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I \ - i 1\,, ,• Quakers on the ~b I I ' ' Among Friends Editor-Manager Vinton Deming Associate Editor Kenneth Sutton Alabama '96 Assistant Editor Timothy Drake ometimes a news article touches the heart and moves people to reach out to one Art Director another in unexpected ways. So it was this winter when the Washington Post Barbara Benton published a piece on the rash of fires that have destroyed black churches in the Production Assistant S Alia Podolsky South in recent months. There have been 23 reported fires in seven Southern states in Development Consultant the past three years, all of which were proven or suspected to be the work of Henry Freeman arsonists. Nineteen of the fires have occurred since January 1995. Marketing and Advertising Manager Nagendran Gulendran Last December's burning of the 100-year-old Mount Zion Baptist Church in Administrative Secretary Boligee, Alabama, was a total loss. Three weeks later, on January 11, two other Marie McGowan black churches in the same county were burned to the ground on the same night. On Bookkeeper February 1, four churches were torched in Louisiana, three in the town of Baker. No Nancy Siganuk arrests have been made in any of these most recent incidents. Poetry Editor Judith Brown When Friend Harold B. Confer, executive director of Washington Quaker Development Data Entry Workcamps, saw the article, he decided to do something about it. After a series of Pamela Nelson phone calls, he and two colleagues accepted an invitation to travel to western Intern Alabama and see the fire damage for themselves. They were warmly received by the Cat Buckley pastors and congregations of the three Greene County churches. Upon their return, Volunteers Jane Burgess, Robert Sutton they set to work on a plan. What has resulted is the Alabama '96 Summer Board of Managers Workcamp Project, an ambitious undertaking that will involve volunteers from Irwin Abrams, Jennie Allen, Frank Bjomsgaard, across the country in an effort to rebuild the three Alabama churches. As Harold Paul Buckley, Susan Carnahan, Sue Carnell, Marguerite Clark, Barbara Coffin, Emily Conlon, wrote in a recent letter (quoting from a Habitat for Humanity poster), "Once again, Phoebe Cottingham (Treasurer), God's people can use a good carpenter!" Richard Eldridge (Clerk), Deborah Fisch, Here's the plan. The summer-long building effort will include three international, Marty Grundy, Robert Kunkel, Carol MacCormack, Mary Mangelsdorf, Jack Mongar, Lee Neff, intergenerational, month-long workcamps. They will run consecutively, designed to Caroline Balderston Parry (Recording Clerk}, provide a volunteer labor force to the locally chosen contractor. 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7 On Speaking in Meeting for Worship 2 Among Friends Patrick J. Nugent What goes through the mind and heart ofa Friend about to 4 Forum speak in meeting? 5 Viewpoint 9 Love and Meeting Noise 22 NCP Notes Rich Van Dell en What does the "noise" in meeting for worship say to you? 23 Witness 10 Messages: A Personal Odyssey 24 News of Friends Fran Palmeri Messages in meeting can take us to places we never expected 26 Bulletin Board togo. 26 Calendar 11 The First Meeting for Worship in Hawaii 29 Books Gerald A. J. Hodgett British Friend Daniel Wheeler traveled halfway around the 33 Resources world with his concern to share the message ofFriends. 34 Milestones 13 What Scripture Can Mean to Friends Today 37 Classified Georgia E. Fuller The Bible both reflects and transcends the times in which it was written. Poetry 16 Jesus Among Friends John Pitts Corry Some Friends meet resistance when they bring their beloved 8 Sara in Quaker Meeting to meeting. Elizabeth Addison 18 Quakers on the Web Carl Stieren The Internet 's World Wide Web presents Friends with new opportunities to communicate with each other and share our message with nonQuakers. 20 Benjamin, the Meetinghouse Mouse Clifford Pfeil Now an attender, Benjamin struggles with questions that have no right answers and becomes more familiar with Friends. (Part 3 of8)

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Bosnian students With our hearts Pakistani activists struggling against such groups in their own country choose to call I have been moved by the response to the In response to Joseph W. Letson's them religious terrorists, a very appropriate editorial (FJ Nov. 1995) regarding the work comments (FJ Jan.) on Blanche term. Such terrorists exist among Muslims, being done on behalf of Bosnian students by Zimmerman's attempt to separate the Jews, Christians, Hindus, and other Friends schools and families. We received message of Jesus from the myth (FJ June religions. calls from many parts of the country from 1995), I am dismayed by primarily Aziz Pabaney Friends interested in finding out how they intellectual approaches to the Bible. Bombay, India could help. Statements that start "When looked at In December, Amar Nalic, age 15, came objectively ..."bother me. Sure, the Bible from Tuzla to live with a Quaker family in is our experience of God as passed on by The Listening Project Coalinga, Calif. The Greenwood School in humans, but its important messages are Pennsylvania undertook a drive to provide gained by opening one's heart to it. I heartily applaud your publication of clothing and shoes for the children of Understanding the Bible does not come "The Listening Project" by Willie R. Frye Bosnia. They sent seveml much-needed from the scientific approach ofdissecting it (FJ March). We need more accounts of the packages. The Country Day School in as if it were a frog in a biology class. This struggles around issues that our yearly Winnetka, Ill., and St. Louis (Mo.) Meeting humanistic tendency to assume that meetings experience. I would hope that if are both exploring the possibilities of whatever exists can be understood and the editor becomes aware of such struggles offering scholarships for the fall. A group in explained by human intellect is in other meetings, he would commission an Hartford, Conn., is involved in looking for a anthropocentric. It assumes we are God, article discussing the problem and attempted scholarship for a college-age student. capable of knowing all, and basically the solutions. Although the Dayton Peace Accord has rulers of the universe. In the past, humans Allan Kohrman provided a much-needed cessation in the believed the Earth was the center of the Newton, Mass. fighting, the educational system in Bosnia universe. We have a hard time imagining We will continue to seek ways to has been decimated. Experts anticipate it ourselves as less than centrally important. sensitively discuss the difficult issues that will take five to ten years before it is at the Could an ant contemplate the workings of face our meetings. We want the magazine to level it was before the war. It is therefore our minds? be a place for such dialog to occur among important to continue to provide the As George Fox proclaims in his Journal, Friends. -Eds. opportunity for Bosnian students to continue to understand the Bible's messages we must their education. rely on the Christ within, that divine guide Deborah Osborne-Daily that abides in the heart of each of us. It took Lighten up Philadelphia, Pa. Fox years of full-time seeking to receive What has happened to the humor one many of his "openings." Let's read the Bible used to see in FRIENDS JoURNAL? After all, a with our hearts--or try finding ourselves in sense of humor is a sense of proportion. You Civil War relic biblical chamcters (another Fox suggestion). used to carry children's humor or amusing Let's touch it and get personally involved. misunderstandings. In our seriousness, we The South River (Va.) Meetinghouse Satya Froseth might be wise to leaven our message with a [pictured below] was in the direct path of the light touch. Most Friends discussions need a Battle for Lynchburg during the War McNeal, Ariz. bit of humor to get the message across. I Between the States. It is ironic that this have been missing it. building and cemetery grounds should have Susan Chambers been the site of war. Religious terrorists Concord, N.H. Readers of FRIENDS JouRNAL may be The tragic assassination last year of The April issue, we trust, was a step in interested to learn that while planting new Yitzhak Rabin is a very sad event for all of shrubs around the meetinghouse, we found a us and especially the peace process. That the the right direction. Now here 's this from relic from this battle. It has been act was carried out by a young Jewish John Kriebel, Chambersburg, Pa.: "Can a authenticated by the museum system as a fanatic does not come as a surprise. Gandhi, monthly meeting that has an online metal heel plate from a Civil War~m a Hindu, was assassinated by a Hindu. Some computer address still call itself 'unprogrammed'?" -Eds. soldier's boot (1865). Indian social scientists attribute this to the Jean Earle breakdown in traditional culture. Lynchburg, Va. It brings to mind my visit in 1994 to a friend and scholar now in the United States, Hannah Barnard Cesar A. Majul. He is a Filipino historian of Chuck Fager's article on Hannah repute, who served as dean of the Centre for Barnard (FJ Jan.) demonstrates his strengths Islamic Studies at the University of the and weaknesses as a Quaker journalist. As Philippines. After the massacre of Muslims he has for years, Fager describes simply and in Hebron, February 1994, Majul was sharply the differences among Quakers, in moved to write a scholarly article based on this case the differences that arose in the Qur'an indicating the Muslim heritage of London Yearly Meeting, 1798-1802. Today Abraham. Some Jews, he said, refuse to we see Hannah as ahead of her time but not accept this reality, claiming Abraham and seminal. Her seed fell among thorns or the shrine in Hebron only for themselves­ stones, partly because of her debating style. hence the massacre of 29 Muslims when She is honorable as joining the trend away they were in prayer before God. Such from biblical literalism, but not a heroine to· violence will continue, he said-as has been be held up for her stubborn combativeness. the case up to the present. In 1772 John Woolman had melted those

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Similar to the gift annuity but a lot more flexible in terms ofwhat it can do in your particular situation. A Gift ofa Life Insurance Policy. Donate an existing policy and receive a charitable deduction for its cash value. Viewpoint The Mystical Challenge ark S. Cary's article, "The timony outweighs distinctives," what is dis­ honor the Friends who are on a different Challenge of Evangelical tinctive, if not unique, is the way· of silent path than mine, many of them far above M Friends" (FJ Dec. 1995), well worship. Here we unprogrammed Friends are me, and I am happy to cooperate with reminds us of the evangelical strand in the real conservatives, much closer to our them in the practices we share, our testi­ early Quakerism, so typical ofreligions in Quaker ancestors than are the evangelicals. monies, and our social work. But it was their first phase. He sits loose, however, Howard Brinton has well explained the an unprogrammed Friends meeting I was to the mystical strand, which represents revolutionary approach of early Friends: The moved to join over half a century ago, what has been the most novel. He de­ Catholic priest faces the altar on which he and the greatest challenge I feel is to clares, "Early Friends needed the lack of reveals the Divine in the sacrament of tran­ keep trudging along on that particular structure in order to have a one-to-one substantiation, while the Protestant preacher path. To me, this path is not only unique relationship with God, but today is not behind the pulpit makes known the nature of among the godly trails, but especially 1652." Yet it was the unprogrammed meet­ the Divine by means of Scripture, hymn, and appropriate for those today who are look­ ing for worship that was the great discov­ sermon. In an unprogrammed meeting for ing for a corporate pathway to direct ery of early Friends. As it was for me in worship, Friends sit together in the silence experience of God that is in full accor­ 1939! waiting upon the Lord. This is a corporate dance with the democratic and scientific Many ofMark's eight challenges seem search for the Divine in which each worshiper spirit. no different than what I have experienced has the opportunity to practice the presence of But do our meetings get far enough from other evangelical Christians. It is God both as part of the group and as an along that pathway? Mark Cary found a nothing new to be told to "read the Bible" individual. Each helps the other, as a burning depth of religious feeling among or to ''read the entire passage" (although I log kindles its neighbor. Vocal ministry can evangelicals that he had missed. We are would challenge the evangelicals to read also aid, but, as Brinton insists, such guidance challenged, not to be willing "to experi­ with the benefit ofbiblical scholarship). I is only "knowledge about"; it is not the direct ence their form of worship" but to be already believe "evil is real" (although experience of God that each worshiper tries to more faithful to our own origins, to strive my belief that we have evil propensities attain. to deepen the spiritual life of our unpro­ as well as godly has no place for a per­ This quest liberates us from creed and grammed meetings for worship. sonal Devil), and of course I believe ritual, as wellll$ from any literal interpretation I need to ask myself, for example, do "prayer works." of the Scriptures. Our minds are liberated to I spend enough time with the Bible and As to the evangelical "Great Commis­ read these documents critically, and our spir­ with other great spiritual writings? Am I sion" to become missionaries, I must ad­ its are free to seek communion with those of disciplined enough as I center down at mit that I find enough challenge in George the authors who were indeed moved by the meeting? Do I clear the way for the in­ Fox's advice to be patterns and examples, Divine as they wrote. vading presence of the Divine by avoid­ "that your carriage and life may preach." I We unprogrammed Friends are liberated ing preoccupation with self and with ev­ don't feel called to ''tread and trample all from dependence upon priests or pastors. Of eryday and surface thoughts that crowd that is contrary [to the Truth] under." Nor those Rhode Islanders who would have hired in? Only as I and the rest of us work to am I challenged to believe that the his­ George Fox as a minister, Fox wrote, "It was help our meetings become truly gathered toric Jesus "died for us," although I have time for me to be gone; for if their eye was so in the spirit could a present-day Robert written in these pages of the inspiration much to me or any ofus, they would not come Barclay wander into one of "the silent Jesus means to me. I would quite agree to their own teacher." He said of his own assemblies of God's people" and feel "a that ''truth outweighs diversity," but, as ministry that "he took them to their guide and secret power among them, which touched Mark Cary correctly characterizes our be­ left them there." my heart." liefs, truth is "something beyond theol­ I conceive ofall ofus who seek the Divine Irwin Abrams ogy, beyond words." as mountain climbers, each of us on our own Yell ow Springs, Ohio With regard to the challenge that "tes- way, at our own pace, on our own trail. I stony British Friends. Hannah was disowned and two centuries ago: attitudes toward the argument seems to have been the Quaker for her "caviling, contentious disposition." "establishment," the ''hierarchy," equivalent of how-many-angels-on-a­ True, behind that charge most British "repressive orthodoxy." It is good to connect pinhead! Today we see the philosophies of Friends felt that anyone who questioned the past with the present, but with the hope each taken to their logical extreme; one has texts like Gen. 22:1-14 was a revolutionary, to resolve, not promote, conflicts. I wish produced an anything-goes Ranterism, the however strongly they might sympathize Chuck had not thrown this brickbat at the other has produced something virtually with Hannah's belief that God would not tell "new generation of orthodox heresy­ indistinguishable from mainstream Abraham to kill Isaac. hunters." There are enough nonQuaker Protestantism. To call attention to differences is a proper journalists stirring up fights. Neither philosophy, then or now, has the function of a Quaker newsperson. Chuck Thomas Bassett character of the church as known by the Fager does this provocatively. But the Shelburne, Vt. likes ofPenington or Fox. That church was a Quaker journalist is committed to consider people assembled by Christ to worship the query, "When conflicts arise, do you I cannot rejoice, as Chuck Fager does, in together; learn together, and if necessary seek in mutual forgiveness and tenderness to the squabble between, on the one hand, suffer together. It was under Christ's power, resolve them speedily?" (New England Hannah Barnard, the New Lights, Elias who said that we should forgive "seventy Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice) Fager Hicks, etc., and on the other hand the times seven." connects differences among Friends today evangelicals, pre- and post-J.J. Gurney. The Under what power was Hannah Barnard

FRIENDS JOURNAL May 1996 5 when she said she could forgive a wrong, loss, verbal harassment, physical violence) with the proviso that her accusers "had only when we express our same-sex attractions. to confess it''? Similarly, we suffer the indignities of Apart from this, Chuck Fager's wresting biphobia (exclusion from gay and lesbian of historical figures and defining them as organizations, social isolation, negative "incipient liberals" reminds me of nothing stereotypes) from within the gay and lesbian so much as the Mormon practice of community. Like most people, we long to be posthumous baptism. accepted and valued. Most important, there Paul Thompson resides within every bisexual person that Shropshire, England divine potential, that Inner Light. Beyond that, nothing else should matter. Ed Paquette Vegetarianism Meriden, Conn. In my working and family-raising years, traveling, especially with young children. I have lived in multicultural places. The And I am satisfied for now to stay in Evangelical message meeting communities in them have included solidarity with my meat-eating ancestors and vegetarians, and I have added some of their cousins, Quaker and otherwise, and with I read with interest Mark S. Cary's article specialties to my recipe file. I note provision those of the world's poor whose subsistence "The Challenge of Evangelical Friends" (FJ for vegetarians at Quaker gatherings and includes the chickens running around Dec. 1995). It is obvious he has learned observe that Friends who are omnivores in outside their door. much about evangelical Friends since taking private life are not particularly upset if there Sabron R. Newton a job with Friends World Committee for is no meat If this is a cultural shift, it has Chicago, Ill. Consultation. He mentioned eight points on taken place slowly and for the most part which he felt evangelical Friends differed quietly. For some of us "raised Quaker," diet from liberal Friends. I felt he was generous has become an area in which to practice hi­ Love and acceptance and fair in his treatment of the points he or multi-culturalism. I am now more likely It was with great interest that I read makes, and I appreciated what he had to say. to take lentil salad to a potluck than a more Herbert N. Lape's article (FJ Feb.) in which However, as an evangelical Friend I feel it is "down-home" chicken casserole. My farm­ he shared his experiences as a straight man important in the section "Christ died for us" raised Quaker mother experimented with at the Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns to address the reason for Jesus Christ's new and unfamiliar recipes to cater to the (FLOC) midwinter gathering. However, death. vegetarian inclinations of her urban there was one aspect of his article I found That Jesus went to his death for us, that grandchildren, who perhaps, as a result, very troubling-his discussion about the we are to remember his death when we eat have not appreciated how much others current debate over whether or not to and drink, that we are to incorporate what he enjoyed her cooking. Conscientious welcome and include bisexual people into stood for into ourselves, and that Jesus vegetarians have had to make decisions FLOC. He states that "there was wanted us to know how we are loved of God about whether to abandon principle for the considerable opposition to this proposal. ... I believe to be true. There is something else sake of fellowship or seek out a social life in If bisexuals are openly welcomed, what to be said about Christ's death. Jesus, by his more supportive circles. Proponents of keeps polygamous heterosexuals, death, accomplished for humankind traditional and new diets have made private pedophiles, or others who could also argue something we could not do for ourselves. decisions about accommodation, avoiding that they are oppressed minorities from His death made redemption from sin a community-threatening promotion of their seeking support from FLOC?" The wording possibility for all. Just as we humans cannot preferences. of this argument is vague. I don't know if it create ourselves, neither can we redeem The position of some vegetarians may be is Lape' s point of view or that of a majority ourselves. It is the work of God both to analogous to that of Friends like myself who of FLOC members. Furthermore, it is not create and to redeem. To experience Christ have tried, in a drinking culture, to maintain completely clear whether or not Lape is Jesus is to experience this redemption and to the testimony of neither using nor serving comparing bisexual people with pedophiles be brought into relationship with God. alcoholic beverages. When I was younger, and polygamists. What is clear is that a Lorraine Palmore especially, this felt like a formidable social sizable number of FLOC members are very Portland, Oreg. handicap. I think that in compensation I fiightened of bisexuals. Their reasons are have tried to be as open as I could to the varied and, indeed, some may be quite foods I have been served. My husband has legitimate. But a lot of this fear stems from traveled in India, and his love for the spicy false perceptions, ignorance, and insecurity. South Asian vegetarian cuisine has brought Gays and lesbians face a number of real FRIENDS JOURNAL welcomes Forum con­ new tastes and dishes to our menus. I rather threats. Bisexuality is not one of them. tributions. Please try to be brief so we like the East Asian tendency to use meats as I know of no specific behaviors or may include as many as possible. Limit condiments. One example now is my practices unique to bisexuals other than the letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to I ,000 weekend soup, using all the leftovers in the innate ability to love both men and women words. Addresses are omitted to main­ refiigerator, sometimes flavored with on an emotional and physical level. We are tain the authors' privacy; those wishing chicken bits or broth. My favorite health not inherently promiscuous, nor do we to correspond directly with authors may authorities urge abstinence from dangerous systematically coerce young children into send letters to FRIENDS JouRNAL to be substances, variety in the diet, and having sex, nor do we carelessly spread forwarded. Authors' names are not to be moderation in consumption of fats, sweets, AIDS at a rate any higher than gay men, nor used for personal or organizational so­ and overall amounts. I still find it convenient do we thoughtlessly destroy marriages. We licitation. - Eds. sometimes to make burger stops when do suffer the trauma of homophobia (job 6 May 1996 FRIENDs JoURNAL hearing others speak well and badly and of hearing myself speak well and badly. Most of these are little homilies I preach to myself in various states of confusion, ON SPEAKING embarrassment, or inspiration during meeting. I hope some of them are helpful to others. 1. Be open to divine action and divine in Meetingfor Worship communication within yourself. If you don't believe this is possible, then either you ' 11 say nothing in meeting or what you by Patrick J. Nugent do say will be outside the spirit and the Spirit of meeting. To my mind, this is the hat makes for good vocal min­ Larry Miller's "The Practice of Quaker one Quaker indispensable. istry in meeting? How do we Worship." Samuel Bownas's On the 2. Come into meeting neither deter­ know when to speak and when Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Min­ mined to speak nor determined not to not? Lots of different guides have been ister is crucial, in my opinion, for people speak, but bring your whole self: what published, long and short, good and bad. who find themselves speaking frequently. you read, what you know, what makes My favorites include Ruth Pitman's little I offer here some components of good you angry, what gives you joy, what brings pamphlet, "On the Vocal Ministry," and vocal ministry from my experience of you into God's presence, what drives you out of it. Coming into meeting without a determination to speak or not to speak is not the same as coming to meeting empty, without concerns or joys or loves or faith. 3. A regular and vibrant life of prayer and spiritual reflection outside of meeting is indispensable. For Friends uncomfort-

I offer here some little homilies I preach to myselfin various states ofconfUsion, embarrassment, or inspiration during meeting.

able with traditional intercessory prayer, I would point out that Friends practice a wide variety of spiritual disciplines, in­ cluding joumaling, Zen-style meditation, Christian-style centering prayer, and ask­ ing God for the strength to get out of bed. Pray, but don't interpret "prayer" nar­ rowly. Like vocal ministry, prayer is a gift from God, not a gift to God. Don't force it. 4. Unload your inner noise on God, not on the meeting. The first 15 minutes or so of meeting are great for this. In his book, On Listening to Another, Douglas Steere affirms the importance of "letting it all hang out" in God's presence--he says that any service of worship that cannot accept worshipers just where they are is a romantic fantasy. Steere points out that just as in an intimate friendship, you soon Patrick Nugent is a member of 57th Street (Ill.) Meeting. He and his spouse, Mary Kay Rihard, have two small daughters, Emma and Eliza.

FRJENDS JoURNAL May 1996 7 fall silent when you realize the presence to; give up the fantasy that you're not the others. If you do experience it in your and love of the Listener are more impor­ pastor, if that's what you're tempted to. own life, why not speak up? tant than the talking you've been doing. 9. If you don't feel that God might 12. If the last message you heard really This is what I like to think of as "center­ speak through you, then you're looking bugged you, resist the temptation to an­ ing down": not repressing your noise but for the wrong kind of inspiration. God swer. expressing it to God in order to come to a usually speaks very effectively through 13. If the last message changed your deeper sense of divine friendship and lis­ people who have no idea it's happening. life because it was so profound and trans­ tening and in order to descend into the If you're looking for spiritual fireworks formative, resist the temptation to answer. eternal depths of God's silence. and don't fmd them, look for something 14. If the last message is exactly what 5.· Learn the difference between what's else. God is very subtle; if the inspiration you were thinking, resist the temptation a distraction that should be left aside, you get is subtle, then you may be on the to repeat. what's intended just for you, and what's right track. If you get fireworks, watch Most of all, remember-or begin to intended for all at meeting. (I'm not sure out. You may give impressive and color­ believe!- that real vocal ministry is in­ we can ever learn this fully!) If your ful vocal ministry; you may also be badly spired directly by God. Speaking "close ministry doesn't contain something that's burned or blown up. to your gift," as they used to say, means new to you, then it may not be genuine 10. Look at the faces of those around being close to the Giver, a complex and ministry but a thought you've been ob­ you gathered in God's presence. These subtle process. It is not just evangelical or sessing about and should share with your are God's precious treasures, and Christ mystical, romantic intimacy with the Di­ spouse, lover, friend, pet, cab driver, or sits in their midst as their Head. What is vine, but also finding the Creator's love on-line buddies. Conversely, if God is your responsibility to them? and grace in changing diapers, paying leading you repeatedly to a particular 11. Look for the signs of God's love in bills, sitting in jail, engaging in painful theme in your own prayer and reflection, your life, not for good ideas or theories or conflict, making love, reading stories to God may be developing in you a pro­ political programs. I have found the former your children, walking city streets, feed­ phetic message that is meant to be shared. much more helpful (and humbling) in my ing the hungry, clothing the naked, trim­ The difference between soapbox and spiritual life. It seems to make for much ming the shnibs. It is also far more impor­ prophecy, between pet theories and di­ better ministry, even if that ministry also tant than speaking in meeting. As Samuel vine messages, is very, very subtle. produces good ideas, good theories, or Bownas challenged us, ifyou 're not close 6. If you speak a lot, get some humil­ good politics. Begin with what God is to God and transformed by divine love, ity. The world won't end if your brilliant, doing in your life. Ifyou don't experience how well can you bring others close to pressing, dynamic piece of prophetic ge­ it in your own life, don't preach it to God and help them be transformed? l:l nius isn't heard today. Maybe God is trying to help you learn to talk less and listen more. Sometimes somebody else gets up to speak just as you're about to. I SARA IN QUAKER MEETING always, always, take this as a sign to stay "I'll be quiet as the moon," seated and listen. 7. If you don't speak much, get some Said my daughter, wanting me to say self-confidence. Just because there are She could stay in my arms where the big people sit windbags in your meeting who are more Who appreciate silence; articulate than you, or because there are seminary graduates who can run theo­ "Quiet as a road in the moonlight. logical circles around you, doesn't mean That's how I'll be. they're any closer to the divine life than That's whispering and walking slow," you. If you're comfortable in your rela­ Said she who always runs, tionship with God, is it time to emerge Whose voice cuts air like bread from the upper room-a pleasant, safe, intimate, but isolated place-and start Sharp as wine. I imagine her preaching in the streets? We need you. Walking down the road in moonlight I'm hard on windbags and seminary Careful of her footing graduates because I'm both. I struggle As the katydids and crickets drown her words with my verbosity in meeting and some­ And the dusty sand settles behind her. times feel ashamed after giving ministry, as if I've given in to my academic wind­ I see the moon over Carolina pine. bagginess and my wordy obsessions. It speaks volwnes. Samuel Bownas is clear that self-doubt can be a helpful tool for good ministry for But this is a later story, being the windbag crowd! Dwarfed by ~oonlight. 8. If you're a pastor, let somebody else Now she herself is the moonlight give the sermon sometimes, or substitute Commanding silence when the world's a long period of open worship for your loud chorus begins. sermon. If you're in an unprogrammed Elizabeth Addison lives meeting, give up the fantasy that you're -Elizabeth Addison in Cullowhee, N.C. the pastor, if that's what you're tempted

8 May 1996 F RIENDS JOURNAL aby was starting to fuss. An older boy was rest­ less and wiggling nois­ ily. Where were their parents? The baby was crying now. When was it time for the chil­ dren to leave for First-day school? I was getting irritated. I could not center and settle in, and several other children were raising a fuss, interfering with myworship. Whydidn'tthepar­ ents intervene and keep their kids from bothering the rest of us? Children should not be taken to meeting for worship unless they can behave. Finally the children left and I could begin to worship without all the interruptions. Sound familiar? In a recent Philadel­ LO phia Yearly Meeting Pastoral Care News­ letter, the story is told of an adult who stood up in meeting for worship and spoke and Meeting Noise on how the noises of a new baby were distracting his worship. He asked the meet­ ing for help. At one time I could identify by Rich Van Dellen with that message, but no longer. An ex­ perience in meeting for worship changed five or ten minutes of silence one of the giggles stopped and worship proceeded. I all that. teenagers began to giggle. Pretty soon we don't remember if any more messages We were a small meeting in those days, had fifteen teenage kids in varying stages came out of the silence, but that worship having an average attendance on First of giggling or trying to stifle a giggle. for me was transformed. Day of five to eight adults. We received a Most were doing a poor job of suppress­ Now I look at the noise of children in call from a Lutheran Sunday School ing it. I was beside myself. What were we worship differently. I see a lot of love in teacher asking if their class could come to do? I looked at the adults who had their restlessness. I am reminded of the and observe a Quaker worship service. accompanied the class, and they were importance of love in the growing up The class was studying other religions. trying to silently express their disapproval. process. I think ofthe importance ofadu lts We talked it over and somewhat hesi­ Then a message came: "I see a lot of making faces at babies to make them tantly said they could join us. We empha­ love in this room." I looked around startled. ~augh and gently rubbing the soft spots of sized that our worship was participatory Geoff was speaking. He went on to tell of their scalp or feeling their velvety cheeks. and that they would not just observe. his experience as a volunteer in Vietnam When a mother or father picks up their The morning came. In trooped fifteen during the war working in orphanages. noisy child and walks out of meeting, I or so teenage kids and two adults-! pre­ He described how the babies in the or­ want to run after them and say, "Stay with sumed their teachers. There were five or phanages did not cry and how eerie the us. We need you. The noise of the little six of us that morning. We handed out our silence was. The babies did not cry be­ ones reminds us that love is the central "Welcome to Rochester Friends Meeting cause they did not have the love and message of the Christian Gospel, the cor­ for Worship" information sheet, which affection that babies need to mature nor­ nerstone of Jesus' life and teaching, and a explained what unprogrammed worship mally. They had very little adult contact. needed ingredient if we hope to change was about. We had carefully explained The older children did not run and jump the violence of our culture and time." unprogrammed worship to the teacher and wiggle or giggle. They too were emo­ Jesus himself said, "Let the little children who had called with the original request. tionally damaged from the lack of love come to me, . . . for it is to such as these Worship began. I was uneasy. After and affection given to us as children that that the kingdom of heaven belongs" most of us take for granted. (Matt. 19:13 NRSV), and William Penn Rich Van Del/en is co-clerk of Rochester We were all reminded that the giggles wrote, "Love is the hardest lesson in Chris­ (Minn.) Meeting and the father offour adult around us were healthy and that they indi­ tianity; but, for that reason, it should be children. cated these children were loved. The most our care to learn it." 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL May 1996 9 spoke of the circle, the jailers?" "We must not be victims," said essential shape of na­ one Friend. "Love one another," said an­ ture-Earth, Sun, other. After the children had come in at stars-and how it the end of meeting, a father held up a MESSAGES: symbolizes unity. An­ drawing his daughter had done in First­ other passed on day school. It was entitled "Look for the thoughts from his six­ Light Within." year-old: "God makes Silence, the setting for vocal ministry, A Personal Odyssey trees and flowers, and has always been a great mystery for me. that is Nature, and hu­ While quiet is a void, an absence ofsound, mans make buildings silence is filled with enormous possibili­ by Fran Palmeri and cars, and some­ ties. As a child I felt silence was God's how that is Nature, message and we were interpreters. Just as esterday, meeting for worship was too." As one Friend was feeling grateful God is unknowable, the God in a message a bit fractious. Great gusts of words that the "allergic" people made it possible is unknowable until it is absorbed back blew through the room like the for us to meet out-of-doors, someone into the silence. clouds marching across the April sky out­ sneezed, and we all laughed. hat we choose to do in the si­ side. The first speaker told of her confu­ As a nine-year-old, I laughed in the ence varies. Once our lives are sion with the 0. J. Simpson trial and won­ meetinghouse at Westtown School when Wiilled, we hope to be able to dered how to discern the truth from all the young Master Fred told how on the latest hear that still, small voice within us. We information and gossip in the media cir­ camping trip, being a novice at cooking, may use the time to rest or sleep, or it can cus. A Friend suggested we "stay in the he measured out a cup of rice for each be an intense, even disquieting, time. We stream of Life, avoiding material things." person, resulting in a mountain of rice. chum with worries, problems to solve, or Then someone spoke about violence in For me humor in a house of God was a our ''to do" list. With practice we learn to the media and pop culture and how it revolution, having been used to the som­ empty our minds and wait for what may affects children. Towards the end ofmeet­ ber Latin prayers recited by the priest at or may not come. ing, a woman offered her personal anti­ Mass. The waiting can be tedious and dis­ dote to the societal pain. "My garden and So many of the messages I treasure are couraging. Sometimes the silence leads the things of nature keep me sane," she modest recollections of everyday life. down a dusty, dark road to a dead end, said, pointing out the spider on the chair Once, a Friend spoke of thoughts of the and I feel frustrated and unsatisfied, or in front of her calmly weaving a web. I Divine while wheeling his trash can up to the words, interrupting the silence, seem was grateful for that blessing. the curb. On her 94th birthday a woman inadequate and intrusive. A gathered meeting is a gift that ar­ spoke of awaking that morning and lis­ So often we are reluctant to break the rives unexpectedly and inexplicably. One tening to her great-grandchildren playing silence-human thought and speech not and how that was for her the supreme gift always being up to the occasion at hand. to commemorate the occasion. No Latin If I feel moved to speak, I obsess with doxology here, but words coming out of three questions: Is it personal? Is it pre­ human experience made larger in a spiri­ pared? Is it preaching? As for the actual tual setting. They have helped me over­ delivery, so many of us fear stumbling come the partitions of life that I grew up over our words--or our feet. We don't - with. No longer is it church for an hour on want to appear ridiculous. But suddenly, (5~ Sunday and secular things for the rest of all of that ego and human bumbling dis­ ~ the week. Vocal ministry infuses all of appears in the excitement of the rush of ~ my life with the Spirit. · the Spirit, lifting and propelliilg us into ~ It is not just words that are important. speech. We speak out ofLove about Love. C:> Often I recall a Friend rising and the The Spirit moves through us despite all ~ tone of his or her voice, but not neces- our hesitation and imperfections. sarily the message. That is not to diminish No matter how inadequate the mes­ morning we were a small circle on the what was said, but in meeting, words are sages in a meeting for worship, I am front veranda of the meetinghouse-out­ only a part of the gifts that are offered. always grateful for the genius of early side because some of us were allergic to The timid give us a glimpse of their cour­ Quakers who made us all ministers. Many new construction in the meetinghouse. age in rising and speaking. Those who are times we minister to one another with Somehow we managed to transcend the troubled share their fears with us. Almost words that are sublime in thought and children chattering in the nursery, planes always there is some divine aspect to a meaning. We benefit from differing points flying overhead, the August whir of lo­ message, even if it is a question, a com­ of view, different experiences. Some of custs, cars crossing the gravel parking lot, plaint, or a plea for help. In sharing our us speak from a beautiful clearing oflight and birds calling to one another. A most common humanity, we glimpse the Di­ and serenity; others from a low, difficult inauspicious setting for quiet meditation, vine that unites us all. place. Sometimes someone will speak and yet we became deeply centered. Inspired Sometimes a message is mute. One others pick up the theme, and a mighty by the lovely wooded setting, someone morning I was reflecting on a recent revelation occurs, so moving and uplift­ bloody event in the Middle East. I asked, ing that it reverberates throughout our Fran Palmeri is a member ofAnnapolis (Md.) "How do we love those who murder in a lives like the laughter at that overflowing Meeting. house ofworship as George Fox loved his pot of rice. D

10 May 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL by Gerald A. J. Hodgett 100 tons that had carried mail between Harwich and Hamburg), but the Soci­ n the first First Day of ety at large was to "sail" her, that is to First Month (that is, Sun­ say, to pay for the wages of the cap­ 0 day, January 7), 1836, the first tain, mate, and crew and to provide meeting for worship after the manner provisions for all on board. of Friends held in Hawaii took place in The Henry Freeling sailed in No­ the Mariners' Chapel, Honolulu, some­ vember 1833 but, because of storms in time in the evening. No such meeting the English Channel, did not leave the would have been held had not a Isle of Wight until March 1834. The Quaker, Daniel Wheeler, been aboard eventful journey continued to South a ship anchored in Honolulu harbor at America, then east, below the Cape of that time. Good Hope, to Tasmania, New South Who was Daniel Wheeler? He was Wales, and Tahiti. Daniel Wheeler and born in London, England, in Novem­ his son Charles arrived in Honolulu ber 1771, entered the navy in 1784, harbor on December 25, 1835. and six years later became an army Three boats met the vessel; in one private, subsequently an officer. On was the British consul. Once they had one occasion during his army service dropped anchor in the harbor, the se­ he was being shipped to the West Indies nior missionary, Hiram Bingham, vis­ and at the last moment was transferred ited the ship. Although Daniel Wheeler from what was thought to be a sound appears to have gotten the date wrong, vessel to an old collier. The sound it is clear that on the first Sun­ vessel sank, an event that greatly influ­ day the Wheelers were in Ho­ enced Daniel Wheeler and turned his DANIEL WHEELER nolulu, Daniel went to Hiram thoughts to the purpose of life and to Bingham's church at 9 a.m. true religion. He left the army in 1796 HAD"AN There Hiram Bingham read and went to Sheffield, England, to visit APPREHENSION OF Wheeler's certificates and his sister who had married a member RELIGIOUS DUlYTO then a translation of them in ofthe Religious Society of Friends and the Hawaiian language. had herself become a Quaker. PAYA VISIT IN THE Daniel Wheeler had not heard Daniel Wheeler was accepted into LOVE OF THE GOSPEL them read in English for some membership in 1799 and married a OF OUR BLESSED time, only in the languages of Quaker, Jane Brady, in 1800. He had a the islands of the southern business as a seed merchant and also SAVIOR TO THE hemisphere where he had farmed. In 1818 he went to Russia at INHABITANTS OF . .. spent many months; he was the invitation of Tsar Alexander I to THE SOCIElY very moved on hearing them drain marshland around St. Petersburg ISLANDS IN THE read in his native tongue. and stayed there until after his wife's The Morning Meeting death in 1832. Even before her death SOUTH PACIFIC minute said that he laid be­ he had a concern to visit the southern OCEAN." fore them "an apprehension seas. ofreligious duty to pay a visit This concern he laid before various in the love of the Gospel of Quaker meetings, and Friends encour- our blessed Savior to the inhabitants •aged him to undertake the long and of. .. the Society Islands in the south hazardous journey. The Morning Meet­ Pacific Ocean." Six Friends had been ing held in Gracechurch Street, Lon­ appointed to draft the certificate. In don, granted him a certificate on No­ part this certificate reads, "D.W. be­ vember 14, 1832, and this decision lieves it to be his duty to go forth in was reported to Meeting for Suffering simple dependence on the Lord. .. to on November 17. Daniel Wheeler was labor amongst you ... to tum men from "liberated" for the service. "Libera­ darkness to light and from the power tion" indicated that, in addition to of Satan unto God." It continues in prayerful support, financial assistance Quakerly language, ''we desire, in the would be forthcoming. Individual providence of God and in the guid­ Friends contributed several hundred ance ofthe Holy Spirit, he may experi­ pounds for the purchase of a vessel, ence the blessing of preservation." the Henry Freeling (a vessel of over Then it moves away from the austere Gerald Hodgett, a member ofWestminster language of 18th-century Friends, ''that Meeting, London, UK, and editor of The D.W. testifYing of Him, through the Journal of the Friends Historical Society, shedding of whose blood and efficacy presented this article as an address at of whose Grace we may all obtain Honolulu (Hawaii) Meeting on January 7. redemption even the forgiveness of

FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1996 11 sins and become heirs of eternal life. . . . man ... this precious gift was not limited to a New from North Carolina ! We earnestly commend this our dear few individual members of the Church only, Friend to the protection and guidance of but extended to all men universally . ... But the great and good Shepherd and Bishop this divine gift was obtained through the shed­ SONGS ding ofChrist's blood on Calvary. Many were of souls." living in dissipation, folly, and utter forgetful­ FOR When Hiriam Bingham had read the ness of God and many turn to large draughts certificate, after a short silence Daniel of strong and poisonous drink. WORSHIP: was moved to speak. He began, "It is Towards more than probable that the greater part Thus the first Quaker meeting for wor­ a Qulker of the company now assembled never ship in Honolulu took place. In some Hymnody before heard of the existence of a society ways it harked back to the days ofGeroge under the denomination of Friends, but Fox, when large numbers waited to hear by CarrollS. Feagins my beloved people all such as love the him speak, often for two hours or, on occasion, even longer. This practice had • 35 new hymns and an essay on Lord Jesus Christ and keep His com­ mandments are friends- friends univer­ largely died out in the 18th century when Quakers' use of music Friends made little effort to address large • Published by North Carolina Yearly sally to God, friends to one another, and friends to all mankind." meetings or undertake missionary work. Meeting The Bible message had been linked • $10 plus shipping and handling His address, which lasted over one hour (although it is not stated whether with a social message. Daniel Wheeler translation into Hawaiian was included combined piety with sound common sense in that time span), was an interesting re­ and appreciation of the ills under which CANE

he Hebrew commandment quoted Church even kept the Bible in an un­ About 35 C.E. (Common Era), we find by Jesus-that we should love God changing, timeless, and dead language­ faith communities ofPalestinian Jews who with all our heart, with all our soul, Latin. Even when it was alive, Latin was had experienced a life-changing encoun­ and with all our might (Deut. 6:5; Matt. almost as foreign to Jesus and the dis­ ter with the earthly Jesus. They continued 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27}-speaks ciples as it had been to the ancient He­ to feel transformed and sustained by the to' the wisdom of balancing the intellect brews. The Hebrews worshiped their God power of his Risen Spirit. They preached and will ofour hearts, our spiritual selves, of the here-and-now, the God who en­ this Good News to people who had never and the strength of our bodies in our rela­ gages with people in real history and in seen or even heard of Jesus of Nazareth. tionship to God. A loving engagement real culture. God engaged with them in They told stories about his life, death, and with God does not grow by accident or their slave quarters in Egypt, in their es­ resurrection-many of them around a whimsy; it grows from the personal faith cape from Pharaoh, in their wanderings common meal. It was like a first-century practices and disciplines we follow. To through the wilderness, and in their en­ potluck, except they had wine as well as have balance in our relationship with God, trance into the Promised Land. whole-grain bread. then, we need balance in our practices Modem studies have worked to rescue These communities told their stories and disciplines. One tool that engages us the Bible from unchanging universalism. again and again-to each other, to their with God is Scripture. I urge us to seek a They have tried to reposition each book children, to Jews scattered throughout the balance of heart, soul, and body in our within its own historical Greco-Roman world, to Sa­ reading of Scripture. context. Scholarsofthe 19th maritans, to Gentiles. By While I seek balance in my personal and early 20th centuries en­ For a long time 40 C.E., traveling ministers, faith life, the workshops I lead focus on ergetically pursued this like the apostle Paul, were our intellectual engagement with Scrip­ goal. Recently, scholars the Church starting new communities. ture. I do this for three reasons. First, have also investigated so­ Times were hard for eight years ago, when I started teaching cial, economic, and politi­ .-esented the these isolated minorities. for Baltimore Yearly Meeting, this was a c~} contexts. Bible as Jewish-Christians wanted missing piece. Second, if one has been For example, when we to worship in the Jerusa­ Bible-battered, as many convinced Friends look at the New Testament unchanging lem Temple and in their lo- have been, the safest place to renew the in its own contexts, what and God as cal synagogues, but they relationship is at the intellectual level. don't we find? We don't encountered hostility from Third, recent biblical scholarship offers find an established church timeless. 1hese the Jews who did not be- us many Friendly attractions. Much of it with licensed priests. We lieve in Jesus (John 9:22). reinforces Quaker faith and practice, giv­ don't find a uniform creed, were Gr eek They also argued among ing our own truth back to us in a fresh and prayerbook,orhymnal.We notions-- themselves whether Gentile- invigorating manner. don't even find the New Christians must first be­ Recent scholarship is developing rich Testament. What do we foreign to the come Jewish converts (Gal. fields of study and thought that open the find? We find isolated, mi­ · g 5:2-12; Acts 15). Bible to Friends as an important spiritual nority faith communities. I Wand enn Gentile converts to this compass. I am going to discuss three ar­ think of them as monthly Hebrews. C_hristian sect of Judaism eas that speak to our traditions: social meetings-without tele­ dtd not know how to relate context, continuing and reflective con­ phones and bulk mail. to Hebrew laws and Scrip- versation, and storytelling. First is the context of Scripture. For a long time the Church presented the Bible as unchanging and God as timeless. These were Greek notions-foreign to the wan­ dering Hebrews who worshiped a very present God called Jahweh, a name often translated as "I Am" (Exod. 3:14). The

;: Georgia Fuller, a member of Langley Hill j! (Va.) Meeting, presented this article to "Re- E claiming the Bible f or Modem Friends, " a ~ conference held by Baltimore Yearly Meeting ~ on September 30, 1995. ~

FRIENDs JoURNAL May 1996 My second point is the study of Scrip­ ture as continuing conversation. The com­ When we munities that read and wrote Scripture continued to reflect on themes and events. look at In this sense, Scripture is a series of re­ the New flective conversations and interpretations about the Divine. One way to look at Testament, we these continuing conversations is with a concordance and a Bible that gives anno­ find isolated, tations about the date and authorship of minority faith each book. For example, I looked up sabbath in communities. I my concordance and found all verses that think of them contain the word. It first appears in Exo­ dus 16:23, when the Hebrews, wandering as monthly in the desert, are told to gather extra wood and to bake and boil extra food and water meetings­ on the sixth day, so they could rest on the without seventh day, the Sabbath. Four chapters later, in the Ten Commandments, we get telephones and the reason. Exodus, after conversing with the book ofGenesis , concludes, "Remem­ bulk mail. ber the Sabbath day, and keep it holy," because Genesis says God created the universe in six days and rested on the seventh. If God stopped working and rested, then the Hebrews should stop 22:1- 7). As the early Chris­ working and rest. tians moved into the Roman The Gospels tell us that Jesus entered a Empire, their mission was synagogue on the Sabbath and encoun­ plagued by a nasty historical tered a man with a withered hand. Every­ fact: Rome had executed one wondered ifJesus would work on the ~~;iiilii their founder and Risen Lord sacred day of rest. Mark and Luke add a · as a political criminal. They moral argument to the conversation about needed a good spin-doctor. Sabbath. Before healing the man, Jesus ture or even to their own neighbors. The The community of Luke found one. This asks the crowd, "Is it lawful to do good or meeting in Corinth asked Paul if they Gospel taught that Pilate repeatedly pro­ to do harm on the Sabbath, to save life or could eat meat that had been offered to nounced Jesus innocent (Luke 23:4-25) to kill?" (Mark 3: 1-6; Luke 6:6-1 1) Mat­ idols. This was a common practice be­ but finally gave in to Jewish leaders and thew, on the other hand, gives a personal, cause the butcher shop doubled as a place crucified him. humanitarian analogy: "Suppose one of of sacrifice. What the Corinthians wanted When we recover the communities of you has only one sheep and it falls into a to know was whether they could still eat Scripture we find faith communities in pit on the Sabbath; will you not lay hold with their nonChristian friends and fami­ crisis. They struggled with life and death, of it and lift it out? How much more lies (1 Cor. 8:1- 13). external persecution and internal dissen­ valuable is a human being than a sheep!" The Scriptures these faith communi­ sion, political revolution and political ac­ (Matt. 12:9-14). Later, in the healing of a ties left behind are the products of crises. commodation, fear and urgency, love and crippled woman, Luke adds a theological Not being able to share meals with our hate, betrayal, scapegoating, and the argument to the conversation about Sab­ nonQuaker families and friends would be meaning of membership. They held these bath: "And ought not this woman, a daugh­ a crisis. The preparative meeting in struggles in the Light. They recorded their ter of Abraham whom Satan bound for 18 Thessalonica had the untimely death of encounters with God and their own suc­ long years, be set free from this bondage belovedmembers(1 Thess.4:13-14). The cesses and failures. on the Sabbath day?" (Luke 13: 10-17) worship group in Philippi had a dispute The Scripture they gave us cannot pre­ The Johannine community, which was between weighty friends (Phil. 4:2). The scribe a cure-all for every modem prob­ at loggerheads with the synagogue, was community that produced the Gospel of lem because it reflects their history and in no mood to dialogue. It simply demol­ Mark wrote with fear and urgency, ig­ culture. It is not a wonder drug; it is not a ished the foundations ofthe conversation. nited by Jewish unrest and the eventual road map to Heaven. Scripture, then, is a When the religious authorities confront revolt against the Roman Empire. compass that points to the constant pres­ Jesus after he healed on the Sabbath, he The community that gave us the Gos­ ence of the infinite God who engages us answers, "My Father is working, and I pel of Matthew wrote in the aftermath of within our finite history and culture. Scrip­ also am working." (John 5:1- 18) John the Jewish revolt and destruction of the ture reminds us that our problems are not declares that Exodus and Genesis are both Temple. They revealed dismay and anger unique and the source of their solution is wrong. It is all right to work on the Sab­ that other Jews did not accept Jesus' invi­ not distant, although our exact solutions bath; John uses no euphemisms like tation to the messianic banquet (Matt. may, in fact, be unique. "heal," "do good," or "free from bond-

14 May 1996 FRIENDS JoURNAL age." What is more, God is not resting on the Sabbath but actually working! Scripture, then, represents continuing reflection, something embodied in our Come to The Pendle Hill Friendly tradition of continuing revela­ tion. We are invited to join this conversa­ Issues Program Roundtable tion. As George Fox said, "What canst thou say?" My third point is storytelling. Scrip­ The Bible ­ ture includes song, poem, speculation, and The Church narration. God encountered humans in their own time and space in history. Their & The Future of Friends lives were transformed. They told their Friends have long had varying approaches to stories of encounter and transformation. the Bible and the nature of the Church (eccle­ They told them over and over again, and siology). How do these bear on the search for their children told them. Narration keeps constructive ways forward on our peace wit­ the stories and actors alive and present. ness, and conflicts over homosexuality? The journals ofearly Friends are in the tradition of Scripture narration. We must Presentations, Space is limited. continue telling our stories: Bible stories, May 17-19 Quaker stories, our own personal stories. $185 on campus We must keep reflecting and conversing 1996 $85 plus meals and keep open to transformation. Our God for commuters. is "I Am"; our God is not "I once was" or "I will be." Related to storytelling is a study called narrative criticism. This gives us new in­ sights into the community of faith that small group discussions, shared worship with ... preserved the stories. Stories are not kept in the abstract. We keep the stories that Mel Keiser, Professor of Religion, Guilford College shape and give meaning to our lives. We "'/Knew Him Not But By Revelation': keep the stories that relate most to who A Hermeneutics of Inwardness we are and what crises we face. and the Ethics of Same-sex Love" For example, a look at the main char­ Georgia Fuller, Virginia Theological Seminary acters in Luke and Acts, the product of Building Quaker Community: one faith community, gives us an amaz­ Learning From the Gospel of John ing window into their possible member­ Ben Pink Dandelion, Woodbrooke College ship. This community kept stories no one On The Borders Of Liberalism: else did: a parable about a poor, uppity "Sexuality, Tolerance and Privacy widow (Luke 18:1-8); a miracle about a Within Modern Unprogrammed Quakerism" rich Jewish widow named Tabitha (Acts Doug Gwyn, Author of "Apocalypse of the Word", 9:36-43); and Paul's encounter with a "The Covenant Crucified" and other books. Gentile businesswoman called Lydia X-Covenant: A Meeting for Friends (Acts 16:1 1- 15, 40). Other stories were Beyond Our Present Boundaries about a "Good Samaritan" (Luke 10:25- Elizabeth Cazden, New England Yearly Meeting 37); a Roman military leader named "Fellowships, Conferences and Cornelius (Acts 10); and two African Associations: The Limits of the Liberal Christian leaders, Simeon, called Niger, Reinvention of Quaker Polity" and Lucius ofCyrene (Acts 13:1). Read­ Dorothy Day, Illinois Yearly Meeting ing Luke-Acts through the eyes of narra­ "Holding It Together: A Yearly Meeting tive criticism makes Baltimore Yearly Labors Over Sexual Ethics" Meeting look homogeneous! Our fore­ bears also struggled with diversity (Acts 6:1-6, 15:1- 21). Pendle Hill Issues Roundtable Studying Scripture in terms of com­ 1 (800) 742-3150 for registration information munity context, continuing and reflective conversation, and storytelling reminds us 338 Plush Mill Road that we are not terminally unique. Scrip­ Wallingford, PA 19086 ture is a spiritual compass that points to­ ward the source ofour solution-the infi­ e-mail: [email protected] nite God who continues to be present in http://www.quaker.org/pendle-hill our finite time and space. How do I know? The Bible tells me so! D

FRIENDs JOURNAL May 1996 15 by John Pitts Corry hen I joined Friends in my there was no time to pursue an outmoded, minority among Friends: gay and lesbian, mid-20s, some 40 years ago, supernatural myth. Jewish-background, and other Friends. I was a liberal Friend. My United with my fellow Quakers in civil The reflections are sometimes blunt in Hicksite-influenced family rights and antiwar activities, I felt alien­ expression and convey a range of feel­ background; my Quaker education at ated at Friends gatherings, such as Phila­ ings that have accumulated over the years: Westtown School, George School, and delphia Yearly Meeting and Friends Gen­ joyfulness, concern, frustration-even an­ Haverford College; and working with eral Conference, which I stopped attend­ ger-but they are expressed out ofa sense David Richie as a weekend workcamp ing after several years because it was so of love for other Friends. They are in­ leader in South Philadelphia were cher­ painful to have the central love of my life tended to promote a healthier dialog and ished experiences that opened me up to passed over. It was not so much that people relationship among Friends with different the challenging ethos of the Sermon on were hostile to Jesus-though some religious beliefs. the Mount. were-but that I had no way to communi- 1. Don't assume my beliefs are just During those years of being a new Friend I felt supported in my beliefs and activities by my meeting and in other gatherings of Friends. Then I had an ex­ perience that changed my life. I was sit­ ting relaxed on a lazy Sunday evening, listening to some friends read from a book called The Lord, by Guardini. Across the room I saw the figure of a man in white. He said, "Follow me." I paused, for I knew my response would be critical for cate my enthusiasm and dependence on like other Friends', that we all mean the my life, and then answered, "Yes, Lord. Christ. People might accept my stated same thing only the language is different. Yes." The others did not see or hear the beliefs about Jesus, but I could not bring I respect God's presence in each person, man, and I left soon afterwards. It has him to meeting with me, could not share but I have to say that God has come to me remained the most compelling experience my love for Jesus in public. This hurt the as the Inner Christ, the Savior, the One of my life. I never questioned that the most. I understood that my experience who was raised from the dead. I know man was Jesus, and afterwards I turned to was not common among modem Friends this is supernatural, beyond the laws of the Bible to learn more of him and the and that each person had to be guided, as science, but it is my experience. Jesus is new life to which he had called me. I I was, by their own deepest experience of alive in me-not just his memory, his remember singing to myself, "Jesus is God. But I longed to share my inner com­ example, his teachings, but the Holy Spirit, Lord! Jesus is King!" back in Philadel­ panion with Friends, especially at times the Spirit of Jesus, what Fox called the phia, walking the grim streets to line up of worship and deep searching for the Inner Christ. This Christ language is not homes for the work campers to visit and things of God: not to impose my experi­ the language of science or sense­ paint. I was thrilled to be companioned by ence on anyone but to be who I was perceived reality but a language of love. this new inner friend whose energy and among Friends, to communicate to others What others may see as dry or airy theo­ love enabled me to enflesh, to some ex­ the spiritual gift I had been given. logical speculation is for me the language tent, the Sermon ethic I found so difficult Without the support of several Christ­ oflove, composed of hymns, prayers for to follow on my own. centered Quaker prayer groups, a Catho­ help, and songs of praise to my beloved I was encouraged in my new venture lic prayer community with a ministry to companion, Le Beau Dieu-the Beauti­ by Douglas and Dorothy Steere, but I the homeless, and my second Quaker ful God! After a recent committee meet­ found it difficult to share my riveting home at Middletown (Pa.) Meeting, where ing, I shared with two Friends I know experience among most Friends. Over my religious beliefs are respected, even well that "what bums in my heart is Jesus the next several years enthusiasm at shar­ appreciated, if not universally embraced, Christ." The conversation quickly moved ing my liberating experience shifted to I would, I believe, have left the Religious to details of arrangements for the next caution, hesitancy, and then, isolation, Society of Friends-for adhering to the meeting. Later one of the Friends asked powerlessness, and frustration. I felt my same beliefs held by George Fox, William what was behind my sharing, but it hurts encounter with Jesus and understanding Penn, and Mary Dyer! when the deepest experiences of one's of Scripture were ignored or viewed as Drawing on my experiences as a Christ­ life are ignored or, as on other occasions, irrelevant theological notions that stood centered Friend, I would like to share a dismissed as outdated myth. in the way of Friends active witness for few reflections. Personal and exploratory, 2. Don't confuse my Christ-centered peace and justice. The cries of the world these reflections are not meant to defend views with those of Fundamentalists or for help were so urgent, I was told, that any particular view of Christianity nor to other Christian groups. While I appreci­ John Pitts Corry is a member of Middletown impede the deep searching going on in ate God's work in the wider Christian Meeting in Lima, Pa. others who also struggle as an uneasy fellowship, I have a special respect for

16 May 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL the work ofJesus among Friends. In this I of my own limited ex­ look to George Fox, Margaret Fell, and perience of God. My the early Friends; to John Woolman and longings, failures, and Thomas Kelly; and in our own day to victories are illuminated Canby Jones, Doug Gwyn, Sandra Cronk by the book so many and Kathryn Damiano, Renee Crauder, seem to have outgrown. and Dorothy and Douglas Steere, rather I have not. Despite its than evangelists from other traditions. cultural and scientific I feel frustrated and uneasy when, at limitations, it is my main every mention ofJesus, the Bible, or Chris­ guide to the spiritual life. tianity, the litany of Christian failures are I am shaped by the God recounted. I too deplore the Inquisition, of Scripture. The Bible burning witches, papal injunctions against is not, for me, inter­ women and birth control, and right-wing changeable with other Christians with an ultraconservative religious works, any agenda. But Christianity is, for me, not more ~an the Qur'an is primarily a record of human folly. Rather for Muslims or the cre­ it is the awesome account of what the ation stories are for Na­ Spirit of Jesus has done in history among tive Americans. I feel the first Christians, the early Friends, the defensive and uneasy black churches in the United States, and when writings sacred to the liberation churches ofthe poor in Cen­ me are demeaned and tral and South America. My heroes are picked over like old not Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell but clothing at a flea market Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, in the search for a few usable items. than our heads. We don't argue well. Our Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Pope John XXIII, 4. Recognize the diversity among faith is not best expressed in logical argu­ Thomas Kelly and the Steeres, Dorothy Christ-centered Friends. Like other ments. We do have stories to tell-not Day, the Dalai Lama, Mohandas Gandhi, Friends, the Christ-centered Friends I only of our unique spiritual journeys but and Oscar Romero. I draw support even know hold a wide variety of views on of what God through Jesus has done in from the church down the street, where issues such as abortion, feminism, and our everyday lives. Our experiences can, other ordinary Christians gather every homosexuality. Unlike many Christian I believe, be vital in helping to renew the Sunday in their weakness and their fail­ evangelicals, we do not have a common spiritual life of the Religious Society of ure to live out our common calling as social agenda. Some support a woman's Friends, but we need to be accepted and disciples of Christ. I too struggle and fail right to choose; others defend the rights appreciated for these "seeds of truth," as and come back each week for the renew­ of the unborn. Some use traditional mas­ George Fox might have expressed it, to ing love of God among God's friends. culine references to God; others prefer grow and flourish. 3. Respect my appreciation ofthe Bible. inclusive language and an examination of It is painful to deal with differences I take the Judeo-Christian Scriptures not Scripture in the light of feminist con­ among Friends on an issue as critical as literally but seriously. I read the same cerns. Some are hesitant about or op­ our basic religious beliefs. It is also diffi­ commentaries that provide a religious and posed to certain aspects of gay rights cult to make my deepest experiences and historical context for Scripture as other (same-sex celebrations of commitments); beliefs available to others. I have struggled Friends, but I see the twin peaks that others find the generous heart ofthe Gos­ to find a way to share the love that is in tower above the tangled forest of biblical pel welcoming the diversity ofsexual ori­ my heart, to bring my loved one with me studies: one, the Sermon ethic of Jesus; entation among all of God's offspring. when I am with Friends, to introduce and two, the Resurrection of Jesus, which Like other Friends, Christ-centered Jesus to others in a way that is appropriate is our gateway to the Inner Christ. State­ Friends vary in the ways we express our and seemly. I have kept him at home most ments about who Jesus was, I agree with religious beliefs. Some are more articu­ of my life among Friends. Perhaps this early Friends, are useless without a com­ late; others are quieter- though, in my was God's will, that I not speak too easily mitment to the Christ within. But I find experience, most Christ-centered Friends or too quickly of sacred things, but now I my way to the Inner Christ, like early have learned to be cautious and circum­ am inwardly encouraged.to share my ex­ Friends, by wrestling with Scripture and spect, to translate their deepest concerns perience with the wider Religious Soci­ in acceptance of the commonly under­ into generalized language so as not to ety of Friends. I am grateful to Betty, my stood meaning of its major tenets. give offense. However our personalities wife, and to the Friends at Middletown I value the Bible because it tells my may vary, because of our love relation­ Meeting who have respected, and in many story. In Exodus, Psalms, Isaiah, the Gos­ ship with God in Jesus we tend to rely, in cases united with, my enthusiasm for the pels, Acts, and the Epistles I hear echoes our spiritual lives, more on our hearts Son of God reborn among Friends. a

FRIENDS JOURNAL May 1996 17 Quakers on the Web by Carl Stieren

hen only six people took cop­ or two Friends might be moved to rise We rented space for our page from a local es of a leaflet written by and say, "Friends, I could not use the Internet service provider, Internet Access WOttawa (Ontario) Meeting's World Wide Web. I don't know any (also known as Ottawa.Net). Peace and Social Concerns Committee Friend other than the presenter of this At a small ceremony at the CyberPerk about Prisoners' Sunday in November proposal who can. I do not understand Cafe in Ottawa's Byward Market, not far 1994, I felt we needed a new means of this proposal, and I cannot approve what I from Canada's Parliament buildings, ten­ distribution. I proposed to the committee don't understand." year-old Alex Way connected to Peace­ that we set up our own home page on the That message was never given. In­ web's home page for the first time on Internet's World Wide Web. The com­ stead, the meeting minuted its approval, April 17, 1995. The gathering was also mittee approved, and I took our decision and a two-month experimental run of our attended by 90-year-old Rachel Haight to the meeting for its approval as well. page, which we named Peaceweb, began. and other members of the meeting. The Internet, an international computer network, is no stranger to Ottawa. This city is sometimes known as "Silicon Tun­ dra" because of the hardware and soft­ ware manufacturers here. The World Wide Web (also known as the Web or WWW) is the fastest-growing service on the Internet, publishing text, graphics, and links to other resources halfa world away. Ottawa has more Web publishers than any city in Canada. Each of the 90,000 individuals and organizations that pub­ lish on the Web have a primary page Peaceweb called a home page. Anyone with the appropriate computer, software, and Internet service provider can retrieve in­ formation from the Web. To publish on the Web, a home page is set up on a special computer called a Web server. As a technical writer, I learned the coding language for creating home pages at the software company where I work. Our idea was to provide information on Ottawa Friends' activities in peace and social concerns and show their roots in Quaker history. Our intended reader­ ship was the many Friends who had full Internet access at universities and col­ leges around the world and the university students interested in peace, international development, or the Quaker influence on 17th-century English history. As our April 1995 meeting for wor­ ship for business began, I looked around the room and gave a quiet sigh of relief. Children and Peace I Peace I International Development I United Nations I Quaker Eight of the sixteen Friends present had at Links I Local Projects I least e-mail addresses on the Internet, mostly through a service provider called the National Capital Freenet, which has You are visitor number-since November 14, 1995 40,000 members in the Ottawa-Hull re­ gion. But the others? I feared that one Sign our visitors book: contact us at [email protected] Carl Stieren, a member ofOttawa (Ontario) Read our visitors book. Meeting, will Lead a workshop on Quaker publishing on the Internet at the 1996 FGC Published by Gathering. You can reach him by e-mail at Peace and Social Concerns Committee [email protected]. Ottawa Monthly Meeting 18 Ottawa Meeting isn't the only Quaker presence on the Internet. In fact, three days earlier, another Quaker home page was set up, 100 miles to the south of us, in Potsdam, N.Y. Russ Nelson, a computer programmer and consultant, opened his Web server to any Quaker organization that wished to start its own home page. Russ Nelson runs this server, called the Religious Society of Friends WWW site, at his own expense. This generous offer drew responses from Pendle Hill, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Brit­ ain Yearly Meeting, and others. In early December 1995, Russ started a list of Quaker meetings that allows any Quaker meeting to list their name, yearly meet­ ing, time of worship, location, and tele­ phone number. Before Peaceweb started, Jerry Y anasak created a home page for his meeting, Milwaukee (Wise.) Meeting, re­ producing the meeting's newsletter. The meeting lost interest in the page, and it http://www.friendschurchsw.org was discontinued in the summer of 1995. Kirby Umer of Portland, Oreg., started a would reach. First there was our meeting, elude all messages of 100 or fewer words page that listed Multnomah (Oreg.) Meet­ with the surrounding cities of Ottawa and "which are greetings, requests for infor­ ing and provided information on an AFSC Hull, Quebec. The second circle included mation, or simple announcements in the exchange program for youth in Vietnam. all the meetings and worship groups in spirit and areas of concern ofPeaceweb." This page continues today under Kirby's Canada and anyone else in our country From April to December 1995, we care. Late in 1995, both AFSC and Uni­ interested in peace and social concerns. received more than 190 messages from versity Meeting in Seattle, Wash., started The third circle was the world, reaching over 160 readers. Only one of them was their own home pages. Quakers and peace and social activists negative, and that negative message had a The 1996 Friends General Conference anywhere, as long as they could read good point. We reproduced it and replied Gathering in Hamilton, Ontario, intro­ English. to it. Messages came in not only from the duced a Web page on January 8, on Russ In starting Peaceweb, I was determined United States and Canada, but from Scot­ Nelson's Web server. It includes listings to avoid the controversy that seemed to land, England, Australia, New Zealand, of the main speakers (some with Web follow the many good messages on other South Africa, and Israel. One question page links), the artwork for the poster, Quaker Internet resources. Chief among nagged at me: how many people were and a list of all of the Gathering clerks these are mailing lists such as Quaker-P, reading Peaceweb and not sending us and coordinators, with links to e-mail ad­ which deals with peace and social con­ messages for our visitors book? When we dresses for all but two. Thomas Taylor of cerns, and Quaker-L, which focuses on installed a counter in mid-November 1995, the FGC staff in Philadelphia created the Quaker spirituality. I didn't want to elimi­ we found there were 14 accesses per day page and then sent it electronically to nate dialog, so we compromised by hav­ on Peaceweb. This would add up to more Russ Nelson's serverin upstate New York. ing a "visitors book." While each issue of than 5,000 per year- far more than I ex­ "We've also got links to other Web pages, Peaceweb is approved by the Peace and pected. The result was that the Peace and including to those of organizations pre­ Social Concerns Committee and the Social Concerns Committee budgeted for senting at the Gathering, to Amtrak and monthly meeting (Friends make great an entire year ofPeaceweb in 1996. Via Rail, and even to the weather in South­ proofreaders, by the way), the visitors As long as Friends keep putting the em Ontario," said Gordon McClure of book is not. Anyone can send an e-mail testimonies on peace and social justice Toronto, one of the Program Committee message to the Peaceweb coordinator into practice, we'll never run out of mate­ co-clerks. (me). Our introduction says we will in- rial to publish. 0 Peaceweb was designed differently from the other Quaker home pages. We decided we would publish four times a year, using an electronic magazine for­ Quaker World Wide Web Addresses: mat. We had three issues in 1995, on Peaceweb http://www .ottawa.net/-peaceweb peace, international development, and Religious Society of Friends WWW site http://www.quaker.org Quakers and the United Nations. An is­ Religious Society of Friends (Kirby Umer) http://www.teleport.com/-pdx4d/quakes.html sue on children and peace was published University Friends Meeting (Seattle, WA) httpJ/www.speakeasy.org/-clintw/ufm.html in early February. FGC Gathering 96 http://www.quaker.org/fgc/gathering96 As the designer of Peaceweb, I saw three concentric circles of readers we

FRIENDS JOURNAL May 1996 19 Benjamin, the Meetinghouse Mouse A Letter.from Katherine by Benjamin (as told to Clifford Pfeil) • iUustrated by Lorna Kent

Readers will recall from last month that meeting Questions. The exciting part is that I am leaming the agreed to find a little chair for Benjamin and invite right answers myself! him to worship. First question: 'Who made me?" Answer: "God made mel" Next question: 'Who is God?' This one you won't he chair they brought me was from Emily's believe: "God is the spring bean!" Isn't that a kick? I'm oll house. It was a rocking chair, and it made going to leam them all! Do you have a catechism where me nervous. you live? Ifyou do, you could leam it too, and then we "It's very comfortable," I said, "except for my tail. could say it together! I'm not always sure where my tail is, and I wouldn't Guess what! There is a large family of nice mice living want it to be rocked on in meeting." behind the cabinets in our church kitchen. We met for "No problem," said Emily, smiling, and she the first time last Sunday. My favorite is a handsome, removed the rockers. long-whiskered mouse named Peter. He has been bringing The next day I received a letter from my cousin me bits of fruit and other delicacies lately. You see, Katherine, the High Church mouse. It was carried by things are happening here! pigeon and delivered to the upstairs library window. Well,l've got to get back to my catechism studies. Write soon. Dear Benjamin: Love, I take my tail in hand to write you a letter. I'm having a Katherine very exciting life these days. The children outside my hole are leaming a thing called catechism. It's all about Katherine's letters are always kind of jaunty like this. knowing the Right Answers to a lot of Very Difficult Katherine is a lot like her letters. I did a little research, then wrote back in a timely manner.

Dear Katherine: While I am glad that you have found new friends, as your elder cousin I suggest that you keep your whiskers alert. Kitchen mice, handsome or not, tend to be somewhat opportunistic. We have always lived a discreet distance from the kitchen so as not to seem too pushy. My mother, your Aunt Lila, used to say, "First in line, last in dignity." I have a newfriend, too. You may not approve of this, but she is a human, a very nice human. Her name is Emily. Although I'd never heard mention of"catechism" here in meeting, I decided to ask Emily if Quakers have such a thing. Well," she said, ~no. But we do have Queries. Queries are Very Difficult Questions too, but there aren't any Right Answers to leam."

Clifford Pfei4 a member ofPima (Ariz.) Meeting, teaches English as a second language. "Benjamin, the Meetinghouse MouseH is dedicated to Mark, Robert, Matthew, Emily, and the sweet memory ofLaura. Lorna Kent is a member ofCentral Philade/phi4 (Pa.) Meeting.

20 May 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL 'Whatgood is a question without an answer?' I wanted to know. "Oh, there are answers," said Emily. 'There just isn't one right answer that you have to leam." 'Well then." I asked. "are there The Alternatives to Violence Project any wrong answers?" celebrates 20 years of Emily looked at me with dismay. transforming the heat of conflict 'Wait here." she said. She ran into the light of understanding upstairs to the library and retumed with a little book. She A volunteer, Quaker-based program, we have changed the started looking through the pages. quality of life for tens of thousands in prisons and communities. "Here's one," she said. "Here's a Our 1996 International Conference immediately follows Friends Query. Just listen." She cleared her General Conference at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. throat. "Do our lives speak for our You are invited to hear internationally known justice reform beliefs?' advocate Dr. Ruth Morris on Saturday night, July 6. 'There's no right answer to that?' I asked. Telephone (713) 747-9999 for information, "It's not to answer!" said Emily. or write P.O. Box 300431, Houston, TX 77230-0431 . "It's to think about! It's Too Important to just answer." I hope you understand this better than I do. Your Cousin, Benjamin

I put the letter out on the window sill for the mail pigeon and went to bed. I lay in bed for a while, but I found it hard to sleep. I kept thinking about questions that you think about but don't answer. Finally I got up, dipped the end of my tail in the ink Abington Friends School bottle, and wrote a query of my own: A Quaker co-educational college preparatory day school for students in Preschool through Grade 12 Do we allow crumbs to drop to the floor in sufficient quantity to meet the needs of those who might be waiting? A Query, by Bel']jamin Mouse For more information, please call 215-886-4350 Satisfied with my first effort, I lay down and went to sleep.

Continued next month . ..

FRIENDS JOURNAL May 1996 21 Join NCP Notes the·Quest The Shadow of the Centurion for a by John K. Stoner New Call to Peacemaking is a cooperative tural, religious, and political realities of the Renewed program of Brethren, Friends, and Menno­ situation. Who was a centurion to a Jew in nites. Here is one example ofhow NCP repre­ first-century Palestine? Everything in the story sents Friends as it spreads the message of hangs on the cultural implications of the en­ Friends peace to a wider Christian audience. counter. The centurion was the feared and hated Peace hen someone asks whether Jesus, or representative ofth e Roman occupation forces his followers, may be engaged in in Palestine. Some 30 years earlier, according Wwar or some aspect of the vast su­ to the Jewish historian Josephus, at nearby perstructure that undergirds the institution of Sepphoris, Roman forces led by centurions war (military "service," civilian support of had crucified 2,000 Jews along the roadway military structures), the discussion seldom in retaliation for a Jewish uprising. Such deeds goes far before Jesus' response to the Roman are not forgotten in 30 years. Jews had no centurion is appealed to as proof that Jesus admiration for the spiffy military uniforms of did not condemn intergroup lethal conflict. In Roman centurions. They certainly did not see contemporary Christian circles, the centurion centurions as the guardians ofdemocracy and has become the human model through whom the freedom to worship God as they pleased, Jesus Christ is made compatible with vio­ unmolested in their comfortable sanctuaries. lence, the military profession, and the ubiqui­ The centurion was a hated enemy soldier. He tous, deadly, and unnecessary institution of was not one ofo urs but one of theirs. war. This is no small load for one man in Secondly, the militarist interpretation ig­ history to carry. The nameless centurion has nores the main point of the story, which is the risen to mythic proportions. It is this myth that astonishing discovery of faith in a character Papers from tre "~ requires closer examination. as foreign and repulsive as a centurion. Quaker Peace .._.. The account of the centurion in Matthew Matthew accents this by reporting Jesus' Ro.Jrdtable u:-" PendleHIII ~ 8:5-13 reports that a centurion in Capemaum shocking announcement that all sorts ofpeople 1H5 w­ appealed to Jesus to come and heal his ser­ from east and west will enter God's reign E

22 May 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Witness •II ·.. They shall raise WI up the former Putting on the Pink Triangle devastations ... on for I t~e L~rd by Val Liveoak Y love JUStice. t was such a small thing, really. On the me-it did enter my mind, but it met no work Isaiah fourth day at Friends General Conference's resonance there and was no barrier to my 62:4,8 I 1995 Gathering, a Friend offered me a decision.) small pink triangle to put on my name tag. My This reflection brought me an awareness for first, rather ungracious response was, "That that this was perhaps one of the few areas in doesn't speak to my condition." My Friend which, if I made this gesture of solidarity, I patiently went on to explain that FLOC could actually suffer a small amount of the jnstiee (Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns) has oppression that lesbians, gays, and bisexuals said the triangle face. (Surely I "doesn't necessar­ tasted some of this ily say anything the fear involved in about a person's coming out.) I'd SUIDIDer sexual orientation, it never undertaken that just says that the wearer degree of solidarity be­ '? isn't rigid about others' ori­ fore, never risked being entation." While I thought taken for an actual member • that did describe me, I still of the oppressed group with wasn't clear, and asked for time which I was allied. I never to think about it. completely surrendered my I remembered that the symbol outsider's privilege. of the pink triangle came from the I put on the pink triangle, and I Nazi method of designating homo­ wore it for the next three days. It was sexuals for discrimination and later for hard to tell if anyone even noticed. transportation to death camps. I'd admired Only one stranger commented on it, and people who resisted the Nazis by putting as I began to explain the whole thing 1\.labama Workcamps, on the Star of David in solidarity with Jews (Well, I' m not really but. .."), I was saved (I know of none who'd put on the pink tri­ from the embarrassment of that disclaimer Summer of 1996: angle in solidarity}-and have often cited the by the distracting arrival of another Friend. I Rebuilding Three Rural case of the Danes who all, king and com­ made it more of a point to smile and nod at Black Churches moner alike, wore the yellow star. Why would strangers as we passed, and got what I thought I hesitate to make a similar gesture ofso lidar­ were the usual responses from most. I couldn't Destroyed by Fire ity in the infinitely safer climate of FGC? say why some folks gave cool responses, but Last winter three small, rural black I presumed that the people who wore the I think I received warmer responses from churches in Greene County, Alabama­ pink triangle were gay/lesbian/bisexual-and those wearing pink triangles than I would one of the poorest counties in the U.S.­ I didn't feel differently about them or treat have otherwise. Not one person I already knew were destroyed by fire within 2 weeks. them differently. I could see that I had be­ commented on the triangle's sudden appear­ Among them, the churches had little come comfortable with thinking of people ance. I'd made a mountain out of a molehill, insurance money to help rebuild. Our who wore the pink triangle as "them." I ad­ judging by the response I received. concern has been some consolation: mired their success in organizing themselves, But I learned a lot about myself and my Rev. Pickens, a pastor of Mt. Zion their supportiveness of each other, and the society (and my Society) in the process. For a Baptist Church, observed, "People want depth of worship at the FLOC meetings (re­ short time I understood more than I had be­ to help us, and we should thank God for ported-!'d never attended). Some of my best fore what true solidarity might mean. I con­ that. .. You'd be surprised how many peo· F/friends .... fronted some of my fears and overcame them. ple are hurt by this." In quiet reflection, I realized I was some­ I learned more about being an ally to an op­ Washington Quaker Workcamps what fearful that people would treat me differ­ pressed group than years ofliberal, even radi­ is sponsoring a summer-long series of ently, even in the accepting atmosphere of cal, political action had taught. I erased, if interfaith workcamps to rebuild all the FGC. How important would it be to me to only partly, the "us-them" polarity. churches and coordinating offers of assistance. You can witness to Friends' face this potential discrimination? How much In retrospect, I risked very little and suf­ testimonies by sending an urgently could it hurt? Would it hurt my theoretical fered few, ifany, consequences. I am left with chances to meet a mate? Would potential needed contribution. Please write or call one question: "How, in the face ofall sorts of for more information. Please help us partners think I was out of bounds? (Would I differences of class, race, nationality, ideol­ spread the word to others. want a partner that might treat a lesbian in a ogy, and so forth, can the concern about the discriminatory way?) I could clearly see that gender of the person someone loves divide Washington these questions, along with my hesitation, us?" I'm grateful to my Friend, and FLOC showed me a level of homophobia that I had Friends, for giving me the opportunity to see Quaker learned or accepted that I never realized I had this issue a little more clearly. 0 Workeamps (The question of how I would deal with pos­ Dept. FJ; 1225 Geranium Street, NW sible advances from lesbians never worried Washington, D.C., 20012 (202) 722-1461 Val Liveoak is a member of Austin (Tex.) Meeting.

FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1996 23 ~------, The NEW Friends Directory News of Friends The practice of baptism and communion tivities of others as well as the physical vio­ NOW AVAILABLE FROM: with the outward elements is now permitted lence of bomb and bullet. The peace process Friends World Committee for Consultation by Friends Church Southwest Yearly Meet· was founded on the straightforward principle ing. There was a great debate over the issue, that talking should replace violence. Christ 1506 Race Street and although many members doubt the wis­ had the unconditional approach: he was will­ PlliiiUll'"" DIIIECTORT., Philadelphia, PA ...... a-...,...., ...... o...... dom of eschewing the Friends testimony on ing to speak to people regardless of who they ...... , ... ~~ 19102 were or what they had done. The urgency a spiritual communion and baptism, most within R£110URC8 atiiD& SWYM agree that, for those who feel more with which the problem is now being ad­ $7.50 plus $2.00 connected to the Holy Spirit through these dressed is reassuring but we appeal to every· handling rituals, using the outward elements is permit­ one involved to maintain this momentum and ted. Southwest Yearly Meeting, affiliated with give first priority to dialogue and real listen­ OR FROM YOUR Evangelical Friends International, practices ing. (From The Friend, Feb. 23) LOCAL QUAKER programmed worship and appoints pastors in The Quakerland Friends Community near PWCC BOOKSTORE its churches. L ______J Kerrviile, Tex., has been officially recognized Friends Peace Teams has opened an office as a "church" and granted tax-exempt status under the care of Baltimore Yearly Meet­ by the Internal Revenue Service. The com­ ing in Sandy Spring, Md. The yearly meeting munity is located on 132 acres adjacent to a is providing work space, administrative sup­ I 0-acre property owned by South Central Fundraising Consulting for Educational Institutions and port, oversight, and nurture. Staffing the new Yearly Meeting. The central purpose of Nonprofit Organizations office is Sandy Schwartz of Adelphi (Md.) Quakerland is "to build a faith community Currendy serving Midwest, Meeting and Sarah Plies, a Friends World affiliated with the Religious Society ofFriends Southeast and East Coast Committee for Consultation, Section of the to support the spiritual growth of its members clients Americas, intern and member of Reedwood and visitors; to honor the presence of God Henry Freeman Consulting (Oreg.) Friends Church. Friends Peace Teams within each person and within all life. .. ; to 713 S.W. 15th Street, Richmond, Indiana 47374 is also formalizing an affiliate relationship live life in harmony with nature, with the goal 983-1578 with Christian Peacemaker Teams, a Menno­ of ecological sustainability; and to conduct nite, Brethren, and Quaker initiative that em­ community life in the manner of Friends, phasizes negotiation skills, public witness, incorporating the testimonies of harmony, DISCOVER QUAKER PHILADELPHIA and nonviolent direct action. CPT currently equality, integrity, simplicity, and commu­ Two-hour walking tours of William Penn's has teams in Haiti, Hebron, and an Urban nity. As a Friends meeting living in commu­ original city of brotherly love, in honor of Peacemaking project in Washington, D.C. nity, [Quakerland] will engage in religious, Penn's 350th birthday. Friends Peace Teams can be reached c/o BYM, educational, and charitable activities in keep­ Send a SASE for schedule to: QUAKER 17100 Quaker Lane, Sandy Spring, MD ing with these purposes." Quakerland is de­ TOURS, Box 1632, Media, PA 19063. 20860, telephone (301) 774-6855. veloping the economic and organizational foundation of the community by planning Friends in Britain and Ireland are appeal· infrastructure, residential facilities, and other ing for llstening and restraint following re­ 0 buildings, as well as creating proper docu­ cent bombings that threaten the peace process mentation for long-term planning and opera· in that region. The following statement was tion. Quakerland members meet regularly for issued on Feb. 15: business and worship, and will conduct build­ The Northern Ireland Committee of the ing workshops in which participation is wel­ Religious Society of Friends in Britain and • ce}lC1F1caces come. For more information, contact Kjell m~a(je Ireland is deeply concerned about the course Johansen, 210 Solar Way, Denton, TX 76207, • awa}20s • lnSCfllpctons • of recent events. The bombing of Canary telephone (817) 382-1200, e-mail johansen • elfld2 announcemencs • Wharf is abhorrent and cannot be justified on @jove.acs.unt.edu. (From the Feb. issue of • <4fleeC1TJ(j Ca£0 OOS1Qf2S • any grounds at all. We do, nevertheless, rec­ South Central Yearly Meeting News) •1t2V1caG1onS • SCflOLLS • ognize the intense frustration arising from the stagnation of the peace process. The outcome The American Friends Service Committee has been to increase greatly the deep-rooted now has informadon available on the World .:Hantt:f!Fm'est' mistrust on one side of the community just as Wide Web. The organization's web address 609-786-JSZ+ the bombing has had the same effect on the is http://www.afsc.org. Computer users can other. also contact AFSC at their e-mail address, As Quakers, we believe Christ has called [email protected]. us all, in the words of our founder, George Fox, to live "in the virtue of that life and A study released by the Center for Immi­ Fyfe & Miller power that takes away the occasion of all gration Research atthe Univenity of Hous­ FUNERAL SERVICE wars." It requires a willingness to listen to ton on March 14 reveals that hundreds of 7047 Germantown Ave. those with whom we disagree; it needs re· undocumented migrants die each year at the straint in our instinctive reactions. This is the Texas-Mexico border. Sponsored by the Im­ Philadelphia, PA 19119 responsibility of each of us in our individual migration Law Enforcement Monitoring (215) 247-8700 relationships. It is also a heavy responsibility Project (ILEMP) of the American Friends James E. Fyfe Edward K. Miller laid on our politicians and those leading par­ Service Committee, the study raises new con­ ticular sections of our community. cerns about current U.S. border control efforts Simple earth burial at a time when policy makers are considering and cremation service We appeal for a total repudiation of all even harsher border enforcement legislation. available at reasonable cost. violence. This includes the damaging effects of words or actions which ignore the sensi- Proposed legislation would increase the use

24 May 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Help FCNL choose n legislative priorities for of military equipment and fortifications on gress is proposing, and some of the bills' the southern border, mandate dramatic in­ measures will increase the danger of injury to the 105th Congress. creases in border guards, and seriously erode its own agents as well as to border crossers. u the civil and human rights of both immigrants "Proposed border enforcement legislation is • Join your meeting or church's discussion of and citizens. The Immigration and Natural­ fundamentally misguided," concludes Maria FCNL legislative priorites. ization Service concentrates 88 percent of its Jimenez, director ofiLEMP, "because it does • Or, ifyou are not currently affilliated with a enforcement staff on the southwestern bor­ not respond to the two major forces driving meeting or church, call us for a priorities packet. der, despite its own finding that nearly two­ people to risk attempting illegal entry into this thirds of undocumented immigration occurs country: the terror of war and the crushing Call 202-547-6000 away from the borders with people who enter burden ofpoverty al)d economic dislocation." Friends Conunittee on National Legislation the U.S. legally but stay past the expiration of Copies of the study are available from the 245 Second St., NE, Washington, DC 20002 their tourist visas. At a time when spending in Center for Immigration Research, University most federal departments has decreased, the of Houston, 4800 Calhoun, Houston, TX INS's budget has increased 72 percent since 77004. For more information about ILEMP, 1990. Even the INS warns that it cannot re­ contact Maria Jimenez at (713) 926-2799 or cruit and train border agents at the rate Con- Rachael Kamel at (215) 241 -7132.

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•"Journeys in Truth" is the theme of the 1996 23. This ministry is devoted to helping all corporate prayer, creating community, inten­ Friends General Conference Gathering at who wish to be more faithful listeners and tional reconciliation (including racial recon­ McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, responders to the inward wotk ofChrist Prayer ciliation), and creating the art of forgiveness. Canada, June 29-July 6. The Gathering, the and learning opportunities arise out of a con­ The gathering's planners hope to attract first in Canada since 1904, will provide a templative grounding in silence, solitude, women from across the breadth of Friends wide variety of workshops, opportunities for Quaker worship, scripture reading, spiritual who are engaged in a publicly recognized worship and worship-sharing in large and friendship, koinonia groups (small account­ ministry. This can include women called by small groups, Bible study, a Junior Gathering ability and support groups), and community God into social wotk, medical wotk, teach­ and High School Program, and activities and life. Study as a spiritual discipline is an inte­ ing, preaching, missions, etc. For more infor­ events for all ages. Evening programs will gral element in offerings related to prepara­ mation, contact Mary Glenn Hadley, 101 include Canadian Friend Murray Thompson's tion for ministry. For more information, con­ Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN 47374-1980, lifetime spiritual journey, "Journey in Truth"; tact The School of the Spirit, c/o Kathryn telephone (317) 962-7573. "Show Me Freedom," a story collage explor­ Damiano, 450 Bancroft Rd., Moylan, P A •Fellowship of Reconciliation is seeking par­ ing gender issues, presented by Alan Dixon, 19065, telephone (610) 891-6796. (From the ticipants for two wotkcamps in the former Evalyn Parry, and Jane Orion-Smith, three Feb. issue ofWhat canst thou say?) Yugoslavia, June 29-July 16. The program is young adult Canadian Friends; a musical per­ •The Public Ministry of Friends Women (for­ designed to give U.S. citizens firsthand, in­ formance by Terry Leonone and Greg Artzner merly known as Women in Public Ministry) depth exposure to people on several sides of together as "Magpie"; and a talk by U.S. will hold its next gathering Oct. 24-26 at the conflict in Bosnia. The Bosnian partici­ Friend Bonnie Tinker on witnessing to an Quaker Hill Conference Center in Richmond, pants will get a chance to meet the U.S. visi­ unpopular truth while seeking to further dia­ Ind. The theme for the gathering is "Empow­ tors and learn how the war was portrayed in logue among Friends. The Gathering's erment for Courageous Ministry." The the United States. The program also hopes to Cadbury Event Lecture, sponsored each year program's focus will be on international trav­ help both physically, through small work by FRIENDS JOURNAL, will feature British Friend eling in ministry, developing personal and projects, and spiritually, through listening to Jan Arriens. After viewing the television docu­ mentary "Fourteen Days in May," Jan organ­ ized "LifeLines," a group of people in Britain who write to U.S. prisoners facing the death Calendar penalty. Gathering places for participants with MAY 20-Registration deadline for "Rediscovering common interests will include areas for veg­ the Scriptures Through the Spirit that Brought 3-5-Denmark Yearly Meeting, Copenhagen, etarians, men, women, singles, Friends of Them Forth," a weekend family Bible confer­ Denmark. Contact DYM Clerk, Quaker Centre, color, and campers. Friends Committee on ence, June 14-16, at George School, Newtown, Vendersgade 29, DK-1363 Copenhagen, Den­ Unity With Nature, Friends for Lesbian and Pa. Contact Shirley Dodson, PYM, 1515 Cherry mark, telephone (45-31) 118248. Gay Concerns, and many other Quaker orga­ St., Philadelphia, PA 19102, telephone (215) nizations will also offer programs and presen­ 3-5-Piedmont Friends Fellowship, at Quaker 241-7182. tations. Friends are encouraged to register as Lake Conference Center, Climax, N.C. Contact 24-26--Finland Yearly Meeting, at Viittakivi Mary Smith, 1804 Madison Ave., Greensboro, International Centre, Helsinki, Finland. Contact early as possible. Registrations for Junior NC 27403, telephone (919) 272-2430. Gathering participants or for participants with Pirkko Lehto, FYM, Urakkatie 20 C, SF-00680, children must be postmatked by May 28. A 3- 5- "Creative Workshop Design," led by Helsinki, Finland, telephone (358-90) 7284565. George Lakey in Philadelphia, Pa. Contact Train­ $50 late fee will apply to all registrations 24-27-Northern Yearly Meeting, at Camp Chi, ing Center Workshops, 4719 Springfield Ave., Wisconsin Dells, Wis. Contact Nancy Peterson, postmatked after May 28. Full childcare, schol­ Philadelphia, PA 19143, telephone (215) 729- arships, and wotk grants are available. For NYM, 4021 Lyndale Ave. South, Minneapolis, 7458, fax (215) 729-1910, e-mail peaceleam MN 55409, telephone (612) 823-4946. more information, contact FGC Gathering, @igc.apc.org. 24-27-"Deeper Into the Heart: Opening 1216 Arch St., 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 3-6--Aotearoa/New Zealand Yearly Meeting, telephone (215) 561-1700. Through Meditation," the 54th annual confer­ in Waikanae, New Zealand. Contact Peter Low, ence of Friends Conference on Religion and 38 Taylors Ave., Christchurch 5, New Zealand, •''The Bible, the Church, and the Future of Psychology with Mary Orr, Buddhist teacher, at telephone (64-3) 351-8150, fax 351-7766. Friends" is the title of Pendle Hill's spring Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pa. Contact issues Roundtable, May 17-19, in 3-6--Britain Yearly Meeting, at Friends House, FCRP, c/o Carol Kimball, 97 Gunderman Rd., London, England. Contact Recording Clerk, Ithaca, NY I 0028. Wallingford, Pa. Friends have varying ap­ BYM, Friends House, Euston Rd., London, NWI proaches to the Bible and the nature of the 25-27-"National Space Organizing Meeting 2BJ, England, telephone (44-171) 387-3601, fax and Protest," sponsored by the Global Network Church (ecclesiology). The Roundtable will 388-1977. consider how these bear on efforts to renew Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, 5-Spring meeting of Friends Historical Asso­ in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Cost is on a sliding scale Friends peace witness and cope with conflicts ciation at Camden (Del.) Meeting. Kenneth between $25 and $35. Contact GNAWNPS, P.O. over homosexuality. Presenters for the week­ Carroll will speak on "America's First Quak­ Box 90035, Gainesville, FL 32607, telephone end will include Doug Gwyn, Mel Keiser, ers." Contact Friends Historical Association, (352) 468-3295. Georgia Fuller, Ben Pink Dandelion, Elizabeth Haverford College Library, Haverford, PA 19041, 25-27-Switzerland Yearly Meeting, at Glion­ Cazden, and Dorothy Day. Space is limited. telephone (610) 896-1 161. sur-Montreux. Contact Fritz G. Renken, Haerte Cost ranges from $185, which includes ac­ I 0- 12- Netherlands Yearly Meeting, at Kampe I 0, D-49751 Sogel, Germany, telephone commodations, to $85 plus meals for day Mennorode, Elspeet, Netherlands. Contact (49-5952) 855. attenders. Financial aid is available. For infor­ Quaker Secretariaat, Vossiusstraat 20, 1071 AD 28-30-"Called to One Hope-One Gospel, mation or to register, contact Chuck Fager, Amsterdam, Netherlands, telephone (3 1-20) Many Cultures," the annual meeting of the U.S. c/o Pendle Hill, at (800) 742-3150, or e-mail 6794238, fax 6721158. Conference of the World Council of Churches, [email protected]. 16-19-Sweden Yearly Meeting, Svartbacken, in Winston-Salem, N.C. Contact WCC U.S. Of­ Sweden. Contact Tofte Frykman, SYM, fice, 475 Riverside Dr., Room 915, New York, •School of the Spirit is offering silent retreats, Svartbiicken 2992, S-76291 Rimbo, Sweden, tele­ NY 10115, telephone (212) 870-3193, fax (212) May 17-19, and a longer nine-day program, pho~e (46-175) 71243. 870-2528. "Contemplative Living and Prayer," June 14-

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He would not allow the (Applicable to members of recommend this book for its truthfulness. police to use the church or a black heavy­ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting only.) But why might a Quaker audience be in­ weight champion to set up a gym because he For information, write or telephone terested in the life and struggles of an felt boxing and the Philadelphia police brutal­ SANDY BATES African American Episcopal minister? His ized young black men. By opening the church 5350 Knox Str.. t struggles with race and economic and gender to the community it became vulnerable to Philadelphia, PA 19144 injustice are our struggles, and we can learn various disruptions. I love Paul's accounts of much from his example. He reminds me of his direct responses to intrusions into church our beloved John Woolman in his probing services. When someone snatched a woman's questioning of his own stands on issues, his purse during a service, Paul stopped in DELAWARE VALLEY openness to opponents, and his steadfastness midsermon to chase down the thiefand return in the right. For me, a white, middle-class FRIENDS ScHooL with the purse before continuing. Morris & Montgomery Avenues Quaker who has worked on racial justice is­ Father Washington also championed the Bryn Mawr, Pa. sues, I find that Father Washington's open­ needs of his community in the larger Episco­ ness to African American radicals ofall stripes, pal and city arena. In the late 1960s he sup­ For Students with from Black Panthers to Move members, chal­ ported the demand for reparations from the Learning Differences lenges the subtle workings of my own racism. white churches for economic development in Where he clearly saw their humanity and the African American community and led a College preparatory, Grades 7-12 impatience with injustice and could commu­ walkout of African Americans from the na­ Summer School nicate his disagreement within the human fam- tional Episcopal convention in 1969. Father Come to an Open House Washington also challenged (610) 526-9595 for info & video, the hierarchy by welcoming #Learning with a Difference" the ordination of women priests at the Advocate despite his bishop's refusal to con­ done it. He went to jail with welfare rights demonstrators ma.Rl{lAGE and took a strong stand against the war in Vietnam. Despite his support of causes the es­ Ce1i!{icates tablishment opposed, his prin­ DIANE AMARO TICO • CAlLIGRAPHY f. DESIGN cipled life and ministry to the 215/ 766·8797 oppressed and his gracious­ ness to opponents led to hon­ ors from the very elites whose lives he made difficult. Display Ad Deadlines As Quakers we need sev­ eral Father Washingtons to Reservations are required for display urge us to deal more funda­ ads in FRJENa; JoURNAL. mentally with issues of racial and economic justice. I re­ July issue: Reserve space by May 6. member that when Paul Ads must be received by May 13. Washington was struggling August issue: Reserve space by June 3. with the affluent suburban Ads must be received by June 10. Episcopalians, the editor of FRIENDS JOURNAL was strug­ Ad rate is $28 per column inch. gling with affluent white sub­ Call (215) 241-7279 now with your Father Paul Washington at the Church of the urban Quakers. As Father reservation or questions. 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30 May 1996 FRIENDS JouRNAL Although this· volume is written with at­ Jpirituality and the ufrts: tention to scholarly detail, and it can and will A VACATION OPPORTUNITY AT PENDLE HILL be used in higher education, its poems and stories are readily accessible to the lay reader. +July 19-23 Songwriting from the Heart Partners struggling with gender problems or -Bob Franke discussion groups focusing on gender roles will find it invaluable. +July 19-23 Painting as Meditation In Daly's effort to make her collection - H elen David Brancato inclusive of African American and Native 26-29 Printmaking American experience, she introduces us to -Helen David Brancato lesser-known writers. A paragraph or so of introduction for her authors would have been 26-29 Dances ofUniversal Peace helpful, but this is a minor fault in a book that -jeanne Ayesha Lauenborg has clearly been a labor of love and a contri­ +Aug. 2- 6 Clay, Color and the Word bution to both Quaker and women's literature. -M. C. Richards -Margaret Hope Bacon +Aug. 2- 6 Photographer's Retreat Margaret Hope Bacon is a member of Cen­ -Danna Cornick tral Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. +Aug. 9-13 Writing Poems -jeanne Lohmann Quaker Faith and Practice: Visiting artists between workshops The Book of Christian See Classified Ads for full list of Spring and Summer programs. Discipline of the Yearly ~ PENDLE HILL . A QUAKER CENTER FOR STUDY AND CONTEMPLATION Meeting of the Religious v (8oo) 742-3150 Box F • 338 Plush Mill Road • Wallingford, PA 19086 Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Britain Yearly Meeting, London, UK. 1995. 668 pages. £1 1/cloth, £6. 50/paper. Large print edition: £18/c/oth, £7.50/paper. What does it mean to revise a book of Faith and Practice? North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative) says, "The evolution WESTTOWN SCHOOL of a yearly meeting's book of discipline is generally a testimony to the power of faith and of the Quaker method in educating and sensitizing conscience. . . . Additions and revisions show the evolution of moral con­ sciousness as it becomes more sensitive to spiritual and social inharmonies." Reading the new Faith and Practice of Britain Yearly Meeting is a joy, both for the inspiration and challenge it offers to individu­ als and for the sense it gives of the evolution of Britain Yearly Meeting's consciousness. The cover itself indicates some significant We invite you to discover the value ofa Westtown education... changes. The single volume Quaker Faith under the care ofthe Philadelphia Yearly Meeting since 1799. and Practice replaces the earlier two-volume book ofdiscipline, Christian Faith and Prac­ tice in the Experience ofthe Society ofFriends *Challenging programs in academics, the arts, and athletics (l969)andChurch Government(l967). These *Strong Quaker presence in student body and faculty latter two volumes reduced to one "show the *310 day students in grades pre-K through 10 interdependence of our faith and our prac­ tice." *290 boarding students in grades 9-12 (boarding required, 11-12) Since "London Yearly Meeting" did not *Diversity of racial, geographic, economic and religious appear on the cover of the 1969 book, one backgrounds among students and teachers might think it spoke of the experience of the entire Religious Society of Friends. The ap­ *Weekly meeting for worship and strong sense of community pearance of"the Yearly Meeting ofthe Relig­ are central to school life. ious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain" on the current cover indicates that it is one among many other yearly meetings world- Westtown School, Westtown, PA 19395 (610) 399-7900

FRIENDS JOURNAL May 1996 31 Friends Journal is designed to nourish the mind as well as the soul with wide who express their experience ofQuaker articles on soda! and political concerns, spiritual journeys, and Quaker faith in their own books of Faith and Practice. news. Our readers enjoy the stimulating articles, sensitive poetry and This volume is also part of the explosion illustrations, thoughtful book reviews, timely news features, and lively of revisions of books of Faith and Practice readers· forum. We invite your partidpation in the dialogue. that has happened in the last 12 years. Ten of the twenty-five North American books ofFaith and Practice were revised or created for the THREE FREE ISSUES -or­ 18 ISSUES first time during this period, while five more If you enjoy your free issues, FOR THE PRICE OF 12 (Overseas subsatbetS are currently in the revision process and three consider a subscription. Only $25. odd S6 jor postage.) yearly meetings are creating their first Faith and Practice. I am a new subscriber. Please sign me up for: Finally, the name change to Britain Yearly 0 3 free issues. Meeting affirms a growing consciousness that o 16 issues for the price of 12. (Check enclosed/Bill me) "London Yearly Meeting" no longer accu­ rately reflects the membership of the yearly Name:. ______meeting. This affirmation of the "larger than Address: ______London" yearly meeting continues within the City/State/Zip:. ______book, where advices and queries and several Phone: ______other selections appear in Welsh. Doubly joy­ ful was hearing from a British Friend that the Return to seed for the inclusion of Welsh came quite 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 191 02-1497 late in the revision process, in ministry of­ Phone: (215) 241-7115 Fax: (215) 568-1377 fered in Welsh at a yearly meeting session. From the cover inward, the sense of the yearly meeting attempting to express its deep­ FRIENDS JOURNAL est Life can be felt. The sense of a larger life is palpable, not only in an increase of l 00 pages, but in new chapter headings and extensive cross references between sections. When faced with a choice of continuing to read a given chapter or following a cross reference to an­ other chapter, the reader is made aware that the meaning ofa given extract becomes deeper when read in more than one context. Oakwood Friends School This book encourages many kinds of read­ ing, from gaining information on process to in located the historic Hudoon Valley 75 miles oorth of New York City meditative reading--read until you're moved and then sit with that Life--and many ways in between. After reading this new Faith and Practice over several months, I feel enriched by the sense ofa discerning Spirit at work. I also feel inspired to read more extensively again in my own and other Faith and Practices, pondering these queries: Where have we been led corpo­ rately, as distinct yearly meetings? What is our relationship as individuals to the truths expressed in our books of Faith and Practice? How do we become sensitive to "social and · spiritual inharmonies"? How can we sense more deeply our brother and sister Quakers, feeling that part of Truth revealed to them? --Jan Hoffman Coed boarding and day school for grades 7-12 and postgraduate Jan Hoffman, a member ofMt . Toby (Mass.) Meeting, serves as clerk of Quakers Uniting Rigorous rollege preprratory curriculum Small class sizes in Publications. Visual and performing arts Unique Senior program Strong, nurturing community Athlecic program International program O:xnmunity service

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FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1996 33 Milestones Births/Adoptions Achtermann-Wil/ow E. N. Achtermann, on Nov. 15, 1995, to Suzanne and Mark Scattergood offers a rigorous college preparatory program for approximately 60 Achtermann, of Little Britain (Pa.) Meeting. students, grades 9 through 12, in a caring, close-knit community of boarding Cunningharn-Keziah Sage Cunningham and students and resident staff living and working together in a beautiful rural setting. Moses Levi Cunningham, on Jan. 10, to Emily Paulmier Cunningham and Timothy Cunningham, of Germantown (Pa.) Meeting. • Coeducational Jacobs--Forest Weaver Jacobs, on July 15, • Graduation requirements include 1995, to Susanna and Ray Jacobs, of Floyd (Va.) Quaker Studies and an off-campus Meeting. community service project Kinnel-Brennan Joseph Kinne/, on Feb. 25, to • Strong programs in the arts Laura Taylor Kinnel and GeoffKinnel, of • Four-year Spanish language Atlantic City (N.J.) Area Meeting. program with work-camp Lynch-Charlo/te Stainton Lynch, on Oct. 18, experience in Mexico 1995, to Margaret S. and Chris Lynch, of • Daily campus and farm work crews Baltimore, Stony Run (Md.) Meeting. • Outdoor and wilderness programs Tasker-Miriam Dove Elizabeth Pauline • Cooperation emphasized over Forsyth Tasker, on Jan. 31, to Helen and Ian competition Tasker, of Frederick (Md.) Meeting. • More than one-third of students and Woodstock-Jonah Jade Cohen Woodstock, on staff have Quaker backgrounds June 26, 1995, to Elizabeth Mary Woodstock and Adam Joshua Cohen, of Floyd (Va.) Meeting. To learn more about Scattergood, or to arrange a visit, contact the Director ofAdmissi ons, Scattergood Friends School, 1951 Delta Avenue, West Branch, Iowa 52358·8507, Marriages/Unions phone (319) 643-7638, FAX (319) 643-7485. Donnally-Michelson-Burl Michelson and Under the care oflowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (C) since 1890 Helen Donnal/y, on Jan. 6, at and under the care of Ridgewood (N.J.) Meeting, of which both Helen and Burl are members. Duckworth-McHutchison-AndrewJohn McHutchison and Leanna Rae Duckworth, on June II, 1995, under the care of Simcoe­ Muskoka (Ont.) Meeting. Puckett-Haecker-Harry Frederick Powers Haecker and Catherine Elizabeth Puckett, on June 24, 1995, under the care of Baton Rouge (La.) Meeting. The ESR Equation: Payne-Jackson-JeffJackson and Tina Payne, on Feb. 24, at Winston-Salem (N.C.) Meeting. 1. A supportive, Christ-centered, learning conununity-plus Vukelich-Bietz-Karl Bietz and Tracey Vukelich, on Sept. 30, 1995, under the care of 2. Rigorous academics-plus Madison (Wis.) Meeting. 3. Diversity of age, race, gender and faith traditions-plus 4. Afocus on personal spirituality-plus Deaths 5. Many small, engaging classes-plus Adams- Roberta Gamber At:klms, 8 1, on Sept. II, 1995, at Chestnut Hill Convalescent Center in 6. Opportunities to work closely, one-on-one, with caring faculty-plus Passaic, N.J. Roberta was raised in Valley City, 7. Aplace where family members are included. N.D., and earned a BA at Valley City State College and an MA from Oberlin College in Ohio. She met Richard (Dick) Adams at Oberlin College and they were married in 1937. Roberta joined Montclair It all adds up (N.J.) Meeting in 1943. She participated in every part of the meeting's life, serving as clerk and as a to transfonnation. member of nearly all the meeting's committees. She was a consistent force behind the Religious Education and Library committees and enjoyed Earlham School of Religion- engaging the "Quaker Ladies," a group that met (A QUAKER SEMINARY OITERING MAs!ER OF DMNriY, Tuesday mornings for more than 30 years, in vari­ MAsJER OF MINISIRY AND MAs!ER OF ARTs DEGREES) ous sewing projects for social concerns. She par­ the light answer for a solid education ticipated on regional meeting and New York Yearly and personal preparation for minisby. Meeting committees and volunteered with the New York office ofthe American Friends Service Com­ mittee. After raising a family, Roberta completed Call Nancy Nelson at 1-800-432-1377 further studies in library science at Rutgers Uni­ 228 College Avenue, Richmond, Indiana 47374 versity and worked as a school librarian for 20 I years. Roberta's concern for peace and peace edu-

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GEMINI ALLIANCE DIANE CANO, PRINGPAL cation led her to many volunteer activities. In the 327 FOURTH STREET #1R, BROOKLYN, NY 11215 1970s she began bringing updates from Friends [email protected] PH.: (718) 832-0678, FAX: ( 718) 832-3684 Committee on National Legislation to meetings of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, of which she was a member, and helped them write to legislators on a weekly basis. Roberta was a board member of the Montclair-North Essex YWCA and a member of its publicity committee. Her membership enabled her to work with leaders SANDY SPRING of the local black community on issues dealing with racism. She was also a member ofNew Jersey Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze). Her family FRIENDS was always her main concern, but she still found time to attend evening classes and pursue other interests like sewing and yoga. Deeply spiritual SCHOOL messages, expressed quietly, marked her gift of vocal ministry. Her creativity and love were felt in all projects, celebrations, and occasions. She lived her beliefs with a gentle directness that made all who knew her know they were special. Roberta is survived by her husband of 58 years, Dick Adams; a daughter, Judy Hinds; a son, Jack Adams; and • Boarding Option Grades 9 to 12 • Day: Pre-K through 12 two grandsons, Cory and Daniel Hinds. Five or seven day programs Bailey-Sydney Dawson Bailey, 79, on Nov. 27, 1995, in London, England. Sydney left school at Outstanding college preparatory curriculum the age of 15 and worked in a factory, a bank, and an insurance office. At the start of World War II, based on traditional Quaker values he embraced pacifism and served for six years in the Friends Ambulance Unit in Burma and China During this time he contracted the tropical disease • Upper School AP courses • Strong arts and athletics programs bilharzia, and lived with this painful condition for • Required community service • Travel abroad opportunities the rest of his life. Sydney joined the Religious Society of Friends in China. After his return to Situated on 140 acres in historic Quaker country, an hour's drive Britain, in 1945 he married Brenda Friedrich. from Washington, D.C., Baltimore, or Annapolis. Sydney became a self-taught political scientist and centered much of his work on the United Nations and disarmament. The author of 17 published books, For further information: SANDY SPRING FRIENDS SCHOOL, Box 3, he wrote definitive texts on the UN's General Assembly, Security Council, and Secretariat, plus 16923 NORWOOD ROAD, SANDY SPRING, MD 20860 a two-volume analysis, How Wars End. Sydney Phone: (301) 774-7455 Fax: (301) 924-1115 became a very personal diplomat, a consultant to FRffiNDS10URNALAfayJ996 35 leaders throughout the world, a self-effacing me­ diator in places of conflict, and a member of many nongovernmental organizations. From 1954 to 1958 Sydney and his wife served the Quaker United Newtown, PA 18940 Nations Office in New York City. Supported after 1960 by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Sydney actively negotiated for peace in the Middle East, Ireland, and other areas in conflict. He helped establish the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Conference on Christian Approaches to Defense and Disarmament, and a lectureship at King's College London on the ethical problems of war. Perhaps Sydney's most creative initiative was the convening from 1952 to 1976 often-day con­ ferences of diplomats, particularly bringing to­ gether in a confidential setting senior representa­ tives of nations not on speaking terms. He served in the International Affairs Division of the British Council of Churches and was a member of the Church of England working party that wrote The Church and the Bomb in 1982. It was his quiet, Founded in 1893 by the Society of Friends, George School is a co­ rational advocacy that convinced a nonpacifist educational boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12. majority of the moral and political case against The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes Friends values and includes: nuclear weapons. Sydney was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace • Courses on 4levels of challenge • International Baccalaureate (IB) and received from the World Academy of Art and • Advanced Placement (AP) • International workcamps Science the Rufus Jones Award for his work for • English as a Second Language (ESL) • Required community service world peace. He retired in 1981, and in 1985 the • Foreign study • Required full-year courses in the arts Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on him the • 13 interscholastic sports for boys and girls Lambeth degree of Doctor of Civil Law. Sydney is For more information, please contact the Admissions Office: 215/579-6547. survived by his wife, Brenda; a son; and a daughter. Brown--Walter J. Brown Jr., 88, on May 23, 1995. Walter was a graduate of Westtown School in Westtown, Pa., and Guilford College in Greens­ boro, N.C. He pursued a successful business career for 45 years in veneer wood products manufactur­ ing and sales in Murfreesboro, N.C. Walter was a faithful attender and active member of Rich Square (N.C.) Meeting and North Carolina Yearly Meet­ ing (Conservative) for most of his life. He served Spiritual Life Enrichment Program the yearly meeting as treasurer from 1951 to 1970. He was recorded an elder of Rich Square Meeting With Barbarajene Williams June 24-August 17 in 1984. Walter was instrumental in establishing, and contributed generously to, a trust fund to in­ Do you hunger for a deeper experience of sacredness? Have you always sure the upkeep of the properties and the continua­ wanted to study at Pendle Hill but have not found the time? Are you looking tion of Rich Square Meeting. He is remembered for his love of family, friends, and Rich Square for a meaningful way to spend a summer vacation? If your answer is yes, Meeting. Walter is survived by a wife, Ellen H. then this program may be perfect for you. Come for one or more weeks. Brown; two sons, Walter J. Brown III and M. Options include: Howard Brown; and three grandchildren, Wade Harrell Brown, Walter J. Brown IV, and Karen • Workshops to develop skills in • Meetings with a spiritual nurturer. Elizabeth Brown. prayer, spiritual listening, storytelling, • Daily meeting for worship. Ely-RuthHartEiy,87,onOct. l4,l995,athome. the Enneagram, and a spiritual • Retreats in our hermitage houses. Ruth was born into a musical family in Reading, appreciation of nature. • Arts and crafts in our studio. Pa., and after graduating college, taught music in the Newtown, Pa., public schools. Ruth and her • Small group discussions. • Fun and fe llowship, community husband, Herbert Jonas Ely, were members of • One-on-one spiritual friendships. work projects, and Taize singing. Abington (Pa.) Meeting. She was a First-day school teacher and, with her husband, served as cosuperintendent of Abington Meeting's First-day Barbarajene WiUiams is an educator, poet, and nature writer. After 20 years school program. She participated in the meeting's as a professor of writing and literature in Oregon, Barbarajene was led to sewing groups and directed and acted in several study at Earlham School of Religion and in the School ofthe Spirit's Spiritual historic plays given in the meetinghouse. Always Nurturer program. She is a member of Clear Creek Meeting, Richmond, IN. seeking opportunities to bring music into the life of the meeting, she played the piano for many pro­ grams and weddings and for the Christmas and Easter programs of the Abington Choraliers. Ruth ~ PENDLE HILL . A QUAKER CENTER FOR STUDY AND CONTEMPLATION is survived by her husband, Herbert; and two sons, V (8oo) 742-:3150 Box F • 338 Plush Mill Road • Wallingford, PA 19086 Thomas 0. Ely and H. Jay Ely. 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1••• 111.1 •••• •1111 ••••• 1.11.1 •• •1.1 •• 1•• 1•• 1.11 ••• 11 Looking for a creative living alternative in New York Classified City? Penington Friends House may be the place for you! We are looking for people of all ages who want to make a serious commitment to a community lifestyle based on For Information call (215) 241-7279. Quaker principles. For information call (212) 673-1730. 55¢ per word. Minimum charge is $11 . We also have overnight accommodations. long iJlness. Born in Graham, N.C., Helen was a Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for three graduate of Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C. She consecutive insertions, 25% for six. Appearance of any advertisement does not taught English and history in her hometown before imply endorsement by Friends Journal. Audio-Visual moving to GainesviJle, Fla., in 1946. Her husband, WHO ARE QUAKERS? by Claire Simon: the late Francis Hayes, taught Spanish at the Uni­ Classified Ad Deadlines: Describes Friends' worship, ministry, versity of Florida in Gainesville for more than 40 and decision-making. Excellent tool for July issue: May 13 years. In 1951 Helen assisted in founding outreach and education. $26.50 August issue: June 10 (appr. 27 mins.). Gainesville (Fla.) Meeting and purchasing a meet­ Submit your ad to: Also available: CRONES: Interviews with Elder Quaker inghouse. She was also active with Friends Gen­ Advertising Manager, Friends Journal Womel!--{)laire Simon's first program. Quaker women eral Conference, Friends Committee on National 1501 Cherry Street speak unselfconsciously about their lives, being Quaker Legislation, and the American Friends Service Philadelphia, PA 19102· 1497 women, and their feelings about aging and death. Re­ Fax: (215) 568-13n duced to $15 (appr. 20 mins.). Committee. Helen was one of the founding mem­ Please add $3 for postage with your order and allow three bers of Gainesville Church Women United and weeks for delivery. Quaker Video, P.O. Box 292, was an active fundraiser for Koinonia Partners in Maplewood, NJ 07040. Americus, Ga. Among her many other activities, she was an early member of the Gainesville League Accommodations of Women Voters, a charter member of the Books and Publications Bed and Breakfast In Jamaica. Accommodation for two Gainesville United Nations of the USA, and a women or a couple with single Quaker woman. Six miles Cell for papers on John Woolman. Contributions are member of the Gainesville Community Alliance from Montego Bay. Quite accessible. Full details from being sought for a collection of scholarly essays on John for Peace Education and the Gainesville Garden Alice Rhodd, Radio WAVES, Montego Bay. Telephone: Woolman. A wide range of issues are welcome, e.g., Club. (Home) 979-6920, (Work) 952-9499. literary, historical, economic, or spir~ual. Contact: Michael Peaks Island, Malne-15-minute ferry ride from Port­ Heller (before June 15, 1996); English Department, land. One square mile for walking and biking around Roanoke College, Salem, VA 24153-3794. (540) 375- Speers-Nancy Peel Speers, 71, on Dec. 19, 1995, village, on beaches, and in woods. Historic sites, vistas 2369 or e-mail [email protected]. at home in Swarthmore, Pa. Nancy attended the (maximum elevation 100 feet), yard sales, etc. Tranquil College of Wooster in Ohio and Middlebury Col­ summer home facing Casco Bay. Good base for lmi Bookstore. Serving Friends and seekers lege in Vermont, where she met David Speers. sightseeing on mainland and offshore. DIY breakfast. No worldwide with Quaker-related books and They were married in 1945. After her husband's pels. Jack and Hermine Berry: May-September (207) curricula for all ages. Materials to meet needs 766-3366; winters (941) 995-1234. and interests of individuals, religious educators, and death in 1968, Nancy began work as an archivist An oasis of calm In the heart of London? Yes, at the spiritual communities. Free catalog of over 500 titles. and staff genealogist at the Friends Historical Li­ Quaker International Centre, where short-, medium-, and Religious education consu ~ation . Call, write, or visit: brary at Swarthmore College, where she remained longer-term accommodation is available as well as con­ Friends General Conference Bookstore, 1216 Arch Street, ference facilities. Excellent homemade food. For further 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107, M-F 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. EST, until retirement in 1992. She also had many con­ information contact telephone: (0171) 387-5648, fax: (800) 966-4556. tacts with Friends through the Quaker genealogi­ (0171) 383-3722, or write to: 1 Byng Place, London cal research she conducted for private clients. She WC1E7JH. Time Is Running Out. Unbl June 1, 1996, order Fnends General Conference's new Worship in Song: A Friends was a member ofSwarthmore Presbyterian Church. Beacon Hill Friends House: Quaker-sponsored resi­ dence of 19 interested in community living, spiritual growth, Hymnal at $18 each (free shipping in U.S.). Send prepaid Nancy is survived by two sons, John 0. and David (U.S. funds) to FGC Bookstore, 1216 Arch Street, 2B, peace, and social concerns. All faiths welcome. Open­ M. Speers; a daughter, Lindley B. Speers; six grand­ ings in June, September. For information, application: Philadelphia, PA 191 07 or charges call (800) 966-4556. children; a brother, Craig L. Peel; and a sister, BHFH, 6 Chestnut Street, Boston, MA 02108-3624. (617) Quaker Books. Rare and out-<>f-print, journals, memori­ 227-9118. Overnight accommodations also available. Virginia P. Manthey. als, histories, inspirational. Send for free catalogue or Moving to Indianapolis. North Meadow Circle of Friends specific wants. Vintage Books, 181 Hayden Rowe St., Walton-Helen Stephens Walton, 89, on Aug. 25, have housing opportunities in their meetinghouse. Write: Hopkinton, MA 01748. 1995, in Kennett Square, Pa. Born in Urbana, Jll., Property Oversight, 1710 North Talbott, Indianapolis, IN 46202. and raised in Mooresburg, Pa., Helen graduated in Books.--Ouaker spiritual classics, history, biography, 1929 from Penn State University, where she was NYC midtown B&B bargain! Charming, one-bedroom and current Quaker experience, published by Friends apartments of your own in historical, Eastside neighbor­ United Press, 101-A Quaker Hill Or., Richmond, IN 47374. one of the first women to receive a degree in hood, $7()-$125 double, plus $15 per additional guest. Write for free catalogue. horticulture. It was there she met Frank Pusey From simple to sublime. (212) 228-4645. Walton, and they were married in 1929. Helen In the Depths of France: Restored medieval home in moved to London Grove, Pa., where she worked in village in the Oordogne. Accommodates six. All modern For Sale the family-owned greenhouse business and nur­ comforts. Wonderful biking and eating. Bed and break­ Home next to small meeting in Philadelphia's Frankford fast or rental. Write: Jean Grant, 3801 Creswell #17, tured her family, her community, and London Grove section. Five-bedroom, modest but solid. Call (215) 533- Shreveport, LA 71106. Telephone: (318) 865-6745 or 2184. (Pa.) Meeting, of which she was a member. A well e-mail: [email protected]. Home, Ft. Myers area, Florida: 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 known teacher, counselor, and minister among Washington, D.C., sojourners welcome in Friends' home baths, 10 -year-<>ld custom-built on one acre with 17 cit­ in pleasant suburbs nearby. By day, week, or month. For Friends, she served London Grove Meeting's Wor­ rus trees, garden, and old oak tree shade. 1936 sq. ft. , details call (301) 27Q-5258. ship and Ministry Committee, as well as Western 1522 sq. ft. air-conditioned, shop, hobby room/4th bed­ Quarterly Meeting and Philadelphia Yearly Meet­ Big Island Friends invite you into their homes for mutual room , lanai, solar hot water, all appliances, blinds, drapes, Quaker sharing. Donations. HC1, Box 21-0, Captain and rugs. Beautiful, quiet, four-family Friendly commu­ ing. Helen worked with children through the Re­ Cook, HI 96704. (808) 328-8711, 325-7323, or 322-3116. nity. $90,000. (941 ) 728-2229. ligious Education Committee and, with her hus­ NYC-Greenwich VIllage Accommodation. Walk to 15th band, helped start the London Grove Friends Kin­ Street Meeting. On&-four people; children welcome. (Two dergarten School in 1960. She authored the "Story cats in house.) Reservations: (212) 924-6520. Opportunities Hawaii-Island of Kaual. 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FRrnNDS JOURNALA!ay1996 37 Upcoming Conferences at Pendle Hill: Quaker couple as Friends in Residence for Redwood Simplicity: A Meditation and a Lifestyle, Ruah Personals Forest Friends Meeting in Santa Rosa, California (one Swennerfelt, May 24-26. hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge). Living quarters Singing Weekend: Sacred Harp Music, Robin Fox, May Lauren Greenwood Grass seeks correspondence with provided. Contact: Wende Hilyard Muhler, 1647 3hlune 2. birth parents and birth siblings. Please write to me at 104 Guerneville Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. Massage and Energy Work, John Calvi, June 14-16. Oak Lane, West Chester, PA 19382-5435. Internship at William Penn House. One-year appoint­ Men and the Spirit: Discernment and Everyday Life, ment, beginning September 1. Divide work between Barry Morley, June 14-16. William Penn House, a Quaker seminar center on Capitol Sources of Spiritual Renewal for Educators, Paul Single Booklovers, a national group, has been getting Hill, and another Washington peace organization. Room Lacey, June 24-28. unattached booklovers together since 1970. Please write and board, stipend provided. College graduates inter­ Meaningful Work IS Possible, Jacqueline McMakin and Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or call (610) 358-5049. ested in peace and the political process are invited to Susan Gardiner, June 28-30. apply. Flexibility, initiative, excellent people skills, will­ Family Weekend: Quaker Values In Family Life, Harriet ingness to work hard required. Cooking skills, group Heath and Larue Evans, July 5-7. living experience helpful. Cover letter and resume to Basic Quakerism for Inquirers, Mickey Edgerton and ConcernedUingkQ Director, William Penn House, 515 East Capitol Street Frank Massey, July 12-14. SE, Washington, DC 20003. Telephone: (202) 543-5560. A God Who Looks Like Me: Discovering a Woman Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible, so­ Fax: (202) 543-3814. Apply by May 15. Affirming Spirituality, Patricia Reilly, August 9-14. cially conscious singles who care about peace, social Special Program: justice, civil rights, gender equity, and the environment. Arthur Morgan SChool. Small junior high boarding school Nationwide. All ages. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 444- Spirituality and the Arts Programming, July 19-August seeks houseparents for 1996-97 school year. Positions FJ, Lenox Dale, MA 01242, or 413) 445-6309. 13, see display ad page 31 for details. also include a mix of other responsibilities-teaching Contact: Registrar, Pendle Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill (academics and/or electives-music, art, etc.), leading Road, Wallingford, PA 19086-6099. (610) 566-4507 or work projects and outdoor trips, maintenance, garden­ (800) 742-3150. Positions Vacant ing, cooking, bookkeeping. Intimate community of staff and students; consensus run. Simple living; beautiful Consider a Costa Rican Study Tour January 30 to Children's program coordinator: The Palo Alto (Calif.) February 10, 1997, with an optional five-day extension to Meeting is seeking a part-time coordinator to help us mountain setting. Contact or send resume to: Sarah Nicaragua. Write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, 1182 Horn­ support the religious growth of the meeting's children. Delcourt, AMS, 1901 Hannah Branch Rd., Burnsville, NC beam Road, Sabina, OH 45169, or call Lori Musselman, Help develop First-day school education programs for up 28714. (704) 675-4262. telephone: (513) 382-2869. to 16 children ages six to twelve; serve as head teacher Friends Select School seeks an experienced adminis­ ten times a year; and train volunteer teachers from the Consider Investing In affordable retirement property in trator to lead its upper school (grades 9-12). Applicants meeting. Time commitment: 25 hours per month, 11 for this position should have teaching experience and the the Southern Arizona high desert. We envision a support­ months of the year. Palo Alto is located in the Bay area, ive community of friends (Friends) enjoying one another ability to work with students, teachers, and parents. 30 miles south of San Francisco. Write or call Nancy and the spacious, dry climate near an established Friends Friends Select is a coeducational, college preparatory Harjan, First Day School Committee, Palo Alto Friends school in Center City Philadelphia. The school carries meeting. To be part of the planning process, or merely to Meeting, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94303. gain more inform ation, write Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, out its mission in a manner reflective of the spiritual and Telephone: (415) 325-2294. 1182 Hornbeam Road, Sabina, OH 45169. social concerns of the Religious Society of Friends. Re­ Loving Au Pair to help with our exuberant two-year-old, sume and letter to Rose Hagan, Head of School, Friends Calling all Friends and Alumni of Earlham College. ian. Arrangements negotiable. Annie & Peter Blood­ Select, 17th and the Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Join John Punshon, Professor of Quaker Studies at the Patterson, 22 Tanguy, Glen Mills, PA 19342. (610) Earlham School of Religion, on a special two-week pil­ 399-6764. grimage to Quaker England to visit the historical sites, Rentals & Retreats people, and landscapes that gave rise to the worldwide Director of Development family of Friends. The trip runs from July 8-23, 1996, and Scattergood Friends School, a four-year, coed, college Housing: Private bedroom and bathroom with separate will depart from NYC. For more information, contact preparatory Quaker boarding and day school, seeks a entrance and off-street parking in Newton home, near Kimberly Tanner at Earlham College, (317) 983-1421. Director of Development to manage current successful Boston, Mass. Accessible by public transportation. $550 campaign, annual fund, deferred giving, and corporate per month including utilities, use of washer/dryer and kitchen (including food). Happy to barter some or all for High School Youthcamp at Pendle Hill: Combine ser­ giving. Extensive travel required, car provided. Salary is creative, educational play with children (five and two), vice and learning, fun and adventure, seeking and social commensurate with experience and includes benefit pack­ change. Join in an inner-city workcamp, learn conflict age. Send resume to: SFS, 1951 De~a Avenue, West vegetarian cooking, housekeeping, gardening, etc. In­ resolution skills, explore arts and crafts, canoe on the Branch, lA 52358. quiries: (617) 964-9775 or [email protected]. Brandywine River, and build community with a diverse Nantucket. Serene Ocean Dune Cottage, Smith Point, group of high schoolers from around the country. Sun­ Temporary Resident Managers Needed for an Ameri­ basic amenities, two BR. Quiet harbor behind. Pels wel­ day, July 7-Sunday, July 15. Rides may be available can Friends Service Commitee--operated international come. August $1,600/week. (203) 526-2100, evenings. from FGC Gathering in Hamilton. Contact: Alex Kern, guest house in Washington, D.C., for a busy and exciting Pendle Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA one-month period while the regular resident managers New, peaceful forest home, Big Island; available June­ 19086-6099. (610) 566-4507 or (800) 742-3150. are on vacation: approximate period of July 25-August December. Full term only. $799/month. Great value for loving care. (808) 328-8711, (808) 328-2379. Quaker House Intentional community seeks residents. 25. Travel costs to D.C. reimbursed, plus lodging and Share living and meal arrangements in historic Friends a per diem food allowance. Ideally, we are searching for Pocono Manor. Beautiful, rustic mountain house suit­ meetinghouse. Common interests in spirituality, peace, a couple with an established working relationship, some able for gatherings, retreats, and reunions. Seven and social concerns. One- or two-year terms. Directors, experience with international visitors or the operation bedrooms. Three full baths. Beds for 15. Fully equipped. Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL of a guest house, knowledge of the Society of Friends Deck with mountain view. Hiking trails from back door. 60637. (312) 288-3066, [email protected]. and the ability to deal with a variety of human and Weekends, or by the week, May through October. Con­ mechanical situations. This is a good chance to enjoy tact Jonathan Snipes: (215) 736-1856. Travel-study In 1996 for the Socially Concerned the artistic and cultural attractions of the nation's capital Join Quaker educator, Robert Hinshaw, on anthropol­ for a short period. If intrested please contact (as soon Vermont Cabin Rental. Lake Ninevah, two bedrooms, ogy-focused tours to Guatemala (winter '97), Scandinavia as possible): American Friends Service Committee/ Davis woods, peace, quiet, and among Friends. Near Farm & (June), Peruvian Amazon and Andes (August), or Nova House, 1822 R Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20009. Wilderness Camps. Weekly, $400. Call (201) 627-3930. Scotia (September). Write or call Hinshaw Tours: Box Tel: (202) 232-3196; fax: (202) 232-3197; e-mail: [email protected]. 412, Allenspark, CO 80510; (303) 747-2658. Vermont. Comfortable housekeeping cabins at Forest Companion In Costa Rica: speaks Spanish, drives stick­ Echo Farm in Mount Holly near Appalachian Trail. Simple, shift, nonsmoker, interested in Quakers and small-town secluded, swimming, boating. Contact: Caroline Bailey. Opportunities Sought life. Live independently in simple cabin, pursue own inter­ (802) 258-4544. 1029A Upper Dummerston Road, ests, help out a few hours every day, and be available for Brattleboro, VT 05301. Young, married couple with Quaker/Mennonite back­ full-time assistance a few days a month. Write Rebecca grounds interested in opportunities in peace education and Osborne Cresson, Apdo. 51-5655, Monteverde de Bald Head Island, N.C. Panoramic view of ocean, dunes, and environmental issues. Both have international expe­ Puntarenas, Costa Rica. lagoon, and golf course from four-bedroom, two-bath­ rience and graduate college May 1996. Contact: Jennifer room, beautifully furnished house with wrap-around deck, and Aaron Chappell Deckert, Bethel College Box 55, FRIENDS JouRNAL is seeking candidates for a nine-month three electric golf carts. 14 miles of beach, championship North Newton, KS 67117. (316) 283-4693. golf, tennis, croquet, swimming, and fishing. 13,000 acres Work includes""'"";'9 derical ;, ~- and editorialM.O , ,.as- of maritime wilderness. Many birds and wildflowers. No Ukrainian environmental film producer, currently at­ l"""'"';psignmen ts, plus exposure to all aspects cars on island. Peaceful, friendly. Rental by day or week. tending Westerly (R.I.) Meeting, seeks opportunities to • of magazine publishing. Send resume and (215) 699-9186. produce documentary videos. Speaks English. Will relo­ · . coverlettertoFR1eNOSJOURNAL,1501 Cherry Beautiful Vacation House. Maryland Eastern Shore. cate. Write or call Andrei Loskoutov, 43 Barnes Road, Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, fax (215) Air-conditioned, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, loft, deck. Near Stonington, CT 06378. (203) 536-9968. 568-1377. beach, golf course, peaceful, wooded, $550/week. (410) 433-Q605. Performing Arts & Music Service community, lnnlsfree Village. Volunteers live and work with adults with mental disabilities on a farm in A Friendly Maul vacation on a Quaker family organic Songs that build community. Free catalog of songbooks/ the Blue Ridge Mountains. Must be 21 , able to stay one farm. 20 minutes to local beaches. New stone and cedar recordings. Kids' music, environmental songs, Pete year. Receive room, board, medical benefits, and $160/ building with large octagonal room, skylight, ocean view, Seeger, group singing resources. 500/o discounts on Rise month. Recruiting, lnnisfree, Rte. 2, Box 506, Crozet, VA walk-in doset, and private bath. Full kitchen, organic Up Singing by the carton. Annie & Peter Blood-Patterson, 22932. vegetable garden, and hot tub. Bed and breakfast or bed 22 Tanguy Road, Glen Mills, PA 19342. (610) 399-0684. and supper: $70 per day. Weekly and monthly rates Enjoy rent·free living! The Caretaker Gazette publishes available. Write or call Henrietta & Wm. Warelli, 375 Royale Muslcke-Renaissance and Baroque music for property-caretaking jobs, worldwide. $24/year. 2380 NE Kawelo Road, Haiku, HI 96708. Telephone: (808) 572- your wedding, party, or special occasion. Classical guitar Ellis, Suite C-16FR, Pullman, WA 99163-5303. (509) 332- 9205. Fax: 572-6048. and recorder/flute duo. (609) 858-9374. 0806.

38 May 1996 FRIENDS JOURNAL Cozy Maine Cottage on quiet island minutes across Lansdowne Friends School-A small Friends school for Family Relations Committee's Counseling Service swing bridge from restaurants and shops of Boothbay boys and girls 3 years of age through 6th grade, rooted in (PYM) provides confidential professional counseling to Harbor. Great home base for exploring Maine coast. Quaker values. We provide children with a quality aca­ individuals and couples in most geographic areas of Sleeps six. $450/week. Homan (610) 828-3192. demic and a developmentally appropriate program in a Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. All counselors are Quakers. Maine coast. Attractive house on Westport Island (with nurturing environment. Whole language, thematic educa­ All Friends, regular attenders, and employees of Friends bridge). Deck, spruces, deep water, small rocky point, tion, conflict resolution, Spanish, after-school care, organizations are eligible. Sliding fees. Further informa­ and cove. Weekly rates: June $400, July $550, August summer program. 11 0 N. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, tion or brochure, contact Steve Gulick, 1501 Cherry St., $600. (617) 489-2465. PA 19050. (610) 623-2548. Philadelphia, PA 19102. (215) 988-0140. Westbury Friends School-Safe, nurturing Quaker Moving to North Cerollna? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker Onas, beautifully located in rural environment for 90 children, nursery-grade 6, on beauti­ real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pine­ Bucks County, one hour from ful 17-acre grounds. Small classes and dedicated wood Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (910) 294-2095. A Philadelphia, is available for fall, teachers. Music, art, computers, Spanish, and gym. Ex­ winter, and spring rentals. Facili­ Celo Valley Books: Personal attention to all phases of tended-day, vacation-holiday, and summer progtams. Half­ book production (25 to 5,000 copies). Typing, editing, n.. ''""'' c.m, ,, ...,. c..•• , ties for both large and small and full-day nursery, preK. Brochure: Westbury Friends groups Include indoor and outdoor sleeping facilities, layout, final delivery. Free brochure. 346 Seven Mile School, 550 Post Avenue, Westbury, NY 11590. (516) Ridge Road Burnsville NC 28714 comfortable'~ meeting and retreat areas, indoor and out­ 333-3178. . door recreation areas, modern knchen and dining facilities, outdoor education facilnies, and walking trails. Additional Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic services and programs available. For information write or program in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for cail Camp Onas, 609 Geigel Hill Road, Ottsville, PA children ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Small classes ~tudios 18942. (610) 847-5858. and an enriched curriculum answer the needs of the whole child. An at-risk program for five-year-olds is avail­ Maine Coast. Spacious house sleeps eight. Deck over­ able. The school also offers an extended day program, Marriage certificates, Announcements, Invitations, etc. looks pond. Beautiful woods, salt-water cove. Swimming, tutoring, and summer school. Information: Stratford canoeing-islands, bays. Near beaches, woods walks, Do justice to your event w~h our cailigraphy and award- Friends School, 5 Llandillo Road, Havertown, PA 19083. winning graphic design. (600) 763-0053. island ferries, theaters, concerts. $700+/week, except (610) 446-3144. $800+/week in August. Weekends available spring, fall. Dam Cove Lodge. (207) 443-9446. Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. Small, ... Forum Travel academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences, com­ Quaker-owned-and-managed travel Retirement Living munny service, consensus decision making, daily work agency. Friendly, experienced service; projects in a small, caring, community environment. Arthur • domestic and international; overnight de- Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, livery. (800) 888-4099. NC 28714. (704) 675-4262. FRIENDS HOMES FRIENDS JOURNAL typesetting and design United Friends School: coed; preschool- S; emphasiz­ services. We prepare copy for newsletters, ing integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, brochures, books, posters, and other printed West including whole language and manipulative math; serving works. FRIENOS JouRNAL, 1501 Cherry Street, Frtends Homes West, the new continuing care retire­ upper Bucks County. 20 South loth Street, Quakertown, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1497. Telephone ment community in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now PA 18951. (215) 538-1733. (215) 241-7283. open. Friends Homes West is owned by Friends Homes, e Inc., specialists in retirement living since 1968. Friends Homes West includes 171 apartments for independent Services Offered Summer Camps living and on-site health care services in the 28 private Make Friends, Make Music: Friends Music Camp this rooms of the Assisted Uving Unit or the 40 private rooms Friends, are you receiving monthly payments on a of the Skilled Care Nursing Unit. Enjoy a beautiful com­ summer.Ages 1D-1 8. FMC, P.O. Box427, Yellow Springs, Mortgage/Trust Deed and need cash for any reason? I OH 45387. (513) 767-1311 or (513) 767-1818. munny in a location wnh temperate winters and changing can help you sell all or a portion of the payments to give seasons. For more information, please cail (910) 292- you the cash you need. Call Richard Butler collect at 9952, or write Friends Homes West, 6100 West Friendly (303) 530-2156. Road, Greensboro, NC 27410. Summer Rentals Friendly Financial Services. Let me help you prepare for retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially respon­ Downeast Maine. Secluded cabin on shore in National Foxdale VIllage, a Quaker life-care community. sible investments-my specialty. Call Joyce Moore, Wildlife Preserve. Sleeps four. All conveniences. $600 Thoughtfully designed cottages complemented by attrac­ LUTCF, Joyce Moore Financial Services at (610) 258- plus for two weeks. Mid-May to October. (610) 649-7037. tive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and full medical 7532 or e-mail [email protected]. (Securities Summer cottage on N.H. lake, very secluded, with own protection. Setting is a wonderful combination of rural offered by Washington Square Securities, 1423 N. 28th dock, boat, sanded swimming, separate "getaway" cabin. and university environment. Entry fees from Street, Allentown, PA 18104, [610]437-2812.) Ideal for family. July/August $2,000/month, $1,200/2 $40,00Q-$140,000; monthly fees from $1,164-$2,354. weeks. June/Sept./Oct. $1,000/month, $600/2 weeks. 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Department F, State College, Friends Helping Friends Grow. Investment certificates (914) 476-0722. PA 16801. Telephone: (800) 253-4951 . are available from Friends Extension Corporation. These investments promote the growth of Friends by providing Summer Cottage In Rufus Jones' Country: Lake-front low cost loans to build new facilities or renovate existing cottage; 2 bedrooms, screened sleeping porch on China Schools facilities. For information contact Margaret Bennington, Lake in south-central Maine, one hour to Maine coast. 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Telephone: Available for weekly or monthly rental June-August; $400 The Quaker School at Horsham, a value-centered el­ (317) 962-7573. weekly or $1400 monthly; 2-week minimum preferable. ementary and middle school for students with learning Contact: Marilyn or Bob Clark, 5405 Purlington Way, differences. 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FRIENDs JOURNAL May 1996 39 What's so Quakerly . • • about Friends' programs for older adults?

We are often asked: '5-tre there special qualities that can be found in these programs that Friends have established in New jersey and The Barclay-Friends HaD Pennsylvania?" We think the answer is yes. - Cadhury Chandler HaD •!• First, all were begun by Friends. Some by individual Friends Cross/ands with a sense of mission. Some by monthly, quarterly, and yearly Foulkeways at Gwynedd meetings. Some by small groups of Friends who shared a vision Foxdale Village of providing needed supports in new ways. Friends Home at Woodstown •!• Then there is governance. Each ofthe organizations Friends Hospital belonging to Friends Services for the Aging is operated with Friends Life Care at Home oversight ofa predominantly Quaker board, carrying out its Friends Rehabilitation Program business through Friends' processes. The Greenleaf The Hickman •!• Perhaps most important, we all seek to embody in our Jeanes Hospital services the Quaker commitment to respect for all individuals. Jre.ndalatlongwood We recognize and seek to enhance the independence of older The McCutchen adults, including those who may be frail or suffering from Medford Leas dementia. We focus on capacities and strengths, not disabilities Mercer Street Friends Center and needs. Pennswood Village Our staff and those we serve come from many different Stapeley in Germantown religious backgrounds. They find that there is something authentically Quaker in our conviction that the later years of one's life are full ofpotential for love, growth, friendship, and contributions to others. We find that our Quaker service is enriched by our staff's dedication to the values we hold in common.

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