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On Thich Nhat Hanh Practices of This Tradition, Enable a Kind of Form August 2004 • $5 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today Pohce Power for Peace Hiroshima/Nagasaki Unresolved: A Present Danger Favorite Writings on Simplicity Summer Wordplay An Among Friends independent magazine serving the Religious Staying Aligned with Our Values Society of Friends write, I've just returned from the Friends General Conference Gathering in Amher~t, Massachusetts, where, among other things, I attended a weeklong workshop on the subject of"Your Money and Your Values." Having reached Editorial Susan Corson-Finnerty (Publisher and Ex~cutive the empty nest, but still paying for my offspring's college educations, it seemed a good Editor), Robert Dockhorn (Smior Editor), Danielle DeCosmo (Interim Assistant Editor}, Judith Brown time to re-examine my personal and our family financial goals, as my husband and I (Poetry Editor), Ellen Michaud (Book Review look forward to the years when the costs of rearing a family will be behind us. I found Editor), J. Brent Bill (Assistant Book Review Editor), Joan Overman (Book Review Assistant), Christine the workshop, led by Penny Yunuba and Carolyn Hilles, to be excellent, with many Rusch (Milestones Editor), Robert Marks, George useful avenues to re-evaluate our current practices. My experience at the Gathering Rubin (News Editon), Kara Newell (Columnist), Marjorie Schier (Copyeditor), Carrie Atkinson, resonates well with Chel Avery's "Favorite Writings on Simplicity" (p. 11) in this Sarah Baicker, Julierra Bekker, Mary Hoeffel, Tracy issue. We Quakers, she writes, "live in a world ftlled with demands, pressures, Jordan, Joanna Vaughan {lntnm} Production temptations, and distractions that serve as constant impediments to our efforts to Barbara Benron (Art Dirntor), Alia Podolsky order our outward lives in a way that nourishes and wimesses to the inward lives we (Assistant Art Dir«tor) strive for." She goes on to share four Quaker and three secular readings that have Advertising, Circulation, Development Nagendran Gulendran (Advertising Manager), helped her in her efforts to keep her life centered and congruent with the Testimony Nicole Hackel (Circulation Assistant}, Gabriel Schoder-Ehri {Project and Database Manager), Anira of Simplicity. Gurierrez (Circulation and Marketing Manager), Minding our testimonies, particularly in facing the complexity of the right use of Grerra Stone (Devewpmmt OJordinator), Kay Bacon, Ruthanna Hadley, Ruth Peterson (Volun~m) power, has never felt more urgent than at present. In "Police Power for Peace" (p. 6), Administration William Hanson explores the appropriate use of limited force in an international Marianne De Lange (Office Manager), Tom McPeak (Accounting Services) context as a means of preventing the escalating violence that leads to war. Recognizing Board of Trustees that many Friends are ambivalent about the need for the use of force by local police, Barbara Andrews, Seth Barch, Paul Buckley, he points out that we rely on that function for daily protection-and that "we need a TylaAnn Burger {Treasurer}, Katharine Clark, Linda Coffin, Karen Cromley, John Darnell, William clear direction favoring world police and a world judicial system as an alternative to Deursch (Assistant Clerk), Mary Ann Downey, the fumbling horror of perpetual war." He goes on to suggest that Friends become Walter Evans, Marsha Green (&cording Clerk), Linda Houser, Paull.andskroener, Linda Lyman, advocates and leaders in developing the minimum-force policing and world law that Ellen Massey, Janet Ross Melnyk, Larry Miller, Julian O'Reilley, Ann Trueblood Raper, Jonathan the global community will need to reach the point of abolishing war. Tamez, Lynn Waddingron, Pamela Williams, One could not ftnd a better model of the quiet but fum commitment needed to Elizabeth Yeats (Clerk) effect long-lasting social change such as this than in the example of Mary Stone FRIENDS jOURNAL OSSN 00 16-1322) was esrablished in 1955 as the successono Tk Frima'(l827-1955) and McDowell, featured in "Gentle Persuader and Loyal Friend" (p. 16) by Mary Lee Frimds lnuUigmur (1844-1955). • FRIENDS jOURNAL is published monthly by Morrison. Mary Stone McDowell was a teacher in the public schools in New York Friends Publishing Corporation, 1216 Arch Street, 2A, Philadel phia, PA 19107-2835. Telephone City prior to World War I. In 1918, she was suspended from her position for ftve (2 15) 563-8629. E-mail [email protected]. years for her refusal to teach a course in citizenship, which she deemed was "a Periodicals postage paid at Philadelphia, Pa., and additional mailing offices. euphemism for support of the war." After five difficult years, and a legal case that • Subscri ptions: one year $35, two years $65. Add $8 per year for postage to countries outside the U.S., Canada, and ultimately "represented the ftrst test of paciftsm and academic freedom moving Mexico. Individual copies $5 each. through a state court system in the United States," she was reinstated as a teacher in • Advertising jnformadon and assiscance is available on request. Appearance of any advertisement does not imply the New York City public schools in 1923. The president of the School Board endorsement by FRIENDS j ouRNAL admitted that her case had occurred at "the height of war hysteria." Her flrm • Postmaster: send address changes to FRIENDSj OURNAL, 1216 Arch Street, 2A, Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835. commitment to her pacifist values and long involvement with peace activities • Copyright ~ 2004 by Friends Publishing Corporation. Permission should be received befOre reprinting excerpts throughout her life, until her death in 1955, displayed the courage and dedication longer than 200 words. needed to change hearts and minds. Available on microfilm &om Bell and Howell Information and Learning. During these slower days of summer, I hope that Friends will find much here to PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER contemplate in thinking about how to keep one's life congruent with one's values. Min. 20% post-consumer Moving? Let us update your subscription and address. FRJENDS j OURNAL, 1216 Arch Sr., 2A Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 • (215) 563-8629 Fax: (21 5) s68-I377 . [email protected] Web: www.friendsjournal.org 2 August 2004 FRIENDS JOURNAL August 2004 FRIENDS Volume 50, No. 8 JOURNAL Features Departments 6 Police Power for Peace 2 Among Friends William L. Hanson 4 Forum Friends should promote minimum-force police strategies locally and internationally. 5 Viewpoint 8 Hiroshima/Nagasaki Unresolved: Economics by innuenclo and error A Present Danger 20 Summer Wordplay Marjorie A. Smith Birds in the Bible The U.S. has never dispelled its illusions about past Quaker clerihews andpresent nuclear weapons. 22 Quaker Writings 11 Favorite Writings on Simplicity Kathleen Lonsdale Michel Avery 25 Books Seven authors offer guidance on this elusive testimony. A young Friend's bookshelf 11 Simplicity and Convenience 27 Witness Judith Stiers Is God still sleeping in Rwanda? It is a mistake to think that these two are synonymous. 29 News 14 Amachi: Faith-Based Mentoring to Children of Prisoners 31 Bulletin Board Susanna Thomas 32 Milestones This national program earns mixed grades. 44 Classified 16 Gentle Persuader and Loyal Friend: Mary Stone McDowell 46 Meetings Mary Lee Morrison A Quaker teacher lost her job during World War I for Poetry noncooperation with the war effort. 13 The Ice: McNabb, Ill. 19 Flood Katharine Jager Elizabeth Echlin Groundwater is a powerfol metaphor. 13 The Sounds that Feed Us William J oil iff In Elmer's Barn ... Fontaine Falkoff Front cover photo: on the dunes at Barnegat Light, NJ, by Robert Dockham FRIENDS j OURNAL August 2004 3 Forum concepts, what are we really set up to do? teaches us not to be bound by any dogma, War is the worst choice Fifry minutes of silence is form, and it sure even Buddhist dogma. After 15 years of War brings out the worst in all people. can be em pry form. sharing in the life of my own local Thich We have always known this. We are now Are we like adolescents, rebelling and Nhat Hanh communiry along with 40-plus seeing how one army can torture and kill wanting our own way, determined that we years of being a Friend, I conclude as she prisoners and how this brings another army as individuals can each discern our own way? does that there is much these two traditions to retaliate. War eventually becomes a Quakers make it very easy to assume that have in common. What interests me most is competition to see who can leave humaniry individual perception is enough. how they differ. farthest behind and treat people the worst. What is it about group interaction In small dharma discussion groups, for There are no winners, only survivors, and beyond silence that puts us off? We go instance, much like our worship sharing too few of those. This, among a long list of through lengthy business meetings, groups, deep emotion can flow. The other reasons, always makes war the worst processing important details about finance silence in the gathered meditation hall choice that can be made. International law, and outreach with admirable aplomb. What during the month I shared of this year's the rules of war, never hold. And while a few happens when it comes to sharing our three-month-long winter retreat (for the full make billions of dollars, many others suffer individual paths? What happens when it 250-person monastic communiry and 250 greatly for ends never achieved. comes to needing help as individuals? What lay people) was deep indeed, as were all but We must now all work together, not only happens when it comes to sharing our one of the meals. to end the U.S. war in Iraq, but to remove individual personal disciplines? Does being The question of having a teacher is a the United States from the business of war. strong on the value of the individual wonderful one.
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