March 1992 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today

THE SPIRIT

HUNGER AND DISARRAY IN RUSSIA ON QUAKER PEACEMAKING Among Friends Edltor-Me ne ger Vinton Deming Assoclete Editor Melissa Kay Elliott Finding Affmity Art Dl,.ctor Barbara Benton Advertising Me neger andy Kehler and his wife, Betsy Corner, have been tax resisters since 1977. Catherine Frost They have given the tax money instead to a variety of groups doing Clrculetlon end Promotion constructive community work. Since 1989 the IRS has been trying to sell Nagendran Gulendran R their house in Colrain, Mass., in an effort to collect $25,896 in back taxes-but it ~setti ng Services James Rice and Susan Jordhamo hasn't been easy. Se cretertel Services First of all, there's been a growing tax resistance movement there in Franklin Edward Sargent County. Bob Bady and Pat Morse, for instance, had their house seized and Bookkeeper James Neveil auctioned in 1989. (They still live in the house, however, and the buyer hasn't Volunteers taken possession.) Shelburn Falls dentist Tom Wilson had his dental license Jane Burgess, Anders Hansen, Emil y Conlon revoked when he refused to cooperate with IRS. (He continues his practice, Boerd of Mene gers 1989-1992: Jennie Allen (Secretary), Richard however; even the local sheriff remains one of his regular patients). Eldridge (Assistant Clerk), Bernard Haviland, So when the word got out that IRS planned to auction Betsy and Randy's Eric Larsen, Marcia Mason, Janet Norton , David Samuel, Carolyn Sprogell , Wilmer house, supporters in large numbers turned up on the announced day to oppose the Tjossem, Alice Wiser sale. There were lots of signed bids (such as an offer to clean the teeth of an IRS 1990-1993: C lement Alexandre, Marguerite agent, others pledging to do community work or to be peace activists for life)­ Clark, Lee Neff, Mary Ellen Singsen 1991-1994: Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon, but no cash buyers came forward. Not a one. Nancy Cocks Culleton, Barbara Dinhofer, Sam So, in November 1991 , IRS upped the ante. Betsy, Randy, and daughter Lillian, Legg (Clerk), Parry Jones, Richard Moses (Treasurer), Harry Scott, Larry Spears, Robert 12, were given an eviction notice. When Randy decided to stay, he was held in Sutton, Carolyn Terrell contempt and tossed in the county jail for 6 months. Honorery Menegers E leanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young This didn't go unnoticed by friends and neighbors, however. A sign-up sheet FRIENDS JOURNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was got circulated, and volunteers committed themselves to stay in the house around established in 1955 as the successor to The the clock. There's been a continuous presence there since December 3. Groups Friend ( 1827- 1955) and Friends Jntelligencer (1844- 1955). It is associated with the Religious from as far away as Washington, D.C., have signed up to come and help out. In Society of Friends, and is a member of the early January, members of Mount Toby (Mass.) Meeting formed such an affinity Associated Church Press. group for a week. ° FRIENDS JOURNAL is published monthly by Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry St., Meanwhile, Randy stays in jail and makes the most of his time there. He has Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone (215) made friends with many of the prisoners, has organized a chess tournament, and 241-7277. Accepted as second-class postage at does what he can to interpret his tax witness. Allan Eccleston, member of Mount Philadelphia, Pa. and additional mailing offices. • Subscriptions: one year $18, two years $34. Toby Meeting, has been approved as the meeting's official minister and visits Add $6 per year for postage to countries o utside Randy twice a week. the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Individual copies $2 each. So what's next? IRS has scheduled another auction, this time out of the area in • Information on and assistance with Springfield, Mass.-in the hope, it seems, of attracting a buyer for the house, advertising is available on request. Appearance someone who doesn't know about this whole chain of events. Randy will not be of any advertisement does not imply endorsement by FRIENDS JouRNAL. there to talk about it, but lots of his friends will. Even if the house is sold, the • Postmaster: send address changes to issue will be far from over. The house is part of a land trust (Randy and Betsy FRIENDS JOURNA L, 1501 Cherry St., own the house but not the land on which it stands)-and there's the likelihood of a Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 • Copyright © 1992 by Friends Publishing continuing nonviolent presence in the house to welcome any potential new buyer. Corporation. Reprints of articles available at How might Friends respond? I asked this question in late January of Francis nominal cost. Permission should be received before reprinting excerpts longer than 200 Crowe, long-time head of the American Friends Service Committee office in words. Available in microfilm from University western Massachusetts and a supporter of Randy and Betsy. She suggests: Microfilms International. • Form an affinity group to help sustain the presence in the house. (To be

PRINTED ON RECYC LED PAPER scheduled, contact Traprock Peace Center, Keets Rd., Deerfield, MA 01342; phone, (413) 774-2710. • Funds are also needed to support the action (checks made out to "War Tax Refusers Support Committee" and mailed to the address above). Moving? • Letters to the editor on the subject of taxes and militarism are always helpful. • More sponsors are needed in Congress for the Peace Tax Fund bill. (Write Let us update NCPTF, 2121 Decatur Pl. NW, Washington, DC 20008 for more information.) your subscription At a rally last fall in support of Betsy and Randy, Juanita Nelson-who, with husband Wally, has been a tax refuser for decades and is known to many and address. Friends-offered these words by Goethe: " Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has Genius, Power, and Magic in it." Good advice as Write or call: another tax season is upon us, when many of us seek to find our way on this FRIEN DS JouRNAL, 1501 Cherry St., difficult question of taxes for war. Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 (215) 241-7277; Fax (215) 568-1377

2 March 1992 FRIENDS J ouRNAL March 1992 FRIENDS Volume 38, No. 3 JOURNAL Features Departments 7 Inspiration 2 Among Friends Chris Laning What we await is the Real Presence, name it what we will. 4 Forum Viewpoint 8 The Spirit of the Gospels 5 Frederick Sontag 24 Reports It gives meaning to our lives and unites us with others. 26 Young Friends 11 Grace-Filled Moments 28 News of Friends Laurie Rizzo 30 Bulletin Board Saying goodbye with a cake may provide such an opening. 31 Calendar 12 George Fox: An Unusual Contemporary 31 FCNLNotes John Punshon 33 Arts What meaning was there to the Tercentenary? 33 Parents' Corner 14 Some Thoughts on Consequences 34 Reviews Edward F. Snyder A God of love and justice? How, then, can we fathom the 37 Milestones human scene before us? 40 Classified 16 Lives of Faith; Lives of Suffering 42 1991 Index Henry B. Freeman In El Salvador's pain and struggle, a Friend finds new Cover, below, and on page 7: Detail from Albrecht strength. Durer's woodcut series, "The Apocalypse," 1498 · 19 On Quaker Peacemaking Irwin Abrams It is possible to translate into action what lies deep in our hearts? 20 Hunger and Disarray in Russia David Hartsough As shelves stand empty, the danger of another coup remains. 22 Nonviolence Training in Moscow Robert Levering Who would have predicted such a possibility!

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1992 3 Forum Benches needed Columbia (Mo.) Meeting is a small unprogrammed meeting. We have been working and saving for a meetinghouse of Qur own in which to worship and have our children grow in Friendly persuasion. It has not been easy to work through the concerns many Friends feel about the use of money, time, and energy for the meeting itself rather than for our Friendly efforts in the community and world. Also, location has been a really contentious issue. In early September we moved into our own meetinghouse, an architecturally simple, one story, rectangular building with a very large living room for worship. There was rejoicing and joyous song and a gathering of prayerful minds in our meetings for worship. However, Mary Howarth (FJ July 1991), a number Yes, know yourself as you are known we are living on the edge in terms of of times the words/ names Unitarian and beyond the form you call your own. finances, and purchasing new benches for Universalist are incorrectly " merged." our Friendly seats is much too much. The correct way to write it is Unitarian Mirror image, spirit bright, Are there older meetinghouses or Universalist-as in Unitarian Universalist Silence, Love, and Truth and Light. Quarters with laid-down meetings who Association, or Unitarian Universalist might have extra benches, perhaps minister (which would describe me). The Sidney Fisher needing refinishing and loving care? I words should not be hyphenated or Somerset, England travel to New Jersey once or twice a brought together with a slash. year, and would consider renting a U­ Haul to bring a load of Quaker benches Charlie McGarry A new verse to Missouri. If you would like to see Newport, R.I. your benches sat upon once more, please The early hymn "How Can I Keep let me know. From Singing?" has long been a favorite Pat Wixom of mine but has somehow seemed 359 Crown Point Mirror image incomplete. So I was inspired to write a Columbia, MO 65203 fourth verse as follows: Francis Kazemek (FJ November 1991) brings together the themes of poetry, To each of us the pioneers Parents' issues love, and light, and "the lineaments of A torch of truth are handing. God in all of the wonderful modulations Just listen with receptive ears, Thank you for the recent addition of of the human face." And gain new understanding. Parents' Corner. Harriet Heath is one of It is in the mirror that we see these So thanks we give to all who share the few parenting experts I've met who wonderful modulations of our own face; The inner Spirit's teaching. places parenting issues where I believe so, yes, it is in the mirror that we see the The gate swings wide for those who dare, they belong-within the spiritual realm. face of God. It is a silent face. The I will then keep on singing. As an attender of Chestnut Hill (Pa.) dimension of sound is not found there Meeting I had the opportunity to and this is consistent with the Quaker Live Oak Friends of Houston sang the participate in her parenting workshops findings about truth: silence within hymn with the added verse at the rise of and found her brainstorming and other ourselves. It shows the reality of the face meeting and give it general approval. problem solving techniques to use with of God-of which the outward human Perhaps others will want to try it. young people very helpful. family and face is but the reflected I would also like to see the Reading image-the image of a worldwide people Ruth W. Marsh Room idea extended as well as see you of God of one body and one face. Houston, Tex. publish some of the mini case-studies National, cultural, economic groupings such as the ones she used throughout her (to which, alas, we attach ourselves as workbook. though they were separatenesses) are but Attention Quakonomists Dorothy N. Cauthorn the fleeting modulations which flicker Philadelphia, Pa. across the face of God. Last June the Quaker Studies for May I share this poem: Human Betterment group associated with Friends Association for Higher Education No slashes, please Mirror Image set as a task the update of a directory of Mirror image, THDIJ GVIA HTWIT professional economists who are members As a Unitarian Universalist with strong when truly read from inside-right, of, or associated with, the Society of Quaker leanings, and one lucky enough but if you read from outside-left, Friends. Some of the purposes this to receive passed-down issues of your of truth and light you are bereft. directory would serve are: to facilitate magazine, I am writing to let you know contact among ourselves for dialogue on about a small but not insignificant error. So see yourself as you are seen religious or ethical concerns that might be In the article "Unitarians as Friends" by by that within the silent screen. related to our teaching, research, and/ or

4 March 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL Science, or Politics?

n his article "Seeking the Truth" (FJ their estimate of the loss to the Treasury thereby casting doubt on it, but without sup­ August 1991), Jack Powelson leveled from the reduced federal tax rates applied portive evidence. He mentions ironically an I a broadside against many Quaker to Congressional Budget Office projections AFSC celebration for them "only·a few groups for allegedly misusing evidence and of 1990 income. It seems evident that Powel­ months before they were themselves voted general bias. His own attack, however, dis­ son never looked at the original report, out of office." The implication, that their played some marked biases, and time and violating his advice to Quakers on care in repudiation in a vote shows Quaker bias, again he ignored his own admonitions to use of sources. fails to take into account the fact the Nicara­ Quakers on the proper use of evidence. Furthermore, many of the tax shelters guans had suffered a decade of boycott and Powelson's assertion that economists' disa­ "given up" in 1986 were only provided in military attack by a superpower, which was greements "rarely extend to whether the 1981 and can hardly explain a tax rise from the major factor devastating the economy, proper fact-finding or analytical methods 1977 to 1990. The capital gains tax rate fell and that direct U.S. intervention in the 1990 have been used" is false. Chicago School between 1977 and 1990, so that if this tax election was enormous. If the Soviet Union methodology, regularly showing govern­ contributed anything to the payments of the had attacked India for a decade with a proxy ment intervention to be the source of all ills, upper 1 percent, it must be because capital army, succeeding in halving its per capita has been the subject of continuous dispute, gains increased a great deal. In fact, Powel­ income, would Powelson view the elector­ and similar controversies have been com­ son completely missed the main reason for al victory of a Soviet organized and fund­ mon. In a notable case a few years ago, the rise in tax payments of the upper I per­ ed alternative slate proof of the iniquity of Martin Feldstein, then head of the National cent: namely, the enormous increase in their the ousted Indian leadership? His statement Bureau of Economic Research, was shown pre-tax income, so large that even with their that the Quakers "conveniently looked aside to have fudged evidence in order to produce greatly reduced rates, the rich paid larger as the Sandinistas murdered their political a suitable conclusion on the effects of Social absolute sums. However, their tax payments opponents," again, fails to define "politi­ Security on saving. as a percentage of pre-tax income fell sharp­ cal opponents," provide numbers, or com­ As a major illustration of Quaker abuse, ly. In short, Powelson failed to properly pare Sandinista killings of political oppo­ Powelson quoted a May 1990 Friends Com­ explain the tax increase of the upper 1 per­ nents with those in comparable environ­ mittee on National Legislation Newsletter cent, and by failing to relate their tax pay­ ments of deadly proxy wars, among other statement that the top 1 percent of income ments to their pretax incomes he also con­ problems. receivers paid $84.4 billion less in 1990 than veyed the false impression that the upper I There is a symmetry in Powelson's hos­ they did in 1977. Powelson contended that percent were not big gainers between 1977 tility to the Sandinistas-who tried to pur­ not only was the figure foolish because 1990 and 1990. sue the "logic of the majority" and an in­ was not yet over, but that IRS data also Furthermore, Powelson's designation of dependent path of development outside of showed that the tax payments of the I per­ CTJ as an "interest group" is technically the orbit of U.S. and IMF control- and his cent had risen. He explained this rise as dubious and is essentially name calling. Dan critique of The Global Factory, in which follows: "But I believe giving up tax shel­ Rostenkowski, chairman of the House he assumes without discussion that the free ters and paying higher capital gains tax more Ways and Means Committee, has described market and open economy espoused by his than offset the lowering the rates for the CTJ as "the average taxpayer' s voice in leaders is the optimal course, and one that upper brackets." He also went on to say: Washington." There is no reason whatever will soon yield benefits to Third World "I discovered FCNL used the data of an to believe its work is less disinterested than peasants. These strongly held political posi­ interest group, Citizens for Tax Justice that of the National Bureau of Economic tions, I believe, underlie the purported con­ [CTJ], which selectively perceived lower Research, the Brookings economists, or the cern with Quaker scientific error. rates for higher brackets but apparently ig­ American Enterprise Institute. Each of these nored loss of tax shelters and higher capital is heavily dependent on corporate funding. Edward S. Herman gains tax." Powelson's scientism breaks down com­ In reality, CTJ didn't make the mistake pletely in discussing the Sandinistas. He of saying the top 1 percent paid $84.4 bil­ speaks of the Quaker view of their "care Edward Herman teaches economics and media lion less in 1990 than 1977; the amount was of the poor,'' putting the phrase in italics, analysis at the University of Pennsylvania.

work in policy areas; to serve as a and holds her membership in London resource list for Friends' service A familiar face Yearly Meeting. organizations so they might get Quakerly I was surprised and pleased to see on In the spring of 1987, my husband and and professional input for policy the November 1991 cover a picture of I were fortunate to be introduced to these questions on which they are working; and our friend Eugen Schart from Praha two Friends in Praha, and they drove us to be a resource list for Friends' (Prague), Czechoslovakia. He was to the yearly meeting held that year in institutions of higher education. identified as coming from the Eastern Schmiedeberg, East Germany. As we I invite all who are Quaker economists, Germany Yearly Meeting since that is the crossed the border (amazing the border and who have not been reached through group he attends each year. The Prague guards who said they had never before our mailing, to send me their name, Worship Group that was organized by seen Americans riding in a Trabant), address, phone number, and fields of Jaroslav Kose in the early 1930s did not Jarmila told us of her memories, specialization within economics. A copy survive the war, mainly because of deaths including the international peace of the updated directory will be mailed to and emigrations. Kose himself was killed conference held more than 50 years ago all respondents. My address is Dept. of at the same time the village of Lidice was in Praha. I believe Rufus Jones was Economics, U-63 , University of leveled, both events in retribution for the there. Jarmila told of help received from Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269. death of Reinhard Heydrich. Jarmila Carl Heath Johnson and Fred Triton. Prasilova, who is now nearly 90 years Eugen is what the Germans call a Gerald W. Sazama old, was a member of that original group "friend of Friends" since he has no local

FRIENDS JoURN AL March 1992 5 meeting to join. Like other isolated Perhaps there needs to be another time September 1948 we decided to get Friends in the world, he and Jarmila for such sharing, for many are lonely and together and have only one meeting. welcome contact with other Friends. do need to share with friends. But, in At our first meeting that October, a Eugen told us this past summer how meeting for worship, the people are held young couple brought their one-and-a­ much attending the world conference captive by someone who talks too long or half-year-old boy. At the rise of meeting meant to him and how his travels were not wisely. For the welfare of the a woman spoke to the couple and urged made possible during this time of meeting, we need to address this them to bring their son next First Day economic adjustments through the problem. Friends should be made aware and she would baby-sit part of the time generosity of some English Friends. of their opportunities to speak and also so the parents would have some time Thank you for reminding us of these their duty not to burden others with together in meeting. They did and other beloved Friends by placing the circle of messages not given with a spiritual young parents started to bring their faces on the cover. leading. children. A First-day school had to be Phyllis Jones Perhaps we should ask ourselves, started. San Diego, Calif. before speaking, is this really a message By the end of the year the parents had that God wishes me to share? Will this gotten to know each other so well that Yes , that is my photo, together with be a strength to others? Have I planned they felt it was time to become a regular Erica Vere, on the cover of your all week to get this off my chest? Will monthly meeting. This came about and November issue. I was one of two others, one hopes, feel blessed by this the report of the meeting's early years participants at the world conference last message or will they be so discouraged has the sub-title, " Led by the Children." summer from countries formerly situated they will wish they had stayed home? behind the iron curtain. Everyone is equal in our meeting. Bryn Hammarstrom, Sr. I never met so many Americans as I Leadings can come through each of us Allentown, Pa. did at the world conference in Elspeet. and each can serve to strengthen the Since November 1989 our possibilities to other. That is why we meet together and meet friends in other countries are do not just worship by ourselves. But do Seeking poets good-we no longer have visa let us be careful in what we say, for problems-but our material situation is words can have great power to uplift or As a student at Earlham College, I am very bad. But we are optimists! tear down a needy heart-and we all currently participating in a research As secretary of a small organization, I have one of those. seminar funded by the Knight help to educate children and youth after Alice M. Wetherill Foundation. The overall topic of our school if they are without parent's care. Warrington, Pa. study is "Quaker Texts in Choral We try our best to transform our society, Music," but my particular interest is which has been spiritually destroyed and Quaker women poets. devastated. Led by children I seek help in identifying Quaker Eugen Scharf women poets and their works, H viezdoslavova 512 The article in the December issue about particularly collected and published works 149 00 Praha 4 Czechoslovakia First-day schools was good. Our meeting and texts that have been set to music. I had another type of experience. am also seeking names and addresses of Lehigh Valley (Pa.) Meeting began in contemporary women poets with whom I Speaking in meeting 1923 as an indulged meeting sometimes in can correspond about their poetry. two places at the same time. Then in Being a Quaker woman poet myself, I Being Friends gives us many wonderful am anxious to get the chance to learn opportunities and also many more about other women and their responsibilities. One such responsibility is creative experiences. I am interested in not to impinge on the worship time of questions such as, How does inward others. reflection relate to outward expression? It is an effort to go to meeting. and, How does the spiritual (Friendly) Planning goes into our getting away, life interact with the creative life? My getting there, and being there. The short ultimate goal is to gather many such time we are actually in meeting is very thoughts together, and to write and precious. Someday look around and publish an article about Quaker poets imagine just what went into the coming who are currently active. for each person: for some, a great Friends may contact me at Box E-629, distance; for others, time away from Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374. family; and for all, things left undone at home. We are there because we want to Kris Miller be there and we want time to worship together. Friends are urged to come to meeting not prepared to speak and not prepared not to speak. The worship time only FluENDs JOURNAL welcomes contribu­ works if the speaker feels led to speak in tions from readers. We reserve the a worshipful way, and then briefly. It is right to edit all letters. Submissions to hoped that Friends will not speak of Forum should be no longer than 300 things not of a spiritual nature. Such words. Submissions to Viewpoint things are not appropriate and are very should be limited to I ,000 words. Al­ damaging to the meeting for worship. It though we would like to print all con­ is not a time for travelogues, what fun tributions we receive, space is limited, thing we did this week, or the sad state :~ and we urge Friends to be succinct. of the world. ~L------_J

6 March 1992 FRIENDS Jou RNAL INSPIRATION by Chris Laning

live in the Central Valley of Califor­ nia, a very long, flat valley sur­ Irounded on all sides by mountains. Just west and a little south of us is a gap in the coast ranges: on the other side is marshland, San Francisco Bay, and the ocean. I find I'm sensitive to the wind here, particularly in summer. Our north wind is a hot, dry wind, like the simoom of Africa or the Santa Ana of Southern California. It comes down off the moun­ tains to the north, and as the air descends into the valley, it becomes hotter and dryer. It kicks up dust and makes peo­ ple grumpy. Our south wind, in contrast, is marine air: it comes from the ocean through the gap in the hills, cool and moist. In fall and winter it brings rain. In summer, a day with a north wind is often the herald of five or six more days, each one hotter than the one be­ fore, the wind gradually sinking down into nothing, and the last day or two often well over 100 ° and very still. Then, suddenly, the hot air over the valley will begin to rise, and cool, moist air will sweep in from the ocean, through the gap in the hills. The temperature may ence, move, or guide by [the] divine or may sometimes be reluctant to use con­ drop 30 degrees in a few hours. supernatural; to exert an animating, en­ ventional Christian language," said the I am not the only person I know who livening, or exalting influence." speaker thoughtfully, "is that even when feels that inrush of fresh air like a deep This kind of wind must have been of­ we are Christ-centered, our understand­ breath, giving new life to the spirit as ten felt by the Hebrew writers who wrote ing of Christ is different from that of weil as the body. I am subject to mi­ of the ruach (roughly, ro6-akh), a word other Christians." graines in summer, and heat and north that meant "wind," "breath," "divine Indeed our experience is different. wind make them worse: the south wind power" or "spirit." " The word refers George Fox declared the difference when sweeps in like trumpets of salvation, lift­ to the experience of a mysterious, awe­ he proclaimed that "Christ is come to ing away my depression. It swept some power-the mighty invisible force teach his people himself." In our silent through my rooms again this afternoon of the wind, the mystery of vitality, the meetings for worship, it is not words as I sat writing, and I felt what is meant otherly power that transforms-all from scripture that we await, nor wise by the word inspire: literally, "to breathe ruach, all manifestations of divine ener­ observations, nor discussions. What we in,'' or as the dictionary says, ''to influ- gy," says my Bible dictionary. It is this await is the coming of the ruach itself, ruach that moves, or broods, over the the "mighty rushing wind", the Christ, Chris Laning is an editor, graphic designer, and gardener who attends Davis (California) Friends face of the deep in the beginning of the the Real Presence. What we experience Meeting. Until last fall she was editor of Earth­ book of Genesis. is something we may share whether we Light, Pacific Yearly Meeting's quarterly magazine I once heard a very revealing comment name the name of Christ, or another ofspirituality and ecology, in which a version of in a "threshing meeting" among Christ­ name, or no name at all. Beyond words, this article first appeared. Subscriptions to Earth­ Light are $15/ yr from: EarthLight, c/ o Paul centered and universalist Friends-a beyond concepts, in our lives, in our Burks, 1558 Mercy Street, Mountain View, CA meeting that could have been very diffi­ very bones, we know what it is like to 94041. cult, but wasn't. "One reason Friends feel the wind blowing. D

FRIENDS JouRNAL March /992 7 8 March 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL any know the story of Tolstoy: then we can appraise the text. Do the wealthy aristocrat, raised in tools of modern scholarship now allow M the Orthodox Church, alien­ us to overrule those who were close to And equally ated, disillusioned; then later in life he Jesus, who on the whole agreed as to was converted and became missionary­ what he had said? unimportant like in his zeal. He is known for his One thing to remember is that the ear­ novels, but among his other writings, ly church was not formed by the writing and unnecessary there is much about his biography and or reading of the Gospels. They came religious views. He wrote a longer work from it, which is one reason for the it was to me "harmonizing" the four Gospels, and scholar's concern for their accuracy. But then he wrote a short statement on ''the if the writings did not create a church, to know when and gospel message.'' what did? Answer: First, their belief in New Testament scholars have puzzled Jesus' resurrection, which came only by whom the gospel over the authorship and authenticity of after the crucifixion had devastated their all the documents we have in the canon. belief in his messianic mission. But more or this or that Tolstoy sets everything aside but the even than that, second came the descent Gospels, not as being all wrong but as of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pente­ parable was written, obviously containing the views of others. cost. Thus, in a sense, Tolstoy is talk­ Like "The Jesus Seminar," which re­ ing about the illumination of the Holy and whether it cently gained attention in the press, he Spirit as that which gave him his own recognized the influence of the culture insight. There is no need to argue that may be ascribed and the early church on the non-gospel all who have experienced this illumina­ to Christ, or not. portions and so instead sought to distill tion will then, intellectually, all say ex­ out of the four Gospels the essence of actly the same thing. That need not be What was Jesus' teaching. At the same time he and probably is not true. What is amaz­ wanted to demonstrate that this essen­ ing is that those who report being given important to me tial core appeared in all four Gospels, this insight agree as much as they do. in spite of textual differences. It is also helpful to remember that, was the light The Jesus Seminar, using the tools of after Jesus' departure, God's presence modern biblical scholarship, found only was said to be with us, with the church which has a few saying what they could agree upon and its work, in the form of the Holy (by vote) as authentic. Analyzing them Spirit-until Jesus' expected return. illuminated me. in the manner of textual criticism, many Thus, oddly, the post-ascension Chris­ familiar and famous sayings of Jesus tians (all of us) are related to the gospel, were, so to speak, "taken out of his neither by God nor by Jesus, not even mouth." This does not mean, of course, through his recorded words, but by the -Leo Tolstoy that the Jesus Seminar wants to elimi­ presence of the Holy Spirit. This is nei­ nate them from consideration, but only ther said to be nor is it experienced to Short Exposition that these scholars could not accept be present to all always, not even to them as authentic words uttered by Jesus those who desire it. The spirit is un­ of the gospel himself. It is not our concern to inquire predictable, uncontrollable in its descent, into the critera used for their evaluation, in its appearance. But it can speak with or the assumptions which lie behind tongues of fire (or cause you so to speak) them. Nor is it a time to ask about their when it comes. Again, nothing is guar­ metaphysics; that is the basic, unana­ anteed that this will be uniform to all lyzed assumptions of modern scholar­ who experience it. It is only said to be ship. But it might be instructive to con­ the key to belief. trast Tolstoy's approach to theirs. Has the Holy Spirit gone out of our Clearly, the first point is that Tolstoy lives, individually, collectively? The is not interested in the accuracy of the Gospels were merely set down for us as literal word. True, Jesus himself had a context within which to locate God's said that following the letter of the law cooperative spirit, not as dogmatic pro­ "killeth" but that the spirit adds life, nouncements. The early Modern period and in his argument with the rigorists of had a conviction that finality was within his day he said that the Sabbath was reach, that the scholars' tools of the En­ made for man, not man for the Sabbath. lightenment could, at last, give us defini­ Thus, following this advice, we should tive insight and banish uncertainty. Yet always look for the spirit behind the the meaning of "faith" involves the ab­ words, behind the laws and regulations, sence of certainty, and for this reason behind the scholarly paraphernalia. The the vote of the Jesus Seminar, authen­ On leave this year in Cambridge, England, fundamental question in assessing the ticating but a small core of the words of Frederick Sontag leaches philosophy at Pomona integrity of the Gospels is-"What is the Jesus, is at odds with the requirements College, Claremont, California. Gospel?" We must decide that first; of faith. Of course, this search for the

FRIENDS JouRNAL March /992 9 evidence of the Holy Spirit's presence have no other portrait than Plato's, we their time and so are able to interpret the never ends, because it seems to withdraw ask whether on the whole the four Gos­ documents "assumption free," whereas after the insight is given. Its movements pels seem to paint complimentary por­ the authors themselves could not? To cannot be controlled. traits. Or, did the authors feel the inspir­ think this, assumes the astounding mod­ More difficult even for modern schol­ ation of the Holy Spirit, which, in spite ern arrogance that they, at last, in con­ arship and its outlook: Universal agree­ of some suggestions, need not mean ver­ trast to earlier times stand face to face ment is impossible, and the gift of "pri­ bal identity or literalness? The Gospels with reality. vate revelation" is always possible. The were not, were they, intended to be tran­ If, then, we give up the modern no­ Holy Spirit does not seem to be interest­ scripts of Jesus' literal words? tion of finally being able to depict truth ed in producing uniformity, although in And we should stand back and ask: bias free, what was it that Tolstoy "felt" its descent at Pentecost, each person What assumptions are involved if we (a good word to use in the case of read­ spoke in different tongues but amazing­ decide that scholars working 20 cen­ ing Scriptures) when he examined the ly understood the others. Perhaps Chris­ turies later have a clearer perception of four Gospels? He lists a number of con­ tian unity, then, is not dependent on the Jesus than the earliest Christians? It is clusions, but chief among them is that unity of agreement on text, which mod­ commonplace today to note that other they gave meaning to his life (he had al­ ern scholarship intended to provide, but New Testament documents contain views ready announced his changed life) and rather on the mutual freeing spirit we that it unites those who believe. But come to share. Inspired Christians have chiefly his claim was that the Holy Spirit disagreed, sometimes violently. But we introduced peace and love. Thus, we should be able to see the effect of the experience of the Holy Spirit the same Faith is a gift, a grace, way Jesus' disciples experienced him: by the overwhelming influx of peace and that comes only with the love. And Jesus also gave us another sign: his disciples would be known be­ descent of the Holy Spirit cause they loved one another. What, then, is ''the spirit of the Gos­ into our lives. pels?" Does it stem from agreement be­ tween scholars about the texts, however important it is to pursue textual scholar­ need to ask how many who claim to ship? It would seem more to be found have experienced the descent of the Holy in the effect the reading of the Gospels, Spirit finally agree. or the hearing of the gospel, has upon But has modern biblical scholarship, the listener. Not all hear what is said to growing out of the Enlightenment, pro­ them, as Jesus remarked. But who has duced the informed clarity and finality the ears to hear should feel the effect of understanding it proposed? The Jesus and find himself/herself converted by Seminar reached decisions by democratic the spirit of peace and love. Do all with­ vote, not all in the same proportion of in Christian churches evidence that they yes vs. no. But what about all biblical have experienced the Holy Spirit or un­ scholars worldwide who were not there? derstood the spirit of the Gospels? We Remember that the modern proposal know that cannot be true because of the was to provide a universality similar to constant tension, even fighting, that mathematics and science. It seems clear goes on within Christian communities. that all who employ scholarly tools to Where there is not love for one another, investigate the biblical documents do not the gospel has not been understood. agree in their conclusions, or even neces­ Can one receive this spirit and enter sarily with the Jesus Seminar. Then, "the peaceable kingdom" by really try­ what does their vote on authenticity ing? Unfortunately, we are told that mean if it is not the final rendering of cannot happen, although one may work a unified biblical scholarship? hard for social causes or fight for cleri­ The seminar operated, they reported, cal office. Faith, the ability to love even on an assumption that only brief and one's enemies, is a gift, a grace, and evi­ striking sayings could have survived un­ dently it comes only with the descent of altered. This criteria excludes any long the Holy Spirit into our lives. This may monologue. The language of Luke or accompany a reading of the Gospels, as Matthew, as well as John, renders any­ of the early church not literally in the it did for Tolstoy. It may be felt when thing that differs from Mark (assumed reported words of Jesus. But when it someone who has no need to do so gives to be earlier) "suspect." But the ques­ comes to the Gospels themselves, even us love unconditionally ("God with tion is not so much, is it, whether a par­ if in their reporting they differ because us"). Or, unfortunately, we may be test­ ticular saying is "authentic," but wheth­ of the individual writer, are the scholars ed by waiting in God's silence. But when er the saying reliably predicts Jesus' ef­ 20 centuries later themselves the only the Holy Spirit does come, it can reveal fect on us? Like Socrates, for whom we ones who are free of ideas current in to us the spirit of the Gospels. 0

10 March 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL There is a way of ordering our men­ getting my rankles up, I might turn to tal life on more than one level at once. A God. "Deep within us all there is an On one level we may be thinking, amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking all the demands ofexternal affairs. But Voice, to which we may continuously deep within, behind the scenes, at a pro­ GRACE­ return," writes Kelly. founder level, we may also be in prayer Perhaps the offending persons are act­ and adoration, song and worship and a ing out of fear. Perhaps they are trying gentle receptiveness to divine breathing. to protect something far more precious than a cake. If I were to consider what rom time to time, I reread this pas­ FILLED my life is about, I might find myself re­ sage from Thomas Kelly's Testa­ sponding with greater serenity and com­ Fment of Devotion. I try to open to passion, bringing that "sanctuary frame God, moment-by-moment, but it is not MOMENT of mind out into the world, into its tur­ easy. I forget. I become distracted by moil and its fitfulness." other endeavors that seem to assert their My life is not about saying good-by importance into my life. Recently, how­ to Liz, worthwhile endeavor though that ever, in the middle of forgetfulness and may be. It is not about hearing inspiring distraction, I came to know this teaching messages at meeting. Neither is my life experientially. about being a good mother and wife, per­ One Sunday morning I was driving to forming my new job, or fulfilling my de­ meeting slowly because I had a cake in sire to write. the back of my car. A carrot cake with by Laurie Rizzo y li fe is about opening to God, cream cheese icing, decorated with flow­ "Letting life be willed through ers and the words, "Thank you, Liz." M me," as Kelly said. If I attend Glancing into my rear view mirror, I no­ ship. During much of that time, I had to that deeper purpose, then all else­ ticed several cars clustered behind me. been a single parent, feeling extremely coping with the moments of anger and I pressed a bit harder on the acceler­ vulnerable in the world, and drained by envy, of grief and loneliness, finding my ator, but not hard enough to satisfy the my responsibilities. I depended upon that vocation, handling my relationships with drivers of those cars. "They're annoyed weekly hour of worship to replenish my­ my child, husband, friends, and self- · with me," I thought, "because they self. I was grateful to Liz and grieved will fall into place. It's just that simple. don't understand my motivation." That the loss of her. I wanted to say good-by And just that difficult. si mple notion led me through an amaz­ well. I had arrived at meeting. "I get it, ing sequence of inner events. I reflected upon the juxtaposed images God," I whispered. "Thank you." I recalled the many times I'd been of my own judgment of the slow drivers To cultivate awareness of God in each stuck behind pokey drivers on my way who had inconvenienced me, and the mundane moment of my life is a tall to meeting. I would inch up close behind drivers now trapped behind my car, who order. Lifting the cake out of the car, them, trying to emanate my impatience likewise judged me. I thought about my "What would you have me do next, . and anger. I judged them to be self-cen­ tendency, whenever I feel I am being in­ God?" ... stepping around my son, tered and inconsiderate not to take my considerately treated by another, to think who stooped to study a beetle, "May I hint to travel at the speed limit. I would the worst of that person, rather than the be patient," . . . thanking the women pass them at the earliest chance, and gen­ best. who held the door for me, " May I know erally feel smug and superior. Sudden­ ther examples came to mind: that I am cared for,'' ... placing the ly, I found myself relaxing into chuckles that morning, as I got ready for cake beside the hot water urn and re­ as the unlikely thought flashed into my 0 meeting, my husband had been sponding to the murmurs of surprise and mind, "Maybe all those drivers had snippy with me. I snipped right back, appreciation, "May I be grateful for the cakes in the backs of their cars." and the situation escalated. It wasn't un­ simplest blessings today," ... calling I don't relish cakes (I'm disinclined to til I was getting into the car that I found my son to come into meeting with me, encourage the eating of so much sugar), out he was feeling ill. Because of his pre­ "May I place the good-by celebration but this cake was a symbol to me. Liz, vious experience with a life-threatening and the rest of my day in Your hands." our meeting's nursery-care provider for illness, he was afraid. Then, there is a So often I fall short. But I do not be­ the past two-and-a-half years, was leav­ member of my meeting who frequently rate myself. With as much self-love as I ing today. Her care of the meeting's gives messages I don't like; to my ears can muster, I simply bring my awareness youngest children, my son included, had they sound like arrogant lectures. When back to ''the inner sanctuary,'' time and enabled me to attend meeting for wor- this person speaks, I feel affronted. I time again. And every now and then I squirm in my seat and clench my fists. receive a grace-filled moment that heart­ Laurie Rizzo is a pre·school teacher and member What an opening it would be if, in­ ens me for weeks to come. Saying good­ of Mt. Toby (Mass.) Meeting. stead of tensing in these situations and by to Liz brought me such a moment. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1992 11 George Fox: An Unusuo

by John Punshon beginning in the age of the religious wars, devotion in his followers, and one who and ending on the eve of the Enlighten­ was no stranger to privation, prison, and am glad I was here. Now I am clear, ment. His dying words, like so much of physical danger. His religious thought I am fully clear.'' With these simple his writings, echo the experience and self­ can be seen as a profound and interest­ Iwords, George Fox, the founder of awareness of Paul, who wrote to the ing commentary on the theology of the the Quakers, died on 13 January 1691. Philippians, "For me to live is Christ, saint. He had lived a vigorous and heroic 67 and to die is gain .... My desire is to Yet nowadays, outside certain Quaker years, which spanned the 17th century, depart and be with Christ. . . . " circles and academic departments of the­ Writer, speaker, and teacher, John Punshon has Fox does not fit the usual historical ology or history, little of Fox's outlook traveled widely among Friends. English by birth, and theological categories. He was a is known or appreciated. In the 19th cen­ he studied at Oxford University, entered British Puritan yet not quite a Puritan, a mystic tury, Quakerism became deeply embued politics, and was a lawyer for some years. Cur­ but an odd sort of mystic, an evangelist with evangelicalism, and that remains rently he teaches Quaker studies at Earlham School of Religion. His article was published last year in with a powerful but idiosyncratic gospel. the idiom of Quaker theology in most the London Independent during the George Fox Like Paul, he was a pamphleteer and a parts of the world. Modern liberal Tercentenary year. pastor, one capable of inspiring great Friends, like those in Britain, often find

12 March 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL Contemporary

Fox's "Christ mysticism" uncongenial Barth from time to time. Indeed, it is phasis. Without going outside the Bible, or incomprehensible. Thus, the Fox Ter­ strange that Barth has not had a bigger he portrays the outlines of the kingdom centenary is muted. One suspects that impact on Quaker thinking. Barth and of God, and the new creation-the re­ many Friends are aware of Fox's histor­ Fox both find the word in scripture, but · deemed and transformed world. Central ical significance but find his theological modify their positions in certain ways to this is his much misunderstood doc­ views uncongenial. that make traditional evangelicalism trine of the Light of Christ Within. Nevertheless, the reluctance to mark uneasy. Barth maintains his "threefold" A glance at a concordance will show anniversaries is rooted in the Quaker doctrine, while Fox asserts that Christ that light is an important New Testa­ testimony against festivals of all kinds, is the Word of God, though scripture ment term. Fox might have said that the not just those of the religious calendar. contains the words of God. If the Bible church does not take the universality of Friends' practice in general is not to com­ were the Word of God, he once said, it Christ's revelation seriously enough be­ memorate people's lives, but to seek in­ could be bought for a shilling-a debat­ cause it does not see this light. He inter­ stead the grace of God which has in­ ing point with an important barb. prets John 1-18 to show that Christ's rev­ spired and shone through them. Quaker­ Denial of the absolute or ultimate au­ elation comes to all, regardless of their ism has its peculiar ways and attitudes thority of scripture still leaves it, in Fox, outward faith. As Raymond Panikkar that are only learned by experience, and very authoritative indeed. An age unused has reminded us, one should not speak which produce a unique frame of mind to ideology misunderstands checks and of "taking Christ to the Hindus," for clearly recognizable by Friends them­ balances and thinks it has to choose be­ he is already there in whatever is true in selves. It is also partly to do with the tween liberalism and evangelicalism. Hindu faith. So what is the basis of a historical experience of being a closed There is a systematic theology underly­ Christian approach to other faiths? One defensive sect with an offbeat theology, ing Fox's writings in which scripture has finds in Fox what seems to be an other­ which often makes ecumenical contacts an integral part, but it is neither liberal, wise unattainable position: a Christian awkward. universalism based more on evangelical This is a pity, for it could be argued than liberal presuppositions. that reservations over ecumenism, and Finally, those who have turned to the devotion to theological positions which Fox might show us Light constitute the church (Eph. 5:8), owe little to its founder's insights, have that many modern and out of the historical category of cov­ prevented Quakerism from contributing enant and the personal category of exper­ significantly to the debates of the wider concerns are very ience of the Light, Fox draws conse­ church. Released from his captivity to quences for individual and ecclesiastical the Quakers, Fox might show us some deeply rooted life that are well known. Since Christian perspectives we might not have thought worship is spiritual and prophetic, it is of and, therefore, ways forward we and were open to women and men equally; since might otherwise not have considered. Or it is spiritual and inward, its outward ex­ he might show that many modern con­ foreshadowed pression is dangerous, and baptism and cerns are very deeply rooted and were communion should have no outwardly foreshadowed 300 years ago. That would 300 years ago. ceremonial (and divisive) mark. Since make him a contemporary and not the God alone is our strength, we may not antique figure of both evangelical and rely upon weapons; since Caesar subverts liberal Quaker mythology. all things to his own purposes, a watch­ Underlying his preaching is a concep­ ful political radicalism is an essential re­ tion of visitation, or "the day of the evangelical, nor neo-orthodox. So when quirement of the gospel. Lord." In a millenarian age he stood for questions are asked about "post-liberal­ George Fox wrote and preached when an existential understanding of judg­ ism," any system of thought that com­ the Church was still fragmenting, but we ment, which rejected a schematic history bines loyalty to the Scriptures with a live in an age of reconciliation and re­ but preserved the sense of urgency one sense of the continuing enlightenment of union. It is unlikely that the traditional finds on the lips of Jesus. He has a real­ the Holy Spirit is worthy of serious theology of Quakerism will regain its ized eschatology, in fact, but uses a spir­ examination. previous importance even within the de­ itual, not a historicist, engine to drive It has to be said that the reputation nomination. Nevertheless, the perspec­ it. Contemporary nuclear and environ­ contemporary Quakerism enjoys is be­ tives it gives, the theological themes and mental dangers are clearly apocalyptic cause of these things, not in spite of resources it points to, and, above all, the in their consequences, and a spiritual them. They are its title deeds. Funda­ pattern of Christian discipleship it has doctrine to link the two is an urgent ne­ mental to what Fox had to say about sal­ produced, might well be of service to the cessity for contemporary Christianity. vation and the Scriptures was his under­ wider ecumenical movement. If so, there If Fox's sense of history has affinities standing of the new covenant, about could be a serious purpose to the Fox with Schweitzer, he also approaches which he often speaks with Pauline em- Tercentenary. D

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 13 Some Thoughts on Consequences

by Edward F. Snyder f you believe in a God of love, as bondman's two hundred and fifty years of I do, whatever the name or gender, unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every I you may also find it difficult to fath­ drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid om the scene we see before us-in our by another drawn with the sword, as was said world, in our nation, in our communi­ three thousand years ago, so still it must be ties, in our homes, in our personal lives. said: " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." If you believe that God is also just, as I do, that there are moral laws in our Lincoln then concluded: The questions universe that we transgress at our peril, these outward events seem even more With malice toward none; with charity for for which Lincoln · difficult to comprehend . . all; with firmness in the right, as God gives sought answers People have different ways of mak­ us to see the right, let us strive on to finish ing the world's ways comprehensible to the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have are with us today our finite minds. I am deeply challenged borne the battle, and for his widow, and his by the perception of reality that Abraham orphan- to do all which may achieve and regarding the Lincoln achieved just before his assas­ cherish a just and lasting peace among sination. Lincoln was at the vortex of ourselves, and with all nations. Persian Gulf the carnage of the Civil War- a terrible, almost incomprehensible experience that The questions for which Lincoln and our nation's PBS in its series on the Civil War has sought answers are with us today regard­ helped us to live through vicariously. As ing the Persian Gulf and our nation's current travail. a deeply religious man, Lincoln attempt­ current travail-travail at a time when ed to express his own questions and faith our national wealth, heritage, talents, in his brief Second Inaugural Address, and resources could enable us to build in March 1865. Indeed, he devoted more the good society on this earth, here and than a third of it to an agonizing attempt now. to discern a divine purpose for the valley Is it possible for a nation-our na­ of the shadow of death through which tion-with vast technological brilliance he and the nation were then passing. to kill perhaps I 00,000 to 200,000 peo­ Let me recall some of his words to see ple, mostly innocent men, women, and whether they have relevance for us children, and to destroy a country's today: modern infrastructure, leaving it in a preindustrial. stage, without paying some The Almighty has His own purposes. price? Is there a hidden cost not found " Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but in the one-thousand-to-one casualty ra­ woe to that man by whom the offense tio? Is the manipulated euphoria of the cometh." homecoming celebrations premature­ If we shall suppose that American slavery or born of naivete? Moreover, even is one of those offenses which, in the provi­ after a generation, are not we as a peo­ dence of God, must needs come, but which, ple still reaping the bitter harvest of con­ having continued through his appointed sequences for the wanton destruction we time, he now wills to remove, and that He perpetrated on the people of Southeast gives to both North and South this terrible Asia? war, as the woe due to those by whom the A century and a third ago in the Civil offense came, shall we discern therein any Edward F. Snyder is executive secretary emeritus departure from those divine attributes which War, young farm boys, clerks, artisans, ofFriends Committee on National Legislation. Ac­ and students marched obediently into tive with Acadia (Maine) Meeting, he serves on the the believers in a living God, always ascribe boards of20-20 Vision and the Institute for Ameri­ to him? Fondly do we hope- fervently do withering gunfire in some mystery of can-Soviet Relations. His article is adapted from we pray-that this mighty scourge of war flags and drums, leaving grieving wid­ his speech to New England Yearly Meeting, August may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that ows, orphans, mothers, and fathers. 1991. it continue until all the wealth piled by the Today, are we suffering casualties of

14 March 1992 FRIENDS JoURNAL His own purposes." Are we all partici­ pants in some terrible human learning experience in this 20th century, domi­ nated by warfare, in which the institu­ tion of war is finally to be discredited and ultimately abolished? Can war's devastation be replaced, not by a new world order in which might makes right, but by a more benign way of living and sharing among all the people on our en­ dangered planet? And if we are all par­ ticipants in such an experience, must it necessarily be permeated by suffering, since this seems to be one of the few ways that we humans are made ready to learn and change such deeply ingrained patterns and institutions? We Quakers in the United States to­ day have been spared the tribulations of the generations of Christians who faced the lions in the Roman Coliseum or the Spanish Inquisition or English jails. And we have not had to cope as individuals or as families with living under Hitler or Stalin or South African apartheid. Our challenges are less blatant, more subtle, but no less real. As citizens of the only remaining military superpower on earth, whose decisions have life and death impact on people around the world, our task is to deal directly, rele­ vantly, and continually, in whatever way is given to each of us, with the issues of war, poverty, and racism all around us, regardless of the prospects for ''success.'' Thus, regardless of whether we can discern any divine purpose in human af­ fairs, regardless of whether the suffer­ ing in our country may be related to a different order, but no less tragic, be­ on populations in the world, and still U.S. warmaking in the Third World, cause of national offenses committed building prisons; and inner cities that are and regardless of whether that suffering against others?: crack and AIDS babies; an absolute disgrace to a so-called holds lessons to be learned, our response a generation of lost youth; shallow, civilized nation. must continue: to proceed with malice stunted adult lives, devoted to triviali­ So I am left with mystery, wondering toward none and charity for all; and to ties, seeking to deny or avoid the conse­ whether there is some divine plan that act in the faith that love and hope are quences of our transgressions; broken could explain a presidential obsession the laws that must be obeyed, that com­ homes and families; fragmented com­ with military force in the Persian Gulf passion and forgiveness are the forces munities; ghettoes; endemic violence in when so many alternatives were that can overcome, and that an ocean our homes, on our streets, in our all­ available. of light and love does indeed flow over pervasive media; one of the largest pris- Lincoln asserted, "The Almighty has the ocean of darkness and death. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1992 15 Lives of Faith; Lives of

country involved in a war that to an out­ sider appears to be rarely talked about. Soldiers are everywhere yet nobody seems to "see" them. Twenty men with automatic rifles and full army gear walk by with guns held ready. Conversations are silenced, but no one looks at faces. Indeed, during the first month of my stay here the only comment about the military I heard in conversation with a Salvadoran was when a man in plain clothes hitched a ride in' our truck. After he got out I was told, "He is a soldier." What on the surface may apear to be disinterest is, in fact, the exact opposite. Last week, for example, I was taken to a government office to process some papers by a woman in the church who has a reasonable grasp of English. As we drove through town I inquired in a very gentle way about her understanding of what is going on in the country. No real answers about either herself or her opin­ ions were offered. Upon our return to the church, how­ nee my arrival in El Salvador this ever, I noticed that we were passing El Salvador: ast July I have struggled with the through neighborhoods I had never seen question as to how to share with before. When I asked where we were go­ Where in the midst people in the United States the reality of ing she replied with an answer that gives life here. When we think about how dif­ insight into her understanding of the of such suffering ficult it is to communicate within one's Salvadoran "reality": "It is best," she own culture, we realize that communicat­ said, " that we not go directly to the ing across cultures is a seemingly impos­ church. You never know if we are being does one find sible task-especially when the "rules" followed. ' ' of communication are not the same. When conversations about personal sustenance? Clarity and "directness" are, for ex­ experiences do occur, they are in private ample, things that North Americans and surrounded by secrecy. I, for exam­ cherish. These characteristics are, how­ ple, was asked at one point to join sev­ ever, dangerous here and, thus, are eral visiting Canadians in a house avoided. Indeed, to ask a Salvadoran to around the corner, where four members state what he/she believes is often to ask of the congregation shared their exper­ that they put themselves in danger so that ience of being picked up by the military you- a North American- will "know" following a church service this past year. and "understand" what to a Salvadoran (One person was held for eleven months.) needs to remain unspoken. Most Salvadorans show no emotion Perhaps the most obvious example is when talking about personal experi­ found in the fact that El Salvador is a ences. Crying is, indeed, reserved for when they talk about the experience of Henry B. Freeman is vice president for institutional advancement at Earlham College. Having previ­ a sister, a spouse, a son, or a daughter. ously made jive trips to Central America, he is cur­ This particular afternoon the tears rently on a one-year leave ofabsence while living came when one of the women said that in El Salvador with displaced and orphaned chil­ out of respect for her brother (who was dren. He is working under sponsorship of Ohio present) she could not talk about what Valley Yearly Meeting, Clear Creek, and First Friends Meetings, Richmond, Indiana, and Ann they did to her during the interrogation. Arbor (Mich.) Meeting. The brother-who had shown no emo-

16 March 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL nng• tion when talking about his own days of the right-wing Arena party won the elec­ told me when I first arrived: "Salvador­ torture-began to cry. tions, he answered: "This is a country ans will tell you what they feel they can. At the end of the testimonies we joined in a state of terror Oong pause). They Don't ask questions." hands in prayer. Holding hands with killed my brother.'' people who have entrusted you with their The conversation then turned to other So where, in the midst of such suffer­ lives is an overpowering experience. You things. ing, does one find sustenance? Having have, in effect, been presented with a Who killed his brother? When? Where grown up in a society that places great message to the outside world that few does the terror come from? These are value on comfort and pleasure, I find it people understand and even fewer want "North American type questions" that hard to believe that in people's pain one to hear. many Salvadorans are afraid to answer. finds the foundation for strength. In­ In a society where the use of certain Indeed, to ask s'uch questions can put deed, the same people who may not feel words can cause problems, even people serious strains on a relationship and comfortable sharing their life story of­ who trust you have a difficult time be­ raise questions as to why you want to fer a gift of strength that is otherwise not ing clear with their message. One exam­ know and-more importantly-who you available to those of us who have not ple is a conversation I had with a pastor might tell. regarding the "democratic" elections As a fellow North American with held this past year. When I asked why many years' experience in El Salvador A Marvelous Gift

~ere was a pa~ticularly distu~b­ the fear that was grabbing hold of me mg conversation one evemng and, in my head, was taking me to Tseveral weeks ago. I was told by some very frightening places. one of the pastors that men were seen The evening was spent in bed curled earlier in the day writing down the childlike around a single lighted candle. license numbers of people entering the I was alone in a way I have never been church. The pastor went on to express alone. Prayer, reflection, and one-sid­ concern about several new people hang­ ed conversations with far-off friends ing around the church, people he be­ didn't help. lieved to be "ears" sent to watch church The comfort that was not available members and monitor our activities. during the night did, however, arrive While not surprised by this news, the in the morning. It came in the form of conversation somehow moved me past children laughing. the invisible line that separates "con­ As if the recipient of a marvelous trolled concern" from the potentially gift, I opened my door and was greet­ have lost their families, 1 am not alone paralyzing state of "uncontrolled fear." ed by children who wanted to play; very long. Within minutes my lap is All of a sudden, the experiences of children who had stories to share; filled with children who need someone other people-the disappearances, the children who hugged me and asked to hug, children who seem to recognize arrests, and the threats received by that I hug them. that this is a special time set aside for church members-became a very real As I held Mimi, a five-year-old who renewal rather than play. For any­ and frantic part of my life. seeks comfort each day in my big, where from a few minutes to an hour As I left the church that night and overgrown, North American lap, my we sit quietly, as quietly as little chil­ passed by the soldiers on my way doubts and fears began to slide away. dren can sit. They show me cut fing­ home, I was overwhelmed by the need Indeed, when I am with the children, ers, little pieces of string, and places for something that I could grab hold all the big, fierce questions that haunt where they bumped their heads. I nod, of, something in my life that made our adult lives seem far less important. say nothing, and hug them. During the sense. Having found a haven into which I brief time we share, the world-for me Perhaps more than anything else I can retreat, I now set aside time each and for the children-is a better place, wanted to fall asleep so that I could day to sit quietly in a corner patiently a place far removed from the war that wake up and find myself living a "nor­ waiting for any child who wants to join surrounds us. mal" life, a life where I was away from me. In a place fllled with children who Henry Freeman

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 17 personally experienced the suffering of to buses and " dumped" in three loca­ whatever they had been able to carry. oppression. tions outside the city. With their scraps serving as bread, we And often-somewhat surprisingly­ Why were nearly a thousand families joined this multitude in living out the this strength comes in small doses. Im­ -some of whom had lived in the gar­ biblical story of the loaves and fishes. agine, if you can, the warmth one finds bage dump for over 10 years-forced to As each person contributed what they in the following greeting offered by an leave? The reason given by a military of­ had, pieces of tin, strips of plastic, and 80-year-old man who welcomes me each . ficer was two-fold: the garbage dump old cardboard boxes turned into houses. day at the door of the church: "Enri­ was cited as a breeding ground for "sub­ Although often the houses were held que, Enrique. Welcome, Welcome! How versives," and the new owner wants to together with little more than a few nails and pieces of wire, you could see digni­ ty as it returned to the eyes of people. Mothers could now take their babies out of the sun, and children had places to call home. While the people lacked food, they shared what they had. Old women offered rocks for us to sit on, and chil­ dren brought cups of water for us to drink. Perhaps most moving of all, peo­ ple talked about their new homes and never found an end to their expressions of thanks. Rare is the time when we are able to be with people whose faith is alive. No one in the church asked whether the powers that be would like what we were doing. (Helping "subversives" is not a popular thing to do in El Salvador.) And no one asked if other churches would join us. (They did not.) These are people who have experi­ enced qod's call to be with the poor; and nothing is allowed to get in their way. is your heart, Enrique? Is your heart Before leaving the states I decided that warm?" Who can resist the focus of my letters would be my per­ With arms folded around his shoul­ sonal experience in a community of faith ders I reply, "My heart is warm." a 5:30 a.m. chorus that responds to issues of justice and hu­ "Good! Good! Your heart and my man rights in El Salvador. I think, how­ heart are one, Enrique. God is with us. of ten-year -olds ever, it is important to be clear that the God is with us." reality of life here does not exist in Sustenance is also found in the faces who whisper: isolation. of the children who greet me each morn­ To complacently accept the myth that ing. Indeed, I now am able to sleep El Salvador is a democracy is to know­ through the morning call of the roosters. "Enrique, Enrique, ingly or unknowingly perpetuate a lie, Who, however, can resist a 5:30a.m. a lie to both ourselves as North Ameri­ chorus of ten-year-olds who whisper: Are you awake?" cans and to the people of El Salvador. "Enrique, Enrique. Are you awake?" Most important of all, it is not an in­ The main source of strength, how­ nocent lie, but rather one that has serious ever, comes from the overpowering ex­ consequences. Indeed, it is a lie that in perience of being in the presence of peo­ the name of democracy results in our ple who take the Good Samaritan story sending hundreds of millions of dollars seriously and put their faith into worth of weapons to the Salvadoran mil­ practice. itary-the group that bears primary responsibility for the oppression, tor­ On the morning of August 9, over build a cemetery. ture, and death in this country. 1,000 soldiers launched a 4:00 a.m. in­ So where was the church in this proc­ Despite the abundance of love I re­ vasion of the city garbage dump. By ess? Monday morning at 6:00 a.m. we ceive each day, it is emotionally painful midday they had cleared away between piled into the back of a pick-up truck to live with children who have lost their 800 and 1,000 families who lived in the that took us to a collection of people families. To hold these children and hug dump and made their living recycling the who-like garbage-had been aban­ them-yet not speak the truth about our trash other people had thrown away. doned on the outskirts of the capital. country's involvement in their suffer­ These people were, in turn, herded on- Each family had with them a pile of ing-would be intolerable. 0

18 March 1992 F'RIENDS JoURNAL Many others, of course, have engaged in negative and positive peacemaking. Quakers were only one anti-war force among many in the struggle to end the Vietnam War, for example, and the AFSC never fails to pay appropriate tribute to its sister organizations that help make its programs possible. In fun­ damental peacemaking, however, Quak­ ers may have made a more distinctive contribution. . This was recognized by the Norwegian Committee in granting the Nobel Peace Prize of 1947 to the Quakers, "represent­ ed by their two great relief organiza­ tions," the AFSC and the Friends Relief Service of English and Irish Friends. The announcement of the prize was favor­ ably received in world public opinion, principally because of the well-known Quaker humanitarian work during and after World War II. One Oslo newspaper even informed its readers that ''the On Quaker Quaker religion consists of relief work.'' ut Chairman Gunnar Jahn of the Norwegian Committee declared at Bthe presentation ceremony that the Peacemaking most important contribution of the Quakers was not so much the extent of this work but the spirit in which it was by Irwin Abrams the generation of that spirit which gives carried out. life to the structures of positive peace. Jahn told how the Quakers had helped hat are we making when we As the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel found the first peace society and subse­ try to make peace? As Perez Committee declared in presenting the quently had participated in all active W de Cuellar has said, "Peace is Peace Prize to Mother Teresa, "Can·any peace movements as well as in efforts an easy word to say in any language. As political, social, or intellectual feat of for social justice. "Yet it is not this side Secretary-General of the UN, I hear it engineering, . . . however principled its of their activities-the active political so frequently, from so many different protagonists may be, give us anything side," he said, "which places the Quak­ mouths and different sources, that it but a house built on a foundation of ers in a unique position. It is through sometimes seems to me to be a general sand, unless the spirit of Mother Teresa silent assistance from the nameless to the incantation more or less deprived of inspires the builder and takes its dwell­ nameless that they have worked to pro­ practical meaning. What do we really ing in the building?'' mote the fraternity between nations mean by peace?" Quakers have been active on all three cited in the will of Alfred Nobel. " Peace scholars would answer by dis­ fronts of peacemaking. They have "The Quakers," Jahn declared, "have tinguishing between negative peace, the worked for negative peace in the cam­ shown us that it is possible to translate absence of war and violent conflict, and paign to end the war in Vietnam, for ex­ into action what lies deep in the hearts positive peace, a harmonious state in ample, or in the effort of British Friends of many: compassion for others and the which the human condition is enhanced. to prevent the Crimean War by sending desire to help them .. . which, trans­ Negative peacemaking, then, would in­ a delegation to speak truth to the Rus­ lated into deeds, must form the basis for clude efforts to prevent a war or to bring sian czar, or through the peace mission lasting peace. For this reason alone, the one to an end; positive peacemaking of Elmore Jackson in 1955 to facilitate Quakers deserve to receive the Nobel would include efforts to establish the so­ negotiations between Egypt and Israel. Peace Prize today. But they have given cioeconomic-political arrangements that uakers have been active in posi­ us something more: they have shown us further the realization by human beings tive peacemaking in their work the strength to be derived from faith in of their highest potentialities. Q for social justice and human the victory of the spirit over force." To these I would add a third, "funda­ rights and in their efforts to Jahn was describing fundamental mental peacemaking," by which I mean strengthen first the League of Nations peacemaking at its best. He concluded and then the United Nations. One has his speech with the lines of the Norwegian Irwin Abrams is an emeritus professor of history only to read through any annual report poet Arnulf Overland: at Antioch College and a member of Yellow Springs (Ohio) Meeting. His book Words of Peace of the American Friends Service Commit­ Only the unarmed is a collection ofspeeches from Nobel Peace Prize tee to sense the magnitude and the diver­ Can draw on sources eternal. winners. sity of this kind of Quaker peacemaking. To the Spirit alone will be the victory. 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 19 Hunger and Disarray tn• by David Hartsough 've just returned from three weeks hundreds of thousands-if not mil­ in Moscow. During that time, I hard­ lions-of people are losing their jobs. I ly met a Russian who had had what These include thousands of military of­ we would consider a full meal. There are ficers who had a pretty secure life until very long lines for all food necessities now. They are being laid off with no ranging from one to two hours to 11 severence pay and no pension, and no hours for bread, eggs, fish, meat, and prospects of finding new jobs in the milk. In all the grocery stores I visited, crumbling Soviet society. the shelves were 95 percent empty. Unfortunately, in many people's On Thanksgiving Day I went into a minds, as democratic freedoms have large grocery store-perhaps the main store in a one-square-mile area- the store where tens of thousands shop. In addi­ tion to the long lines for the above men­ tioned items, I saw fewer than ten small bags of potatoes (about half rotten) and several small bags of beets. I heard from As democratic "official" sources that there are only three days of food supply in Moscow. One family I visited had a mother-in­ freedoms have law who lived on a small piece of land in the Crimea, 1,500 kilometers away grown in recent years, the food from Moscow. The father goes down once a month and brings back food for crisis and struggle for survival have the family. They estimate that what the father can bring home on the train each gotten worse and worse. month supplies 85 percent of their food. This was true for other families I visited. Families without any access to land have a much harder time. grown over the past several years, the Stalinist forces and used to manipulate In addition to the regular food stores, food crisis and the struggle for survival the people for their own purposes. there are private markets where the food have gotten worse and worse. A Soviet Many people I met felt there could be is five to ten times as expensive. But the veteran of the war in Afghanistan said, another coup this winter, which could usual salary in Russia is 200-600 rubles "After standing in line four hours for well find support among the people if the a month, or about $2.50 to $7.50 a bread, 99 percent of the people would coup leaders promise food for the peo­ month. With these salaries, food in the support a coup." Another person said, ple. One right-wing group planned a private markets is outrageously expensive " Bread in the stomach is not separate march for late December in Moscow. and out of reach for most people. In ear­ from the democratic question." Alexan­ The organizers appealed to all those who ly January the prices in regular food der Kalinin, a member of the Moscow are hungry to join the march. They as­ stores went up 300-500 percent. Al­ City Council, fears for the 2.2 million serted that the Democrats, instead of though salaries are going up some, they pensioners on fixed incomes who may bringing democracy to Russia, have do not in any way keep up with the price die of starvation. Obviously the situation brought hunger, an economy falling a­ of inflation. Many people do not know is very unstable, and there is a lot of fear part, massive unemployment, skyrocket­ how they can feed their families even a about how people will survive this winter ing prices, anarchy, and the nation to bare minimum diet. and feed their families in the months a­ the brink of civil war. Russia has also As the old Soviet society falls apart, head. Not only are there serious food fallen from its former role in the world shortages, but there may not be enough as a superpower and a great nation. The David Hartsough, a Friend and former long-time fuel to heat houses and apartments. organizers of the march support a right staff member of the American Friends Service Many people liken the situation in wing or facist leader who promises to get Committee in San Francisco, Calif, recently re­ Russia and the former Soviet Union to­ food back into the stores and onto peo­ turned from the second of two three-week visits day to the situation of the fragile democ­ ple's tables, as well as restore law and to Russia and the former Soviet Union. He was order and return Russia to its status as there as part of a Nonviolence International team racy in Germany in the late 1920s and providing training in nonviolent civilian based early 1930s. This situation could easily a "Great Nation. " defense, to help defend against future coups. be taken advantage of by fascist or neo- Aid, especially food and medicines,

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FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 21 as Russia and the other republics convert and demilitarized society. The alterna­ Russia is in a place very similar to from a military-dominated economy to tive could well be spending $400 billion what Europe was after the war. Every­ an economy focused on meeting the bas­ next year to defend ourselves against a thing that held the old society together ic needs of people-food, housing, cloth­ rernilitarized authoritarian or even total­ and made it work is gone. They are start­ ing, medical care, etc. itarian Russia intent on regaining its ing over, trying to build a new society It makes no sense to continue spend­ place in the world. It is much cheaper that works and, I hope, reflects humani­ ing over $275 billion a year on the mili­ to make friends than fight enemies. The tarian and democratic values. They are tary in the States and say we cannot af­ Marshall plan in Western Europe after also open to new means of resolving dis­ ford $2 billion to help hungry Russians World War II was one of the best in­ putes and achieving security for their who would like to develop a democratic vestments this country ever made. people. 0 Nonviolence Training in Moscow by Robert Levering Peter Woodrow, avid Hartsough returned to David Moscow in mid-November to Hartsough, conduct training and strategy Diana Glasgow, D and Philip sessions in nonviolence. He went there Bogdonoff at the invitation of leaders of Living gather in Ring, whom he and Kay Anderson met Philadelphia in September as part of Pacific Yearly before their trip Meeting's Quaker Peace Tour. Living to Moscow. Ring is an organization of people who were among those who helped to non­ violently thwart the August coup d'etat by surrounding the Russian Parliament building (the "White House"). David is excited about the success of the three-week trip, which was spon­ Soldiers (a group trying to stop the nonviolence was overwhelming. David sored by Nonviolence International. abuse of young military recruits). and his group met with students and Accompanying David were Peter Wood­ Ironically, among the most receptive faculty of Lenin University and Mos­ row of Cambridge (Mass.) Meeting, people were military personnel. David cow State University who extended Philip Bogdonoff, who works with not only stayed in the home of a mil­ open invitations for Quakers and oth­ Nonviolence International and is a itary officer, but the group held stra­ ers to return to lecture on nonviolence. member of Ithaca (N.Y.) Meeting, and tegy sessions with sympathetic military The training group also attended a Diana Glasgow from Bainbridge Is­ officers. He found them receptive to two-day conference near Leo Tolstoy's land, Washington, a staff member of exploring nonviolent alternatives for home, where a nonviolence training Earthstewards Network. Before leav­ creating a more democratic and peace­ and resource center is proposed. ing, the group went through a two-day ful society. David, Phil, and Peter also attend­ orientation in Philadelphia, facilitated Some of the most exciting possibil­ ed meeting for worship with the small, by long-time peace activist George ities for nonviolence are taking place but growing, Moscow Friends Meeting. Lakey. QuakerI Catholic nonviolence in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. De­ (About a dozen attend the weekly meet­ trainer Richard Taylor provided the fense department and other government ings.) Two Russians known to many group with a draft manual for training officials in all three Baltic states are ser­ U.S. Friends were there-Tatiana Pav­ to defend against coups d'etat. iously considering adopting the nonvi­ lova and Valentina Konstantinova. Al­ David was impressed by the great olent defense strategy called "civilian­ so in attendance was Alexander Kalin­ need for work on nonviolence. Many based defense" as a significant part of in, a Moscow City Council member Russians were extremely concerned their national policies. Some Baltic who is trying to get conscientious ob- about the dire economic situation they leaders met in November with Gene jection status recognized. · now face. The nonviolent training con­ Sharp, who is well-known to Friends As could be expected, David brims centrated on resistance to any return for his scholarly work on nonviolent with ideas about how to respond to this to dictatorial rule. One two:day session civilian defense as an alternative to mil­ dramatic need. He says, "I would like with Living Ring concentrated on a itary force. Sharp gave a speech in Mos­ to be a catalyst to find ways that these campaign around the food issue. The cow on the subject of nonviolent resis­ needs and openings can be met." trainers also held strategy or informa­ tance to a coup d'etat. A Russian trans­ tion sessions with Living Ring leaders, lation of his paper was to be printed -Robert Levering womens' movement activists, veterans in several journals. adapted from the newsletter of the Afghan war, and Mothers of The hunger for information about of San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting

22 March 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL "Even as you do it unto the least of these my brethren, you do it unto me:'

tailed to Romania .. . home. Are you an adult skilled in carpentry, electrical Washington work, plumbing or tile-setting? Do you have Quaker training in physiotherapy, medicine, or education? Workcamps is Are you a young adult (18 or older) with energy raising funds and enthusiasm? Are you willing to join an to cover all international team of skilled and enthusiastic local room, board, people who are going to Teucci, Romania to work transportation, and on renovating an orphanage under the direction of insurance. Swedish craftsmen from the National Church of Application Process . . . Sweden, Degerfors, Sweden? Craftspeople and others who wish to volunteer We Are tailed to Go .•. should send a letter of application with a $100 Washington Quaker Workcamps has been invited application fee to: Volunteers for Peace to recruit this team to first meet in Degerfors, International Workcamps, 43 Tiffany Road, Sweden on June 14, 1992 and after a short Belmont, Vermont 05730. The letter should cover orientation, travel overland to Teucci, Romania to experience level in medicine, education, carry on the work started last summer by the physiotherapy, or construction. National Church of Sweden. The team will be How Can I Serve? involved in the renovation of yet a second orphan­ Few people will be able to respond to the call to age, physiotherapy and educational programs with go to Romania, yet we can all be an important part the children, and distribution of relief supplies in of this Romanian Relief Team. Many of the the surrounding mountain villages. We will return volunteers with the necessary professional skills to Degerfors after this three week workcamp for a are presently supporting families and need to be short evaluation session with departure for our "released," so that their families still have income homes scheduled for July 19, 1992. while they use their volunteer time to serve the We Are tailed to Serve . . . abandoned Romanian children of God in this way. Volunteers interested in being a part of such a If you can contribute and earmark that team should realize the expenses and risks involved. contribution to "WQW Romanian Workcamp;' you Everyone is required to go through the application can indeed be a part of this worldwide effort. For process (see below). In addition, volunteers are information, or to make a contribution to WQW: required to arrange and finance their own Washington Quaker Workcamps, 1225 Geranium transportation to Degerfors, Sweden and return Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20012. (202) 722-1461.

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name of the yearly meeting is now Bad P yr­ mont Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), which is a registered association and includes all members of the German Democratic Re­ public. The clerkship will be shared by three Friends, one from the East. The annual session ended at noon on Nov. 10, after approval of the epistle and a minute expressing distress about hatred and violence shown toward a liens in the country. This reporter would like to include men­ Bad Pyrmont ~ tion of her private conversations with Friends (Germany) § from East Germany. They were full of bit­ ~ terness and disappointment with the new Yearly Meeting ~ government for treating them with unequal laws, as second-class citizens. After the The first yearly meeting of the reunited came up again and again, also appearing in euphoria over reunification, with its hopes West and East German Friends took place other reports, and to some extent dominated that the living standard of East Germany Nov. 7-10, 1991 , in Bad Pyrmont, Germany. the annual sessions. would soon be equal to that of West Ger­ Slightly more than 200 Friends (including 50 There were also reports from the seven re­ many, East Germans are faced with rampant Young Friends and about a dozen children) gional districts and from Young Friends. unemployment, housing shortages, violent were lodged in the hotels and pensions at the Young Friends from East Germany will be­ outbreaks, and almost daily killings of for­ year-round mineral spa. The Quaker House come individual members of the reunited eigners-especially Turks and Asians. East there has a large meeting room that accom­ yearly meeting, but they do not yet wish to Germans do not expect much of a change for modates 200 people, as well as a number of unite with West German Young Friends. many years to come. small conference rooms. They want to wait until they grow together. This reporter was encouraged by her home The history of Friends in Germany began Their experiences of growing up under an op­ meeting to honor her felt need to be present in 1791, when the reigning Duke ofPyrmont pressive police state are different from the at this yearly meeting of reunited Friends, gave permission to a small group of Friends experiences of Young Friends in the West, and is grateful to have attended this very to practice their religion at Friedensthal and they seem to have special difficulties with special occasion. (valley of peace), near Bad Pyrmont. This the peace testimony. However, many com­ lise 01/endorff Reich small group eventually died off, and Friends bined activities have already taken place, and Amherst, Massachusetts were not re-established in Germany until after many more are planned for the coming year. World War I, again in Bad Pyrmont. The first The traditional Richard Cary Lecture was Bad Pyrmont Yearly Meeting was held in given by Paul Oestreicher, an Anglican priest Canadian Yearly Meeting 1925, under the care of London Yearly Meet­ of bishop rank who has a parish in Coventry, ing. The contact between these two yearly England. Since 1984 he has been a member Canadian Friends gathered for yearly meetings is still very close. Even though the of London Yearly Meeting. He chose as his meeting on Aug. 11-18, 1991, at Pickering number of Friends in Germany is only about theme "The Quakers: An Order in the Com­ College in Newmarket, Ontario. There they 500 members, they are well-known every­ munity of Christians?" Main points of his also celebrated the I 50th anniversary of the where, thanks to the feeding programs for lecture emphasized the common and corpor­ founding of Pickering as a Quaker school. children after World War I and II, and to ate consciousness of the Quaker ethos; the Although Pickering is no longer a Friends other aid programs that are well-remembered. experience of truth; and the order of Quaker school, it still has close ties of philosophy and This accounts for the fact that in 1963 the traditions, for which he gave eight specifics. friendship with Canadian Friends. government of East Germany allowed estab­ He talked about the issue of dual member­ The temperature was very warm during the lishment of East Germany Yearly Meeting, ship, saying he does not see the problem as week, punctuated by sudden and severe thun­ which was laid down in April 1991, after an "either/or" issue, but as an "as well as" derstorms that blew down small branches reunification. solution. Paul Oestreicher thinks Quakers and flapped the tents, but never took away The first session of the reunified yearly are too much of an elite group that should the days' warmth and darkened the skies on­ meeting began with a retreat for about 20 be more open to embrace people from other ly briefly. The same climate was found Friends, with the theme "We Are One Christian and non-Christian traditions. He among the approximately 200 adults and 40 Body." The retreat focused on worship-shar­ spoke eloquently of his own spiritual journey. children who attended. They met in the ing, which seemed to be a new experience for The lecture was followed by small discussion warmth and closeness of deeply gathered many of the attenders. Douglas Steere's groups, arranged by region and age. friendship. Occasionally, strong feelings pamphlet " Mutual Irradiation" was recom­ On the evening of Nov. 9, a silent candle­ about issues would blow through the meet­ mended reading for the retreat. light vigil was held in front of the Jewish ings, making them more aware of individual The official yearly meeting sessions started cemetery across the street from Quaker leadings and differences, but friendship and in late afternoon on Nov. 7. Conduct of meet­ House. The vigil commemorated the Kristall the presence of the Spirit continued to shine ings for business followed the tradition of Nacht (crystal night) on the same date in through. London Yearly Meeting. Among the commit­ 1938, on which Jewish synagogues were Marlene Pedigo, a Quaker minister from tee reports, one of the outstanding concerns burned and Jewish stores destroyed through­ Chicago, delivered the Suderland P. Gardner of Quaker Hilfe (the German Friends service out Germany. Almost all of the 200 attenders Lecture. She urged Friends to walk cheerfully organization) was how to cope with grow­ of yearly meeting participated. over the earth, answering that of God in ing outbreaks of violence and killings, es­ A special occasion during the annual ses­ everyone. pecially against Turkish and Asian people sion was introduction of a minute of reunion, The children enjoyed an excellent program, who have been given asylum. This concern which was approved with great joy. The prepared and taught by many dedicated

24 March 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL Est. 1689 WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Kindergarten through Friends, on the theme "Speak to the Earth, 303 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade and she will heal you." A continuing meeting of the Ministry and Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter Counsel prepared attenders for meeting for School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in girls worship for business. In advance of the an­ and boys the education of the mind, the quickening of the spirit, and the nual session, attenders received the pamphlet development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, "When Friends Attend to Business." Those the arts, and athletics. who attended the three-day retreat before an­ Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. nual session worked to build a sense of com­ munity, concentrating what could be done Earl J . Ball III, Headmaster to maintain the sense of worship in business. 3000 W. School House lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 They sought to remember that when Friends (215) 844-3460 gather for business, they do not seek to con­ vince others of their point of view but seek together to find the will of God. Canadian Yearly Meeting, in its role of employer, was asked to refuse to remit that Subscribe to Friends Journal! portion of its employees' taxes that will be used to support the military. Concern was Please enter a subscription to Friends Journal, payment for which is enclosed. expressed by the yearly meeting's trustees, 0 Enroll me as a Friends journal Associate. 0 1 year $18 0 2 years $34 who would bear the legal results of such ac­ My contribution of$___ is in addition to tions. Although the yearly meeting came close the subscription price and is tax-deductible. 0 This is a gift subscription in my name for: to supporting a minute for this action, it agreed to seek clearness with the trustees and MyName Name monthly meetings and return to this issue Address ______Address ______next year. Yearly meeting attenders also looked at a· proposed changing of the wording of the dis­ Send renewal notice 0 to me. 0 to recipient. 0 $6 per year for postage outside Nonh America. cipline on the subject of marriage. The pro­ posed change would open the way for month­ ly meetings to accept and celebrate a commit­ Friends Journal, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 ment made between two people without the commitment being recognized as legal in the eyes of the state. This would also leave way open to monthly meetings to face the issue of celebrating commitments between same­ sex couples, leaving the final decision to each meeting. On this issue, too, the yearly meet­ ing came close to adopting the changes, but decided that monthly meetings should con­ sider the matter individually, and the yearly meeting will consider it again at its 1992 Newtown, PA 18940 session. The third issue was proposed restructuring of yearly meeting to help deal with the ex­ treme distances between individual meetings, the small number of Friends, and the cost of travel. This was the first time the proposal had been considered, and it, too, was left for further study. "Not my will, but thy will be done, Lord," were the words of Jesus. As Friends sit in meeting for worship for business, they listen to other Friends speak, and they seek the voice of God. They hear the pain-filled, im­ passioned words of one Friend, the calm, sensible words of another. We know each Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ other; we know each other's beauty and educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9 · 12. strength; each other's frailties and foibles; The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values & includes: and we seek to hear the voice of God in each • Courses on 4 levels of difficulty • International Baccalaureate (18) other's words. This is one of the most diffi­ • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps cult tasks laid upon us as Friends, and it is • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service one of the most important. This is the work • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts of meeting for worship for business, at every • 131nterscholastic sports for boys & girls level of our Society. For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/968-3811 Beth Brenneman

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 25 Young Friends FRIENDS CAMP South China, Maine Response to * Ages 7-17 * Coed- Residential -tl Non competitive Valiant Three -tl $435.00 for 2 weeks A unique camp program which in­ In the October 1991 Friends Journal, Gary cludes international campers, Quaker Sandman wrote about three young people community living, decision making, who stood by their convictions during the peace communications center, crafts, Gulf War, despite pressure from teachers and drama, sports, water activities, and classmates. The article, " The Valiant other creative programs. Three, " appeared in our Viewpoint depart­ ment. Gary invited others to send him letters Call or write: Multi-racial Quaker about courageous young Friends. We share camps since 1939 Susan Morris, Director his summation here with you, along with a For infoanatioo write or caU: P.O. Box 84 Carla M. Mauariello letter we also received. - Eds. Farm aod Wildcmess Camps E. Vassalboro, ME 04935 Plymouth. VT 0)0)6 (207) 923-3975 (802) 422-}761 "Simple" Acts Take Unusual Courage It takes a lot of courage to stand up against ·An adventure of mind and heart. .. the war in public school today. I, too, want A place to study and work, talk and laugh, worship and grow. to applaud Noah Rorem, Andrew Stout, and Jesse Hepperly. They are truly Quaker PENDLE HILL invites you to heroes. join its learning community I'd like to add one more name to the list, for a resident term, enjoy a but I don't think she would want her name short stay, a weekend mentioned. She's a very modest person. conference, or a retreat. Nevertheless, she's a hero, too, in my book. There are still openings for When Chambersburg (Pa.) High School the resident program s pring called for students to come to school wear­ term, beginning March 27. ing yellow ribbons, she wore a black arm­ band. Chambersburg, I should add, is the For inform~tion write or c~ll: home of Letterkenny Army Depot, and the Pendle Hill town was about as pro-war as you can get. Box F This young lady, a member of Chambers­ 338 Plush Mill R~d burg Meeting, might shrug this off as "no W~llingford , PA 19086 big deal," but I know it was. All of these (215) 566-4507 I young people showed unusual courage, self­ confidence, and religious conviction by these "simple" acts-acts that may not have been so simple in the doing. I congratulate them and any other unsung heroes. They should be an inspiration to the rest of us. ~CO~UNITYJOBS John Kreibel The Employment Newspaper for the Non-Profit Sector Chambersburg, Pa.

Looking for ajob in the non-profit sector? Find NAME: out abOut nationwide and International posi­ More Valiant Young tions in COMMUNITY JOBS, a monthly ADDRESS: ------neiNSpllper including feanxearticles and more Friends ttwln 200 job listings. 0 $30.00/lndividual for 1 -.,.eM CITY: ------Joanna Toy, 11, lives in Concord, New (12 issues) 0 $25.00/lncftvidual for 6 months STAlE:---- ZIP: ----- Hampshire, and attends Concord Meeting. (6 issues) At a holiday concert in her school, she re­ 0 I would like to receive more fused to play the U.S. Navy fight song, con­ information sidering it a war tune. She sat through the lulk Rates Available piece with her violin on her lap and her arms Please note: Add $15 forfirst class delivery, folded. or $20 for overseas delivery. First Class mall Networking in the Pub lic Interest gua~ntees delivery in three days; a// others During the war, Joanna's grandmother, are bulk mailed, which can take t.p to 12 50 Beacon Snct • Boston, MA 02108 who is not a Friend, bought her a Desert working days. (617) 7to-5627 • Fax (617) 7to-1318 Storm t-shirt. The shirt had a picture of an eagle printed over the grotesque slogan, "America for Peace, Support Desert Storm."

26 March 1992 F RIENDS JouRNAL ~FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE ~SEEKS GENERAL SECRETARY to start October 1992

Friends General Conference provides Friends with a central source for educational and inspirational materials, a setting for sha ring our experiences, and a body to foster a sense of community, with particular attention to Friends in the unprogrammed Quaker tradition. The General Secretary of FGC oversees a staff of 11 employees in Philadelphia, and works with volunteer committees and yearly meetings to plan and carry out programs that strengthen the Religious Society of Friends. An applicant should be an active member of the Society of Friends, have leadership and management abilities, be ready to participate in development activities, and have a deep spiritual grounding in the unprogrammed Quaker Josh McQueen at a peace rally tradition. Joanna accepted the gift, but covered the Your application should include: a resume, salary history, 3 references, and a words "Support Desert Storm" with puff one-page description of your involvement in the Society of Friends. paint and drew a peace sign over it in pink. She wore it to softball practices. When Jo­ Inquiries or applications should be sent to: anna's class wrote to a local soldier, Joanna Gretchen Castle, Search Committee Clerk sent notes saying, "Wish you were home," 3298 Bristol Rd. and added jokes to make him smile. She helped assemble American Friends Service Chalfont, PA 18914 Committee hygiene kits for Arab refugees. Application deadline: AprillS, 1992. Josh McQueen, 9, of South Bend, Indiana, belongs to South Bend Meeting. In his class­ FCC ... looking forward to its second century of service! room, the teacher hung a portrait of Saddam Hussein with a hull's eye on it. Josh and four like-minded boys decided to request that the teacher remove the poster. When they ap­ proached him, the teacher immediately took down the picture and told them he was hap­ PY they had expressed their views. Ryon McQueen, 14, Josh's brother, re­ ceived an F for an English assignment that required him to picture an Iraqi battlefield, complete with winning strategies. His answer? Negotiations. Ryon also participated in a class debate about the war. Out of 30 stu­ dents, he and one other young person were opposed. One of Ryon's best friends asked him, should we have to pay such high prices for gas? Ryon replied, what if it were your Scattergood Friends School is a co-educational, college brother who was killed to have lower gas prices? preparatory, boarding and day high school for 50 students Manny Gouveia, 13, lives in Sorrento, Florida, and worships at Orlando Meeting. He refused to join his junior high school • Excellent success in placing graduates in colleges and universities marching band, where he plays lead trumpet, • 4: 1 student to faculty ratio in a Memorial Day victory parade. He was the only band member to say no. During the • Small classes and attention to the needs and interests of individuals time the war was going on, Manny stood by • Extensive outdoor and farm experiences himself on a street corner with a sign that • Caring and supportive community life said "Peace." He got heckled and spat at. • Emphasis upon cooperation rather than competition We must be doing something right to have • Affordable tuition with extensive financial assistance raised these magnificent young Friends. I would welcome further letters of support and will pass them on to these young people. For additional information, or to arrange a visit, Gary Sandman call or write, Director ofAdmissions, Scattergood Friends School, 1203 Gladden St. Route 1, Box 32, West Branch, lA 52358 (319) 643-7600 Columbia, SC 29205

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1992 27 OPEN BOUSE News of Friends Lansdowne Friends School Lansdowne. Pa. Marty Walton, executive secretary of Friends vice president of Mercy Corps International, For parents interested in learning about General Conference, will leave that position an international relief and development or­ our program for 3-year-olds through 6th in fall1992 after seven years of service. Dur­ ganization. She was administrative secretary grade Thesday, March 17, at 9 a.m. ing her tenure, FGC has moved into new of­ of Friends United Meeting from 1979 to We offer: • Child-centered education fices, has improved financial systems, and 1986, coordinating administration and pro­ • small class size • Spanish • whole has expanded programs. She has overseen gram and acting as spokeswoman for the language approach to reading, writing • extended day. major expansion of the distribution of publi­ organization. She has been a member of the cations through FGC and the addition of a AFSC Board of Directors since 1989. She To RSVP, call oar main omee: (215) 823-2548 task group on youth concerns. Marty takes will assume her new job on June I. with her a deep-rooted belief in the traditions of unprogrammed Friends, and, while execu­ Two young Quakers are among those select­ tive secretary, contributed to FGC's continu­ ed to begin service assignments abroad for A coeducation ing role in interfaith connections. A search Mennonite Central Committee. ~H~ boarding/day committee is looking for someone to fill the Alan Lane, of Apex, North Carolina, will school for 24 position. For information on applying, con­ work in a three-year economic development students in 7th-9th tact Gretchen Castle, clerk of the search project in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He is a mem­ grades. Students committee, 3298 Bristol Rd., Chalfont, PA ber of Radnor (Pa.) Meeting, holds a bach­ are involved in working, studying, 18914. Deadline for application is April15. elor's degree in economics from Wakeforest hiking, caring, coping; learning University, and has worked as a client ac­ and living in a small community in A $200,000 grant in support of financial aid count manager for a pension company. His the Black Mtns. of North Carolina. to children of color was made recently to parents are Mary Sue and William E. (Pete) Arthur Morgan School Westtown School by the Annenberg Founda­ Lane. 1901 Hannah Branch Road tion. Scholarship funds have enabled the Susan J. Spaulding, of Yadkinville, North Burnsville, NC 28714 school to increase its minority enrollment Carolina, will teach for one year at Happy (704) 675-4262 from a handful in the mid-1940s to 13 per­ Grove School in Jamaica, through Friends cent of the student body today. This year the United Meeting. She previously served with school's financial aid budget is nearly $1.4 World Impact in California and last worked million and assists 31 percent of the student as a residential counselor at a children's home FRIENDS Small classes, strong body. Westtown is in the middle of a $10 in North Carolina. She has a bachelor's de­ academics in a million improvement program aimed at in­ gree in social work from Indiana Wesleyan SELECT supportive, caring creasing faculty and staff salaries, increas­ University. She is a member of Deep Creek SCHOOL environment ing student aid, and financing building im­ (N.C.) Meeting. Her parents are Anna Ruth emphasizing Quaker provements. It has raised $6.3 million toward and Hugh Spaulding. values. its goal. It is the oldest co-educational board­ • Pre-K thru 12th ing school in continuous operation in the Lost, but far from finished, is the American . Day School United States. The Annenberg Foundation Friends Service Committee's three-year legal e • After School Program was established in 1989 by Walter H. An­ struggle about complying with the 1986 Im­ • Summer Day Camp nenberg, once ambassador to Great Britain migration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). and former publisher of TV Guide, The Phil­ The struggle began in 1988 when the AFSC 17th & the Parkway adelphia Inquirer, and the Philadelphia Daily sought exemption from provisions of the act Philadelphia, PA News. The foundation concentrates on im­ that required employers to inspect documen­ (215) 561-5900 proving communication, focusing on pre­ tation of residency from new employees. collegiate education. Those who could not or would not provide such documentation were to be denied jobs. Yearly meetings throughout North America The AFSC maintained that its religious prin­ are invited to appoint representatives to par­ ciples have historically led it to work for im­ ticipate in periodic regional and national gath­ migrants, refugees, and displaced people erings of Friends for Lesbian and Gay Con­ throughout the world and within the United Make friends, cerns. FLOC also would like to correspond States. To comply with the government's law with Friends and Friends organizations would be to act as an agent in driving out Make music through newsletters, epistles, and other ma­ the people the AFSC feels led to serve. at terial. To receive a copy of the FLOC News­ In filing its case, the AFSC was joined by letter, write to FLOC, P .O. Box 222, Sum­ seven individuals, and many Friends meetings neytown, PA 18084. and organizations as ''friends of the court." Friends The suit was initially dismissed on procedural The new executive secretary of the American grounds, and the AFSC then took it to the Music Camp Friends Service Committee is Kara Newell, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where it was a member of Reedwood Friends Church in denied a rehearing. The only recourse left ages 10-18 Portland, Oregon. She will replace Asia Ben­ would be to take it to the Supreme Court, July 5-August 2 nett, who has been executive secretary of which the AFSC has concluded would be un­ at Barnesville, Ohio AFSC since 1980. Asia will become executive wise in view of that court's current stance secretary of the Friends World Committee toward First Amendment issues. For brochure, write: for Consultation, Section of the Americas. AFSC has not complied with the law. On FMC, P.O. Box 427, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 Kara is currently director of the English as January 3, the board's Executive Committee Phone 513-767-1311 or 513-767-1818 a Second Language Program at Warner Pa­ agreed to continue this position at this time, cific College. Prior to that, she was executive while monitoring the impact of possible legal

28 March 1992 FRIENDS JOURNAL consequences on future AFSC work. AFSC intends to expand its efforts to build public support for repeal of the law, working in col­ laboration with Friends Committee on Na­ tional Legislation. A booklet summarizing the case and the religious convictions that prompted it, In Their Presence, by Aurora Camacho de Schmidt, is available from the AFSC, 1501 Cherry St., Phila., PA 19102.

Following its struggle with the issue of rea­ lignment, the Board of Friends United Meet­ ing has directed its energies toward a process Gertrude Beale and of seeking a new vision for FUM. The "re­ Mark Ehrke with their alignment" advocated an organizational split workshop's quilt between FUM meetings that are Christ-cen­ tered and those that include other orienta­ tioned off to raise money for the American ty has been hired to do clerical work. The tions as well. At its October 1991 meeting, Friends Service Committee, Habitat for Hu­ curator will also keep the archives open to the Board agreed to schedule a three-day re­ manity, and UNICEF. The quilt was made the public four days a week. The yearly meet­ treat, with emphasis on worship and prayer by 14 participants in a workshop, led by ing has also been given space in the Historical for Divine direction, seeking to be given a Carrie Miles, at the FGC Gathering. The Society. Until recently, the yearly meeting "clear and substantive, and uniting vision" quilt was designed by participants to reflect administered its own collection, with a vol­ for Friends United Meeting. Goals to support the Gathering's theme: "Currents of Faith, unteer archivist coming in once a week. The this vision will then be fleshed out, with a Wings of Vision." Each square is light blue archives are a popular resource for tracing three-year plan of action. On the committee fabric, with birds, butterflies, flowers, ani­ genealogy and history. Many of the region's to plan the retreat will be Steve Main, FUM mals, children, and other images. It is 66-by- monthly meetings, as well as quarterly meet­ general secretary; Mary Glenn Hadley, asso­ 82-inches. It will be auctioned off by silent ings, and the yearly meeting keep their rec­ ciate secretary; Ben Richmond, social con­ bids, and the recipient will be announced at ords here. The documents include member­ cerns coordinator; Harold Smuck, who pro­ the 1992 FGC Gathering. For more informa­ ship lists, minutes, maps, photographs, com­ posed the retreat; and members Sally Otis, tion, contact Carrie Miles, 22 Tanguy Rd., mittee records, treasury reports, vital statis­ from New York; David Brock, from Indiana; Glen Mills, PA 19342, telephone (215) tics, memorials, and testimonies from the and Sarah Wilson, from North Carolina. 399-6724. 17th century. The archives also contain a There will be a facilitator from outside. book and pamphlet collection, with memori­ New England Yearly Meeting's archives will als, biographies, and history books. To use A quilt made during the Friends General be more accessible to patrons now that a cur­ the archives, call in advance for an appoint­ Conference 1989 Gathering is being auc- ator from the Rhode Island Historical Socie- ment: (401) 331-8575. Building Peace in Ramallah n Dec. 2, 1991 , I arrived in Jeru­ need for a wall at the lower schools (until have other projects on which to fall back, salem for a brief visit, hoping to the recent change to co-education, this was but there will still be the need for wall and O put the finishing touches on a the Friends Girls School). The property is roof repairs. Young Friends workcamp on the West Bank no longer safe because it is not enclosed. This summer we hope to be working on that my wife and I will help lead July 14- The school has been ordered by authorities walls; the following summer may provide Aug. 18. to move one wall a meter closer to the a time for creating beauty. Both will be ne­ Our workcamp in July 1992 will work on school so the street can be widened. cessary if we expect to build peace. Both the meetinghouse and on the Friends It looks as if the building of the wall and will strengthen our ties as Friends with what schools. The workcamp is sponsored by the meetinghouse repair projects could be is the last organized group of Friends in the Friends United Meeting, with the American finished during the work camp, but the esti­ Middle East. Friends Service Committee cooperating on mated costs of materials are staggering­ recruitment. Last summer, Khalil Mahshi, $35,000, plus a similar amount for repair­ Contributions earmarked for the Ramal­ principal of the Friends Schools, suggested ing the meetinghouse. Sponsors are confi­ /ah building fund may be sent to Young we renovate the old boarding section at the dent of finding enough young people to at­ Friends Workcamp, Friends United Meet­ Friends Boys School, an attic space that tend and funds to support travel costs, but ing, 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN had been unused for more than 20 years. there is real doubt about how funds can be 47374. He hoped to turn it into an art room, with raised for building costs. Tony Bing huge skylights cut into the roof. I liked very To expect financial help from the local much the idea of being able to help build Palestinian community is out of the ques­ Tony Bing is professor of English and director a space for art. tion because of current conditions, but we ofthe Peace and Global Studies Program at Earl­ This fall, however, Khalil wrote to say are trying to find funds where we can. If ham College. He is a member of Clear Creek there was, unfortunately, an even greater money is not raised for the materials, we (Ind.) Meeting.

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• A one-day workshop on creation spiritu­ ed by their monthly meetings and selected by ality will be held April11 at Stony Run Meet­ ESR's faculty Admissions Committee. Dead­ inghouse, 5116 N. Charles St., Baltimore, line for application is March 31. For infor­ • m~a(je ce}

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MARCH ing's Forum on Religion and Aging. To be held activists and war-tax resisters since the 1940s. To in San Diego, Calif. First day will be a preconfer­ be held at Woolman Hill, Deerfield, MA 01342. 6-8-"Healing from Life's Wounds," a workshop ence program on "Aging and the Emerging Spirit: Participants will explore nonviolence as it relates led by John Calvi at Woolman Hill, Deerfield, MA Exploring the Common Ground Between Mental to the whole of one's life. 01342. John Calvi, a released fri end and Quaker Health and Spirituality." Workshops and presen­ healer, will focus on recovery from trauma, par­ tations will cover spiritual, ethical, and mental APRIL ticularly the role of the care-partner. For informa­ health concerns as they relate to questions of ag­ tion, call (413) 774-3431. India Yearly Meeting, at Chhatarpur. Contact ing. For information, contact ASA, 833 Market Gabriel Massey, BMMS, Toriya Mohalla, 11-15-Aiaska Yearly Meeting of Friends Church, St., Suite 512, San Francisco, CA 94103, telephone Chhatarpur, MP 471001, India. at Shungnak, Alaska. Contact Robert Sheldon, (415) 882-2910. Box 687, Kotzebue, AK 99752. 3-5-"Evolving Patterns of Healthy Family Life," 25-29- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, at Arch Street a conference to be held at Quaker Hill Conference 12-25-Friends World Committee for Consulta­ Meeting House, Philadelphia, Pa. Contact Edwin Center, Richmond, Indiana. Deadline for applica­ tion, Section of the Americas, Annual Meeting, Staudt, 1515 Cherry St., Phila., PA 19102, tele­ tion is March 27. (For more information, see brief, at the Stouffer Dublin Hotel, Columbus, Ohio. phone (2 15) 241-7210. page 30.) Theme: " 'The Power of the Lord Is Over All': 25-29-Southeastern Yearly Meeting, at Lakewood Facing the Tough Issues Together. " Features in­ It-Workshop on creation spirituality, from 9:30 Retreat Center, Brooksville, Florida. Contact Vicki terest groups for those who attended the 1991 World a.m. to 5:30 p.m ., at Stony Run Meetinghouse, Carlie, 31 12 Via Dos, Orland, FL 32817, telephone Conference gatherings and welcomes for Asia Ben­ 5116 N. Charles St. , Baltimore, Md . (See brief, (407) 678- 1429. nett, new executive secretary of the Section of the page 30.) Americas, and Thomas Taylor, new general secre­ 27-29-Friends Weekend of Lenten Desert Ex­ 11 -Spring retreat of Philadelphia Yearly Meet­ tary of the FWCC World Office. More informa­ perience at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site and St. ing's Women's Committee. For in fo rmation, call tion is available by calling (215) 241-7250. James Church in Las Vegas. (See brief, page 30.) Betsy Balderston at (21 5) 241-7226. 13- 17-Special program on mental health and spir­ 27-29-"The Nonviolence of Daily Living," a ituality, sponsored by the American Society of Ag- workshop led by Wally and Juanita Nelson, peace FCNLNotes Kicking Misguided Spending Habits

nteresting, even exciting, things are even some of the sternest cold warriors to ad­ election campaigns, the Citizens Budget happening this election year on a subject mit how little justification there is for con­ Campaign is sponsoring a special election­ I of great concern to many Friends: how tinued high military spending. Other power­ year project called " Reinvest in Our Com­ our government spends our tax money. ful forces for changing priorities spring from munities." Broad-based, diverse coalitions For a number of years, Friends Commit­ the unwelcome side: a serious economic re­ of statewide and local o rganizations that tee on National Legislation has focused con­ cession with widespread unemployment; the share CBC's goals are using the election cam­ siderable attention and effort on attempts to mind-boggling federal debt and yearly defi­ paigns as an opportunity to inject their con­ reorder federal budget priorities. Both in­ cits; and a decade's accumulation of unmet cerns about federal spending into the public dividually and in coalition with like-minded needs, ranging from education to sewer sys­ dialogue. The statewide coalitions, with help organizations, we have called for increasing tems, health care to toxic waste clean-up, af­ from economic analysts at the National Pri­ the nation's investment in programs that ad­ fordable housing to drug prevention pro­ orities Project in Northampton, Massachu­ dress human and community needs, cutting grams. These diverse forces, converging in setts, are producing incisive, well-document­ military spending as deeply as possible, re­ an election year, are finally causing elected ed studies o f the effects of federal spending ducing the federal deficit in a responsible officials and their political challengers to pay on their states. Local groups will then chal­ manner, and generating whatever additional attention to the kinds of messages that FCNL lenge all the political candidates to respond revenues may be necessary through progres­ and its coalition partners have been pro­ to the issues raised in the reports and will try sive taxation. FCNL has played a leadership moting for so long. to generate extensive media coverage of the role in forming and nurturing the Citizens Will members of Congress and candidates reports and the responses. Budget Campaign (CBC), a broad coalition for office respond positively to our calls for Friends who live in any of the CBC "Re­ of religious, social justice, peace, and low­ drastically reordered spending priorities? That invest" project states (New Hampshire, Iowa, income advocacy groups that have come to­ depends heavily on how much they hear from Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, New gether to work for these four goals. the people in their home districts. Right now, York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, or At first, we seemed to be just voices cry­ Congress is shaping its overall budget pro­ Cali fornia) and are interested in participat­ ing in the wilderness of skyrocketing military posal for the next fi scal year ; it is supposed ing (and have not already been contacted), build-ups and devastating cuts in human to be adopted by mid-April. Letters, calls, may call or write t he FCNL office for more needs programs. But, over the past two or and visits to every senator and representative information (245 2nd St., N.E., Wash., DC three years, our voices, with many others, are needed in the next few weeks, saying it 20002, telephone 202-547-6000). Wherever have grown louder, and Congress has begun is imperative to reclaim the money we used you live, if you want to help persuade your to hear them. Now, in this election year of to spend on the Cold War and to reinvest it current and potential elected officials to 1992, we may have the best opportunity in in people and communities. The staff of change budget priorities, and if you need a decade to turn federal spending priorities FCNL and other CBC organizations are ad­ background materials, please contact FCNL around. vocating the same ideas on Capitol Hill; the and ask for the CBC Grassroots Lobbying The reasons for this new opportunity are combined impact should be persuasive. Packet. both welcome and unwelcome. The seismic Meanwhile, in eleven states that get special Alison D. Oldham changes in global politics wrought by the attention from news media because of their breakup of the Soviet empire are forcing presidential primaries or other newsworthy

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 31 \lTESTTOWN VVSc H o o L Founded in 1799

Tradition with a History

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Westtown Is a Quaker day and boarding school, pre-k through grade 12 For more Information, contact Henry Horne, director of admission Westtown School, Westtown, PA 19395 215/399-0123

32 March 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL a secondary school for students John Wayne a Friend? apparently, greatly loved. In 1668 he was with unique learning needs. martyred for preaching Quakerism. The full college preparatory curriculum has in­ Believe it or not, there's a John Wayne The elegy is 44 lines long and is written in tellectually challenging courses supported by movie in which he converts to Quakerism. rhyming couplets. While it's not a great explicit teaching of organizational skills. It's called The Angel and the Badman, aRe­ poem, it' s a very good poem and speaks with Teacher student ratio is 1 to 5. Fine arts as well as outdoor education are integral to the public Western made in 1948. John Wayne a distinctive voice, giving one an idea of how program. portrays an outlaw named Quirt Evans, who Margaret Fell may have sounded. Above all, is rehabilitated by the love of a Quaker maid, her grief for Josiah Coale is evident. For information call: (215) 526-9595 played by Gail Russell. At the film's conclu­ It's fitting that Margaret Fell should have On the campus of Harcum Junior College sion, it's implied that he becomes a Friend. been the first Quaker artist. It was she who in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Preposterous as this all may sound, it's ac­ spoke against the suppression of art that was Irene McHenry, Head tually not a bad movie, if you can forget that coming in the second generation of Friends. John Wayne plays the title role. Friends imd She called it "a silly, poor gospel." Ultimate­ Bringing Frieifds Concerns our beliefs are depicted in a sympathetic and ly, her warning would be forgotten, however. lor Peace & Justice to · Congress Since 1943 understated manner. The Religious Society of Friends would throw Wnte. or calll202)547·4343 up walls that would block out the light of tor actl()n suggestion tape And Back Several art that God gave us, and not for 200 years would they come down. Centuries ... Gary Sandman Margaret Fell wrote perhaps the first Quak­ er poem and consequently made probably the an elegy called "A Gary Sandman is a Friend from Illinois Yearly first Quaker art. This was Meeting who now lives in Columbia, South Fyfe & Miller Few Lines Concerning Josiah Coale," writ­ Carolina. This is the second in a series about Quak­ FUNERAL SERVICE ten about 1669. Josiah Coale was a young er artists. The series started out in the McHenry 7047 Germantown Ave. Friend who traveled widely in England and County (Ill.) Friends Newsletter and continued in North America, converting many. He was, the Evanston (/11.) Friends newsletter. Philadelphia, PA 19119 (215) 247-8700 James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller Simple earth burial Parents' Corner and cremation service available at reasonable cost.

perimenting, and his learning is given words How? What? and Why? 8Slllllc:kt­ l'lo-Sc:booi.(Jndo VI by his dad. Ha-roni,PA Coeductlloml remember watching my eight-month-old Eighteen-month-old Lucy was fascinated (21~~2-0354 &.-Day grandson, Lennen, finish a banana. As by the gate. She swung it open and then closed I he munched the last hunk, he picked up it. She stood on the side, where she had to the peel, waved it back and forth, shook it pull the gate towards herself to open it, and ~~~-~()_ vigorously, and then brought it down hard then she'd walk, pushing it closed. Then she against the metal bowl lying on the floor. stood on the other side, where she had to re­ ~mra When his mouth became relatively empty, he verse her actions. She tried the section of ~ II II t"" tried to bite the peel. It came out quickly, fence next to the gate. It didn't move. and he dropped it. He grabbed a nearby The only problem with her investigation HAVERFORD wooden spoon, raised it high, and brought was that people had to pass through the gate Devoted exclusively to it down hard aginst the metal bowl with a to get to the picnic. Her parents tried to di­ elementary education with an clang. He repeated it, then smiled and vert her to other activities, but she returned giggled. to opening and closing the gate. emphasis on academic excellence He tried waving the spoon, which proved Our role as parents is complex in such a awkward after waving the banana peel. He situation. Why is she being so persistent? dropped the spoon, picked up the banana Shall we physically stop her? She must learn Friends' peel, and waved it again. Then he dropped to respect the needs of others by letting them C E N T R A L the banana peel, which started to slide. He pass through the gate. looked at it and tried the sliding motion again Or is she simply moving the gate to get at­ 'Leam Among Friends' and again and again. tention? She must learn to behave and do as Founded i11 1845 At this point, his dad said, "The banana told. Or is Lucy trying to figure out how hing­ peel is slippery, isn't it, son? It slides when es work? Is she, like Lennen, seeking to un­ o Record enrollment you push on it." Lennen then picked up the derstand part of her world? o 2 spacious campuses spoon and tried to slide it across the floor. At times it is so difficult to see the searching o Community outreach His dad laughed and said, "The spoon of our children, to recognize their seeking. programs doesn't slide, does it?" Harriet Heath o Small classes This is an infant trying to find out about his world. What flaps? What bangs? What This is fifth in a series of articles by Harriet Heath For information: (215) 649-7440 Friends' Central School shakes? And what slides? Simple processes on the role ofQuaker values in parenting. F'RIENDS 1101 Ciry Avenue, Wynnewood, PA 19096 in our complex world, but neccessary know­ JOURNAL invites readers to share letters, comments, ledge for us all. The infant finds out by ex- and articles on their experiences in parenting.

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 33 ----.:>~~ Reviews For a FREE collection of George Fox and the Quakers SPIRITUALLY UPUFTING POETRY by Carol Mays By Cecil W. Sharman. Quaker Home sumption that human beings are fallible crea­ Service, London, England, 1991. Available tures, always at risk of suffering or destruc­ send three 29 ~tamps from Pendle Hill Bookstore, Pendle Hill, tion in a vast and mysterious universe." (for postage & handling) to: Wallingford, PA 19086. 255 pages. $15.95, Thus, Sharman leads us through George CONNECTIONS plus $2 for shipping and handling. Fox's spiritual struggles, always setting them P.O. Box 243 in the context of contemporaneous thought. Savage, MD 20763 by Beth Cantrell And if there was indeed one, even Christ ~~(,,..--- Jesus, who spoke to George Fox's condition, ecil Sharman's new biography has then Fox himself certainly became the chan­ been published to coincide with the nel through which the same Christ Jesus was C tercentenary of George Fox's death. able to speak to the conditions of seeking Friends will owe a debt of gratitude for this men and women of 17th century England. Ca~Bne~a~as book, and not only as a treasure-house for Watching Fox and his contemporaries wres­ A Quaker Camp for 6· •' \· their own delight and illumination. It is a tle with their individual spiritual awakenings, Boys and Girls 8-13 · . · book which, because it can be enjoyed on we are also made aware of the reactions of Seventy-First year of Camping more than one level, could be given with con­ ordinary people to his revolutionary preach­ Complete Camp Program fidence to a casual inquirer, a research stu­ ing. One-by-one the now-familiar Quaker tes­ Two-Week (overnight) Sessions dent, a new attender, or a long-time member. timonies are born: hat-honor, plain speech, First Session Starts June 28 It is a valuable tool for outreach. the refusal to take oaths, equality of the Special Rates for Quakers As Hugh Barbour states in his preface, sexes, and, of course, the peace testimony. Camp Onas, Ottsville, PA 18942 "Cecil Sharman has done us an important And all the time I found Cecil Sharman's rich (215) 847-5858 service, placing all the key events of Fox's evocations of the English countryside illus­ life within their historical setting, and bring­ trated in my mind by panels from the Quaker (Available for spring and fall weekend rentals! ing out Fox's warmth of personality and his Tapestry. intense sense of mission, mirrored in what Fox the preacher, Fox the mystic, Fox the CREMATION his Friends . . . told of him." Cecil Sharman visionary, Fox the social revolutionary-all Friends are reminded that the has also given us a scholarly appraisal of these were familiar to me. I was unfamiliar Anna T. Jeanes Fund Fox's spiritual development and insight, set­ with Fox the healer. There are several mov­ will reimburse cremation costs. ting them not only within their turbulent ing accounts of his dealings with mentally (Applicable to members of political and social framework, but also in deranged or disturbed people, and of his skill Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) the context of 17th century thought and with physical illness and injury. One spec­ For information, write or telephone practice. tacula r incident might even suggest that Fox RICHARD R. BElTS SOO·B Glen Ec:ho Road It might have been helpful to have had a was an expert in osteopathy or chiropractic! Philadelphlo, PA 19119 (215) 247-3354 brief chronological summary of England's And there is so much more: the failures history during Fox's lifetime, but the facts and the successes, the controversies and dis­ are integral to the text and not too difficult putes, the prodigious traveling, the imprison­ E.co-Action Puerto Rico to follow. In any event, the mere dates and ments, and the terrible sufferings. So great I Agesl4-17 facts of constitutional history would not a nd terrible were the sufferings that must make such interesting reading as Cecil Shar­ confess to a pang of empathy with Samuel • Turtle Watches man's vivid descriptions of the daily lives of Pepys. Walking home from Whitehall one • Reef Surveys •Rainforest Projects the ordinary people from whom George Fox day, Pepys was passed by "several poor • Spanish Life came. We are given an introduction to the creatures, carried by the constables for be­ • Watersports sociological a nd economic conditions and the ing at a conventicle. They go like lambs, with­ Caribbeaa Adveaturee, RD2 Bx356B religious atmosphere of Fox's day. Cecil out any resistance. I would to God they Huntingdon,Pa.l6652 814-667-2411 Sharman emphasizes the point that it would would either conform or be more wise and not have been possible to have been an not be ketched [caught]." atheist or an agnostic, that complex and live­ I have one or two small regrets, the chief ly religious debate was commonplace, with of which is that there are only passing refer­ Widely acclaimed for Music. endless discussion of the teachings, doctrines, ences to the development of the structures Drama and the A rts. of the Religious Society of Friends, such as Grades 9-12; f riends Co-Educational and dogmas of the church. For the thousands Boarding and Day of unchurched people, however, those too the creation of preparative, monthly, quar­ poor, too ignorant, or too geographically terly, and yearly meetings. But this is, after isolated to join in communal worship, re­ all, a biography of George Fox and not of Oa'!(!Dood ligious belief would be a jumble of ideas, the Religious Society of Friends. The layout phrases of the mass, and scraps of more of the book is excellent, with each of the 12 School primitive religions. chapters divided into headed sections, but al­ One can more readily understand, there­ though there is an index of names, a fuller Contact Brian Fry Director of Admissions fore, the acute dilemmas facing George Fox, index of subjects might have been useful. It Oakwood School a man of immense sensitivity, a tender con­ was a relief to have no lengthy footnotes, and 515 South Road science, and great spiritual integrity. But Fox the reference system is efficient and unobtru­ Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 was by no means exceptional in his agoniz­ sive. The illustrations are lovely, and unusual (914) 462·4200 ing. "People lived with an all-pervading as- in their selection. I particularly liked the

34 March 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL ~WOODS COURT ______~ maps of Fox's travels and the 1652 country. One bedroom apartments available for people age 60 Reading as a 20th century Friend, I was and above. Applications to be put on waiting list more than once aware of George Fox's "pen­ etrating gaze." In his presence, I sometimes are being accepted. felt uncomfortable about what George would undoubtedly regard as the compromises of modern Quakerism. He would, I fear, have Thomas Lyons, Administrator little sympathy with our broadminded toler­ Friends Home at Woodstown ance; he would find it hard to understand our Woodstown, NJ 08098 Telephone (609) 769-1500 hesitations and deliberations over Christocen­ W()(X)STOWN tric language and credal statements. But that l is a subjective reaction, and this is a book that can be read and assimilated on several levels, either as a well-told tale, a historical account, or as a straight biography. It works admirably on all these levels, being a beauti­ WHAT KIND OF A WORLD fully written and accessible account of a remarkable man. I hope, however, that many DO YOU WANT? Friends will read it for the personal spiritual challenge that it undoubtedly contains. Three hundred years after George Fox's death, his question has lost none of its relevance: "What canst thou say?" 0

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FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1992 35 and other officials in the United States. As background to the negotiations the author and his colleagues conducted with the North Vietnamese, the reader learns that a number of powerful, unnamed U.S. officials distrust­ ed this initiative. As a result of these talks (under the direction of Gen. John Vessey), the U.S. government allowed charitable or­ LIKE TO BROWSE g(\nizations to bring humanitarian aid to IN OLD BOOKS Vietnam. Of course, the Vietnamese were hoping for direct U.S. relief, but had to be &MAGAZINES? satisfied that at least U.S. citizens could pro­ vide help. The author remains coy about his ... to discover the people, events, feelings on the negotiations, and the reader inventions, times, &c. "run over gets little insight into the sources of U.S. by Progress"? Then you will like policy toward Vietnam, a weakness of the BUDAY BOOKS• VINTAGE READING QUARTERLY111 book. We hunt in 19th-century American books, periodicals, &c. for Facts, By its end, the author states with pride that Foibles and Fascinations of the day. Our articles are adaptations, more than 400 U.S. groups visited Vietnam NOT MERELY REPRINTS. They are based on contemporary sources and in 1988 as a result of talks he helped lead. balanced with modern perspectives. You would think it was a whole Many of these groups consisted of combat different world then; ah yes, but the more things change . .. veterans wanting to help rebuild Vietnam. Part Two of each issue-a separately-bound ADVERTISERIREPRISE­ The American Friends Service Committee is offers books from our stock, Subscribers' classified ads, vintage mentioned several times as being a leader in pictorial miscellany, and selected short stories. Together, there are providing useful assistance. over ISOpp./issue, 600pp. annually. One year (4 issues)-$2S.OO. Because the author's previous book details ..- Avallable only from publisher-not sold by agents or stores -.. his own complex feelings about the war, he is able to focus here on the equally complex NOW READY: 128-pg. FALL 1991 ISSUE feelings of the Vietnamese people. The reader WITH SEVEN FULL-LENGTH ARTICLES, INCLUDING: will trust his honesty and sense of duty, both • "All Sorte of Senae except Common Senae." The to the U.S. government and to basic human Blennerhassetts were happy in their "American Garden of decency. Eden" until one day-Aaron Burr dropped by . .. Sandy Primm • A True Tale of Three Sleeping Dragone and Their Wide-Awake Cousin (the pride and scourge ofNap les). Sandy Primm, formerly an army editor in Vietnam, is clerk of Rolla (Va.) Preparative Meeting. 111 111 111 111 11 1111 11 Try a 84-pg. ''Sampler''-ttve r-ture artlcJe.lnoludlng: • STORY OF THE THREE BEARS-as it was REAllY written. Lines in the Sand • MISSOURI EARTHQUAKE L Aw..-compassionate response, but ... • WHEN GoLD TURNED fRIDAY 8LACK(I869)- Jay Gould and Jubilee By Alan and Barbara Green. Jim Fisk schemed to " corner" gold-and they did! Westminster/ Knox Press, Louisville, Ky., 1992. 181 pages. $11.95/ paperback. The historic Christian doctrine of "just : [ YINTAGE ) ~~.!_~...!oB_:~AGE READING J war" has been invoked by the U.S. president ~~~~ ~EADJNQ II MARION AVENUE :: GILBERTSVILLE, NEW YORK 13776 ~~~~ and some church members in the months •:•! ME ..IEl. COOPEQTOWN CH.UIIIR OF COMMERCE :•:• prior to and following the outbreak of war against the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In this HOW TO ORDER book, two theologians with significant exper­ -BB ience in the politics of peacemaking careful­ ly analyze the specific conditions under which the war could meet the requirements the doctrine demands. They find the justifi­ cation either partially or wholly questionable. The authors have a clear sense of history and apply careful documentation. They have NAME a keen sense of the human tragedies during ADDRESS the high-tech warfare, with its advertised "minimizing of collateral damage." As ob­ CITY STATE ZIP servers of the role of the United States in the United Nations in the events leading to war and its aftermath, they discern little U.S. support for UN mediation or for adequate financial backing of UN relief work. The rhetoric of a " New World Order" provides

36 March 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL Milestones little vision of lasting peace other than con­ tions of medicines, tried herbal remedies, and tinuing power politics. was much in favor of the use of bloodletting Births The questions raised by Lines in the Sand and/ or leeches. She also describes the activ­ Gamble-Clare Taylor Gamble, on Sept. 19, 1991, should stimulate discussions in Friends meet­ ities of the household: the whitewashing, the to Katharine and Paul Gamble. Katharine is a mem­ ings and Quaker classrooms. Every meeting gardening, the marketing, the baking. Yet ber of Kennett (Pa.) Meeting, where Paul is an library should feature this book in a display there was also time for her to comment on attender. on peacemaking. the news of the day and on scientific ad­ Gardner-Clara Michelle Gardner, on Aug. 14, 1991, to Katya O'Kane and Darien Gardner. Both vances in which she was interested. Robert Cory are members of Mt. Toby (Mass.) Meeting and at­ This three-volume work, in short, is a sort tend Northampton (Mass.) Meeting. Robert Cory is a member of Friends Meeting of of encyclopedia for domestic life in Philadel­ Redgrave-Benjamin Parke Redgrave, on Nov. II, Washington, D. C., and has broad experience phia in the years covered. The editors have 1991, to Brooke and Graham Redgrave. Graham is working for global peace in Quaker and other na­ provided two helpful indexes, one by sub­ a member of Santa Fe (N.Mex.) Meeting. Both par­ tional organizations. . ject and one by name, as well as brief ents attend Chamisa (N.Mex.) Preparative Meeting. biographical sketches of persons mentioned. Setz-Kelly-Liam Paul Setz-Kelly, on Jan. I, to Anyone interested in early Quaker life will Heidi and Peter Setz-Kelly of Crosswicks (N.J.) enjoy browsing through this well-written and Meeting. sometimes touching diary. Marriages Margaret Hope Bacon Mandreii-Fullam-Jeffrey Fullam and Melissa Mandrell, on July 13, 1991, by Judge John Fullam, Margaret Hope Bacon, author of many books on the groom's father. The Fullams are members of Quaker history, is a member ofCentral Philadel­ Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting. phia (Pa.) Meeting. Stromsten-Brock-David Brock and Jennifer E. Stromsten, July 15 , 1991 , at Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting. In Brief The Diary of Elizabeth New World Order: Can It Bring Deaths Drinker Security to the World's People? Bennett-RichardKistlerBennett, 75,onJan. 6. He was a leader on some of the most sensitive social and Edited by Elaine Forman Crane. A book of essays published in 1991 by the economic issues of the recent past: European recov­ Northeastern University Press, Boston, World Federalists Assn., 418 7th St., S.E., ery after World War II, racial equality, integrated Mass., 1991. In three volumes. $210. Wash., DC 20003. 122 pages. $5/ paperback. housing, and police and community relations. While This insightful set of essays on the restruc­ in Civilian Public Service, he became a human guinea From 1758, when she was a young woman pig at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. of 23, until 1804, when she died, Elizabeth turing of the United Nations provides a real­ istic vision of hope. It evaluates achievements Later he worked on the AFSC's European relief and Drinker, a Philadelphia Quaker, mother of recovery program, then became head of AFSC's four, and grandmother of 15, kept a diary. of the UN system and outlines steps ahead Community Relations Division. In 1952 he represent­ In the early days, her entries were short and in meeting the challenges of the 21st century. ed the Service Committee during a time of racial un­ irregular, but by 1778 she had settled into a It could be an excellent discussion guide for rest and violence in Cicero,lll. A document he draft­ pattern of writing at least one long paragraph citizen groups, aided by the authors' inclu­ ed as a housing consultant to the Eisenhower White each day. sion of a brief list of questions. Quakers will House, which would have eliminated discrimination take interest in Miriam Levering's article, in federally supported housing, was eventually en­ Some extracts of this diary were published acted by presidential proclamation by John F. Ken­ in 1889, but now the entire manuscript is " The UN Law of the Seas Treaty, Can It Be Revived?" Underlying all the presentations nedy. For 25 years he was with the William Penn available, lovingly transcribed to use as a Foundation, which he served as president. In this is a call for U.S. commitment to strengthen­ reference for the way life was in Quaker Phil­ time he oversaw the distribution of about $110mil­ adelphia for more than 49 years. Only the ing of the UN. lion in foundation money. Much of that went to proj­ most hardy and determined reader will cover ects-low-income housing developments, for exam­ the entire 2,100 pages, comprising three vol­ The Eloquence of Living ple-that matched his own ideals. He was active as umes, but many will relish dipping into the By Vimala Thakar. New World Library, 58 well with a large number of civic and charitable or­ diary for its account of the Revolutionary Paul Drive, San Rafael, CA 94902. 1989. 109 ganizations. One of his many honors was the Nation­ al Distinguished Service Award from the NAACP. War, including banishment of Elizabeth's pages. $8.95/paperback. Friends who make He is survived by his wife, Louisa; and a daughter, husband, Henry, to Winchester, Virginia; yel­ a habit of daily meditation, perhaps on Barbara Bennett Shadden. low fever epidemics; opening of Westtown awakening or on retiring, will find this Blair-B. Franklin Blair, 83,on Nov. 25, 1991. Born School; and building of the meetinghouse at beautiful little book useful. It contains brief in Lansdowne, Pa., he graduated from Westtown 4th and Arch streets in Philadelphia. and profound statements suitable for quiet School and Haverford College, and received a mas­ A well-educated woman who wrote in worship. The chapter headings indicate the ter's degree from Princeton University in 1931. He French at times and read widely, Elizabeth range of topics covered: freedom, related­ spent his entire business career at Provident Mutual Drinker's major concern was her large family ness, religious inquiry, observation, inner Life Insurance Co., Philadelphia, Pa., retiring in and the health of each member. In addition order, awareness, silence, meditation. In 1973 as senior vice president and actuary. He was a to the four children who survived her, another some ways the style is reminiscent of the charter member of the American Academy of Actu­ three died in infancy, one beloved daughter ·writings of Thich Nhat Hanh, with less Bud- aries and was particularly active in the field ofincome taxes oflife insurance companies. He was the author died of cancer, and five grandchildren died dhist flavor. Vimala Thakar is a follower of of several chapters in textbooks and papers published as infants or small children. Elizabeth Gandhi, a teacher, and a social activist who in actuarial journals. He was also active in civic af­ Drinker read medical books and consulted was prominent in the Vinoba Bhave land gift fairs and in the life of Haverford (Pa.) Meeting and with doctors about remedies for various ail­ movement, which sought to redistribute land with many committees of Philadelphia Yearly Meet­ ments that beset them all. She gave out po- in India. ing. In 1979, he and his wife, Ann Willits Blair,

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 37 moved to Medford Leas retirement community in right Quaker, she was actively involved in the Mon­ Medford, N.J. He served thereon many committees. tana Gathering of Friends, being clerk of the Minis­ In 1987, he was appointed by N.J. Governor Thomas try and Oversight Committee. She was also a repre­ Kean as a member of the New Jersey Continuing sentative to North Pacific Yearly Meeting, FWCC, Care Advisory Council. He is survived by his sister, and had just returned as representative to the Fifth Dorothy Blair Lacy; daughters, Judith Blair Santiago World Conference of Friends in the Netherlands. She and Elizabeth Blair Andrews; son, Benjamin F. was also Junior Friends advisor and attended the in­ Blair, Jr.; and four grandchildren. ternational conference held in Belgium following the Bourns-Andrew Bourns, 23, on Nov. 21, 1991, at world conference. The Glacier Valley (Mont.) wor­ George School Sports Center, of an undetected con­ ship group she attended owes its foundation to her genital heart defect. A memberofWrightstown (Pa.) vision and persistence. She was on the staff of the Meeting and a First-day school teacher at Southamp­ Flathead County (Mont.) Violence Free Crisis Line, ton (Pa.) Meeting, he was a 1991 graduate of the Col­ and was a co-founder of the Whitefish Peace Alliance lege of Wooster (Ohio), where he was a varsity ath­ and its newsletter, Peaceweaver. She was a potter lete. He had lived with his family on the George and a woman of grace and fortitude; a person who School campus since 1979, when his father became lacked pretense. Those who knew her were bouyed headmaster. He was a good student and a varsity ath­ by her humor. She was a joy to be with. She is sur­ lete in tennis and basketball. He was as well liked as vived by her husband, Bruce; two sons, Catnip and he was personable, warm, and interested in people. Eli; her mother, Agnes Kuhn; sisters, Linda Skinner He was especially interested in promoting civil rights. and Deborah McGregor; brothers, Barclay Kuhn During his junior year in college, he worked as an and Gilbert Kuhn. intern in city government in Birmingham, Ala. His Jackson-Elizabeth Avri/Jackson, 82, on Oct. 19, death was a great shock. He is survived by his parents, 1991 , at Pennswood Village, Newtown, Pa. She was David L. and Ruth Bourns; and two sisters, Court­ a beloved member of Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting. ney and Lesley. A memorial scholarship is being es­ A supportive wife and a loving mother of two daugh­ tablished at George School. ters, she and her late husband, Elmore Jackson, were Frederick-A big ail Caroline(Kuhn) Frederick, 38, the original directors o f the Quaker United Nations on Aug. 29, 1991, from injuries received in a bicycle­ Office when it was established in 1948. She was the vehicle accident near her home in Whitefish, Mont. first hostess at Quaker House in New York City. She University. She continued her interest in education, Born in Iowa City, Iowa, shew as the youngest of six and her family offered a Friendly atmosphere where the needs of women, the theater, good cooking, and children. She married Bruce Frederick in December diplomats could meet informally and discuss their her love of books. She had wit and good humor in 1974. They have two sons, Catnip, who attends Col­ differences face to face and off the record. A recently spite of her deafness, which she learned to accept with orado College, and Eli, who is a freshman at White­ renovated suite at Quaker House, which is accessi­ grace. She is survived by her daughters, Karen J. fish High School. She was well- known and greatly ble to the handicapped, was named in their honor. Williams and Gail Jackson; and one granddaughter. loved by many throughout the Northwest. A birth- She was a graduate of M t. Holyoke College and Yale Lloyd-Mary Louise Lloyd, 65, on Aug. 24, 1991,

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Rimming a secluded cove on Upper St. Regis Lake, Our program averages a total of 200 girls and boys. our campus totals 70 acres including a 3,4 mile water­ Counselor-camper ratio is 1 to 3; about 70% of front. This features a fine sand beach, double-winged campers and staff return each year. We focus on dock with 6 swim lanes and 3 boat houses. providing excellent fundamentals in traditional sports Our campus, 250 miles north of New York City is as well as campcraft, mountaineering and the arts. surrounded by the 6-million acre Adirondack Park. Our facilities include 7 all-weather tennis courts, 2 Campers cruise the abundant waterways of the St. soccer fields, 2 baseball diamonds and hockey field. Regis area and hike the renowned high peaks Separate docks for swimming, boating and country. waterskiing. 22-boat fleet includes 3 water-ski boats, We stress a democratic spirit that reflects the values Blue Jays and O'Day sailers. Also: large arts and of a free society. Campers and counselors come from crafts shop, performing arts studio, nature and a variety of racial backgrounds and foreign countries. ecology center and computer program. Under Quaker leadership since 1946. Staff inquiries welcome. Write for 30-page 4-color brochure describing this Adirondack camp.

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38 March 1992 FRIENDS JouRNAL " ... DESTINED TO BECOME A CLASSIC that ordinary people-­ of cancer. Born in Cain, Pa., she graduated from alone or together-can use as a map to wholeness and peace. " Westtown School and Sweetbriar College, and earned her Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College. She taught -RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH psychology at Ocean County Community College, Toms River, N.J., for 12 years, after which she founded and directed a learning center in Downing­ Marsha Sinetar :\tuhor ufOtUliS,-\R\ l'tOt'll :\\ ,\tO:'\K.' Asn MY~II(.!\ from the author of town, Pa. She was a member o f Downingtown (Pa.) DO WHAT YOU LOVE, Meeting. She served on the boards of numerous civ­ THE MONEY WILL FOLLOW ic boards and committees, and was known as a warm and generous individuaL Despite being legally blind, she was extremely supportive of Friends causes, and • A priceless gift about she lived an active and productive life. She was the the poignant current last of her immediate family. issues in the timeless Post-Richard Post, 76, on Dec. 6, 1991, at Penns­ quest for inner wood Village, Newtown, Pa. A memberofGerman­ peace. town(Pa.)Meetingsince 1953, he served on anum­ ber of committees. The son of life-long Friends, • Structures silence. Arthur W. and Ethel Albertson Post, he was a birth­ meditative reading and right memberofWestbury(N. Y .) Meeting. He was j oumaling into our a graduate of George School and Swarthmore Col­ usually too-busy. lege, and received a master's degree in Engineering hectic lives. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1937, he married Helen Shilcock, and they joined Stony Run Paper $9.95 (Md .) Meeting. He served as treasurer of Baltimore Available: April 1992 Yearly Meeting. His professional life was as an en­ gineer with Bethlehem Steel and the Honeywell Cor­ At your local poration. He is survived by his wifeof54 years, Helen • bookstore or Shilcock Post; four children, R. Willis Post, Barbara Post Walton, Margery Post Abbott, and Elizabeth FAUUST FRf:SS Post Falconi; his brother, A. Willis Post; and six 997 l'lacarthur Blvd. grandchildren. Jllahwah. l"U 074JO Price-Agnes C. Price, 85, on Aug. 8, 1991, in 201-825-7300 Bradenton, Fla. She becameamemberofthe Robert and Beulah Atkinson family at the age of 13, attend­ ing and later joining Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting. She graduated from Penn State in home economics. She taught, and then managed a cafeteria at Williams­ port High School, where she lived most ofherlife. Seegers- Ernest F. "Jim" Seegers, 76, on Dec. 23, 1991 . Born in Columbia, S.C., he grew up in Phil­ adelphia, Pa., the youngest of six children. H~ grad­ uated from Muhlenberg College and held a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He spent his career in Quaker Schools. He taught history at George School, where he met and married his wife, Ruth, an artist and art teacher. He was assistant headmaster at Oakwood School, then headmaster at Friend's Seminary. A conscientious objector dur­ ing World War I I, his four years of service included work with a conservation project in Maryland, a hos­ pital for the retarded in Washington, D.C., and the AFSC in Mexico. His love and appreciation of the arts led him to be chairman of Ogunquit (Maine) Per­ forming Arts Committee. He is survived by his wife, I Ruth; two children; and five grandchildren. EARLHAM SCHOOL Sutherland- Margaret Townsend Sutherland, 97, on Nov.6, 1991 . Born in Boston, Mass.,sheattended OF RELIGION The Windsor School and Radcliffe College. She A Quaker Seminary serving all Christian married Hale Sutherland, who taught civil engineer­ denominations ing, first at MIT and later at Lehigh University, Preparing Men & Women to Serve where they were active in the newly formed Lehigh Pastors • Chaplains • Teachers Campus Ministers • Church Adminlsrators (Pa.) Meeting. Later they were members of Greene Peace & Justice Woriilllli

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1992 39 commitment to a community lifestyle based on Quaker prin­ Bangor, Bar Harbor, Brunswick, and Sugarloaf ski area. ciples. For information call (212) 673-1730. We also have Fully improved 1840 Cape, 3 plus bedrooms, solar overnight accommodations. sunspace, and attached garage. For sale, or lease with op­ Mexico City Friends Center. Reasonable accommoda· tion to purchase. A second residence possible. $180,000. For Information call (215) 241-7279. If interested, call: (207} 445-4477. per word. Minimum charge is $10. lions. Reservations recommended. Casa d e los Amigos, so• " Quakers are Friends" bumper stickers: two/$2.50 or Add 10% if boxed. 10% d iscount for Ignacio Mariscal 132, 06030 Mexico D.F. 705-0521 . five/$5.00 postpaid. McCarthy, 1428 Friedensburg Rd., three consecutive insertions. 25% for six. Ceaa Heberto Seln Friends Center. Reasonable accom· modations. Reservations. Asociacion Sonorense de los Stony Creek Mills, PA 19606. Appearance of any advertisement does not imply Amigos, Felipe Salido 32, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. endorsement by FRIENDS JOURNAL. Friends Meeting, Sundays 11 a.m. Phone: (011·52-621) Higher Education CLASSIFIED AD DEADLINES: 7-01 -42. Education for a small planet-B.A. degree by living what For May Issue: March 16 you learn in U.S. • Costa Rica, England, Israel, Kenya, In­ For June Issue: April 20 Assistance Needeed dia, China, Japan. Language, homestays, field internships. Submit your ad to: Qualified woman (graduate degree, Education) seeks Semester and academic year. Friends World Program, Box Advertising Manager financial assistance for overseas job offer working with Q, LIU-Southampton, Southampton, NY 11968. Tel: (516) Friends Journal underprivileged children in social service organizations. In· 283·4000. 1501 Cherry Street terested parties reply via FRIENDSJo uRNAL, Box 11 o. 1501 Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Opportunities New Haven, Conn., Monthly Meeting is taking steps towards build ing a Meetinghouse, for which we need an additional $157,000. We welcome donations, loan informa­ Friends Association for Higher Education Con­ Accommodations tion, visits, and prayers. If considering a response, please ference. Bryn Mawr College, June 19-23. Theme: contact Wendy Kravitz, 444 Vineyard Point Road. Guilford, " .. . a better state of things." (Lucretia Moll). For in­ Tidioute Friendly Eagle 8&8. Peaceful oil rush town. N.W. CT 06437. (203) 453-3815. formation call (919) 852-2028. Pa., Allegheny River, forests, chamber music; children welcome. Box 222 Tidioute, PA 16351 . (814) 484-7130. New Swarthmoor Reunion. Also seeking additions to the archives. Please contact: Helen Mangelsdorf, 371 Lyceum Consider a Costa Rican study tour. February 4-15, 1993. Ann Arbor Friends Meeting has a quest room available Ave .• Philadelphia, PA 19128. (215) 483-78 18. Call or write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, 1182 Hornbeam in Friends Center, $15 a night, 3 night limit, reservations Road, Sabina, OH 45169. Phone: (513) 584-2900. needed. (313) 761-7435. Room and Board for work: negotiable hours. Quiet. sim­ Hawaii-Island of Kaual. Cozy housekeeping cottages. Books and Publications ple living. Hills, trees. Phone: (608) 525-8948. Chris Peace, palms, privacy. $75/2 nightly. 147 Royal Drive, Kieltyka, Ate. 2, Box 130, Ettrick, WI 54627. Kapaa, HI 96746. (808) 822·2321 . George Fox's volume Works (1831 edition) are back The Berkshlres, Mauachusetts. Baldwin Hill Farm Bed in print-at a great price. New introductions by Douglas & Breakfast. Box 125, RD3, Great Barrington, Mass. 01230, Personals Gwyn and others. Library bound, acid-free paper. Priced (413) 528-4092. A Friends Victorian farm homestead of 450 at $167.50 for 8 volumes. Sets may be ordered with $40 Single Booklovers gets cultured, single, widowed, or acres on a Berkshire mountaintop. Spectacular views all deposit with balance due upon safe arrival. This set divorced persons acquainted. Nationwide, run by Friends. around with warm hospitality and full country breakfasts. would be a wonderful, lasting gilt for your favorite meet· Established 1970. Write Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039. or Close to golf, skiing, concerts, drama, museums, shops. ing library. Prospectus available. Orders: George Fox call (215) 358·5049. trails, and restaurants. Open all year. Pool, hiking. maps Fund, Inc., c/o Dan Davenport, P.O. Box 15142, Claaalcal Music Lovers' Exchange-Nationwide link be· and menus. Portland, OR 97215. tween unattached music lovers. 1 (800) 233-CMLS, Box 31 , NYC-Greenwich VIllage Bed & Breakfast. Walk to 15th Pelham, NY 10803. Street Meeting. 1·4 people; children welcome. (Two cats Books-Quaker spiritual classics, history, b1ography, and in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. current Quaker experience, published by Friends United Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible singles Cambridge, England. B&B, historic old rectory. Ensuite Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374. Write who care about peace, social justice. and the environ­ rooms. Peaceful surroundings. Easy access. Also long stay for free catalogue. ment. National and international membership. All ages. accommodation. (44) 223-861507; fax: (44) 223-441276. Have a spiritual retreat in your own home with the help Since 1984. Free sample: Box 555-F, Stockbridge, MA Nicaragua Friends Center. Refuge for socially concerned of " One Day with God." A do-it-yourself book by Karl Pruter. 01262. travelers. Apartado 5391, Managua, Nicaragua. Phone $8.00 postpaid. Shalom Books. Box 98, Highlandville, MO (011-505-2) 663216 or 660984. 65669. A homely base In the heart of London? Short, medium Positions Vacant and long term accomodation available with excellent For Sale wholefood meals. Also meeting rooms for workshops, lec­ ARC Retreat Community near Minneapolis, Minn., an tures and conferences. Contact: Quaker International Cen­ Home for Sale. Western North Carolina mountains. Quality ecumenical ministry of hospitality emphasizing peace, tre, 1 Byng Place, London WC1E 7JH; Tel: 071-387 5648. custom built two bedroom, two bath, den. LR has high , justice, prayer. simplicity; seeks resident volunteers and Simple low-coat lodging for individuals and groups. beamed ceiling, stone fireplace. Deck. 0.8 acre wooded lot. staff for positions in kitchen, housekeeping, maintenance Seminar planning available. Quaker center on Capitol Hill. Lakes, trails, streams. Clean air, excellent climate. Brevard and office beginning August 1992. For information or ap­ William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, Friends Meeting nearby. Serene, private; for the discern­ plication, contact Ruth Halvorson, RR2. Box 354, Stanch· DC 20003. (202) 543-5560. ing buyer. $105,000. Rental possible. (704) 885-2461. field, MN 55080. London? Stay at the Penn Club, Bedford Place, London Attorney to ahara rural general law practice. Trial ex­ WC1B SJH. Friendly atmosphere. Central for Friends Who are Quakers? L ively, Informa­ perience helpful. Estab. 12 years in So. China, Maine. House, West End, concerts. theater, British Museum, tive, for outreach and education. Twelve miles to Waterville, and to the capitol, Augusta. university, and excursions. Telephone: 071·636-4718. New video! 27 min., VHS, by Claire Austin Law Office, P.O. Box 150, So. China , ME 04358. Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home Simon. $26.50 plus $3.00 postage. Arthur Morgan School - Houseparents sought for small in pleasant suburb nearby. By day, week, or month. For Quaker Video, P.O. Box 292, (24 students) alternative junior high boarding school in details call: (301) 270-5258. Maplewood, NJ 07040. mountains of North Carolina. Job would also include a mix Looking for a creative living aHernative in New York City? of other responsibilities-teaching, maintenance, book­ Penington Friends House may be the place for you! We are Beautiful small farm overlooking China Lake in central keeping, cooking, hiking, gardening, electives, and/or field looking for people ol all ages who want to make a serious Maine near Quaker country. An hour to Camden, Portland, trips. Contact Johno Zakelj, AMS, 1901 Hannah Bra nch Rd., Burnsville, NC 28714. (704) 675-4262. Buckingham Friends School is seeking applicants for the full-time position of second grade teacher to begin in September 1992. Please send resume and cover letter in­ THREE FREE ISSUES cluding statement of philosophy, as well as three A special April issue of FRIENDS JOURNAL will mark the 75th anniversary of the references, to Karen Feller, Principal. Deadline: March 1, American Friends Service Committee. 1992. Legislative Interns. Three positions available assisting Join the celebration! Introduce FRIENDS JOURNAL to non-subscribers with a gift of FCNL's lobbyists. These a re eleven-month paid 3 free issues, starting with the special AFSC issue. assignments, usually filled by recent college graduates, If you share names and addresses with us, we'll start their trial gift subscription in beginning September 1, 1992. Duties include research. writing, monitoring issues, attending hearings and coalition ApriL What better way to join the celebration- and to introduce a friend to the meetings, and maintaining files. Applications close March JOURNAL! 15, 1992. For information and an application, write or call David Boynton, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Send names and addresses to: FRIENDS JOURNAL Circulation 245 Second Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20002. Phone 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497 (202) 547-6000. (215) 241-7115, Fax: ·(215) 568-1377 Meetinghouse Resident Caretaker: Friends (FGC/FUM) in Cincinnati seeks two people as meetinghouse residents

40 March 1992 FRIENDS Jou RNAL beginning mid to late summer 1992. Quaker presence, ming and fishing. 13,000 acres of maritime wilderness. liaison with public and care of the property are the primary Many birds and wildflowers. No cars on island. Peaceful, Celo Valley Books will professionally produce your responsibilities. For further information contact: Search friendly. Activities for children. Rental by day or week. (215) book-50 copies or mor&-ON TIME with personal at­ Committee, Community Monthly Meeting of Cincinnati, 699-9186. tention, economically. 1% of profits to charity. Write 346 3960 Winding Way, Cincinnati, OH 45229-1950. Seven Mile Ridge Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. Explore George Fox'e territory. Lake District, Yorkshire Minister: Active- meeting in rural Maine seeks Friends Dales. Friend welcomes paying guests at her small hill farm. minister w~h gifts in children and youth ministry, preaching, Excellent food. Peacocke, Dummah Hill Farm, N. Stain­ Electrical Contrector. Residential and commercial installa­ visitation and church growth. Send resume to: Durham more, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria CA17 4DZ, England. tion and repairs. (Phila., Pa., suburbs.) Call Paul Teitman: Friends Meeting, c/o Carol Marshburn, 17 Bates St., Yar­ Phone: 07683 41218. (215) 663-0279. mouth, ME 04096. France. Two houses in villages halfway between Avignon­ Loans are available for building or improving Friends Need counaelora end cook for small, Quaker-led farm Grenoble. Beautiful countryside, good location for touring, meetinghouses, schools, and related facilities. We are camp. Skills in lifeguarding, nature, pottery, shop, farming spectacular walks. One sleeps 6-8, other sleeps 5. Full Friends helping Friends to grow! For information contact are useful. Emphasize simplicity, peace, environmental kitchen, central heating. Rent by month or year-round. Fran­ Katheryn E. Williams, Friends Extension Corporation, 101 awareness. For children age 7-12. Carl and Tim Curtis, coise Pestre, 26310 Montlaur-en-Diois, France. Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Phone: (317) Journey's End Farm Camp, Box 136, Newfoundland, PA 962-7573. (Affiliated with Friends United Meeting.) Houae share, Bucks County, Pa. Two rooms plus bath, 18445. (717) 689-2353. furnished or unfurnished. Also share fully furnished eat-in Philedelphle Yearly Meeting is looking for a person to fill kitchen, large livingroom, diningroom, porch, patio, and Quaker Genealogy-Discover your Quaker ancestors I the challenging position of Executive Secretary of the Com­ garden on two wooded acres near Doylestown. One hour through prompt, professional research. Ann W. Upton, mittee on Education. This person must be a Quaker, a north of Philadelphia; two hours southwest of Manhattan. 1406 Fox Place, West Chester, PA 19382. knowledgeable educator with experience in the field of $600/month. Exchange references. Call (215) 822-7506. elementary and/or secondary education, a good listener London-Houae to rent. Merton Park SW19. Garden and a creative thinker who has the capacity to help others Restoration Contractor (Friend). Repair and restoration 3-bedroom midterrace, excellent area. British Rail, District, listen to each other. The responsibilities include visiting and of historic buildings from cornerstone to lightning rods. Northern lines. Shops, Wimbledon FMH walking distance. overseeing the spiritual life of 40 Friends schools, planning Period carpentry, timber framing, stone masonry, plaster­ Longer term from April1992. £160 per week/£695 per calen­ workshops, consulting with heads, faculties and boards ing, slating, tinwork, etc. Structural diagnosis, repair and dar month including water rates. Tom Martini (71) 971-7142 rebuilding a specialty. Consulting services for owners (free and helping schools understand their mission as Friends or (81) 544 0934. schools. The new Executive Secretary must be a dynamic to Friends Meetings and groups; traveling stipend re­ leader in the field of Quaker education as we move into the Mld-Coeat Maine. Spacious house, deck overlooking pond. quested). References by request; inquiries welcome. Mar­ next century. Presently the job is 3/5s time, but the Com­ Beautiful woods, salt-water cove. Fine canoeing, cus Brandt, 35 Curley Mill Road, Chalfont, PA 18914. (215) mittee on Education is in the process of upgrading it to a islands/bays. Three double bedrooms, dormitory sleeps 997-2117. full-time position. The full-time salary range is $24,800 to two. Furnished except linens. Near beaches, Friends Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a fellowship of seekers $31 ,010 depending on experience. The job begins August Meetings, island ferries, theaters, concerts. $600/week­ wishing to enrich and expand Friends' perspectives. We 1, 1992. Please send resumes by Apri11 , 1992, to Foster four people, $50/week each additional. Reduced Nov./mid­ meet, publish, and correspond to share thoUghts, insights, Doan, Search Committe, Committee on Education, 1515 May. Winter beautiful. David and Nancy Hall, P.O. Box 235, and information. We seek to follow the promptings of the Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Bath, ME 04530. (207) 443-9446. Spirit. Inquiries welcome! Write QUF, Box 201 RD 1, Sante Fe. Three bedroom, two bath, furnished house Landenberg, PA 19350. available 4-6 weeks, mid.June through July. $800/month. Wedding Certificates, birth testimonials, invitations, an­ Position Available: Associate Executive Director For Betsy Bartels, 2463 Camino Capitan, Santa Fe, NM 87505. nouncements, addressing, poetry, gifts all done in beautiful Finance for non-profit, year-round outdoor education pro­ (505) 473-9110. gram. Farm & Wilderness Camps, located in central Ver­ calligraphy and watercolor illumination. Book early for spring weddings. Write or call Leslie Mitchell, 2840 Bristol mont, seek mature person with proven abilities to Whitney Lake-Pocono Mountains. Lakefront cottage, four Rd., Bensalem, PA 19020, (215) 752-5554. manage finances and personnel. EEOE. Call or write: bedrooms, two baths, washer/dryer, dishwasher. Available Len Cadwallader, HCR 70, Box 27, Plymouth VT 05056. in August 1992. Lovely view, quiet, swimming, fishing, boating, and tennis. $600/wk or $2,200 for the month. Call Socially Responsible Investing (215) 343-2478. Quaker United Nations Office-New York. Opportunity for Using client-specified social criteria, I screen in­ two interns at the Quaker UN Office from September 1992 vestments. I use a financial planning approach to port­ to August1993. Interns follow disarmament, human rights, Retirement Living folio management by identifying individual objectives and economic justice, development, environment, women, and designing an investment strategy. I work with individuals Foxdele Village, a Quaker life-cere community. regional issues at the UN; research/write articles and brief­ and business. Call: Secha Millstone; Ferris, Baker Watts; Thoughtfully designed cottages complemented by attrac­ member NYSE, SIPC. (202) 429-3632 in Washington, ing papers; arrange/attend meetings; assist with office ad­ tive dining facilities, auditorium, library and full medical pro­ ministration. Candidates must be college graduates or have D.C., area, or (800) 227-0308. tection. Setting is a wonderful combination of rural and equivalent experience, interest in international affairs; 20s, university environment. Entry fees from $38,()()().$105,000, writing/computer skills. Stipend/medical coverage. For in­ monthly fees from $1,045-$1 ,925. 500 East Marylyn General Contractor. Repairs or alterations on old or formation and application form Quaker UN Office, 777 wr~e : Avenue, Department F. State College, PA 16801. historical buildings. Storm and fire damage restored. John UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017. Deadline for submission Telephone: (800) 253-4951 . File, 1147 Bloomdale Rd., Philadelphia, PA 19115. (215) of application and references-15 April, 1992. 464-2207. Schools Moving to North Caroline? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker Seeking Elder Health Cere Companion for Alzheimer real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pinewood patient. Will share non-smoking, Quaker home in John Woolman School. Rural California, 9th-121h grades. Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (919) 294-2095. semiprivate quarters. Require light household chores, Preparation for college and adulthood, small classes, car­ Family Relations Committee's Counaeling Service including evening meal preparation. Salary negotiable. ing staff, work program, service projects. Board, day. 12585 (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling to in­ Send reply, listing experience and references to: P.O. Jones Bar Road, Nevada City, CA 95959. (916) 273-3183. dividuals, couples 'in most geographic areas of Philadelphia Box 3485, Kent, OH 44240. The Meeting School celebrates the transition from youth Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quakers. All Friends, to adulthood by encouraging students to make decisions regular attenders, and employees of Friends organizations in their own lives in a Friends (Quaker) boarding high school are eligible. Sliding fees. Further information or brochure­ Smell the pines and feel the cold water at Friends Camp, in southern New Hampshire. We emphasize experiential contact Arlene Kelly, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA South China, Maine. We are seeking counselors with at education, striving for innovative and challenging aca­ 19102. (215) 988-0140. least one year of college and skills in one or more of these demics while working with consensus and equality regard­ specialties: amateur radio, music, crafts, ceramics, sports, less of age. Teenagers live on campus in faculty homes. Summer Camps drama, sewing, maintenance. We also need a cook, assis­ The school is based on simplicity, honesty, the peaceful tant cook, nurse, W.S.I. Write or call Susan Morris, Direc­ resolution of conflict, the dignity of physical labor, mutual tor, P.O. Box 84, East Vassalboro, ME 04935. (207) trust and respect, and care for the earth. Admissions: The Camp Woodbrooke, Richland Center, 923-3975. Meeting School, Rindge, NH 03461. (603) 899-3366. Wisconsin. A caring community; ecology '" { oriented. Quaker leadership. 34 boys and Spend a year In Weshlng1on as an intern dividing work A value-centered school for learning disabled elementary . ~ girls; ages 7-12; 2 or 3 week sessions. Jan- between William Penn House and another Washington students. Small, remedial classes; qualified staff serving ny Lang, 795 Beverly, Lake Forest, IL peace organization. Room and board at William Penn Philadelphia and northern suburbs. The Quaker School at tit ' "i 60045. (708) 295-5705. House, small stipend and health coverage included. Col­ Horsham, 318 Meeting House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. lege graduates interested in peace and the political pro­ {215) 674-2875. cess may apply. Flexibility, initiative, people skills, wit~ Friends Music Camp: exciting, challenging summer ex­ ingness to work hard required. Begin September 1. Send perience' . Ages 10.18. Camper comment: " FMC is a cover letter and resume by May 15 to Greg Howell, Direc­ Services Offered spiritual gas station where I fill up on love." Write FMC, tor, William Penn House, 515 East Capitol Street, P.O. Box 427, Yellow Springs, OH 45387. Phone: (513) Washington, DC 20003. 767-1311 , or (513) 767-1818. Typeaettlng by Friends Publishing Corporation. Vermont Adventure: The Farm and Wilderness camps Our organization offers you professional typesetting at seek cooks and counselors for a 9-week summer program. Rentals & Retreats friendly rates. We typeset books, manuscripts, newslet­ Skills in cooking, farming, canoeing, hiking, swimming, Bald Heed Island, N.C. Lovely panoramic view of ocean, ters, brochures, posters, ads, and every issue of Friends carpentry, and crafts. Quaker leadership, diversified com­ dunes, lagoon and golf course from 4 bdrm, 2 bathroom, Journal. We also produce quality type via modem munity. Write or call Carla M. Mazzariello, Farm and comfortably furnished house with wrap around deck. 14 transmission. Call (215) 241 -7282, or 241-7116 for more Wilderness, HCR 70, Box 27, Plymouth, VT 05056. (802) information. miles of beach, championship golf, tennis, croquet, swim- 422-3761.

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 41 Friends Journal, compilers, 145 Friends Meeting reporters, 108 FRIENDS JOURNAL Frost, Caitlyn, 93 Gara, Leona Mae, 157 Geisheker, Jude O ' Reilley, 173 Gerber, Claire, 138 Gobeli, Lisa, 31 Gorfinkel, Claire E. and Beatrice Miller, 69 Green, Paula, ill 1991 Index Grundy, Martha Paxson, 28 Grunko, Rebecca A., 167 Hancock, Peter, 49 Harrington, James Lawrence, 63 Harris, ArthurS., Jr., 139 Harris, Howard L., 35 Hartman, Mary J ., 32 How to Use This Index Authors Hartsough, David, 52, 103 The numbers after the author and subject Haviland, J. Bernard, 122 entries below refer to the numbered articles Abrams, Irwin, 16 Heacock, Linda, 70 beginning on the next page. Articles are Amadi, Joram M., 48 Heath, Harriet, 144, 150, 158 listed alphabetically by title and include Angell, Imogene B., 58 Henning, Wendy, 87 author, issue, and page number. All book Anonymous, 137 Heron, Alastair, 44 reviews and poetry are listed by author. Atkinson, Carol, 113 Herrick, Rick, 124 Reports are listed by organization. Avugo, Joram. A., Herbert Tucker, Hoare, Ted, 8 Edward S. Nattrass, 50 Holladay, Martin, 4 Berggren-Thomas, Priscilla, 78 Hollingshead, Irving, 19 Bing, Anthony, 17, 169 Horn, Helen Weaver, 88 Quaker Howarth, Mary Barclay, 160 Thought Bishop, Douglas, 90 and Boardman, Elizabeth and Sam Cox, 57 Hubbard, Susan, 152 Life Bronson, Elizabeth Cattell, 64 Hunt, Trudie, 130 bday Brown, Joshua, 82 Huntington, Fred, 127 Browne, Gordon, 171 Illinois Yearly Meeting, 33 Calvi, John, 91 Johnson, Eric, 177 Chambers, Sydney, and Carolynne Kashatus, William C., 29 Myall, 26 Kassoff, Laurel Childe, I 19 Cary, Stephen G., 77 Kazemek, Francis E., 179 Cayard, Wallace, 97 Keenen, George E., 121 Charland, William, 56 Kelly, Arlene, 136 Cleveland, Lorraine K., 73 Kent, Natalie Pierce, /66 Collett, Stephen, 11 Kerman, Cynthia Earl, 116 Cook, Ralph E., 22 Kohrman, Allan, 120 Cox, Louis, 105 Kunkel, Robert, 55 Cox, Sam (see Boardman, Elizabeth and LaMotte, Alfred K. , 23 Sam Cox) Lampen, Diana, 42 Coxe, Spencer, 59 Lampen, John, 100 Cresson, Osborn, 11 7 Lane, Paddy (see Feucht, Fred)

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42 March /992 FRIENDS JouRN AL Oldham, Alison D., I33 Education 23, 29, 56, 58, 59, 127, 148, 42, 65, 75, 87, 106, 118, 124, 146, 152, O'Kane, Michelle, I43 I51, 157, 170 18I O'Reilley, Mary Rose, I 55 Environment 32, 33, 64, 98, 104, 105, Stewardship 73, 98, 105, 156, 175 Osborn, Rebecca, 65 156, I75 Theological Reflection 20, 92, 176, 177 Postlethwaite, Althea, 8I Family 68, I07, ll2, I36 United Nations 11, 162 Powelson, Jack, I35 Fiction 30 U.S./USSR 141 Quinlan, Lilith, I2 FRIENDS JOURNAL Activities I5, 27, 53, Universalism 161, 176 Ratliff, J. Bill, 24 93,96 War Tax Resistance 71 Rice, Marianne, 132 Friends Institutions 9, I6, 22, 23, 36, 37, Women's Rights 12, 97, 119, 137 Rochelle, Jay C., I02 38, 39, 40, 4I, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, Worship 26, 46, 67, 102, 106, 128, 138, Rogers, Bob, II8 49, 50, 51, 56, 58, 59, 69, 77, 80, 99, 181 Rubin, George, 94 105, 123, 127, I34, I45, I48, 151, I57, Youth 22, 29, 49, 63, 74, 99, 131, 147, Salter, Elizabeth, 142 165, 170, 171 154, 155, 163, 164, 167, 173 Sanders, Isabel C., 98 Friends Meeting /, 3, 7, 18, 26, 27, 28, Sanders, Phyllis, 37 48, 57, 62, 85, 89, 90, 102, 116, 122, Sandman, Gary, I63 128, 132, 136, 140, 143, 149, 152, 160, Articles Scola, Anthony, I28 168 Seeger, Dan, 47 Friendship 8, 168 I. " Affirming the Spiritual Basis of Segal, Rima M., I76 Games and Puzzles 66, 117 Creativity," Janet Stokes, 1: 21-22 Shaver, Jessica, IO Good Order of Friends 28, 116, 136, 149 2. "Aids Forum," Various contributors, Simms, Wendy, I46 Health 2, 3, 62, 91, 168 8: 7-11 Snyder, Edward F., I4I History 22, 31, 55, 76, 80, 100, II9, 182 3. "Aids: The Will Not to Believe?" Sorrentino, Joseph, ll2 Homosexuality 2, 3, 45, 62, 91 Perry Treadwell, 8: 5 Southall, Donald, I23 Humor 61, 72, 121 4. "Armenian Journal," Martin Spears, Larry, I29 International 4, 10, 11, /2, 17, 37, 38, 39, Holladay, 10: 28-29 Starchild, Adam, 86 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 5. "Asking the Hard Questions," Stokes, Janet, I 51, 56, 66, 76, 101, 111, 127, 132, 135, Vinton Deming, 7: 2 Sutton, Kenneth, 43, 45 139, 140, 142, 162, 165, 166, 169 6. " Asking the Hard Questions: The Treadwell, Perry, 3 Lifestyle 61, 73, 82, 84, 112, JIB, 172, Peace Testimony,'' Mamie Miller­ Tucker, Herbert (see Avugo, Joram A., 175 Outsell, 7: 11-13 Herbert Tucker, Edward S. Nattrass) Marriage 136, 180 7. "Atlanta Friends Build for the Turner, William D., 18I Middle East 17, 66, 69, 90, 105, 108, 109, Future," Mary Ann Doe, 1: 36 Various authors, 2, 36, I09 IIO, 120, 126, 148 8. " Being Present for Another," Ted Vere, Erica F., 41 Ministry 1, 2, 8, 62, 67, 79, 82, 91, 102, Hoare, 8: 12-13 Vogel, Robert, 39, 40 115, 122, 180 9. "Beyond the Bars," Joel Davis, Wahrhaftig, Paul, 159 Music 67, 74, 104, 131, 174 9: 8-10 Wardle, Marjorie, 89 Mystical Quakerism 13, 24 10. "Breaking the Bitterness Barrier," Watts, Ronald, 76 Native Americans 54, 182 Jessica Shaver, 8: 27-28 Weller, Rachel Fort, 172 Nonviolence 6, 9, 14, 29, 63, 133, 134, 11. "Building a New World Order at the Wells, Diana, I 56 147, 150, 154, 155, 164, 167, 169, 173 United Nations," Stephen Collett, Willett, Shelagh, 85 Nuclear Technology 103 8:31 Williams, Donna Glee, I80 Outreach 78, 143 12. "Building Cross-Cultural Alliances," Woehrle, Thomas, I5I Parenting 70, 144, 150, 158 Lilith Quinlan, 9: 31-33 Woods, Dorothea E., 14 Peace 6, 19, 94, 108, 109, 153 13. "Center," Grace Yaukey, 4:22-23 Yaukey, Grace, I3 Peace Activities 10, 17, 52, 95, 108, 109, 14. "Children at War," Dorothea Young, Rebecca Martin, 67, 74, 104, I3I, JIO, 121, 133, 163 E. Woods, 5: 16-17 I74 Personalities 9, 16, 21, 52, 73, 76, 79, 83, 15. " Christmas in October," Vinton Young Adult Friends Newsletter of New 114, 118, 129, 145, 154, 174, 180 Deming, 10: 2 England Yearly Meeting, 72 Personal Presence 32, 35, 88, 106, 138, 16. "Clarence Pickett, the AFSC, and the Zarowin, Stanley, 92 180 Society of Friends," Irwin Abrams, Zehr, Steve (see Dempsey, Kate) Political Action 6, 19, 25, 52, 54, 71, 84, 4: 24-25 · Zehr, Steve, 182 99, 101, 103, 108, 109, Ill, 125, 133, 17. "Clinging to the Banner in Iraq," 135, 137 Anthony Bing, 1:8-12 Prison 6, 9, 79, 86, 114, 134 18. "Coming Home: Where Tradition Subjects Quakerism Today 18, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, and Spirit Meet," James A. Fletcher 42, 43, 44 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 65, II, 2:24-26 Aging 179 78, I20, 122, 123, I55, 160, 171 19. "Commitment for the Long Haul," Arts I, 2I, 83, ll5, I79 Race 69, 120, I73 Irving Hollingshead, 4: 5 Bible 97 Racism I2, I8, 3I 20. ·"continuing Revelation," Sam Legg, Biblical Analysis 92, 97 Religion and the World 4, 75, 77, 85, 10:: 6-7 Central America 37, 38, 39, 40, 125, I30, liB, 124, 142 21. "Conversation with Poet William 139 Science and Technology 20, 169 Stafford: 'A Priest of the Children I4, 70, 8I, 96, I07, 143, I44, Seasons 34, 35, 107 Imagination,' A," David Elliott, 150, I58, 163, 166 Self-realization 24, 34, 35, 65, 68, 75, 87, 11: 24-27 Christmas 53, 88, I66 89, 94, 96, liB, I46, 155, 172, 179 22. " Courage to be Different, The," Christocentrism 152, I61 Sexual Abuse 137 Ralph E. Cook 7: 40 Community 78 Simplicity 82 23. "Critical View of Multicultural Conflict resolution 57, IOO, I24, 159 Social Action 85 Education, A,'' Alfred K. LaMotte, Conscientious Objection 25, 63, 80, 94 Social Concerns 64, 75, 84, 86, 126, 112, 10: / 14-16 Crime 5, 86, II3 113, 130 24. "Dealing Creatively with Transitions: Death 62, 81, 174 South Africa 140 The Three Phases,'' J. Bill Ratliff, Discipline IOO, I16, 149 Spiritual Expression 180 1:25-27 Ecology 98, I05, I56 Spiritual Growth 8, 24, 28, 30, 32, 35, 25. "Dear David Wiggins," Vinton

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 43 Deming, 6:2 12: 14 80. "Journ~y of Conscience: Books on 26. "Dear Helpful Hannah ... ," Sydney 50. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of the CPS Experience, A,'' Richard Chambers and Carolynne Myall, Friends, Kenya: 'Reflections on Moses 6: 22-24 8: 19 Togetherness' ," Joram A ., Avugo, 81. "Joy Cometh in the Morning," 27. "Did You Say, 'Chihowa'? "Vinton Herbert Tucker, EdwardS. Nattrass, Althea Postlethwaite, 2: 23 Deming, II: 2 12: 11-12 82. "Just Once," Joshua Brown, 1: 32-33 28. "Difficult People in Meeting," 51. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of 83. "Lasting Imprint, A," Vinton Martha Paxson Grundy, 6: 17-18 Friends, Kenya: 'You Can Get There Deming, 2:2 29. "Dilemma of Teaching About War, From Here'," Melissa Kay Elliott, 84. "Legal Drugs?" Ed Dodson, 4: 19 The," William C . Kashatus, 5: 15 12: 7-10 85. "Lighting Candles of Faith," Shelagh 30. "Elisa the Elf," Richard Eldridge, 52. "Family Witness at the Tracks, A," Willett, 11: 32-33 5:24-26 David Hartsough, 11: 22-23 86. "Make Victims the Focus of Law," 31. "Encounter, An," Lisa Gobeli, 6: 29 53. "Finding the Spirit," Vinton Deming, Adam Starchild, 7: 21 32. "Entrusting the Earth," Mary J. 12:2 87. "Making Room for Joy," Wendy Hartman, 3: 14-15 54. "Forgotten Indians and Federal Henning, 2:30 33. "Environmental Queries," Illinois Recognition, The," Bruce G. Miller, 88. "Making Room in My Inn," Helen Yearly Meeting, 3: 15 9: 22-24 Weaver Horn, 12: 15-16 34. "Even Geese Know," John C. 55. "Fox at Lichfield," Robert Kunkel, 89. "Meeting Our Lions," Marjorie Morgan, 6: 7 3: 18-21 Wardle, 2: 19 35. "Experiencing God," Howard L. 56. "Friends College Kaimosi," William 90. "Message for Threshing, A," Harris, 9; 25 Charland, 7: 34 Douglas Bishop, 2: 5 36. "FGC Gathering 1991," Various 57. "Friends Feeling Hurt," Elizabeth F. 91. "Ministry of Touch, A," John Calvi, authors, 10: 20-27 Boardman and Sam Cox, 1: 28-30 8: 7-11 37. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of 58. "Friends School: 'One of Detroit's 92. "More Than a Whale of a Story: The Friends, Honduras: 'En Espiritu yen Jewels'," Imogene B. Angell, Book of Jonah,'' Stanley Zarowin, Verdad ... Ia Fe en Accion' ,'' 10: 8-10 2: 16-18 Phyllis Sanders, II: 12-14 59. "Friends Schools: Two Unmet 93. "Never-Ending Search, A," Caitlyn 38. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of J>leeds," Spencer Coxe, 10: 12-13 Frost, 11: 30 Friends, Honduras: Epistle from the 60. "Frivolity and Social Graces 94. "New World Vision, A," George Second Gathering," Paul Enyart, Committee Report," Mt. Toby Rubin, 7:5 Clerk, II: 14-15 (Mass.) Meeting, 1: 33 95. "Next Right Thing, The," Vinton 39. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of 61. "Genesis Updated," Sarah Crofts, Deming, 3:2 Friends, Honduras: 'Friends in 2: 10-11 96. "No Strain, No Gain," Vinton Honduras'," an address by Juan 62. "Gifts and Community," Vinton Deming, 5:2 Garcia reported by Robert Vogel, Deming, 8:2 97. "Nonsexist Language in New Bible II: 12 63. "God Dwells Within Us," James Translations," Wallace Cayard, 40. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of Lawrence Harrington, 5: 14 7:22-23 Friends, Honduras: 'Finding New 64. "Green Movement, The," Elizabeth 98. "On a Few Acres of Land," Isabel C. Notes'," Robert Vogel, 11 : 13 Cattell Bronson, 3: 16-17 Sanders, 11: 18-20 41. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of 65. " Growing Up Quaker," Rebecca 99. "On Becoming Practical Friends, Netherlands: Epistle from Osborn, 3: 22-24 Visionaries," Kate Dempsey, Lynn the First Gathering," Erica F. Vere, 66. "Gulf War 101 - Final Examination," Erskine, and Steve Zehr, 9: 38-39 Clerk, 11: 11 Education for Peace and Justice, 100. "On Going to Law," John Lampen, 42. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of 10: 17 4: 16 Friends, Netherlands: 'A 67. "He Came with Guitar," Rebecca 101. "On Truth and Bananas," Deborah Homecoming'," Diana Lampen Martin Young, 4: 31 Fink, 8: 24-26 11:10 68. " Heroic and Radiant," Vinton 102. "On Worship After the Manner of 43. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of Deming, 1:2 Friends," Jay C. Rochelle, 12: 20-21 Friends, Netherlands: 'How Change 69. "Hold Fast to Our Beliefs," Claire E. 103. "Opportunity to End Nuclear Testing, Occurs'," Kenneth Sutton, 11: 9 Gorfinkel and Beatrice Miller, 3: 5 An,'' David Hartsough, I: 5 44. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of 70. "Hold the Negotiations .. . . , " 104. "Our Lives as Melody," Rebecca Friends, Netherlands: 'Impressions Linda Heacock, 11: 36-37 Martin Young, 1: 35 from Elspeet' ,"Alastair Heron, 71. "Holy Week at the IRS," Frances S. 105. "Over Troubled Waters," Louis Cox, 11 : 7-8 Eliot, 4: 10-11 9:5 45. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of 72. "Horoscopes," Young Adult Friends 106. "Partners with God," Avis Crowe, Friends, Netherlands: 'Speaking Face Newsletter of New England Yearly 9: 19 to Face' ," Kenneth Sutton, ll: 9-10 Meeting, 9: 36-37 107. "Passages," Vinton Deming, 9:2 46. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of 73 . "How Much is Enough?" Lorraine 108. "Peace Notes,'' Friends Meeting Friends, Kenya: 'Beads on a K. Cleveland, I : 23-24 reporters, 3: 6-8 Necklace: Programmed Worship in 74. "I am Music, Music is Me," Rebecca 109. " Peace Notes,'' Various authors, 4: Nairobi'," Melissa Kay Elliott, Martin Young, 6: 35 7-10 12:9 75. "Important Encounter, An," Patricia 110. "Peace Without, Peace Within," 47. '.'FWCC Fifth World Conference of McBee, 9:28 Robert Levering, 3: 9-10 Friends, Kenya: Epistle from the 76. "In Praise of Footing," Ronald 111. "Peoples of Burma: An Endangered Third Gathering," Dan Seeger, Watts, 11: 16-17 Species, The," Paula Green, 9: 29-30 12: 12-13 77. "Infinite Ocean of Light, An," 112. "Place Called Home, A," Joseph 48. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of Stephen G. Cary, 3: 25-29 Sorrentino, 9: 26-27 Friends, Kenya: 'Kenyan Quakers in 78. "Is it time, once again, to become a 113. 'Prevention Is Cruci.al," Carol Search of Peace'," Joram M. Amadi, peculiar people?" Priscilla Berggren­ Atkinson, 6: 5 12: 10-11 Thomas, 7: 8-10 114. " Pucho," Mario DiBlasio, 7: 19-20 49. "FWCC Fifth World Conference of 79. "'I Was in Prison ... and You 115. "Quaker Author, The," Richard Friends, Young Friends, Kenya: 'One Visited Me,' Kay and Bob Horton' s Eldridge, 1: 18-20 Body, Many Parts'," Peter Hancock, Prison Witness,'' Herb Ettel, 7: 16-/8 116. "Quaker Business Meetings: The

44 March 1992 FRIEND S JouRNAL Source of Our Unity," Cynthia Earl 148. "Suffer the Children," May Mansoor 180. "Working Man," Donna Glee Kerman, 9: 17 Munn, 1:30-31 Williams, 9: 12-14 117. "Quaker Crostic," Osborn Cresson, 149. "Suggestions for Committee 181. "Worship as Adventure," William D. 7: 30-31 Reports," Fran McQuail, 9: 38 Turner, 5: 27-29 118. "Quakers and Cops," Bob Rogers, 150. "Swords into Plowshares," Harriet 182. "Year to Begin Again? A," Steve 9: 15-16 Heath, 12: 31 Zehr, 7: 35 119. " Quakers and the Women's 151. ''Teaching Religion in Friends Movement," Laurel Childe Kassoff, Schools," Thomas Woehrle, 3: ll-13 10: 10-11 Reports 120. " Quakers, Anti-Semitism, and the 152. "Testing Differences, Finding Middle East," Allan Kohrman, Common Ground," Susan Hubbard, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Christina L. 1: 13-15 6:27-29 Connell, II : 34-35 121. " Question about Peace, A," George 153. "That Life and Power," Vinton Conference to Consider the Partial Test E. Keenen, 8: 18-19 Deming, 4:2 Ban Treaty, Fang Li, 8: 29 122. " Refiner's Fire: How a Yearly 154. "There's No Way I'd Go! Boulder FWCC Southeastern Gathering, Hiram Meeting's Espistle Might Evolve, Friends Provide Sanctuary," Vinton Hilty, 2: 27 The," J. Bernard Haviland, 4: 14-15 Deming, 5: 13-14 1991 FGC Gathering, Various authors, 123. "Reflections on a Journey," Donald 155. "This Is Not Your Father's War," 10: 20-27 Southall, 4: 12-13 Mary Rose O'Reilley, 5: 7-8 FWCC Midwest Gathering, Horace 124. "Reflections on Forgiveness," Rick 156. "Thoughts on Gardens of Paradise," Autenrieth, Margaret Stoltzfus, Bruce Herrick, 8: 14-15 Diana Wells, II: 20-21 Thron-Weber, 2: 27-28 125. " Repatriation Struggle in El 157. "Time to Heal: The Great William FWCC Fifth World Conference, Salvador, The," Dennis P. Penn College Reunion, A," Lenna Honduras, Phyllis Sanders, Robert DeMaio,6: 25-26 Mae Gara, 5: 18-22 Vogel, and Paul Enyert, II: 12-15 126. "Rescuing Kuwait: At What Cost?" 158. "Time to Wonder," Harriet Heath, FWCC Fifth World Conference, the Ruth Flower, 3:30-31 11:36 Netherlands, Alastair Heron, Kenneth 127. " Riding the Quaker Strand: Teaching 159. "Trends in Peacemaking and Conflict Sutton, Diana Lampen, Erica F. Vere, in England," Fred Huntington, Resolution," Paul Wahrhaftig, II: 7-11 6: 19-21 10: 18-19 FWCC Fifth World Conference, Kenya, 128. "Rise of Meeting, The," Anthony 160. "Unitarians as friends," Mary Melissa Kay Elliott, Joram M. Amadi, Scola, 9: 18 Barclay Howarth, 7: 13-15 Joram A. Avugo, Herbert Tucker, 129. " Robert K. Greenleaf: Servant­ 161. "Unity Through the Inner Light," EdwardS. Nattress, and Peter Leader," Larry Spears, 8: 20-21 Jayne E. Maugans, 1: 16 Hancock, 12: 7-14 130. "Rural Guatemalans aided by 162. "Uprooted and Unprotected," Gwynedd Meeting Youth Exchange, scholarships," Trudie Hunt, 4: 32 Martin Macpherson, 12: 30-31 Rachel Hubbs, 5: 30-31 131. "Samplings," Rebecca Martin Young, 163. "Valiant Three, The," Gary IMYM-AFSC Peace and Service Caravan, 5:38 Sandman, 10: 5 Cynthia Taylor, 4: 26-28 132. "Sao Paulo Worship Group," 164. "Value of Human Life, The," David lllinois Yearly Meeting, Roy C. Treadway, Marianne Rice, '10: 32 Ludwig, 5: 11 Don Smith, Jeanette Baker, and Becky 133. "Second Casualty, The," Alison D. 165. "Vietnam Fifteen Years after the Fall Westling, 12: 26-28 Oldham, 5: 32-33 of Saigon," Larry Miller, 2:12-15 Intermountain Yearly Meeting, Marbie 134. "Seeking Alternatives to Violence," 166. "Village Christmas," Natalie Pierce Brault, 9: 34-35 Fred Feucht and Paddy Lane, 9: 11 Kent, 12: 17-19 Lake Erie Yearly Meeting, Marty Grundy, 135. "Seeking the Truth," Jack Powelson, 167. "Violence Is Not the Way," Rebecca 12:26 8: 22-24 A. Grunko, 5: 10-11 Nebraska Yearly Meeting, Kay Mesner, 136. "Separation and Divorce: The 168. " Walking Group, A," Dorothy II: 35 Meeting's Role," Arlene Kelly, Marshall , II: 17 North Carolina Yearly Meeting 2:20-22 169. "We Own the Night," Anthony Bing, (Conservative), A committee of NCYM 137. "Sexual Abuse and Women's 6: 11-13 Friends, 11 : 3 4 Response to War and Peace,'' 170. "We Won't Be Embarrassed," North Pacific Yearly Meeting, Melissa Kay Anonymous, 6: 14-16 Donald Norberg, 5: 21 Elliott, I : 34 138. "Sharing of Silence, A," Claire 171. "What Can a World Conference North Pacific Yearly Meeting, Judith Gerber, 12: 22 Do?" Gordon Browne, 6: 8-10 Brown, 12: 26 139. "Sorry, Dan, Peter, and Tom ... ," 172. "What is Time?" Rachel Fort Weller, Northern Yearly Meeting, Francis D. Hole, ArthurS. Harris, Jr., 8: 16-17 4: 19 1:34 140. "South Africa: Waging the Lamb's 173. "When Called, I will Go," Jude Northern Yearly Meeting, Francis D. Hole War," James Fletcher, 7:24-26 O'Reilley Geisheker, 5: 9-10 and Charles Rathmann, 9: 34 141. "Soviet Changes, U.S. Response," 174. "When the Trumpet Calls," Rebecca Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting, Betsy Neale, Edward F. Snyder, 11:38 Martin Young, 8: 30 12:29 142. "Sri Lanka: Unresolved Conflict," 175. "Where are the Sidewalks?" Skip Pacific Yearly Meeting, David Scofield Elizabeth Salter, 7: 27-29 Londos, 2: 8-10 Wilson, 2: 28-29 143. "Starting First-day Schools in Small 176. "Who is My Teacher?" Rima M. Pacific Yearly Meeting, Mary Mikesell, Meetings," Michelle o'Kane, Segal, 4: 20-22 12: 28-29 12: 23-25 177. " Why I am an Atheist," Eric Peace Committee of St. Louis (Mo.) 144. "Starting From Where I Am," Johnson, 1: 17 Meeting, Peace Committee of the St. Harriet Heath, 10: 33 178. "'Woe unto the Bloody City of Louis (Mo.) Meeting, 9: 35 145. "Stephen Cary Concludes his AFSC Lichfield! '," George Fox, excerpted Quaker Conference on Evangelism, Susan Role," FRIENDS JouRNAL Compilers, from the revised edition of The Hubbard, 6: 27-29 2:32 Journal of George Fox, ed. John Quaker Pastoral Counselors Gathering, 146. "Stopping to Listen," Wendy Simms, Nickalls, 3: 19 Maureen Graham, 7: 32 2: 7 179. "Wonderful Modulations of the Quaker United Nations Summer School, 147. "Struggle Must Continue, The," Human Face," Francis E. Kazemek, Claude Julien-Waring, 5: 30 Evan Manvel, 5: 11-12 11 : 28-29 School of the Spirit, Mountain View

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1992 45 (Colo.) Meeting, Jim Ray, 7: 33 Mayer, Milton, edited by Leone Stein, Jacobson, Barbara Sprogell (see Price, Southeastern Yearly Meeting, Gay Biodegradable Man , 7:42 (William Norma Adams) Howard, 8: 28-29 McCord) Kohler, Irene (see Curtis, Susan, Romy Southern California Conference on Morgan, Kenneth W., Reaching for the Fraser and Irene Kohler) Religion and Psychology, Jean Gerard, Moon, 8: 36 (Theodore Herman) Kronberg, Ruthilde and Patricia C. 8:29 Moyers, Bill (see Center for Investigative McKissack, Piece of the Wind and Thich Nhat Hanh retreat, Penny Jackim, Reporting and Bill Moyers) Other Stories to Tell, A, 4: 37 10:30 Palmer, Parker, The Active Life, 1:42 Loades, Ann, ed., Feminist Theology: A United Nations Economic and Social (J. Bernard Haviland) Reader, 12: 37 Council, Berit Collett, 4: 28-29 Pearce, Anna, Simply Living: The Story of Mow, Merrill, Torches Rekindled, 10: 39 World Council of Churches Seventh Compassion and the Wonderbox, 6: 36 Milne, Teddy, Is War Okay? 12:37 Assembly, Joel McLellan, 7:32-33 (Marty Grundy) McKissack, Patricia C., (see Kronberg, William Penn House, Gregory L. Howell, Punshon, John, Testimony and Tradition, Ruthilde and Patricia C. McKissack), 2:28 6: 36 (Douglas Gwyn) 4:37 Reiser, Bob (see Pete Seeger and Bob Price, Norma Adams and Barbara Sprogell Reiser) Jacobson, Thomas and Elizabeth Books Roberts, Ron (see Keefe, Thomas and Ron Foulke of Gwynedd Friends Meeting; Roberts) What Love Can Do, 8: 36 Abrams, Irwin, compiler, Words of Peace, Roop, Eugene F. (see Gwyn, Douglas, Raistrick, Arthur, Dynasty of Iron 9: 42 (Dorothy T. Samuel) George Hunsinger, Eugene F. Roop Founders, 6: 37 Albrecht, Lisa and Rose M. Brewer, eds., and John Howard Yoder) Robertson, Rosamond, with drawings by Bridges of Power: Women's Seeger, Pete and Bob Reiser, Everybody Susan de Feu, Growing Friends, I: 43 Multicultural Alliances, 9: 31-33 (Lilith Says Freedom, 1: 43 (Jennie H. Allen) Stone, Ronald, ed., Theology of Peace, Quinlan) Swan, James A., Sacred Places, 1: 42-43 8:36 Bing, Anthony G., Israeli Pacifist, I: 41-42 (Becky Young) Wakefield, Dan, Story of Your Life: (Stephen Zunes) Stuard, Susan Mosher (see Brown, Writing a Spiritual Autobiography, Brame, Grace Adolphsen, ed. (see Elizabeth Potts and Susan Mosher The, 7: 42-43 Underhill, Evelyn), Stuard) Brewer, Rose M. (see Albrecht, Lisa) Tannen, Deborah, You Just Don't Brown, Elizabeth Potts and Susan Mosher Understand, 11 : 43 (Eileen Coan) Stuard, Eds., Witness for Change, Tucker, Cynthia Grant, Prophetic Film & Video 2: 37-38 (Margaret Hope Bacon) Sisterhood, 5: 40 (Margaret Hope Woman and Her Symbols, by Mary Center for Investigative Reporting and Bill Bacon) Hopkins, 1: 40 (Sebrine Tingley) Moyers, Global Dumping Grounds, Underhill, Evelyn, edited by Grace 12: 36-37 (Ruth Yarrow) Adolphsen Brame, Ways of the Spirit, Cline, Paul, Booboo's Dream, 2:36 The, 4: 36 (Wendy Henning) (Simeon Deming) Yoder, John Howard, (see Gwyn, Douglas, Recordings Cooper, Wilmer A., Living Faith, A, George Hunsinger, Eugene F. Roop, 4:36-37 (Marty Grundy) and John Howard Yoder) Hedges, Michael, " Taproot," 6: 35 (Cathy Corbett, Jim, Goa/walking, 9: 42 (Jack Zehr, Howard, Changing Lenses, 11: 42-43 McCulley) Powelson) (William McCord) Driggs, John H. and Stephen E. Finn, Intimacy Between Men, 5: 40-42 Poetry (Elizabeth G. Watson) Books in Brief Finn, Stephen E. (see Driggs, John H. Councilman, Emily Sargent, "Incomplete Driggs and Stephen E. Finn) Barbour, Hugh, Penn on Religion and Moon to Full," 5: 26 Franklin, Robert Michael, Liberating Ethics: The Forming of a Protestant Grizzard, Emily Appleby, "Stardreams," Visions, 1: 41 (Noel Palmer) Liberal as Shown in His Writings, 9: 20 Farrow, Jo, The World in My Heart, 2:38 12:37 Ham Sok Hon, translation by Seok (Cathy McCulley) Benner, Cheryl A., designer, A Mother's Choong Song, "Mind," 6: 10 Frost, J. William, Perfect Freedom: Notebook: An Illustrated Journal, 2: 38 Horn, Helen Weaver, " Tribute (for Religious Liberty in Pennsylvania, A,, Clemons, James T., What Does the Bible Douglas and Dorothy Steere)" 7:7 2: 36 (Dick Dill) Say About Suicide?, 8: 36 Mullins, Terence Y ., " Meadow, A," 5: 26 Greene, Dana, Evelyn Underhill, 4: 36 Curtis, Susan, Romy Fraser, and Irene Nign, Daniel, III, "Pause," 5: 23 (Wendy Henning) Kohler, Neal's Yard Natural Remedies, Nign, Daniel, Ill, "Star Code," 5: 23 Grollman, Earl A., Talking about Death, 5:42 Nichols-Orians, Judith, "Radio News, Fall 5: 40 (Catherine McCulley) Davidson, Glen W, Living with Dying: A 1990," 1: 7 Gwyn, Douglas, George Hunsinger, Guide for Relatives and Friends, 4: 37 O'Bryan, John, " The Gathering," 2: 18 Eugene F. Roop and John Howard Erdoes, Richard, Crying for a Dream, Pitre, David, " Presence," 9: 21 Yoder, Declaration on Peace, A, 6:36-37 Stafford, William, "Early Morning," 10: 38-39 (J. Bernard Haviland) Fossum, Merle, Catching Fire: Men 11:27 Hageseth, Christian, III, Thirteen Moon Coming Alive in Recovery, 1: 43 Stafford, William, "For the Unknown Journal, A, 12:34 (Mary Wood) Fraser, Romy (see Curtis, Susan, Romy Enemy," 11: 25 Hunsinger, George (see Gwyn, Douglas, Fraser, and Irene Kohler) Stafford, William, " On a Church Lawn," George Hunsinger, Eugene F. Roop Fry, Gladys-Marie, Stitched from the Soul: II: 26 and John Howard Yoder) Slave Quilts from the Ante-Bellum Stetser, Virginia M., "Genus Sterna," Keefe, Thomas and Ron Roberts, South, 7: 42 1:20 Realizing Peace: An Introduction to Geyer, Alan, Christianity and the Super Swaim, Alice Mackenzie, "Driftwood Peace Studies, 12: 34-36 (Katherine Van Powers, 7; 43 Fire," 9: 21 Wormer) Global Tomorrow Coalition, The, Global Swaim, Alice Mackenzie, "Sound of Leskov, Nicolai, translated by James Ecology Handbook, The, 7: 42 Ripening," 9: 20 Muckle, Vale of Tears, 12: 34 (George Ives, Kenneth, Recovering the Human Swaim, Alice Mackenzie, "Where Clouds Peck) Jesus, 8:36 and Eagles Soar," 5: 23

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Stapeley residents like being in historic Germantown, a location which provides them with opportunities for cultural and recreational activities. 8. Public transportation and the Stapeley van make libraries, stores and downtown Philadelphia easily accessible. Residents have created a prize-winning garden in our urban oasis.

Stapeley residents know that we're moderately priced. Retirement communities can be expensive. Stapeley is comparatively affordable.

Stapeley, the in-town Quaker alternative.

6300 Greene Street Philadelphia, PA 19144

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Telephone______~------~ Return to: Carol Nemeroff Director of Admissions Stapeley in Germantown 6300 Greene Street STAPELEY Philadelphia, PA 19144 IN GERMANTOWN Or call: (215) 844-0700 THE QUAKER HOUSE at Woolman Commons ~~=====~~ ~~'Oft•• ,..,, , ., .. , . et "'!41fit~ ·.: if ·· Low to Moderate Income . ' Rental Housing for Friends who are 55 years of age or older

The Estaugh, a nonprofit Quaker Corporation, is pleased to be· able to offer affordable, modern apartment living to qualified Friends of modest means. THE QUAKER HOUSE at WOOLMAN COMMONS is located in the picturesque town of Mount Holly, New Jersey, the historic home of John Woolman and county seat of Burlington County. Situated on beautifully landscaped grounds, adjacent to Woolman Commons of Medford Leas. THE QUAKER HOUSE at WOOLMAN COMMONS is just one block from the Mount Holly Friends Meeting House and within convenient walking distances of stores and public transportation to Philadelphia and area shopping malls. A diverse community, both economically and racially, Mount Holly offers many avenues for civic and social involvement.

The twin pre-Revolutionary War homes are being restored and renovated to include four spacious new apartments -- three one-bedroom units, which will be offered to single individuals or couples, and one unit with one bedroom plus a den, which will be offered to couples only. The apartments will be ready for occupancy in the late summer of 1992. While any rent subsidies will come from private funds, The Estaugh will follow federal guidelines regarding qualifications and amounts, and monthly rent plus utilities will not exceed 30% of the household's income.

If you are a Friend, 55 years of age or older, with an annual income of $25,000 or less ($28,000 for couples), and would be interested in joining the Friends Community in Mount Holly, please send for an application or call for more information. The Estaugh Route 70 Medford, NJ 08055 (609) 654-3000 (BOO} 331-4302 (outside NJ}

The Estaugh also sponsors the Medford Leas Continuing Care Retirement Community. For Friends who may be specifically interested in living at Medford Leas, financial assistance is available to those with limited funds. Confidentiality is always maintained so that the privacy of the resident receiving financial assistance is protected. The gift that all residents bring to Medford Leas is the gift of themselves. We are enriched by the diversity of our community and the individual contributions of each resident. For more information, please contact us at the above address or telephone numbers.