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Quaker Thought and Today February 1989 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today ;: ~-=.;;---- $ I STANDING WITH UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS A QUAKER VIEW OF LIBERATION THEOLOGY GOING HOME Among Friends •clltor-Man~~ger Vinton Deming Associate Editor Melissa Kay Elliott Art Director Barbara Benton Signed With His Honour Advertising Man.. ., Timothy Back Circulation IIIHI Office Coordinator ccasionally there are individuals who step only briefly into the Lisa Konigsberg pages of our lives-but who make a lasting mark. Colin Bell Typesetting Services was such a person for me. His death in November (see James Rice and Susan Jordhamo 0 Secretarlel Services Milestones, page 30) makes many of us, I'm sure, feel the loss of a Jeanne G. Beisel very special Friend (and friend). Bookkeeper James Neveil I met Colin during the Vietnam War years, about 1966, when I Volunteers settled in the Philadelphia area. It was close to the time of his own Jane Burgess, Emily Conlon, retirement from long service with the American Friends Service Bruce Hunt, and Amy Weber Committee. I was a newcomer within Philadelphia Quaker circles and Board of Managers quickly became caught up in the many peace and justice projects that /986-/989: Jennie Allen (Secretary), Dean Bratis, consumed many of us at the time. I scarcely knew Colin, but I Helen Morgan Brooks, Sol A. Jacobson, Leonard Kenworthy, Mary Mangelsdorf, Linell McCurry sensed that he knew me. He had a way of stopping me in the hallway (Clerk), Janet Norton, Elizabeth S. Williams near the yearly meeting offices, making very direct eye contact, and /987-1990: Frank Bjornsgaard, Emily Conlon (Assistant Clerk), Marcia Paullin, asking a question that showed his awareness of a particular project, William D. Strong (Treasurer), Allen Terrell, his keen interest, and always his supportiveness. "You're doing such Mary Wood a fine job," he might say, and you knew he meant it. 1988-1991: Nancy Cocks, Sam Legg, Parry Jones, Richard Moses, Harry Scott, Larry Spears, Judith One spring at yearly meeting he spoke very movingly in support of Randall, Alan Walker, Ellie White young Friends faced with the draft. He challenged some of us over H-ary Managers draft age to consider that not only our young people were being Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young drafted; our federal taxes were being conscripted for the war as well! FllmNDS JOURNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was I visited him once at Davis House in Washington with a friend established in 1955 as the successor to The whose house was threatened with IRS seizure for unpaid war taxes. Friend (1827~ 195 5) and Friends lntelligencer Colin was keenly interested, shared a generous amount of time from (1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious Society of Friends, and is a member of the his busy schedule, and was very supportive. As we left he walked us Associated Church Press. to our car. I still hear the cheerful sound of his words (and see the • FllmNDS JOUltNAL is published monthly by twinkle in his eye) as he leaned in the car window, shook our hands, Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry and said, "Good bye, Friends. Take care of your spirit!" St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. (215) 241-7277. Accepted as second-class postage Colin never lost his enthusiasm for learning new things. On one of paid at Hanover, PA 17331. his regular visits back to Philadelphia from his farm in Virginia he • Subscriptions: one year $15, two years $29, told me happily-and with the sense of humor for which he was three years $43. Add $6 per year for postage famous-about his new life as a farmer. He saw his involvement with outside United States, its "possessions," Canada, and Mexico. Foreign remittances rural issues, the growing of hay, the caring for chickens as a new should be in U.S. dollars or adjusted for adventure, and one he wanted others to know about. currency differential. Sample copies $1 each; back issues $2 each. Stephen Spender begins his poem "Prelude 24" with the words " I • Information on and assistance with think continually of those who were truly great . '' and concludes advertising is available on request. Appearance with these lines: of any advertisement does not imply endorsement by FRIENDS JOURNAL. Copyright © 1989 by Friends Publishing The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Corporation. Reprints of articles available at Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. nominal cost. Permission should be received before reprinting excerpts longer than 200 Born of the sun, they travelled a while toward the sun, words. Available in microfilm from University And left the vivid air signed with their honour. Microfilms International. Colin's life was such a journey. Postmaster: send aclclress changes to Friends .toumal, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 1e1o2.14e7. 2 February 1989 FRIENDS Volume 35, No. 2 JOURNAL Features Departments 6 Launching a Legal Challenge 2 Among Friends Warren Witte The AFSC takes the government to court to contest an 4 Forum immigration law it considers unjust. 23 Then and Now 8 Standing with Undocumented 24 Reports Workers Aurora Camacho de Schmidt 26 News of Friends A Quaker worker, herself an immigrant, shares why she 27 Bulletin Board will not sign an 1-9 form. 28 Books 10 Going Home Clare Galbraith 30 Milestones An expatriate Friend weighs the reasons for returning home again to work for peace. 32 Classified 34 Meetings 12 Quakers and the Revolutionary Left Robert Ellwood How might Quakers, with historical roots to another revolutionary time, best support the revolutionaries of our Poetry present day? 19 February Catalogues 16 A Quaker VIew of Uberatlon Alice Mackenzie Swaim Theology Wallace Cayard As we seek to understand such movements, we may clarify and deepen our own Quaker faith. 20 Summer Opportunities for Young Friends Amy Weber A wide variety of educational and service opportunities exist. Front cover woodcut by Rosamond C. Buskirk fRIENDs JouRNAL February 1989 3 Forum Our Language It is so much easier to attack an "unjust system" than to accept individual Is Important responsibility for moral decisions. This country, despite its faults, has Margery Larrabee's thoughtful article provided more freedom (choices) than the on inclusive language (FJ Oct. 1988) over­ world has ever known. In addition, under looks some important aspects of the problem. our "oppressive" capitalistic system, we She's right to observe that concern about have achieved a standard of living that language should not take precedence over few dreamed possible. Should we, as the "communication of our personal faith authors argue, abandon free enterprise experience." I suspect, though, that most and the Bill of Rights for a system which people who refer to God as "he" are not has failed time and again to provide speaking out of deep spiritual experience material wealth, which does not of God as masculine, but out of customs countenance dissent, and which stifles the and traditions that permeate our culture human spirit? In my opinion such a and history. These work at the level of recommendation stems from ignorance, presuppositions and are very difficult to naivete, and ingratitude. Nanlouise Wolfe question or, once questioned, to change. and Stephen Zunes attack capitalism for Indeed, Margery Larrabee herself, while promoting the nuclear family. I think experiencing God as "nonsexed," uses the nuclear family should be promoted. the language of customs to talk about Am I crazy or are they? "him." I wonder why her "poetic and metaphorical" imagery is so restricted. Phillip Goldstein Margery Larrabee does not address the ) Brooklyn, N.Y. extent to which language influences our religious experience. It is well known that Nanlouise Wolfe and Stephen Zunes language shapes our understanding of make some important points. We need to reality, our categories of thought, and face the fact " ... that the fetus is a our interpretation of events. Similarly, conscious human being from a very early the way we talk about God affects our stage and should be considered as human conception of God and hence our life from conception." They rightly call relationship with God. Sandra M. on Friends to act to change societal Schneiders writes, "Most women claim that women have abortions because conditions which result in pressures on experience God the way they experience of a lack of options and proceed to women to have abortions. They are men," which I suspect is true of men recommend socialism-a system which perceptive in opposing the notion that also. This does not mean that God destroys choices-as a solution. While "the oppression of unborn children will cannot work outside our conceptions; but they decry "oppressive institutions" lead to the liberation of women ...." our limited ideas can limit our ability to which "force" women to have abortions, However, the authors are unconvincing recognize the divine when we encounter they reveal that most of their friends who in arguing that it is consistent to be both it. Where openness to the work of the have aborted "have done so largely "pro-life" and "pro-choice." They Spirit is essential to worship, this is a because their pregnancy interfered with concentrate only on societal factors and crucial problem. career plans." I find it difficult to fail to balance that with the responsibility Language is not just "a vehicle," but sympathize with spoiled yuppies who find of the individual to make moral choices. is, and should be, a matter of "primary motherhood an inconvenience; likewise Their article is totally secular, with no concern." In our resistance to formal with those women whose men insist that religious content evident in their line of liturgy and to formulaic statements of any unwanted pregnancy be terminated.
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