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Greenbelt the Friend Independent Quaker Journalism Since 1843 8 September 2017 £1.90 theDISCOVER THE CONTEMPORARYFriend QUAKER WAY Greenbelt the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 CONTENTS VOL 175 NO 36 3 Thought for the Week: Intelligent loving Judy Clinton 4-5 News 6 Words from Warwick Any kindness Bob Lovett I expect to pass through this 7 Slaying Goliath world but once. Any good, Sam Donaldson therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to 8-9 Letters any fellow creature, let me do 10-11 Faith and the future it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass Symon Hill this way again. 12 An open space Abigail Maxwell Steven Grellett 13 James Nayler Simon Webb 14-15 Speaking out together Ruth Tod 16 q-eye: a look at the Quaker world 17 Friends & Meetings Cover image: Greenbelt 2017 Photo: Copyright Jonathon Watkins (www.PhotoGlow.co.uk). See pages 10-11. The Friend Subscriptions Advertising Editorial UK £86 per year by all payment Advertisement manager: Editor: types including annual direct debit; George Penaluna Ian Kirk-Smith monthly payment by direct debit [email protected] £7.25; online only £69 per year. Articles, images, correspondence For details of other rates, Tel 01535 630230 should be emailed to contact Penny Dunn on 54a Main Street, Cononley [email protected] 020 7663 1178 or [email protected] Keighley BD20 8LL or sent to the address below. the Friend 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ • Tel: 020 7663 1010 • www.thefriend.org Editor: Ian Kirk-Smith [email protected] • Production and office manager: Elinor Smallman [email protected] Advertisement manager: George Penaluna [email protected] • Subscriptions officer: Penny Dunn [email protected] Sub-editor: George Osgerby [email protected] • Arts correspondent: Rowena Loverance [email protected] Environment correspondent: Laurie Michaelis [email protected] • Clerk of trustees: Nicholas Sims ISSN: 0016-1268 • The Friend Publications Limited is a registered charity, number 211649 Printed by Warners Midlands Plc, The Maltings, Manor Lane, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH 2 the Friend, 8 September 2017 Thought for the Week Intelligent loving remember sitting ready for Meeting for Worship on the morning following the Dunblane massacre in 1996. I was in the quiet of the Meeting room and could hear Friends arriving, hanging up their coats and greeting one another in the foyer. One Friend, an active Imember of the peace group, said in a loud voice: ‘I just cannot understand the mentality of someone who does something like that.’ She was talking about the killings. I could. I’d not long come out of a very difficult marriage and had experienced many feelings towards my then husband that were murderous. It wasn’t hard for me to imagine such feelings tipping into action. Why hadn’t they? A large number of factors contributed: a family of origin that was loving and stable and had taught me high moral standards, care for others and the importance of delaying immediate gratification in favour of long-term benefits; an education that had shown me how to think and learn, to articulate, to communicate and to be literate; and a culture that was at peace and was essentially civilised. All of those things and so many more had given me enough within myself to fall back upon when the pressures of life became so extreme that I was driven almost to the end of my tether and could have acted with fatal consequences. What about those who have been brought up in chaos, been abused, programmed to hate and to fight and live in countries where violence has been widespread? What about those who have been so culturally brainwashed that killing innocent people in the name of grossly distorted religious or cultural beliefs is seen as honourable and right? What hope have they when pressure, internal or external, drives them to their limits? Elizabeth Kübler Ross once said: ‘There is both a mother Theresa and a Hitler in every one of us.’ It is all too easy to take the high moral ground when we are comfortable, able and loved within a stable community. I do not condone the recent actions of terrorists and, of course, everything has to be done to try and prevent more of them, and for people to be brought to justice who perpetrate such horrors. It is good and proper that we should refuse to live in fear, supporting the harmed and bereaved, and standing up against terrorism. But what about the deeper causes and the long-term view? If we don’t look at ourselves, at what lies deep within all of us, we will do little more than shuffle the problems of hate and violence from one place to another. If we have never been pushed to the end of our capacities how can we condemn others as being of another species when they crack? We are all capable of doing terrible things if pushed far enough. A great deal of compassion is needed. How do we move forward with intelligent love? I suggest we need to start with ourselves: to honour our gifts and capabilities, to be willing to put them at the service of others and at the same time to admit when we are floundering, mucking up, and needing help. When we can do that for ourselves we can hopefully relate to others in a similar way. If we could all extend this compassion to one another it could ripple out from us into our families, communities and beyond. Then add conflict resolution teaching, mindfulness training and therapeutic interventions for those having suffered traumatic events in their lives, and support for those who are marginalised in our society who struggle to survive. We could change the world. Judy Clinton Gloucestershire Area Meeting the Friend, 8 September 2017 3 News Christian Aid urges flood action Christian AID is highlighting the Asian monsoon region – would been killed and forty million more the effect of climate change in experience greater increases.’ affected by floods. worsening the natural disasters She added: ‘It is a reminder ‘We’ve all seen the terrible impact being experienced in Texas and that we must respond to the floodwater is having in Texas and parts of Asia. immediate humanitarian needs in that is in a country with “first- Madara Hettiarachchi, South Asia while at the same time world” infrastructure,’ Madara Christian Aid’s head of decarbonising the global economy Hettiarachchi said. ‘The people in humanitarianprogrammes for Asia in order to reduce the likelihood South Asia are much less equipped and the Middle East, said that of such events from happening to cope with such a deluge of scientists are increasingly confident again. Until we start to address floodwater. of the links between such events the underlying causes of climate The charity has deployed £45,000 and climate change. ‘Research breakdown we will continue to see of emergency funds and is also by the Massachusetts Institute more human suffering on a massive using a further £200,000 from Irish of Technology suggests that the s c a l e .’ Aid and the DFID-backed START most extreme rain events in most Christian Aid is bringing fund to provide 4,000 households regions of the world will increase in emergency relief to families in with hygiene kits, tarpaulin, shelter intensity by three to fifteen per cent, India, Nepal and Bangladesh as materials an filters to provide safe and some places – such as parts of more than a thousand people have drinking water. Protest outside arms company’s office Members of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and Turkey. protested outside Northrop Grumman’s office in central Saudi Arabia, UAE and Turkey have all faced London on 30 August in opposition to Northrop’s arms criticism over human rights violations. Since an sales to Saudi Arabia and its involvement in the arms international coaltion, led by Saudi Arabia, began air trade. Northrop Grumman is the world’s fifth largest strikes in Yemen, in March 2005, there have been over arms company. It has a longstanding partnership with 10,000 deaths. A famine in the country has resulted in Saudi Arabia and has also supplied weapons to UAE millions of people needing humanitarian aid. Sussex Ride and Stride Quaker Meeting Houses (including Horsham Meeting House, right) will be among the churches and chapels open on Saturday 9 September for the 2017 Sussex Ride and Stride. Organised by Sussex Historic Churches Trust (SHCT), this is a sponsored ride (bike or horse) or walk in which people from all over Sussex walk or cycle between churches, exploring and enjoying the countryside. The aim is to raise money to preserve historic churches, chapels and Meeting houses in the county for future generations by helping to fund urgent repairs and restoration. There is no fixed route, so participants can choose which church or chapel is their start point, which is their end, and how many they visit in between. Fifty per cent of the sponsorship goes directly to participants’ chosen church; the other fifty per cent goes to the SHCT fund. Photo: The Voice of Hassocks / Wikimedia Commons. / of Hassocks Voice The Photo: 4 the Friend, 8 September 2017 reported by Harry Albright [email protected] Texas Friends request prayers FRIENDS IN TEXas affected by Hurricane Harvey are asking Friends in Britain and around the world to pray for them. The home of the pastor at Friendswood Friends Church in the Houston area, the church building and many of the church member’s homes have been flooded. Liz Yeats, the clerk of South Central Yearly Meeting (SCYM), writes: ‘So far Friends in SCYM affected by Harvey are in safe places, no one has suffered injury and [they] are working hard to take care of one another and others.’ She added that ‘first and foremost, Friends in the affected areas are asking for our prayers.’ For Friends who want to give specifically to Friends in need, she said that Live Oak Friends Meeting is discerning whether to set up a fund stewarded by SCYM.
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