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Quaker Worship the Friend Independent Quaker Journalism Since 1843 CONTENTS VOL 171 NO 39 27 September 2013 © Library Society of the Religious Friends the Outreach issue £1.70 DISCOVER THE CONTEMPORARYFriend QUAKER WAY Quaker worship the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 CONTENTS VOL 171 NO 39 27 September 2013 © Library Society of the Religious Friends. 3 Thought for the Week: 10-11 Quaker Light or Quaker-lite? The Meeting’s promise Jan Arriens Alan Lygo-Baker 12-13 The story of a Meeting 4 World family of Friends Jill Allum Gretchen Castle 14-15 Founding fathers 5 The maypole dance Rachel Britton Anthony Gimpel 16 Universe as Revelation 6 A Quaker calendar Harvey Gillman Caroline Humphries 18 Truth, integrity or both? 7 The Quaker Tapestry Dorothy Searle Ian Kirk-Smith 20 The stamp man 8-9 Openings Trish Carn Laurie Andrews 22 Friends & Meetings Cover image: Morning Meeting. Image above: Detail of Gracechurch Street Meeting, Artist: Ann McNeill. © The artist. 1779. © Library of the Religious Society of Friends. The Friend Subscriptions Advertising Editorial UK £76 per year by all payment Advertisement manager: Editor: types including annual direct debit; George Penaluna Ian Kirk-Smith monthly payment by direct debit [email protected] £6.50; online only £48 per year. Articles, images, correspondence For details of other rates, Tel/fax 01535 630230 should be emailed to contact Penny Dunn on 54a Main Street, Cononley [email protected] 020 7663 1178 or [email protected] Keighley BD20 8LL or sent to the address below. the Friend 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ Tel: 020 7663 1010 Fax: 020 7663 1182 www.thefriend.org Editor: Ian Kirk-Smith [email protected] • Sub-editor: Trish Carn [email protected] • Production editor: Elinor Smallman production@ thefriend.org • Arts editor: Rowena Loverance [email protected] • Environment editor: Laurie Michaelis [email protected] • Subscriptions officer: Penny Dunn [email protected] Tel: 020 7663 1178 • Advertisement manager: George Penaluna, Ad department, 54a Main Street, Cononley, Keighley BD20 8LL Tel: 01535 630230 [email protected] • Clerk of the trustees: Nicholas Sims • ISSN: 0016-1268 The Friend Publications Limited is a registered charity, number 211649 • Printed by Headley Bros Ltd, Queens Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 8HH 2 the Friend, www.thefriend.org Thought for the Week 10-11 Quaker Light or Quaker-lite? Jan Arriens 12-13 The story of a Meeting Jill Allum 14-15 Founding fathers Rachel Britton 16 Universe as Revelation Harvey Gillman Jordans Meeting 2. Artist: Ron Waddams. © The Larren Trust. Larren The © Waddams. Artist: Ron Meeting 2. Jordans 18 Truth, integrity or both? Dorothy Searle 20 The stamp man Trish Carn 22 Friends & Meetings The Meeting’s promise There lives a peace in the stillness which quietly moulds the promise of more than self. Far more. Now I have the momentum to hold the old and the new and reside in that calm until I am restored again. Alan Lygo-Baker, Sussex West Area Meeting the Friend, the Quaker way 3 World family of Friends Gretchen Castle reflects on diversity, unity and belonging © The © The Tapestry Quaker Scheme. itting with friends over a meal at the 2012 World different stands of American Quakerism. My father Conference in Kenya, I thought, ‘This is one huge was a pastor in Friends United Meeting, so I grew up family reunion’ – with people jumping up to give among programmed Friends. As an adult I moved Shugs of greeting, introductions and hand shaking, and to the East Coast and transferred my membership the room abuzz with laughter and conversation. Leaning to an unprogrammed Meeting, the only choice in in, listening intently, and heads nodding to indicate Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. I have cousins who are understanding – it was all part of the lively fellowship, active with evangelical Friends, programmed Friends, a chance to breathe together, to get acquainted and and unprogrammed Friends. reacquainted and to meet that elusive long-lost uncle. When I first became active in the uprogrammed These people are all part of a grand Quaker family. We tradition and admitted to a new acquaintance that I all belong to each other. had grown up as a Quaker pastor’s daughter, he said Family, at its best, gives us a sense of belonging and in all seriousness, ‘Then you are not really a Quaker.’ an appreciation that we are loved. It is, perhaps, our best Unbelieving, I actually stopped breathing. We talked chance at being understood. Whatever we long for in into the wee hours of the morning! our lives, that is what we must give to others. Whatever I have learned to love unprogrammed worship, just as we lack and want, when we do that for others, it comes I love the scripture reading, the hymn singing and the back to us. This spiritual principle seems impossible pastor’s sermon in programmed worship. when we feel depleted but, if we want to be understood, People often ask whether programmed worship isn’t we need to listen deeper in order to understand. If we just like any other Protestant denomination worship. It want to be accepted for who we are, we need to suspend may appear so on first glance, but to the practiced eye judgement. If we want more love in our lives, we need – to one who is part of the Quaker family and looking to love from a selfless place. If we want to be family, we more for commonality than difference – it is easier to need to be accepting and inclusive of our whole family, see the sometimes subtle ways in which the Quaker in spite of how they may differ from us. Within our character is expressed. It is much like hearing or seeing Quaker family, on one level, there are many differences a brother or sister and you immediately recognize the but, on the most important level, we are all children of cadence of speech or a familiar nuanced hand motion. God, all equal in God’s sight. We belong to each other. You know it when you see it. My family of origin mirrors the complexity of the One of our greatest human longings is to feel that family of Friends. At our family reunions conversation we are understood. Being new to British culture, I is rich and constant. Once we establish our parentage want desperately to understand and be understood. and how we are connected, we typically move on to Assuming that I belong to the family of Friends, where discuss our Quaker heritage, our spiritual paths, and the language and understanding of Spirit is comforting our relationship to God. I recognize this might be and rich, I am drawn in. I have little need to test it. I am somewhat unusual. coming home. Wherever I live among Friends, I belong. In the late seventeenth century, to escape religious persecution, my family emigrated to North America. It has now spread all over the USA. My father’s six Gretchen is general secretary of Friends World Committee siblings and the resulting thirty-two cousins reflect the for Consultation (FWCC) in the World Office. 4 the Friend, www.thefriend.org Reflection The maypole dance Photo: Garry Knight / flickr CC. Photo: Garry Knight / flickr Anthony Gimpel considers the meaning of membership Dance then, wherever you may be the dance as a metaphor for the Meeting for Worship as I am the Lord of the Dance, said He! well as for the Meeting as a body. The spirit gives energy, And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be life, and the closer you are and the more frequently you And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said He! return the more is available. Some, who appear to be far from the centre, may believe they are themselves close magine Meeting as a dance around a maypole. Each because it takes energy to approach the centre, though person in the Meeting is connected by a ribbon to a nobody can ever actually occupy the centre. central pole. Each person revolves around the pole, Many would agree that it doesn’t matter whether you Iweaving in and out, coming closer, moving further are a member or an attender when you come to Meeting away. for Worship. But what if we say that it only looks like The pole contains the whole of Quakerism. Each it doesn’t matter? What if it does matter? How does it person holds on to some of the Way; no one person holds make a difference to the quality of worship whether you on to the whole. Each person holds on and lets go. Some are a member or an attender? hold on tightly and rarely let go; others have a looser Does commitment also play a part in the worship? grasp; some let go more often or for longer periods. At a recent weekend, held at the Woodbrooke Quaker The maypole dance of belonging to a Meeting Study Centre in Birmingham, on the ‘Meaning of describes how each person chooses their level of Membership Today’ some of us thought it does. The attachment, their commitment. It allows each one to commitment gives a sense of continuity and stability. It adhere to some principles and not to others. It describes inspires and enhances trust between the worshippers. how a person may make a brief contact with the When I commit myself I say I will love you and Meeting and disappear for long periods. In the weaving care for you and desire the best for you. I take the risk of the dance the whole of the Way is upheld. Each one that you may not do the same for me even though of us has an idea of how many people are needed and membership is also a commitment from the Meeting how closely those people need to be connected for the to me.
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