, is important to the healing sessions is unseen and not readily For some, the word "healer" is uncomfortable spiritual life ofall. Care must be taken that the talked about. While some people can see the as it sets up a mistaken expectation that one enduring value ofa spiritual community is not movement of energy in various forms, others can cure another. This work is not about sacrificed to the immediate goal ofaction. feel it or sense it, but most of us must rely on claiming that power for ourselves. faith. Healing does nor often appear evident This was a weekend of profound sharing, We believe that a true decision-reflecting as in the miracles of] esus. Symptoms may nor healing, and discovery. T he discussions were the sense of the meeting-including all busi disappear, disease may not be cured, death rich. We found comfort in our uniqueness and ness decisions--<:an only be made in the pres comes anyway. There are no concrete stan diversity as Friends, that all our different voices ence of each other and God. Decisions that are dards by which we can measure and know the together bring a gift to the community. Even arrived at only by electronic communication are authenticity of this gift. We are reminded though we did not all resonate on how to name not Minute-able. We believe there is an un however, that healing is a process of transfor this emerging group, we all felt our Light tapped, unattained, and unknown potential mation that is available to everyone. honored among Friends in our common in this medium of communication, but that it As we shared our own personal stories, we ground of healing ministry. We left with a firm is not yet well enough understood in a Quaker found that we had come to healing ministry resolve to meet again next year at a second context to rely on it to reach our spiritually in different ways and for different reasons; we annual gathering, no matter what we decide unifying decisions. We are not clear that this have various methods ofwo rking and viewing to call ourselves. As we stepped out into the will be possible, although we do agree that we the process of healing. For some, there is a newly snow-covered landscape to return to our need to allow for the possibility. In addition, certain studied technique that opens the way; home meetings, we were deeply strengthened until all people have access to attending meet for others, it is a process of being led and of and affirmed in our ministries of healing. ings/discussions via these other means ofcom recognizing a gift. It requires that we open to "Now there are diversities of gifts, but munication, we must continue to meet to our intuition and vision and set our "self" the same Spirit.... For to one is given by gether, in the Spirit, to gather the sense of the aside in order to allow the Spirit and power of the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, meeting, in order to move forward. healing to flow through. Some say that we use the word of knowledge ... ; to another faith our hands as conduits for the power of God's ... ; to another the gifts of healing ... ; To -Draft statement prepared by healing. It could also be expressed that Spirit another the working of miracles; to another New England Yearly Meeting Ad Hoc uses us. Others use the power of gathered prophecy; to another discerning ofspi rits . . . ; Web Committee, edited September 9, 2000, prayer and the model of Jesus to guide the Bur all these worketh that one and the self and sent by Permanent Board ofNEYM work. In all cases, it is a call to which we must same Spirit.... " to all ofits monthly meetings for discussion respond-a call that is ongoing and profound. -1 Corinthians 12:4-11 andfeedback. How do we know when a leading to heal From Mount Toby (Mass.) Meeting IS a true leading and not just something -Bobbi Bailin and Bujjj Curtis Newsletter, April2001
22 june 2001 FRIENDS JOURNAL Reports and Epistles Friends Women International Whenever I visit United Society ofFriends Women International (USFWI) women Scartergood Friends School, founded in 1890, is commirred to fostering around the world, I come away renewed, en lifelong and self-d irected learning, couraged, and ready to keep working among developing a sense of personal Friends. This past December, four of us from responsibility and cultivating global the USFWI Executive Committee visited 12 citizenship. annual USFWI meetings in Kenya. Margaret • All recent graduates have gained Stoltzfus (Iowa YM), Peggie Baxter (North college acceptance Carolina YM), Winnie Enyart (Indiana YM). • Srudenr-to-teacher ratio: 4 to I and I (New York YM) were blessed to be • Innovative block scheduling • Community service graduation among many Quaker women- I would guess req u i remenr between 4,000 and 5,000 of them! The • Shared work program USFWis varied in size from 180 to more • Organic garden, f.um than 2,000 in attendance. Rich and Sandy • Comprehensive, exciting Davis, Friends United Meeting's field staff at Arts Department • Daily Collection, weekly Friends Theological College in Kaimosi, Meeting for Worship opened FTC's guest house to us and trans ported and escorted us over smooth, rough, For information, call roll-free at and nonexistent roads from Vihiga YM to 1-888-737-4636, or e-mail Nandi YM USFWis. Sandy was a part of the adm [email protected] USFWI meetings, but Rich enjoyed just be 1951 Delta Avenue ing the driver. West Branch, Iowa 52358 The warm welcome and hospitality that the Apostle Peter talked about (1 Peter 4:9) was vv vv vv. s c a t · in ample evidence wherever we traveled. In Naivasha while we were attending Nairobi USFWI, we stayed in a teacher's home and slept in her family's beds. Wherever we went, we were always offered water to wash our hands before tea or a meal-a tradition that I find I look forward to experiencing. I received lots of smiles when my eyes would light up at the sight l(g_NDAL-- CROSSLANDS of ugali, the Kenyan staple made from ground maize. (The other three travelers did not share my delight!) We were given every comfort COMMUNITIES available. Our sisters in Christ went out of Named among America's 20 Best their way to make sure that we understood Continuing Care Retirement what was being said if it wasn't in English. Communities. You will be pleasantly I reveled in the singing. We heard songs surprised to learn how modestly that the early missionaries had taught in En priced our smaller cottages and glish, tunes we recognized with words in an apartments are. Not-for-profit and other language, and songs that are indigenous Quaker-related. to East African Christians. I came away won dering how we in the U.S. can stand so still when expressing our love and joy in the Spirit. Christmas carols were sometimes sung, first in Kgndal at Longwood English and then in Kiswahili, or both at the Crosslands same time. It was a mutual sharing in the Continuing Care Spirit and in openness to experiencing all that Retirement Communities God had for each one of us, Kenyan USFWI or travelers from the States. The Spirit was in Coniston the midst of their gatherings, and we heard Cartmel several gifted women pastors share messages Retirement Communities that had been laid on their hearts. with Residential Services We were members, one of another, and I felt that connection of Love and Light long 610-388-7001 after we left Nairobi on December 15. P.O. Box 100 • Kgnnett Square, PA 19348 Equal Housing - Ann Davidson, presiding clerk, USFWI www.kcc.kendal.org Opportunity Reprinted from Spark, March 2001 FruEN DS]OURNAL]une2001 23 Books Excelling Abby Hopper IN A CHANGING WORLD Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social FRIENDS SELECT Activist Pre-K to 12th grade By Margaret Hope Bacon. SUNY Press, 2000. 217pages. $19.951 17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway paperback. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-1284 Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801- 215-561-5900 1893), abolitionist, Civil War nurse, prison reformer, wife, and mother of six children, was a pioneer in Ameri can reform and benevolent activities. The daughter of Quakers Sarah (a Guidelines for Writers minister) and Isaac Tatem Hopper (a The articles that appear in FRIENDS well-known philanthropist), Gibbons founded the world's fusr halfway house for and prison reform that linked like-minded jOURNAL are freely given; authors discharged female prisoners, created the inno humanitarians in Philadelphia, Boston, and receive copies of the issue in which vative New York D iet Kirchen ro feed impov New York. their article appears. Manuscripts erished invalids, and lobbied for many im The book particularly derails women's submitted by non-Friends are provemenrs still in effect today, including sepa changing roles in social activism as new bonds welcome. We prefer articles written in rate correctional facilities for women. were formed through female reform networks. a fresh, nonacademic style, using Margaret Hope Bacon has written the Increasingly, 19th-century women moved language that clearly includes both fust contemporary biography of this impor from their household domain into the larger sexes. We appreciate receiving Quaker tant 19th-century female activist. In her very world on the basis of moral reform and chari related humor. readable account, Bacon skillfully interweaves table efforts for the "family of humanity." intimate derails from Gibbons's family corre This biography illustrates the extent co •!• maximum 8-10 double-spaced, spondence wirh information illuminating which Abby Hopper Gibbons's "calling" to typewritten pages (2,500 words) the historical context. The author points to assist the distressed initiated her into po •!• include references for all quotations the Quaker heritage that influenced Abby litical lobbying, fundraising, and institution •!• author's name and address should Hopper Gibbons's lifelong efforts: the spiri building. Bacon offers new insight into appear on the manuscript tual concern for social justice, the acceptance G ibbons's complicated relationship to the •!• enclose a self-addressed, stamped of a public role for women, and the organiza women's righrs movement. Although not an envelope for return of manuscript tional experience derived &om women's busi active suffragist, G ibbons maintained her ness meetings. Although Gibbons resigned friendships with abolitionist/feminist leaders Submissions are acknowledged her membership in the Religious Society of such as Lucretia Mort and the Grimke sisters. immediately; however, writers may Friends in 1842 when her father and husband Gibbons was an influential role model as an wait several months to hear whether were disowned for antislavery activities, she effective female lobbyist, organizer, and ad their manuscripts have been accepted. remained loyal ro most Quaker ideals, retain ministrator who sought to improve condi For more informacion contact ing Quaker plain speech and dress until tions for women. Kenneth Sutton, Senior Editor. her death. By reconstructing the life of Abby Hop The trajectory of Gibbons's life provides a per Gibbons, Bacon has redirected our at fascinating introduction to the burgeoning tention to rhe valuable contributions of FRIENDS m6Arch St., 2A Philadelphia, PA reform movements of the 19th century, re chis remarkable individual, expanding our 19107-2835 vealing the ecumenical nature of abolitionism knowledge of women's history, Quaker JouRNAL history, African American history, and 19th Telephone (215) 563-8629 century reform. E-mail: [email protected] As a friend summarized the lesson ofAbby Hopper Gibbons's life: "We are to be up and doing, ready for what comes, rejoicing in the good, bur cast down by nothing." Readers of CREMATION this informative book will surely be inspired Friends are reminded that the by Gibbons's dedicated example of translat Anna T Jeanes Fund ing principles into action. will reimburse cremation costs. - Rebecca Larson (Applicable to members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) Rebecca Larson is the author ofDaugh ters of For information, write DORIS CLINKSCALE Light: Quaker Women Preaching and Proph IS East McPherson Street, esying in the Colonies and Abroad, 1700- Philadelphia, PA 19119-1617 1775.
24 june 2001 FRIENDS jOURNAL Seeking Stories of Vitality Peacemaking in South In 1998, Earlham School of Religion conducted a national consulta Africa: A Life in Conflict • tion during which Friends discussed their hopes and fears regarding the Resolution state of the Religious Society of Friends. In discussing these findings, it ·rto• · is apparent that there are locations throughout the Quaker world By H W van der Merwe. Foreword by Nelson EARLHAM where Friends have a sense that their meetings are thriving. As a Mandela. Taft/berg, 2000. 223 pages. SCHOOL of RELIGION second phase in its recent contributions to the larger society of Friends, R89.951paperback. ESR is now seeking and compiling stories of vitality in a new project Sociologist H.W. van der Merwe, the designed to serve as a resource for monthly and yearly meetings. Quaker founder and former director of the Demonstrated vitality includes influx of new participants, effective Centre for Intergroup Studies (now the Cen programming, and successful ministry to the immediate community tre for Conflict Resolution) at University of while maintaining a clear Quaker identity. CapeTown in South Africa, is not one of the famous names of the struggle against apart Meetings that believe they are experiencing such vitality and have a heid or the nonviolent resolution of the con story worth sharing are invited to participate in a relatively brief "self flict. Yet it is plain from this memoir that, at study" we believe will be useful to them and to ESR. Drawing from several important points, the African National these self-studies, ESR will choose several meetings and churches from Congress (AN C) and the South African gov across the spectrum of Friends for further conversation and interviews. ernment trusted no one else as an intermedi The stories of these meetings will be included in a published study ary. Vander Merwe set up the first meeting designed to share the successes that exist among Friends and to provide between both camps-breaking a deadlock ideas and resources as meetings address challenges in their individual that had lasted 24 years-and acted as unoffi situations. cial go-between among a wide variety of con flicting political interests. As Nelson Mandela Far further information about how to participate in this project, contact: writes in the book's introduction, "It is be Jay Marshall, Dean, Earlham School of Religion, 228 College Avenue, cause South Africa had people like H. W. van der Merwe that we were able to enjoy a dra Richmond, Indiana 47374 • (800) 432-1377 • [email protected]. matic and peaceful transition to democracy, which serves as an inspiration to the world." It's an amazing testimonial for a ninth generation Afrikaner farm boy who believed well into his 20s in "the superiority of white people and the moral righmess of the apart heid policy." But it is no more amazing than New England the life this man led. New England Quaker Vander Merwe first ventured outside the Meetinghouses confines of his local community in 1948 to Quaker Meetinghouses work with a mission of the Dutch Reformed Church in what is now Zimbabwe. At 19, he was looking for an adventure in the bush and Past and Present a way to serve God-and he wasn't sure which he wanted more. His first job was to supervise the farming by Silas B. Weeks activities of young black students at the 180 pages, paper $18.50 mission's school in Guru, then to oversee some 20 schools in the area. His task was not Photos and histories of more than 110 Quaker Meetinghouses in Connecticut, only to supervise the teachers, but to shoot Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont reveal the game for food, and to settle disputes. He apparently did particularly well at the latter faith and testimonies of the Quaker communities who worship there. Silas Weeks those in the area eventually gave him the weaves delightful anecdotes through his notes about architectural style, location, Chikaranga name of"Muiti Worugare," which cost, and significant Quaker family names. means Maker of Peace. It was a prophetic title. But it was not until The book also includes a list for each state of related Quaker burial grounds with he had a discussion with his brother Jacko, an directions. Appendices of meetinghouses by architectural style, historical and academic some 20 years his senior, that the current maps, glossary, and index. cognitive shift necessary for turning a racist into a proponent of social change occurred. The two were watching a sunset over the Friends Un ited Press Available from FGC Bookstore Langeberg when Jacko related a simple story Richmond, Indiana about sharing a similar view with a woman [email protected] 1-800-966-45 56 on a ship. Jacko used the word vrou, a respect ful term used to refer to a white woman,
FRJENDS JouRNAL june 2001 25 bur he applied it to a we should also be able black woman, who was to work with people of DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS normally called a meid, good will who operated SCHOOL a derogatory term in within the apartheid sys 19 E. Central Avenue, Paoli, P A 19301 Afrikaner society. Van tem which we deplore." der Merwe corrected his Although the ability f<'r ,fudnrf, il'rflr/camnrg diffi'l'l'IICC~ brother, only to be gen and determination to College Preparatory • Grades 7·12 • &Summer School tly corrected in turn. bring all sides together Call (610) 640-4150 for infonnation As van der Merwe was clearly van der Admission Tour dates: May 1 • May 16 writes, "There was no Merwe's gift, continual 2001 Summer Program: June 25. July 27 more discussion on delays and roadblocks § this topic bur I believe to his efforts were so ~ this was, fo r me, the mo formidable char it ::s ment of truth. A new must have taken un- ~ vision dawned on me. I usual strength not to t'1 saw a coloured woman give up or give in to ftus- ~ as a woman, and nor as tration and anger. His ~ a coloured. It was only experiences make me ~ later when I reflected wonder: If mediation on this experience that I realised what a great requires such rare gifts, how practical is its impact it had made on me-the profound spread? Is mediation something that everyday realisation that a person was not defined by people with average self-interest can achieve? colour bur by other shared human qualities. These are not abstract questions. Media (609) 714-0100 ... This insight affected not only my percep tion is increasingly favored worldwide in con callighrf@ aol.com tion of relations between whites and blacks flict resolution, with the developing world as a • MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES e bur also my relationship with Africa. Until major client. Are other major conflicts likely • INSCRIPTIONS • SCROLLS • then I was an Afrikaner, a white European. to succumb to mediation? Where law en By identifying with black people as fellow forcement is weak, is it helpful for people to New Freedom Rd., Medford, NJ 22 08055 countrymen I identified myself with the con form their own structures for keeping order tinent of Africa. An Afrikaner had become without violence? What if others could adopt an African." van der Merwe's faith and surrender them This heightened awareness followed van selves to what depends, after all, not on indi der Merwe as he and his wife traveled exten vidual merit but on the Spirit's working sively throughout Europe, Canada, and the through individuals? U.S.-backed Economic United States, where he anended his first I don't know the answers to these ques Sanctions Against Iraq Quaker meeting and finished his Ph.D. at tions, but this book, with its inside look at the are killing thousands ofchildren every UClA. It came to fruition when the van der behind-the-scenes meetings that allowed a Merwes returned to South Africa in peaceful transition of power to occur within a month. Friends, we must speak for the 1963. Marietjie became a renowned potter, and context of fear, hatred, and violence, have children. Letters, postcards, e-mails, H.W. launched an academic career and be made the questions clear. phone calls, and faxes to our Congress came increasingly drawn into the black and It has also made clear that although the and our President can help get sanc white issues of his society, conflict resolution, Truth Commission's work was a major con tions lifted so that children may live! and the Religious Society of Friends. tribution to conciliation in the old South Aside from explaining how van der Merwe Africa, it ultimately failed to address issues -Marjorie Schier, Falls Friends Meeting. that today undermine the new South Africa. Fallsington, Pa. evolved into a Quaker who could draw black and white South Africans to the peace table, C rime, corruption, AIDS, poor education, the Peacemaking in South Africa provides a highly continuing gap between rich and poor, and readable history of the various political move the fact that members of parliament are re ments in South Africa during the '70s, '80s sponsible to the political parries that select and '90s and chronicles both his peacemak them rather than their constituents are 2001 ing activities and those of the Religious Soci all challenges with which the new South Af Welcome to the ety ofFriends. rica must grapple. South Africa, writes van der Merwe, is a country "marked by ideologi annual conference It is not always comfortable reading. Van der Merwe was an independent thinker who cal confusion, labour unrest, grass-roots of the Friends challenged the South African government's alienation, and a hostile and apathetic civil Admission Office Association for policies, ANC's use of violence, and AFSC's service." 5800 Wc:st Friendly Avenue Higher Education, belief in the '80s that justice took priority over The fight for peace was merely a first step, Greensboro, NC 274 10 Guilford College peace. In justifying his opposition to AFSC's van der Merwe concludes. The battle for a 336.3 16.2100 Campus decision not to talk with the apartheid gov better society has just begun. 1.800.992.7759 FAX 336.316.2954 ernment, van der Merwe writes: "If Quakers -Sarah Ruden Quaker Education could work with liberation forces who had Since 1837 www.guilford.edu resorted to a violent armed revolt, of which Sarah Ruden, a member ofCape Western Meet we could not approve bur could understand, ing, is a journalist living in South Africa.
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In is campaigning in Great Britain to establish a Civilian Peace Service to help train and Gifts of Vision: A Retreat for addition to the open lener from Jean Zaru, clerk of Ramallah Meeting, that was printed deploy civilians dedicated to peaceful resolu Photographers & Other in FRIENDS j OURNAL (March 200 1), BYM cites tion of conflicts in the UK and across the Artists a second letter from Zaru on the devastating world. The group, which has begun lobbying Danna Cornick ·july 15-20 effects of closures "not only between Israel, parliament, is being funded by the Joseph the West Bank, and Gaza, but also of block Rowntree Charitable Trust. 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After leaving the Army, he married Terry to learn more about GuideOne Insurance, call Thompson. They moved to California, where Duane graduated from Sacramento State Univer 1-877-448-4331 ext. 5429. Ciu1deOne· r. Insurance' sity and received a Master's in Public Health from University of California. The family grew, with three children, including an adopted daughter, Wendy, whose death at an early age caused great sorrow. Drawn to the Peace Testimony, the couple were active with AFSC in protesting the Vietnam War and providing draft counseling. They joined Berkeley Meeringin 1971. Duane performed with the Berkeley Folk Dancers and loved sailing and hiking. He worked as educational direcror of the Alameda County Cancer Sociery. He volunteered Friends' Central School in the meeting's nursery and First-day school. He also srruggled periodically with bours ofdepression "Friends' Central School has been and withdrawal. He will be remembered for his enthusiasm, warmth, and ready willingness to help my home for thirteen years. others in need. He is survived by his sons, Mark The encouragement that the faculty and Dale Abrams; his partner, Jane Arentz; two sisters, Rosemary (Kay) Reed and Chris Dillon; his provides has inspired me to follow father, Clarence Abrams; his stepmother, Sandra Abrams; and his ex-wife, Terry Thiermann. my dreams. The support that they Bailey-C. Lloyd Bailey, 82, of pneumonia, on offer has given me the strength to January 23, 2001 ar Foulkeways at Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. He was born on March 20, 1918, in actively pursue them. " Tacoma, Ohio, where his parents owned a dairy farm. Lloyd's family were members of Stillwater Adam Griska '00 Meeting. He attended Olney Friends School in BROWN UNIVERSITY Barnesville and taught there for three years before becoming a conscientious objector. The firs t CO camp he was sent ro was Buck Creek Camp in Marion, North Carolina. Ir was here, during Christ National Merit Scholar Commended Student mas vacation, that he met Mary Margaret Binford, C um Laude • AP Scholar 1999 a teacher at Westtown School who was the daugh FCS Drama Award • Jazz Band • Vocal Jazz Ensemble ter of rhe camp directors. After Lloyd and Mary Margaret were engaged, he was granted permission Susan D u rnford Snipes Memorial Award to finish his alternative service ar Byberry Mental Debate • Lacrosse • Soccer Hospital in Philadelphia. They were married on June 20, 1944. After the war and the completion Lowe r School, Grades Pre-K - 4 Middle/Upper School, Grades S - 12 of his law degree at Temple University in 1947, 228 Old Gulph Road I I 0 I City Avenue Lloyd held various professional and voluntary po Wynnewood, PA 19096-1 098 Wynnewood, PA 19096-3490 sitions in Quaker organizations, including in Geneva, Switzerland. In the 1950s, concerned about the dangers of an escalating Cold War, the couple Call: (610) 649-7440 ro register directed a conference of diplomats from Russia and Eastern and Western Europe. In later years, they spent extended periods in both North and South Korea working on reunification projects. He served for 23 years as the chief U .S. fundraiser for UNICEF. After his retirement in 1982, Lloyd devoted the remainder of his life to reaching non Reservations are required for display ads in FRIENDS JouRNAL. Dispkly violence to prison inmates. As a volunteer work August issue: Reserve space by June 11. shop leader for Alternatives to Violence Program, Ad he worked on conflict resolution with inmates ar Deadlines Ads must be received by June 14. Sing Sing Prison in New York and Graterford in September issue: Reserve space by July 16. FRIENDS Pennsylvania. When he had heart surgery in 1999, Ads must be received by July 19. he received dozens of cards and notes from prison JOURNAL inmates. He led his last workshop in December Ad rate is $32 per column inch. 2000. Lloyd was a member of Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting. He is survived by his wife, Mary Marga Call (215) 563-8629 now with your reservation or questions. ret Bailey; four children, David L. Bailey, Thomas Raymond Bailey, Deborah Ann Bailey, and Bar- 32 june2001FRIENDSJOURNAL bara Seamon Bailey; grandchildren Jessica Ann Olney Friends School Elliot Bailey, Robert Lloyd Bailey, Erika Bailey, A co-educational, college-preparatory, boarding high school with deep Quaker roots. Daniela Bailey, Aaron Carl Bailey Zelick, and Nathan Lyle Bailey Zelick; and two sisters, Flo rence Bailey and Elizabeth Bailey Bartram. Nurturing: Brown-Richard (Dick) Andrew Brown, 81, peace fully, on December 19, 1999, in Oakland, Cali£, Intellectual curiosity ten days after a diagnosis of lymphoma. Dick was born in Puyallup, Wash., on September 8, 1918, the older of two brothers. As a child he was inter Communication ested in building, especially rafts and kayaks. At 18 he traveled alone in a homemade canoe to Alaska Self-confidence and, soon after, rook solo bicycle trips to Mexico, the Southwest, and England. He began his associa tion with Friends in objecting to war while at Leadership University of Washington during World War II. He became a conscientious objector, left a poorly organized Civilian Public Service Camp, served Creativity time in prison, and was paroled to hospital work in Berkeley, Cali£ While in prison, isolated for some Integrity time, he was able to see only a small part of the sky through the bars of a small window. One day, when his spirits were especially low, he was watch ing the sky when a beautiful white bird flew over head and hovered. In that moment Dick imagined that he was the bird, that he could see the earth and Olney Friends School all nations, with all their conflicts and sufferings, Barnesville, Ohio 43713 and saw that they all shared the same purpose. Although Dick earned his living as a carpenter, his Telephone: 740-425-3655 primary interest was in writing. He married and Admissions@Olne yFriends.org adopted two sons, one of Japanese-Chinese-Ha waiian heritage and one a Blackfoot Indian. The care of these boys became a focus of his life. When the family moved to Berkeley they attended Berke ley Meeting, and after the couple divorced, Dick became a member, especially devoted to the care of the meetinghouse. During the C ivil Rights Move ment he traveled to Mississippi to help rebuild burned churches; he later served in the Builders' Residential and Brigade in N icaragua. D ick remarried in 1999. He Assisted Living is survived by his wife, Anne Maiden Brown; adopted sons Jason Brown and Zachary man since 1891 Runningwolf Brown; his ex-wife, Helen Brown; and a granddaughter, Xela Tennenbaum Brown. Christenson-Paul Richard Christenson, 50, on In addition to The Hickman's November 18, 2000, at his home in Tabernacle, N.J., from cancer. The second of four children, "not too big, not too small" Paul was born onApril7, 1950, in Kingsley, Iowa, size, Bill and Becky Mcilvain and was raised on his family's farm within the Church of the Brethren. Strongly influenced by liked the retirement the Brethren peace testimony, he became a consci community's in-town location. entious objector at the age of 18 and served two years with Brethren Volunteer Service, working with Church World Service in the U.S. Afterwards "There are so many things he traveled around the country on a motorcycle. While attending a West Coast church conference you can do within walking he met Sharon Daly, and the couple were married distance. We're still driving in Riverton, N.J., on August 10, 1974. Forren years Paul farmed, served on the district board of the now, but the day will come . ... " Church ofthe Brethren, and lobbied heavily for the Peace Tax Fund. He worked as a machinist with various companies and, beginning in 1991, with the Quaker-Sponsored • Homelike • Affordable • Close to Town • Welcoming Diversity U.S. Mint. There being no Church of the Brethren in the area, Paul anended Medford (N.J.) Meeting, 400 N. Walnut St., West Chester, PA 19380 where he was active in several committees, includ 610-696-1536 ing Property and Peace and Social Concerns, be fore becoming a member in 2000. He also served e-mail: [email protected] as treasurer on the board of the Interfaith Hospi tality Network. He is survived by his wife, Sharon www. thehickman.org Daly Christenson, and his son, Jason Christenson. FruENDS]OURNAL]une2001 33 Coars--jos~phin~ Lmor~ Coats, 90, on October 23, 2000, in Sama Fe, N. Mex. Josephine was the WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 second daughter of four children born to Virginia and Chance Hardy of Marion, Ind. She moved Over 300 Years of Quaker Education with ease among diverse groups of people and a wide range ofactivities. While an undergraduate at The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school University of Wisconsin, she waited on tables and stressing high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter participated in modern dance and athletics. After is committed to nurturing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an marrying and having four children, she lived in atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her Gary, Ind. There she was a founding member of fullest potential. Kindergarten through twelfth grade. League ofWomen Voters and a Girl Scout leader. Her commitments to New Deal policies and her Earl J. Ball III, Head of School advocacy for the passage of the Social Security Act 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 led to her first social work job as a welfare case (215) 844-3460 worker. She continued her career in social work at the State Mental Hospital in Westville, Ind., and while working there, earned her Master of Social Work degree from Indiana University. She was a founding member of North Side Meeting in Chi The ·e'''.. cago, which often met in the living room of her Storehouse apartment in Old Town. Here she harbored objec tors to the Vietnam War as they made their way to Collection Canada. She traveled around the world visiting ot Memories Friends World Committee projects. Following a ...a Life Story service to help you heart attack at age 63, she retired from social work and moved to Gila, N. Mex., where she began a savor your memories, tell your story The Friends Camp in Bucks~ County worship group in her home ar the western edge of and create a beautiful book- • TWO WEEK SESSIONS • the Gila National Forest. The group eventually a cherished legacy for generations june through August became Gila Meeting. She died while returning to come. Sleepover campJor boys & girls 8-13. home after attending her grandson's wedding in We Invite your Inquiries. the Traverse Bay, Mich., area. Josephine is sur Campers choose their own activities vived by her sons James and W illiam, seven grand Marty Walton/ Linda Lyman and live and play in a children, and six great-grandchildren. She was pre 1311 Sudden Valley friendly, diverse community. deceased by her sons Robert and Jonathan. Bellingham, WA 98226 (BOO) 738-8599 FOR INFORMATION ca//610-847-5858 Dunn-St~phen P. Dunn, 71, onJune4, 1999, at lifebooks@aol com his home in Kensington, Calif. Born in Boston, www storehousecollectjon com 609 Geigel Hill Rd., Ottsville, PA 18942 Mass., on March 24, 1928, he struggled through Members, Association of Personal Historians [email protected] I www.camponas.org out his life with cerebral palsy. His parents enabled Quakers Uniting in Publications ACA Accredited Camp him to travel in Europe as a boy and young man. He was educated at Columbia College and Co lumbia University, where he received a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1959. In 1956 he married Ethel DI SCOVER QUAKER PHILADELPHIA The Bible Association of Friends Deikman, who also has cerebral palsy, an event Two-hour walking tours of William Penn's in America they called the Grear October Revolution since original city of brotherly love. For sale: ir was unusual rhen for disabled people to marry, paperweight created to honor Penn's work since I 829 has offered Bibles, NewTescamems, and even more unusual for them to marry each and crafted in Olde City. and Portions free or ar cost to Friends institutions, individuals, and others worldwide. other. His earliest publications were books of po Send a SASE for information to: QUAKER etry, including Some Watercolors from Venice and Write to: P.O. Box 3, Riverton, NJ 08077 TOURS, Box 1632, Media, PA 19063. The Recluse and Other Poems. Several of his schol arly publications, some of them with his father, L.C. Dunn, were devoted to Roman Jews. For 25 years Stephen was editor of Soviet Anthropology and Archeology and Soviet Sociology, translation The Meeting School journals. A translator as well as editor of many 56 Thomas Road, Rindge, NH 03461 books about Russia and the Soviets, he wrote four scholarly books: Cultural Processes in the Baltic Organic Farm Area urukr Soviet Rule, The Peasants of Central ~ heirloom breeds, active student involvement Russia (with Ethel Dunn), Kulturwandel im / Caring Quaker Community sowjetischen Doif("Culrural Change in the Soviet putting faith into practice in our daily lives Village"; with Ethel Dunn), and The FaiL and Rise ofthe Asiatic Mode ofProduction. He taught courses Progressive Secondary Education on the peoples o( the USSR and comparative day/boarding, small classes, hands-on learning religion (which he especially enjoyed) in several academic institutions in the Bay Area and Monterey, Calif. Stephen attended Berkeley Meeting. where -----_, ~-~-f.t-)rr-f--- ilft_f!_l_--- his contributions to meeting for worship, as well IV \1( "' '~ • I ,v - - "' .,-,.. -- .,. ~ . "''' as his service on the Library and Finance Commit tees, were particularly valued. He is survived by email:[email protected] (603) 899-3366 www.meetingschool.org his wife, Ethel Deikman Dunn; two nieces, Janet Wentworth and Jennifer Emberg; a nephew, 34 june 2001 FRIENDS j OURNAL Stephen N. Dunn; two grandnieces, Louise Part-time Job Opening Dunn and Heather Emberg; and a grandnephew, Andrew Wentworth. Ewald-Esther Wood Ewald, 96, on January 26, at Friends Journal 2001, in Barnesville, Ohio. Esther was born on August 18, 1904, in Allegheny, Pa. She graduated from Oberlin College, where she met her future husband, Victor Ewald. The couple lived and Development Coordinator (2 days/wk.) worked for many years in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area, where they opened their home to refugees will write grant proposals and reports, assist in preparation of proposal from World War II and joined Friends. In the budgets, draft appeal letters, establish an enhanced planned giving pro 1950s they moved to Columbus, where they both worked at the Midwest Regional Office of AFSC gram, arrange donor visitation, and prepare a biannual newsletter. Excel and were active in North Columbus (Ohio) Meet lent writing and organizational skills, computer skills, and experience ing as well as many social concerns groups includ ing NAACP and the Columbus Council on Hu working with Friends required. Experience with The Raiser's Edge soft man Relations. They both subsequently worked for Columbus State Hospital. They moved to Dela ware and fundraising a plus. ware, Ohio, where they continued their commu nity involvement and were active in Delaware Meeting. After retirement they moved to Media, We offer a warm and congenial work environment, flexible work hours, Pa., where Esther commuted to Philadelphia to and the excitement of work in a hub of Quaker communication. work for AFSC's Material Aids Program and Credit Union. In the early 1970s they moved to the newly Send resume and three references to: opened Friends House in Sandy Spring, Md. There they volunteered for a wide variety of interests. In 1987, Esther moved to Barnesville Health Care Susan Corson-Finnerty, Editor-Manager Center. She is survived by two sons, Jay and Peter FRIENDS Friends journal, 1216 Arch Street, 2A Ewald; a daughter, Cleda Mott; nine grandchil dren; and ten great-grandchildren. JOURNAL Philadelphia, PA 19107 • Fax: (215) 568-1377 Kemp--Ruth Hannah Brown Kemp, 82, on Janu ary 28, 2001, in West Columbia, S.C. She was born in Purcellville,Va., a seventh-generation Quaker and the daughter ofRalph B. and Gertrude Birdsell Brown of Goose Creek Meeting in Lin coln, Va. Ruth graduated from George School. On October 12, 1941, she married Walter E. Kemp Jr., of Baltimore, Md., and later they had three children. Ruth did the bookkeeping and account Friends Home at Woodstown ing for the plumbing, heating, and electrical con tracting business she and Walter ran. In 1987 they retired to Lexington, S.C., where they joined Co A Century ofQuaker Care for Older Adults lumbia (S.C.) Meeting. Ruth was active on Minis try and Oversight Committee. She loved hum Simply put, Friends Home at Woodstown provides friendly and affordable mingbirds and flowers, especially gardenias, and care to older adults. Nestled in the heart of rural southern New Jersey, avidly worked crossword puzzles. She extensively researched family history, keeping copious notes Friends Home has maintained a stable presence in the community for over and journals, even during her last days in the 100 years. Some of our primary services include: hospital. She advocated natural health foods and explored alternative healing. Ruth is survived by • Private, homelike residential living her husband, Walter; son and daughter-in-law W. Edward III and Charlotte Kemp; daughter and • Independent apartment living son-in-law Marilyn and Daniel Roberts; brother • Health care facility with 24-hour services and sister-in-law Kenneth T. and Virginia Brown; • Patient and supponive staff and two grandsons, Jeffrey and Jonathan Kemp. A son, David, died in 1989. • Attention to the individual's spiritual, social, and physical needs Lawton-M Powell Lawton, 77, as a result of a • Closeness to the community brain tumor, on January 29, 2001, at the Quad • Medicare and Medicaid Cenificate rangle in Haverford, Pa. He was born on May 31, 1923, in Atlanta, Ga., to Sara Alston Lawton and Rated one ofthe best care homes in the U.S. Mortimer Powell Lawton Sr. He was a behavioral psychologist, a senior research scientist, and direc For a tour or more information, contact our Admissions Office at tor emeritus of the Polisher Research Institute of 856-769-1500 Philadelphia Geriatric Center (PGC). He gained national attention in the early 1960s for his pioneering investigations into the psychological Friends Home at Woodstown and social aspects of aging. H e recognized the P.O. Box 457 • Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 importance of designing living environments for the elderly, particularly those with Alzheimer's FruENDS]OURNAL]une2001 35 One pathway to peace leads right through the Disease. In 1964, he led the nation's first sympo After trying his hand at fuming, he felt called to halls of Congress sium on Alzheimer's Disease under the auspices mission work and became superintendent of of the Home for the Jewish Aged. His studies the African schools ofthe Dutch Reformed Church of the needs of Alzheimer's patients and their in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. On his caregivers have enhanced the quality of life of the rerum to South Africa at age 21, H.W. earned BA elderly. His work influenced the design of Phila and MA degrees from University ofSte llenbosch. Ask how you can help delphia Geriatric Center, and his research into He continued his studies in the U.S. at UCLA, bring Friends' concern for how environmental factors affect the aged led where he graduated with a Ph.D. in Sociology peace andjustice to Capitol Hill PGC to develop the nation's first nursing home in 1963. Then he retumed to South Africa to take specifically for the elderly with Alzheimer's Dis an academic post at Rhodes University. In 1968 FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION ease. His work included the environmental psy he became the first director of the Abe Bailey 245 Second Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 chology of later life, assessment of the aged, and Institute at the Centre for Intergroup Studies, now caregivingstress. Much ofhis recent work involved the Centre for Conflict Resolution. When he the study of affect, or emotion, in later life and retired after 24 years in this capacity, University the quality of life of older people in declining of Cape Town conferred on him the tide of health. This work has resulted in the development emeritus honoraty professor. On retirement H.W. of geriatric assessment tools, including scales for accepted a one-year fellowship at the U.S. Institute interpreting nonverbal communication of nursing of Peace in Washington, D.C., to reflect on and home residents with Alzheimer's Disease or other record his life's work, but this was cut shon by dementias. An adjunct professor of human devel ill health. A pioneer in peace studies in South opment at Pennsylvania State University and Pro Africa, H.W. published widely, including his two fessor of Psychiatry at Temple University School most recent books, Purruing justice and Peace in of Medicine, he held degrees from Haverford South Africa and Peacemaking in South Africa: A College and Columbia University. He was a Lifo in Conflict Rtsoluti 36 june 2001 fRIENDS jOURNAL Forum continued .from p. 5 end ofWorld War II when a new state was created for the survivors of the Holocaust. Give six free gifts Indeed anyone not a Jew should feel somewhat uneasy about the current situation. The new state that became Get six free months "created" by the UN under Harry S. Truman's presidency was actually, as the British troops pulled out, Israel. The old The strength ofFRIENDS a gift card from you )-and we'll Ottoman empire that had lasted for 500 JouRNAL is in its readers, so we extend your own subscription by years was left in shambles by the Europeans want to add some new ones! one month for each friend, who had carved it up into pans for their meeting member, or attender liking. Remember also the saying, "A land Send us the names of up to whose name you send to us without people for a people without a land"? six individuals who are not This happened to overlook a lot of residents! currently subscribers,* but (up to six months). I also am remembering the Groucho Marx saying, "I wouldn't want to join a country who you know would club that would accept for membership enjoy the JouRNAL. someone like me!" *(and who We still "seek reconciliation for We'll send each of ourselves" and "despair in the effort ... to them three free have not been for help mediate it for others." Yes, too much issues (along with two years) blood still cries out from the ground. Ruth Whitson Marsh Houston, Tex. Reflections on forgiveness after violent conflict I was so glad to find in the March issue so much educational material about the situation in the Middle East. The article by Mary Ellen McNish and the "Open Letter to Friends" by Jean Zaru, clerk of Ramallah Meeting, were very helpful to get a better understanding of the Middle East region. 1. Name: 5. Name: It is important for Friends to be well Address: Address: informed about the lives of Friends and other Palestinians. Obviously, it is not enough to pray for them and to hold them Zip Zip in the Light. Our concern and compassion 2. Name: 6. Name: for them has to be followed by actions. For Address: Address: example, we can supportAFSC's important, yes, outstanding work, in different areas in the Middle East. Zip Zip It was also good to see the letter by Colin 3. Name: and Kathy South, directors of the Friends School in Ramallah, and the Christmas Address: newsletter from Maia Carter. These also Please extend my current help us to get a better feeling of the real Zip subscription: atmosphere in the Middle East. 4. Name: Name: It seems to me that it is important ro Address: Address: hold all who live in the Middle East in the Light and ro pray for just peace in the region. But it is only for the victims of that Zip Zip tragic development over so many years, those who have suffered so much and are still suffering, to forgive the perpetrators. FRIENDS 1216 Arch Street, 2A, Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 It seems to me that my last sentence is JOURNAL Fax: (215) 568-1377 nor so easy ro understand. I will give an [email protected] FJ o6oJ example of what I mean: We all remember FruENDS]OURNAL]une2001 37 Pendle Hill Resident Program the picture of the naked litcle Viemamese girl {her clothes had been burned on her body). She had been hit by napalm during A time of intellectual and spiritual growth the Vietnam War. In the photo she was and a deepening of what it mear · running away, obviously in great pain. cooperative, responsible citizen w Recently I read that the U.S. airman who was responsible for this "hit" regretted very the community and the world. much his role in this action, and when he learned that she now lived in Canada, he Courses in scripture, prayer, arranged to meet with her, and he asked her Quakerism, creativity, literature, to forgive him. She did forgive him. Could social action. anyone else have forgiven what he had done to her? Contribute to the work of the lngeborg]ack community. Swarthmore, Pa. Daily meeting for worship. Bias is dismaying Scholarships and internships I am dismayed by the anti-Israeli bias of available; apply early. your March issue. Mary Ellen McNish's article began with the acknowledgment of her awareness of concern about the AFSC' s bias. She repeatedly mentions how the PENDLEHill Israelis harm the Palestinians, such as cordoning towns, restricting movement of A QUAKER CENTER FOR STIJDY AND CONTEMPLATION workers to their jobs, demolishing homes, 338 Plush Mill Rd · Wallingford,PA 19086 and military attacks. She then quotes some (800) 742-3150 EXT. 126 Israelis who criticize Israel. She presents the [email protected] · www.pendlehill.org Palestinian position and calls it "clear." She describes the position of the Israeli mayor and deputy minister as "unproductive and troubling." One wonders why she never criticizes the Palestinians for terrorist acts against Israeli Jews. Her one mention of it becomes a criticism of Israel! The rabbis she quotes "confessed" that "practically every moment is taken with fear that a child, loved one, or even oneself is about to be blown up ... " "I am convinced that the Then, she criticizes the media that "fans" the all-merciful God, who has given fear by publicity. What a travesty of justice. Even her men and women freedom and responsibility description of the AFSC's programs displays clear bias. The Palestine Youth Program for their lives, has also left to dying people emphasizes "cultural preservation and the responsibility for making a conscientious heritage." The AFSC Israel Program brings Arab and Jewish youth together to "jointly decision about the manner and time oftheir plan and implement programs." Where is the effort in Gaza and Ramallah where the deaths ... there should be no compulsion to Palestine Youth Program has branches to reduce the anti-Jewish prejudice of the die but there should be no compulsion to live Palestinian youth? either." Next in the issue, Jean Zaru, a Palestinian from Ramallah, writes of how her people were victimized without once Hans Kung in "Dying with Dignity" indicating how Palestinians have harmed Israeli Jews. The following article by Colin and Kathy CallB00-247-7421 for a free copy of "Assisted South, "Difficult times in Ramallah" shows Dying as a Moral and Ethical Choice: A even more bias. They write of the barbaric murder of two Israelis by a Palestinian mob Physicians View " or visit www.hemlock.org from the point of view of their students at Friends Schools there. They mention the 38 june 2001 FRIENDS j OURNAL , Classified For Information call (215) 563-8629. murder briefly, "their subsequent murder in "leaders"? What about the everyday person the police station," "the death of the Israeli who serves as the foundation of our society, Classified rates 65~ per word. Minimum charge is $ t 5. Logo is additional $15. Add 10% if boxed. 10% soldiers," as a side issue to their main point: who is involved in making all the things we discount for three consecutive insertions, 25% for six. how the students behaved calmly during the use so readily, and who takes care of all the Appearance of any advertisement does not imply endorsement by Friends Journal. "the riot" which so impressed them that it creature comforts we enjoy? was "a wonderful God-given gift" that Should Friends not be involved in Classified Ad Deadlines: "brought tears to your eyes." T he students helping those who need help the most? August Issue: June 18 "wanted to demonstrate their indisputable C hildren from inner cities, from September issue: July 23 loyalty to the Palestinian flag and nation, to dysfunctional families surrounded by Submit your ad to: demonstrate their frustration ... at the loss poverty, crime, and violence--these are the Advert ising Manager, Friends Journal of friends and family during the latest children we should be trying to reach. The 121 6 Arch Street, 2A Philadelphia, PA 191 07-2835 Intifada," to "stand up for retributive youngsters who get "thrown out" or are not (215) 563-8629 justice." accepted in a parochial or private school, Imagine this. A mob has just killed two and who are then foisted on the public Israeli men and cheered when one bloody schools that cannot refuse any youngster Accommodations body was tossed out of a window, and the but often cannot adequately service them Edinburgh Scotland. Detached mews house facing south Souths have tears in their eyes for the either- these, the most challenging, should into the Royal Botanic Gardens, available for rental to restraint shown by their students who didn't be where our energies are directed. Friend/s from 22 December 2001 to mid-April 2002. Tele phone +44 (131) 552 3392 or e-mail, 40 june 2001 FRIENDS jOURNAL Interns, 9-12 month commitment beginning January, June, John Woolman School. Rural California, grades 9-12. Affordable Housing-The Quaker House at or September. Assist with seminars and hospitality at Will Preparation for college and adulthood, small classes, Woolman Commons. Join the growing, vital iam Penn House, five blocks from U.S. Capitol. Room, caring staff, work program, service projects; board, day. Quaker community in the charming, historic board, and small stipend. WPH, 515 East Capitol Street, SE, 13075 Woolman Lane, Nevada City, CA 95959. (530) town of Mount Holly, N.J., home of John Washington, DC 20003. 273-3183. Woolman. Located just one block from the Arthur Morgan School. A small junior high boarding school meetinghouse, the spacious modem apartments in the Frankford Friends School: coed, K~ ; serving center city, seeks houseparents and teachers for 2001-2002 school fully restored and renovated pre-Revolutionary homes northeast, and most areas of Philadelphia. We provide year. Pos~ions also include a mix of other responsibilities: are offered to Friends (and non-Friends who have worked children with an affordable yet challenging academic pro teaching (academics and/or electives, music, art, etc.), lead for' Friends organizations), aged 55 and older, with con gram in a small, nurturing environment. Frankford Friends ing work projects and outdoor trips, maintenance, garden fidential financial assistance available to those who School, 15000rthodox Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124. (215) ing, and cooking. Intimate community of staff and students; qualify. For information/application, write or call: Kate 533-5368. staff-run by consensus. Simple living; beautiful mountain Kwiecinski, Medford Leas, Route 70, Medford. NJ 08055. setting. Contact or send resume with cover letter to: Nicole (609) 654-3000. Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. Small Delcogliano or Sherrill Senseney, AMS, 1901 Hannah Branch academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences. com Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. (828) 675-4262. munity service, consensus decision making, daily work projects in a small, caring, community environment. Arthur Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, Real Estate NC 28714. (828) 675-4262. Child-Tested and Parent-Approved Cooperative ~11 Westbury Friends School-Academic excellence in a Neighborhood. Come and live in Crowell Gardens, a SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE nurturing Quaker environment for 170 children, nursery premier 1D-acre "green" community in the Blue Ridge grade 6, on beautiful 17-acre grounds. Small classes and Mountains. Share a community building with play spaces, Kendal communities and services reflect sound manage highly qualified teachers. Music, art, computers, Spanish, child care, optional meals, and many other resources. ment, adherence to Quaker values, and respect for each French, gym. Extended-day, vacation/holiday, summer pro Walk miles of trails from your door. Cars park at the edge, individual. grams. Half- and full-day nursery, pre-K. Brochure: Westbury and residents are safe from traffic. fRIENDS jOURNAL june 2001 41 FAIRHOPE-Unprogrammed meeting 10 a.m. Sundays at Acupuncture Associates of West Roxbury, serving the Friends Meetinghouse, 9261 Fairhope Ave. Write: P.O. Boston area. Relieve Pain-Improve Energy-Restore Meetings Box 319, Fairhope, AL 36533. (334) 928-()982. Health. Amy Crikelair, Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbal ist. (617) 325-1746, 42 june 2001 FRIENDS jOURNAL SAN FRANCISCO-Meeting for worship and First-day WILMINGTON-Worship and First-day school10:30 a.m. MAUl-Friends Worship Group. Contact: George R. Harker, school, 11 a.m., Sundays. 65 9th Street. (415) 431-7440. 4th & West Sis. Phone: 652-4491. (808) 879-4160, P.O. Box 1137, Kihei, Hl96753; or (808) 572-9205 (Vitarellis). SAN JOSE-Worship and First-day school! 0 a.m., District of Columbia discussion 11:30 a.m. 1041 Morse St. (408) 246-0524. Idaho SAN LUIS OBISPO-Two worship groups in area: (805) WASHINGTON-Friends Meeting, 211 1 Florida Ave. NW 239-9163, 528-1249, or 528-6487. (north of Dupont Circle Metro, near Conn. Ave.), (202) BOISE-Boise Valley Friends. Unprogrammed worship, 483-3310, FruENDS]OURNAL]une2001 43 IOWA CITY-Unprogrammed meeting for worship to a.m. BETHESDA-Glasses and worship t 1 a.m. (year round) WORCESTER-Unprogrammed meeting for worship t t 31 t N. Linn St. Call351-2234. Sidwell Friends Lower School, Edgemoor Lane and a.m. 901 Pleasant St. Phone: 754-3887. WEST BRANCH-(HA) Unprogrammed worship at t 0 a.m., Beverly Rd. 986-8881. Y ARMOUTH·Friends Meeting at 58 North Main Street in 2nd Sunday worship includes business; other weeks, CHESTERTOWN-Chester River Meeting, 124 South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, welcomes visitors for worship discussion follows. 317 N. 6th St. Call: (319) 643-5639. Philosophers Terrace. Worship t t a.m. Cieri<: Yasuo at tO a.m. each Sunday. (508) 398-3773. Takahashi, P.O. Box 1005, Chestertown, MD 21620. (410) Kansas 778-1977. Michigan ALMA·MIDLAND·MT. PLEASANT-Unprogrammed LAWRENCE-(HA) Oread Friends Meeting, t 146 Oregon. DARLINGTON-Deer Creek Meeting. Worship 10:30 a.m. Unprogrammed meeting for worship at t 0 a.m. Child care Cieri<, Anne Gregory, (410) 457-9188. meeting tO a.m. Discussion t 1 a.m. Cieri<: Nancy Nagler, awailable. (785) 843-3277. EASTON-Third Haven Meeting, 405 S. Washington St. (517) 772-2421. ANN ARBOR-Discussion, singing t 0 a.m. Unprogrammed MANHATTAN-Unprogrammed meeting. For time and tO a.m. Kenneth Carroll, cler1<, (410) 82D-8347, 820-7952. meeting for worship 11 a .m. Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill St.; location please telephone (785) 539·3733, or 539·2046, or FALLSTON-Little Falls Meeting, Old Fallston Rd. Worship guest room reservations, (734) 761-7435. Co-clerl 44 june 2001 FRIENDS jOURNAL ~~<>-Unprogrammed worship. For information, call: 329- SHREWSBURY-Meeting for worship and First-day school MANHASSET M.M.-1 0 a.m. June to August 10:30 a.m. Ate. 35 and Sycamore. Phone: (732) 741- MATINECOCK M.M.-10 a.m. 4138. New Hampshire PECONIC BAY E.M.-Southampton College and SOMERSET/MORRIS COUNTIES-Somerset Hills Southold CONCORD-Worship 10 a.m. Children welcomed and Meeting, Community Club, E. Main St., Brookside. SHELTER ISLAND E. M.-10:30 a.m. May to October cared for. Merrimack Valley Day Care Center, 19 N. Fruit Worship held 10:30 a.m. Sept.-May. (908) 876-4491. WESTBURY M.M. St. Phone: (603) 224-4748. SUMMIT-Meeting tor worship and First-day school11 a.m. DOVER-Unprogrammed worship 10:30 a.m., 141 Central (July, Aug., 10 a.m.). 158 Southern Blvd. Chatham Contact us at fRIENDS ] OURNALjune 2001 45 DURHAM-Unprogrammed meeting and First-day school Oklahoma HAVERTOWN-Qid Haverford Meeting (HA). East Eagle 10 a.m. 404 Alexander Ave. Contact Karen Stewart, Rd. at Saint Dennis Lane, Havertown; First-day school and (919) 732-9630. OKLAHOMA CITY-Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed adult forum, 10 a.m., meeting for worship 11 a.m. meeting for worship 7 p.m. Sundays in parlor at 2712 N.W. FAYETTEVILLE-Unprogrammed worship, 11 a.m. 223 HORSHAM-First-day school (except summer) and 23rd (St. Andrews Presb.). (405) 631-4174. Hillside Ave. (910) 323-3912. worship 10:30 a.m. Ate. 611 and Meetinghouse Road. STILLWATER-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 11 GREENSBORO-Friendship Meeting (unprogrammed), a.m. For information call (405) 372-5892 or 372-4839. HUNTINGDON-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, 1103 New Garden Rd. Worship 10:30 a.m. Call: 10:30 a.m., for location/directions call (814) 669-4127. (336) 294-2095 or 854-5155. TULSA-Green Country Friends Meeting. Unprogrammed worship 5:15p.m. Forum 4 p.m. For information, call INDIANA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship 10:30 a.m., GREENSBORO-New Garden Friends Meeting. Meeting (918) 743-6827. first and third Sundays. (724) 349-3338. for worship: unprogrammed 9 a.m.; semi-programmed 11 KENDAL-Worship 10:30 a.m. Kendal Center, Library. U.S. a.m. First-day school 9:30a.m. Hank Semmler, clerk; Oregon Ate. 1, 3'/~.mi. S of Chadds Ford, 1'1, mi. N of Longwood David W. Bills, pastoral minister. 801 New Garden Road Gardens. Kitty Eckfeldt, clerk. 27410. (336) 292-5487. ' ASHLAND-Rogue Valley Friends Meeting. Each First Day KENNETT SQUARE-on Ate. 82, S of Ate. 1 at Sickles St. GREENVILLE-Unprogrammed worship and First-day at 543 S. Mountain Ave. Business, adult ed., and singing First-day school 9:45a.m., worship 11 a.m. (610) 444- school. 355-7230 or 758-6789. 9:30a.m. Children's program and silent meeting for worship 11 a.m. Hospitality and child care available during 1012. Find us at 46 june 2001 FRIENDS j OURNAL POCONOS-Sterling-Newfoundland. Worship group under JOHNSON CITY-Tri-Cities Friends (unprogrammed). Edie HARRISONBURG-Unprogrammed worship, 10 a.m. the care of North Branch (Wilkes-Barre) Meeting. (570) Patrick, (423) 283-4392 or [email protected]. Sundays, 363 High St., Dayton. (540) 879·9879. 689-2353 or 689-7552. MEMPHIS-Meeting for worship (unprogrammed) and First HARRISONBURG-Ohio YM. Unprogrammed Christian QUAKERTOWN-Richland Monthly Meeting, 244 S. Main day school11 a.m. Discussion 10 a.m. 917 S. Cooper, worship, 10:30 a.m. (540) 867·5788 or 433-5871. St., First-day school and meeting for worship 10:30 a.m. (901) 762-8130. HERNDON-Singing 10:15 a.m. Worship and First-day RADNOR-Meeting for worship and First-day school tO NASHVILLE-Meeting for worship (unprogrammed) and school10:30 a.m. 660 Spring St. (703) 736-0592. a.m. Conestoga and Sproul Roads, !than, Pa. (610) 293- First-day school tO a.m. Adult sharing 11:30 a.m. on LEXINGTON-Maury River Friends. Unprogrammed 1153. second and fourth Sundays. 2804 Acklen Ave., (615) 269- worship Sundays 10 a.m. First-day school10:20 a.m. READING-First-day school10:15 a.m., meeting 10:30 0225. Thais Carr and Pam Beziat, co-clerks. Child care. 10 mi. W of lexington off W. Midland Trail at a.m. 108 North Sixth St. (610) 372-5345. WEST KNOXVILLE-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. Waterloo Rd. Info: (540) 464-3511. SOLEBURY -Worship 10 a.m., First-day school 10:45 a.m. 1517 Meeting House Lane, (423) 694-0036. LINCOLN-Goose Creek United Meeting for worship 9:45 Sugan Rd., 2 miles NW of New Hope. (215) 297-5054. a.m. each First Day. First-day school10 a.m. SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.)-Worship and First-day Texas LYNCHBURG-Worship 10:30 a.m. 2nd and 4th First school tO a.m., adult forum 11 a.m. Street and Gravel Hill ALPINE-Meeting for worship, Sunday, 10:30-11 :30 a.m. in Days; Info: Owens, (804) 846·5331, or Koring, (804) 847- Ads. (215) 364-0581. the home of George and Martha Floro. Call: (915) 837- 4301. SPRINGFIELD-Meeting and First-day school, 11 a.m., 2930 for information. MCLEAN-langley Hill Friends Meeting, 6410 Georgetown w. Springfield and Old Sproul Ads. Del. Co. 328-2425. AMARILLO-Gall (806) 538-6241 or (806) 426-3526. Pike, Mclean. Meeting for worship 10 a.m., First-day STATE COLLEGE-Worship and children's programs 11 AUSTIN-Meeting for worship, Sunday 11 a.m., Hancock school and "Second hour" at 11 a.m. Babysitting available. a.m. Also, on most Sundays, early worship at 8:45a.m. Recreation Center, 811 E. 41st (W of Red River), Austin, (703) 442-8394. and adult discussion at 10 a.m. 611 E. Prospect Ave., Tex. Supervised activities and First-day school for young NORFOLK-Worship and First-day school at 10 a.m. State College, PA 16801 , phone (814) 237-7051. Friends. (512) 452-1841 . Phone (804) 624-1272 for information. SWARTHMORE-Meeting and First-day school 10 a.m., DALLAS-Unprogrammed meeting for worship Sundays 10 RICHMOND-Worship 9:30 and 11 a.m. 4500 Kensington forum 11 a.m. Whittier Place, college campus. a.m. 5828 Worth St. (214) 821·6543. The Richard I. McKinney Social Action and Witness Scholarship Pendle Hill will award seven internships for the 2001- 2002 academic year to resident students working at least three days a week in a social justice organization or community service agency. Three internships will be designated for young adults, especially students and recent graduates. Three additional scholarships will be granted to seasoned and skilled activists, who will also serve as mentors to the young adults. The seventh internship, named the Richard I. McKinney Social Action and Witness Scholarship, will be specifically designated for an African American young adult or seasoned activist. + Interns will be expected to volunteer at least three days or 21 hours a week in a social justice or community service agency. + Volunteer service may include community service n honor of Richard I. McKinney, an outstanding work, local social justice program support and Mrican American student in the first resident class at coordination, and direct action for local, national I Pendle Hill during 1930-31, Pendle Hill will award a or international causes. scholarship to an Mrican-American interested in residing at Pendle Hill for one academic year while working in a + All of the interns, along with other interested social justice agency or community service organization Pendle Hill residents, will meet together weekly at least three days per week. for study and reflection on linking spirituality and social witness. After he graduated from Morehouse College, the American Friends Service Committee sponsored Richard McKinney's + Internships will provide support for tuition, year at Pendle Hill upon his submission of an essay on room, board, health insurance, and local "The Quaker Influence on American Democracy." During transportation costs. his year at Pendle Hill, he worked two days a week for AFSC. He was also one of the students in Henry Hodgkin's first class on Problems of International Relations and Invest in the Future of Industrial Society whose writings resulted in a published The Religious Society of Friends book, Seeing Ourselves Through Russia. Pendle Hill wishes to thank all friends of Pendle Hill Richard McKinney went on to Andover Newton Seminary who have given to the Campaign for a New Century. and received his Ph.D from Yale. He founded the philosophy For information on how you can make an investment, please contact: department at Morgan State College. At age 90, he was Richard Barnes still teaching a course in Christian ethics at Morgan Director of Development relating the teachings of the Bible to "just" war, abortion, Pendle Hill, and homosexuality. He was a beloved and very well 338 Plush Mill Road received guest speaker at Pendle Hill's 70th Anniversary Wallingford, PA 19086-6099 in 2000. (800) 742-3150, ext. 132 E-mail contributions@pendlehil l.org www.pendlehill.org . Thoroman, (978) 263·8660. Michael Koppy, clerk: (218) 729·7643. RUSTON-Unprogrammed. Call: (318) 251-2669. AMESBURY-Worship 10 a.m. 120 Friend St. MINNEAPOLIS-Minneapolis Friends Meeting, Call (508) 463·3259 or (508) 388·3293. SHREVEPORT-Unprogrammed. Call: (31 8) 459-3751. 4401 York Ave. South, Mpls., MN 55410. Call for times. AMHERST-GREENFIELD-Mount Toby Meeting. Worship (61 2) 926·61 59. Maine and First-day school t 0 a.m. 194 Long Plain Rd . (Ate 63), Leverett. (413) 548-9188, orcler1< (413) 772·2826. MINNEAPOLIS-Prospect Hill Friends Meeting-near U of BAR HARBOR AREA-Acadia Friends. Worship 9 a.m., M campus. Meets Sun. 4 p.m. Call (612) 379-7398, or Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor. (207) 288-494 t ANDOVER-Worship and First-day school, tO a.m., 65 (612) 321-9787 for more information. Phillips St., SHED kindergarten, (978) 47D-0350. or (207) 288-8968. NORTHFIELD-Cannon Valley Monthly Meeting. Worship BELFAST AREA-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, BOSTON-Worship 10:30 a.m. First Day. Beacon Hill (unprogrammed) and First-day school, 10 a.m. Sundays. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Telephone: (207) 338-6823. Friends House, 6 Chestnut St., Boston, 02108. First Sunday each month, meets in private homes. Other Phone: 227·9118. BRUNSWICK-Unprogrammed worship 10 a.m. 333 Maine Sundays, meets at Laura Baker School, 21 1 Oak Street., St. 725-8216. CAMBRIDGE-Meetings Sundays t 0:30a.m. and 5 p.m.; Northfield. For information: Corinne Matney, 8657 Spring Forum at 9:30a.m. 5 Longfellow Pari< (near Harvard Sq., Creek Road, Northfield, MN 55057. (507) 663-1048. CASCo-Quaker Ridge. Unprogrammed worship 10:30 off Brattle St.). Phone: (617) 876-6883. a.m. summer only. 1814 meetinghouse open to visitors, S ROCHESTER-worship First Day 9:30 a.m. Assisi Heights CAMBRIDGE-Fresh Pond Monthly Meeting. Worship and of Rt. t t near Hall's Funeral Home. (207) 627-4437. (1001 14 St. NW) in Canticle Hall at the back of the First-day school tO a.m. Cambridge Friends School, building. First-day school. Phone (507) 287-8553. EAST VASSALBORO-Unprogrammed meeting for 5 Cadbury Road. ST. PAUL-Twin Cities Friends Meeting, 1725 Grand Ave., worship tO a.m. Friends Meetinghouse, Stanley Hill Road, DEERFIELD-GREENFIELD-Worship group Thursday East Vassalboro. Jan Munroe, cler1<, (207) 923·3141. St. Paul. Unprogrammed worship Sunday at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. at Woolman Hill Conference Center, Keets t 0:30 a.m., Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.; adult education LEWISTON-Unprogrammed worship and First-day school Road, Deerfield, MA 01342. (413) 774-3431 . All are Sunday at 9 a.m.; First-day school Sunday at 10:30 a.m.; t O a.m., 29 Frye Street (off Main Street, U.S. 202). No welcome. meeting for business first Sunday of month following t 0:30 meeting July-August. Telephone: (207) 786-4325. FRAMINGHAM-Worship t O a.m. First-day school. Year a.m. worship. (612) 699·6995. MIDCOAST-Unprogrammed meeting for worship, First· round. 84 t Edmands Rd. (2 mi. west of Nobscot traffic STILLWATER-St. Croix Valley Friends. Unprogrammed day school, 10 a.m. Friends meetinghouse, Damariscotta. lights). Wheelchair accessible. (508) 877·1261. worship at t O a.m. Phone: (651) 777-1 698, 777·5651. Watch for signs to the meetinghouse on Rt. t. Coming GREAT BARRINGTON·(HA) South Berkshire Meeting. from the south on Rt. t , tum left onto Belvedere Rd., right Unprogrammed: 10:30 a.m. First Day. 280 Main Rd. (Rt. Missouri if coming from the north. (207) 563·3464 or 354·8714. 23). Phone: (41 3) 528-1230. COLUMBIA-Discussion 9:30a.m., unprogrammed ORONO-Unprogrammed meeting for worship t 0 a.m. MARTHA'S VINEYARD-Unprogrammed 10:30 a.m. worship 10:30 a.m. 6408 Locust Grove Dr. (573) 474- Orono Senior Center. (207) 866-4382. Hillside Village, Edgartown Rd. (508) 693·1834. 1827. PORTLAND-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school, MATTAPOISETT-Unprogrammed 9:30a.m., Marion Road KANSAS CITY·Penn Valley Meeting, 4405 Gillham Rd . 8 and 10:30 a.m. 1837 Forest Ave. (Ate. 302). Call for (Ate. 6). All are welcome. (508) 758-3579. t O a.m. Call: (816) 931·5256. summer hours (207) 797-4720. NANTUCKET-Unprogrammed worship each First Day, ST. LOUIS-Meeting 10:30 a.m. tOOt Park Ave., St. Louis, WATERBORO-Unprogrammed worship, First-day school tO a.m., Fair Street Meetinghouse, (509) 228.0136. MO 63104. (314) 588· 1 122. 9 a.m. For details call (207) 636·4 t 49, 490-71 t 3. NEW BEDFORD-Unprogrammed meeting for worship tO SPRINGFIELD-Sunrise Friends Meeting. Worship and WHITING..Cobscook Meeting, unprogrammed. Worship a.m. 83 Spring Street. Phone 990·0710. All welcome. First-day school t t a .m. each First Day at the Ecumenical and child care tO a.m. (207) 733·2191. NORTH SHORE-Worship and First-day school 10 a.m. Center, SMSU campus, 680 S. Florence Ave. Glen Urquhart School, Beverly Farms, Mass., (978) 283· (417) 882·3963. Maryland 1547. ADELPHI-Worship 9 a.m. and tO a.m. Sunday. Sunday NORTHAMPTON-Worship 11 a.m., adult discussion 9:30; Montana school10:20 a.m. (tO a.m. fourth Sun.). Adult 2nd hour childcare. Smith College, Bass Hall, Room 210. BILLINGs-Gall: (406) 252-5065 or (406) 656-2163. 11:30 a.m. 1sV3rd/5th Sun. Nursery, 2303 Metzerott, near (413) 584·2788. GREAT FALLS-(406) 453·2714 or (406) 452·3998. U. of Md. (301) 445-1114. SANDWICH-East Sandwich Meetinghouse, Quaker MISSOULA-Unprogrammed, Sundays, t t a.m. winter, 10 ANNAPOLIS-35 1 Dubois Rd. Worship 1 1 a.m. Meeting House Rd. just north of Ate. 6A. Meeting for a.m. summer. 1861 South t 2th Street W. (406) 549·6276. Phone: (410) 573·0364. worship Sunday tO a.m. (508) 888-4181. BALTIMORE· Stony Run (HA): worship 9:30 and 11 a.m. SOUTH SHORE-Worship and First-day school10 a.m. Nebraska except 8:30 and tO a.m. July and August. 5116 N. Chartes New England Friends Home, 86 Turl