An Among Friends independent magazine serving the Religious Aspiring to Transformation Society of Friends this time of year my thoughts always turn to Jesus' death and resurrection. The theme is inescapable. I live in a temperate zone where trees are budding, Editorial A bulbs are poking new green shoots from the soil, and flowers are beginning Susan Corson-Finnerty (Publishn- and Executivt to bloom like tiny, shy harbingers ofspring. I love butterflies and moths-they are Editor), Robert Dockhorn (Smior Editor), Lisa Rand (Acting ksistant Editor), Judith Brown (Pottry another beautiful opening nature gives us to reflect on the transformational Editor), Ellen Michaud (Book &view Editor), possibilities of resurrection. Those first few spring moths batting against my kitchen J. Brent Bill {Assistant Book Rtview Editor), Joan window in the dark on mild evenings send a little thrill of anticipation through me. Overman (Book Rtviro~ ksistant}, Christine Rusch (Milestones Editor), Julie Gochenour, Robert Marks, The world is always new, always refreshing itself, always full of hidden potential just Cameron McWhirter (NtwS Editors), Kara Newell waiting to spring forth, even when it appears most lifeless. (Columnist), Marjorie Schier (Copytditor), Nara Alves {Intern) During some springtimes, my life has been full of personal loss and grief-like the Production spring four years ago when my dad died. Still, the clear message of nature burgeoning Barbara Benton {Art Dirtctor), Alia Podolsky around me has whispered the ancient truth of renewal, continuity, hope. {Assistant Art Dirtctor), Martin Kelley ( Wtb So many of us are grieving this spring; so many grappling for a handhold, a Managn-) foothold, a way to understand what has happened to us. In our lives, we each have Advertising, Circulation, Development Alex Doty (Circulation and Marketing Managn-, times when we are nailed by pain to crosses only we can name. Many of us now, like Devtlopmmt Coordinator), Nagendran Gulendran the disciples on the day following Jesus' death, are grieving for a wounded and broken (Advmising Managn-), Nicole Hackel (Circulation world, or feeling bereft and experiencing a terrible sense ofloss. There are no easy ksistant}, Pamela Nelson (Devtlopmmt ksistant), Kay Bacon, Ruth Peterson, Robert Sutton answers, but there is much to consider. {Voluntu rs) David Johns, in "The Silence ofHoly Saturday" (p.12), raises thoughtful concerns Administration about the haste with which both hawks and doves responded to the attacks of Marianne De Lange (Ojfiu Managn-), Tom McPeak (Accounting Strvicts), Tom Hanmann (Volunun-) September 11. "Holy Saturday is," he says, "a day of wondering, of anguish, of anger, BcNwd of Trustees of gnawing emptiness, of fear ... a place in-between, a time of waiting, a time for Barbara Andrews, Lucinda Anrrim, TylaAnn tears, a space for grieving." Perhaps as we grapple with the Peace Testimony and its Burger (Trtasum), Katharine Clark, Linda Coffin, meaning for us in these days, perhaps as we seek ways to be practical idealists like John Darnell, William Deursch, Maty Ann Downey, Walter Evans, Marsha Green (Rtcording Woolman or Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr., perhaps we should allow ourselves Clerk), Dan Hewitt, Linda Lyman, Larry Miller, plenty of time for that holy silence. Julian O'Reilley, Ruth Peterson, David Runkel, A year ago we published a group of articles focused on the suffering in the Middle Jonathan Tamez, Wilmer Tjossem, Elliabeth Yeats (Clerk), Anne-Marie Zilliacus East between Israelis and Palestinians. 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2 March 2002 FRIENDS JouRNAL March 2002 FRIENDS Volume 48, No. 3 OURNAL Features Deparbnents
8 A Response to September Eleventh 2 Among Friends Stephen G. Cary The U.S. needs to reassess its relations with the rest ofthe 4 Forum world. 5 V~ewpoint 12 The Silence of Holy Saturday Our testimony to the world? David L. Johns 25 Witness Only the ports teams got it right after September 11. Students learn while folding peace cranes 14 HaH in Love with Easeful Death 26 Reports and Epistles Christopher L. King Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting Can we be comfortable in the knowledge that our bodies, La Maison Quaker de Congenies, France like all ofnature , will recycle? 28 Parents' Corner 16 Paul, Apostle of Love Parenting within the Peace Testimony John Pitts Corry The organizer ofthe Christian Church faces a news 30 Books conference. 37 News 17 A Peacemaking Presence in a Troubled Land 39 Bulletin Board Genie Durland 40 Milestones The author reports on a Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation to Israel and the occupied territories. 48 Classified 22 No Return to Oslo Jeff Halper When Israeli-Palestinian negotiations resume, the "hard issues" should not be put offuntil the end. Poetry
15 Ustening Out Loud Tina Tau McMahon 20 How to Write a Poem Now Frida Westford
Cover photo by Ted Hetzel
F RIENDS JoURNAL March 2002 3 Forum The Inner Light moving that in 1987 I wrote a poem and Another side to the sanctions song about him, which was set to music by Congrarulations and many thanks for Sharon Segal and sung at a memorial service It is clear that, since the end of the Persian David Leonard's excellent article, "Christ for Ben Linder in Philadelphia. I'm glad that GulfWar, great suffering has been borne by and Jesus in Early Quakerism" (F] Sept. Linder's memory continues to be honored. that portion of the Iraqi population under the 2001) I have been researching the Inner For the benefit of readers who may be control of the Ba' athist regime in Baghdad. Light according to George Fox and C. G. unfamiliar with Linder's story, I recommend Less clear are the reasons for their suffering. Jung for several years and find his comments Joan Kruckewitt's website (
4 March 2002 FRIENDS jOURNAL Viewpoint Our Testimony to the World?
n the afrermath of our country's en such a state of perfection and that "therefore, never cease to speak of that price, lest our counter with its terrorist assailants, I while they are in that condition, we shall not resolve be shaken, or perhaps more to the I have been sometimes dismayed by saythatwar, undertaken upon a just occasion, point, lest we outrun our measures oftruth. Friends' too handy condemnation of the is altogether unlawful to them." The 1660 declaration goes on to say that it U.S. military response, particularly so when I remind Friends that during the Ameri is the Spirit of Christ that commands us the criticisms are accompanied by procla can Revolution, one-third of the military eli against war as evil. Even the Friend who is mations about Quakers "standing upon gible Quaker males in New Jersey were dis absolutely convinced that he is guided by our Peace Testimony of 350 years." Not owned for war-related offenses, that 25 per Christ should remember that, in the Pas even we, it seems, are entirely immune to cent of Indiana Quakers joined the Union sion of]esus Christ, no disciple-not one tendencies toward fundamentalism. I Army in the Civil War, that about half the was able to remain faithful unto the end. would like to remind Friends that our drafr-age Quakers in North America enlisted This is by no means a call to abandon original1660 Peace Testimony statement during World War II, that similar statistics our witness to peace. It is rather a call for was much less a call for proactive peace exist for every war, even Vietnam, reflecting Friends to speak with voices of honest, making than it was a declaration of the the divergent views within the ranks ofFriends heartfelt, soul-searching conviction and not Friends' innocence in the armed uprising over the issue of justifiable warfare. I remind with a disembodied voice from the past. It against the Crown. I would also point out Friends that when we say we "stand upon our is a call to feel at a loss to know what to do that the wording of the testimony in our Peace Testimony of 350 years," we stand when that is, in fact, the truth of one's Faith and Practice, "We do utterly deny all upon all these things and not just upon the condition; to wait calmly and silently for outward wars and strife and fightings," fundamentalist rhetoric, "We do urterly deny real opportunities to speak and be peace, omits the five very important and reveal outward wars and strife and fightings with always first with each other as members of ing words, "as to our own particular." outward weapons, for any end, or under any our families and as members of an ostensi In Isaac Penington's explanation of the pretense whatsoever and this is our testimony bly like-minded religious community. testimony's implications for the outside to the whole world." Then, if we must speak of our Testimony world he wrote that a people called by I urge Friends to reflect upon and fully ofPeace to the rest ofthe world, to speak of God to live in the Spirit ofChrist can look comprehend the extent ofconviction required an absolute denial of war, let us do it in a to their Lord for their preservation, but to make such an absolutist statement, particu voice of love, with a sacred sense of the that the Friends did not believe this neces larly when we feel moved to cry it out in personal sacrifice such a testimony may sarily applied to secular nations defending public places. We must not gloss over the fact well demand, not in defiance of our politi themselves against foreign invasion and that beneath this "rock of peace" we would cal adversaries with whom we may find that, indeed, a "gteat blessing may attend stand upon, we find ultimately a call to lay ourselves perpetually annoyed. Let us speak the sword where it is borne uprightly." down our lives and the lives of our loved ones not without first recognizing the fears and Thomas Story echoed similar sentiments for the cause of peace rather than to live the courage of those countrymen whom from Pennsylvania. Robert Barclay, whose aberting the derangement of war. we ask to cease engaging in what they writing still provides the theological un Let us acknowledge that many of our fel perceive as a defense oflife and freedom, so derpinnings for a great many Quakers in low citizens honestly feel that we are at war for they may join us in paying the price for the world today, wrote that the refusal to just and righteous causes and that they believe peace required of those who will not live by defend self is the hardest and most perfect that losing one's life in defense ofone's coun the sword but who must be prepared to part of Christianity because it requires the try and one's loved ones is a high and noble die by it. most complete denial ofself and the most calling. If we do in fact urterly deny, for any Michael Dawson entire confidence in God. He contended end, under any pretense the waging ofwar, let Hopewell, N.J. that the present state of authority in this us speak always in the same breath ofthe price Michael Dawson is the presiding clerk of world, even in the Church, was far from we are willing to pay for that denial and let us Princeton (N.J) Meeting
Silence and music as devotion One of the Ames children told me that it spirit moves," ofren with a soaring obbligato came from Taize, Brother Roger's or slight variation as it is sung in Latin, I was very interested in Mary King extraordinary community in Burgundy. English, German, French, etc. (There are Rehard's article on Taize (F]Oct. 2001). I Although it was started in 1940, Brother earphones provided with simultaneous visited the Taize community in France in Roger addressed himself to the youth of translations in many different languages 1991, and it made a vivid impression on me. Europe, particularly in communist countries usually just lying around on the floor in a sort What I remember most was the exquisite where there was such a vacuum and such of anteroom.) Many, but not all of the songs music and the ecumenical approach. It was disillusionment. This explains the use of were composed in Latin. Think "Dona Nobis like nothing I had ever experienced before many languages and the use ofsilence and Pacem," "Kyrie Eleison," "Magnificat." or since. very simple religious expression that cut Brother Roger uses the music (and the I fJrSt heard ofTaize when one of their across national boundaries. He wanted to silence) as a form of deep devotion. He chants, "Adoramus te," was part of a service give young people hope and a positive faith. focuses more on Christ and the cross than for the poet and writer Evelyn Ames in a The singing or chanting whose words some Friends might. For the most part there service at St. John the Divine in New York. may be only a phrase goes on as long as "the are few decorations-long red banners, an
FRIENDS jOURNAL March 2002 5 A Response to September Eleventh by Stephen G. Cary
a Quaker, a pacifist, and one of trol and restore at least a measure ofinvul does not teach the enemy a lesson or lead the 9 percent of U.S. citizens nerability by building alliances, tracking it to change its ways. Retaliation stiffens, A who dissent from our country's down evildoers, and military action. In his angers, and invites counterretaliation. If current response to the September 11 at words, "It is America's mission to rid the we have not learned that over the last half tack, many friends belonging to the 91 world ofevil. We must root out the terror century in the Middle East and Northern percent majority have asked me to explain ists and stamp out terrorism, and we will Ireland conflicts--to name just two of my position. Piecemeal answers are time do so." It is a new kind of war, against many settings where the tit-for-tat game consuming and unsatisfactory, so I have civilian populations, and not fought by has been on daily display-! don't know drafted this fuller statement that I can opposing armies. Our military response where we've been. Retaliation as a way to share with all interested. will be measured, designed to flush the prevail against an enemy has, short of It goes without saying that I share the guilty from their hiding places and pun view ofall in the U.S. that what happened ishing enough to persuade those who har I think we should be in New York and Washington was an bor them to turn them over. The war's unspeakable crime. I, too, want the perpe end is indefinite, but it will be long and troubled when we trators identified and brought to trial will continue until the threat of terrorism glance at our current preferably under international auspices. is eliminated. The U.S. will stay the course. Those are givens. Justice will prevail. budget: $340 billion There are two roots to our national The people ofthe U.S., traumatized by for the power to kill; anguish, either painful in itself, but to events, find comfort in a new national gether responsible for causing a level of unity, based on a fervent patriotism that $6 billion for the shock as deep or deeper than Pearl Har finds expressions in showing the flag, sing power to lift the quality bor. The first is our sadness over the ter ing "God Bless America," arranging for of life of the poor and rible loss of lives and the pain we feel for 40 million children to simultaneously re those whose days will never be the same. cite the pledge of allegiance, and con dispossessed, on The second is the harsh recognition of a gratulating ourselves on our role as the whose succor peace new national vulnerability. For 300 years champions ofjustice and the torchbearers we have been secure behind our oceans. offreedom . This outpouring is reinforced ultimately depends. For 300 years we have been in control of by the full weight of the government, the out fate. The coming of the atomic and media, and the entertainment, sports, and annihilation, been a failure. Has any ben missile age actually ended that happy state corporate communities, and leads to un efit really accrued from the daily bombing of affairs a half-century ago but did not questioned backing of the bombing of ofdirt-poor , starving, andchaoticAfghani seize the nation until September 11 , when Mghanistan as the opening phase of the stan? Has this really reduced the threat of it came like a bombshell. Citizens of the new war. terrorism? U.S. knew then that our world would There is a need for comfort in trying Second, we will likely see more terror never be the same. It was a stunning shock. times. The decline in partisan bickering ism because our bombing will increase The question we face now is how to and the coming together of our diverse alienation, and in many countries, espe respond to this new reality, and this is society are welcome. But acquiesence has cially throughout the Arab world, add to where the 91 percent and the 9 percent a downside in the present crisis because it hatred. It is already doing so. Polls taken part company. How do we differ? As I silences dissent and the serious discussion in Turkey and Pakistan have shown that a understand it, the 91 percent, under the of alternative policy directions. From my shocking 80 percent ofTurks and a ma president's leadership, hopes to regain con- perspective, this is a dangerous state of jority of Pakistanis oppose our bombing, Stephen G. Cary is a member andformer clerk of affairs because the path down which we and a dangerous number even supports Germantown {Pa.) Meeting, a retired vice presi are going is likely to lead to more terror bin Laden. It is just this hatred that pro dent of Haverford College, and has long been ism rather than less, and to decrease secu duces the fetid soil from which the terror associated with American Friends Service Com rity rather than rebuilding it. masters recruit their troops. (Compare: mittee, including 12 years as clerk ofits national Why? First, because retaliation, whether the rise of Hitler in an embittered Ger board. identified as "punishment" or "justice," many in the wake ofa vindictive Versailles.)
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FRIENDS J OURNAL March 2002 9 lowness ofs uch a comment from the most The role of the CIA Wouldn't a more powerful man in the world. Whatever it may have accomplished that I think there are things that we can do we don't know about, what we do know gene~us,cooperative that would point us in a new and more should raise the grave concern ofall in the ~le in the community hopeful direction. I identifY them in what U.S. Particularly egregious has been its follows in the hope that they will provoke role in arranging coups that overthrow of nations, instead of thought: governments we don't like, even popu readiness to go it larly elected ones. The list is long-Gua alone because we are Aid to others temala, Chile, Iran, Cambodia, to name We need to take a fresh look at our several. Do we in the U.S. have any aware the superpower that outreach to the world's poor, its hungry, ness of the millions of human beings nobody can challenge, its oppressed and illiterate, its sick, its slaughtered by the regimes we installed in millions of refugees. We think of our their place or opened the way for? I have help to change our selves as generous and caring. The reality personally seen the tragedies we wrought image and lessen anti is otherwise. The U.S. is by far the most in three of those examples: Chile, Guate miserly of all the world's industrialized mala, and Cambodia-and it is an appall Americanism a~und nations in the percentage of resources it ing record. Our readiness to interfere in the world? allocates to nonmilitary assistance to the the internal affairs of other nations poi underdeveloped world. I think we should sons our image, especially when others see policymakers could spend two weeks liv be troubled when we glance at our current the firestorm that erupts here when for ing with a Palestinian family; they might budget: $340 billion for the power to kill; eigners mess into our affairs, even when better understand the rock throwers. $6 billion for power to lift the quality of through relatively innocuous illegal con (b) Massive military aid to Israel. This life ofthe poor and dispossessed, on whose tributions to our political campaigns. is justified as necessary to assure its secu succor peace ultimately depends. rity in a hostile environment, but U.S. U.S. policies in the weapons, from heavy tanks to helicopter World arms trade Middle East gunships, kill Palestinians at a ten-to-one Shouldn't we reexamine our role as the This is the most sensitive and difficult rate and give Israel overwhelming superi largest player in the worldwide trade in concern for me to raise, but because it is ority in the brutal game of mutual retalia arms? We justifY it on the grounds that it probably the most important source of tion. This adds to Arab anger and robs us helps democratic allies defend themselves hatred of the U.S. throughout the Mus of the neutrality required of a broker in against aggressor nations, but often they lim world, where the greatest threat of peace negotiations. are dispersed on the basis of two other terrorism is centered, I have to speak to it (c) The Israeli settlement program. criteria, (1) the ability to pay, or (2) the despite my full support ofan independent Deliberately designed to honeycomb the recipient's qualification as the enemy of Israel. The problem is the perceived 50- West Bank to make a potential Palestin our enemy and therefore entitled to our year imbalance in our stance in the Israeli ian state geographically impossible, and weapons. It is this armament that fre Palestinian conflict. involving the seizure of large blocks of quently ends up in the hands of tyrants I speak to this issue on the basis ofthre e land without warning or compensation and is used to oppress their people or visits to the West Bank and Gaza over and the eviction of all who live on it, the attack their neighbors. A poignant current the last 20 years, and six weeks living program has always been a massive ob example: Mghanistan, where we armed in Jerusalem, with instructions to focus on stacle to any meaningful peace settlement. the Taliban because they were fighting the meeting with Likud officials to better un Yet for over 30 years the U.S. has made Russians, but who then used our largess to derstand their point of view. There are only the most modest protests and has seize power, with tragic results. The arms a number of factors that underlie Arab made it financially possible by large grants trade is great for Lockheed, but a curse to anger: of nonmilitary aid that have served annu the world, and a source ofs laughter from (a) The harshness of Palestinian life ally to free Israeli funds for its construc which hatred is spawned. under a half-century of brutal Israeli mili tion program. Some years ago, I was sit tary occupation-brutal not because it is ting in the office of Mayor Freij of Sanctions against Iraq Israeli, but because any occupation in a Bethlehem when he pointed across a val Shouldn't we be concerned about the hostile environment is brutal. Neither ley at a settlement under construction and 5,000-6,000 Iraqi children who die every people in the U.S. nor, indeed, many said, "Mr. Cary, I have friends whose month because of U.S.-supported sanc Israelis, have any idea ofwhat the daily life family has lived on that land for 700 years. tions? Aren't these lives just as precious as ofa Palestinian is like, and has been for 50 They were just told to get out. We could those so wantonly destroyed on Septem years: arbitrary cutting off of livelihoods; do nothing. Do you blame us for being ber 11 ? The sanctions are ofco urse aimed daily encounters with checkpoints often angry? I can promise you one thing: the at Saddam Hussein, but after years they involving long delays; land seizures; unfair Israelis will never know peace until this have left him stronger than ever, and they allotment ofwater; summary trials in mili sort of injustice is ended. You Americans are being ignored by many nations, in tary courts; sudden shutting down of could have stopped this program, but you cluding close allies. What purpose are they schools and colleges; blowing up ofhomes; weren't interested in doing so." serving to justifY the added burden of thousands trapped in squalid refugee (d) Highways crisscross theWest Bank hatred they provoke? camps since 1948. I wish U.S. and Israeli to assure easy passage between Jerusalem
10 March 2002 FRIENDS j OURNAL and the settlements. Cars with Israeli li it doesn't. We don't pay the dues we rial areas-however unintentionally-only cense plates can reach most of their desti solemnly committed ourselves to pay be add to the anger that is the root cause of nations in 20 to 40 minutes, while Pales cause some things about the organization terrorism. tinian cars take several hours because of displease us. This petty behavior badly I give priority to pursuing other av holdups at military checkpoints. hurts our image around the world. enues that promise to improve the inter {e) I've mentioned water. I do so again (b) We walk away from treaties we national climate to the point where diplo to underline that because it is in such signed and ratified, but which we no longer matic and legal initiatives can produce the short supply throughout the region, its want to be bound by. A current example culprits for trial and punishment. Biding allocation is a major issue. Israel controls is the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the our time will prove less costly than drop all water resources, and in the eyes of cornerstone of arms control for the past ping megaton bombs. Palestinians, its allocation is so unfair that 20 years. I have wanted to give some sort of it is a source of bitterness, of which they (c) Ignoring, vetoing, or reneging on a answer to the many friends who are are reminded daily. whole range ofnegotiated agreements that troubled by bombing and retaliation, but (f) Terror. We rightly condemn and enjoy overwhelming support of the world ask, often plaintively, "But what else can give full press coverage to Palestinian ter community, but which we don't like be we do?" My suggestions are of things that ror-the blowing up of Israeli buses and cause they may limit our freedom of ac in the long run would seem to me to be the tossing of bombs into marketplaces tion. Examples: the Kyoto agreements on more likely to free us from terrorism and but where has been the outrage, or even global warming, the Nuclear Test Ban restore security than rooting out bin Laden press mention, of the Israeli practice over Treaty, the elimination ofland mines, the by twisting arms to build temporary mili many years of forcibly removing Palestin Law of the Seas agreement, the establish tary alliances, meeting violence with vio ian families from their homes and bull ment ofan international war crimes court, lence, and bombing poor countries. dozing or dynamiting them because a rela and the regulation of international trade In making my case, however, I have tive has been accused of being a terrorist? in small arms. two problems. The first is how to speak Isn't this cruel retaliation against innocent forcefully on so many issues without com people also terrorism? Destruction of a ing across as anti-American and/or anti Or, to cite a more recent, specific ex starving country and Israel-perceptions bound to produce ample of terrorism: the assassination of more heat than light. It's also frustrating Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavan Zeevi. blowing up Red Cross because I am as devoted to our nation as You will remember that a few months relief depots, any flag-waver. My aim-and my defini before his killing the Israelis assassinated tion ofpatriotism-is to help a great coun two radical Palestinians (in what they la hospitals, and try become greater, and more worthy of beled "preemptive strikes") by blowing up residential areas... _. its dreams. their cars from helicopter gun ships (U.S. My second problem is the impression I provided). The Palestinian response: noth however may convey that the United States is the ing-not, alas, by choice, but because they unintentionally-only only one responsible for bringing terror had nothing to respond with. In contrast, add to the anger that on itself, which is patently not the case. the Israeli response to the Zeevi killing: We are one player among many. Other heavy tanks (U.S. provided) sent into ten is the root cause of countries, including nations in the Arab Palestinian towns, at the cost of25 Pales terrorism. world, are guilty of sins of omission and tinians lives-all in territory turned over, commission that have contributed to the at least in theory, to the Palestinian Au Wouldn't a more generous, coopera present poisoned atmosphere, and which thority. I don't justify assassination under tive role in the community of nations, must be addressed. My position is only any circumstances, but there's hardly been instead of readiness to go it alone because that we are complicit, and should under a clearer example ofthe imbalance ofpower we are the superpower that nobody can take our response to September 11 where (courtesy of the U.S.) that is such a bitter challenge, help to change our image and it is easiest and most important to do so- source of Arab anger. lessen anti-Americanism around the world? where our own house is out of order and Earlier, I spoke ofidentifying and bring where we can ourselves do things that will The arrogance of power ing to trial the perpetrators of September contribute to easing the world's sickness. Throughout history great powers and 11 as "a given," but I haven't mentioned We must move beyond the naive but empires have always been tempted to go it the subject since. It is still a given, but it satisfying illusion that "we" are good and alone, to pursue their own interests with has a different priority with me than with "they" are evil-that the devil always lives out regard for the interests of others. En the nation's 91 percent. somewhere else: now in Berlin and To gland was the victim of this mindset Blasting Osama bin Laden and his lieu kyo; now in Moscow, Hanoi, and Beijing; throughout the 19th century. In the 21st, tenants from their caves or killing them now on to Belgrade and Kabul; but never are the immense wealth and power of the on the run will satisfy the widespread in Washington. The devil lives in the United States taking us down this road? desire for vengeance, but its price is too hearts of all of God's children, and until Some troubling evidence: high and its contribution to easing the we take responsibility to try to lift up that (a) Our stance toward the United Na threat of terrorism too low. Destruction which is good in us and cast out that tions. We call on it when it suits our of a starving country and blowing up Red which is bad, the scourge of terrorism will purposes, but ignore or denounce it when Cross relief depots, hospitals, and residen- continue to torment us. 0 FRIENDS JouRNAL March 2002 11 he most penetrating sanctimoniousness and super sound of September ficiality. Many organizations T 2001 came not on hastily generated statements Tuesday the 11th but on concerning the attacks. These Sunday the 16th. statements appeared with In November of 1963, obscene swiftness. only two days after Kennedy It was so with Friends. By was murdered in Dallas, grid Wednesday morning Friends iron warriors assembled on Committee on National Leg hundred-yard fields and islation and Friends General pushed, tackled, punted, Conference had posted state and passed. Near-capacity ments on the Internet. FCNL crowds were somber, but even posted photos of its of nevertheless cheered at seven fice draped with a banner NFL games; Pittsburgh tied sporting a bumper-sticker Chicago 17-17; Cleveland esque slogan: "War is not the trounced the Cowboys by ten answer." Like many other col points. On a Sunday after leges, even my own jumped noon in late January 1991, into the real-rime statement while soldiers were engaged game. In a statement dated in Desert Storm, the most cre September 12th and posted ative television commercials on Earlham's website: "Yes of the season were shown terday [the] president, student during breaks from Super leaders, and teaching and ad Bowl XXV. Allied troops ministrative faculty leaders fought Saddam; the New drafted this response to the York Giants beat the Buffalo day's events." I was breathless. Bills 20-19. Memos and family pictures The most penetrating sound of Sep voices sang a dirge of national self from the World Trade Center towers tember 2001 came not on Tuesday the loathing. Here the model of blame is in were srill drifi:ing over Manhattan and we 11th but on Sunday the 16th, when, in verted: they are the victims and we are the were announcing to the world what we stadiums across the country, there was no enemy. "Our foreign policy has alienated would and would not do, what was in football--only silence. The silent stadium and disenfranchised, and therefore the ac principle acceptable and what was not. was a more truthful witness to the mo tions of the terrorists, while horrible, were For a denomination that speaks much ment than were the immediate demands certainly understandable." of the value of silence there was for war; it spoke more poignantly than the It was all so simple. precious little of it in response to immediate calls for peace. Then came the statement of Pat September 11. It was the naivete of both the hawks Robertson and Jerry Falwell-identical in These statements were formu and the doves that first made me uneasy. sentiment to the statements made by some laic and predictable--like form It was all so simple--too simple. "Steer others. The United States is getting what letters resting peacefully on a hard clear, dear Odysseus, steer clear and save it deserves, what it has asked for, they said. drive waiting for someone to fill your life!" The anger of God (or, disenfranchised in the blanks, knee-jerk verbiage On the one hand, there was the im Arab and Muslim peoples) has been sim to insulate us from our fear of mediate response of "kill them," "retali mering for years and on September 11 it corporate anger. They included a ate with everything we have," "unleash reached the boiling point. We know who ceremonial denunciation of the the dogs of war." We are victims, they are the guilty party is, say Falwell and attacks to quiet the masses, then the enemy! On the day after, Lance Robertson: homosexuals, theACLU, femi they stated a prepackaged solu Morrow wrote in Time magazine, "A day nists, and abortion rights activists; we know tion. But how could we know cannot live in infamy without the who the guilty party is, say the purveyors how to respond? In rushing to nourishment of rage. Let's have rage. of national self-abuse: corporate America, make statements we demon What's needed is a unified, unifYing, Pearl the government, the military establish strated just how messianic ~ Harbor sort of purple American fury- a ment. Therefore, since we are guilty, the some of us think we are. ~ruthless indignation." attacks of God (or, disenfranchised Arab Blaming clogged the ~ At the same rime, a different chorus of and Muslim peoples) is understandable, if Internet, but empty foot ~ not actually justified. ball stadiums spoke more ~ -=D.:-'tl-vid""""· ""L.-j.=-oh.,...ns -,-a-mem-..,.ber-ojWl-====-=ilm-in_tgto_n-..,..(O""'h=-io"""~ It was all so simple. truthfully. The orthodoxy J:! Meeting 'tlnd a recorded minister in Wilmington But it was precisely the simplicity of of political correctness, ~ Yearly Meeting, is 'tln 'aSsistant professor ofThe the solutions that convinced me of their of course, srill permits ~ ofogy 'tlt E'tlr!h'tlm School ofReligion. impossibility. From the "war on them" to demeaning and smug t1:; ©2002 David L. johns the "war on us" everything had the ring of remarks concerning
12 March 2002 FRIENDS jOURNAL "brainless, testosterone-driven athletes who of the crucifixion is over; the image of the silent before the ambiguiry of life and sit in the back of the classroom"; however, embodiment of our hopes, broken and death, of death in life. it was the chorus ofsilence sung by absent bleeding and dead, still lingers fresh and In many ways, Holy Saturday is the linebackers that spoke more wisely than raw. In the liturgy, Holy Saturday reen longest day of the year. "Do not ignore the erudite prose of any academic. acts a waiting for something we know has this one fact, beloved, that with the Our time is distinguished by a certain come. Our waiting is different. In agony Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a ambiguiry. An ambiguous time is a time and in fear we want to rush into the tomb thousand years as one day" (II Peter 3:8). in-between, a place of tension, a time and rescue Jesus, to save him from the This longest "day" began on September when simple answers simply do not an chill of the tomb. But when we remove 12th, but it has neither been respected swer, when the foundations once support Jesus on Saturday we have nothing but a nor reverenced by us crafters of words ing us have been removed and nothing is corpse. Easter has not yet come. And who or by backseat legislators. Yet, silent completely settled. Louis-Marie Chauvet knows, maybe Easter will never come. stadiums ... . has wrirten that even God does not guar But, ifit does, who can know what form it Plato spoke of "metaxy" as an in antee our certainties. By scrambling to will take? between place, a place where humans meet allay our unease we ingest a panacea that Holy Saturday is a day of wondering, God. We are standing now between hor shields us from living with the pain, the of anguish, of anger, of gnawing empti ror and hope in a chasm ofbetweenness anguish, and the anger of real victims. ness, of fear, and of the questioning eyes uncertain, messy, dangerous, ambiguous. Each year in the liturgical rhythm of of children. Holy Saturday is a place in But this metaxy is the place where God is. the Christian calendar, a little noted day is between, a time of waiting, a time for On the lengthy Holy Saturday following lodged between two more celebrated tears, a space for griev September 11, I did not stand with chat- days-Holy Saturday. It is often neglected, ing. Holy Saturday is tering academics, milirary advisors, but it speaks to this moment in our his a day to remain spin doctors, or resolute pacifists; tory. Our time is a Holy I chose to stand in-between, Saturday. The horror beside the padded shoulders of a silent linebacker. 0 by Christopher L. King
his morning I was out on across my deck to her hidden nest in the perfect, round, and ripe only to chop it into the rear deck doing the yoga I do beams of the house. pieces for my salad. I resent the leaves of o keep at bay the aches and pains The day before, I had been admiring bok choy that wilt before they are ripe, but earned by living a half-century on this the handiwork of the "breaker downers" then I harvest a half-dozen unwilted plants planet. As I did my sun salutation I no on a huge pine trunk in the woods at the and stir-fry and consume them in a sitting. ticed a little plant that had grown up in edge of the yard. What had been hard pith It is pretty obvious that decay and death the crevice where the deck meets the house. and cambium was now a porridge of or are OK as long as they're notpersonal The I figured I should pull it up right away. Its ange crumbs, rendered into mulch by mil insects can demolish God's tree but not my small roots were probably digging down lipedes, pill bugs, ants, termites, fungi, house. Of course that goes double for my into the moist wood at that spot. and invisible bacteria. This was delightful. body or the bodies of those close to me. But I decided to leave it, admiring its I was thinking I could use some of this My wife, who is a physician, and a cancer impudence and knowing the growing au stuffon my garden, or ifnot , that it would specialist to boot, often hears a lament tumn would wilt it very soon. This small make fertile ground for the next genera from her patients and their families. weed had made me aware ofa simple fact: tion of wildflowers and shrubs. It also T hough the patient may be an octogen my deck, indeed my whole house, is made seems a small miracle that the leaves, pulled arian with a full life, the question still of dead wood. In nature dead wood is weeds, and kitchen scraps in our compost comes. "I have been healthy all my life. I supposed to be recycled into the biome, heap become rich soil for next season. hardly ever see a doctor. Why do I have the natural give and take of living things. So today I am very aware of my chau this disease now?" How odd that this particular stack ofwood vinism. I resent the "blight" that spots the should remain outside that process. At leaves of my roses, the "blossom end rot" hat is the answer? My wife that moment a carpenter ant meandered that wilts the zucchini before it has time to may have none that truly grow into a small green club, or the corn Wsatisfies the patient. It is not Christopher L. /(jng attends Wellesley (Mass.) borer that nests in an otherwise "perfect" the role of the doctor to discuss whether a Meeting. ear. But I'm growing more aware of the healthy, pious life receives any guarantee © 2002 Christopher L. King. irony ofmy actions. I wait until a tomato is from Divinity that decay will not occur. 14 March 2002 FRIENDS JouRNAL (And-in fairness to her patients-my wife will them for giving their lives to feed us. come home from pulling people back from the This needs to be a continuing celebration. Yes, I edge of terminal illness only to complain about the cherish this particular entity that I am, this Chris unfairness ofa stomach ache.) that I and others have built, protected, and nur We cannot avoid this kind of thought. After all, tured over the years. Yes, I love the patterns of life we are homo sapiens, "the creatures who know." I've helped create around me. But I feel I must also Compared to our fellow creatures we alone (as far have the courage to praise the invisible entities that as we know) can see the progress of our illness or are this minute slowly breaking me down: the weight death, can imagine it coming, can envision the and friction of time itself, the microorganisms that possibility that it might come. Think of the key soon need me to be their home, even the ancient element of the horror stories we tell ourselves to ritual of my own cells beginning to turn against inoculate against the fear: "caught below decks in a each other. sinking ship with the water rising"; "tied to the My courage may fail when I see where the final railroad tracks with the train bearing down"; door is. But until then I intend to welcome this joy "trapped in the haunted house with a monster on of being alive and the mystery of being made ready the loose"; or "invaded by alien entities." to become part of future generations oflife. 0 It is tempting to pray to God to fix us when we are broken. It is comforting to think that living a kind, generous, worshipful life is an insurance policy against arthritis, automobile accidents, and pimples. But in my experience the Divine Spirit Listening out Loud does not fix what needs to be broken. Ifit is useful I quaked for a dozen minutes for us to heal and go on, and we make a strong effort to heal ourselves and each other, it seems we after I sat down, pummeled often get that extra boost. by what I said, and by the clear It becomes more and more clear as I grow older blood-hammering command to say it that I am part of the deep process of nurturing the I had been full of power next generation with my life. My death will also be necessary for their survival, though I have a less but spoke in Quaker rhythms, clear vision of that. Because we humans can see my eyes closed, listening for the next word. and therefore fear and even hate our decay and After I sat down I imagined myself death, we try to live antiseptic lives, keeping'.the exhorting, like a Baptist minister: antibacterial soap at hand and the plumbing spar Friends! We are miracles! kling, inside and out. Years ago I visited a reconstruction of a Native There is nothing, nothing that is not American community in Washington, Connecti a visible fragment of the unknowable God! cut. What was remarkable was that the house, the That we are here, in these bodies, these hogan, was virtually in the ground. The floor was complex, unbelievable bodies-that these bodies earth. The walls, though covered over with bark, can contain something, a spirit, had cracks and crannies where small animals, insects, and the weather could come in. It was a consciousness, that is capable clear that the Native Americans lived cheek by of touching the unknowable God jowl with the other creatures of the land. Birth, we should all fall down in awe death, and daily living with all its fleas happened Brothers! Sisters! in the same place. The European American style is to protect our We should all be weeping in amazement! selves against these realities. Most births take place Our proper attitude in antiseptic rooms. We isolate the dying. We treat toward ourselves, toward everything, any infirmity as an injustice. Illness is no excuse should be astonishment! not to work (ironically, spreading diseases further My meeting, and I, would be shocked in the workplace). Even after we are gone we insulate our bodies from recycling in triple-layered if I took that rolling, loud road, but I know metal boxes. the power was waiting to pounce on us, It is hard but useful to remember that the not politely, but with the teeth ofjoy. blessing oflife is the blessing ofdeath. A commun ion meal celebrates the nourishment of our lives -Tina Tau McMahon but also the passing on of the grain for the bread, the grapes for the wine, the bird or beast for the Tina Tau McMahon is a member ofMultnomah M~eting in Portland, main course, each vegetable for the side dishes. If Ortgon. we thank God for these things we are also thanking
FRIENDS jOURNAL March 2002 15 ally met or worked with are the Palestin rect action, are available on a full-time recognition that the mere presence ofout ian Center for Rapprochement Between basis to enter emergency situations ofcon siders committed to nonviolence and jus Peoples (Beit Sahour), Sabeel Ecumenical flict and areas of militarization at the invi tice is a powerful deterrent to violent ag Liberation Theology Center Qerusalern), tation of local peacemakers. As stated in gression and a profound encouragement the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Cen the CPT brochure, "Responding to to endurance for those who must live ter (Bethlehem), and The Center for the Christ's radical call, its members attempt under constant threat of violence. At the Study of Nonviolence (Hebron). We also to bring the redemptive love of God to closing of CPT's work in Haiti, commu worked with Rarnallah Friends Meeting. violent situations." nity members said, "CPT didn't do any We went to Palestine as part ofa CPT CPT also maintains a reserve corps to thing. They didn't give us food or build us delegation called especially in response to augment the work of the full-time Chris shelter or donate clothing. But they saved the escalating violence on the part of both tian peacemaker corps by providing a larger our lives." In South Dakota, Lakota Indi Palestinians and Israelis as the second pool of trained peacemakers who commit ans established a peaceful occupation un Intifada continues. Our delegation's task to working with CPT part-time (two to der hostile vigilance from FBI and local was not only to witness the situation and eight weeks each year) for three years. law enforcement to protest Federal gov gather information, but to take part in (Bill's and my association with CPT this ernment plans to turn treaty land over to nonviolent direct action in support of the summer has led to a further calling for us the state. The Lakota testified that ifCPT human rights of the occupied indigenous to become CPT reservists. We undertook had not been there, they are certain things people. Christian Peacemaker T earns was an intensive, month-long training in Janu would have turned violent. founded in 1987 by the three historic ary to that end.) Because Quakers were part of the peace churches-Quakers, Mennonites, Short-term delegations, of which ours founding of CPT, they have a special and the Church of the Brethren. CPT's was one, are sent to a variety of crisis stake in its work. Our personal involve Mission Statement describes its purposes settings as part of CPT's ongoing experi ment arose from Bill's becoming Inter as follows: "Christian Peacemaker T earns ment in faith-based, active peacemaking. mountain Yearly Meeting's representative offers an organized, nonviolent alternative Delegations join permanent team mem to the Friends Peace T earns Project Coor to war and other forms of lethal inter bers in providing encouragement for indi dinating Committee. The Friends Peace group conflict. CPT provides organiza viduals and communities experiencing vio T earn Project (FPTP) was founded in tional support to persons committed to lence, challenging violations of human 1993 to promote peace team work among faith-based nonviolent alternatives in rights, and promoting active nonviolence members of the Religious Society of situations where lethal conflict is an im as a means of settling disputes. At pres Friends. FPTP assists individual Quakers, mediate reality or is supported by public ent, CPT has full-time teams in Hebron Friends churches, and yearly and monthly policy. CPT seeks to enlist the response on the West Bank, in Colombia, and in meetings in developing or supporting of the whole church in conscientious Chiapas, Mexico. In peace team projects. objection to war, and the development the past CPT has FPTP work includes ofnonviolent institutions, skills, and train maintained presences theAfrican Great Lakes ing for intervention in conflict situations. in Northern Ireland, Initiative projects in . . . Gifts of prayer, money, and time Haiti, and on the Burundi, Uganda, and from these churches undergird CPT Lakota Reservation in Rwanda. FPTP offers peacemaking ministries." South Dakota. resources and facilita Full-time CPT corps members corn The CPT Hand tors to discern or de mit themselves to a minimum of three book explains that the velop the spiritual basis years of service. Corps members, trained fundamental genius of ofpeace team work, and in peacemaking skills and nonviolent di- CPT is based on the it coordinates this work with its partner organi-
Adjacent: Rabbi Arik Ascherman directing delivery of humanitarian aid to homeless Palestinian shepherds in the Susya region (south Hebron hills) Left: One ofthe shelters being lived in by ~ displaced shepherds near Yatta -i!;:t Q Page 19, top: Members ofthe family the ::=::::! ii:l Durlands stayed with in Hebron ~ Right: Bill and Genie Durland being ~<:> interviewed by CBS News in Beit]ala ~ about the human shield action
18 March 2002 FRIENDS OURNAL zations, CPT, and Peace Brigades Inter local people involved and hear their sto national (PBI). ries. They also become connected with We made our decision to join the CPT the already established peace and justice delegation in a careful, Quaker manner. A workers and organizations on both sides of G-ree~~~ clearness process in our worship group the conflict and work with them and un was followed by dialogue with Friends in der their direction as they become known "the small school that Albuquerque (N.Mex.) Meeting, and with and trusted by both sides. What they do is makes big people" other members of the FPTP Coordinat to work for peace and justice at the ing Committee. Fundingwas provided by grassroots level. CPT's motto is "getting Albuquerque Meeting, the Elise Boulding in the way." This is an apt description of Fund for Peace T earn Work, and indi the primary method used. T earn mem vidual members of Intermountain Yearly bers, one by one or two by two, are simply Meeting. Our sense of calling to do this present in conflict situations. They stand arose from living for six months at T antur in witness to human rights abuses or po near Bethlehem in 1983-84, making many tential abuse-watchers who are known friends among Palestinians and Israelis and to be from another patt of the world. longing to return in some useful manner They intervene with their bodies and their Greene Street Friends School ever since. Learning of the work of CPT words where they see harm being done. It 5511 Greene Street Philadelphia, PA 19144 on the West Bank provided us with the is a truly Christian, Biblical activity, and opening we had been praying for. • as such, it has the greatest potential for a Pre-K through Grade 8 CPT is a distinctly apolitical organiza minimum of damage to either side while Founded in 1855 tion. T earn and delegation members work incarnating the greatest capacity for trans ing in an area of conflict do not take sides formation of the situation and hopefully Please call TODAY for a based on political considerations or the the hearts of those involved. tour. 215- 438-7545 "national interest" of any party. What What "getting in the way" meant for they do is to become acquainted with the Bill and me while we were with the team in theWest Bank this summer was taking patt in several specific actions. We acted as human shields among Palestinians in Beit ]ala for two successive nights when that city was under fire from the Israeli settlement (609) 714-0100 of Gilo across the val [email protected] ley. This meant that we went out two by • MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES • • INSCRIPTIONS • SCROLLS • 22 New Freedom Rd., Medford, NJ 08055
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FRIENDS JouRNAL March 2002 19 two and spent the night in Palestinian that city in recent years. Settlements have tive red hat, is companion to a Palestinian households in vulnerable neighborhoods. been established inside the city and some breaking curfew, chances ate that person The U.S. Consulate and news media were literally on top of Palestinian neighbor will be unmolested. The experience of informed that U.S. citizens were sleeping hoods. For some reason, the settlers who these besieged folk is that if they break in these neighborhoods with Palestinian come to Hebron ate among the most curfew on their own for some important families and that information was broad militant and volatile anywhere in the Ter need, they ate often attacked and beaten, cast on local TV stations. Our presence ritories. Their dose proximity to Palestin sometimes severely, by Israeli soldiers or did not stop the shelling, and several ian homes, businesses, and schools has settlers. Palestinian homes on the street where Bill created an atmosphere of permanent siege In Hebron, we accepted the hospitality and I were staying were severely damaged. in which Palestinians and the Israeli set of the Abdul Hafaz Jaber family for a day But we believe it provided a witness to tlers both live. The city has been divided and a night to experience firsthand their both Israelis and Palestinians. To the Is into H 1: Palestinian-controlled areas, and daily lives under curfew and in the shad raeli settlers and IDF responsible for the H2: Israeli-controlled areas. For over two ow of settlement. Our hosts were a large shelling it said that there ate U.S. citizens thirds of the past year, the Palestinian family consisting of the elder patents, who ate willing to risk their lives to stand neighborhoods have been under curfew, three married brothers, their wives, and in solidarity with the weaker patty in this which amounts to 24-hour house arrest. children. conflict. To the Palestinians it said that Businesses and schools ate dosed, and The fatnily' s home is directly across the their dilemma is known and that there Palestinian residents ate not allowed to be road from the entrance to the Israeli settle ate people in other patts of the world on the streets for any reason. ment of Kyriat Arba. Residents of the who care enough about what happens A large part of CPT's "getting in the settlement have posted a large sign in a to them to come and share a tiny part of way" in this instance is simply to be avail field facing the family's home which their daily trials. able to Palestinians who need to be on the reads--in Atabic-"Death to Arabs." Cer From Beit Jala we went to the old city street during curfew-to accompany a tain rooms of the home ate vulnerable to of Hebron to join the main team in their mother and child to a doctor appoint gratuitous gunfire from the settlement and permanent residence. We walked through ment, or accompany children to school beat damage ftom recurrent raids (broken out the old city and adjacent neighbor who would otherwise be unable to attend windows, smashed walls) that render them hoods to see for ourselves the grotesque school during curfew. CPTers have found unusable. Yet the family is unarmed and gerrymandering that has taken place in that if one of them, in his or her distinc- does not retaliate; their only provocative act is to insist upon staying put in their ancestral home. A wide, paved road reserved for settler use runs in front of their house. But their How to Write a Poem Now children (when not under curfew) must When your world is burning, traverse a steep hill behind the house, climb a three-meter wall, and travel an put some of the ashes in a dish; other six to eight circuitous blocks to get weep until your tears tum them into paste, to school because they will be beaten or Stir. shot if they set foot on the settler road. Find a scrap of paper, The brothers told us of a time when or doth, or wood. their father's medical condition became acute. They called an ambulance to take Dip a pen, a stick, your finger him to hospital. Because the ambulance in the ink. could not cross a large, permanent road Write what you must. block built to prevent Palestinian access to Try to sing your words the settlers' road, the brothers dismantled to the roadblock to allow the ambulance to and listen what others get through. Then the settlers stoned the are singing ambulance. in the dark. Our final action with CPT before re Be like the nightingale, turning to the U.S. was to go with them her breast pierced by a a thorn; and three busloads oflsraelis led by mem bers of Rabbis for Human Rights and she could not sing Ta'ayush to the Yatta (Susya) region to were she not filled with love. help deliver food, blankets, and tents to the dispossessed fatm families there. Pro -Frida Westford viding humanitarian aid in cases such as Frida Westford (the pen name ofLary Smith) is an llJtmlier ofBIDomingtqn (Ind.) this is illegal under Israeli law because "it Meeting. This poem was inspired by hearing Came Newcomer sing her son& "I Heard provides comfort to the enemy." So the an Owl CaU lAst Night. " in response tQ the events ofSeptember I I. Israelis were risking arrest for doing this good deed. On the day we accompanied
20 M arch 2002 FRIENDS JoURNAL them, we succeeded in delivering the hu Yet for the past 34 years they have been manitarian aid before IDF intervened and prevented from doing so by the ongoing caused us to leave the area. In the process occupation by Israel and by the continu Excelling they arrested the three Palestinian drivers ing incursion ofsettlements--each one an who had brought our group to the site. A illegal confiscation ofland and water (vio IN A CHANGING WORLD CPT volunteer went with each driver to lating UN Security Council resolutions the Israeli police station and succeeded in 242, 252, and 478 and the Fourth Geneva preventing the confiscation of their ve Convention on occupied territories) and fRII \:Ds Su l·C r hicles by" getting in the way": sitting down for the Palestinians, the elimination of the in front of the soldiers' jeep and refusing basic human right of survival. Pre-K to 12th grade to move until the soldiers gave up, re Israeli concern for security is under 17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway turned their keys, and let them go. standable. Israelis rightly fear the lethal Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-1284 Our experience in theWest Bank was desperation of suicide bombers in their focused entirely on the issues and situa cities and towns. They have a right to 215-561-5900 tions described here, so our ministry and respond to terror attacks by frustrated Pal witness would appear to be "pro-Palestin estinians. Our position and that of the ian" because it was pro-justice. It was several Israeli peace and justice groups de noted above that CPT is apolitical, not scribed above, and of CPT and other in Make friends, taking sides for political or national inter ternational observers is that Israeli response make music est reasons. CPT does take sides, as we is overwhelmingly disproportional. Israeli at did, on the basis of human rights consid military organization, weaponry, firepower, erations. In the Occupied Territories of and foreign (mostly U.S.) military sup Friends the West Bank, justice and human rights port far outweighs that of the Palestinians. considerations require us to stand with Israel's policies in the Occupied Territo Music the Palestinians. The West Bank is his ries consist of collective punishment, de torically their land. In 1948 they were the portations, ghettoization, and destruction Camp preponderant occupants ofwhat was called of economic infrastructure--all in defi ages 10-18 Palestine. That year, 78 percent of that ance of international law. Justice requires July 7 - August 4, 2002 area was taken over by the new Israeli a proportional response to attacks and a at Barnesville, Ohio state, by force rather than UN partition, willingness to end occupation and the leaving in theWest Bank only 22 percent forced proliferation of Israeli settlements For brochure and camp video: of historic Palestine. It is that part of their in non-Israeli land. When such steps are FMC, P.O. Box 427 original homeland in which they are at given serious consideration in Israel, we Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 tempting to maintain their lives, raise their expect there will be a relaxation of tension Ph: 937-767-1311 or 937-767-1818 children safely, and pursue their careers. and violence in this troubled land. 0
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FRIENDS JoURNAL March 2002 21 NO RETURN TO OSLO by Jeff Halper
s is yet another crucial moment the capricious Middle East peace Tiprocess. The new political reality those most crucial to the that has emerged since September 11 has Palestinians) for the fi dramatically changed the dynamics of the nal stages of the negotia Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For the first tions, which never hap time, the United States perceives a direct pened. Jerusalem, bor and immediate interest in resolving the ders, water, settlements, conflict-or at least minimizing its poten refugees, and security ar cial for obstructing the recruitment ofArab rangement-all except and Muslim states into the antiterrorist the last, important coalition. President Bush has expressed mainly for Israel, were support for a Palestinian state alongside put off during seven Israel, and the U.S. government seems years of negotiations. poised to present a comprehensive Middle Although Article IV East plan. of the Declaration of As pressures mount for Israel and the Principles talks about Palestinians to return to the negotiating preserving the "integ table, extreme care must be taken not to rity" of the West Bank return to the dead end of the Oslo process. and Gaza during nego Simply returning to negotiations is not tiations, it did not pre enough. If a viable and truly sovereign vent Israel from "creat Palestinian state does not emerge from ing facts" on the ground that completely was signed. The Occupied Territories have the negotiations, the conflict will not be prejudiced the talks. From the signing of been carved into hundreds of tiny islands resolved and will once again burst out in the Oslo Accords in September 1993 with no freedom of movement among violence. until the collapse of the negotiations in them, and virtually every Palestinian lives Rather than dwell on the shortcomings February 2001, Israel more than doubled under conditions of siege. Israel controls of Oslo, this is the time when those seek its settler population to 400,000, adding all the water supplies of the West Bank ing a just and lasting peace must define dozens of new settlements--even whole and Gaza, and in violation of interna new parameters of negotiations capable of cities-while proclaiming to the world tional law transports most of it during leading to a genuine resolution of the that it had frozen them. Having turned the driest summer months. Israel is build conflict, a win-win situation. Such a new the Palestinian workforce into one of ing frantically in Palestinian East Jerusa framework must contain the following casual labor completely dependent upon lem to prevent any division-or even elements that were missing from Oslo. the Israeli job market, it imposed a closure equitable sharing-of the city. And it re Connecting negotiations with realities on that shut most Palestinians out of Israel fuses to address the refugee issue in any the ground: Oslo was formulated in a way and led to widespread poverty. Although meaningful way. that postponed the "hard issues" (read: the Palestinian negotiators pleaded that The new framework for negotiations jeff Halper is coordinator of the Israeli Com they need their people to actually feel must integrate negotiations for a political mittee Against House Demolitions (ICARD) the benefits of the peace process, the aver solution with the actual situation on the and a professor ofAnthropology at Ben Gurian age Palestinian family today earns less ground. Iflsrael succeeds-as it probably University. than a quarter of what it did when Oslo has already-in creating irreversible "facts" 22 March 2002 FRIENDS JoURNAL that will allow it to control and dominate the Palestinian territories indefinitely, negotiations based on the principle of two states are only a prescription for apartheid. The goal must be clear and up-front: if Israel rejects the option of one binational state because it would compromise its Jew ish character, then it must agree to a two state solution-but one of two viable and sovereign states, not one state ruling over a bantustan. International law and human rights: In Oslo, almost every protection and source
This is the time when those seeking a just and lasting peace must define new parameters ofnegotiations capable ofleading to a genuine resolution ofthe conflict, a win-win situation.
of leverage the Palestinians possessed ~ Foulkeways Retirement indoor Wimbledon, green including the Geneva Conventions and Community, no one is ever house gardening, computer most UN resolutions-were set aside in left out in the cold. Not with training, swimming in our fuvor of power-negotiations in which Is indoor pool, and (whew) rael had a tremendous advantage. The all the wonders that await \..> Fourth Geneva Convention, for example, our residents in the great much, much more. Stretch 1-') forbids an occupying power from build indoors. your mind, as well-thanks to ~ ing settlements in territory it has con Step out of your warm and Foulkeways' guest speakers ~ quered. Had international law been a ba and well-stocked library. Q sis for Oslo, the Palestinians could have inviting apartment or ·~ insisted the settlements-all of them, spacious cottage and join In short, cabin fever isn't C\ including those in East Jerusalem-be the fun and excitement in cured with the life care that dismantled. Yet Israel insisted that every the numerous activities that awaits you at Foulkeways-it thing be negotiated. The U.S., suppos edly the "honest broker," gave its backing Foulkeways offers, including: never gets started. to this skewed framework. Like every For more information or to other country in the world, it considered theWest Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem arrange for a personal tour, as occupied, thus accepting the applicabil call Nancy B. Gold, Director ity of the Fourth Geneva Convention. of Admissions, today at Feeling that adherence to international law would hinder negotiations, and adopt 215-643-2200. ing a policy of "constructive ambiguity," the U.S. reclassified the Palestinian areas 1120 Meetinghouse Road • Gwynedd, PA 19436 from "occupied" to "disputed." In so do E-mail: [email protected] ing it pulled the rug out from under the Palestinians. Visit our web site! www.foulkeways.org Any new framework of negotiations, Foulkeways" at Gwynedd does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, then, will have to take international law, religion, national origin, sex, handicap or familial status. human rights, and UN resolutions into account. This does not mean that crucial issues such as security, borders, and even FRIENDS JouRNAL March 2002 23 A woman anJ her daughter in the doorway oftheir home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Their home was gutted by Israeli artiiJery strikes in 2000.
The Friends Camp in Bucks County ian economy is directly related • TWO WEEK SESSIONS • to Jerusalem. June through August If, then, the object of nego S/eepover campJor boys & girls 8-13. tiations is a viable Palestinian Campers choose their own activities state alongside Israel, the fun and live and play in a damental issue is one of con friendly, diverse community. trol, not merely territory. The FOR INFORMATION cal/ 610-84 7-5858 strategic 5 percent Israel has in 609 Geigel Hill Rd. , Ottsville, PA 18942 mind would allow it to main tain three or four major settle- ·~ [email protected] I www.camponas.org ment blocs containing more ~ ACA Accredited Camp than 90 percent of its settlers, ~ create an Israeli-dominated <; Greater Jerusalem, and continue ~ to control movement through- ~ out the area. Unless the issues of ~ NEWfOWN FRIENDS control, viability, and sover- l SCHOOL eignty become formal elements ·;:: in the negotiations, an inviable ~ and dependent Palestinian ~ ministate will be the result. Q &fogees: Some 70 percent of ~ Palestinians are refugees. Reso- ~ lution of the conflict is impos the claims (if not the rights) of the refu sible without addressing their rights, needs, gees cannot be negotiated, but that there and grievances. Israel must acknowledge "The accomplishments of adults is at least a level playing field permitting its active role in creating the plight of the begin as the dreams of children. the stateless Palestinians to negotiate from refugees and recognize their right of re Newtown Friends is a place a stronger position than now vis-a-vis Israel. turn. This is a precondition for negotia where dreams begin." Dismantling the matrix ofcontrol: Israel tions on the actualization of that right. - NFS Mission Statement presents its offer of relinquishing 95 Without it, the justice of the refugees' percent ofthe occupied territories as "gen claims and acknowledgment of their suf erous," accusing Palestinian Authority fering remain unspoken and festering, ob Pre-K to Grade 8 President Yasser Arafat of missing an "his structing negotiations and reconciliation. toric opportunity." Superficially this With acknowledgement, a viable Pales For further information, seems to make sense. But under Oslo, tinian state, a willingness on Israel's part call215-968-2225, or visit the Palestinians already gave up claim to to accept a meaningful number of refu us at newtownfriends.org the 78 percent of Mandatoty Palestine gees, resources, and international support, that is the state of Israel. So agreeing to the refugee issue is resolvable. give up another 5 percent of the 22 per Proponents of a just and lasting peace cent-an area the size of five Tel Avivs between Palestinians and Israelis cannot
,4a:u4Iu4 'v ~ ~t>o>U1fl•4101A,4n«lAUMI <>j with an Israeli population of 200,000 lo afford to let the United States present ;z>tl•4U ~ Sc:lwcl.w cated in the heart of the future Palestinian another unilateral peace plan that allows state-is not as reasonable as it might Israel to maintain its control over the Pal sound. Moreover, it does not include East estinians. Nor will Israel, with its virtual Jerusalem. Continued Israeli control over lock on Congress, allow it to pursue a all ofJerusalem, plus the 5 percent that is peace that genuindy threatens to dismantle The Bible Association of Friends mainly an Israeli-controlled "Greater the occupation, as Israel's Prime Minister in America Jerusalem" controlling the entire central Ariel Sharon's recent warning to the U.S. since 1829 has offered Bibles, NewTesraments, portion of the West Bank, would sunder demonstrates. It is up to the international and Portions free or at cost to Friends the north from the south. It would also community to ensure a new framework of institutions, individuals, and orhers worldwide. render a Palestinian state economically negotiations that does not prejudice their Write to: P.O. Box 3, Riverton, NJ 08077 inviable, since 40 percent of the Palestin- outcome from the start. 0
24 March 2002 FRIENDS JouRNAL The Storehouse Students Learn Collection otMemories while Folding .. .a Life Story service to help you savor your memories, tell your story and create a beautiful book- Peace Cranes a legacy for generations to come.
n the aftermath of the rragic events of we Invite your Inquiries. September 11th, I knew, as a librarian Marty Walton a Unda Lyman in a Quaker lower school, that I needed to 5488 Woodbridge Ln. I Dayton, OH 45429 do something different with the children. At (800) 738·8599 first I didn't know how to strike a balance between acknowledging the disturbing and their family or on the playground; others have frightening facts, while at the same time pro [email protected] a peace issue to contemplate inside of them www storehoysecpl!ectlon com viding our children with a sense of safety and selves; some have more global concerns re Members, Association of Personal Historians security. One week after the attack, I remem garding Afghan refugees or families affected bered the very moving book Sadako and the by the disasters in New York City, Washing Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr. The ton, D.C., and Pennsylvania. They are in story inspired me and gave me a direction in vited to write or draw their personal prayer on FRIE,I>S C.\\IP which to move with the children. the uncolored side ofthe origami paper. When South ( 'hina. \lainl' In this true story, a 12-year-old Japanese the child folds the crane, the personal prayer is child who survived the 1945 bombing of hidden in the heart of the crane, invisible but ht t p ://11 II II .I r i l'IHI 'l':illl p .or ~ Hiroshima begins to fold 1000 origami paper powerful. cranes. According to Japanese legend, if you Crane folding is a meditative, repetitive Ages 7-l'l fold 1000 paper cranes, you can make a wish. process that brings inner peace and satisfac Coed - Residential Sadako was ill from the effects ofthe bombing tion to many children and adults. I began the of Hiroshima. She hoped that folding 1000 project by teaching children and teachers in cranes would bring her health back. She bravely the oldest grades to fold the crane. They be folded 644 before dying from leukemia. Her carne experienced folders who could help part A unique camp program which includes in friends, classmates, and family worked to ners in lower grades have success with the ternational campers, Quaker community liv gether to finish Sadako' s cranes by folding the sometimes difficult folding. Certain children ing, decision making, crafts, drama, sports, remaining 356. The 1000 paper cranes were have become expert crane folders. There are water activities, and other creative programs. buried with Sadako. School children all over mornings when I open the library and find a Japan heard about Sadako's story and were small box or bag full of cranes that a student Susan Morris, Director inspired by her bravery and her belief in the has donated to the project. I have heard about POBox 84, healingpowerofthe 1000cranes. Theywanted children teaching siblings and parents to fold East Vassalboro, ME 04935 to create a monument to Sadako and other the crane. I have seen small, spontaneous (207) 923-3975 children who were killed by the bomb. Japa crane folding groups gather after school in the [email protected] nese children wrote letters to share Sadako' s library. Experienced folders work closely with story and to raise money for a monument. In other children, patiently and joyfully teaching 1958, their dream became a reality; a statue the 28 crane folding steps. Farm & Wilderness of Sadako holding a golden crane in out Children have asked me, "What are we 5umnJ<:r Came.s and stretched arms was erected in the Hiroshima going to do with the cranes once we have ~ ~ Y~ar /?ound rrograms Peace Park. Each year on Peace Day, children reached our goal of 1000? " I have learned that ~ hang strings of paper cranes under Sadako's the answer to this question, and what we - statue. On the base ofher statue is this inscrip eventually "do" with the cranes is not what is - hike mountain trails· tion: "This is our cry, this is our prayer: Peace most important. What touches me deeply milk a cow • build a cabin paddle a canoe • harvest in the world." about folding peace cranes is that as individu carrots • create a drum • Since Sadako's time, folding 1000 origami als and as a community, we are experiencing swim in a mountain lake· cranes has become a wish or prayer for world the peace process as we make the journey share stories, songs & laughter • sleep under peace. Our origami crane project grew out of toward our 1000-crane goal. The peace crane the stars • a message I gave at our lower school meeting project has helped people learn something for worship. AfTer I told the story ofSadako, I about taking time to be peaceful together and Challenges and fun for girls and boys in a - - supportive, diverse community invited children to learn to fold the crane and reflecting on what "world peace" really means. ~ . based on mutual respect, to work together as a community to complete As of this writing, there are 575 peace prayer -y· simple rustic living, joy 1000. I told the children that our wish or cranes hanging in garlands &om the ceiling of ,. ,._ ' and adventure. Resiaent1al ·:~J · camps for ages 9-17 and prayer would be for world peace. the Penn Chatter lower school library. y camp in Vermont's Green Mountains. Before they learn the steps to fold the ~ 65 years Quaker leadership. peace crane, students are asked to reflect on Kathy Singer, their own personal prayers for world peace. lower school librarian F~trm ~ Wildcrnc6.<, r&mollth, v T OjOjb Some children want to resolve a peace issue in at William Penn Charter School 802/422-3761 email: fa [email protected]
FRIENDS j OURNAL March 2002 25 Reports and Epistles Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting stead, we chose to use a talking stick or stone. war," a violent Protestant revolt in Languedoc, The item allows only the person with it to took place on September 11, 1702. A pacifist One hundred eighty-five Friends from the speak and lets others listen. Although the Protestant group, later known as the "In 19 meetings of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting stone worked very well, we thought that in the spired Ones of Languedoc" or "Coufla:ires," gathered on the first day of the eighth month, future we could experiment with both a clerk denounced the violence of the Carnisards and 2001, in Richmond, Indiana, for their 181st and a talking stone." drew together in the Vaunage valley near yearly meeting. The hospitality of Earlham The teen epistle reports: "We met with a N!mes, especially at Congenies. They offered College was memorable and appreciated. representative of Alaska Yearly Meeting. We a nonviolent alternative to the violent revolt. The theme was "Inward Peace <-> Out discussed the possibility of a service trip next In 1785 they heard about British Friends ward Peace, Our Spiritual Journey." Plenary summer with Alaska Friends." through an announcement published in the speaker, Lloyd Lee Wilson ofNorth Carolina The yearly meeting epistle closed: "We Gazette de France by Edward Fox, a Quaker, Yearly Meeting (Conservative) challenged us came together as a scattered people from mostly offering to compensate French ships attacked to reject the world's focus on the individual, small monthly meetings, hoping for a time of (unwittingly) by his father's ships during the and to trust in God. He urged Friends to refreshment and renewal. During our wor American War of Independence, who then spend more time together as a meeting, say ship, play, remembrance, and celebration we came to Paris and met Jean de Marsillac from ing, "One hour a week is not enough." He became more closely knit into a faith commu Congenies. Links with British Friends devel lifted up the example of the apostles and the nity, and we felt truly blessed to be gathered in oped, and at a plain but warm ceremony early Church as a community born of faith the precious gifr of God's loving embrace." held in Congenies 1788, the Coufla:ires were and one that could serve as a model for Friends. accepted into the Religious Society ofF riends. The second evening was devoted to a panel -Ron Haldeman Thus the French Quaker movement was that addressed the spiritual reasons and man born, a year before the French Revolution ner in which Friends in Indiana and Ken broke out. tucky worked with the state legislatures. La Maison Quaker de In 1790, Jean de Mars iliac met Nantucket The theme was present in the meetings for Friends, William and Benjamin Rotch, and worship with a concern for business, where a Congenies, France the three men presented a petition for a non minute on healthcare was discussed, revised, The founding tales of Quaker meetings violent and peaceful revolution to the Na and adopted: "Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting is the world over are like strands of faith which, tional Assembly in Paris. Signed by the three concerned that many persons in the U.S. woven together, form the rich tapestry of our of them, it was read aloud by Jean de Marsillac receive inadequate healthcare. In a country Quaker history. The story of the Maison at the National Assembly on February 1Oth, with immense wealth, the situation is incom Quaker de Congenies, near Nimes in France, 1791. Sadly, it went unnoticed and unheeded prehensible. Such a condition is contrary to is no exception. in France, but-who knows-perhaps it could our duty to care for the weak and vulnerable. Last year, 2001, was the tercentenary of have changed the course of French history? We urge Friends, with divine assistance, to the signing of the Charter of Privileges and During the 19th century, many Friends work to transform our healthcare system so Liberties by Quaker William Penn for Penn from other countries visited Congenies that everyone in the U.S. has access to sylvania. William Penn had connections not among them Elizabeth Fry, Sarah Grubb, and healthcare that is comprehensive and of high only to English and North American history, Stephen Grellet (originally from France.) quality. We will share this concern with all but also to French. As a student in 1661- French Friends celebrated the bicentenary of U.S. yearly meetings, public officials, and our 1662, he studied in Saumur, then a European the Quaker movement in Congenies in 1988, fellow citizens. We seek the leading of the center of religious toleration, and French and now the Quaker group in Congenies is Spirit to discern the way forward on this scholar Rene Fillet has suggested that his growing and expanding at the prospect of a concern." Saumur experience inspired the "Holy Ex renewed and active Quaker center. France We were blessed with many visitors, in periment" in Pennsylvania. When the Holy Yearly Meeting plans to recreate a lively Quaker cluding Mary Ellen McNish of American Experiment ended in 1756 with Pennsylvania's community based around the 19th century Friends Service Committee. H er report of the declaration of war against the French and the Quaker meetinghouse, built on land bought unrest in the Middle East brought sorrow and Indians, Quakers became marginal in the prov with money from British Friends and con concern to many. ince they had created. Meanwhile, on Nan structed with a legacy from Chamless Wharton Lines from the four yearly meeting epistles tucket island, Quakerism developed in the of Philadelphia. Caroline Brown, a British show how truly impossible it is to report 18th century, and soon became the main Friend, will continue this international tradi comprehensively on five days immersed in religious group. tion by welcoming Friends to a program of Quakerism. The children, ages 2-11, wrote, Nantucket remained neutral during the Quaker and artistic events (with bed and "The green, open campus provided a field of American Revolution for both religious and breakfast facilities). activity and a time of fellowship," and closed: commercial reasons-the main activity of the It is our hope that knowing something of "As we end our five days together and go our islanders at the time was whaling. After the its Quaker history will inspire Friends from separate ways we share hopes for the future. Waroflndependence, about 50 Quaker whal other countries to help carry out the plans of We hope that the animals get adopted. We ers, including William and Benjamin Rotch, France Yearly Meeting, transforming the hope the School of America closes. We hope lefr for Europe, settling in Dunkerque, France Congenies Meeting House back to its spiri the Earth gets better. And we hope the people (1786). In the 1790s, Benjamin Rotch moved tual roots and forward as a beacon of Light. who rescued our runaway beach ball have fun on to Milford Haven in Wales, and most ofth e with it." other Quakers returned to the United States -jeanne-Henriette Louis, The middle youth epistle reported: "The to escape the violence ofth e French Revolution. Clerk ofParis Meeting and professor of first decision we made was not to have a clerk. It was also in the 18th century that the American Studies at Orleans University We felt that there was too much competition French Quaker movement was born. Contact: Libby Perkins, and we didn't want to hun any feelings. In- Strangely, the first battle of the "Camisard
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FRIENDS JoURNAL M arch 2002 27 Parents' Corner Parenting within the Peace Testimony: Practical Tools for Creating a Peaceful Home by Megan Oltman
"We utterly deny all outward wars and strife, fol Classroom in Action and Learning the Skills As I delved into Naomi's book, I was and fightings with outward weapons, for any ofPeacemaking, has worked for about 20 years affirmed and delighted. The keys are easy to end, or under any pretense whatsoever; this is our in peacemaking education. Initially inter remember and implement-and just reading testimony to the whole world. " ested in peacemaking as a teacher who wanted the first chapter cut down arguing in my -Quaker declaration to Charles II to resolve conflicts in the classroom, Naomi house by about half in a week's time! ofEngland, 1660. began with a notion of Gandhi's, that if we The first chapter is called "Becoming a want to have real peace, we have to begin with More Peaceful Parent: Getting Started." It ile I utterly deny all outward wars the children. Her book is divided into 12 contains the first key, "Peace begins with me, " and strife, the wars and strife within chapters, each containing one or more practi which is the foundation ofthe book. The key Wmy own household are the ones cal principles Naomi calls the "keys" to peace is solidly grounded in our spiritual practice as that I must face on a daily basis. When my ful parenting. Friends. Exercises are to center down, use children begin pushing and kicking, abdominal breathing, and envision a when I feel stressed out and face their peaceful place where you can go when whining, or their refusal to do chores, The Seventeen Keys to Peaceful your stress level begins to rise. the Peace Testimony seems unattain Parenting A second exercise for the key "Peace able. Key #1: Peace begins with me. begins with me" is to envision yourself 20 years from now, and then to write Bringing peace into our homes is a Key #2: I have made my home a place ofkind words. challenge to most of us who have chil about what you want to be able to say dren. Despite our earnestly held be Key #3: I catch my children in the act ofpositive behaviors about yourself as a parent, what you liefs and convictions and our moments and praise them immediately, specifically, and sincerely. want your children to be able to say of gathered peace, peacefulness itself Key #4: I spend at least I 5 to 20 minutes a day with each about you, about their childhood, and can evaporate on the spot. And in the child, listening, interacting, andgiving my foO attention. about themselves. Using this vision, look at the priorities in your life, Naomi face of increasingly complex lives and Key #5: I am clear on the standards ofbehavior I expect of suggests, and see if there is room to too little time in which to live them, my children. I honor those standards and expect my rearrange them to produce the out we may find ourselves dealing with our children to do the same. children in an angry fashion. come you want for yourself and your Key #6: I provide my children with empty spaces oftime Parents in our meeting have often children in 20 years. during which they can just "be kids. " grappled with the difficulties of being What a thought! My kids are 11 Quaker parents in a world that does Key #7: I hold regularly scheduled family meetings where and 7, and they love each other deeply, not support peace and reflection as a my children have a voice in the workings ofour family. but getting along involves compro way oflife. We must decide how to Key #8: I have set a foundation for peacefUlness in our mises they often seem unwilling to deal with war toys, with violent movies home by creating with my children "Guidelines for a make. and television shows, with a consumer Peacefol Family. " On a recent morning, for example, culture that pushes us all, adults and the kids' arguing was the first thing I Key #9: I always remember that I am the parent and heard after the alarm clock. I had slept children alike, to want things and things deserve to be listened to. and more things. badly, and not long enough, so my Key#10: I have fair, reasonable consequences for negative first thought was, "I can't handle this Most ofthe time we seem to muddle along without much guidance. But re behaviors, which I use only when necessary. today." And it was true: I ended up cently my husband, Dan, and I met Key # 11: I listen with aO my heart to what my children yelling at both children, which only Naomi Drew, author of Peacefol Par have to say, and I teach them to be good listeners for others. escalated the arguments. But I had just finished the first ents, Peacefol Kids (Kensington Books, Key #12: I teach my children how to handle anger in chapter of Naomi's book the night 2000). In one of those occasions of nondestructive ways, and I model this consistently. divinely inspired serendipity, I joined before. So I took myself into the bath Key # 13: I resolve conflicts peacefUlly and teach my chil Naomi's writers' group, and my hus room for a minute, and repeated the dren to do the same. band designed a website about her book first key: "Peace begins with me. " Then and consulting work. Curious about Key # 14: I find ways to help my children succeed. I stood barefoot in the bathroom do what she had to offer, Dan and I read Key # 15: AO my actions are guided by wve, compassion, ing abdominal breathing and envi the book and found that Naomi's work fairness, respect, and integrity. I nurture these attributes in sioning my peaceful place--a corner is a perfect bridge between our beliefs my children. of the ftont yard where I grew up, a corner offull green shrubs and a stone as Friends and our needs as parents. Key #16: I live my commitment to peacefol parenting; my Naomi, who also wrote The Peace- wall. A few minutes later, I was able to commitment guides all my actions. go back and deal calmly with the kids. Megan Ottman, a freelance writer with Key#17: I remember daily that we have an impact on the And the minute I calmed down, they two children, ages II and 7, is a member world around us, and I teach this to my children. did, too. ofPrinceton (NJ) Meeting. Amazing.
28 March 2 002 FRIENDS J OURNAL Personalized Care in the Ustening Is Powerful As I worked my way through Namni's Quaker Tradition book, chapter by chapter, I found other tips that worked just as effectively at helping me Since 1896 create the peaceful home we all needed. I found, for example, that subtle things make a huge difference. Reflexive listening, A Quiet, contained in the 11th key, is both subtle and Home-Like Setting in a powerful. It showed me how often I try to fix my children's issues or conflicts, which, in Beautifully Landscaped effect, denied them the chance to be heard or the opportunity to learn how to resolve con Atmosphere flicts on their own. In reflexive listening, how ever, you listen and repeat back what you heard, without trying to fix, change, or argue • Private Rooms, Suites and • Recreational Activities Apartments with it. 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But this time I went with a commitment to listen rather than explain. She was crying; I said, "Do you want to tell me about it?" She replied, ''I'll never get as much time with you as I want," and I responded, "So you Friends Academy feel like you'll never get as much time with me as you want." I just reflected it back, without Founded 1876 Located on scenic Long Island, arguing or trying to ftx it. Then my mature • less than 30 miles from New York City. and independent daughter told me for the ftrst time that she misses me during the day when she's at school. Celebrating our 125th Anniversary I never even guessed. But I calmly reflected that back as well, and then I said, "This week I have to be out three nights, and I know you don't like it, but that's what the week looks like. So how can we plan it to be sure we have time together? And what are some things we can do together?" Then the two of us put our heads together and mapped out the week. This was a break through for us. We didn't argue, I went out without guilt, she let me go, and we had great times together. Founded in 1876 by Gideon Frost for "the children ofFriends and those As I reflect on Naomi's ftnal key, '1 re similarly sentimented, "Friends Academy is a Quaker, coeducationa~ indepen member daily that we have an impact on the dent, college preparatory day school serving 750 students from age three world around us and I teach this to my chil dren," I truly understand her vision: Peaceful through the twelfth grade. The school awards significant financial assistance. families have peaceful relationships. We bring our relationships into small groups, larger Friends Academy • Duck Pond Road • Locust Valley, NY 11560 groups, communities, and nations. And to gether with our children, we impact the world. Phone: 516-676-0393 • Fax: 516-671-2025 • [email protected] 0 FRIENDSJ ouRNAL March 2002 29 Books Ten more Barclay Press titles to consider: I. A Catechism and Confession of Faith by Robert Barclay Doing Justice: 2. Barclay's Apology in Modem English by Robert Barclay 3. The Wit and Wisdom of Jack Willcuts by Arthur 0. Roberts Congregations and -4. Waging Peace by john Lamoreau and Rolph Beebe Community Organizing 5. The Rich Heritage of Quakerism by Walter Williams 6. The Sense of the Meeting by jack L. Willcuts By Dennis A. jacobsen. Fortress Press, 2001. 7. Messengers of God by Arthur 0. Roberts 140 pages. $14/paperback. 8. Drawn by the Light by Arthur 0 . Roberts "The world as it should be is in direct 9. More Energy for Your Day by Chuck My/onder opposition to the world as it is. The world as it should be is rooted in truth, love, and com 10. God Is User Friendly by Alvin Anderson munity." No, those aren't the words of some social justice, war-tax resisting Quaker. They come UNLOCKING HORNS from Dennis Jacobsen, a Lutheran pastor with FORGIVENESS AND RECONCIUATION IN BURUNDI more than 14 years ofexpe rience in congrega by David Niyonzima and Lon Fenda/1 tion-based community organizing. Doingjus tice is his primer of the theology of, and ratio $12.95 nale for, congregation-based community or ganizing for urban ministry. Jacobsen is firmly PHONE: 800-962-40 14 planted in the radical Christian tradition, and WEB: www.barclaypress.com his book is direct and challenging, as he says ..ll:lt such things as, "The world as it is would MAIL: I I 0 South Elliott Road rather perish than embrace a moral vision," Newberg, OR 97132 1D and "Agitation is a skill . .. ; it is a vehicle for OR: at your boolcstore summoning forth the best from leaders." BARCLAY PRESS While some Friends will find his continual use of the Bible a bit overbearing, they will agree with his conclusions that, biblically, "the preeminent activity of the Church is in the public arena, not ... the sanctuary." Friends will also appreciate his illustration ofhis theol ogy with examples from his and others' expe riential faith and work in congregation-based organizing. His book covers topics such as the roles of power, money, self-interest, building and sustaining organizations, and more. The book includes an index of organiza tions involved in congregation-based com munity organizing, such as the Direct Action Research and Training Center and the Gamaliel Foundation. There's also a study guide by Rick Deines tucked into the back of the book, organized into 12 sections and de signed for use by adult study groups. Doing justice is long on theology and sto ries and a bit short in giving practical advice june 9-14, 2002 for serting up a congregation-based commu nity organizing effort. In spite of that lack, the Guilford College book will be helpful to individuals and meet ings exploring the possibility of doing such organizing or looking for confirmation oftheir • A weeklong residential study current ministry and experiences in this area. As Jacobsen says, "Congregation-based com program for adults munity organizing offers a faithful and effec tive vehicle for seeking justice in the public • Field trips arena." His book encourages just that.
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30 March 2002 FRIENDS JoURNAL Forgiving Justice: A Quaker Vision for Criminal Justice By Tim Newell. Quaker Home Service, 2000. 120 pages. $16/paperback. Since Friends from our very beginnings have never considered the state as an absolute or the "ultimate arbiter of good and evil," Quakers have been at odds with those in positions of authority. Early Friends suffered mistreatments, beatings, and harsh jail sen tences. We have, therefore, held a certain empathy with those behind bars. Tim Newell, a governor in the prison ser vice of England and Wales since 1965, is no different. He has been involved with almost every situation imaginable regarding the han dling of prisoners. His position has required much concurrent soul searching, as he had to make decisions having a direct bearing on the lives of the inmates within the institutions he served. Particularly troublesome, writes Give Six Free Gifts-Get Six Free Newell, are those occasions on which he has ordered the use of force. Forgiving justice, which is as much autobi Months ography as a sensitive discussion of serious he strength ofFRIENDS JOURNAL is in its readers, so we want to add some penal issues, reveals an insightful and contem Tnew ones! plative person whose work in prison manage ment has been guided by thoughtful consid Send us the names ofup to six individuals who are not currently subscribers,* eration ofthose incarcerated. Newell, as prison but who you know would enjoy the JOURNAL. manager, has considered not only the indi We'11 send each of them three free issues (along with a gift card from vidual prisoner's long-term best interests but you)-and we'll extend your own subscription by one month for each also the interests of the prison group and the friend, meeting member, or attender whose name you send to us (up to six greater society as well. His faith has deepened months). and been made manifest in ways that only * (and who have not been for two years) happen when one is sincerely searching for ...... answers to problematic human situations. l. Name: ______5. Name: ______I am compelled to suggest that Forgiving justice be required reading for those entering Address: ______Address:------the criminal justice field. For the rest of us it is an opportunity to learn from a person of ______Zip ·______Zip· ____ sensitive and sincere mind. 2. Name: ______6. Name: ______- Mike McKillip Address: ______Address: ______Mike McKillip is aformer electrician who writes prose andpop music. He is a member ofMuncie ______Zip. ____ ----~----Zip.___ _ (Ind.) Meeting. 3. Name: ______Address:------The Complete Idiot's Guide Please extend my current to Saving the Environment ______Zip. ___ _ subscription: 4 . Name: ______Name: ______By Greg Pahl Alpha Books (Macmillan), Address: ______Address: ______2001.348 pages. $16.95/paperback. My relationship with Earth is the experi ential base of my spiritual life. I understand ______Zip• ______Zip. ___ _ that I am as much a process as an entity, that the process that is me is a participation in the process that is Earth. I am convinced that it is FRIENDS 1216 Arch Street, 2A, Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 through this participation that I participate in Fax: (215) 568-1377 the Divine. I grieve when I see the desecration JOURNAL E-mail: [email protected] FJ03o2 caused by urban sprawl, read about the effects
FRIENDS J OURNAL March 2002 31 . ill 'i( I I c'.ll '· t h c' Ill \ t !..:_L' IlL I , It I l >ll I I iiJ .I' k' 'What were you doing when the ~hildren of Iraq were dying?' " of toxicity, or think about the global popula \lunule/( 1'11/'~1111 \ldifllllt flJ-tl \1'/'t! /'ldtt 1)1/ ~ t lu111 So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore! The glory from his gray hairs gone Forevermore! Compare the great Milton fulminating against his detractors: I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient libetty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Scattergood Friends School, founded Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs. in 1890, is committed to fostering lifelong and self-directed learning, But Milton is so much better than Whittier developing a sense of personal responsibility and cultivating global even at the latter's best. Unfortunately, the citizenship. mediocre versifier surfaces even in William Jolliff's careful selection of the best poems • All recent graduares have gained for example, in the fo llowing doggerel ftom college acceptance • Student-to-teacher ratio: 4 to I the celebrated "Snow-Bound": • Innovative block scheduling • Community service graduation Our uncle, innocent of books, requirement Was rich in lore of fields and brooks, • Shared work program The ancient teachers never dumb • Organic garden, farm Of Nature's unhoused lyceum. • Comprehensive, exciting Arts Department • Daily Collection, weekly It is interesting that James Russell Lowell Meeting for Worship could protest, even in 1864, "against Mr. Whittier's carelessness in accents and rhymes, For information, call toll-free at as in pronouncing 'ly' ceum."' Perhaps the l-888-737-4636, or e-mail most apposite summary is Vernon Louis [email protected] Parrington's: "Never a great artist, rarely a 1951 DelraAvenue competent craftsman, [Whittier] wrote for West Branch, Iowa 52358 the most part impassioned commonplace, with occasional flashes that are not commonplace." vv vv vv. s c a t Yet, "Whittier's poetry stands for moral- FRIENDS JoURNAL March 2002 33 Residential and Assisted Living ity," declared Walt Whitman, after which, however, he added, "Whinier is . . . not since 1891 composite and universal enough." So is moral strength enough? Whittier clearly felt so. In 1847 he wrote the "Proem" that was In addition to The Hickman's to precede all his subsequent poetic collec "not too big, not too small" tions. In it he apologizes for his artistic lacks, yet concludes: size, Bill and Becky Mcilvain liked the retirement 0 Freedom! if to me belong community's in-town location. Nor mighty Milton's gift divine, Nor Marvell's wit and graceful song, Still with a love as deep and strong "There are so many things As theirs, I lay, like them, my best gifts on thy you can do within walking shrine! distance. We're still driving Quakers should be pleased that Whittier's now, but the day will come. ... " moral fervor was inspired in part by John Woolman, whose Journal Whittier later ed ited. In any case, he was the most celebrated Quaker-Sponsored • Homelike • Affordable • Close to Town • Welcoming Diversity Quaker of the 19th century. By the time he died in 1892, colleges and towns (including 400 N. Walnut St., West Chester, PA 19380 Richard Nixon's birthplace in California) had 610-696-1536 been named for him, and, as Donald Hall e-mail: [email protected] points out, "Harvard had given him two hon orary degrees and made him an Overseer, www. thehickman.org Matthew Arnold had visited him, and, it was reported, a volume of his poems lay on T ennyson's table." But here, too, we must be careful if we are to avoid simplistic Quaker hagiography. Whittier's expression of Friends' values is ex emplary; yet we need to worry about Perry Miller's suspicion that "for such a creature .. . Enjoy gardening? Looking for a being a Quaker eventually proved a method ofself -defense . ... He possessed a fair amount fun service project? of guile, which he employed most systemati cally in building up the legend of his guileless simplicity." Join us for Just as we must not exaggerate the poetry's merits, so we must not view either the social Gardening with Friends witness or the Quakerism through rose (a spring cleanup of Friends Hospital's historic gardens) colored spectacles. What perhaps we should do is appreciate the difficulty with which a Saturday, Aprill3, 2002 Quaker in the 19th century could cornfott 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ably pursue an artistic career. This problem 4641 Roosevelt Blvd. became apparent to those who saw the Ed ward Hicks retrospective in the Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA Museum of An. Although painting 100 or more versions of The Peaceable Kingdom, many of which show his chagrin at the Hicksite (You don't need to have a green thumb! There are plenty of fun Onhodox separation, Hicks was constrained jobs for adults and children, like raking, mulching & planting.) to be known in the Society ofFri ends only as a preacher and a commercial sign-painter. Similarly, Whittier was prohibited from feeling at ease with his artistic calling. In 1883 For more information or to sign one of his women friends wrote to him, "I up to volunteer, please call have always been impressed by the mingled volcano and iceberg of your character." 215-831-7803 Whittier's problem was that in the Society of or email [email protected]. Friends the iceberg was acceptable but the volcano was not. No wonder that Walt Whitman demurred or that Whittier threw 34 March 2002 FRIENDSJoURNAL Leaves ofGrass into the fire! Again, the con trast with John Milton is instructive. Although if anything more pious than Whittier, Milton Learning for Life---Learning with joy never suppressed the volcano, never worried about any noncompatibility between an and religion, but instead dedicated his poetic gift Age Three to God's greater glory. Alas, Quakers like Hicks and Whittier could not do that; in to stead, they were forced to agonize over the Grade 6 volcanic elements of their an. Perhaps this agony is what William Jolliff's anthology contributes most to Quaker self consciousness in the 21st century-remind ing Friends of what Perry Miller has so aptly termed "the ordeal for the Quaker striving to become an artist.." - Peter Bien Open House Peter A Bien is a member ofHanover (NH ) Meeting and clerk ofPendk Hill's Publications Friday, February 1 Committee. Friday, April19 Call 61 0-642-0354 Walking in the Way of to register Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century 851 Buck Lane Haverford, PA 19041 By Meredith Baldwin Weddle. Oxford www .friendshaverford.org University Press, 2001. 348 pages. $49.951 hardcover. Meredith Baldwin Weddle's book, a revi sion of a Yale dissertation, makes a critical contribution to underst.anding the first half century of Quaker history and the Peace T es tirnony that emerged from it. For many Friends, the Peace Testimony, ~NDAL- CROSSLANDS one of the central doctrines of the Religious Society of Friends, is absolutely critical to a CoMMUNITIES Quaker vision ofth e world. As Weddle shows, however, the development of that vision was Named among America's 20 Best gradual and uncertain. Continuing Care Retirement Weddle begins with a historiographical Communities. You will be pleasantly overview. Two views have developed on the surprised to learn how modestly origins of the Peace T estimony. The first, priced our smaller cottages and which has been the view of most Friends who apartments are. Not-for-profit and have explored the Society's history, has as Quaker-related. sumed, as Weddle points out, that the Peace Testimony was an integral pan of Quakerism from irs earliest days in England and that it I FRIENDS JoURNAL March 2002 35 to any government-to distance themselves from such dangerous politics. W eddie takes issue with both views. On the one hand, she sees considerable evidence of a repudiation of all physical violence by many Friends, particularly Fox, from the ear . . . where each resident liest days of the Religious Society. This paci enjoys a comfortable, fist commitment, however, was premised on a belief that violence arose from passions secure and caring that had not been brought under the power of environment the Light, rather than from a respect for the Light found in all people, a common 20th ... where newcomers century formulation of the Peace Testimony. quickly feel at home and The 1661 Declaration was occasioned by po litical concerns, but it built on a decade of long-time residents find Quaker thought. new delights every day On the other hand, Weddle's wide-rang ing and meticulous research uncovers many cases after 1661 where Friends bore arms or supponed war efforts, apparently with the A Quaker Sponsored Continuing Care Retirement Community approbation of their meetings. During a con • Independent Living • Assisted Living • Skilled Nursing Care flict between settlers and Native Americans that ravaged New England between 1675 and 6300 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144 1678, for example, those Friends who sup poned the colonial war effon apparently did 215-844-0700 so without a single case of "eldering" or dis ...... ,..... ownment. Fony years after George Fox jour Visit our Internet site at: www.stapeley.org OPPORTUNITY neyed into the Nonh of England, Weddle concludes, the Peace Testimony was still un certain among Friends. Weddle's book has many strengths: exten sive research, clear and readable prose, and Spring Weeklong Courses most of all an air of reasoned, considered judgment of her evidence. The major April7-12 limita tion is her decision not to consider the experi WoMEN, PROPHESYING AND I']TH CENTURY FRIENDs ence of Friends in the Delaware Valley in the with Christine Trevett 17th century, which is cenainly relevant to her story. Still, this is a book wonh the time April21-26 and price for anyone interested in reading A CoNVINCED QuAKERISM good Quaker history. TowARDS A NEw SENSE oF HoPE IN THE 21ST CENTURY with Ben Pink Dandelion - Thomas D. Hamm April 28-May 3 Thomas D. Hamm, a member ofFirst Friends WRITING, QUAKER STYLE Meeting in New Castle, Indiana, is archivist and professor ofHistory at Earlham College. with Margaret Hope Bacon May 12-17 LIVING IN THE LIGHT OF ETERNITY Also of Interest with David and Rebecca Yount The Majesty of God: May 19·24 Meditative Poetry "THE PoWER OF THE LoRD" By Raymond Nelson. Illustrated by Stan Nelson. A WEEK WITH GEORGE Fox's JouRNAL Print Source Direct, 2001. 86 pages. $9.951 with john Punsbon paperback. This volume is self-published by a member of University Friends Meeting in PENDLE HILL Wichita, Kansas. Raymond Nelson may be reached by e-mail at 36 March 2002 FRIENDS j OURNAL News Chuck Fager is the new director of Quaker House in Fayetteville, N .C., where Fon Bragg military base is located. Quaker House was established in 1969, during the Viemam War, to offer a peace education program against militarism and violence, and to provide coun seling for those opposed to the war and service in the military. "Our goal for Quaker House is to build a coalition of Q uakers in a stronger wimess against violence and for peace," said Bonnie Parsons, chairperson of the Quaker House Board of Directors. "We want to have more direct contacts with Friends meetings in a broad coalition of Quakers for peace and against violence." Chuck Fager said that he was influenced in his decision to become di rector of Quaker House by the events of September 11 and the subsequent military response by the U.S. "To be frank," he writes, "this is a position which would not have oc curred to me as late as last August. Now it feels like being 'called up' from the peace reserves, back to 'active duty.' .. . Quaker House is an opponunity and a call; I don't know ifanyone will ever ask me, 'What did you do for peace in the terror war?' But I've been asking it of myself, and this is a step toward fmding an answer." -Robert Marks American Friends Service Committee, a co recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 on behalf of all Quakers, has nominated the Community of Sant'Egidio for the 2002 Peace Prize. The Community ofSant'Egidio is a worldwide community of 40,000 mem NIGHT EAGLE bers who work for the cause of peace around the globe. "The Sant'Egidio Community WILDERNESS ADVENTURES demonstrates the important role that non A unique summer camp for boys in Vermonts Green Mountains governmental organizations can play in con flict resolution by bringing together patties to violent confliets for face-to-face discussions of their common future," said Margery Walker, clerk of the AFSC Nobel Nominating Com mittee. Founded in 1968 and based at the Church of Sant'Egidio in Rome, the Com munity draws from a Catholic tradition with a wide variety of activities and commitments ranging from religious charities to political peace brokering. The AFSC nomination is specifically based on the Community's peacebuilding work. Additional information about the Community of Sant'Egidio can be found at 38 March 2 002 FRIENDS jOURNAL Bulletin Board Upcoming Events Don't miss out. •April 13 and 20-"Managing Conflict in Your Life," a 12-hourworkshop sponsored by and held at the Bucks County Peace Center, Langhorne, PA 19047. Led by Elwood Cronk and Debbie Burns. Both sessions will run from 9:00 A.M. until 3:00 P.M. Cost for two We're days is $75. To register, call the Peace Center at (215) 750-7220. filling up fast. Opportunities/Resources •The Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore The first phase of Chandler Research Fellowship is available to provide a Hall's community living stipend to promote research during the aca demic year or summer months using the re units filled up in record sources of Friends H istorical Library and/or time. Our newest phase the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. The amount of the stipend is $3,500. Those eli opens soon, so there's still gible to apply include Swarthmore College time to become part of students and faculty, and graduate students, faculty, or scholars from outside the the family. Come tour Swarthmore College community. Moore fel the light-filled common lows will be asked to give a lecture at Swarthmore College subsequent to and based areas, country kitchens, upon their research. Applications in the form community theatre and of a one-page statement of the project and a dossier should be sent to Christopher intimate dining rooms. Densmore, curator, Friends Historical Library ofSwarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Talk with our chef, activities director and all the compassionate Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399, before March people whose personalized approach to aging makes every resident 31,2002. feel at home. Let our residents tell you about the activities-from • Friends for a Non-Violent World (FNVW), art classes and fitness programs to day trips-that make their days headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, is look ing for volunteers to help set up a new Alter so interesting. Learn how affordable it is to live here. And discover natives to Violence Project in the Great Lakes for yourself the difference we can make in your loved one's life. region of East Africa. Parmering with the African Great Lakes Initiative, FNVW is hop ing to raise money and suppon for two three year posts in the region for advocates of non violence. Anyone interested in volunteering Adult Day Program Home Health Care Nursing Care for the committee should contact FNVW at Aquatics Programs Hospice Care Wellness C linic (651) 917-0383 or • Servicio lnternacionaL para La Padlnterna tional Service for Peace (SIPAZ) seeks long Every Li f e H as Meaning ... term volunteers for its Chiapas Project. SIPAZ is a coalition of Nonh American, Latin American, and European organizations CHANDLER dedicated to supporting the peace process in Chiapas. Volunteers receive living expenses, a modest stipend, possibly health insurance, LL and some travel expenses. Volunteers work in Living The Q u aker Tradition four areas: information, workshops, dialogue with the religious players, and international presence and accompaniment. For more in A nonprofit, nondiscriminatory QUAKER facility formation or to request an application form, 99 Barclay Street, Newtown, PA • (215) 860-4000 contact SIPAZ, PO Box 2415, Santa Cruz, CA 95063 USA; phone/fax: (831) 425-1257; e-mail FRIENDS JouRNAL March 2002 39 Spring Weekends Milestones Marriages/Unions ing for the first campus gay support organization. at Pendle Hill In New York, they participated in the early gay Paintec-Scholtes--Michael Scholtes and Heather rights marches afrer Stonewall. In 1975 Susan April26-28 Painter, on October 12, 2001, under the care of started working in the U.S. Department of Wrightstown (Pa.) Meeting, ofw hich Heather is a Agriculture's Mid-Atlantic Regional Office of the A HEALING HISTORY member. Food and Nutrition Service, working primarily in RESOURCES FOR SociAL AND the Child N utrition Program. Responsible for the administration of school lunch programs in nine PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION states, she also worked in commodity distribution Deaths for the poor and elderly, and, later, on special FROM THE AFRICAN AMERICAN Carter-Calvin Henry Carter, 81, on September initiatives such as gleaning and recovering excess EXPERIENCE 10,2001, in West Chester, Pa. Calvin was born in food to benefit those in need. Named a Point of Light by the George Bush Administration, Susan with Vincent & Rosemarie Harding WestChesteronAugust 11,1920, to William and Patience Robinson Carter. He attended Media was a strong public speaker who was selected to Friends School, graduated from Westtown School train Food and Nutrition Service employees about May 10-12 in 1937, and served in the U.S. Coast Guard HN/AIDS in the workplace. A founding member THE STATus OF IsLAMIC during World War II. Trained in communica of the American Federation of Government Em tions, Calvin worked for several years at D and K ployees, she served Local 2735 for nearly two WOMEN IN THE ARAB Electronics in Newtown Square. He loved to gar decades as president, vice president, shop steward, den at the family homestead in Wallingford. A and unofficial wise woman. Afrer many years search WORLD member of Newtown Square Meeting, he moved ing for a spiritual community, she found Friends, and in 1991 she joined Trenton (N.J.) Meeting, THE ROLE OF RELIGION to Barclay Friends in WestChester in 1995. Calvin is survived by a brother, Joseph S. Carter; three serving as clerk from 1994 to 1996. Her vocal with Zoharah Simmons nephews; and a niece. ministry was most ofren expressed through song, including those of her own composition. In 1993 Helfman- Elizabeth Helfman, 89, on March 11, May 17-19 she received the Kenneth L. Carroll Scholarship 2001, in Medford, N.J. She was born in Pittsfidd, for Biblical and Quaker Studies, to study for three YouR MoNEY oR YouR LIFE Mass., on August 1, 1911. A graduate of Mount months at Pendle Hill. She was active in the Quaker Holyoke College, she earned an MA. in English Lesbian Conference (QLC), where she met Karen with Anne Felker, David Quinn & from Radcliffe College and taught school in Cali Lighmer, a rare book librarian. In 1998 Susan Kathleen Barndt fornia, Louisiana, and New England while writing moved to Philadelphia to live with Karen, and and working toward having her work published. transferred her membership to Germantown (Pa.) May24-27 Through this work she met her husband, Harry Meeting. Susan led workshops at the FGC Gath Helfman, a writer and artist. The couple moved to ering four times. She was diagnosed with cancer in EXPERIENCING GooDNEss Brooklyn, where Elizabeth wrote books for chil 1998 and retired from federal service in 1999. In dren, served as researcher at the Bank Street Col July 2001 , she led a workshop called Living with IN OURSELVES lege of Education, and worked as the teaching Cancer at the FGC Gathering in Blacksburg, Va. with john Calvi guide editor for Scholastic Magazine. In 1991, Eliza Five weeks prior to her death, Susan recorded "I beth and Harry moved to Medford Leas in New Thankfully Sing," a CD celebrating QLC's first Jersey, where she taught a course in journal writ June 14-16 quarter century. She is survived by her partner, ing. At this time Elizabeth transferred her mem Karen Lightner; her mother, Rose Hilberg; her CLERKING bership from New Paltz (N.Y.) Meeting to Medford brother, Stephen Hilberg; and two nephews. (N.J.) Meeting, but for the past few years, because with Arthur Larrabee of hearing problems, she attended Medford Leas Hilty- Hiram Hilty, on October 24, 2001, in Meeting. She is survived by her son, Robert Warner Greensboro, N.C. He was born on April2, 1913, Helfman. in Donnellson, Iowa, the fourth child of Peter P. and Barbara Killer Hilty. Most of his childhood Hilbecg-Susan E Hilberg, 52, on October 1, was spent on a farm in Versailles, Mo., with his 2001, at home in the Mount Airy section of Phila parents and siblings. In 1937 he graduated from delphia, Pa., afrer a three-year journey with cancer. Bluffton College (Ohio) and entered Hartford Born on January 13, 1949, in Newark, N .J., she Seminary (Conn.), where he was awarded a Bach spent her childhood in a multicultural, working elor of Divinity degree in 1940. In that same class neighborhood in Newark, N.J. Her father, year Hiram became a recorded Friends minister. Henry John Hilberg, a tailor, had emigrated from His early work took him to Clinton Corners Meet Germany afrer World War I, while her mother, ing in New York. During this time he married Rose, was the daughter of Russian immigrants Janet Brown of Danbury, Conn., and set out who moved in progressive circles in Newark and to Cuba for mission work under the American New York. At age eight, Susan had a mystical out Friends Mission Board. Afrer his initial five-year of-body experience that set her on a spiritual path. mission he was sent on eight subsequent short She graduated from Columbia High School in missions to Cuba between 1949 and 1979. Re Maplewood, N.J., in 1967, and earned a BA. in turning to the States, he taught Spanish at Guilford English from Rutgers University. During her fresh College, where he became a full professor and man year in college, she met Grace Esposito eventually head of the Department of Foreign -~~!::~ Edwards, her first partner, who was with her for 11 Languages. In 1969 Hiram received a doctorate in 338 Plush Mill Road years. The couple was active in the early gay rights History from Duke University. He remained at Wallingford, PA 19086 movement in the New York area and joined the Guilford College until his retirement in 1978. ext.142:(800) 742-3150 (US only) or Daughters ofBilitis, the first lesbian social organi Hiram helped many Cuban Quakers in the United (610) 5664507 (available worldwide) zation in the counuy, and the West Side Discus States and was an advocate for Quakers in Cuba sion Group. Susan and Grace were active on speaker www. pendlehill.org and Mexico. A natural storyteller and writer, he bureaus and panels and sought to educate the wrote five books and numerous articles fo r registrar®pendlehill. org public on the issues of gay rights and lifestyles. At journals and newspapers. He joined Greensboro Rutgers, they lobbied for and were granted fund- Writers' Club, wrote poetry, and, when he 40 March 2002 FRIENDS jOURNAL • 1841),-f rlham still emphasizes in its devotion to aca 2002 marks our sixtieth year of Retreat and providing safe space to seekers Study Center searching for inspirational, restorative, energizing experiences. We will be having retreats led by Daniel Berrigan, Virginia Mollenkott, Walter Wink, Robert Raines. There will be events on diversity, creative aging, writing, making a living; events of a spe~ cial interest, such as Oigong; and for particular groups: a men's abuse recovery weekend led by Mike Lew; a women's retreat led by Joan Borton; Sankofa, a retreat for young GLBT adults of color; and an Interfaith Dialogue on alternative responses to violence will be a one day event in June;. Earthcare in May and Charles Cook's Awakening to Nature offer opportunities for nurtur~ ing and renewing our kinship with the natural world. Call (610) 588-1793 for more information about these and other events or to receive our catalogue. You should also visit our web site for additional news: www. ki rkridge.org FRIENDS JoURNAL March 2002 41 retired, wrote his memoirs. In conjunction with Greensboro Historical Society, he created an his toric walk that includes parts of the Guilford Col WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 lege campus as well as the cemetery at New Garden Over 300 Years of Quaker Education Meeting. H e is survived by his wife of more than 60 years, Janet Brown Hilty; three daughters, Louise The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school Feagins, Esther Searls, and Ruth Ann Chatfield; stressing high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter two brothers, Calvin Hilty and Peter Hilty; a sister, is committed to nurturing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an Dorothy Mae Baumgartner; four grandchildren, atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her Debora Yousef, Colette Searls, Peter Searls, and fullest potential. Kindergarten through twelfth grade. Elizabeth Chatfield; and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews. Earl J. Ball ill, Head of School Hoskins-Lewis Wendell Hoskins, 90, on August 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 5, 2001, at Medford Leas in Medford, N.J., of a (215) 844-3460 stroke suffered while at July sessions of New York Yearly Meeting. He was born to Alvin and Maggie Mills Hoskins on March 13, 1911, in Pleasant Plain, Iowa. He moved with his parents while his father served in pastoral ministry in several Friends churches in Iowa. From 1932 to 1941, beginning before his graduation from William Penn College "An Adventure for the Summer • • • in Oskaloosa, Iowa, he lectured and gave demon suations on new scientific and technical develop Memories for a Ufetime" ments to audiences in 48 states. He demonstrated a static elecuicity generator, a hearbeat micro Unique multicultural communities where evety child feels important phone, and an early form of television, among other devices. Lewis loved to recall his uavels and CAMP REGIS APPLEJACK TEEN CAMP the people he met along the way. After a year installing electric wiring for the federal govern Co-ed 6-12 Co-ed 13-16 ment, he was called to pastoral service with Smyrna (Iowa) Meeting. In 1947 he earned a Bachelor in Family owned and operated, specializing in first time campers. Friendly Quaker Divinity degree from Hartford Theological Semi nary in Connecticut. At Hartford he met fellow leadership since 1946. Mature, nurturing staff, d ose supervision, ratio 1 to 3. srudent Elizabeth Augur of Hartford and married Rustic cabins with fireplaces overlooking a majestic Adirondack lake. her on May 22, 1944. Lewis and Betsey co-wrote Warm, supportive, relaxed environment where the fun never stops. Over 50 two course curricula for First-day schools and col laborated on other projects. The couple moved as activities to choose from including sailing, water skiing (superb 3/4 mile Lewis followed pastoral service in Friends meetings private waterfront), all land sports, tennis (7 new courts), music, dance, drama at Allen's Neck and Smith's Neck, Mass.; Leesburg, (large theater), art, gymnastics, wilderness canoe and mountain trips, nature/ Ohio; then to New York meetings: Clinton Cor ecology (farm with animals), mountain biking, and much more! ners, Glens Falls, and Collins meetings. While at Collins he worked with Young Friends of Teen Adventure Programs include tours to Canada, Cape Cod, and Maine. Farmington/Scipio Quarterly Meeting, becoming 4- and 8-week sessions available with introductory 2-week program for director of Camp Gregory. In 1965, after Lewis younger, first-time campers. ACA accredited. For video and brochure: took clinical training at Gowanda State Hospital in New York, he worked at Morrow Association Michael F. Humes on Correction and became employed as a psychiat ric social worker at the Jamesburg Training School 60 Lafayette Road West until his retirement in 1980. During this time the Princeton, NJ 08540 couple joined Shrewsbury Meeting. During the 50 (609) 688-0368 years he was a member of New York Yearly Meet ing, he served on many committees, clerked those • www.campregis-applejack.com for Peace, Service, and Records, and frequently represented the yearly meeting to wider bodies. H e was appointed to serve for 15 years on the Board of Peace and Social Concerns of Five Years Meeting and the successor board of Friends United Meet ing, and served on the Cenual Committee of Friends General Conference for 18 years. He rep Reservations are required for display ads in FRIENDS JoURNAL. resented New York Yearly Meeting in the forma Display tive years of Friends Committee on National Leg Ad May issue: Reserve space by March 11. islation and helped lead FCNL's transition to us Ads must be received by March 14. ing computers. In more recent years he teamed Deadlines with Betsey to improve FCNL's nomination pro June issue: Reserve space by April8. I FRIENDS cess, and the couple were active in ecumenical Ads must be received by April 11. JOURNAL activities, most recently representing the New Jer Ad rate is $32 per column inch. sey meetings of New York Yearly Meeting on the New Jersey Council of Churches. After his retire Call (215) 563-8629 now with your reservation or questions. ment from the New Jersey Deparunent of Correc tions, Lewis resumed writing short essays on Quak- 42 March 2002 FRIENDS J oURNAL A book for all those interested in the erism and Quaker concerns. He was strongly sup evolution of Quakers in Philadelphia ponive of young people, including young adults, to whose lives he helped bring direction and mean ing. Several asked permission to regard him as their father. His messages in meeting were optimistic In the Shadow ofWiUiam Penn and full of hope. He is survived by his wife, Eliza beth Hoskins; his sister, Irene Hoskins VanWagner; his nephews, John Alvin Van Wagner and George Central Philadelphia Frank Van Wagner; and his niece, Marcia Jean Van Wagner. Monthly Meeting Hunt-HowardF. Hunt, 82, on June 26, 2001, in of Friends Blue Hill, Maine. He was born on May 29, 1918, to Harrison R. and Jane M. Hunt in Morgantown, W.Va., but grew up in East Lansing, Mich. At Margaret Hope Bacon Michigan State University, where he earned his undergraduate degree, he joined the Religious So e noted Quaker author, in writing the story of her own Meeting, ciety of Friends. He found the quiet worship mean as given us a book with a more universal appeal. Central ingful, and he so influenced his grandfather that Philadelphia Meeting represents the marrige of two different strands the older man followed the younger one into East Ti of Quakerism-one Hicksite and one Orthodox. 'To understand the Lansing Meeting. Howard received a doctorate in Clinical and Physiological Psychology at Univer history of these two Meetings is to know the story of Philadelphia Quakers sity of Minnesota. During World War II, as a for almost two centuries: their concerns, their tragic separation, and their psychologist in the Navy, he traveled to Philadel eventual healing." Bacon explores their meeting houses, schools, care for the phia, where he found Quaker meeting a great aging, opposition to war and slavery, the origins of Friends organizations, solace. Afi:er the war, he worked at Sranford Uni versity, then, in 1948, set up an animal research such as the American Friends Service Committee, and the development of program on emotional conditioning, learning, and Friends Center. brain function at University of Chicago. In 1964 he moved on to Columbia University, where he Available from Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting continued animal research and teaching, and be ISIS Cherry Street; Philadelphia, PA 19102 gan to work with psychiatric patients. ln1977 he joined the Psychiatry department of Cornell Uni (21S) 241-7260 or via e-mail FRIENDS JOURNAL March 2002 43 Moorestown Germany, where they were supponive anenders of the small meeting. Ruth and Ulrich traveled exten Friends sively in Europe and North America, and after his death in 1993, she continued traveling, &om Ja pan to Alaska. Ruth never gave up her enthusiasm for finding new places and revisiting ones she had enjoyed before. She felt much of the same wonder and pleasure for books, art, music, walks in the woods, flower gardens, and time spent with her many friends. She is survived by a daughter, Eliza beth Leppman; a son, John Leppman; and two grandchildren. Lippincott-Catherint Park Lippincott, 83, on April 10, 2001, in Burlington, N.J. She was born on March 25, 1918, in Wauseon, Ohio. Catherine Open your child's had a long career as a social worker with the Educational Excellence for Over 200 Years Burlington County Board of Social Services, and mind to the world she served on the boards of the Burlington County NJ8 three through 12th grade Historical Society and Burlington County Hospi ABINGTON Transportation from many districts tal. She was active in the leadership of The FRIENDS Extended Day & Financial Aid Options Greenleaf, an 18th-century home and apartments OPEN HOUSE for self-sufficient people in Moorestown, N.J. Dur SCHOOL ing the 20 years she served on The Greenleaf 9 a.m. Tues., April 9 Board, her intellect and knowledge of social work A Quaker coeducational o Tour our campus were of great value. A member ofMedford (N.J.) day school grades • Meet students & faculty Meeting, Catherine taught First-day school and Preschool through 12 0 expressed herself in vocal ministry. She was pre VIsit clases ceded in death by her husband Robert Lippincott, For more information, call Moorestown Friends School who was lost at sea in 1943. She is survived by her 215-886-4350 www.mfriends.org son, Robert P. Lippincott. 575 Washington Lane • Jenkintown, PA 19046 110 E. Main • Moorestown, NJ 08057 • (856)235-2900 Norton-john &nningtr Norton, 85, on February 9, 2001, in Reading, Pa. He was born on February 18, 1915, in Reading. At age 11 his family moved to Williamsport and then to suburban Philadel phia, where he graduated from Glen-Nor High School in 1932. In 1937 he received an Engineer FRIENDS j oURNAL announces the publication of ingdegreefrom UniversityofPennsylvania. Drafted into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, he spent several years building bridges in the Philippines. Later, he married Janet Horton and settled in the Reading area, raising her BENJAMIN rwo sons and a niece. John was involved in his Berks County communiry, serving on the Plan The Meetznghouse Mouse :I ning Commission, the school board, and with the Boy Scouts. He was an electrical engineer in charge by Benjamin, as told to Clifford Pfeil, of power distribution for Met-Ed and GPU. John with illustrations by John D. Gummere was an attender and active member of Reading I Meeting for 50 years. H e served on many commit tees and enjoyed showing the meeting children Ifyou remember the Benjamin stories how to make old-time toys. He had a gentle and kindly manner and a quiet sense ofhumor. He was in past issues, you will be happy to share predeceased by a son, David, in 1971. He is sur them-now in book form-with your vived by his wife, Janet Norton, a former Clerk of the FRIENDS JouRNAL Board of Trustees; a son, children, grandchildren, and Friends! Roger Norton; and two grandchildren, Elizabeth and Sarah Norton. Look for Benjamin in Friends bookstores or order directly &om FRIENDS JoURNAL: Srnith-Ntwlin R. Smith, 97, at home in Medford, Please send me __ copies of Benjamin @ $6.00 each, plus $2.00 shipping and handling N.J., on September 9, 2001. Born on January 26, ($3.50 for shipping and handling outside U.S., Canada, and Mexico). My check is enclosed. 1904, in Philadelphia, Pa., he was the son ofnoted Name ______geographer J. Russell Smith and Henrietta (Stewart) Smith. 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After retirement he moved to Medford Leas in To arrange for a FREE premium quotation, and Medford, N.J., where he was active in the League ofWomen Voters, the Burlingron County Demo to learn more about GuideOne Insuran ce, call cratic Committee, the Medford Township Zoning 1-877-448-4331 ext. 5429. Board, and the Medford Leas Residents' Associa tion. Here he became a popular leader ofhi storical and bird-watching tours. He was predeceased by his wife, Marion Bonner Smith (1983), and a son, Linford R. Smith (1973). He is survived by a son, Fenwick Smith. Stevens-fan Farmer Stevens, 46, in Flagstaff, Ariz., on February 21, 2000, after a six-year struggle with recurring cancer. Jan was born on September 8, 1953, in Las Vegas, N.M., and was adopted at birth by Ray and Charlotte Farmer, both Quakers. she graduated from Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Ariz. In 1971, she became a member of Flagstaff (Ariz.) Meeting, and in 1974, under its care, she married Fred Stevens. In 1976 she earned a Bachelor ofScie nce degree in journalism at Notth ern Arizona University. Beginning in 1979 she worked for the Arizona Daily Sun as reponer, columnist, and features editor. H er ftnal column was written and fLied only hours before her death. She was described by the Sun's editor-in-chief as the quintessential community journalist who knew everyone and cared about all. People trusted Jan to get their story right and to tell it in a way that was eloquent and fair. She received a First Place in Arizona from the Associated Press for feature writ ing, non-deadline reponing and beat reponing, and First Place awards from the Arizona Governor's Council on Aging for feature and personality profile writing. In 2000 she was posthumously awarded the Eunson Alumni Achievement Award in Journalism, Notthern Arizona U niversiry's high est honor in the fteld. Jan was also an author; later ·~ in life, when she discovered her own Hispanic • heritage, she wrote The Carlos Books, an instructive but humorous bilingual series of children's books Fo! FRIENDS joURNAL March 2002 45 Forum continued from p. 7 Friends Home at Woodstown just that we seem unwilling to acknowledge unpleasant realities. If there is such a thing as a just war, A Century ofQuaker Care for Older Adults then we can address the question of what criteria determine whether or not a particular Simply put, Friends Home at Woodstown provides friendly and affordable war is just. If violence can be the right care to older adults. Nestled in the heart of rural southern New Jersey, response in extreme circumstances, what are Friends Home has maintained a stable presence in the community for over the boundaries of permissible violence? If war and violence are never justified, then we 100 years. Some of our primary services include: are spared the trouble of thinking further, or • Private, homelike residential living of making hard choices between greater and • Independent apartment living lesser evils. Is this the moral high ground? I am not so sure. • Health care facility with 24-hour services Edna Dam • Patient and supportive staff Vashon, Wash. • Attention to the individual's spiritual, social, and physical needs • Closeness to the community A consistent voice is needed • Medicare and Medicaid Certificate Nearly as disturbing to me as the events ofSeptember 11, was reading Scott Simon's Rated one ofthe best care homes in the U.S. article (F]Dec. 2001). I have been a Quaker For a tour or more information, contact our Admissions Office at all of my life and feel that the Peace 856-769-1500 Testimony is one of my Religious Society's most important messages for this violent world. I attended university during the Friends Home at Woodstown Vietnam War, and found that most of my P.O. Box 457 • Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 friends who were confused and horrified by our nation's involvement in the conflict turned to the Quakers to find words and logic to clarify the nagging at their souls that war is not right. Again during the Gulf War our meetinghouse burst with artenders looking to find an alternative voice to the warmongering and yellow ribbons that they FELLOWSHIP OF FRIENDS OF AFRICAN DESCENT found around them and felt were not right. I do not object to Scott Simon's thoughts, ~·couae Holy Spiri~ Revive lfs ilga_in'' although I disagree with them. Tolerance for ""-~·,',u;t, ·' A "" -~·,~l;t, ·' all ideas is a basic element of Quakerism. ~... · .s< ugust 8-12, 2002 ~.. '< However, I do not feel it was appropriate to print these ideas in FRIENDS JOURNAL. There : iM · Pendle Hill : iM · is no shortage ofjournalism supporting our war efforts. At devastating times like this it is llflf Wallingford, Pennsylvania llflf important for people to be able to turn to the Religious Society of Friends for a consistent voice for peace activism. Compromising the most essential and basic OUR BIENNIAL GATHERING testimonies of Quakerism will leave the Our program includes: Religious Society of Friends an empty void Daily Worship, Children's Program, Workshops with a voice for no one...... ------...... Gwynne Ormsby / Package includes: ' West Chester, Pa. ( Accommodations & meals at Pendle Hill \ l $98 per day (double occupancy) per adult plus registration and J Let's understand motivations \... ______trans_E2rtati~fees. ______/ I really appreciated the honesty with which Scott Simon explored his thoughts 50% Deposit required by June 1, 2002 and reflections about 9/11 (F]Dec. 2001). Travel arrangements are being made by Friendly Travel, contact: Robert Horvay This is such a complex issue that it deserves ~travelquake@verizon . net; phone or fax: 856-223-0666, toll free: 1-888-374-3630) just such in-depth examination. However, I For information & registration materials contact: Gathering Committee, 1515 was startled to read his statement, "The conflict before us now does not involve Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 or go to our new website: www.quaker.org/ffad American power intruding in places where it has interest." As British writer John Pilger 46 March 2002 FRIENDS ]OURNAL POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT wrote in the newspaper the U.K Min-or on 10/29/01, the oil and gas reserves in the Caspian basin are the greatest source of untapped fossil fuel on Earth, and it is a geopolitical fact that only if the pipeline runs Assistant Editor through Afghanistan can the U.S. hope to control it. That is why we need to control Afghanistan. To quote Mr. Pilger: "When FRIENDS JoURNAL is seeking a part-time assistant the Taliban took Kabul in 1996, Washington editor to help produce the magazine, focusing on said nothing. Why? Because Taliban leaders the departments section, but also copy editing were soon on their way to Houston, Texas, to be entertained by executives of the oil and proofing each entire issue. This individual company, UNOCAL. With secret U.S. will work closely with the senior editor and pro government approval, the company offered duction staff, and will supervise the work of nu them a generous cut of the profits of the oil merous volunteers who prepare several of the de and gas pumped through a pipeline that the Americans wanted to build from Soviet partments. This position is half-time (17.5 hours central Asia through Afghanistan." per week) and offers flexible hours, a warm colle A U.S. diplomat said: "The Taliban will gial work environment, and the deep satisfaction probably develop like the Saudis did." He of involvement with an important vehicle of explained that Afghanistan would become a U.S. oil colony, there would be huge profits Quaker communication. for the West, no democracy, and the legal persecution of women. "We can live with that," he said. Although the deal fell through, FRIENDS it remains an urgent priority of the administration of George W. Bush, which is JOURNAL steeped in the oil industry. So, not surprisingly, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is now referring to "moderate" Taliban, who will join a U.S. sponsored "loose federation" to run Afghanistan. The "war on terrorism" is a cover for this: a means of achieving U.S. strategic aims that lie behind the flag-waving far;:ade of great power. It's About Them. I know this reality does not decree whether one follows pacifist or nonpacifist responses to the attacks on the U.S., but we • Grades 6-12 must understand the reality with which we • Boarding Options Available are dealing in order to take the most • 8-to-1 Student /Faculty Ratio informed approach. • Just 75 Miles North of NYC Margaret Lobenstine Belchertown, Mass. Reactions to violence Oakwood vary FRIEND S . SCHOO L I have been and am a devoted fan ofScott Simon. I try never to miss his segment of Weekend Edition on National Public Radio. FRIENDS JoURNAL is to be commended for publishing the article (F]Dec. 2001) based on the address he gave in Washington, D.C. just two weeks afrer the assaults of September 11. Surely one clue to Scott Simon's change of heart in respect to pacifism derives from his firsthand experiences of being at Ground Zero in New York immediately following the attacks. Anyone who heard his broadcast three months later about the Rockaway community on Long Island will understand 22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 1-800-843-3341 www.oakwoodfriends.org the depth of his empathies. "One of the FRIENDS JouRNAL March 2002 47 unforeseen effects of being in journalism," to rely largely on that force to counter the he notes, "is that your firsthand exposure to September 11 assaults. But this response the issues of the world sometimes has the deflects us from grasping why the aets of a WOOLMAN HILL consequence ofshaking your deepest tiny number of extremists strike a resonant personal convictions." chord in many Muslim nations. A reaction quite opposite to his is found The sad fact is that they see the U.S., the New England Quaker Center among some who served on the front lines only superpower in the world, as the Great in World Wars I and II and in Vietnam. Satan undermining their cultures, striving to Their experiences led them to peace sustain our opulent, materialistic lifestyle. activism, if not to absolute pacifism. The They also see the U.S. supporting repressive realities of war shook their personal and corrupt Gulf governments. It is out of convictions. the soil of oppression and poverty, allied Quakers and the Global Food Chain The bottom line in Scott Simon's with a warped interpretation oflslam, that Debbie Humphries, David Morse statement is that "the United States has no terrorism grows. March 1-3 sane alternative but to wage war and wage it The focus of the Quaker Peace with unflinching resolution." Yes, and the Testimony is rightly the issue of war itsel£ resolution passed by Congress, with only Only when a vast number of people in the Barbara Lee dissenting, gave President Bush U.S. come to the conviction that war and Renewing Ourselves in Silence authority to attack anyone involved in the preparations for war, like terrorism, are Susan IJoyd McGarry September 11 assaults--anywhere, in any inherently evil, will our beloved country be March29-31 country. It was this same unflinching able to move toward radically different resolution that led the United States and its foreign policies. allies in the Second World War to insist on The poetic author of Deuteronomy put unconditional surrender, paving the way for an exasperated plea into the mouth of God: Exploring Elderlng: obliteration bombing of German cities and "I have set before you life and I have set Roots Intertwined, Faces to the Sun the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. before you death, and I have begged you to ]an Hoffman It is regrettably understandable that the choose life for the sake of your children." April12-14 U.S., which spends over $300 billion for military purposes-~me-half of the federal Larry Miller government's discretionary budget--chooses New Britain, Pa. Focus on Families Kevin and Betty Ann Lee Pittsburgh-Well located, affordable, third-ftoor (walkup) Classified guest rooms with shared bath. Single or double occupancy. April19-21 Kitchen available. Contact: House Manager, Friends Meet For Information call (215) 563-8629. inghouse, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Classnied rates 65e per word. Minimum charge is $15. Telephone: (412) 683-2669. Logo is additional $15. Add 10% nboxed . 10% Coming to London? Friendly B&B just a block from the discount for three consecutive insertions, 25% for six. British Museum and very close to London University. A central Transformations Appearance of any advertisement does not location for all tourist activities. Ideal for persons traveling imply endorsement by Friends Jouma/. alone. Direct subway and bus links wHh Heathrow Airport. New England Friends in Unity With The Penn Club, 21 Bedford Place, london WC1 B 5JJ. Classified Ad Deadlines: Telephone: +44 (0207) 636-4718. Fax: +44 (0207) 636-5516. Nature May issue: March 18 June issue: April 16 Chicago-Affordable guest accommodations in historic April26-28 Friends meetinghouse. Short- or long-term. Contact Assis Submit your ad to: tant Director, Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Advertising Manager, Friends Journal Chicago, IL 60637. (n3J 288-3066. 1216 Arch Street, 2A Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 Coming to DC? Stay wHh Friends on CapHol Hill. William (215) 563-8629 Penn House, a Quaker Seminar and HospHality Center in beautiful, historic townhouse, is located fwe blocks east of the U.S. Capitol. Convenient to Union Station for train and METRO connections. Shared accommodations including Accommodations continental breakfast for groups, individuals. 515 East Capitol Beacon Hill Friends House: Quaker-sponsored residence Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003. E-mail: 48 March 2002 FRIENDS JouRNAL Quaker Books: Rare and out-of-print journals, history, Selected Panella Hill Programs religion, inspirational. Contact us for specifiC books or March 8-10: Quaker Teatlmonlea and Mindfulness Positions Sought topics. Vintage Books, 181 Hayden Rowe Street, Meditation, with Susan Murphy and Richard Brady Hopkinton, MA 01748. (508) 435-3499. E-mail us at Seeking position. Friend, more than 20 years of Quaker FRIENDS j oURNAL March 2002 49 West Branch Friends Church, located 10 miles east of Volunteer Internship at Ben lomond Quaker Center, a Friends Camp located in South China, Maine, seeks coun Iowa City in historic West Branch, Iowa, seeks full-time retreat and conference center near Santa Cruz, Calif. Resi· selors with skills in pottery, photography, crafts, music, pastor. We are a semi-programmed Christian Quaker Meet· dential, one year beginning August. Great opportunity sailing, sports, and lifeguards. Kitchen assistant and malnte· ing affiliated with Iowa Yearly Meeting and Friends United to grow spiritually and wort<. in all areas of th1s Quaker nance staff are also needed. A nurse, physician assistant, or Meeting. For additional information check our website: nonprofit. Mountains, redwoods, housing, stipend, and EMT is of major importance to us. Maine state licensing will 50 March 2002 FRIENDS j OURNAL Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic pro We are a fellowship, Friends mostly, seeking to enrich and Retirement Uving gram in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for children expand our spiritual experience. We seek to obey the prompt ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Small classes and an ings of the Spirit, however named. We meet, publish, corre Foxdale VIllage, for Quaker-directed life care. A vibrant enriched curriculum answer the needs of the whole child. An spond.lnquiries weloome! WmeQuaker Universalist Fellow and caring community that encourages and supports men at-risk program for five-year-olds is available. The school ship, 121 Watson Mill Road. Landenberg, PA 19350-9344. and women as they seek to live life fully and gracefully also offers an extended day program, tutoring, and summer in harmony with the principles of simplicity, diversity. equal Marriage Certificates. Fine calligraphy in traditional plain school. Information: Stratford Friends School, 5 Llandillo styles or decorated with beautiful, custom-designed bor ity, mutual respect, compassion, and personal involvement. Road, Havertown, PA 19083. (610) 446-3144. Spacious ground-floor apartments and community ameni ders. Also Family Trees for holiday gifts, births, anniversa ties such as library, auditorium, wood shop, computer lab. Sandy Spring Friends School. FIVe- or seven-day boarding ries, family reunions. Call or write Carol Simon Sexton, CCAC Accred~ed . Reasonable fees include medical care. option for grades ~12. Day school pre-K through 12. Col Clear Creek Design, 820 West Main Street, Richmond, IN 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Department F, State College, PA lege preparatory, upper school AP courses. Strong arts and 47374 (765) 962-1794 1680H5269. For more information, call Leona Gill at (800) academics, visual and performing arts, and team athletic 253-4951 FRIENDS JoURNAL March 2002 51 A Campaign for a New Century We are all creatures, not only born into the sure darkness of death, but also endowed with an unquenchable longing for the light oflife . We can all meet in this same light, however varied our lanterns. Dan Wilson Director of Pendle Hill, 1953-70 A Unique Resource in Friends Education A Resource for Monthly Meetings Grounded in Quaker faith and practice, guided Pendle Hill is committed to nurturing and sustaining by continuing revelation, and respected around the monthly meetings. While Pendle Hill is not a Quaker world, Pendle Hill is today, as it has been for over seminary or school of theology, it provides the 70 years, a sacred place for Friends to: educational resources and seasoned teachers to help monthly meetings address the challenges facing • meet for worship as the center of daily life their families, their meetings, their communities, • study rel igious thought and practice, Quaker and the world. studies, peace and social justice, and spirituality in literature and the arts Over 2,000 Come to Pendle Hill Each Year • experience the divine while working with others Pendle Hill offers many programs for Friends to in community enrich their skills in such ministries as clerking, • prepare for service to the Religious Society providing pastoral care, facilitating Alternatives to of Friends Violence training, witnessing to Friends' social concerns, and • assist Friends seeking divine guidance in meeting teaching religious education. the challenges of contemporary society Each year over two thousand people sojourn at Pendle Hill or attend our weeklong A QUAKER CENTER FOR and weekend conferences STUDY AND CONTEMPLATION and retreats. Invest in the future To learn how you can make an investment, not only in Pendle Hill, but also in the future of the Religious Society of Friends, please contact: Barbara Parsons Director of Development Pendle Hill 338 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086-6099 800.742.3150, ext 132 E-mail contributions@pendlehill. org www.pendlehill.org