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There is no time for anything but to make peace work a dimension ofour every waking activity. Peace Without, Peace Within Entrusting the Earth -Elise Boulding ...... _..... Among Friends Vinton Deming Auocl.te .dltor Melissa Kay Elliott Art Director Barbara Benton The Next Right Thing Advwtl81ngll--.... Catherine Frost he colorful banner outside our office building is clear and visible. Clrcui.UOn •nd Promotion Nagendran Gulendran Drivers and pedestrians flowing past Friends Center can scarcely l'YI"-ttlne 1..-vlcea T ignore its three words: "Stop the War." Friends working inside the James Rice and Susan Jordhamo building have not been able to ignore its message either. Not since the heat leoret.rt•l ..rvlcea of the Vietnam War have I sensed among Friends such clear focus and Jeanne G. Beisel Bookk...... strong energy to work for peace. The desire for peace enters conversations James Neveil with colleagues; it shapes our work; it underlies most phone conversations Volunteera and items in the mail. Jane Burgess, Anders Hansen, Emily Conlon, Catherine McCulley, Becky Young Friends' strong opposition to the Gulf War was evidenced as well at a Bo•nlofll•n•...,. special Quaker Peace Consultation January 26-27 in Washington, D.C. In 1988-1991: Nancy Cocks Culleton, Barbara response to a call issued by Washington-area Friends only three weeks Dinhofer, Sam Legg (Clerk), Parry Jones, Richard Moses (Treasurer), Harry Scott, Larry earlier, more than 400 Friends from across the country gathered at Florida Spears, Judith Randall, Alan Walker, Ellie Ave. Meeting to discuss the war and to share information, resources, and White 1989-1992: Jennie Allen (Secretary), Richard strategies for peace. There was ample opportunity as well for worship-at Eldridge (Assistant Clerk), Bernard Haviland, times deep and centered. Eric Larsen, Marcia Mason, Janet Norton, David Samuel, Carolyn Sprogell, Wilmer Following the enormous Saturday peace march through the streets of Tjossem, Elizabeth S. Williams, Alice Wiser Washington (described by veteran peace activist Dave McReynolds as that . 1990-1993: Clement Alexandre, Marguerite Clark, Peter Eccles, Leonard Kenworthy, Lee city's largest winter peace demonstration to date), Friends began their Neff, Mary Ellen Singsen meetings. A panel discussion focused upon lobbying efforts by Friends Honorery M•n.. .,. Committtee on National Legislation (Joe Volk), American Friends Service Eleanor Stabler Clarke, Mildred Binns Young FRIENDS JOURNAL (ISSN 0016-1322) was Committee peace efforts (Jim Matlack), and an overview of the wider peace established in 1955 as the successor to The movement (Dave McReynolds of War Resisters League). On Sunday we Friend (1827- 1955) and Friends Jntel/igencer (1844-1955). It is associated with the Religious heard from the grassroots. Friends discussed in smaller interest groups such Society of Friends, and is a member of the issues as the draft, network building, outreach to Arab and Jewish Associated Church Press. communities, nonviolent witness, etc. I joined a worship-sharing group 0 FRIENDS JOURNAL is published monthly by considering ways to be centered in this time of conflict and stress. Friends Friends Publishing Corporation, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone spoke deeply of their need for worship, the basis for our work for peace. As (215) 241-7277. Accepted as second-class one Friend said, she seeks not to be overwhelmed by the bombardment of postage paid at Hanover, PA 17331. news, frequent calls to attend meetings and demonstrations, the enormity of • Subscriptions: one year $18, two years $34. Add $6 per year for postage to countries the task before us. "Tune off the TV," she cautioned, "tune in to the outside the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Spirit. 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2 March 1991 FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 FRIENDS Volume :n, No. 3 JOURNAL Features Departments 6 Peace Notes 2 Among Friends Meeting Reporters The war inspires peace actions across the country. 4 Forum 5 VIewpoint 9 Peace Without, Peace Within Robert Levering 30 FCNL Notes The core of peace work comes from spiritual centeredness. 32 News of Friends 11 Quakers and the Women's 34 Bulletin Board Movement Milestones Laurel Childe Kassoff 36 How can we carry on the tradition of seeking equality? 40 Calendar 14 Entrusting the Earth 40 ClassHied Mary J. Hartman 19901ndex To garden is to reach deep with shovel and prayer. 43 16 The Green Movement Elizabeth Cattell Bronson Spiritualizing the political and politicizing the spiritual, we work toward new possibilities. 18 Fox at Llchfleld Robert Kunkel What was the meaning of Fox's "fever of spiritual exalta­ tion, at Lichfield? 22 Growing up Quaker Rebecca Osborn This experience teaches one how to deal with prickly cushions and prickly people. 25 An Infinite Ocean of Ught Stephen G. Cary Personal anecdotes bring to life 48 years of work with the American Friends Service Committee.

Cover photo by Susan Winters

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All of these were at the instigation and Speaking his peace Anti-Semitism request-also with the cooperation-of the Israeli government, and in at least "Thank you!" (with a handshake) The January 1991 issue was unusually one case with the cooperation-possibly "Good work!" large and very interesting. I would like to under the auspices-of United Nations "Thank you for coming out!" comment on two articles. agencies. For example, I know that the "I'm proud of you!" Allan Kohrman complains that Friends government sought the Tu'ran project These are just a few of the reactions I tend to be anti-Semitic. 1\vo points he because it saw that the more primitive heard as I walked back and forth in makes are misleading. There are indeed methods and organization of agriculture front of the Ithaca, N.Y., post office. In 21 Arab states with 180 million people in areas such as Tu'ran hindered the early November I started daily vigils near Israel. But they often disagree and Arab populations in competing in markets during the noon hour, wearing my two­ fight among themselves, and three half­ with the more effective agriculture of the year-old sandwich board. There are also hearted wars were defeats for them. The kibbutsim. And it also knew that Arabs the silent comments, like the glance two other point is Kohrman's protest against would listen more readily to an men exchange as they pass by; it says AFSC pronouncements because they "outside," neutral agency, such as AFSC more eloquently than words, "There's ignore Israel's history before 1%7. I than to its own experts. that crazy old codger again!" agree, but this history, if fully presented, Service Committee teams had to Jearn I pass out Veterans for Peace flyers. I would mention intransigent Zionism, new kinds of service-different in each have no hesitation in calling myself a which sometimes used terrorism; the case and technically demanding. And, as "veteran" even though I'm not a military Balfour Declaration, which really made I think in all kinds of real service to and one, having done post-war relief work in the state of Israel possible; and the with people of any category, "you have Europe after both world wars. massive U.S. financial and military to learn to love them." Is this Often I am there alone, but Tuesdays support given Israel from 1949 to the anti-Semitism? and Thursdays there are about a dozen present. I agree that Friends should "do Further, Allan Kohrman's logic skips a others, most of them from the Ithaca what we do best," and use beat. Even if "historically most Quakers Friends Meeting. Once we were joined by "humanitarian pacifism" impartially. have. been Christians," and even if , a noisy crowd of Cornell students Eric Johnson's "Why I Am an "Quakers will agree that Christian anti­ carrying signs and shouting slogans. Once Atheist" should, I suppose, be Semitism has raged for the last 2,000 a man called out to me, "Stop, I want to commended for its frankness. Personally, years," does it follow that Quakers­ read your sign." He read aloud, I prefer Voltaire, who said, "If there especially the AFSC-are anti-Semitic? or haltingly, first the front [see photo], then were no God we would have to invent even biased? the 'back, which says: " We're raping, him," but that "all nature cries out that Howard Teaj polluting our planet and I Destroying its he does exist." Johnson seems to believe Haverford, Pa. wildlife too I The arms contractors never in love, mystery, and human worth; why quit I Cooking their deadly stew. I Will not consider them attributes of God? our children inherit a healthy land? I It's What makes Johnson seek "how to make As a Quaker and one of Arabic up to me-and you!' He grunted, but the world better"? How would he heritage, I was offended by Allan nodded his head slowly. respond to the theism of George Fox Kohrman's article. The reasons are as My greatest surprise was the woman and, I believe, all Quakers noted for their follows: I believe he is patently racist; he who made straight for me, gave me a big theological or philosophical works? I, has no real commitment to the Quaker hug (which included the sandwich board) like Johnson, do not believe in an peace testimony; the strong implication and without saying a word walked on omnipotent God, but I identify God with that Quakers are anti-Semitic is grossly down the street. Fox's "ocean of light" overcoming the libelous; he is frenetically hysterical; It is hard to tell , but I have the "ocean of darkness." though a historian, he is clearly incapable impression that the tide is turning, that Both articles express views out of the of being objective. more and more people disapprove of mainstrean of Quaker thought, but I I am surprised that his article was sending our troops to Iraq. I can only believe it right to include them. published at all. hope that my impression is correct. Raymond Ayoub Ralph H. Pickett State College, Pa. M.C. Morris Lima, Pa. Ithaca, N.Y. For many years I and, I believe, many Allan Kohrman's "Quakers, Anti­ other Friends refrained from criticizing Semitism, and the Middle East" (FJ the government of Israel for fear of January) errs in saying, "For AFSC, the being seen as anti-Semitic. It was not history of the Middle East begins in until prominent Israeli and U.S. Jews 1%7." AFSC projects were active in began to speak out that we timidly added Israel all through the 1950s and early our voices. 1%0s: feeding and organization of Allan Kohrman "suggests" that education and communities in the Gaza Quakers express anti-Semitism by Strip; technical and organizational demanding higher standards of Israelis improvement of agriculture in Tu'ran; than of their Arab neighbors. I don't preschool training for children and think this is true, but if it is, perhaps the occupational training for young men in cause lies in our government's financial Acre; legal advice and representation for support of Israel. Many of us pay taxes Arabs in Jerusalem. with much more of the money going to

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Israel than to its undeveloped Arab Hold Fast to our Beliefs neighbors. Allan Kohrman calls AFSC's view "distorted." He refers to Palestinian We find ourselves deeply saddened by Neither Quakers nor the AFSC support "terrorism," while calling Israeli violence the need once again to defend Quakers terrorism or violence of any variety. Nev­ "mistakes." He makes numerous and the American Friends Service Com­ ertheless, it is hardly just to equate the statements that should be questioned, but mittee against the charge of anti-Semitism violence and rage of a disenfranchised how can innuendo be answered? ("Quakers, Anti-Semitism, and the Mid­ ed people with the state violence inflicted Personally, I want to be counted dle East," FJ January). Out of our ex­ upon them, i.e., arrest and imprisonment among the courageous Jewish women perience we feel compelled to respond. without trial, deportation, house demoli­ who stand in vigils every week in Israel Beatrice Miller is a member of Orange tions, school closings, and arbitrary demanding an end to the Palestinian Grove Friends Meeting who is Jewish. She refusal of the right to reenter. Israel's occupation. If that is a result of anger clerks the Middle East Subcommittee of overwhelming support in the United States over the death of Jesus, so be it. the AFSC in Southern California. Claire permits it to cover up the extent of these Gorfinkel is a Jew who is on the staff of practices, although they are well known Margaret Reynolds in much of the world and not denied by Santa Cruz, Calif. the AFSC and has served as a consultant to AFSC on the Middle East. She also at­ the Israeli government. Israel persists in tends Orange Grove Meeting. regarding this as an internal matter (in Allan Kohrman raises disturbing issues. Opposition to Israeli government policy contravention of international law). Un­ Are Quakers latent anti-Semites? I think is not anti-Semitism. If it were, the one­ til very recently, the United States vetoed the answer is flatly no. Quakers are anti­ third to one-half of Jewish Israelis who every effort in the UN to hold an objec­ nationalistic and anti-war, a position that sympathize with the Israeli peace move­ tive investigation. We cannot see that it sometimes leads them to condemn both ment would also be anti-Semites. Sym­ helps the cause of the Jewish people to Israeli and Arab actions. Yet, it must be pathy for the plight of the Palestinian cry "anti-Semitism" whenever Israeli remembered that Quakers were the first people who call for self-determination policies are criticized. religious group to approach Hitler after more than 23 years of occupation Friend Kohrman's argument that the directly and to condemn his violence is not inconsistent with concern for the Arab states might have absorbed the against Jews. security of the state of Israel. It is con­ Palestinian people years ago reveals his Have Quakers, specifically the AFSC, sistent with calling for fairness and justice failure to understand Palestinian culture leaned too heavily toward the Palestinian for all in accordance with the best tradi­ and psychology. Some Palestinians have position? Perhaps, at times. A balanced tions of the Jewish faith. The AFSC has been "absorbed" and some have refused view would recognize, however, that been accused of being anti-Arab by some to abandon their status as a symbol of Israel has initiated war more often than Arabs and anti-Jewish by some Jews. As their determination to realize their politi­ the Arabs, that the Syrians and the cal goals. More important, many Palesti­ Israelis were equally guilty of an organization, AFSC sees wrong on dismembering Lebanon, and that Israeli both sides and calls for dialogue and nians are deeply attached to the land of hawks rattle the sword as vehemently in peaceful solutions. their forefathers, much as Jews cling to favor of a "greater Israel" as Iraq, Security for Israel will come only when the Jerusalem of their ancestors. Syria, or the PLO do for an independent Israel is able to Jive in peace with its We do not deny the presence of anti­ Palestine. neighbors. Assigning all blame to one side Semitism in our culture and in our meet­ As one who has lived in the Middle for the failure to achieve peace serves no ings. Some Quakers tend to portray Chris­ East, I believe Kohrman's policy advice useful purpose. It perpetuates the ancient tianity as an "improvement" upon Juda­ seems misguided (i.e., that we have practice of demonizing the "other." The ism. This needs to be thoughtfully con­ nothing to do with the PLO, dismantle AFSC has consistently supported recogni­ fronted, but it is a separate issue. refugee camps immediately, wait decades tion of the state of Israel. The AFSC has Quakers, the AFSC, and peace-loving for the establishment of a Palestinian not advocated cutting off aid to Israel people of every persuasion must continue homeland). Quakers should seek a peace (despite the fact AFSC opposes military to call for an end to the arms trade and process with both the PLO and Israel, aid to all countries). Many staff, volun­ militarism everywhere. As this is written, although each side condones violence. teers, and Friends feel that aid should be we are at war in the Gulf, and the United Quakers should encourage the cessation reduced by the amount Israel spends on States has been intransigent in refusing to of all military aid to Arab nations and building settlements in the Occupied link the critical issues in the region. It is Israel. Quakers should seek the creation Territories. Israel's continuing expansion terrifying to face the reality of this con­ of a Palestinian state now as the only into the territories severely exacerbates flagration, the outcome of which no one workable way of ending the sufferings of refugees. regional tensions. can predict. Our country's past policies-arm Israel The AFSC calls for direct negotiations But Quakers, Jewish and otherwise, against the Arabs, arm Iran against Iraq, between Israel and the PLO. The AFSC must hold fast to our pacifist testimony then Iraq against Iran-have led us into and most of the rest of the world recog­ and to our belief that there is that of the the present quagmire. Our testimony for nize that the PLO is the chosen represen­ divine in every person. We must struggle humanitarian pacifism, recognizing the tative of the Palestinian people. When it to live out these convictions in our work claims of Israel and the Palestinians, comes to negotiating the settlement of a and in our lives. remains the only realistic option. conflict, parties do not choose their op­ ponents. Adversaries must face each other. Claire E. Gorjinkel Beatrice Miller William McCord Pasadena, Calif. Los Angeles, Calif. Guilford, Conn.

F'RmNDS JoURNAL March 1991 5 Friends have been involved in a great var­ issued a call for a special meeting for wor­ iety .ofpeacemaking initiatives since the out­ ship to support and encourage its members. break of the war in Iraq. Recognizing the A committee is considering possible meeting need to share peace information widely at actions; CO counselor training and the ques­ this time, we devote these front pages to a tion of offering sanctuary are being con­ PEACE variety ofreport s and notes from our meet­ sidered. The meeting supported its long-time ings. We welcome news from Friends and attender John de Valcourt during his two­ will publish more in subsequent issues. week lobbying effort in Washington, D.C., Peace! -Eds. in January. Following a personal leading, John volunteered at FCNL just before the big San Francisco (Calif.) Meeting has congressional vote. (David Hartsough and helped sponsor twice-weekly vigils at the fed­ John de Valcourt) eral building. Enormous marches and civil disobedience actions occurred in the city in Friends at 15th Street (N.Y.C.) Meeting January. On Jan. 15, six hundred people since August have held a vigil each Thursday were arrested for blocking the federal outside the UN. A well-attended meeting for building (see article on pages 9-10). Over worship was held at the meetinghouse on the 1,000 people were arrested Jan. 17. AFSC eve of the war. Members went to Washing­ staff are working in a number of areas,.such ton, D.C., on Jan. 26 for the march. The as helping with trainings in nonviolence. meeting is co-sponsor with several peace Their long-term work on militarism includes groups of an ail-day draft counseling train­ a call for a 50 percent reduction in the ing session in February. Several meeting Below: military budget. Reclwood Forest (CaiH.) members volunteer in the War Resister's Staff of Friends committees and their Friends for the past 3 Y2 years have gone once League office to help with extra work related friends gathered with signs January 15 at Friends Center in Philadelphia, Pa. The a month to Concord Naval Weapons Center to the war. (Vince Buscemi) march to City Hall commemorated the for a vigil and actions to block munitions birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., and trains. This round-the-clock vigil continues. Worship has been important to Friends at protested U.S. military presence in the Other meetings, including Strawberry Mount Toby (Mass.) Meeting. Addi­ Persian Gulf. Several hundred Creek (Berkeley) and San Francisco, tional meetings have been called and well at­ participated. have participated. Santa Cruz Friends tended. Since the meeting is located close to

6 March 1991 FRIENDS JOURNAL Westover Air Force Base, Friends have hospital "for psychiatric observation." Let­ Los Angeles in mid-January, "a very mov­ joined vigils there. Ten to twelve Friends were ters of support may be sent to: Capt. David ing event." (Beatrice Miller) among the 81 arrested for blocking the gates Wiggins, #080 46 8340, HHC 2-158, 6 at a large demonstration in mid-January. CBAC, APO NY 09657. For more informa­ Denver (Colo.) Meeting is holding a spe­ Friends have supported their member and tion: AFSC, 227 Congress Ave., #200, cial mid-week meeting for worship, which AFSC worker Francis Crowe in her tenacious Austin, TX 78701-4021. has a focus on peace. Many new individuals peacemaking efforts by assisting in office are coming to meeting. The meeting made work, CO counseling, etc. Recent months Houston (Tex.) Meeting joins with local a special $3,000 gift to the local AFSC of­ have been "a very centered time for the Mennonites for a Monday noon weekly vigil fice to assist with Gulf response program meeting." (Jan Hoffman and Barbara at Tranquility Park. Many Friends partici­ work. AFSC there has published ads local­ Sheard) pate as well in weekly Mennonite prayer ser­ ly; requests for military counseling have been vices. Meeting members attended a CO coun­ extremely heavy in January. (Eric Wright). Austin (Tex.) Meeting participates in a seling conference recently sponsored by Boulder Meeting has held a weekly peace weekly vigil in the city. "A huge crowd" Austin AFSC. (Yvonne Boeger) vigil for several months. A young reservist came together spontaneously in Austin and (not a Friend), who has been seeking CO marched to the state capitol Jan. 16 to pro­ Atlanta (Qa.) Meeting holds two vigils status, has requested support from the meet­ test the war; many Friends participated. a month. After First Day worship Jan. 13, ing. His unit has been shipped to Saudi (Margaret Hoffman) the meeting held a Meeting for Sufferings for Arabia, and he is AWOL. On Jan. 13 the The Austin AFSC office has been extreme­ Friends to share feelings about the war and meeting approved a minute granting sanctu­ ly busy answering requests for CO informa­ to support one another. Following this, the ary (see box below), and the young man is tion. It is also supporting army surgeon meeting discussed "what do we do now?" currently living in sanctuary among Friends David Wiggins's efforts to resign his com­ Such meetings will be continued. Friends are of the meeting. (Martin Cobin) mission and to be released from the military. active doing CO counseling, receiving letters A West Point graduate, David Wiggins has of CO claims, and sending people to the local sought release for about a year as a CO. He AFSC office for specific types of help. On Minute on Sanctuary was shipped to Saudi Arabia despite his pro­ Jan. 15 many members participated in a large test and hunger strike in December. As of peace walk in the pouring rain-walking to " ... As the possibility of war in the Jan. 23, following his refusal to wear his Ebenezer Baptist Church for a very moving Persian Gulf approaches, it is likely uniform and his sitting down in an intersec­ commemoration of Martin Luther King, that men and women on active duty tion in Riyadh, he's been held in a military Jr.'s, birthday. (Perry Treadwell) in the military and those who face call­ up through the reserves or a reacti­ Fayetteville (N.C.) Meeting (Quaker vated draft will seek sanctuary. House) is located near several large military The Boulder Meeting of Friends bases. Meeting attender Greg Sommers (a feels that providing sanctuary for Mennonite) directs their military counseling those who ask for it in this situation program. He's had an enormous increase in is consistent with our Peace Testi­ mony. We will therefore respond af­ his work during recent months. New in­ firmatively to any such requests by quiries last summer averaged 5-10 a month; openly providing information, moral in the first three weeks of January 1991 he and spiritual support, and, where received 43 new requests. Greg reports a very appropriate, a place of physical tense situation in the Fayetteville area. shelter .... " Specific support he could use: N.C. Friends are needed to help do counseling; office help Boulder (Colo.) Monthly Meeting, is needed, on weekends particularly, to assist Adopted Jan. 13, 1991 with filing, and funds are needed to help meet the increased need for literature. For more information: Quaker House, 223 Hill­ Ann Arbor (Mich.) Meeting is fielding side Ave., Fayetteville, N.C. 28301; call (919) numerous requests for CO information and 323-3912 or (919) 485-5720. (Greg Sommers). materials. Friends work closely with the local AFSC office. An ad has been published in the University Meeting (Seattle, Wash.) local paper. There is a mid-week meeting for has formed a committee to lay before the worship followed by worship-sharing. Hymn meeting what Friends might be doing in re­ singing has become more important to sponse to the war. The first two things be­ Friends. There is often singing after meeting ing looked into: military and draft counsel­ on Sundays. Efforts are being made to reach ing, and sanctuary for resisters from the out to the community, and a letter is being military. Friends have participated in prepared to send to mosques, synagogues, numerous vigils and marches held locally. · families of soldiers in Iraq, etc., inviting peo­ (John Sullivan) ple to come worship with Friends, offering to be of assistance, etc. As one Friend ex­ Orange Grove (Calif.) Meeting has par­ pressed, "A message of hope and healing may ticipated in noontime vigils (now weekly) be the most important thing Friends may of­ since August, sponsored by the Pasadena fer at this time." (Mark Conley) AFSC office. The AFSC ran a TV commer­ cial on Cable News Network offering infor­ 57th Street (Chicago) Meeting's mation on peace. To respond to the added Wednesday night study groups have focused requests for information, the office stays on the war. The meeting helped pay for Cathy open evenings. Many Friends attended a Kelly (from the local Catholic Worker) to par­ large interfaith service held at a mosque in ticipate in the Iraq Peace Encampment. A CO

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 7 workshop is planned for February. One sharing involved Friends from across the at federal buildings. A new meeting at Lex· meeting member has planned weekly silent country. A written report is anticipated. lngton (Va.) held a vigil one evening in vigils. (Brad Lyttle) Homewood Meeting (Baltimore) is January; it was called hastily and had a good holding vigils in front of the meetinghouse at turnout. Richmond (Va.) Friends similar­ Friends in Baltimore Yearly Meeting evening rush hour. Starting in December, for ly have been active, holding a regular vigil. have been active: Langley Hill and Wash· just one night a week, the vigils now occur (Frank Massey) lngton, D.C., area Friends issued a call and Monday through Friday with as many as 200 organized the Emergency Quaker Peace Con­ people attending. Stony Run Friends par­ Twin Cities (Minn.) Meeting is support­ sultation in Washington Jan. 26-27. More ticipate as well. Many monthly meetings did ing its member, John Martinson, who directs than 400 Friends attended. A panel discus­ hard work contacting representatives before Friends for a Nonviolent World, the peace sion, interest groups, and opportunities for the vote by Congress; many are holding vigils center for the city of Minneapolis. The center is hearing from 50-60 people a day and has sent out hundreds of information packets to young people and parents. They have trained -ro STOP IRAQ I 120 CO counselors; three more trainings are WE MU5f SA~FlCf. scheduled. The program's counseling service \ v-AL!- No! A'Ef. lHE' 11<\Po~~IBLE­ has been accelerated; one staff member is a­ lo~. vailable 8-9 hours daily. Friends may send Wf f\ELIC TAANSP$1A1ict-l, ... ~ YC~.JR contributions to: Friends for a Nonviolent ~ ~~ 'TREA.C.- '50!-IS. World, 2025 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis, t-KJ. \'II J\J~T ASK. .. MN 55404. (Dorothy Ackerman and John Martinson)

Burlington (Vt.) Meeting is supporting its member John Rogers, who is a partici­ pant in the Gulf Peace Team in Iraq, an in­ J ternational group of peace activists en­ camped near the Iraq-Saudi border. Rogers joined the project in early January. He car­ ried with him letters from Burlington school children addressed to children in the Middle ~ East. Of his participation, he writes: "I felt that talking to people, handing out literature, writing to senators is certainly valid for some, but for me it wasn't enough. I need­ ed to do more." By placing themselves bet­ ween the armies, peace campers hope to bring to the attention of leaders the insanity of the war, and to stimulate all sides to pur­ sue a peaceful solution. (Marcia Mason) News from the Colleges

Students at Earlham organized to go Iraq, yet oppose the war ..." (Kim campus. Student opinion " is heavily against to the Jan. 26 peace march in Washington, Shellenberger) the war-for a cease-fire with real negotia­ D.C.; 250 went. Discussions were held At Bryn Mawr, there was an ali-day tions ... . Also, some students have been prior to the trip about why people were go­ college teach-in Jan. 21; perhaps 200 stu­ speaking for support of Israel, and of our ing. Daily meetings have been held on cam­ dents and faculty participated. At Haver­ troops." (Marcia Mullen) pus to discuss what actions might be ford, marking the opening of winter ses­ At GuiHord: Community teach-ins and planned locally. A teach-in was held, which sions just after the outbreak of the war, a panels have been held. A "prayer board" was very well attended. A Palestinian stu­ special collection was held Jan. 22, attend­ has been set up in Founder's Hall with the dent spoke, as did professors experienced ed by 500 people. An all-day opportunity words "We Hold in the Light ... " fol­ with Middle East issues, and others. The was scheduled for students to participate lowed by space for people to tack up their Central Committee for Conscientious Ob­ in small groups with tables set up, infor­ thoughts and concerns. A room on cam­ jectors (CCCO) trained draft counselors mation on peace activities, etc. Buses to the pus is left open 24 hours a day as a place last year; 30 people are now trained and marches in Washington, D.C., were organ­ for quiet reflection. A CO support group available to work with students. A program ized. (Steve Cary) meets weekly and is well-attended. A town is being planned for outreach to local high At Swarthmore, a collection was held meeting was scheduled to discuss possible school students. A Fellowship of Recon­ to discuss the war; it was attended by over polarization on campus, how to handle ciliation (FOR) group was formed on cam­ 300. An "interactive monument" was thoughts and feelings about the war, pus following Professor Tony Bing's trip unveiled Jan. 23 to promote student etc.,followed by a teach-in. From 40 to 80 to Iraq in December (FOR-sponsored), dialogue, followed by a candlelight vigil students attend the daily vigils held in which has become "a good forum for in­ and walk through the local community. Greensboro. Three buses, plus cars, went volving students and community people Many students went to the marches in to Washington, D.C., for the Jan. 26 together." The challenge for many of the Washington, D.C. The dean's office has march. (Max Carter) students: "how to support the troops in been arranging for speakers to come onto

8 March 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL PEACE WITHOUT, PEACE WITHIN by Robert Levering we work for peace in the world, are we nourished by peace within ourselves?" This query from my yearly meeting's Faith and Practice crossed my mind repeatedly as I found myself sitting on the street near San Francisco's federal building the morn­ ing after the U.S. launched its war against Iraq. I was in the middle of a big crowd of hundreds of people who had shut down the building for the second time in three days. The scene was reminiscent of many I had witnessed during the Vietnam war-hordes of angry people making lots of noise; rows of threatening-looking police in full riot gear, with helmets and long batons at the ready; and a handful of media peo­ ple with cameras, hoping to record confrontations. Earlier in the morning several mem­ bers and attenders of the San Francisco Meeting had gathered across from the federal building behind a banner read­ ing "Quakers for Peace." Quakers were soon joined by people from other re­ ligious groups. When I got there about 9:30 (after taking my six-year-old son, Reuben, to school), the religious contin­ gent was in the middle of the street listening to a recording being broadcast · through a bullhorn of one of Martin Luther King's speeches explaining why he opposed the war in Vietnam. After King's speech, more than one hundred of us-most of us strangers to one an­ other-joined hands and started walk­ ing toward the police lines singing songs such as "We Shall Overcome." Hun­ dreds of others were already standing in ning high, and the scene was loud and linked. After slowly making our way the crowded street. About ten minutes chaotic, with constant shouting, sporad­ through the crowd, we found ourselves earlier squads of police had rushed into ic chanting, and a background din of sitting down at the feet of the helmeted the crowd from an alley to split the peo­ whistle-blowing and drum-beating. Peo­ police. ple into two groups. Emotions were run- ple in the crowd let us move close to the The standoff lasted more than two police lines, apparently because we ap­ hours. Tensions kept rising. People were Robert Levering is a member of San Francisco peared to know what we were doing as saying they thought the police would Monthly Meeting. we were singing and had our hands eventually arrest those of us who refused

F'luENDS JoURNAL March 1991 9 to move, because we could see other power of the Inner Light. It is inconsis­ does during meeting for worship. I soon squads of police arresting people behind tent to live according to the Light and discovered that I1 too, could withdraw the police lines. But I, for one, didn't make other human beings into devils who into that familiar quiet place within, to rule out the possibility that they might can be killed, as our country is now do­ look for guidance from the Light, even force us to move by lobbing tear gas in­ ing in the Middle East. there In the middle of that external to the crowd and swinging their batons In reflecting on my years as a full-time uproar. As I continued to check into at anyone who didn't move. That was antiwar organizer with the American that quiet place, I found myself feeling a favorite tactic of many police depart- Friends Service Committee and other calmer about the situation. I began to Quaker and pacifist groups, I recall how feel at one with others, not just people unpeaceful I felt within-even as I was in the crowd, but with the menacing men teaching others the principles and tech­ and women in the blue jumpsuits and How do you niques of nonviolence. I don't mean to batons. . . denigrate that work or the work of At one point, a group M l~sbiiu1 and mamtam others during that period, because I be­ gay activists started a spirited chafit de­ lieve the Quaker/ pacifist contribution to crying the war and insisting that the the anti-Vietnam war movement was ex­ money should be spent for AIDS re­ internal peace tremely positive. Still, for myself, I search. l initially felt a little uncomfort­ know my belief in nonviolence came able about the tone of the chant, feel­ while you are largely from the head, not as a natural ing it diluted the purity of our peaceful extension of peacefulness within. Non­ protest. Just then I heard Barbara say, . violence worked as a tactic to help me "I like those words," in the same man­ trymg to know what to do in confrontational situ­ ner that I could imagine her saying in ations, but all my training wasn't a business meeting, "That Fri~nd Sf)eaks witness for peace enough to make me feel truly nonviolent my mind." Then I heard her join hi the and peaceful. chant, and I did, too. Rfither than judge Now, in the middle of Polk Street, I them because of their style of presenta­ in the midst felt the turbulent scene around me dis­ tion, 1 felt at \:>M with them. These gay turbing my own peace of mind. Singing brothers and sisters were pointing out a of chaos? old peace movement songs served as an bitter truth about this war. Their mes­ antidote to the random noise around us. sage is in some ways the most important The songs had a calming, even unifying, one that needs to be heard in the midst effect on everyone around us as well. of this madness. The music was infectious, spreading a Just before the police started to move ments I'd seen during the Vietnam War. nonviolent spirit to everyone within ear­ in to arrest us, David HartsOUgh (a At any rate, it was clear that something shot. It quickly became unclear who was fellow meeting member and AFSC staf­ was going to happen, because the police part of the original religious procession fer) stood up with a big smile and said, were in no mood to let us continue to and who was not. To me, singing, "Let's all give a round of applause to blockade the federal building (which holding hands, and linking arms were the police for joining our demonstration normally houses several thousand familiar nonviolent tactics that I knew today"-a remark that even got smile-s government workers) and disrupt traf­ worked. And they certainly helped me from some of the police officers, When fic along a normally busy city street. feel more tranquil as I gathered strength it came my time to be arrested and hafrd­ I paint this scene in some detail be­ from knowing that I was not alone. I cuffed, I felt at peace with myself, and cause that was where I found myself was with people who were unified on a I felt genuine sympathy with my arrest­ challenged by the Quaker query: How deeper level than anger and outrage. ing officer, who told me his brother was do you maintain some internal peace Yet the singing was not enough for me a marine fighter pilot presumably fly­ when you are trying to make a witness because we could not sustain it for two­ ing bombing missions over Iraq itS he for peace in the midst of chaos? In re­ plus hours and because it couldn't com­ was escorting me to the paddy wagon. cent years I have become increasingly pletely calm my own fears in the increas­ About five hours later, when I was convinced that peace has an internal and ingly tense situation. As I looked ner­ about to be released from jail, a Jesuit personal component and starts from vously around me, I found some priest I had met there said, "This is th@ within. As I have again become involved answers from the example of my fellow right place to be today." That friend with Quakers, after a 15-year absence, Quakers. I was seated behind Seija Surr spoke my mind. I felt a serenity being I have felt the peaceful, calming power and in front of Barbara Graves. (Seija, in jail on January 17. It felt far from the of Quaker worship. I have observed that a recent graduate of Swarthmore Col­ turmoil of the street scenes we had come many long-time Friends exude a cen­ lege, is an attender at San Francisco from, and further still from the TV sets teredness and joy that appears to flow Meeting and a member of Langley Hill that were bringing the disturbing news from an inner peace of mind. And, the Meeting in Virginia. Barbara, 75, a from the Persian Gulf. Getting arrested longer I go to meeting, read Quaker and member of Strawberry Creek Meeting in may or may not have made a difference devotional literature, and practice dai­ Berkeley, is a longtime AFSC/ Quaker/ in the short run. But I felt like I'd done ly meditation, the more peaceful I find social activist.) I noticed on more than my job for peace that day-and I felt at myself becoming. I have begun to under­ one occasion that each of them had peace with myself as I picked up Reuben stand how the Friends peace testimony bowed her head and closed her eyes, ap­ from the babysitter and went home to is a natural outgrowth of belief in the parently centering down, much as one play checkers with him. 0

10 March 1991 FRIENDS JouRNAL Issues of subordination and inequality still exist. Awareness of earlier movements for change may help to point the way. QU RSANDTHE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT oday Quakers seem confused turies of repression. Instead, they turned about the women's movement: by Laurel Childe Kassoff to the moral issue of slavery, something Twhere it has been, where it is go­ outside themselves. ing, and its place in the politics of socie- of seeking equality. In 1839, two sisters, who in adult life ty. I noticed this after my recent talk to Three great progressive movements, became Quakers, Angelina and Sarah a Quaker group on "The Politics Be­ the American Revolution, the French Grimke, along with Angelina's hus­ tween Men and Women: Toward a New Revolution, and the Industrial Revolu­ band, Theodore Weld, published Ameri­ Partnership." I was surprised by a ques­ tion, surprisingly did not much change can Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a tion from a weighty Quaker. "Didn't the relative status of women. Perhaps Thousand Witnesses. The Grimkes were women make such headway in the '60s women were not yet ready to work for born on a South Carolina slaveholding and '70s that the issues of subordination their own representation because of cen- plantation. They were particularly out­ and inequality are over?'' The answer raged by the status of black slave women is clearly no. As Margaret Hope Bacon who were often used by white male mas­ pointed out in the June 1990 FRIENDS ters for sexual purposes, humiliating JoURNAL ("Traveling Among Friends"), both the slave and the master's wife. Friends seem only verbally but not vis­ The slave woman was considered both cerally committed to making gender a worker and a reproducer, so her chil­ equality a reality. Yet sexual equality is dren became the property of the master. no casual item on a list of Quaker Sometimes a female was arbitrarily as­ testimonies but a fundamental approach g signed a mate, though forbidden to to social change. It was the vision of ~ marry, and was scolded or whipped if George Fox and Margaret Fell in the 8 she produced no children. After the ban 1600s that with love instead of force as ~ on African slave trade in 1807, slave a guiding principle of the universe, men . ~ babies were frequently sold to other and women could be equal partners. states. Slave children were put to work It might help to review how important .. at about age six. Quaker women were to both the worn- ~ Outraged with this information, the en's rights and anti-slavery movements ;;: Grimkes and other women created the and how we can carry on that tradition ~.. Anti-Slavery Society. With another Quak­ ~ er, Lucretia Mott, as their leader, they Laurel Chi/de Kassoffis a member ofGoose Creek set up the underground railroad, a sys­ (Va.) Meeting. Recently retired as a clinical psy- j chologist, she is working on a book, The Politics ~ tem of getting the slaves out of the Between Men and Women: Toward a New Part- "' South and into the North, where they nership. ~ could be free. The abolition movement

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1991 11 took about 30 years to reach its goal of sented the United States at a worldwide The other woman suffragist was a abolishing slavery. antislavery conference in London. Iron­ Quaker, Alice Paul, who first proposed Because women encountered so much ically, before the convention opened, the the Equal Rights Amendment. She and opposition working for abolition, the women witnessed a debate about wheth­ other women picketed the White House, abolition movement and women's rights er or not women could vote at the con­ were jailed and denied legal counsel. came to be linked together. Women took vention. When it was determined they Just as they were beginning to make on a new and unfamiliar role as lecturers could not vote, the women watched the progress, World War I intervened. Wom­ on the moral corruption of slavery and convention from a balcony. Men decid­ en substituted for men in jobs in muni­ the immorality of the inequality of ed issues that women had brought to tions plants, industry, public service, women. At that time Quakers were the their attention. railways, and foundries. Women's con­ only religious group that allowed wom­ This segregation so incensed Mott and tribution to society could no longer be en to speak in church. Quaker women Stanton that when they returned home, ignored. Shortly after the war, in 1920, also were unique in having experience they and three other Quaker women de­ the 19th Amendment (known as the running their own monthly meetings for cided to call a women's rights conven­ "Anthony Amendment") passed the business, keeping accounts, and writing tion. Held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848, House and Senate and was ratified by epistles. Although women who spoke in the Seneca Falls Convention marked the the states. At last women could vote. public were considered "promiscuous," launching of the U.S. women's rights Susan B. Anthony had earned her right large audiences of men and women, movement. Its goals were to obtain to be immortalized. Quaker and non-Quaker, came to hear property and voting rights for women. Again in World War II, women moved such lecturers as the Grimkes, Lucretia Over the next decades, many such into the labor market. Given the nick­ Mott, Abby Kelley Foster, Sarah Pugh, conventions were attended by prominent name of "Rosie the Riveter," women and others. Lucretia Mott, 140 years men and women, and were often derid­ changed the rules defining what was ago, came up with a statement that is ed by the press. Women began to talk men's work and what was women's even now repeated in Quaker weddings: more about property rights, divorce work. For the first time in U.S. history, equity, and opportunity for education women made up a sizable share of the and employment. working population. But after the war, Another Quaker, Susan B. Anthony, the government made an intense effort reminded them that they would have no to get women out of the labor force. real rights without the right to vote. In Women were urged to go home and look order to be heard in the legislatures, she after their children, which they pro­ and her volunteers laboriously collected ceeded to do in droves, creating a baby thousands of signatures on petitions. As boom. a result, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was al­ Twenty or so years later those babies lowed to address the New York legis­ boomed into another turbulent time: the lature in 1860. At that time in New York civil rights movement in the South, as state, women were given the right to well as the anti-war movement. Many of own their own property, receive their the civil rights workers were women who own wages, and to sue in a court of law. risked their lives going into the Southern ~ Women believed the right to vote could states to help register blacks to vote. :.c: not be far off, but they had to wait -.:~ another 60 years. !2u A major interruption was the Civil As long as they ~ War, 1861-65. Like all wars, it caused ·g.~ a shake-up in priorities. Perhaps the anti- -; slavery movement, organized in part by work in i women, led to the Civil War, yet the ] tightly intertwined women's movement low-paying il: was put on hold. After the war, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution at last "In the true marriage relationship, the abolished slavery, and the 15th Amend­ jobs and make independence of the husband and wife is ment gave the right to vote to citizens equal, their dependence mutual, and of the United States, regardless of race, less than men their obligations reciprocal." Abby color, or previous condition of servi­ Kelley Foster was well known for her tude-but not regardless of sex. for comparable statement, "All human rights are bound Two women helped revive the wom­ up in one great bundle." Often these en's suffrage cause. One was Carrie women were jeered and heckled. Yet Chapman Catt, who headed the Women's work, women will they were speaking on two of the most Suffrage Association and later went on fundamental of human relationships­ to form the League of Women Voters. continue to be those between the races and between the (Indeed, Anna Lord Straus, a great­ sexes. granddaughter of Lucretia Mott, be­ undervalued. In 1840, Lucretia Mott and another came national president of the League Quaker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, repre- in 1944.)

12 March 1991 FRIENDS J OURNAL ure of the passage of ERA, steam went very survival of the earth. This, they out of the movement until recently. Per­ maintain, is not just a feminist issue, but haps the anti-abortion controversy will a necessity for all of humanity. get it going again; the membership of One bright spot is the increasing ac­ the National Organization for Women ceptance of the idea of women in public has almost doubled since the Supreme office. A recent Los Angeles Times poll Court decision allowing states to decide showed that, other qualifications being abortion issues. equal, 70 percent of the voters would Women can now vote, and are slow­ prefer to vote for a woman. Yet it is dif­ ly making progress, but let's remember ficult to elect women, because not many that in many ways women are not do­ run for office, and people do not con­ ing well. A recent report "Women: A tribute as readily to a woman's cam­ World Survey," sponsored by the Carne­ paign. Money wins elections. No won­ gie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations, der only 2 percent of the 100 U.S. sena­ states, "There is no field of activity and tors and 5 percent of U.S. representa­ no country where women have attained tives are women, a sorry imbalance. equality with men." While the number What can an individual do to redress of women employed has increased since the current languishing of women's World War II, the pay gap has widened, rights? rather than narrowed in the years since 1. Express moral outrage at what is federal pay laws were enacted. Women's happening to poor women and children wages now average 57 percent of men's, in our affluent society. compared with 63 percent then. Even 2. Campaign personally for compar­ college educated women, such as law­ able pay. yers and doctors, earn only 61 percent of men's earnings. After the Sexual Revolution, a 1987 ABC documentary, declared that 70 per­ cent of all working women are either Again working for a moral cause, single, divorced, widowed, or married women also looked critically at their to men making less than $15,000 a year. own lack of rights: unequal treatment Most women work because they have to. in education, marriage, credit, and the In a society where women's work is workplace. valued, women themselves would be Once again middle-class women, in­ more valued and respected. As long as cluding Quakers, picked up the struggle women work in low-paying jobs and for equality. They formed conscious­ make less than men for comparable t.> ness-raising groups, lobbied Congress, work, women will continue to be under- !2 ~ and helped insure passage of the Civil valued, and true partnership will be that ~ Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, much further off. ~ the 1964 Credit Law giving women more What can we learn from the progress, credit equity, and the Education Act of or lack of it, in women's rights? Women 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination can bring about change when they get 3. Work for women's political can­ in schools. fired up about a moral issue, are will­ didates at all levels, including contribu­ First proposed by Alice Paul in 1923, ing to endure noisy resistance to change, ting money. the Equal Rights Amendment was re­ and join with (but not be led by) like­ 4. Support women's organizations, introduced into Congress. The words minded men in a partnership for justice. such as the National Organization for themselves of this amendment are not When women get complacent or passive, Women, the National Women's Political controversial. They read: "Equality of not much happens. Caucus, and the League of Women Vot­ rights under the law shall not be denied We can only guess what the next issue ers. The League has a special record of or abridged by the United States or by will be that ignites Quaker women. Even members moving into political office. · any State on account of sex." a few charismatic women can make a 5. Join with others who are discuss­ Surely George Fox and Margaret Fell difference, as our own Quaker ancestors ing and working toward "Transforming in the 1600s would have approved in have shown. Perhaps the next moral the Patriarchy" (the title of a well­ principle such a text, long before the issue will be the tragedy of what is hap­ received workshop at the last Gathering United States as such existed. Yet, as pening to poor women and their chil­ of Friends General Conference). with all women's issues, emotionalism dren in our country. Perhaps it will be 6. Do not be swayed by anti-feminist and controversy intervened in its accep­ concern for the fate of the earth. Elise and pro-male backlash. It is a built-in tance. Not enough states ratified the and Kenneth Boulding, both Quaker reaction to anyone making noise about amendment by 1982 to cause it to scholars and futurists, have pointed out the status quo between men and women. become law. the linkage between Quakerism and Remember, as did our Quaker fore­ Most histories of the women's move­ feminine values, such as peace, equali­ mothers and forefathers, change is dif­ ment stop here. Somehow, with the fail- ty, and community, all necessary for the ficult. D

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 13 to earth. Earth entrusts herself to me. I entrust myself to Buddha. Buddha en­ trusts herself to me.'' In these moments I am seed as -well as sower. I am the ob­ Entrusting ject and bearer of hope. Waiting Every morning I go to the window and survey my garden, although I know the Earth it's much too soon to see any green. Sticks bearing the empty seed packets lend encouragement to the plain, brown by Mary J . Hartman earth, but if there's anything going on beneath that placid surface, it's not talk­ ing. I often step outside for a closer look. It's cold, these spring mornings. Did I Planting plant too soon? Will a late frost shrivel I'm starting a garden today. I'm spading up the tiny roots that have begun a section of earth, saying hello to the underground? Patience and hope seem worms, and planting potatoes and peas. hard to come by. Tomorrow, carrots and radishes. It strikes me that I am doing a very foolish Hoping thing, dropping little potatoes and peas As I do my early-morning things, I see into the ground and burying them in something long and thin on my carpet. hopes that they will turn into plants and A stick? A blade of grass carried in on make more potatoes and peas. my shoe? I look closer, squinting with I know a Buddhist prayer for plant­ sleep-starved eyes. It is an earthworm! ing, and I repeat it softly as I tuck the A moist, red, smallish earthworm, very seeds into their beds: "I entrust myself much alive, traversing the living room quite calmly. I am repulsed at first, hav­ Mary J. Hartman is a freelance writer, musician, ing to handle a worm before breakfast, and hydrologist in Richland, Washington. but then I realize-a worm! And worms

14 March 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL live in gardens. Therefore, I am living I fill a small paper bag with the glisten­ have. But not this year. Her husband in a garden! I am seed, I am pptential ing vegetables and carry them across the died in early spring, and she just isn't growth! I scoop up my worm alinost lov­ road to a neighbor I have seen but never up to it. We talk until dark, then I walk ingly and carry him (and/ or her; earth­ met. When she sees me, she laughs, and home and wash garden off my face, arms worms are hermaphroditic, aren't they?) for the first time I realize I am covered and neck. I whisper my beautiful Zen outside. I release him where the potatoes with dirt and sweat. I blush beneath my prayer, and I change it just a bit for my will grow, and I whisper, "Do your grime, but I smile and introduce myself, Christian lips as I think about my pota­ stuff, worm. Do your worm stuff." holding out the bag. Her name is Ann toes and me and Mrs. Watts and her Watts, and she thanks me over and over, husband: "I entrust myself to God . .. Growing and tells me about gardens she used to God entrusts herself to me." 0 Mary, Mary, Ordinary, how does your garden grow? With red potatoes and bloss'ming tomatoes, and carrots, all in Environmental Queries a row! I am thinning carrots. I put my gloved Adopted by Illinois Yearly Meeting and reverence for life ofyoung fingers in amongst the rows of feathery 815189 Friends? green tops and pull out the tiny carrots, With rnerence for God's continuing one at a time. Shaggy, orange carrots, 3. Do we educate ourselves and help creation and with awe for the delicate thin as strings. They already smell like educate others about local, national, carrots, sweet and spicy and earthy all balance of nature and the and global problems of consenation at once. I hate pulling them out of the interdependence of all things in the and the environment, such as: earth and throwing them atop the com­ web of life, we pose these Queries for Threats to various species of plants Friends. post heap, but this too is necessary for and/or animals from development of growth. I breathe my Buddhist prayer as wetlands and other fragile ecosystems I thin carrots, and try with all my might 1. Are we aware of the spiritual basis that are important to food of our concern for the environment? to entrust myself and my tiny roots to production? the earth. Do we seek to be aware ofGod's l011e Sound practices ofagncultural and and energy in all ofcreation? forestry land use to prevent an Harvesting Living in that spin/, do we stn"ve to imbalance in the oxygen/carbon relate wtlh love and respect to I checked out a potato hill just a week dioxide ratio, causing the greenhouse ourselves, other people, other effect, warming the atmosphere and ago and the tubers were like the tips of creatures, all living and inanimate raising the level ofthe oceans? my toes-pink, small, and tender. I objects and materials that we meet carefully covered them up again. To­ each day? Solutions to the disposal ofsolid night I check another hill, chastising waste, toxic and hazardous waste? Are we aware ofand sensitive to our myself for being too impatient ... but Threats to the ozone layer? I find potatoes! Potatoes the size of golf present consumption patterns? balls, potatoes the size of palms, and How do we identify, understand, and Restoration ofclean air and water? every size in between. I am excited resolve our foars ofwhat we might beyond all rationality. I greedily dig for lose with a change ofour present life 4. Do we work with others for my buried treasure, all in a rush to style? environmental legislation such as: unearth those miracles that came from Are we formulating and Legislation on clean water supplies the shrivelled, shrunken tubers I stuck implementing an ethic for and clean air, including acid rain? in the cold ground that day last spring. responsible stewardship ofour Recycling legislation? planet? I scold myself, "Don't be such a glut­ Laws prohibiting manufacture and ton! Leave some for later!" But my 2. In our homes and in our daily use ofnon-biodegradable pesticides gloved hands are in a frenzy, burrowing and carcinogenic chemzcals? around each hill, rejoicing each time lives, do Friends live in a manner they touch something that comes from which reflects care, respect and unity Laws to protect national parks, the earth but is not earth. I pull a few with the environment? national forests, and wilderness areas? carrots and pick the last of the snow Do we live simply, separating Laws prohibiting manufacture of peas, then wash the lot with the garden ourselves from thoughtless nuclear war devices and chemicals for hose, and fairly dance for joy. consumensm and avoiding waste of warfare? I think of the movie Tin Men, where food, water, and all natural resources? a guy is standing by a big smorgasbord, In our homes and workplaces, do we 5. Do we support national and looking at cauliflower and carrots and conserve and recycle whenever international organizations which are broccoli and tomatoes: "All this stuff possible? working to protect the environment, came outa the ground," he says. "It prevent~pubtion, andad~ came outa the ground. There must be a How do young Friends grow within political and economic problems God!" Amen, say I. He came outa the . the family sphere in peace and unity which force the poor of the world to ground too. with nature? destroy the environment in order to I am overcome with the desire to give How do we foster the spiritual growth survive? garden to all my friends and neighbors.

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 15 The Green Movement by Elizabeth Cattell Bronson

ust as the Religious Society of Friends emerged in the political and Jethical unrest of 17th century Eng­ land, the Green movement is developing due to the political and ethical unrest prevalent today. Many U.S. Friends, like most others in our country, have re­ frained from seeing the flaws of capital­ ism, because free enterprise, based on the freedom to make a profit, has been very successful in increasing production and comsumption. And now in the USSR, because the Russian people want what we have, the Communist party seems to be preparing to replace its dictatorship with a democratic market economy. The Greens see neither capitalism nor com­ munism as what we need for a meaning­ ful life. As they stated when the Green movement started in West Germany, "We are neither right nor left; we are in front." Today, in the most highly developed nations, we are at a crisis point, which is requiring us to discard outdated para­ digms. One such example is that securi­ where one half of one percent (million­ there needs to be the emergence of new ty can be based on military power, when aires and billionaires) are said to own possibilities, and a transformative per­ in the nuclear age security requires col­ more than 90 percent of our population. ception. This is what the Green move­ lective security and the abolition of war. In New York City, the "fmancial capital ment is offering. (And yet we are still stockpiling nuclear of the world," there are 90,000 homeless The Green movement started in Eur­ bombs!) Another outdated model is that and unemployed. Another outdated be­ ope in the late 1970s, and made the industrial expansion is an unquestion­ lief is that acquisition of money and headlines in March 1983 when, in West able goal, when OUT industries, including possessions can provide a happy and Germany, 27 people carrying a globe our military-industrial complex, are worthwhile life. Psychologist Paul and the branch of a tree from the Black polluting air, earth, and water, depleting Wachtel points out in The Poverty of Forest, which was dying of pollution, the ozone layer, and using up unrenew­ Affluence, all the rich know to do with entered the Bundestag as the first new able resources. The former head of the their money is buy more and more. As party to be elected in more than 30 United Nations Environment Programme Thoreau said, "We are as rich as our years. " Die Griinen" is founded on four warned that the ecological damage we ability to do without things." pillars: ecological sustainability, social are causing could be more dangerous ecently in the United States, which responsibility, grassroots democracy, than a nuclear holocaust. Another out­ considers itself to be the number and nonviolence. The Green movement dated paradigm is that in OUT democratic Rone nation, there has been a has spread to many countries, including capitalism, wealth will "trickle down" degradation of life evident in the in­ Belgium, France, Sweden, Austria, Eng­ to the poor. Actually, the gap between crease of child neglect and child abuse, land, Ireland, Finland, East Germany, wealth and poverty is growing, not on­ drug addiction, gambling, pornography, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Canada, the ly in the Third World, where it is over­ crime, and suicides (including million­ United States, Japan, the Soviet Union, whelming, but in the United States, aires and children under ten). John Ken­ and the Philippines. More recently, neth Galbraith labels our wealthy, "af­ Green groups have started in Argentina, Elizabeth Cattell Bronson is a retired psychotherapist and longtime Friend. Once a fluent slaves." And murder is said to be Brazil, and Australia. member of 15th Street (N. Y.) Meeting, she is now the fastest growing cause of death in the In the United States, a group gathered a member of Bethlehem (Pa.) Meeting. country. When the old is breaking down, in St. Paul, Minnesota, August 1984, to

16 March 1991 FRIENDS JouRNAL formally establish a U.S. Green move­ and control with more cooperative ways founder of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream ment. They founded the Green Commit­ of interacting? Co. Out of conscience he walked away tees of Correspondence (GCoC) "to 8. Respect for Diversity: How can we from a $20 million inheritance to try to provide a focal point for local and honor cultural, ethnic, racial, sexual, awaken people to the fact that " the autonomous Green groups," and have religious, and spiritual diversity within single most powerful driving force opened a clearing house in Kansas City, the context of individual responsibility behind the devastation of the hemi­ Missouri, which some describe as "a for all beings? sphere is addiction to meat." In the lamp to provide a new, creative vision, 9. Global Responsibility: How can we United States, he says, "over four that will take us to a fuller, deeper way reshape the world order and provide million acres of cropland are being lost of life." The first national conference genuine assistance to people around the to erosion every year, 85 percent of was held in Amherst, Massachusetts, globe? July 1987, at which Charlene Spretnak 10. future Focus: How can we encour­ urged that Green programs contain age people to develop their own visions spirituality as a priority value. Just as and move effectively toward them? ... Friends, the Greens hold local meetings, How can we make the quality of life, regional meetings, and yearly meetings rather than open-ended economic growth, bringing together Greens from all over the focus of future thinking? the country and beyond. Ideas and con­ cerns are shared, not imposed, and deci­ My husband and I had been connected which is directly related to livestock rais­ sions are made through consensus. with the New York Greens and the Gar­ ing." When our local group, Earthrise he U.S. Green movement is commit­ den State (New Jersey) Greens, but it Greens, started, one of our founding ted to Ten Key Values, which, as was only after John Rensenbrink, a members, Quiet Spirit, an American In­ Twith Friends' queries, are largely spokesperson for the National Greens, dian spiritual leader, was carrying an formulated in questions. (Sometimes led a weekend workshop at Pendle Hill Earth Prayer staff and leading children there are as many as six to one issue, but on Green politics that we decided to and adults to protest a nuclear power because space is limited, I'll mainly give start a group in our area. John Rensen­ plant on the Delaware River. Now Ear­ the first question for each.) brink stressed that "to go forward, we thrise Greens hopes to establish a Green must move on two legs-one political and Publishing Co-operative and a Spiritual !.Ecological Wisdom: How can we one spiritual." William Penn brought Green Network to bring together peo­ operate human societies with the under­ the political and spiritual together, when ple of all religions and spiritual paths to standing that we are part of nature, not he set up his " holy experiment" in Penn­ spread and implement the Ten Key on top of it? sylvania, which became the forerunner Values. 2. Grassroots Democracj: how can we of our nation's democracy. As with lbert Einstein declared, " The prob­ develop systems that allow and encour­ Quakerism, two of the West German lem today is not of the head, but age us to control the decisions that af­ Green party leaders, Petra Kelly and Aof the heart." And E. F. fect our lives? Rudolph Bahro, emphasized that "true Schumacher warned, "Modern civiliza­ 3. Personal and Social Responsibility: commitment to Green values requires in­ tion can survive only if it begins to edu- . How can we respond to human suffer­ ner growth." Bahro, a former Commun­ cate the heart, which is the source of wis­ ing in ways that promote dignity? . . . ist, is quoted as having said, " I am in­ dom." The Ten Key Values of the How can we encourage such values as terested in the forces of cultural revolu­ Greens are both heartfelt and wise. As simplicity and moderation? tion that lie in no small way in Christ, Richard Myers, previous co-ordinator of 4. Nonviolence: How can we, as a socie­ Buddha, and Lao Tzu, forces that made the Delaware Valley Greens says, "The ty, develop effective alternatives to our history. Taken realistically, mysticism, Greens seek to politicize the spiritual and current patterns of violence at all levels, at least clear-headed mysticism, means a spiritualize politics . . . a path toward from the family and the street to nations profound mobilization of emancipating a transformative culture." The Greens and the world? forces in the psyche.'' are presenting a new vision and new ap­ 5. Decentralization: How can we restore There are now more than 270 Green plications of the values taught by all the power and responsibility to individuals, groups in the United States, and they great religions-compassion, love, non­ institutions, communities, and regions? have many different projects. A Detroit violence, responsibility, forgiveness, rev­ 6. Community based economics: How can Green group, as reported in Green Let­ erence for life. 0 we redesign our work structures to en­ ter last year, took on the goal of plant­ courage employee ownership and ing 6,000 trees. A New Hampshire group There are several excellent books on the workplace democracy? has drafted a Taxies Transition Act to Green Movement, including Green Poli­ 7. Postpatrlarchal Values: How can we phase out the use of taxies in the econ­ tics, The Global Promise by Fritjof replace the cultural ethics of domination omy by the year 2000. Green activists Capra and Charlene Spretnak; Seeing met in Sacramento to launch a Green Green by Jonathon Porritt; and The Party in California, which will fund can­ Spiritual Dimensions of Green Politics didates in elections. Although only some by Charlene Spretnak. Anyone interest­ Greens are vegetarians, in the leading ar­ ed in reading the full version of the Ten ticle in Green Times (Summer of 1989), Key Values, or knowing of a Green a member of the North Texas Greens in­ group in a particular neighborhood, can terviewed John Robbins, author of Diet write to the Green CoC Clearing House, for a New America, and only son of the P.O. Box 3020, Kansas City, MO 64112.

FRIENDS JOURNAL March 1991 17 Fox at Lichlield by Robert Kunkel n October 1651, not long after the final battle of the English Civil War, IGeorge Fox emerged from almost a year's imprisonment in Derby. For the last six months of this imprisonment he had been confined in a dungeon, in what he described as "a lousy, stinking, low place in the ground without any bed." Far from being subdued by this harsh treatment, he had decided that "when the Lord should bring me forth, it would be as the letting of a lion out of a den . ...'' Accordingly, upon his re­ lease he immediately resumed the itiner­ ant ministry that had led to his im­ prisonment in the first place. When he came to the nearby town of Lichfield, in Staffordshire, an incident occurred that has never been satisfactorily ex­ plained. You are now invited to consider that incident in some depth. Before we examine Fox's own ac­ count of what happened at Lichfield, you may find it helpful if I sketch in some of the background. Fox at this time was 27 years old. there was as yet no organized Quaker birth, so was one Edward Wightman. After a protracted adolescent crisis, dur­ movement. When he left prison in the Indeed, Wightman was one of the last ing which he had vainly sought help early winter of 1651 he had few staunch persons to be burnt for heresy in all of from ministers, priests, and other reli­ adherents. England. gious "professors," he had come to ex­ To comprehend what happened when To understand Fox's visit to Lichfield, perience an inward divine presence that Fox reached Lichfield, one also needs to you will also need to know something he called by various names, such as the know something about Lichfield itself. about Lichfield's Gothic cathedral, re­ light within, the inward Christ, the di­ Lichfield, in Staffordshire, is only about ferred to in Fox's narrative as the "min­ vine light of Christ, the Seed of God in 15 miles from Fox's home village of ster." Constructed of red sandstone in man, and that of God in everyone. These Drayton-in-the-Clay, in Leicestershire. the 12th to 14th centuries, Lichfield experiences convinced him that all ex­ Lichfield is very old, and there is a Cathedral is unique in having three isting organized religions, and indeed, legend that a thousand British Christians spires-known locally as the "Ladies of many aspects of the existing social order, were massacred there by the Romans the Vale." At the time of Fox's visit, this were incompatible with true Christianity. during the reign of the emperor Diocle­ impressive edifice sat derelict. In 1643 Since 1646 or 1647 he had been preach­ tian (284-305 A.D.). On one view, the and again in 1646, during England's ing his controversial views publicly, often horror of that ancient atrocity lingers on Civil War, Puritan armies had wrested contentiously, in his home county of in the very name of the town: "Lich-" the cathedral from defenders loyal to Leicestershire and adjacent counties in is said to derive from Old English lie, King Charles I. Gunfire during these central England. This ministry had meaning "corpse," and "Lichfield" is bloody battles damaged the building, brought him some notoriety but little en­ taken to mean "corpse field" or "field and the victorious Puritans vandalized during success. Although the name of corpses." Lichfield also boasts other, it and sacked its contents. They destroyed "Quaker" had been bestowed on him, more recent martyrs. In 1557, Joyce the medieval statuary, broke up the Robert Kunkel is assistant clerk and a member of Lewis, from whom George Fox may have bells, smashed the windows, and stripped the Committee on Ministry and Worship ofChapel been descended, was burnt for heresy the lead from the roof, all but reducing Hill (N.C.) Meeting. there; and in 1610, 14 years before Fox's the structure to a ruin.

18 March 1991 FRIENDS JouRNAL Virtually our only evidence of Fox's the greatest·of Quaker historians, William visit to Lichfield is his own account in C. Braithwaite, said that at Lichfield the autobiography he dictated more than VVhathappenedthat "the sight of the spire threw Fox into 20 years later, when he was 50 or 51 a fever of spiritual exaltation," and years of age. (It is reproduced in the box day may have been of dismissed Fox's own explanation of what below.) happened as "worthless" ex post facto If Fox himself was at something of a greater Importance and based upon information "after­ loss to explain his behavior at Lich­ wards learnt about the ancient mar­ field, later commentators have done lit­ than most histories tyrs." tle to clarify matters. Macaulay cited the Whatever else one may think of the Lichfield incident in an essay in which of Quakerism would comments I have quoted, it is apparent he declared that Fox's intellect was "too that they explain little and gloss over much disordered for liberty, and not lead us to suppose. many questions that virtually leap out sufficiently disordered for Bedlam." at the reader. For example, why should William James, generally sympathetic to dye." Quaker historians, too, have the sight of the spires have thrown Fox Quakerism, was even harsher, stating found it impossible to empathize with into "a fever of spiritual exaltation"? that Lichfield showed that "from the Fox on this occasion. Rufus Jones, for Moreover, there were other occasions point of view of his nervous constitu­ example, said that at Lichfield, Fox was when Fox could with equal justice be tion" Fox was a "psychopath or detra­ suffering from "mental instability" and said to have been in a "fever of spiritual que [deranged person] of the deepest yielded to "an abortive impulse." And exaltation "-as, for example, at Not- ''Woe unto the bloody city ol Lichlield!''

And as I was one time walking in a crying, "Woe unto the bloody city of were a thousand martyrs in Lichfield in close with several Friends I lifted up Lichfield!", and no one touched me the Emperor Diocletian's time. And so my head and I espied three steeple­ nor laid hands on me. As I went down I must go in my stockings through the house spires. They struck at my life the town there ran like a channel of channel of their blood in their market and I asked Friends what they were, blood down the streets, and the market place. So I might raise up the blood of and they said, Lichfield. The.word of place was like a pool of blood. those martyrs that had been shed and the Lord came to me thither I might And so at last some friends and lay cold in their streets, which had been go, so, being come to the house we friendly people came to me and said, shed above a thousand years before. were going to I bid friends that were "Alack George! where are thy shoes?" So the sense of this blood was upon with me walk into the house from me; and I told them it was no matter; so me, for which I obeyed the word of the and they did and as soon as they were when I had declared what was upon me Lord. And the ancient records will gone (for I said nothing to them and cleared myself, I came out of the 'testify how many of the Christian whither I would go) I went over hedge town in peace about a mile to the Britons suffered there. and ditch till I came within a mile of shepherds: and there I went to them And much more might I write of this Lichfield. When I came into a great and took my shoes and gave them some thing and of the sense ofthe blood of field where there were shepherds keep­ money, but the fire of the Lord was so the martyrs that hath been slain in this ing their sheep, I was commanded of in my feet and all over me that I did nation both in and under the ten per­ the Lord to pull off my shoes of a sud­ not matter to put my shoes on any secutions and since, for the name of den; and I stood still, and the word of more and was at a stand whether I Christ's sake. But I leave it to the Lord the Lord was like a fire in me; and be­ should or no till I felt freedom from the and his book out of which all shall be ing winter, I untied my shoes and put Lord so to do. judged: for his book is a true record, them off; and when I had done I was And so at last I came to a ditch and and his Spirit is a true register, or re­ commanded to give them to the shep­ washed my feet and put on my shoes; corder. And then I passed up and down herds and was to charge them to let no and when I had done, I considered why and had meetings amongst friendly one have them except they paid for I should go and cry against that city people in several places. And my rela­ them. And the poor shepherds trembled and call it a bloody city; for though the tions were offended at me. and were astonished. Parliament had the minster one while So I went about a mile till I came in­ and the King another while, and much (Excerpted from the revised edition of to the town, and as soon as I came blood had been shed in the town, yet The Journal of George Fox, edited by within the town the word of the Lord that could not be charged upon the John Nickalls. For an unrevised, ver­ came unto me again to cry, "Woe un­ town. But as I went through the town batim printing of the original docu­ to the bloody city of Lichfield!"; so I there ran like a channel of blood down ment written at Fox's dictation by his went up and down the streets crying, the streets and the market place was son-in-law, Thomas Lower, see the "Woe unto the bloody city of Lich­ like a pool of blood; this I saw as I 1911 Cambridge edition ofFox's Jour­ field!" Being market day I went into went through it crying, "Woe to the nal, edited by Norman Penney.) the market place and went up and down bloody city of Lichfield." in several places of it and made stands, But after, I came to see that there

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 19 tingham in 1649, when the sight of a of the Ladies of the Vale that aroused more than likely that he was influenced "steeplehouse" also "struck at [his] him to action, but the word "Lich­ by the examples of the prophets Nahum life" -but no other when he acted as he field." Here, I think, we are justified in and Ezekiel, who had cried "Woe to the did at Lichfield. And if his explanation supposing that for Fox "Lichfield," like bloody city!" in Ninevah and Jerusalem was a belated "rationalization," why steeplehouses, had profound associa­ in the Seventh and Sixth centuries B.C. should it have seemed "rational" to Fox tions with death. Braithwaite and others Fox's vision of blood in the streets, when it seems so irrational to us? Or are have assumed that Fox learned about which may have been precipitated by his we to suppose that he was still in a "fe­ Lichfield's thousand martyrs only after cry of "Woe to the bloody city!", ver of spiritual exaltation" when he dic­ his visit, because of his statement, "But should not be confused with an halluci­ tated his autobiography more than 20 after, I came to see that there were a nation. It seems clear he did not suppose years after the event? thousand martyrs in Lichfield in the the blood he saw to be real in an every­ While no doubt some aspects of the Emperor Diocletian's time." But this day sense; that is, to be blood others incident at Lichfield will forever remain seems unlikely, since he had grown up could see or that would have stained his obscure, I believe I can point to a num­ in a town only 15 miles away. It is more stockings (also note his statement that ber of clues that help to make it more probable that the story of the thousand "there ran like a channel of blood down intelligible. Moreover, I will suggest that martyrs had been linked in his mind the street, and the market place was like what happened at Lichfield may have since childhood with the stories of the a pool of blood"). Fox, like the proph­ been of greater importance than most more recent martyrs, Joyce Lewis and ets of the Old Testament, or for that mat­ histories of Quakerism would lead us to Edward Wightman, and very possibly ter, many American Indians, was suscep­ suppose. that he also knew that "Lichfield" was tible to visions and interpreted them as To begin near the beginning, take supposed to mean "field of corpses." divine revelations. Visions are often oc­ Fox's statement, "They [the cathedral casioned by fasting or malnutrition; for spires] struck at my life." The phrase example, in reporting his vision on Pen­ "struck at my life" appears a number die Hill six months later, Fox specifically of times in Fox's Journal and has The Incident reveals notes that he had eaten and drunk little nothing to do with attempted assassina­ for several days. At Lichfield, he may tions. In Fox's vocabulary "life" com­ something of Fox's still have been suffering from his harsh monly meant "spiritual life," the opera­ imprisonment at Derby. While visions tion of the inward Christ, as in these ex­ best qualities- may today seem "abnormal," in Fox's amples from his Journal: day and culture (as in many others be­ his courage, his fore and since) they were widely deemed Christ opened the door of light and life. This inward life sprang up in me, to answer unswerving obedience an acceptable form of religious experi­ all the opposing professors and priests. ence. I therefore believe Fox's vision of The knowledge of God in the spirit is life, to what 'he took to blood in no way justifies William James' but that knowledge which is fleshly works conclusion that he was a "psychopath death. · or detraque of the deepest dye." People and professor did trample upon the be the will of God. A far more important question is, life, even the life of Christ was trampled what was the significance of Fox's vision upon. of blood? To grasp the answer to that . . . the life in which the prophets and question, one must first understand that apostles were. for Fox the redemptive "blood of They that ... lived not in the life. His statement would then mean that I lived in the virtue of that life and power what happened after was not that he Christ" (an essential element of tradi­ that took away the occasion of all wars. learned about the legend of the thousand tional Christian communion) was shed martyrs for the first time, but that he by the inward Christ. Since the "inward Similarly, for Fox "death" commonly "came to see" the relevance of a legend Christ" was also the "light within," for meant spiritual torpor or alienation he had known about all along. By the Fox the welling (or drying) up of the from the divine, as in the third example swift logic of unconscious association, blood of the inward Christ was equiva­ above, and when he speaks of the "ocean Lichfield had that day loomed as an om­ lent to the shining (or dimming) of the of darkness and death" in which he at inous symbol of the " death" that every­ light within. Moreover, for Fox the in­ times felt himself submerged. where sought to trample upon "life." ward blood of Christ was not a mere We also know that for Fox "steeple­ For the "lion let out of a den," the mo­ metaphor, as may be seen in this excerpt houses" were portents of spiritual death. ment of combat was at hand. from the Journal: He believed in a living God who dwells ' In removing his shoes, Fox may well in not in "houses made with hands," And as they were discoursing of it, I saw, us: have had in mind the example of Isaiah, through the immediate opening of the invisi­ but in a church consisting of human be­ who "walked naked and barefoot for ble Spirit, the blood of Christ. And I cried ings. Consequently, the idea of a conse­ three years as a sign and a portent out among them, and said, 'Do you not see crated building designated as a "house against Egypt and Ethiopia" (other the blood of Christ? see it in your hearts, to of God" was blasphemous, and he saw Friends were later to walk naked "as a sprinkle your hearts and consciences from such buildings as manifestations of a sign" without incurring Fox's disap­ dead works to serve the living God?' for I "dead" pseudo-religion that "trampled proval, and Fox elsewhere remarks, "I saw it, the blood of the New Covenant, how upon the life of Christ." had been in spiritual Babylon, Sodom, it came into the heart. This startled the pro­ It will be seen from Fox's narrative, Egypt, and the grave"). In crying "Woe fessors, who would have the blood only however, that it was not merely the sight to the bloody city of Lichfield!" it is without them and not in them.

20 March 1991 FRIENDS JouRNAL He similarly equates blood with life ogy this could be taken to mean that the Soon after quitting Lichfield, Fox also in a "testimony" of 1671 in which he "blood of the new covenant," which quit the midland counties in which he had says: "[T]he blood of the new and was in the ancient martyrs, did not dif­ labored so long, and traveled north, to everlasting covenant is the life of Christ, fer from the Seed or inward Christ that Yorkshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, which all the believers in the light are to still flourishes in members of the true and Lancashire. There he established the walk and be cleansed by." "church." enduring base from which the Quaker Conversely, consider Fox's account of Before we leave Fox's narrative, a few movement spread. Indeed, within a few what happened when an attempt was other points deserve mention. One is months after leaving Lichfield-and made to relieve his adolescent despon- that the legend of Lichfield's thousand well before his vision on Pendle Hill of "a great people to be gathered"-he had made Quakers of some of the most important "first publishers of truth," including James Nayler, Richard Farns­ worth, and William Dews bury. Fox's reasons for departing the English midlands can only be conjectured. His­ torians think it likely he had been in cor­ respondence with Seekers in Yorkshire while he was still in prison at Derby; but however that may be, on leaving Derby he first traveled southward, not north­ ward. Perhaps the "sense of the blood" -the powerful sense of communal spir­ ituality-that he experienced at Lich­ field gave him the resolve to carry out a plan he had already formulated. Or perhaps he concluded he might do bet­ ter in an area where he had no "offend­ ed" relations or bewildered friends. In either case, whether we regard Lichfield as the end of the first phase of his public ministry or the beginning of the second, it appears to have marked an important turning point in his life and in the history of Quakerism. What, then, in the end, ought we to make of this incident? It reveals some of Fox's best qualities: his courage, his unswerving obedience to what he took to be the will of God and his sometimes dency by the then common procedure of martyred Britons is probably unhistori­ startling faculty for experiencing what bleeding. Then, he tells us, "They could cal, and in any case did not depict the for others were empty abstractions (or not get one drop of blood from me, . . . massacre as occurring in the streets or "notions," as he contemptuously called my body being, as it were, dried up with marketplace where Fox walked in his them). It would also seem that at Lich­ sorrows, grief, and troubles ...." stockings, but in a field some distance field he survived an inward crisis and Thus, Fox thought of the blood of away. Also, the "Lich-" in Lichfield is emerged the stronger for his experience. Christ as vital to our spiritual life, and now believed to derive from Celtic words On the other hand, all that he accomp­ associated the drying up of blood with meaning "gray forest" rather than the lished outwardly was to strengthen the spiritual as well as physical debility and Anglo-Saxon word for "corpse." (The impression, already current, that he was " death." The blood he believed he had Anglo-Saxons, of course, did not reach at best eccentric and at worst mad. In "raised up" in Lichfield was therefore Lichfield until after the Romans left the years that followed, the outlandish not a mere physical commodity such as Great Britain, well after the reign of behavior of some recruits to Quaker­ we are now able to store in blood banks, Diocletian.) And finally, from 1643 to ism-most notably, Nayler's entry into but the eternal blood that had entered after 1660 the spire on Lichfield Cathe­ Bristol on a donkey, mimicking Jesus' the hearts and consciences of Lichfield's dral's central tower was missing, having entry into Jerusalem-had untoward martyrs and must enter all our hearts been toppled by Puritan cannon fire. results for the Society of Friends as a and consciences if we are to turn "from Fox therefore erred when he thought he whole, and the conviction grew that the dead works to serve the living God." recalled more than 20 years later having leadings of individuals needed to be Here it may also be apropriate to recall seen three spires in 1651-which serves tested against the wisdom of the group. Tertullian's maxim, quoted elsewhere by to remind us that even the most truthful While Fox remained, in Penn's words, Fox in its traditional English form: "The witness is sometimes led to report what ever "an original, and no man's copy," blood of the martyrs is the seed of the "must have been" rather than what none of his later actions was so seem­ church." In the context of Fox's theol- really was. ingly bizarre as his visit to Lichfield. 0

F'IuENos JouRNAL March 1991 21 Growing Up __ aker An Interview by Rebecca Osborn

ne of the advantages of living to be a good little Quaker girl. She of the Old Testament and read the beyond one's useful years is to believed that adults, on the whole, evidence for her numbering of the days 0 be able to look back over the found her quiet and agreeable, not pre­ of the week: "And on the seventh day lives of one's friends and reflect on how cocious, and generally well-mannered. God finished his work which he had they turned out, taking the customary She said that she kept her elbows off the done, and he rested on the seventh liberties with the truth that aging per­ dinner table (away from home) and al­ day. . . . God blessed the seventh day mits, and, to a great extent, encourages. ways said, " Please" and "Thank you" and hallowed it. . . . " That, she pointed In this spirit, I would like to write about (away from home). To her sisters, she out, would make the First Day Monday. a Quaker woman I once knew. confessed, she was obnoxious, as such "Oh, well," she concluded, "it very She gave me permission to tell her "good" children usually are. There were possibly isn't of much importance." story, with one provision: that I would numerous squabbles (a polite term for ut whether she was referring to the not use her name. I told her I was will­ what actually took place) and layers of Quaker practice of numbering the ing, but that I would need to call her by guilt as thick as peanut butter on Bdays or to her getting them all some name or other, and I asked her bread-especially following the Sunday wrong, I cannot say. what it should be. school lesson (she corrected herself, She told me she was reminded of She thought a while, then said: "Call "First-day school" lesson) on the Good another Quaker tradition-the use of me Rebecca." Samaritan. She added that, interesting­ plain language. "But that's my name," I said. ly, 30 years later her oldest daughter had "What's that?" I asked. "So it is," she conceded, graciously. had the same experience after she came "You don't know?" she marvelled. "It will be very confusing," I said. home from learning the same First-day " Where were you raised? Not in Phila­ "So it will," she admitted, then add- school lesson. delphia, I'm sure-or on the Main Line, ed, "Sometimes a little confusion is a At this point in her story, she digressed either.'' good thing, you know. Makes people a little. I conceded the point. think." " You know," she said, "I never quite "Well," she said, " plain language "If they are so inclined," I said. mastered that." was something used by George Fox back "No," she replied, "that's the beau­ "Being a Good Samaritan?" I asked. in the 1690s and by every Quaker for ty of it. When you confuse people they "No," she replied, "giving numbers some time after that. To put it simply, have to think." to the days of the week. Somehow I it means saying 'thee' instead of 'you' And so it was that I came to write this could never think of First Day as any and 'thine' instead of 'yours.' " account of Rebecca's experiences grow­ day but Monday, that being the first day ''Why did they want to do that?'' ing up as a Quaker. of school every week. Not being able to "Well," she said, thoughtfully, "I As a little girl, Rebecca told me, she think of First Day as any day but Mon­ can tell you why George Fox did it or went every week to one of the opposing day, I got all of the rest of the days I can tell you why my mother did it." meetinghouses in her small town, one wrong, believing Tuesday to be Second " Both," I said. being Orthodox, the other Hicksite. The Day and so forth. By Thursday, any ac­ She set about explaining the historical difference in the two, as her young mind curate calculation was out of the ques­ reason for the use of plain language. Its saw it, was the difference between look­ tion.'' purpose was to treat everyone as a social ing into the solemn faces of the elderly he said the whole matter still puz­ equal. It was like the refusal of Fox and on the facing benches at one meeting or zled her. She had, as a child, under­ his followers to take off their hats in the looking through windows with small Sstood that these numbered days presence of the king, believing him no panes onto an old cemetery at the other. had a great deal to do with the Roman more to be honored than any other per­ She preferred the latter where, thanks gods of war (and love?), and, that while son and probably a little less than many. to a number of a~robatic squirrels and it was O.K. to read about the Roman "And your mother?" I asked. "Why exploratory rabbits, there was consider­ gods in school and to be amazed that the did she use plain language?" ably more life and action. Romans believed in them, it was not "My mother," she said, "used plain Rebecca told me she had always tried O.K. to refer to them by name (or any language to clarify the distinction be­ part of their name) among Quakers. She tween those she loved and everyone Rebecca Osborn is a member of Unami (Pa.) Meeting. A family counselor, she has a concern had tried to stick with the numbers, but else." for revitalizing the friendships ofFriends through never trusted herself to do it right. "Oh," I responded. It was about all humor and insight. She got out her King James Version I could think of to say.

22 March 1991 FRmNDS JOURNAL Those old cushions taught hera valuable lesson in how to deal with prickly people "I suspect," she added, "that it was also a mark of respect for all Quakers." and a lifelong "But wasn't that almost a reversal of the original idea?" admiration for Her eyes twinkled. "I'IIIeave that up to you to judge." the patience of I asked Rebecca what it was like to at­ tend silent meetings for worship in those holy men in days. She said things hadn't changed much. hair shirts. It wasn't much different from the way it is now. In many meetings there are still maroon-colored cushions filled with horsehair, and children still pull out the horsehairs and curl them in their fingers. Those old cushions, she said, taught her two things: a valuable lesson in how to deal with pricklies (especially prickly people) and a life-long admiration for the patience of holy men in hair shirts. To be honest, she said, she did not really sit very long in silent meeting because there was always Sunday school, i.e., First-day school. And, to be com­ pletely honest, First-day school didn't occupy much of her time, either, be­ cause she left it and joined a Sunday school class at the local Presbyterian church. When she said that, I recalled that was where we had first met. went to Sunday school there, in part, because I was told I had to and, in I part, because I liked it. We had reg­ ular classes and could win the red (or was it blue?) banner for the best atten­ dance of any class that week (or was it that month?). I liked the teacher and the way she talked about whatever we want­ ed to talk about. The superintendent talked to us every Sunday and tallied our attendance records on a big board at the front of the room. He acted as though he thought what we were doing was im­ portant. Every week he handed out a magazine called Forward with good stories and jokes that were easy to re­ member, and, at Christmas, there was a little box of chocolates for each child. (What child ever got a box of chocolates just for herself in those days except from

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 23 the local Presbyterian church?) right. Not at all right." A coeducation Rebecca told me that was her exper­ "Then, what-" I began, limply. boarding/day ience, too. She added that she took "I told you I preferred rabbits and school for 24 perfect attendance for the year so squirrels to sober-faced Friends on the students in 7th-9th seriously that she begged her father to facing benches when I was a child, but grades. Students take her to a small country church near that wasn't the whole story. I couldn't are involved in working, studying, the place where the two of them went help seeing the expressions on those old hiking, caring, coping; learning faces-the calm, intense concentration. and living in a small community in on a weekend, so that she could have a the Black Mtns. of North·Carolina . perfect record. (He did, she said.) I con­ I knew they must be hearing something I wasn't. Why else would they return Arthur Morgan School fess I found that hard to believe-that 1901 Hannah Branch Road she begged him to go to Sunday school, week after week to those hard wooden Burnsville, NC 28714 benches with their horsehair cushions?" (704) 675-4262 She was silent for a long time, as if making up her mind whether or not to go on. Then she did. ~ Expand your Silent grace "Many years later," she said, "I sat on the edge of a metal cot in a small horizons before meals room in a mental hospital, alone. I was too depressed to cry. I just sat still, wait­ at Mohonk.~ was appreciated ing. And then I heard it. And I knew, For comfort and hospitality in an at last, what people waited for in silent unspoiled natural setting. come to particularly when meeting. What I heard restored my sani­ Mohonk. in the heart of the ty. Do you believe that?" she asked me. Shawangunk Mountains. Our lake. you were faced "I do," I said, "but I'm not sure cliffs and miles of mountain trails are others would." perfect for activities like golf. tennis. swimming. riding. hiking and old­ with a meal "People," she replied, "believe what fashioned carriage rides. too.Hearty they want to believe, isn't that so?" meals. And special theme programs that included "I am beginning to believe it," I that let you learn while enjoying the replied. peaceful surroundings. We're not turnips. "And what they believe about others artificial. just down-to-earth. In the is, in the last analysis, what they believe Hudson River Valley. Exit 18. N.Y. about themselves. In the last analysis," State Thruway. Here's whats happening at Mohonk: she repeated, "I like that." that is-but she told me it was true and We both smiled. American Dance Weekend could name the place and even tell me March 1-3 how old she was at the time. ears passed before I visited again Pioneer Weekend March 8-10 Later, she said, when she outgrew with Rebecca. She had grown much older. Finally, her time Mystery Weekends I &. II banners and could buy chocolates on her Y March 15-17 and 22-24 own, she came back to the Society of had come to depart this earth. I was with Friends. her at the end. "Being a Quaker wasn't all bad, you She had been napping when I came Mohonk know," she said, with a twinkle in her into her room. Now she opened her eyes, MOUNTAIN HOUSE eye. "We had silent grace before meals. and, seeing me (dimly, I suppose) she A National Historic Landmark It was a Quaker tradition and much ap­ began to smile. New Paltz. (212) 233-2244 preciated when you were faced with a "You have come just at the right l.;iiiiiNiiii.Yiiii. iiiil2.56iiiil•• \.. -o ..., >55·<000 meal that included turnips or the tough time," she said. "I want to tell you my ends of asparagus and ended with Rice dream- a dream I just had." ....._...1 Pudding or Floating Island-one of "What was it?" I asked . those meals for which you knew you ''I dreamed that I met the Lord and weren't really going to be thankful. that I asked him what he thought of us Small classes. strong Besides, the silence didn't last long and Quakers." Friends academics in a ''What did he say?'' I asked, eagerly. supportive. caring you didn't have to 'say it,' the way other She paused a moment. "He just look­ Select environment empha­ kids were always made to do by their sizing Quaker values. parents." ed at me with his beautiful, sad eyes and A dynamic setting for I thought for a moment. "Am I right then-" School grades K-12 in the heart in thinking that Quakerism was a kind " And then?" of Philadelphia. of an easy way out for you? I mean, a "He winked." 17th and the Parkway, way out of rituals and creeds and I was puzzled. Philadelphia (215) 561-5900 things?" "What did he mean by that?" I Richard L. Mandel. Rebecca looked at me and the look asked. Headmaster she gave me made me want to bury my "That," she said quietly, with her Stuart Land Director of Admissions face in the nearest horsehair pillow. next-to-last breath, "you will have to "No," she said, firmly. "You are not decide for yourself." 0

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'd like to say something personal, by Stephen G. Cary something that will help you better understand the American Friends A Friend shares When Steve Cary retired this winter I after 12 years as clerk of the American Service Committee and the gifts it has Friends Service Committee Board and given to me. I take as my text for this personally from his exercise a familiar passage from George Corporation, he concluded nearly 50 long association years ofservice with the AFSC. Follow­ Fox's Journal, which all of you will im­ ing graduation from Haverford College, mediately recognize. I choose it because with the American he entered Civilian Public Service in my life at the AFSC has served to illumi­ 1942 and became a CPS camp director nate and make real to me Fox's words, Friends Service for AFSC. He served as commissioner written in 1647: of European relief for AFSC after the war and later worked in a variety of I saw also that there was an ocean of dark­ Committee. From ness and death, but an infinite ocean of light assignments. His travels have taken him and love that flowed over the ocean of dark­ war-tom Europe to all parts of the world, most recently ness, and in that also I saw the infinite love as leader of an AFSC delegation to of God and I had great openings. of the 1940s to China in the interests of international understanding. At Haverford College, Friends, the AFSC has shown me the the present day, he was vice president for years, and in ocean of darkness and it's been a gift, retirement remains active in the life of which may seem odd. I want to say a the opportunities the college, valuing its close Quaker ties few words about some of my encounters and his many f riendships with students. with it. I think the first time I really for peacemaking In introducing Steve at the Nov. 17, carne in contact with the face of massive . 1990, AFSC Annual Gathering in Phila­ evil was in that period when I wandered remam. delphia, executive secretary Asia Bennett across Europe in those terrible years just described him this way: "Steve is a pro­ after the end of the Second World War. digious worker . . . generous with his The appalling destruction, the total time and attention, a good colleague, a breakdown of community, but most of centered Friend whose tender heart and all the suffering of multitudes of men, spiritual depths inform all his interac­ women, and children-the bereaved, the tions. And best of all, I think, is Steve's homeless, the cold and hungry, the sick gusto for life and his uproarious sense - millions existing with their lives in of humor." ruin. I recall especially the day in 1946 What follows is a portion ofhis address when I walked alone through the death delivered at that November gathering. camp at Auschwitz, and stood looking

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 25 up at the ceiling at the shower heads limestone, and carry the limestone down up the mountain. It was a beautiful, which only months before had spewed to the villages in the valley where he warm, and moonlit night. We arrived at forth not water, but deadly gas to destroy traded it for lumber needed by the vil­ the shell of Lettapalena about 9 o'clock the helpless, naked souls below. One lages in the mountains. The idea was in the evening and we went to the does not forget that kind of exposure to that this kind of barter would end the mayor's little house and knocked on the evil. paralysis of confidence and allow re­ door. The mayor peered out into the Or I think of the killing fields of Cam­ building to begin. darkness: "Arturo, what are you doing bodia. I remember one village where I ne day I had been with Art while here?'' And Art said, "Well, I promised came upon a half-opened grave, half he did his job, when on the way you I'd deliver some wood to you filled with water, and I looked down in­ 0 home just at dusk we had a flat tomorrow, and I can't make it because to it, and there were the crushed skulls tire. It was the second one of the day my truck broke down." " Did you come of six little children. A lone child's san­ and there was no spare, so we had to all the way up here to tell me that?" dal floated on the water. ... Unbe­ leave the truck beside the road and walk "Yes," said Art, "I thought you might lievable, unfathomable evil. . . . home. As we were getting supper at his have promised it to a lot of your friends Finally, I remind myself also of those little cellar a dialogue ensued: here in town, and if you didn't deliver pitiful province hospitals in Vietnam they'd be mad and you'd be in a tough where children, sometimes three to a "Steve, I have to go up to Lettapalena spot.'' A look of incredulity crossed the bed, stared silently at the ceiling, their tonight to see the mayor." man's face; he burst into tears and threw bodies racked with the searing pain of "Gee, Art, isn't that the village way up his arm around Art, and invited us in. napalm, or their limbs shattered or on top of the mountain?" Once inside, he whispered to his son, blown off by bombs hurled from the "Yeah. I have to tell the mayor I can't and in a few minutes people began ar­ battleship New Jersey-lying safely in its deliver the wood I promised him." riving in his little cellar-about 20 off-shore sanctuary, hurling death and " But can't it wait until tomorrow morn­ jammed into that small space-all those destruction into defenseless villages 30 ing, when we get the flat fixed?" to whom he'd promised wood. Some miles inland. That, too, was the face of " No, it can't. These people have been brought sausages, some brought home­ evil. lied to and given false promises and been pressed vino, one brought an old accor­ I don't recount this last because I manipulated and misled for years. All dion, and we had a wonderful party­ equate my country's involvement in I've got going for me is my word, and laughing, singing, munching on sausage, Vietnam with the atrocities of the Nazis I have to either keep it or explain why sipping dreadful vino. Finally about or the Khmer Rouge, but to illustrate I can't." midnight we said we had to go, and the what my beloved friend Milton Mayer "OK. If you're going, I'm going with mayor said, "You guys can't walk down was fond of saying: "The devil is not a you." the mountain by yourselves. We'll show traveling man, living yesterday in Ger­ you the shortcuts so you don't have to many, tomorrow in Cambodia, and the So, after supper, we set out to walk walk the long road. We have all kinds day after that somewhere else. The devil is in the hearts of men and women the world over, and if we would deal with the devil we have to exorcise him from the hearts of the human family." I'm grateful for having had the op­ portunity to see and experience the enor­ mity of evil because it has served to en­ hance the sense of awe and wonder that I've felt when I have encountered the ocean of light, for this too has been a gift to me from the AFSC. It has shown me miracles-miracles where hatred has been exorcised, the estranged recon­ ciled, the depraved reborn, and the violent made peaceable. Through it, I know beyond disputation that there is an ocean of light. I want to share three or four of my encounters with it. e first involves an experience that taught me something about caring Tind about integrity. It concerns a young man of 19 who was driving a truck in the Abruzzi mountains in cen­ tral Italy, where destruction was almost total because of the fighting that raged there toward the end of the Second World War. Art's job was to drive his truck up in the mountains, load it with

26 of shortcuts. We cut across the switch­ with the exception of A. J . Muste, who Where diversity is a long-standing tradition backs." So the entire company adjourned, could keep up with the sheer intellectual Grades 9-12 Boarding/Day and we loudly made our way down in brilliance of Milton Mayer and Bob Quaker education in New York State since 1796 the moonlight to where the road went Pickus, who throughout the week were straight. Here we parted company with locked in a titanic struggle over how hugs and joyous farewells. Art and I communism and the Soviet Union should Oa'!Qvood started walking alone, and Art said, be portrayed in our study. Bayard could "Maybe you can understand now why quote Aristotle and Locke and von School 1------~ Contact Brian Fty I love these people." And I said, "Yes, Clausewitz as easily as they could, only Director of Admissions Art, I can, and I can understand why he was the reconciler, he was the one Oakwood School 515 South Road they love you." who built a bridge between them. With­ Pouahteepsle, NY 12601 I went back a year later, and there was out him the study could never have been (914)462-4200 a miracle. Roofs were on houses, but concluded. more important, there was a new sense ayard had to leave a day early, of community reborn where there had and on the last evening he said, only been hatred and suspicion. The B"Well, fellows, it's been a wonder­ Bringing Friends' Concerns ocean of light was seeping over the ful week. I have only one request. When lor Peace & Justice to ocean of darkness. we publish this booklet my name should Congress Since 1943 w me or call (2021547 ·4343 he next little incident I want to not be listed as an author.'' We said that lor act!Ofl suggestiOn tape talk about taught me something was impossible. Bayard's problem was Tabout diversity and community. It that he was gay. In those days being gay occurred during one of the richest weeks was an offense that in many states was of my career with the Service Committee punishable with prison. Bayard had -a week I spent at Haverford College been in jail, with resulting publicity, and with a devoted and gifted group trying he argued, "My name will hurt the sale to write a little book about the relevance of this booklet, and it is too important l]!JllJolJo of pacifism in the modern world, a book for it to have a handicap." We wouldn't A QUAKER CENTER which later became known as Speak agree, but it was left there for the night. for Rest, Reflection, & Truth to Power. We had a wonderful The next morning we had a meeting for Renewal on 110 acres time of fellowship and worship and live­ worship before Bayard left. It was a lj..ooLMAN "''""' of farm & woodlands. ly argument that always went on until marvelous meeting because we were all Ideal for personal, group, two or three in the morning, and the close to each other, and we had shared & Friends Meeting Retreats central figure in the whole. scenario was a great experience. Truly in that meet­ /A IN!l\P~'ii'l\P~OINJ<@ [giNJVO~@INJIMJ[giNJ'ii' Bayard Rustin. He was the only person, ing there was a Presence in the midst, g@U .Ml!. 'iW©©~ llllll1l1 and out of the silence Bayard rose and Quaker service began to sing in his God-given tenor write~- Keats Road workers in France, voice: "Nobody knows the trouble I've or ... Deerfield, MA 01342 /945 seen, nobody knows but Jesus." Then call · -· (413) 774-3431 he sang the haunting spiritual: "There is a balm in Gilead that makes the whole world free." When he finished he said, "Dear friends, I am at peace. I ask you CARIBBEAN ADVENTURES to leave my name off." And we did. An Expanded Concept in Travel. Limited But from that day on Bayard was my to 22 Teenagers 14 through 17 years old. brother-a whole, beautiful human be­ ing. From that day on I have never been PUERTO RICO AND ST. JOHN able to assign a moral dimension to peo­ WATERSPORTS everyday on and under the ple's sexual orientation. And I can never water; SPANISH LANGUAGE learning for survival demean the integrity of my brothers and conversation; CULTURAL IMMERSION and shar­ sisters who are gay and lesbian by refer­ ing activities with local teenagers; ECO-SERVICE, marine and mountain projects. ring to their lives as following "a chosen lifestyle.'' Bayard gave me a sense of the JULY ONLY, AVE PLACES IN THREE WEEKS meaning of diversity and community, Rio Grande Plantation, Puerto Rico which I treasure. Parador Marina, Dos Bocas, Puerto Rico Third, I had another glimpse of the Sun Bay, Vieques, Puerto Rico ocean of light in an incident that in­ Flamingo Beach, Culebra, Puerto Rico Cinnamon St. John, Virgin Islands volves peacemaking. It happened only a few years ago when I was in El Salva­ For a brochure, write or call: dor on a Service Committee mission. I Pam or Blfl Houldin had a call from Charlie Clements, the R.D. 2, Box 3568 HunUngdon,PA16652 ex-Air Force pilot who ended up a Quak­ (814) 667-3853 er doctor ministering to 10,000 villagers H~BIII'diiS <814) 667·2497 in the hills of Salvador. Charlie also

27 happened to be in town, and he said, "Steve, I've learned that some of my former patients have fled, and they're in a refugee camp on the edge of the city, and I'm going to go visit them later this afternoon. Would you like to come along?" I said I would and I arranged to meet him. On the way I passed the American embassy in San Salvador. I stopped and got out. Some of you may have seen this structure. The only way I can describe it is to compare it to one of King Arthur's castles: a great stone pile, virtually win­ dowless, surrounded by double walls 12 or 15 feet high, with pillboxes on all four corners manned by armed marines. The only entrance is a serpentine path through steel posts embedded in concrete. In be­ tween the posts are 55-gallon barrels filled with cement. Embassy cars are equipped with one-way glass-passengers can see out, but no one can see in-and vehicles that leave the embassy are followed by a station wagon filled with soldiers riding shotgun. This in a country which is our ally, and to which we have given hundreds of millions in aid, and yet we must make our embassy an impregnable fortress. went on down and met Charlie. He had a couple of guys with him. One I was carrying a folded wheelchair. We entered the dusty, ramshackle, rundown camp, teeming with men, women, and children in rags. We were barely in the gate when someone spotted Charlie, called his name, and we found ourselves engulfed in a tidal wave of humanity. People were shouting and laughing, and everyone was trying to hug him at the same time. Women were handing him their children. He never had less than three in his arms at the same time. It was pandemonium. Finally when things calmed down a little bit Charlie asked for a little boy that he'd cared for when Quaker doctor Charlie Clements delivers a wheelchair in El Salvador, 1985. the child was a baby and a polio victim. around the camp with about 100 urchins ocean of light is real. The only question He'd heard he was there, and sure running after him. I thought to myself­ is whether Charlie's wheelchair, and enough his mother produced the little my God, my God-what is the path to Art's integrity, and Bayard's gentle fellow, now five, and gave him to Char­ peace? Is it in those cars with their one­ spirit are a match for those six little lie. Charlie put him down in the wheel- . way glass and their shotgun escort, or crushed skulls in the pool of the killing chair and told him to "put [his] hands is it in Charlie's wheelchair. Friends, the fields. That's where faith comes in. on the wheels and push.'' The child did American Friends Service Committee ut I would remind you that we and moved forward a few feet. Charlie bets its life on Charlie's wheelchair. have something going for us that said, "Do it again," and he moved for­ I was going to go on and tell you an­ Bwe often don't think about. I ward another three or four feet. The lit­ other story about a poor derelict, a drift­ want to tell you what it is. The scene is tle kid was laughing, but when he turned er, a life-time loser who was my com­ Amsterdam. The time is 1947. The oc­ around, a look of wonder came over his panion for a season in the Washington casion is the annual gathering we used face, and he burst into tears. It was the jail, whence we both had repaired at the to have in which we invited one repre­ first time in his life he had ever propelled request of a Washington judge, but my sentative from each of our relief teams himself. Charlie cried; I cried; every­ time is running out. Perhaps I've said on the continent to come together for body cried, and the little fellow wheeled. enough to make clear why for me the · two or three days to talk about our prob-

28 March 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL lems. This particular meeting had been a gloomy occasion. We had team mem­ bers who couldn't get along with each other. Our trucks were breaking down, and we couldn't find spare parts. Our A feast for the spirit. • • supplies were lost on the malfunction­ ing railroad systems of Germany and PENDLE HILL invites you to [oin its learning community Poland, and of course if there was noth­ for a resident term , enjoy a ing else to talk about we could always short stay, a weekend bring up the incompetence of Philadel­ conference, or a retreat. phia. In the midst of our review of this Current catalog and timely catalog of catastrophe a Dutch Friend bulletins are available free burst into the room, holding up a news­ upon request. paper with black headlines, "Quakers Win Nobel Peace Prize ... honored for Wnte or call· relief service." As Friends do on these Pendle Hill Box F occasions we immediately fell silent in Wallingford, PA 19086 a spontaneous meeting for worship. Af­ ter a time a young woman rose and said, I (215) 566-4507 "All I can say is a little love sure goes a long way." It does, friends. And that's our hope. Even though we are tiny, and even though there is a vast world to mend, it's important that we keep on witnessing to what love can do. n that context I'll close with a little WilliAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 Kindergarten through story that for me encapsulates what 302 Years of Quaker Education Twelfth Grade I the AFSC is all about. It's a story about a man riding along a dirt road in Operated under Charter issued by William Penn. The William Penn Charter the country, and he looks down from his School is a Quaker college-preparatory school committed to nurturing in horse, and he sees a little bird lying in girls and boys the education of the mind , the quickening of the spirit, and the dirt on his back with his feet in the the development of the body. Penn Charter stresses high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. air. He's so curious about this that he gets off his horse and walks back and Friends are encouraged to apply both as students and as teachers. says, "Little bird, what are you doing Earl J. Ball Ill, Headmaster lying there in the dust on your back with 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 your feet in the air?" And the little bird (215) 844-3460 said, "The sky is falling and I'm trying to hold it up." The man bursts out laughing: "Why that's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. What does a little bird like you think you can do about the sky falling?'' And the little bird looks up and says, "One does what NEW SURROUNDINGS one can. One does what one can." GREATER DIMENSIONS ~~~~==::::~ Friends, the American Friends Service A quality educational facility to Committee did what it could in 1918. It develop practical skills for ministry. was doing what it could when I first en­ M. Min. or M. Div. countered it in 1940. It's doing what it preparing the mind and can today, and I can assure you it will heart for ministry. keep on trying to keep the sky from fall­ • M. A. in Quaker Studies, ing because, despite its feet of clay, Peace and justice, Biblical, despite its sins of omission and commis­ Historical, and Theological sion, despite the fact that it stumbles and Studies. falls and that its reach falls so far short Theological Reflection Year of its grasp, it remains for me a lustrous option for those considering a career in ministry or only wanting to study for one EARLHAM little puddle in the great ocean of light year. SCHOOL OF RELIGION and love. That's why as I leave it after • Financial Aid 228 College Ave. almost half a century I say to all of you tailored for those who are considering a Richmond, Indiana 47374 in this room, and I say it to all Friends life of service (317) 983-1423 everywhere, "Thank God, thank God • Home of the D. Elton Trueblood QUAKER MINISTRY: Almighty, for the American Friends Academy for Applied Christianity. AN INVITATION TO TRANSFORMATION Service Committee." 0

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 29 CREMATION Friends are reminded that the Anna T. Jeanes Fund FCNL Notes will reimburse cremation costs. (Applicable to members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) For lafo,....tloa wrtlo or ldop~o .. RICHARD F. BETfS Rescuing Kuwait: At What Cost? 500-B GIH Eck Rood Pllllodolp~ , PA 1.9119 (215) 2.47·3354 As Quakers, we oppose all war. No matter What will we have to give up to pay what the question, war is not the answer. We the price of war? embrace the precious lives that are being The scope of the snap-of-the-fmgers spend­ sacrificed on both sides of the war in the ing in the Gulf is massive in comparison to FRIENDS CAMP Gulf. We embrace the terrified children on the dollars that have been denied to needy South China, Maine both sides of the conflict. We embrace the people and programs in this country. The United States continues to lose more than 20 * Ages 7-17 troops thai have been sent into these battles by their governments; we want them all to percent of its children to poverty, ill health, * Coed - Residential return home safely-now. We urge the malnutrition, disability, and school failure. * Non competitive governments to work out a solution that will Yet all funding for income assistance, health, * $400.00 for 2 weeks not sacrifice more lives. food, education, and job programs has been A unique camp program which in­ severely limited in the last decade. cludes international campers, Quaker The federal government allocates only community living, decision making, (This statement and the following informa­ about $200 million to all the emergency pro­ peace communications center, crafts, tion were prepared by the Friends Commit­ grams for two million homeless people in this drama, sports, water activities, and tee on National Legislation as part of its country. Operation "Desert Storm" prob­ other creative programs. material on the Gulf War.) ably spent that amount in the ftrst few hours of operation. Call or write: When the United States decided to com­ U.S. military power is number one in the Susan Morris, Director mit almost half a million troops to waging world. The U.S. rate of infant mortality is P.O. Box 84 war on Iraq, it communicated to poor and 19th in the world. The entire WIC program, E. Vassalboro, ME 04935 dispossessed people at home and around the the supplemental food for malnourished (207) 923-3975 world that this war has a prior claim on the women and children, costs about $2 billion. U.S. budget. For years, the U.S. government Will the government choose to end that pro­ has claimed to lack adequate resources to gram to pay for Days One and T'wo of the engage the forces of poverty and hunger. Gulf War? · Fyfe & Miller Now, overnight, the U.S. government ap­ In the United States alone, 40,000 children FUNERAL SERVICE parently has billions to spend on sophisticated a year do not survive infancy. Yet the federal weaponry to engage the forces of Iraq. government has not been able to fmd the half 7047 Germantown Ave. billion dollars that would be needed to save Philadelphia, PA 19119 What will thla war coat? about 10,000 of these lives each year. (215) 247-8700 On the ftrst day of the war, Defense Secre­ Hospital and medical care for veterans in­ tary Richard Cheney told congressional lead­ jured and damaged in previous wars costs James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller ers that maintaining troops in Iraq had about $12 billion. That's equivalent to the Simple earth burial already cost $10 billion by December 31. Ac­ cost of the first two weeks of the war. How and cremation service tual combat increases the cost geometrical­ will we find money to take care of those in­ available at reasonable cost. ly. Recently, Charles Bowsher, head of the jured or left fatherless or motherless by this General Accounting Offtce (Congress's ac­ war? countant), has estimated that the war will Even a few weeks at war will cost billions cost "several hundred million dollars a day of dollars that we don't have. Six weeks at in the early part ofthe war." Other military war would cost more than we spend in a year Friends analysts' estimates range as high as $1 billion for Medicaid, the national program that pro­ a day, with cost escalating as a ground war vides health services for about 25 million drags on. poor women, children, elderly, and disabled Music But no one will really know the cost of the people in this country. war until it is ended. Congressional hearings Camp have served to demonstrate that even the How will the U.S. pay the billa for most expert estimates depend on assump­ Desert Shield end Deaert Storm? A unique tions about many variables, including the There are no funds for these operations summer program length of the war, the resistance of Iraq, the in the ftscal year 1991 budget (already for ages 10-18 assistance of allies (cin either side), the in­ adopted) or planned in the 1992 budget. volvement of Israel, and other factors. After Funds for Desert Shield and Desert Storm July 7-August 4 the war, there will be new costs-some of are not part of the $295 billion allocated for at Barnesville, Ohio them long-term obligations-as the complex military spending. Nevertheless, when Con­ task of rebuilding in this war-tom region gress approved of these two military opera­ For brochure, write: FMC, P.O. Box 427, begins. Given the many uncertainties, it is tions, Congressional leaders promised to Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 troubling that Congress gave President Bush finance them through special "supplemen­ a "blank check," both financially and po­ tal appropriations" in the early spring. This Phone 513-767-1311 or 513-767-1818 litically, to commit this nation's resources to "special appropriation," however, will not war. make the money magically appear.

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Funds for Desert Shield and Desert Storm are not part of the $295 billion allocated for military spending. Nevertheless, when Con­ gress approved of these two military opera­ Finally-B.A. and M.A programs that let tions, Congressional leaders promised to you study what you want-and still keep finance them through special "supplemen­ tal appropriations" in the early spring. This your family and work commitments. "special appropriation," however, will not make the money magically appear. Individually-designed. independent study. The government could borrow the money; supported by expert faculty. Eam your M .A but with an annual deficit approaching $300 billion, that seems unwise, even dangerous, in 12-18 months with brief regional given the shaky economy. The government meetings. BA. students eam IS credits per could cut even more social programs to pay semester and choose from two Vermont the bill, passing the cost on to the most vulnerable people in the country. Or, the residency options-one weekend a government could seek a new tax. Since gas month or nine days a semester. taxes and telephone taxes have already been spoken for in the recently approved federal budget, Congress will have to be somewhat Vermont College of creative in finding a source of revenues for this war. Perhaps Congress will finally con­ Norwich University sider a progressive income tax, leaning heavi­ 1-800-336-6794 Box 788. Montpelier. VT 05602 802-828-8500 ly on the shoulders of the millionaires who still benefit from the Reagan-era tax cuts. A separate, clearly identified war tax, however, would have the advantage of highlighting the ongoing costs of the war.

Did we ...ve • choice ebout going to wer? Pendle Hill There was a clear opportunity to choose Summer Program 1991 not to go to war. The debate in Congress was heavy. Last week, 46 percent of the Senate and 42 percent of the House favored the in­ June 14-16 Understanding Eastern Europe: ternational strategy of isolating Saddam New Perspectives for Peacemakers Hussein by enforcing economic sanctions Leader: John Bensenbrjnk, teacher of Political Science at Bowdoin, an organizer and pursuing further negotiations. A very of the Green Movement; author of the book Poland Challenges a Divided World. slim majority of congressional represen­ tatives was able to authorize military action. June 24-29 Sources of Renewal for Educators (Jointly sponsored The question remains whether such a divid­ by Pendle Hill and The Friends Council on Education.) ed country should commit itself to the im­ Leaders: Paul and Margaret Lacey measurable tragedies of war. Do we heve • choice now? July 8-13, July 15-20: Two complementary summer sessions­ The Bush administration never pursued Toward a World Without War: the kinds of conflict-resolution procedures Can the Arts Mediate? An exploration of some of the music, art, literature and film of war to see wherein recommended by many experts in that field. Although President Bush has said "it is never lie the seeds of peace. Leaders: Donald Swann, composer and performer of too late for a peace proposal," he has been opera, cantatas, numerous songs and the hit Broadway musical review "At the unwilling to act on such proposals. There is Drop of a Hat;" Alison SmUh, art historian and printmaker. still hope he might accept such a proposal from the United Nations Security Council. July 12-14 Friendly Clowning with Elizabeth H, McClung There is a move within the General Assembly July 19-21 Basic Quakerism: An Inquirers Weekend of the United Nations to press the Security Council to call for a "cease fire," and to Limited tuition assistance available. renew intensive diplomatic efforts while con­ Child care at some events-inquire if needed. tinuing the enforcement of international For more information or registration call or write: economic sanctions. Extension, Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA 19086 (215) 566-4507 Ruth Flower

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Alaska Yearly Meeting joined Evangelical reflected in formation of Friends in Youth violence-may have quite a bit in common Friends International in January. This latest Work, which has brought together broad seg­ with those whose lives have been touched by addition brings the number of members in ments of Friends in cooperative efforts. He war. That's the premise of a pilot program EFI to approximately 26,000 in 250 chur­ will continue his instrumental role in plan­ in New York City, with an opening presen­ ches, with a constituency of 35,000. There ning and organizing the FWCC World Con­ tation at Friends Seminary. The program is are 12 churches in Alaska Yearly Meeting, ference, which will take place in three loca­ part of the organization Children of War, with I ,000 members. EFI's budget for 1991 tions throughout the world this summer. His sponsored by the Religious Task Force, an is $802,631 and provides funding for Chris­ careful fiscal management has been a key fac­ interfaith coalition. The program features 45 tian education ($102,620), publications tor in preserving FWCC's financial strength young people ranging in age from 13 to 20. ($81 ,950), youth ($5,050), missions during trying economic times. The Executive They come from 15 foreign countries, as well ($609,011), and memberships and promotion Committee of FWCC is forming a search as from seven cities in the United States. In ($4,000). committee to locate a successor. public speeches and private conversations, they describe how they lost parents and Earlham's scholarship program for low­ Vinton Deming, editor-manager of FRIENDs friends or had to flee for their lives from bat­ income black and Latino students may be i.l­ JOURNAL, will lead a retreat March 9-11 at tle scenes. Those from the United States tell legal, according to a recent advisory of the Mountain View (Colo.) Meeting, entitled about seeing the effects of crack and pover­ U.S. Department of Education. The advisory "The Way of Friends: Contemporary Cur­ ty. Three from that group are homeless. states that awarding scholarships based on rents." The retreat is the meeting's annual Sharing such experiences with other race may violate federal civil rights regula­ gathering, which is called "The School of the youngsters can often lead to healing and of­ tions. The Department of Education's Of­ Spirit," and is planned to draw Friends to­ fer models of courage. Sometimes the young fice of Civil Rights " has interpreted the law gether in exploration and challenge. speakers become coaches, helping others see [34 C.F.R. 100.3 980] to prohibit, in most a way through difficulties. The goal is to cases, race-exclusive scholarships." Earlham train 400 leaders and set up chapters of College meets full financial need of all Children of War in all the schools on the five­ students without regard to race and also of­ city tour. fers a special program of scholarships to black and Latino students from Indiana who Friends were represented at the Irish pres­ qualify for admission but cannot afford to idential inauguration in Dublin Castle on attend. Dec. 3, 1990, by Muriel Cameron of Lis burn Earlham College officials strongly object­ Meeting. She is assistant clerk of Ireland ed to the federal advisory, pointing to the Yearly Meeting. She and six other church direction education and other segments of leaders took part in the interdenominational society have taken in the past 35 years in try­ service before the ceremony. Her part was ing to "level the playing field" for minority to read a prayer. She was the only woman citizens. Earlham President Richard J. Wood among the church leaders. The new president said the new interpretation could affect hun­ of the Irish Republic is Mary Robinson. dreds of colleges and universities that, like Earlham, provide versions of minority schol­ Women for Meaningful Summits, a group arships. His hope is that the interpretation An exhibition of Quaker dress, "Style and founded in 1985 to present a woman's will be challenged in Congress or in court. Choice: Quaker Clothing in the Delaware perspective at the time of summit meetings, The numbers of low-income black and La­ Valley," at the Chester County (Pa.) Histor­ gained access to the Iraqi embassy in Wash­ tino students attending college has declined ical Society (FJ Jan.), inspired comments ington, D.C., on January 15. Four women significantly in recent years, according to a from syndicated fashion columnist Patricia (including a Friend, Alice Wiser . from study by the American Council of Education McLaughlin on the reemergence of plain dress Vermont, a FRIENDS JOURNAL board released in early 1990. Programs such as the in the 1990s. It seems Calvin Klein's new member) presented embassy staff with bread one at Earlham aim at reversing this trend, spring collection was a model of simplicity and roses to symbolize their desire for a particularly in the last two years, according and a stark contrast to the glitz of the 1980s. peaceful, negotiated settlement. The group to Richard Wood, who is also co-chairman McLaughlin suggests that the current decade, also lobbied senators and Congressional of the Task Force for Minority Opportunities in reacting to the excesses of the recent past, representatives. of the National Association of Independent mirrors what might have been early Quakers' Colleges and Universities. response to the exuberance and excess of the "Peace cards" for the children of Iraq were baroque. Although she admits Friends' dress made and mailed by children in DesMoines, A. Alexander Morisey will resign as executive was a sign of their beliefs in simplicity, Iowa. The cards included drawings and secretary of Friends World Committee for equality, and peace, she also feels this "egal­ words, translated into Arabic, expressing Consultation, Section of the Americas, as of itarian aesthetic" may be "worth another concern for peace, friendship, and under­ Aug. I . Alex has Jed the section since August look ... at a time when people are being standing. The activity was organized by Ed 1988. He served as associate executive sec­ murdered for their Rolexes and Air Jor­ Fallon, director of the Campaign for Nuclear retary from 1985 to 1988, under Gordon M. dans." Perhaps in another few years sim­ Disarmament in DesMoines. He expressed Browne, Jr. Alex came to FWCC with exten­ plicity, equality, and peace will be in vogue hope that this activity would teach the sive experience in Latin America, which in­ as well. children "that Iraq is more than Saddam, creased and strengthened FWCC's ties with that it is not a new 'evil empire.' Iraq is peo­ Friends in that part of the world during his Teenagers caught in domestic problems­ ple like us, many of them children, many of tenure. His concern for young Friends was drug abuse, gang conflicts, crime, or family whom would be killed in a war."

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• A special fund for victims of the Persian 100 Year History Gulf War has been set up by the American A Personal Care Home Friends Service Committee. Money will be • Reasonable Rates used for humanitarian needs, for emergen­ • Not-for-profit cy relief, and eventually for reconstruction • Quaker Tradition projects. Contributions may be addressed to In Town Location convenient the American Friends Service Committee, to Shops and Businesses Gulf Assistance Fund, 150 I Cherry St., (215) 696-1536 Phila., PA 19102. For information, call (215) West Chester, PA 241-7142.

• "Worship and Witness for the Peaceable ·~ Kingdom" is the theme of a weekend event focusing on the Nevada Test Site, to be held March 22-24 at St. James Church, Las • For a thorough leaflet on how to prevent ~KIRKRIDGE Vegas, Nevada. The program begins at 5:30 withholding of tax from wages, send two p.m. on Friday and features speakers Bob stamps and a self-addressed envelope to P.O. Vogel, Albert Jones, Ellie Foster, and Peter Box 85810, Seattle, WA 97145. Ask for the Bernie Ediger, as well as worship-sharing groups, pamphlet, "Practical War Tax Resistance: & Barbara Siegel an update on conscientious objectors, and Controlling Federal Tax Withholding." a Saturday noon vigil at the Federal Building The Psychology of Dlness in Las Vegas. On Sunday morning, there will • "Literacy and Power: Exploring the Con­ and the Art of Healing be a worship and witness at the Nevada Test nections," is the theme of the 1991 National May 17-19 Site itself, which is 65 miles northwest of Las Quaker Youth Seminar on April 3-6 at the Vegas. The event is sponsored by Pacific William Penn House in Washington, D.C. Yearly Meeting and PYM Junior and Young Participants will explore how a person's level Parker Palmer Friends. Cost is $35, including meals and of reading skills can affect one's personal, Working, Loving, Dying: floor space for sleeping bags, payable to economic, and political life. They will meet Explorations in Poetry Linda Dunn, 250 E. Blaine St., Riverside, with adult learners in literacy programs, with CA 92507. For more information, call Linda those who provide such programs, and with July 8-12 at (714) 682-5364 or Jane Badalato at (213) government officials to discuss the connec­ 851-9907. Motel lodging is available nearby. tions between literacy and power. There will The Heart to Teach: also be a chance to work with a local literacy A Weekend of Renewal • Spiritual practice as a motivating force in program in providing books to low-income social action will be the subject of a retreat children, to work in a soup kitchen, and to for Teachers at Woolman Hill Quaker Center in Deerfield, speak with one's own senators and Congres­ July 12-14 Mass., on March 15-17. Entitled "Medita­ sional representatives. There will be time for tion and Social Action," the retreat will ex­ worship-sharing and for exploring Washing­ plore ways to help spiritual practice feed ac­ ton, D.C., as well. Cost is $35, including Robert Raines tivism, as well as ways to deepen spiritual life lodging, breakfasts, and dinners. Deadline Becoming an Elder: through committed actions. The leaders­ to register is March 3. For information, con­ Re-membering and Paula Green, Eric Kolvig, and Jim Perkins­ tact Leah Langworthy or Pete Fairman at the Imagining Our Lives have each practiced Vipassana Buddhist William Penn House, 515 East Capitol St., meditation for at least ten years or more and Wash., DC 20003, or call (202) 543-5560. in the Later Years combine the practice with other professional July 19-21 concerns and activism. Cost is $70. For in­ • The Fellowship of Reconciliation offers formation, call Woolman Hill at (413) programs for high school and college-age 774-3431. youth interested in peace, justice, and social John & Penelope change. Opportunities in 1991 include fnter­ Yungblut • Earth Day 1991 will be celebrated on national projects in Russia, Lithuania, and The Myth of the Eternal: March 20 and 21, to coincide with the arrival the Middle East; internships; and organiz­ of spring equinox in the Northern Hemi­ ing and leadership training. For more infor­ Intimations of Immortality sphere and fall equinox in the Southern mation and a free brochure, contact: Youth August 23-25 Hemisphere. That will be at 10:02 p.m. Activities, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Box Eastern Standard Time on March 20 in the 271, Nyack, NY 10960, or call (914) 358-4601. United States, or 0302 Greenwich Mean Write or call for rates, registration, and further Time on March 21. The day is planned as • Resources are available from the Central information. a global celebration dedicated to the peaceful Committee on Conscientious Objectors KIRKRIDGE, DepL F) Bangor, PA 18013 care and protection of the Earth. More in­ (CCCO) for anyone interested in sorting out (215) 588-1793 formation and material is available from The fact from fiction in military matters. Youth A mountain retreat center 85 miles from New York City Earth Society Foundation, 585 Fifth Ave., & Militarism Directory 1990 lists counselors and Philadelphia, accessible from Allentown, Newark, and NYC airports. New York, NY 10017, or by calling (212) and activists; Delayed Entry Program Self­ 935-9423. help Guide is a booklet for young people

34 March 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL How to Tell30,000 Friends ~ Teaching Staff About Your Service or Product. Pendle Hill, a Quaker center for study Advertise in Friends Journal seeking release from the Delayed Entry Pro­ and contemplation, seeks full- and part­ gram; Choice or Chance is an audio-visual time teachers, especially for classes in To receive advenising information, just fill program that presents those questions poten­ social concerns, spiritual basis of out and mail the coupon below to: Adver­ ecology, comparative religion, vocational tising Manager, Friends Journal, 1501 tial enlistees should ask before taking the big calling, literature. Modest salary, full Cherry Sueet, Philadelphia, PA 19102; or step. Write to CCO, 2208 South St., Phila., room and board, and additional benefits PA 19146, or call (215) 545-4626. including community life. Pendle Hill is call {215) 241-72 79. an equal opportunity employer; • The tenth annual Lenten Desert Experience applications from women and minority Name ______will be celebrated at the Nevada Test Site on persons are especially welcome. March 7-10. The keynote address will be Contact John Anderson, Dean, Pendle Address ------­ Hill, 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA given by Olzhas Suleimenov (to be confirmed), 19086. (215) 566-4507 City/State/Zip president of the " Nevada-Semipalatinsk" movement resisting nuclear weapons testing in the Soviet Union. Workshops will be led by Daniel Berrigan, Dale White, Jim Wallis, and others. Nevada Desert Experience, which sponsors the event, will also hold services at Help men and women of conscience the test site on Palm Sunday, March 24; Good Friday, March 29; and Easter, March say NO to war. 31 . For information, contact Nevada Desert CCCO/An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling needs Experience, Box 4487, Las Vegas, NV 89127, or call (702) 646-4814. volunteers to answer telephones, fill literature orders, and perform other office tasks. Typing and Macintosh skills especially welcome. • What is the purpose, the ministry of a Training in draft and military counseling available. meeting newsletter? How can it be used as an instrument to energize and gather Friends? Contact Cord Briigmann or Ben Zeman at CCCO, (215) 545-4626. These are some of the questions to be ad­ 2208 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146. dressed at a workshop for newsletter editors to be led by Vinton Deming, editor-manager, and Melissa Kay Elliott, associate editor, of FluENDs JOURNAL. The workshop will be held at Pendle Hill on May 11-13. All those in­ terested in spending a weekend searching and MOSES BROWN SCHOOL worshiping together, sharing information, Providence, Rhode Island and making connections with like-minded Founded 1784 Friends, are encouraged to join us. The con­ ference is co-sponsored by F'IuENos JoURNAL and Pendle Hill. For information, contact Moses Brown School, one of the oldest Peter Crysdale, Extension Secretary, Pendle independent schools in America, is Hill, Wallingford, PA 19086, telephone (215) situated on a 32-acre campus adjacent 566-4507, or call FRIENDS JOURNAL, (215) 241-7281. to Brown University. Moses Brown is a college preparatory coeducational • Several new scholarships at Pendle Hill Quaker school with a current enroll­ now offer more opportunities for individual ment of 757 students, from Nursery study and retreat. The Henry J . Cadbury Scholarship provides full support for a through Grade 12. In its commitment Quaker scholar to live in residency at the to preparing students to be leaders in Pendle Hill community while doing research. this diverse and complex world, Moses Brown School en­ Currently, Larry Ingle, professor of history courages enthusiasm for learning and concern for others, and at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, is using this scholarship to enable him to provides exciting and challenging programs in academics, the write a new biography of George Fox while arts, and athletics. A Residential Community is available for on sabbatical. l.Wo new scholarships are also students in Grades 9 through 12 who wish to live on campus. available for sojourners. The Frances R. Dewing and Sylvia Shaw Judson sojourner For information or to schedule an interview, contact: scholarships will be awarded this spring to one activist and one artist, respectively. The Dorothy J. Patrick, Director of Admissions scholarships cover a six-week sojourn at Pen­ 250 Lloyd Avenue die Hill. The selection process is now under­ Providence, RI 02906 way. For information, contact John Ander­ 401-831-7350 son, Dean of Program, Pendle Hill, Wall­ ingford, PA 19086, or call (215) 566-4507.

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36 March 1991 FluENDS JouRNAL model at such distinguished institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Student's League in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Newtown, PA 18940 Philadelphia, Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and numerous colleges and universities throughout the country. Earning the respect and appreciation of art students and teachers everywhere, she was given original works by many notable artists. These were her most prized possessions. During the final year of her life, she arranged for these works to be auc­ tioned off to establish a scholarship fund for minori­ ty art students. Her deeply felt concern for others was the hallmark of her life. During WWII she enlisted in the WACS medical corps. After witnessing first­ hand the horrors of war, she became a pacifist, joined the Religious Society of Friends, and devoted herself to peace causes. A member of Los Angeles (Calif.) Meeting since 1951, she had a large follow­ ing of Friends, both young and old, who were in­ spired by her generosity, courage, and enthusiasm. Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, Qeorge School is a co· Quick to laugh and even quicker to show sympathy, educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9 - 12. she left a legacy that will be preserved in the works The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values & includes: of innumerable artists and in the hearts of in­ numerable friends. o Courses on 4levels of dlfllculty o International Baccalaureate (18) 0 Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps Eicbenberg-Fritz Eichenberg, 89, on Nov. 30, • English as a second Language (ESL) • Required community service 1990, at his home in Peace Dale, R.I., after a long o Foreign study • Required full-year courses In the arts course of illnesses. Artist, educator, and public • 131nterscholastic sports for boys&. girls Friend, his work was directed to all peoples. His message was the meaningfulness of human existence For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 21 5/968-3811 and the pervasiveness of divine Truth. Turning his back on current art, which he found to lack mean­ ing, he created through lithography and wood engraving an art of deep spiritual and social significance and endowed it with compelling vigor and force. Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1901 and educated at Cologne's School of Applied Arts, he began his work as a writer and illustrator in pre-Hitler FRIENDS HOMES, INC. Germany and transferred it to the United States, where he settled in 1933. There followed a announces remarkable outpouring of illustrative art for books ranging from the great Russian novelists through Swift, the Bronte sisters, Grumrnelhauser's The Adventurous Simplissimus and Erasmus's In Praise FRIENDS HOMES ofFolly, which he translated hmself. His many in­ dividual prints are typically assaults on violence, op­ pression, and pretension. Always he was at the call of Quaker groups to create colophons and logos. He gave freely of finished prints for FRIENDS JouRNAL West and for Pendle Hill's pamphlet series, of which he wrote and illustrated three. In true outreach, he The new, non-profit retirement community created wood engravings and lithographs for Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker. His final il­ scheduled to open in 1992 lustrative work was for the Dance ofDeath , of which he was author as well as illustrator, and, in I 986, is now available George Bernanos, Diary ofa Country Priest. Mean­ while, he served from 1947 to 1972 as professor of • One and Two-Bedroom Apartments art at the Pratt Institute in New York and as chair­ • Assisted Living Unit man of the Department of Graphics Arts, which led to his founding Pratt's Graphic Arts Center. He was • Skilled Care Nursing professor of art at the University of Rhode Island from 1966 to 1971. He was publicly recognized for Located in Greensboro, North Carolina these efforts with many exhibitions and acquisitions of his work bymuseumsand universities. He received on a 38-acre tract near Guilford College. five honorary degrees, and Yalecreatedaspecialar­ Developed and managed by Friends Homes chive for his work. On one hand, he was moved by the simplicity and starkness of the black and white media he used, and on the other hand by the spirit For more information, call (919) 292-8187 of Christ. He was most recently a member ofProv­ or write Friends Homes, 925 New Garden Road, Greensboro, NC 27410 idence(R.l.)MeetingandofNantucket(Mass.)Wor­ ship Group. He was previously an active member of

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 37 Scarsdale (N.Y.) Meeting. He joined the Religious Stanley-RupertM. Stanley, 77, on Dec. 18, 1990, SocietyofFriendsin 1940. In 1988,inanarticledic­ at Chestnut Hill Rehabilitation Hospital in Penn­ tated for The Newport Review, he said, "Looking sylvania. A resident of Chestnut Hill, he spent most back over half a century of so-called creative work, of his working years and beyond struggling to im­ I can speak with conviction: the Divine in us has the prove the lives of the impoverished and powerless. final say in our quest for perfection." He is survived At the time of his death, he was a volunteer com­ by his wife, Antonie; a daughter, Suzanne Jensen; munity activist with the Northwest Victims Service and a son, Timothy Eichenberg. in Germantown, Pa., and was active in the North­ Goodman-SeligGoodman, 66, on Nov. 24, 1990, west Interfaith Movement. During WWII, he at his home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, after a year's registered as a conscientious objector and was found illness. He was born in Philadelphia, Pa. While still to be ineligible for the draft because oftuberculosis. a high school student, he joined the army and was Having spent his early years in China and being decorated for his wartime service in Italy, France, fluent in the language, he volunteered to serve in that and Norway during WWII. After his discharge in country with an ambulance unit sponsored by I 945, he set about completing his education for what Friends. Much of his life was devoted to Friends' would become the main concern of his life, to work work. For about five years, he worked for the for international understanding and peace. At the American Friends Service Committee on a project University of Pennsylvania and the University of at the Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. Denver, he majored in international studies, and he He had a degree in agronomy from the University received a master's degree in social and technical of Tennessee and used that knowledge in working assistancefromHaverfordCollegein 1954. In 1950, on4-H projects with youth, as well as on education, he attended an international student seminar in in job training, and in organizing teams to construct Holderness, New Hampshire, where he met Frances community buildings. Later, he worked in a similar Mellinger, who became his wife and his lifelong co­ capacity with migrant workers in southern New worker for pacifism. He worked for the Red Cross Jersey. When he retired several years ago, he was a at Fort Meade, then on the island ofGuam, and later job counselor with the U.S. Department of Labor in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1963 he began work at the in Philadelphia. He is survived by his wife, Ann American Friends Service Committee as secretary Fisher Stanley; a son, Terry F.; a daughter, Helen for peace education in the Dayton, Ohio, office. Sue; two grandchildren; three brothers; and a sister. Later came work forthe Quakers in New Delhi, In­ Stephens-Lucie Logan Stephens, 101, on Dec. 22, dia; for Antioch's International Programs; fort he 1990, in Montpelier, Vt. She was widely known as Fellowship of Reconciliation; and most recently for a kindergarten and elementary school teacher at the the Friends Committee on National Legislation, School in Rose Valley for more than 30 years. She FRIENDS CHILD CARE CENTER where he and his wife also served as co-hosts and resi­ was born in Scranton, Pa., and graduated from Co­ Nurturing child care for infants, toddlers and pre· dent managers of Davis house, a Quaker interna­ lumbia Teachers College in New York. In the 1920s schoolers. A developmental program emphasizing tional guest house. They returned to their Yellow she moved to Swarthmore, Pa., and taught at Media Quaker values. Convenient Friends Center location. Springs home in January 1990. He is survived by his Friends School. She was one of the founders of the Margaret Guerra, Director wife, Frances; a sister, Naomi Buckler; a brother, School in Rose Valley in 1929. She married Daniel 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA (215) 241·7011 Victor Goodman; sons, David and Eugene Good­ Owen Stephens, an architect and astronomical ar­ man; daughters, Carla Johnston and Doreen Cave; tist. A dedicated member of the Religious Society and three grandchildren. of Friends, she was first a member of Swarthmore 0 " Paulsen-Marion B. Paulsen, 81, on Sept. 12, 1990, (Pa.) Meeting and later a member of Providence of cancer. She was a resident at Friend's Village, (Pa.) Meeting. She left the area in 1990to live inVer­ Newtown, Pa. A convinced Friend since the early mont, after spending IS years at The Harned, a 1950s, she had been a member of Brooklyn (N.Y.), Friends retirement home in Moylan, Pa. She is sur­ Cornwall (N.Y.), and Rahway and Plainfield(N.J .) vived by two daughters, Joyce Stephens Rhode and ~ meetings. She was clerk of the Junior Yearly Meeting Barbara Stephens Starr; two grandchildren; and five • m~i:\

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FRIENDS JoURNAL March 1991 39 witness on Sunday at the test site. Cost: $35, in­ cludes meals, sleeping bag space. Contact Linda Dunn, 250 E. Blaine St., Riverside, CA 92507, or Calendar call (714) 682-5364. 28-31-South Central Yearly Meeting, at Green -~~~ Founded in 1845 Family Camp, Bruceville, Texas. Contact Gary A CO-EDUCATIONAL DAY SCHOOL Hicks, 1607 Morgan Lane, Austin, TX 78704, or FOR GRADES K-12 call (5 12) 442-5623. 23-Acre Overbrook Campus 28-31-FWCC European and Near East Section Annual Meeting, at De Weyst, Handel/Eindhoven. New 18-Acre Lower School Campus 28-31-Peru-lnela Yearly Meeting, at Jiron San in Wynnewood Sebastian 249, llave, Puno. Contact Ramon David M. Felsen, Headmaster Mamani Chipana, Apartado 369, Puno, Peru, or call 35-12-22. For information: (215) 649-7440 29-April 1-lreland Yearly Meeting at Friends 68th Street & City Line Avenue, School, Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Philadelphia. P A 19151 APRIL 3-6-"Literacy and Power: Exploring the Con­ nections," the 1991 Quaker Youth Seminar, at MARCH William Penn House, a Quaker seminar and hospitality center in Washington, D.C. For high 7-10-Lenten Desert Experience at the Nevada school juniors and seniors. Participants will ex­ PENDLE HILL Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. plore how reading skills affect personal, economic, Scholarship Speaker: Olzhas Suleimenov. Workshops led by and political lifestyles. Cost: $35, including Daniel Berrigan, Dale White, Jim Wallis, and breakfasts, dinners, and lodging. Deadline to Opportunities others. Services also to be held on Palm Sunday, register is March 3. Contact Leah Langworthy or March 24; Good Friday, March 29; and Easter, Pete Fairman at William Penn House, 515 East I March 31, contact Nevada Desert Experience, Capitol St., Wash., DC 20003, or call (202) Box 4487, Las Vegas, NV 89127 , or call (702) Henry J. Cadbury Scholarship 543-5560. Full support for the academic 1991-92 646-4814. 3-7-Southeastern Yearly Meeting, at Lakewood year is available to a Quaker scholar 8- 11-"The Way of Friends: Contemporary Cur­ through this new scholarship. Academ­ Retreat Center, Brooksville, Fla. Contact Vicki rents," led by Vinton Deming, editor-manager of Carlie, 3112 Via Dos, Orlando, FL 32817, or call ic work is combined with Pendle Hill FRIENDS JouRNAL, at the School of the · Spirit, (407) 678-1429. community life, including shared wor­ which is the annual gathering of Mountain View ship, meals, and daily jobs. (Colo.) Meeting. 12-14-FWCC Midwest Regional Conference, at Canton, Ohio. Theme is " In Spirit and in Truth," 13-17-Alaska Yearly Meeting, at Kotzebue, The scholarship will be awarded this focusing on preparation for the FWCC World Alaska. Contact Robert Sheldon, Box 687, Conference, to be held at three separate sites spring on the basis of demonstrated Kotzebue, AK 99752, or call (907) 442-3906. worldwide this summer. interest in Quaker faith and practice 14-17-Friends World Committee for Consulta­ and/or history, and the specific re­ 12-14-Nevada Test Site gathering in Las Vegas, tion, Section of the Americas Annual Meeting, at Nevada, to stop nuclear testing. Features dozens search proposed for the resident year. Double Tree Hotel, Houston lnternatioqal Air­ Early application is advised. Please of international speakers and world class musical port, Houston, Texas. artists. Contact Nevada Desert Experience, Box contact Scholarship Admissions. 15-17-Meditation and Social Action retreat at 4487, Las Vegas, NV 89127, or call (702) 646-4814. Woolman Hill, a Quaker Center. Focus will be on 15-Five-day walk from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Dewing and Judson finding ways to help spiritual practice feed activ­ the Nevada Test Site, which is 65 miles northwest Sojourner Scholarships ism, as well as allowing activism to deepen spiritual of Las Vegas. Contact Nevada Desert Experience, Full support for a one week sojourning practice. Leaders will be Paula Green, Eric Kolvig, address above. experience is now funded for two people and Jim Perkins, who each have extensive ex­ each year: one person doing creative perience in Vipassana Buddhist meditation, as well work and one peace or social change as involvements with activism. Cost: $70. For in­ activist needing time for spiritual formation, contact Woolman Hill, Deerfield, MA 01342 , or call (413) 774-3431. renewal in a structured and supportive community. Funding is available for this 20-21-Earth Day observance, an international Classified spring or summer. Apply to Sojoumer holiday to be celebrated on the spring equinox in Place your ad today. Scholarship Admissions, Pendle Hill. the Northern Hemisphere and the fall equinox in the Southern Hemisphere, which arrives in the For information call (215) 241-7279. United States at 10:02 p.m. EST on March 20, or so• per word. Minimum charge is $10. Student Internships Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount tor 0302 Greenwich Mean Time on Mlftch 21 . The three consecutive insertions, 25% for six. Pendle Hill is seeking student intem event is independent of national, racial, or religious applicants for the 1991-92 Resident Appearance of any advertisement does not imply affiliations, and dedicated to the peaceful care and endorsement by FRIENDS JOURNAL. Program year. Student Interns receive protection of our planet. For more information Copy deadline: 6 weeks before publication. the same opportunities and privileges or to report your Earth Day plans, contact The as other Resident Program students in Earth Society Foundation, 585 Fifth Ave. , New exchange for 25 hours of work per week York, NY 10017, or call (212) 935-9423. Accommodations for 1 0 months. Please apply to Linda 20-24-Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, at Arch The Berbhlrea, Me8811Chuaena. Baldwin Hill Farm Bed & Breakfast. Box 125, R0#3, Great Barrington, Mass. Lyman, Pendle Hill. Street Meeting House in Philadelphia. For infor­ 01230. (413) 528-4092. Friends farm homestead in mation, contact Edwin Staudt, 1515 Cherry St., Berkshires on 450 acres. One mile from Route 71 , two miles Pendle Hill Phila., PA 19102, or call (215) 241-7210. from Ate. 23, and 21f.z miles from Ate. 7. Near all fall, winter, summer attractions and activities. Dining nearby. Wallingford, PA 19086 22- 24-Nevada Test Site Vigil, at St. James Marvelous views, pool, country breakfast. (215) 566-4507 Church, Las Vegas, Nevada. Includes speakers, Greeter Boeton Hospitality, a bed and breakfast reser­ noon vigil, worship-sharing, and worship and vation service offers modest to luxury homes, inns, and

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For application, ty one half hour south of Boston, three-quarters' hour nor1h manuscript and archival processing and preservation information: Beacon Hill Friends House, 6 Chestnut Street, of Providence. Two floors plus finished attic with skylights, techniques. Qualifications: MLS from an ALA accredited Boston, MA 02108. Telephone: (617) 227·9118. patio, mini-garden, woodshed. Wood stove, two bedrooms, graduate library program or equivalent. Demonstrated two baths, $120,000 or best offer. Write: Mary F. Simple low-coat lodging for individuals and groups. knowledge of archival principles and practices. Experience Sutherland, 7 Rufus Jones Lane, North Easton, MA 02356 Seminar planning available. Quaker center on Capitol Hill. with computer applications in archival collections preferred. or call Shelia Plecha (508) 238-8108. William Penn House, 515 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, Familiarity with a major bibliographic utility (preferable D.C. 20003. (202) 543-5560. 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Marc Simon, Rue de Ia Tour de I'Oume, 30290 Friends Extension Corporation, 101 Quaker Hill Dr., Rich­ seeking a Director to begin summer 1991. Quaker Hill of­ St. VictorIa Coste, France, or J. Simon, 217 High Park Blvd, mond, IN 47374-1980; (317) 962-7573. fers the ministry of leadership and hospitality for the Soler Architecture: save the environment and energy. development of personal and corporate life in Christ. We Buffalo, NY 14226. (716) 836-8698. Your solar dream home designed by Robert Bennett, Ar­ seek a mature Quaker leader with a living experience of Rent or Mil 2'12 story redwood, octagon house with deck chitect & Engineer. Pennsylvania , New Jersey, Delaware. Christ. Dulles will Include: 1) Oversight of center operation, on shared 25 acre hillside in Sebastopol, Calif. Partnership staff, and the facility; 2) Working with the Board in develop­ in on-going, nonviolent training center at main-house. (215) 667-7365. ing programs that carry out the vision of the Center. Ap­ $850/mo. includes available firewood and well-water. Barn plications: resume and letter of interest should be sent to for animals. Workshed with darkroom, $100 extra. Betsy Chiropractic Cere: Health is optimal physical, mental, Curt Shaw, Clerk of the Search Committee, 10 Quaker Hill Eberhardt, 9899 Barnett Valley Rd., Sebastopol, CA 95472. social, and spiritual well being. The Inner Light of our Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Applications will be reviewed (707) 823-1583. Inquire immediately. spirit and the Innate Intelligence of our body are equally as received and interviews conducted on a rolling basis. Vermont. Comfortable housekeeping cabins in Mt. Holly essential if health is to be attained. Offering chiroprac­ To be considered, an application must be in hand by March near Appalachian Trail. Simple, secluded, swimming, tic care with this concept in mind, Frank Lichtner DC, 1~ . boating. 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42 March 1991 F'RIENDs JouRNAL Macpherson, Martin 62 Magraw, Shirley 54 FRIENDS JOURNAL Mahshi, Kahlil and Evelyn Smuck 128 Manire, Sarah, and Yvonne Boeger 148 Manousos, Anthony 2 Oregon Historical Society, excerpts from Mss 50 105 Matchett, William H. 106 Maxfield-Miller, Betsy 82 19901ndex Merwin, W. S. 157 Mikesell, Mary 41 How to Use This Index Cayard, Wallace 67 Miller, Kenneth 43 Charland, William 135 Morley, Barry 69, 132 The numbers after the author and subject Claggett-Borne, Elizabeth 16 Moulton, Phillips P. 117 entries below refer to the numbered articles Coan, Eileen 31 Mr. Toby (Mass.) Meeting 96 beginning on the next page. Articles are listed Cobb, Henry 26 Munn, May Mansoor 56 alphabetically by title and include author, issue, Conrad, Tom 45 Nelson, Susan 93 and page number. All book reviews and poetry Crauder, Renee 122 Osborn, Rebecca M. 77 are listed by author. Reports are listed by Cresson, Osborn 118 Pahl, Greg 9 organization. Crom, Scott 74 Paxson, Heather Anne 64 Cronk, Elwood 51 Peck, Catherine 79 Deming, Vinton 3, 32, 35, 52, 76, 89, 91, Peers, Jane 55 92, 99, 108, 165 Perry, John 17 Dodson, Ed 129 Peterson, Betty 159 FRIENDS ~ ~ ~ Drayton, Brian 103, 104 Postlethwaite, Althea 7, 80, 116 Eccleston, Alan 24 Powelson, Jack 98 JOURNAL ~ Elchis, Boris 60 Regen, Rosalie 72 Elliott, Melissa K. 61, 137, 143 Reynolds, Margaret 65 Esmonde, Phil 169 Rhodes, David 134 Ettel, Herb 13 Ridgeway, Nino 113 Fager, Chuck 40 Robbins, Jhan 42 Flower, Ruth 144 Rochelle, Jay C. 30 Freeman, Henry B. /52 Rubenstein, D. H. 162 Friends Journal, compiler 58, 149, 170 Samuel, Dorothy T. 138 Geist, Kathleen and Amy Weber 83 Samuel, Ralph David 94 Germantown Friends First-day School Sanderson, Ross 50 Meeting 145 Scattergood, Sara Park 119 Gilbert, Mary 11 Schafer, Lisa Rohner 139 Gobell, Alfred A. 95 Schenck, Patience A. 73 Goin, Lynda 158 Schrader, Ann M. 34 Grundy, Marty Paxson 167 Segal, Rima M. 142 Hart, Denise 53 Smith, Harlan J. 112 Herman, Ted 1 Smuck, Evelyn (see Mahshi, Kahlil) Herrmann, John A. 48 Smyth, Elizabeth Cunningham 110 Hill, Leslie 87 Snyder, Audrey 75 Hole, Francis D. 27 Stern, Christopher E. 85 Authors Hostetter, Doug 25, 115 Stever, Ann 71 Irwin, Francis G. 46 Stief, Ron, and Julian Kunnie 156 Aaron, Jeffrey 166 Jack, Homer A. 70, 88 Strand, Wilson E. 97 Abrams, Irwin 151 Jack, Ingeborg 37 Swomley, John M. 153 AFSC Corporation 127 Jacob, Norma 109 Tatum, Robert 44 A.H. 21 Jeavons, Thomas 130 Tjossem, Wilmer 123 Anonymous 68, 161 Jones, Peter D. 124 Toverud, Connie 100 Apsey, Virginia 133 Kennington, Paddy 23 Urner, Carol Reilley 81 Avery, Chel 155 Kenworthy, Leonard, S. 63 Van Ness, Becky 140 Bacon, Margaret Hope 154 King, Martin Luther, Jr. 10 Vance, Gerald W. 125 Baker, Wanda 6 Kopen, Laura 47 Walters, Herb 36 Barry, Peter 8 Kunnie, Julian (see Steif, Ron) Webb, George N. 120, 136 Bartram, Howard W. 131 Lakey, George 150 Weber, Amy 147 Belieu, Kit 28 Lampen, John 168 Weber, Amy (see Geist, Kathleen and Amy Bietz, Myron 102 Lape, Herb 20 Weber) Bishop, Elaine 78 Legg, Sam 114 Wilkinson, Signe 38 Blanchard, Paul 111 Levinger; Ann 107 Wolfe, Nanlouise and Stephen Zunes 39 Blystone, Scott 33 Lings, Kjeld K. 121 Women's Rights Committee, New York Boeger, Yvonne 22 Liveoak, Val 84 Yearly Meeting 126 Boeger, Yvonne (see Manire, Sarah) Lowden, Stephanie Golightly 171 Yocum, Margaret R. 163 Bradshaw, Janice 14 M., R.J. 160 Young, Joy 19 Bristol, Jim 59 McGreehan, Cara 164 Young, Mildred Binns 12 Brown, Joshua 5 McGreehan, Deirdre M. 4 Young, Rebecca Martin 66, 90 Brown, Judith 15 Mcintosh, Alastair 18 Zarowin, Stanley 57 Buffington, Elisabeth 29 McLaughlin, Elizabeth Taylor 141 Zunes, Stephen 86 Carolina Friends Middle School students 146 M., R.J. 160 Zunes, Stephen (see Wolfe, Nanlouise and Cary, Stephen G. 101 MacDougall, John 49 Stephen Zunes)

FRIENDS JouRNAL March 1991 43 Prisons 33 19. "Change of Heart? A,'' Joy Young, Subjects Quakerism Today 1, 29, 51, 57, 63, 64, 11:21 67, 69. 77, 82, 94, 107, 120, 121, 127, 20. ''Children Attending Meeting,'' Herb Abortion 39, 110, 139 130, 154, 155, 158, 165, 167, 168 Lape, 10: 12-13 Aging 163 Race 70, 88, 114 21. "Children in Chains," A.H., 7: 30-31 Arts 9 Religion and the World 10, 25, 29, 79, 22. "Christmas at Live Oak Meeting,'' Bible 11, 40, 41 84, 97, 98, 110, 115, 144, 153 Yvonne Boeger, 12: 13 Biblical Analysis 11, 40, 151 Resurrection 72, 137, 159 23. "Christmas Biscuit, The,'' Paddy Capital Punishment 33 Sanctuary 152 Kennington, 12: 8 Central America 71,101, 117, 121, 152, Seasons 102, 130, 137 24. "Christmas Message, A,'' Alan 159, 161 Self-realization 5, 6, 9, 23, 52, 69, 95, Eccleston, 12: 17 Children 7, 20, 21, 26, 35, 37, 42, 53, 55, 102, 113, 132, 133, 140 25. "Conscientious Objectors in Eastern 56, 80, 91, 111, 116, 145, 164, 171 Sexual Expression 11, 39, 138 Europe,'' Doug Hostetter, 1: 10 Christmas 8, 12, 22, 23, 24, 66, 92, 160, Simplicity 141, 83 26. "Creating the Living Silence,'' Henry 171 Social Concerns 12, 16, 19, 36, 37, 78, Cobb, 1: 16 Christocentrism 67, 85, 122 110, 144, 148, 156, 157, 160 27. "Dear Friend,'' Francis D. Hole, Community 140 South Africa 32, 47 9: 13 Conflict Resolution 15, 46, 51, 68, 80, Spiritual Growth 48, 73, 95, 102, 104, 28. "Delving Deeper into the Philippines 116, 155, 169 130, 137, 143, 145, 152, 159 Issue,'' Kit Belieu, 2: 5 Conscientious Objection 25, 115 Stewardship 28, 141 29. "Do You 'Hunger and Thirst'?" Death 72, 163 Theological Reflection 27, 30, 41, 60, 74, Elisabeth Buffington, 7: 22-23 Disarmament 49 131, 135, 151 30. "Drawn to the Quiet,'' Jay C. Discipline 6, 73, 104, 125,131 U.S./USSR Reconciliation 65, 115, 143, Rochelle, 7: 14-16 Ecology 17, 18, 62, 83, 84, 156, 157, 158 153 31. "Duel with Duality,'' Eileen Coan, Economics 98 Universalism 2, 60, 67, 81 3:5 Education 99, 100, 119, 129, 134, 146 War Tax Resistance 162 32. "End in Sight? An,'' Vinton Deming, Environment 17, 18, 35, 62, 83, 112, 156, Women's Rights 109, 114, 126, 139, 154 7:2 157, 158 Worship 20, 24, 26, 30, 42, 48, 50, 55, 33. "End to State-Sanctioned Murder, Family 53, 77, 79, 91, 119 57, 73, 103, 104, 113, 125, 149 An,'' Scott Blystone, 6: 5 Fiction 77, 95 Youth 47, 79, 82, 129, 145, 146, 147 34. " England, Friendship Force Style,'' Friends Institutions 1, 94, 100, 119, 120, Ann M. Schrader, 1:26-28 123, 127, 128, 134, 136, 146, 170 35. " Every Nickel Counts,'' Vinton Friends Journal Activities 61, 89, 90, 99, Deming, 8:2 137 Articles 36. "Fighting for Their Lives," Herb Friends Meeting 1, 3, 4, 14, 15, 16, 20, Walters, 1: 30-31 22, 26, 42, 45, 51, 54, 63, 66, 68, 75, 1. ''AFSC and Friends: Building Closer 37. "First Call for Children,'' Ingeborg 87, 94, 96, 107, 111, 113, 123, 126, Ties," Ted Herman, 11: 30-33 Jack, 10: 21-22 127, 140, 155, 166 2. " 'All God's Critters Got a Place in 38. "Friendly Funnies,'' Signe Wilkinson, Friendship 34 the Choir,' "Anthony Manousos, 10:20 Future 112 2: 16-17 39. "Friends and Abortion: Appreciating Games and Puzzles 118 3. " All Seriousness Aside,'' Vinton Our Common Faith,'' Nanlouise Gay Rights 11 Deming, 3:2 Wolfe and Stephen Zunes, 2: 13-15 Good Order of Friends 39, 51, 57, 68, 94, 4. "And a Little Child Shall Lead 40. "From Detoxification to God­ 120, 125, 136, 138, 142, 167, 168 Them," Deirdre M. McGreehan, wrestling,'' Chuck Fager, 7: 25-27 Handicapped 4; 54, 75, 164, 166 2: 18-22 41. "From Mary's Journal,'' Mary Healing 114 5. "Anger,'' Joshua Brown, 6: 28 Mikesell, 8: 16-17 Health 53 6. "Beam, The,'' Wanda Baker, 9: 34 42. "From the Mouths of Quaker History 10, 59, 85, 88, 103, 105, 167, 168 7. "Best Things in Life Are Free . .. , Children,'' Jhan Robbins, 10: 16 Homosexuality 11, 87, 106, 138, 142 The" Althea Postlethwaite, 10: 17 43. " Gaining a New Co-Sponsor,'' Human Rights 4, 31, 62, 70, 75, 88, 166 8. "Bethlehem Reminiscences,'' Peter Kenneth Miller, 5: 30 Humor 3, 38, 44, 61, 96, 165 Barry, 12: 24-25 44. "Genesis, Mark 3(A)(1),'' Robert F. International 25, 28, 34, 37, 45, 81, 97, 9. "Beyond the Power of Myth,'' Greg Tatman, 7:39 98, 150, 170 Pahl, 12: 18-20 45. "German Friends Meet Jointly,'' Tom Lifestyle 5, 31, 52, 64, 76, 83, 106, 126, 10. "Beyond Vietnam," Martin Luther Conrad, 3: 30-31 129, 141, 142 King, Jr., 1: 7 46. ''Getting Rid of the War System,'' Marriage 87, 106, 142 11. "Bible and Homosexuality, The,'' Francis G. Irwin, 5: 5 Middle East 56, 92, 128 Mary Gilbert, 7: 28-30 47. "Gift of Understanding, A,'' Laura Ministry 24, 50, 57, 76, 103, 125, 149, 12. "Big Christmas,'' Mildred Binns Kopen, 5: 26-28 154 Young, 12: 10-12 48. "God Beyond Words, A,'' John A. Music 2, 66, 90 13. "Bound by a Common Humanity: Herrmann, 11: 22-23 Mystical Quakerism 30, 131, 132, 135 The Willoughbys at 75,'' Herb Ettel, 49. "Grassroots Disarmament,'' John Native Americans 78 9: 21-25 MacDougall, 8: 10-11 Nonviolence 10, 36, 46, 59, 116, 169 14. "Brainerd Worship Group, A Time to 50. "Guidelines for Speaking in Nuclear Technology 93, 112, 124 Cherish,'' Janice Bradshaw, 3: 16 Meeting,'' Ross Sanderson, 5: 36-37 Peace 10, 34, 46, 92 15. "Building Community in Conflict," 51. " Handling Our Differences,'' Elwood Peace Activities 46, 49, 86, 93, 97, 101, Judith Brown, 12: 21-23 Cronk, 1: 17-19 150, 169 16. "Building Houses for God's 52. "Hard to Tell,'' Vinton Deming, 6: 2 Personalities 13, 32, 58, 59, 65, 70, 108, Community,'' Elizabeth Claggett­ 53. " Healing Pregnancy Loss, A Journey 143, 163 Borne, 9: 32-33 Back to Faith,'' Denise Hart, 1: 24-26 · Personal Presence 48, 81, 122, 132 17 . "Call to Consciousness, A,'' John 54. "Hearing Impairment in Our Friends Political Action 21, 36, 43, 58, 71, 78, Perry, 6: 14-16 Meeting,'' Shirley Magraw, 6: 11-12 86, 93, 99, 101, 117, 124, 144, 150, 18. "Call toRe-enchantment,'' Alastair 55. "Helping Children Use Worship,'' 161 Mcintosh, 7: 8-9 Jane Peers, 2: 30-31

44 March 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL 56. "Homecoming," May Mansoor Deming, 4: 2 126. " Queries on Sexism," Women's Munn, 3: 18-19 92. "Messages of Hope," Vinton Rights Committee, New York Yearly 57 . "Homogenized Quaker, The," Deming, 12: 2 Meeting, 7: 20-21 Stanley Zarowin, 5: 16-18 93. " Midnight Peace Talks at a Missile 127. " Queries to Stimulate Dialogue," 58. "Honors go to 'Radical-Liberal' Silo," Susan Nelson, 7: 32 AFSC Corporation, 11 : 30-31 Friend," Friends Journal, compiler 94. "Ministry of Laying Down, The," 128. "Ramallah Schools ask for help," 7: 36 Ralph David Samuel, 8: 12-13 Kahlil Mahshi and Evelyn Smuck, 59. "Horace Alexander: A Tribute," Jim 95. "Model of the Thief, The," Alfred A. 10:32-33 Bristol, 3: 8-11 Gobeli, 4: 16-19 129. "Realistic Approach to Drug 60. " How to Know God," Boris Elchis, 96. "Moments from the Meddling for Education, A," Ed Dodson, 9: 14-17 9:28 Busses," Mt. Toby Meeting, 6: 34 130. "Rediscovering Symbols for Our 61. " Huh?" Melissa K. Elliott, 6: 31 97. "Nagasaki: The Forgotten City," Time," Thomas Jeavons, 2: 10-12 62. " Human Rights Turn Green," Martin Wilson E. Strand, 8: 8-9 131. "Reflections on Mysticism and God," Macpherson, 9: 30-31 98. "New Russia's Primer," Jack Howard W. Bartram, 3: 7 63. "I Wish Friends Would . .. ," Powelson, 6: 21-23 132. "Revelation, the Abundant Gift," Leonard S. Kenworthy, 11: 11-13 99. "New Semesters," Vinton Deming, Barry Morley, 3: 12-14 64. "I'm a Thee, Too," Heather Anne 10:2 133 . " Roses," Virginia Apsey, 7: /2 Paxson, 6: 18-20 100. " New Smoking Policy: Consensus in 134. " Scattergood's Centennial 65 . "In a Sunlit Meadow," Margaret Practice, A," Connie Toverud, Celebration and Reunion," David Reynolds, 5: 24-25 10:9-10 Rhodes, 10: 7-9 66. " In silence and song," Rebecca 101. "New Winds Blowing to our South," 135 . " Search Among Spirits: A Martin Young, 12: 32 Stephen G. Cary, 5: 8-11 Meditation, The," William Charland, 67 . "Interfaith Dialogue and Personal 102. "Of Roots and Growth," Myron 9: 26-27 Commitment," Wallace Cayard, Bietz, 2: 7 136. "Search for Answers, A ," George N. 9:28-29 103. "On Opportunities," Brian Drayton, Webb, 5:22 68. "Invitation to Share, An," 9:8-9 137. "Season of Waiting, A," Melissa Kay Anonymous, 4: 5 104. "On Solid Sitting," Brian Drayton, Elliott, 1: 2 69. "I've Been to Alabama," Barry 3: 15 138. "Seeking a Testimony on Sexual Morley, 9: 10-13 105 . "On the Old Oregon Trail," excerpted Expression," Dorothy T. Samuel, 70. "James Reeb: Civil Rights Martyr," from Mss 50 of the manuscripts 3: 17-18 Homer A. Jack, 3: 24-25 collection of the Oregon Historical 139. "Seeking Clearness on Abortion," 71. "Journey in Nicaragua," Ann Stever, Society," 6: 29 Lisa Rohner Schafer, 9: 18-20 5: 11-14 106. " On the Word Marriage," William H. 140. "Seeking First the Kingdom," Becky 72. " Joy of Death, The," Rosalie Regen, Matchett, 8:22-24 Van Ness, 8: 5 4: 7-8 107. " On Welcoming Friends After 141. " Seeking Simplicity in a Complex 73. " Keeping Close to That Which is Meeting," Ann Levinger, 1: 22-23 World,' ' Elizabeth Taylor Pure," Patience A. Schenck, 5: 19-20 108. " One of the Procession," Vinton McLaughlin, 2: 25-27 74. "Keeping Time with the Spirit," Scott Deming, 9:2 142. " Some Questions Concerning Crom, 2:8-9 109. " Open Letter to a Friend," Norma Marriage," Rima M. Segal, 8: 20-21 75. "Kids on the Block," Audrey Snyder, Jacob, 1: 34-35 143. " Soviet Pilgrim, Spiritual Friend," 2:22-23 110. "Open Letter to Friends," Elizabeth Melissa Kay Elliott, 11: 14-16 76. "Kitchen Musings," Vinton Deming, Cunningham Smyth, 9: 19-20 144. " Spiritual Roots of Social Action," 2:2 111. "Organization Gathers, The," Paul Ruth Flower, 11 : 8-10 77 . "Leadings: A Fable for a Variety of Blanshard, 10: 14-15 145. " Stop, Look, and Listen .. . ," Friends," Rebecca M. Osborn, 112. "Other Side of Galileo, The," Harlan Germantown Friends First-day 7: 17-18 J. Smith, 1: 5 School Meeting, 8: 33 78. "Learning with the Innu in 113. "Passing it on," Nino Ridgeway, 146. "Student View of School Philosophy, Nitassinan," Elaine Bishop, 2: 28-29 7: 35 A," Carolina Friends Middle School 79. "Legacy," Catherine Peck, 8: 28 114. " Perceptions," Sam Legg, 7: 19-20 Students, 10:/ I 80. "Let It Begin with Me," Althea 115 . " Pilgrimage of a Soviet Quaker," 147. "Summer Opportunities for Young Postlethwaite, 5: 29 Doug Hostetter, 1: 8-11 Friends," Amy Weber, 3: 26-28 81. "Letter from Bhutan," Carol Reilley 1'16. "Plant Names," Althea 148. " Taste of Homelessness, A," Sarah Urner, 3:20-23 Postlethwaite, 8: 27-28 Manire and Yvonne Boeger, 11 : 18-20 82. "Letter to a young Friend," Betsy 117 . " Post-Election Nicaragua; A Quaker 149. " Ten Commandments," Friends Maxfield-Miller, 10: 5 View ," Phillips P. Moulton, 7: 5 Journal, compiler, 9: 34 83. " Living an Environmentally Sound 118. " Quaker Crostic," Osborn Cresson, 150. ''Thinking Locally; Acting Globally,'' Lifestyle," Kathleen Geist and Amy 1: 32-33 George Lakey, 10: 23-25 Weber, 8: 18-19 119. " Quaker Insights Support Education 151. "Thoughts About Jesus," Irwin 84. "Looking at Ourselves," Val for Parenting," Sara Park Abrams, 11 : 7 Liveoak, 11 : 5 Scattergood, 10: 18-20 152. "To Go With God, A Gift from El 85. "Looking for True Unity," 120. "Quaker Organization: Drag or Salvador's Poor," Henry B. Christopher E. Stern, 12: 14-16 Dynamo?" George N. Webb, 5: 20-22 Freeman, 4: 20-21 86. "Making an Active Witness," 121. "Quaker Study Center in Central 153. " Toward a National Repentance," Stephen Zunes, 6: 24-25 America? A," Kjeld K. Lings, John M. Swomley, 4:24-26 87. "Marriage of John and Marshall, 5: 14-15 154. "Traveling Among Friends," The," Leslie Hill, 8: 25-26 122. "Quaker Talks about Jesus Christ, Margaret Hope Bacon, 6: 8-10 88. "Martin Luther King, Jr.'s First Use A," Renee Crauder, 6: 16-17 155. "Treating Conflict as a Gift," Chel of the Courts," Homer A. Jack, 6: 26 123. "Quakerama on Interstate 80," Avery, 1:20-22 89. "Meet Gulen and Caitlyn," Vinton Wilmer Tjossem, 8: 14-15 156. "Trouble in the Island of Paradise, A Deming, 11 : 2 124. "Quakers Oppose Arms Bazaar," Land and Traditions at Risk," Ron 90. "Meet Me at the Harmonium," Peter D. Jones, 4: 27 Stief and Julian Kunnie, 4: 12-13 Rebecca Martin Young, 11 : 34-35 125. " Quality of Silence, The," Gerald W. 157. "Trouble in the Island of Paradise, A 91. "Meeting on Wheels," Vinton Vance, 7: 13 Rainforest We Can Save," W.S.

FluENDS JouRNAL March 1991 45 Merwin, 4: 14-15 Quaker Women, Margaret Hope de Wall, Frans, Peacemaking Among 158. "Unity With Nature and Quaker Bacon and Jamie Tyson, 12: 26-28 Primates, 9: 42 (Mac F. Given) Tradition," Lynda Goin, 4: 10-JJ Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Durland, William, God or Nations, 5: 38 159. "Unorthodox Easter Reflections," Horace Autenrieth and Deborah Fisch, (Douglas Gwyn) Betty Peterson, 4: 23 12: 29 Easwaran, Eknath, A Compassionate 160. " 'Unto the Least of These,' " Lake Erie Yearly Meeting, David Lore, Universe, A, 9: 40-41 (William M. R.J.M., 12: 7 12: 28 Alexander) 161. "Urgent Letter from El Salvador, London Yearly Meeting, Caroline Ethel Fager, Chuck, ed., Reclaiming a An," Anonymous, 4: 22-23 Livermore, 9: 35 Resource, 11: 38-39 (Mary Wood) 162. "War Taxes: A Quaker Dilemma," March for the Animals, The, S. J. Foster, Catherine, Women for All D.H. Rubenstein, 9: 5 Byczynski, 9: 36-37 Seasons, 8: 35 (Eileen Coan) 163. "Wave-Walking," Margaret R. Nebraska Yearly Meeting, Kay Mesner, Gracie, David Mel., ed. and narrator, Yocum, 7: 10-11 10: 30-31 Gandhi and Charlie, 9: 42 (Emily 164. "What I Learned from My Brother New York Yearly Meeting, Jeffrey Aaron, Conlon) Jimmy," Cara McGreehan, 2: 19 11: 33 Gywn, Douglas, Unmasking the Idols, 165 . "What's in a Name?" Vinton Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting, Nancy F. 2: 37-38 (Marion Fuller Archer) Deming,5:2 Neumann and Margaret Webster, Heron, Alastair, Speaking to Our 166. "Wheelchair Welcome Mat," Jeffrey 12: 29 Condition, 1: 40-41 (Brian Drayton) Aaron, 2: 20-21 Ohio Yearly Meeting, Frances Sidwell, Hewison, Hope Hay, Hedge of Wild 167. "Why Bother with Quaker History," 12: 28-29 Almonds, 4: 32 (Lyle Tatum) Marty Paxson Grundy, 1: 12-14 Pacific Yearly Meeting, Beatrice Miller, Horton, Myles, with Judith Kohl and 168. "With Windows for the Light," John 1: 29 Herbert Kohl, The Long Haul, 12: 35 Lampen, 1: 38 Planning session for joint gathering of (Sue Ella Kobak) 169. "Witness at Akwesasne," Phil Western yearly meetings, Robert Irwin, Robert A., Building a Peace Esmonde, 10: 26-29 Vogel, 2: 32 System, 6: 36 (Herb Ettel) 170. ''World Friendship Center Celebrates Soviet-American Women's Summit, Johnston William, Being in Love: The 25 Years," compiled by Friends MarciaL. Mason, 8: 29 Practice of Christian Prayer, 4: 31-32 Journal, 8: 32 Winnebago Nation, Earth Days, Margery (Renee Crauder) 171." 'Yes Virginia, there is ... World Coffey, 7: 34 Kamel, Rachael, The Global Factory, Peace,' " Stephanie Golightly World Council of Churches, "Justice, 8: 34 (Deborah Fink) Lowden, 12: 5 Peace, and the Integrity of Creation," Kasl, Charlotte Davis, Women, Sex, and Gilbert White, 7: 33-34 Addiction, 5: 38-40 (Judith Middleton) Yearly Meeting Clerks' Retreat at Pendle Knudsen-Hoffman, Gene, ed., Ways Out, Hill, Marty Grundy, ll: 34 1: 39-40 (Alex Stach) Koff-Chapin, Deborah (See Lauck, Reports Marcia S.) Kohl, Herbert (see Horton, Myles) Central and Southern Africa Yearly Kohl, Judith (see Horton, Myles) Meeting, Rory Short, 5: 31 Books Lauck, Marcia S. and Deborah Koff- Council of European Churches, Rex Barton, Lois, A Quaker Promise Kept, 9: Chapin, At the Pool of Wonder, 3: 34 Ambler, 3: 29 41 (Mary W. Millman) (Mary R. Hopkins) Dialogue with the Taproot: A Gathering Berquist, Robert, David Rhodes, and May, Gerald G., Addiction and Grace, to Deepen our Life in the Spirit, Carolyn Smith Treadway, Scattergood 1: 40 (Dorothy Reichardt) Marty Grundy, 8: 30-31 Friends School: 1890-1990, 10: 38 Mendelsohn, Everett, A Compassionate Friends Bible Conference, Mariellen 0. (Leonard S. Kenworthy) Peace, 4: 34 (John Eisenhard) Gilpin, 2: 32-33 Berrigan, Daniel, Sorrow Built a Bridge, Mooney, Philip, Belonging Always, 4: 31 Friends General Conference 1990 7: 41 (John Dear) (Stanley M. Harrison) Gathering, Nancy Scott, Louis Cox, Betto, Frei (see Castro, Fidel) Moss, Ralph W., The Cancer Industry: Jordi Comas, Mary R. Hopkins, Boulding, Elise, One Small Plot of Unraveling the Politics, 8: 34 (Rebecca Melissa Kay Elliott, Brett White, Heaven, 2: 36-37 (Janet E. Norton) Young) Deborah J. Rasmussen, Ellen Bownas, Samuel, Description of the Near, Holly, Fire in the Rain, Singer in Armontine Hodge, 11: 24-29 Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel the Storm, 12: 34-35 (Lyle Jenks) FCNL Conference on Legislative Minister, 1: 39 (Kathryn Damiano) Peavey, Fran, A Shallow Pool of Time, Advocacy, Harold Branam, Joyce Brockman, James R., Romero: a Life, 6: 35 (Joel Sartorius) Shaffer, Jonathan Brown, Bob 7: 41 (D. Pablo Stanfield) Pickvance, Joseph, A Reader's Shaffer, Gerald Carlson, Bill Ludlow, Cady, Duane L., From Warism to Companion to George Fox's Journal, and Teresa Fitzgibbon, 10: 30 Pacijzsm: A Moral Continuum, 3: 35 (Marty Grundy) FWCC Midwest Gathering, Bruce Thron­ 8: 34-35 (Patrick G. Coy) Plant, Judith, ed., Healing the Wounds: Weber, James A. Lewis, Neil Martin, Castro, Fidel and Frei Betto, Fidel and The Promise of Ecofeminism, 6: 35 Beth Wilson, 2: 32 Religion, 1: 39 (Robert Schutz) (Eileen Coan) FWCC Northeast Gathering, John Plank, Chatfield, Charles (see Debenedetti, Plaskow, Judith and Carol P. Christ, 9: 35-36 Charles) Weaving the Visions, 12: 34 (Wendy J. FWCC, Section of the Americas, 1990 Cherry, Charles L., A Quiet Haven: Henning) Annual Meeting, Sharli Powers Land, Quaker, Moral Treatment, and Ratcliff, Donald, ed., Handbook of 6: 27 Asylum Reform, 10: 38 (Ralph H . Preschool Religious Education, German Democratic Republic Friends Pickett) 3: 34-35 (Audrey Snyder) Yearly Meeting, Christof Huth, Christ, Carol P. (see Plaskow, Judith) Rhodes, David (see Berquist, Robert) 8: 29-30 Clarke, George, John Bellers: His Life, Treadway, Carolyn Smith (see Berquist, Illinois Yearly Meeting, Paul Buckley, Times, and Writings, 3: 34 (Leonard Robert) 1: 29 S. Kenworthy) Waring, Thomas, Something for Peace: Intermountain Yearly Meeting, Marbie DeBenedetti, Charles, with Charles A Memoir, 4: 32-33 (Eileen Coan) Brault, 10: 31 Chatfield, An American Ordeal, Whittaker, David J., Fighter for Peace, International Theological Conference for 12: 35-37 (Jim Bristol) 7: 40-41 (Irwin Abrams)

46 March 1991 FRIENDS JoURNAL Gobeli, Lisa, The Stormtrooper's Wife, Sider, Ronald, Non-Violence; The Books in Brief 4: 36 Invincible Weapon? 7: 42 Gorski, Terrence, Passages Through Sinetar, Marsha, Elegant Choices, Allen, Paula Gunn, Spider Woman's Recovery, 5: 38 Healing Choices, 2: 38 Granddaughters: 12: 37 Granick, Eve Wheatcroft, The Amish Sinetar, Marsha, A Person is many Anonymous, 12 Steps-A Way Out, 5: 39 Quilt, 3: 36 Wonderful, Strange Things, 8: 36 Anonymous, 12 Steps for Adult Gummere, John F., Words & C, 1: 42 Sullender, R. Scott, Losses in Later Life, Children, The, 5: 39 ·Hausherr, Rosmarie, Children and the 4: 35 Badiner, Allen Hunt, Dharma Gaia: A AIDS Virus: A Book for Children, Taussig, Hal (see Cady, Susan) Harvest of Essays on Buddhism and Parents and Teachers, 11 : 39 Taylor, Hannah H, The Three Hannahs, Ecology, 12: 37 Hendrick, George and Willene, The 9: 42 Barnes John, .. . and Orion, 3: 35 Savor of Salt, 12: 37 Taylor, Phyllis, A Quaker Look at Living Bauer, Carolyn, At the Center of the Hendrick, Willene (see Hendrick, George) with Death and Dying, 5: 40 Seesaw: Childhood Meditations, 8: 36 Heyward, Carter, Touching Our Strength: True, Michael, ed., Daniel Berrigan: Beisser, Arnold, Flying Without Wings: The Erotic as Power and the Love of Poetry, Drama, Prose, 1: 42 Personal Reflections on Being God, 7: 42 Villa-Vicencio, Charles, Trapped in Disabled, 2: 38 Hollyday, Joyce (see Wallis, Jim) Apartheid, 1: 43 Benjamin, Medea, and Andrea Freedman, Jackson, Dave and Neta, Glimpses of Wallis, Jim, and Joyce Hollyday, eds., Bridging the Global Gap: A Glory: Thirty Years of Community, Crucible of Fire: The Church Handbook to Linking Citizens of the 1: 43 Confronts Apartheid, 7: 42 First and Third Worlds, 11 : 39 Jackson, Neta (see Jackson, Dave and West, Ralph E., Jr., and John W. Bonny, Oscar E., At Home in the Neta) Burkhart, Better Than Riches, 10: 38 Universe, 4: 35 Kenworthy, Leonard S., An Introduction Wine, Jeanine, Silly Tillie, 7: 42 Braude, Ann, Radical Spirits: to Quakerism, 1: 43 Wynne-Tyson, Jon, compiler, A Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Kenworthy, Leonard S., compiler, Nine Commonplace Book of Animal 19th Century America, 6: 36 Contemporary Quaker Women Speak, Rights, 12: 37 Brimelow, Elizabeth, In and Out the 1: 43 Silence, 6: 36 Klaus, Tom, Healing Hidden Wounds: Burkhard, John W. (see West, Ralph E., Ministering to Teenagers from Jr.) Alcoholic Families, 5: 38-39 Poetry Cady, Susan Marian Ronan, and Hal Kopp, Sheldon, Raise Your Right Hand Taussig, Wisdom's Feast: Sophia in Against Fear, 5: 41 Abruzzi, Lyn, "Dear God," 2: 15 Study and Celebration, 3: 36 Lohmann, Jeanne, Gathering a Life, Bridge, Edie, "Giving Thanks," 2: 24 Campbell, Camille, Meditations with 6: 36 Bridge, Edie, "There Was a Concept," John of the Cross, 5: 40 McGinnis, James, Journey Into 2:24 Carawan, Candie (see Carawan, Guy and Compassion, 4: 36 Broyles, Anne, "Bathtime Joy," 5:23 Candie, eds.) McMakin, Jacqueline, with Sonya Dyer, DiRienzi, Dorothy, "Prism," 6: 13 Carawan, Guy and Candie, eds., Sing for Working from the Heart: For Those Ducey, Jean Sparks, "Bethlehem," 12: 9 Freedom: The Story of the Civil Who Hunger for Meaning and Graham, Anne Aimetti, " To Speak to Our Rights Movement Through Its Songs, Satisfaction in their Work, 9: 42 Condition, (for you)," 4: 9 5: 41 McNeill, John J., Taking a Chance on Grib, Dawn Pheifer, "Foreign Tongue," Charland, William A. Jr., The Heart of God, 3: 35-36 6:13 the Global Village; Technology and Martin, Sara Hines, Healing for Adult Horn, Helen Weaver, "Fierce Breath," the New Millenium, 11 : 39 Children of Alcoholics, 5: 38 5: 7 Coleman, Eliot, The Organic Grower, Miller, Levi, Ben's Wayne, 1: 43 Hultman, Ruth, "Silence for Our Youth," 1: 43 Musset, Jacques, Collins Bible 10: 16 Del Prete, Thomas, Thomas Merton and Handbook, 1: 41-42 Jolly, Paul, "First Day," 1: 15 the Education of the Whole Person, Norman, Liane Ellision, Hammer of Kriebel, John A., "Continuing 7: 42 Justice, 6: 36 Revelation," 1: 11 Diamond, Sara, Spiritual Warfare, Nouwen Henri, The Primacy of the Livingston, James B., " Reflection, 1: 42-43 Heart: Cuttings from a Journal, 7: 41 Refraction, Diffraction," 6: 13 Durnbaugh, Donald F., Pragmatic O' Bryon, Eleanor Dart, Coming Home Moorman, Albert, "A Similitude," 1: 15 Prophet: The Life of Michael Robert From Devil Mountain, 7: 41-42 Nichols-Orians, Judith, "The Progress of Zigler, 10: 38 Paehlke, Robert C., Environmentalism Seasons," 5: 23 Dyer, Sonya (see McMakin Jacqueline) and the Future of Progressive Politics, Pino, Beatrice, "Yellowstone," 9: 25 Fahy, Mary, The Tree that Survived the 12: 37 Sankichi, Toge, "Maidens of Hiroshima," Winter, 4: 36 Platt, LaVonne Godwin, Bela Banerjee: 8: 7-8 Fledderjohann, Connie (see Folsom, Bringing Health to India's Villages, Scilipoti, Anthony, ' 'Catching Sight,'' Franklin) 1: 43 11: 17 Folsom, Franklin and Connie Richman, Howard, Story of a Bill, 1: 43 Smith, Sarah, "Needlework," 9: 7 Fledderjohann, The Great Peace Ronan, Marian (see Cady, Susan) Smyth, Elizabeth Cunningham, "A March, 2: 38 Ruether, Rosemary Radford, Disputed Heretic Invites the Orthodox to Fox, Richard G., Gandhian Utopia: Questions on Being a Christian, 4: 35 Dance," 7: 24 Experiments with Culture, 7: 42 Sabatier, Renee, Blaming Others: Stothart, Robert, "Shedding Season," 4: 9 Freedman, Andrea (see Benjamin, Medea) Prejudice, Race, and Worldwide Surr, John, "Blossoms," 4:9 Garrison, Judith Farrett and Scott AIDS, 2: 38 Swaim, Alice Mackenzie, "Always Make Sheperd, Cancer and Hope: Charting Sanford, John, Dreams: God's Forgotten Windows," 8: 21 a Survival Course, 8: 36 Language, 7: 42 Williams, Dorothy, "A Lamb and a Star," Gillman, Harvey, A Minority of One, Shepard, Mark, The Community of the 12: 12 1: 42 Ark, 4: 36 Gioseffi, Daniela, ed., Women on War, Sheperd, Scott (see Garrison, Judith 7: 42 Garrett)

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