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CONTENTS – VOL 168 NO 28 3-5 News 3 Methodists take action to reduce carbon emissions 4 Refurbishments at Friends House 5 Is the word ‘spouse’ archaic? 6 Rethinking BYM Gerald Conyngham 7 Friends and honours Grigor McClelland 8-9 Letters 10-11 Globe day at Bootham 12-13 Reviews 12 Facing the challenge Edward Hoare 13 The new peace politics John Lampen 14-15 Coalition government Michael Bartlet 16 Q-Eye 17 Friends & Meetings

Cover image: The ‘Quakers Affirm Same Sex Marriage’ banner at London Pride on Saturday. Pride aims to raise awareness of discrimination and the issues and difficulties affecting the lives of , , bisexual and (LGBT) people. Photo: Jez Smith. Images on this page: Top, Quakers at in with Quaker Lesbian & Gay Fellowship (QLGF) ’s new banner. The QLGF banner will next appear at Pride on 17 July. Bottom, the banner produced by ‘Faith Communities Support Same-Sex Marriage’ at Pride Scotia. Text by Shaun Swann. Photos: Mark Bitel.

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2 the Friend, 9 July 2010 News Methodists take action to reduce carbon emissions

Solar panels being fitted to Bethseda Methodist Church, Cheltenham. Photos: Mark Boulton.

METHODISTS have become the first large faith group Asked if all Methodists at local level could be in the UK to introduce carbon reduction measures expected to abide by a national decision of this nature, that are binding on all their local churches. They a Methodist Church spokesperson emphasised that have pledged a cut in carbon emissions by 2050. The the Conference that reached the agreement included decision has put pressure on other faith groups to representatives from all over the country. ‘The decision follow suit. has been made by well-informed people,’ she said. Triumph Ayo-Isegun, Methodist projects officer, Sunniva Taylor, sustainability and peace programme described the decision as ‘the first step’ in a ‘long manager at QPSW said, ‘It’s great that the Methodist journey with massive challenges’. Church is making a collective commitment to such The news was warmly welcomed as an ‘exciting cuts.’ initiative’ by Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW). Any similar commitment by Quakers would be a The decision was made at the annual Methodist matter for BYM. Sunniva added, ‘Many Quakers have Conference in Bournemouth last week. Friends as a made substantial efforts to reduce the impact of their whole have not made such a binding commitment, lifestyles. Some have achieved fifty to seventy per cent but sustainability will be a major focus for Quakers at reductions in emissions compared to the national Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) in 2011. average, and have found this to be a joyful and Quakers have already pledged to reduce carbon rewarding experience.’ emissions from Friends’ House by at least ten per cent The environment was not the only controversial during 2010, a commitment shared by a number of subject on the agenda at Methodist Conference. individual Meetings. In addition, Christian Ecology Participants resolved to support a boycott of goods Link allows churches and Meetings to register as ‘eco- from the Occupied Territories in Palestine. The congregations’. Earlier this year, St George’s Anglican Methodist Church also agreed to explore the question Church in Newbury pledged to become Britain’s first of co-habitation, following a request from the Youth carbon-neutral place of worship. Assembly. But the Methodist decision is unusual in involving The Church’s new president, Alison Tomlin, said a national commitment that is binding at local level. that God was calling them to be ‘passionate for justice, Certain energy efficiency measures will become passionate to be peacemakers, passionate to make sure mandatory for church buildings and manses. other people hear how much they are loved’. Methodist regional organisations, known as circuits, will be required to provide smart meter devices. Symon Hill

the Friend, 9 July 2010 3 Meeting for Sufferings reported by Ian Kirk-Smith Is the word ‘spouse’ archaic? Meeting for Sufferings considers revisions to chapter 16 of Quaker faith & practice

THE STRUGGLE to find broadly acceptable, and burden of progress. And yet a word such as ‘partner’ meaningful, terminology to use in documents was not weighty enough. Friends were grappling with and records has been a defining characteristic of the truth that words force us to make decisions and, Quakerism. It is an important, challenging and at often, to take sides, sometimes in a situation where the times very sensitive issue, especially in the times we overwhelming desire is a seeking of unity. live in. A Friend stressed that she had a passionate longing In the consideration of the revision of chapter for ‘God’s blessing’ for any relationship and that it 16 (Quaker Marriage Procedure) of Quaker Faith was not just about having a spiritual but a religious and Practice at Sufferings the Church Government validation. Advisory Group sought general guidance on two ‘I hope,’ she said, ‘we do not listen to the word but points. to the spirit. We should say clearly as Quakers that The first concerned the harmonisation of time and these relationships, which we celebrate in our Meeting place of solemnisation and the houses, are beloved of God.’ But second related to the wording she remained silent on the s- that would be in a Quaker word. Spouse or not? marriage declaration. ‘Friends were Another Friend stressed Guidance was sought from that the Religious Society of Sufferings. A further draft grappling with the Friends had a deeper, stronger, would be completed for religious understanding of the October 2010 and this should truth that words force word ‘equality’ than some other be forwarded for a decision to groups and hoped that Friends be made at Yearly Meeting in us to make decisions would be free to chose what 2011. words they wished, including There was agreement that and, often, to take the words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’. there should be consistency A Friend said that he had in considering the issue of the sides, sometimes in a been at a union where both harmonisation of time and people referred to themselves as place for the solemnisation of a situation where the ‘wives’. It was a delightful event. marriage. ‘I feel,’ a Friend said, ‘that we Contributions also overwhelming desire is are having the same discussion demonstrated unity in the room as we had when considering the on an old fashioned view: the a seeking of unity’ word “marriage”. A lot of people, application of a good old dose who did not have access to of ‘common sense’ to individual that word, were annoyed. They cases and the use of a degree of flexibility where it was wanted access to the word. I really hope that we can helpful. find terms that are appropriate for all relationships.’ For one Friend the word ‘spouse’ was unacceptable. She was moving towards the feeling of the Meeting, It was archaic. It was just too ‘old-fashioned’. Another that Friends would have the freedom to make their Friend suggested that some young people about to get own choice. married, such as his daughter and future son-in-law, It was also recommended, in putting forward did not find it so. Did it pass the test, another Friend suggestions for alternative wording, ‘to help those who said, of ‘equality and consistency’? have difficulty with theistic language’ that there be an For some Friends the baggage associated with alternative phrase to ‘through divine assistance’ and ‘theistic’ language is simply too heavy to carry the ‘with God’s help’.

4 the Friend, 9 July 2010 [email protected] Refurbishments at Friends House

THE PROSPECT of financially challenging times is on space for lettings. the horizon for both society and the Religious Society There was also a commitment to appoint an of Friends. architect to do preliminary work that will ‘enable us to It is a difficult time for Britain Yearly Meeting carry our refurbishment of the Large Meeting house (BYM) committees as they adjust their programmes of at some stage in the next five years, if funds allow. This work to comply with ‘A Framework for Action 2009- gets us back on track after a year on hold.’ 14’ and indicate how they would respond should the The aim is to carry out a modest upkeep, which is current level of resourcing become difficult to sustain. within budget, and that will ‘carry us over until a more The key is to ensure that resources are used to substantial refurbishment can take place in a few years optimum effect if the centrally managed work is to time. We are edging forward.’ continue at its present level. Jonathan Fox, clerk to Britain Yearly Meeting trustees, said that the financial report to the end of Quaker UN Office in Geneva April confirms that: ‘we are within expected levels of THE GOVERNANCE of Quaker United Nations income and expenditure at this stage of the year and Office in Geneva is complex and the financial are expecting a net deficit at the end of the year.’ contribution of BYM to the work is quite a substantial He said that there was a commitment to spend part of QPSW’s budget. It is work that many Friends £1.45 million of funds, within budget and in place in feel committed to but results necessarily come slowly. the ‘property upkeep fund’, ‘on reconfiguring the office Jonathan Fox said: ‘We have agreed to continue to accommodation within Friends House, about which support the work for a period of time, which will staff have been consulted.’ These changes will increase enable QPSW to carry out a proper review.’

Putting criminal justice on the Yearly Meeting agenda

FRIENDS HAVE BEEN URGED to prepare a strong A Friend encouraged us to talk about forgiveness Quaker voice for Yearly Meeting in 2011 on the subject and attitudes to punishment. Our society, she said, of the criminal justice system. ‘was ugly. The way criminal justice works and the way Friends House received a response from the UK our penal system works, or rather doesn’t work, was Border Agency in reply to a letter sent to the former making our society ugly.’ minister of justice about the detention of children and The proposed government cutbacks were asylum seekers. highlighted and their effect on the criminal justice Meeting for Sufferings were told: ‘We are glad system should be, a Friend argued, an important to hear that the present government is committed subject of concern next year for Britain Yearly Meeting. to ending the detention of children and that it is conducting an urgent review. A Quaker contribution to that review has already been sent in.’ The clerk was asked to communicate with the Yearly Meeting Gathering 2011 minister of justice welcoming his recent statement theme announced to reduce the use of prison sentences and drawing his attention to relevant Quaker work in areas such ‘GROWING IN THE SPIRIT – changing the way we as restorative justice and in Circles of Support and live to sustain the world we live in’ is the theme for Accountability. Yearly Meeting Gathering in Canterbury in 2011. This letter should be made available for Friends to The subject of sustainability will be a key focus use in communicating with their local MPs. Friends for Friends for the next year and preparation for are urged to act on this issue. Canterbury 2011 has already started.

the Friend, 9 July 2010 5 Opinion Rethinking BYM

Gerald Conyngham says that the 2011 Yearly Meeting Gathering is an ideal opportunity to use a new approach to our decision-making

RITAIN YEARLY MEETING (BYM) plays a could have groups looking at different aspects key role in the life of the Society. At its best including visioning a more sustainable future, actions real discernment takes place and important to bring that about and how our lives would change if decisions affecting our future are taken, we were truly living out our Testimonies. This model Bsometimes radical ones as happened last year at Yearly would enable young people to influence the Society Meeting Gathering (YMG). in more than the present token way, in which their minutes are simply read out at BYM after a minute However, this year something seems to have been has already been agreed by the adults. Young people lacking in terms of energy and passion. So have we could come up with their ideas that, alongside other reached the point where we should ask some serious groups, could be fed into the main sessions, through a questions about the way it operates? Is the model of representative from the group. input, discussion, discernment and agreeing a minute, all in a large group, the right way to approach every Because discussion had already taken place in issue? This particularly applies to general topics we smaller groups, there would be less need for a had this year such as celebrating our prolonged debate in the large group. work and engaging with the political ‘This year The agenda would need to be more process. Last year so much time was flexible to allow new ideas to emerge, spent on the same-sex issue that there something seems rather than having everything planned was no time for other important topics months in advance. such as climate change to be brought to have been to the large group despite the fact that All this has particular implications there were at least ten workshops on lacking in terms for the way the Agenda Committee do this topic. their work. But I think the Society is of energy and ready for change. When we evaluate BYM, we hear from those who attend and therefore passion’ The key components of the Quaker are mostly committed to the way BYM Business Method would still remain presently works. We do not hear the views of Quakers when it comes to discerning the right way forward but who do not go, many of whom might welcome re- some of the ground work would have been carried out energised sessions. before. I hope too that Quakers may be less obsessed with fine-tuning the minute if we really believe, as was Next year we have another YMG. I believe that this said at this year’s BYM, that it is our lives that are the is an ideal opportunity to try out a slightly different real minutes. approach: issues that are discussed at the gathering Changes like this may re-invigorate BYM to the can be brought to Yearly Meeting in session. The two point that journalists might really want to attend. parts could be properly integrated rather than running separately, as happened last year.

The topic for the gathering is sustainability. We Gerald is a member of Devon Area Meeting.

6 the Friend, 9 July 2010 Friends and honours Grigor McClelland relates some twists and turns in his award of a medal

LARE DIMYON has explained (25 June) considered if I would undertake not to refuse again. I why, despite reservations, she has accepted had a weekend to consider this, finally deciding that, an honour. I have once declined, once in consideration of my associates in the sector, I would accepted, once returned, and once accepted accept. (My wife said: ‘I thought you were more of a Cthe return of an honour, and the reasons for my Quaker than that,’ but came to accept the decision.) different decisions may help further to illustrate the perplexities in this field, for Quakers and others with A CBE was duly offered. My wife, a daughter and a like reservations. granddaughter joined me at the palace.

As chair of the Washington New Town Development Some years later, the UK was about to invade Iraq. Corporation (a quasi non-governmental organisation I opposed this and was anxious to do whatever I responsible to the Department of the Environment), could to prevent it. I thought of organising a public in due course I became the chair of the ‘Chairmen’s statement, signed by people with a KBE (knight Conference’ comprised of all new town chairpersons. commander of the British empire), a CBE (myself), This led to a letter from a civil servant, in effect an OBE (officer of the British empire) and an MBE offering me a CBE (commander of the British empire). (member of the British empire), which I thought might together carry some weight. However, events One sound reason for acceptance of an honour moved too fast for that. It seemed right to return the is the pleasure it may give to all who are associated medal. A friend notified the local press, who carried a with the organisation represented, and the additional news column about it. prestige enjoyed by the organisation itself, which may help in achieving its aims. However, the Washington I received a letter dated 9 April 2003 from 10 Corporation was shortly to have its existence Downing Street, referring to my covering letter brought to an end, which greatly weakened these ‘concerning your feelings about the war in Iraq’. It considerations and strengthened my decision to stated: ‘The prime minister is sorry that you felt it decline the offer. necessary to return your medal in protest, but he does, of course, respect your wishes… As you know, At that time offer letters were so written as to [I didn’t] if at any time you wish to have the medal assume acceptance and make it difficult to know how returned, it will be sent to you on request.’ to frame a refusal. I therefore did not reply, until I got a phone call from the writer, who appeared astounded Six years later the UK effectively withdrew all its when I explained that I had no intention of accepting. troops from Iraq and on my request the medal was promptly returned. This led to further publicity for the Some years later I was phoned by a friend with Quaker position on war and honours. whom I had worked closely in the voluntary sector in Newcastle. He told me that several associates wished I hope that circumstances do not arise in which Clare to put forward my name for an honour, but had been Dimyon feels it necessary to return her honour, but that told by the local lord lieutenant that I had turned if they do, she will be able to use the event to further one down before and a further offer would only be her aims, and perhaps later feel able to reclaim it.

the Friend, 9 July 2010 7 Letters All views expressed are those of the writer and not necessarily those of the Friend

Pedantry? God’s love comes before man-made laws. David Keating (2 July) should not think himself I believe that Friends’ tolerance, niceness and their pedantic for merely righting what was clearly wrong. effort to see both sides are not and cannot be Quakers’ Pedantic means being rigid about silly shibboleths Achilles’ heel – to me these same things display the like never splitting an infinitive or ending a sentence essence of Christianity. I believe that in attempting to with a preposition. It may be unreasonable to be tolerant, loving and thoughtful, Friends are walking expect everyone to know how to conjugate verbs in in the footsteps of Jesus. seventeenth-century style, but those who don’t should Regarding belief in the tenets mentioned in the steer clear of such choppy waters in the first place. comment – the ‘miracle of Christ’s conception and A worse example than ‘What we canst say’ – worse birth and the redeeming power of his death on the because less ephemeral than the pages of the Friend cross’, I am happy for those people who find that – occurs on a war memorial in the Isle of Wight (I belief in those matters deepens their relationship with forget where, but did photograph it) that includes the their God, but I know of many who find that focusing line ‘Their name shall liveth for ever more’. More sadly, attention on those things can be a distraction from the first line carved on the tombstone of James Bulger, creating a relationship with their God. Quakers leave which I recently saw on the television news, begins each person to decide what helps them with their ‘Not a day goes by that we think of you and cry…’ The relationship with God, and that is how it should be. intended sense was evidently ‘Not a day goes by but Manda Bates we think of you and cry…’ It seems more tragic than Jersey Meeting unfortunate that whoever drafted the text wrote the exact opposite of what they meant to say. Ruth Milne’s article ‘Christian Discipline?’ was like a Reverting to the Friend, I ground my teeth at a breath of fresh air in honest Quakerly style. heading in the post-Yearly Meeting Q-Eye page, where She highlighted among other matters the alarming a photo of two similar and easily mistaken Friends was intolerance that has emerged at times in Britain Yearly barbarously headed ‘Who is Whom?’ You don’t need Meeting. This among the very Friends who claim to to know that ‘to be’ takes a complement, not a direct abhor intolerance themselves. Those who wish to see object, to recognise intuitively that that should have the Bible banished from our tables; the title ‘Religious’ read ‘Who is Who?’, or, more fluently, ‘Who’s Who?’ removed from the title ‘Religious Society…’ (previous Does it matter? Well, look at it this way. If you don’t letter to the Friend); the word ‘Worship’ removed from write correct English you won’t upset readers who also ‘Meetings for Worship’ (ditto); the cross removed from don’t write correct English, but you run the risk of publications. How does all this fit with the Quaker alienating those who do, and to that extent will fail to concept of inclusiveness? get your message across. But this is not about how Christian we are as a There’s a nice anecdote about the first-time Yearly Meeting but something even more fundamental successful author who sent his publisher an email that strikes at the very reason Quakers ever came into reading: ‘What offer for 100,000 words?’ The publisher existence and why we have any relevance today. The replied: ‘Which words and in what order?’ misconception has arisen that a lack of creed equates Right ordering, Friends, not pedantry; that’s what with a lack of belief. If you take away some form of it’s all about. belief in something beyond the material world what David Parlett are you left with other than another Humanist Society, Croydon Meeting composed indeed of some rather ‘nice’ people. John Gamlin Christian discipline? West Somerset Area Meeting Ruth Milne (25 June) seems to think that modern Quakers are not Christian enough; she says she is Britain Yearly Meeting’s 2006 epistle gave Meeting for ‘inclined to think that “Quakerism” itself has seriously Sufferings its new and current role. It started with the lost its way’. I could not disagree more. advice: ‘Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings Before I discovered Quakers I would describe myself, of love and truth in your hearts. Trust them as the if asked about religion, as an early Christian. Jesus leadings of God’. It continued: ‘Now that we have showed me an example of how to live – that people relieved… Meeting for Sufferings of the detailed work can and should have a direct relationship with their of trusteeship, we have freed it to take on a visionary God, that we should love and be tolerant towards and prophetic role for the life of the Yearly Meeting, each other, and that the labels that people carry (race, to draw our whole community together and to release religion, occupation) are not important, but that how the synergy we create, to work better for the world.’ a person lives their life is. The message of Jesus is that It concluded: ‘We leave this Yearly Meeting… with a

8 the Friend, 9 July 2010 [email protected]

new sense of direction and a renewed commitment to spoke warmly of Britain Yearly Meeting’s work on the cooperating with the loving purposes of God.’ During Equality Bill, mentioning that We Are But Witnesses the Yearly Meeting sessions, Meeting for Sufferings was had been published in full in their magazine All God’s likened to being a crucible. Children, and showing us the half page ‘Let’s get a In his definitive history of early Friends, Beginnings few things straight about gay marriage’ ad placed of Quakerism’, WC Braithwaite writes: ‘In identifying by Quaker Peace & Social Witness in their current religion on the one hand with personal communion edition. We had several interesting conversations and with God and on the other with a life of practical exchanges of information and views with our co- righteousness, Friends were closely associating stallers and others who came up to the stall. themselves with the spirit of primitive Christianity At the same time, one of us stood in the sun of and with the type of religion that we call prophetic Trafalgar Square with a Quaker banner and some and ‘charismatic’, by contrast with the priestly and leaflets, and engaged with a large number of interested institutional type… Quakerism has always been passers-by. The day felt like a true experience of what distinctly “prophetic” in character.’ can happen if one opens up to the Spirit. We came away In turn, Meeting for Sufferings minuted: ‘We with a sense of pride in what is unique about Quakers understand that a crucible is a melting pot. Reactions and at the same time a greater sense of the power of take place, and something different emerges. Being coming together in love across the perceived divides. a crucible means that Meeting for Sufferings should Hock and Julia Lim become a vehicle for transformation, of ourselves and Forest Hill Meeting of the Society as a whole. There should be room for exciting change. Meeting for Sufferings should offer On 3 July I joined twenty-five or so others on the spiritual leadings. We should seek the leadings of God, Pride London parade marching (and sometimes and ask how God is working among us.’ dancing!) behind the beautiful Quaker banner This is our mission statement – our collective designed by Caroline Jariwala. While I had been to Christian discipline. Pride in previous years, this time was special. Geoffrey Braithwaite In the course of a long, curling route through St Albans Meeting central London, we passed many thousands of spectators. Many of them seemed aware of Friend’s Proud Quakers decision to conduct same-sex marriages – we were We would like to share our experience of outreach at consistently greeted with cheers, shouts of ‘thank you’, Pride London on Saturday 3 July. London Quakers had ‘well done the Quakers’ and so on. At one point, a a successful stall at Pride 2009 and hoped to repeat this, group of heavily tattooed men saw our arrival, stopped particularly in light of Yearly Meeting’s 2009 decision singing, put down their beer cans, looked me in the on same-sex marriage and subsequent work on Waheed eye and quietly applauded. While I acknowledged Alli’s Equality Bill amendment. Pride were unable to them, I remembered the depth of our worship in York confirm a stall for us this year, but things were chaotic last summer, the moving vocal ministry, the tender on the day, and we visited the Leicester Square site with clerking, my own silent prayers and the transforming, our materials, in the hope of finding a free stall. life-affirming, power of a gathered Meeting. We were generously offered space at the Lesbian I then cried a few tears, for I was indeed a ‘Proud and Gay Christian Movement’s (LGCM) stall. The Quaker’. people on the stall were members of the Metropolitan Nick Rendle Community Church (MCC), an evangelical church Muswell Hill Meeting whose website says it has ‘a primary ministry in gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities, providing the safe environment of an accepting congregation where people can find God’s Send letters to: Letters to the editor, the Friend, salvation, personal support, spiritual growth and 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ Email: [email protected] Please include your full postal guidance toward health and wholeness’. The stall address and telephone number and a reference (issue, had information from a wide range of Christian title) to articles. Please indicate whether you prefer organisations supporting gay and lesbian Christians. your address, email or Meeting or other detail to be We had never heard of LGCM or MCC, and would published with your name. We reserve the right to not necessarily have decided to place ourselves here, edit letters. but quickly decided that a way had been opened. It Subscribers can also comment on individual articles was an entirely positive experience: we were made on the website. welcome. Their press officer was on the stall and

the Friend, 9 July 2010 9 Learning Globe day at Bootham

undreds of pupils at Bootham School see that the actions of others have deprived them of in York came face to face with the lunch or a good pudding!’ consequences of global capitalism last week. They were taking part in an unusual ‘The first time we played it, we had people migrating Hand innovative game as part of the school’s focus on between countries to avoid destitution. There were ‘Globe Day’. thefts. One family found that it paid to sell a family member as a slave worker. Then we had others solving ‘A Dangerous Game’ was invented by Mark their difficulties by recycling and co-operating. Robinson, Bootham’s head of chemistry. ‘It’s a role- play game,’ he said, ‘where students run the world and ‘The game is a way to get the pupils to think in feel the real consequences of their own and others’ geo-political terms,’ said Mark Robinson. ‘They are actions. Today’s oil slicks in the USA and the famine prompted to think about the wider implications of beginning now in the Sahel had echoes here in York global warming. I wanted to create a game that would for the pupils.’ simulate what might happen in the real world as climate change has more effect; so the game does a fast A key to the game is its realism. If things go badly forward through the next fifty years with pupils able to participants can end up without a decent lunch or in make the choices that could influence the world.’ a refugee tent in the school grounds with a handful of rice. If things go well they can get a great lunch, ‘The game is amazingly open-ended; we have few luxuries and even cash! rules and we don’t have one intended outcome. We have students leading countries trying to fend off a ‘While I am not a Quaker, the values of Quakerism flood of refugees, while in others the student leaders are very important to me,’ said Mark. ‘They are a manage to reach a way of working so that everyone definite influence on the game. It is also a wonderful gets a decent lunch.’ way of ending the summer term as a community. All lessons are suspended and everyone who can takes The game has been played at a climate change part.’ conference at a university in South Africa. It created huge controversy and so touched a nerve among one Around 300 pupils were involved in the game. They group who played it that it re-ignited inter-racial were split up into different ‘worlds’ with sixty people grievances and caused some upset. It was, however, in each world. Each world had three countries: a rich considered to be one of the highlights in the post nation, a poor nation and an emerging economy, conference feedback. These were then divided up into smaller groups: ‘families’ of four or five people. ‘The changes are in the hands of the pupils,’ said Mark. ‘They have to make choices and each choice has ‘The pupils have to work together to make wealth consequences. I wanted them to experience what it is or just to survive, but their decisions could have big like being excluded – to have empathy with the poor effects for other people. They can decide to work for in a refugee camp. This is what global warming will themselves or to do what is best for the whole world,’ bring to some people. So they are made to identify said Mark. with people, with their situation, with the choices they have to make.’ The choices are about resources and how they are distributed. Pupils must negotiate to make choices that During ‘Globe Day’ at Bootham there were a host of benefit everybody. That requires negotiation. So each other activities including African drumming, painting, group has an ambassador. tree planting and cooking in the ways of rain-forest dwellers. ‘It is quite nasty at times. In some ways participants are being rewarded for being selfish. That is like the real world. There is always the potential for good and Visit www.boothamschool.com to download a copy of for bad. Some students get very caught up when they the game.

10 the Friend, 9 July 2010 Elle McKee, 15. ‘We were wondering whether to sell one of our family who wasn’t a good worker. I learned that if you start off in the rich world everything just goes better for you all the time. If you’re in a poor country it’s hard for you.’

Howard Hung, 16. ‘We had to think out of the box. We were a third world country; we didn’t have to think morally, we just had to survive using any tricks we could think of. I bribed the supervisor $3 not to imprison someone in my family who had stolen.’

Caitlin Borthwick, 17. ‘I was an ambassador, working out whether to play the nice guy or play mean. Sutherland were playing dirty, but I made an alliance with the rich country and they gave us money. It was amazing how much difference we could make by going renewable. The game was a lot of fun. It opened my eyes.’

Jake Huxell, 15. ‘We had to close our borders because people kept coming to steal. In the end we pooled our money to the richest family so they could win. I learned that you’ve got to work to survive.’

Amelia Houghton Fawkes, 15. ‘I recycled and stole because it was the only way to survive. The main challenge was just to get a meal. I’d recommend the game because it makes you aware – we were so desperate in a poor country [once climate change kicked in].’

Henry McGregor, 15. ‘I learned that things can change really easily: one decision can change it all and you start picking sides. It was really enjoyable. We should do it every year.’

Solomon Lyon, 15. ‘I learned that it’s unfair to be in a third world country. I’d recommend the game because it really works so well. It gives you a good picture of how the world ticks – how difficult it will be for third-world countries.’

Ellie Coupe, 15. ‘We all had ideas about how to survive, but there were so many choices. I was traded as a slave working as an illegal worker for a family in a rich country. It highlighted the world problems in a short amount of time.’

the Friend, 9 July 2010 11 Reviews Facing the challenge: The Friends Quarterly prize essays

e have a Both Simon Best and Felicity Kaal write of the need stark choice for a more thorough preparation for membership. before us. The consequence of having no standard is that Are we going ‘the Meeting conforms to the vision of those it has Wto actively address the key admitted’ (Patricia Loring quoted by Simon Best). issues that face us in the The importance of training for eldership also comes twenty-first century and to the fore. In 1992 I had a grant from the Joseph bring our Quaker way to Rowntree Charitable Trust to visit a number of bear on them, corporately Monthly Meetings offering a workshop for elders. It and individually? Or will soon became apparent that many felt ill-prepared to we simply be taken over by discharge the duties laid upon them in Quaker faith & them and let Quakerism practice 12.12. Although some had attended a weekend become obsolete. workshop, there had been little or no emphasis upon the sharing of faith even between themselves. As So begins Linda Simon Best writes: ‘Sharing is vital to our Quaker Murgatroyd’s prize- faith.’ Elders need to be prepared to offer ‘Meetings winning essay. Her work, which is attractively for Listening’ such as described in This is who I am: illustrated and professionally presented, would make Listening with older Friends (volume 9 of the Eldership a popular choice for the winter discussion groups but & Oversight handbook series). Outreach is pointless it is when we turn to the essays of Simon Best and unless there are those in Meetings able to mentor Felicity Kaal that we get to grips with the question incomers. ‘As Friends, we need to reaffirm the place ‘What urgent action do we need to take?’ For action of spiritual authority, direction and leadership in our is surely needed. ‘We have become shallow, a flatland’ shared life ensuring this is not conferred on those in saying things like: ‘Anyone can become an elder’, or: positions of organisational authority but recognises ‘The distinction between members and attenders is the different ministries of individuals within our elitist, let’s treat everyone the same’ (Felicity Kaal). community’ (Simon Best).

Quakerism is an experience-based religion and the The three essays are different. Linda Murgatroyd’s cause of our disarray is, I believe, due to our having approach being a broad overview, Felicity Kaal’s glossed over that fact when admitting others to straight to the point and Simon Best’s showing the membership. To be a Quaker implied that one had had frustration and insight of a younger Friend. This a convincing experience of the reality of the Spirit at review can only provide a taste of a rich offering. work in one’s life, and accepted the challenge to live up Will the words be listened to? How will they be to what one was called to do. transformed into action? Will we, in our Meetings read them and press for action? Perhaps the way Today many of those in membership have joined will become clearer following the review weekend at not as a result of becoming convinced but have been Woodbrooke at the end of July. attracted to the Society for more secular reasons. As Edward Hoare Felicity Kaal writes: ‘We have slipped into not talking about religious belief for fear of offending others. In Copies of The Friends Quarterly containing the winning the process we have lost a clear sense of who we are as essays for use by discussion groups are available at half Quakers’. Quaker work in the world arises from our price of £2.50 (minimum five copies). Please see order spiritual practice and it is this that distinguishes it form on page 19. For details of the Friends Quarterly from the social activism of a humanist organisation. Woodbrooke weekend see www.woodbrooke.org.uk.

12 The new peace politics

From Pacification to Roman empire: ‘They make a wilderness and call it Peacebuilding by Diana Francis. peace.’ Pluto Press. ISBN 978 0 7453 3026 6. £13.99. Diana accepts that in reality this polarity is not so sharp, but it clarifies the issue. She concedes to Paul received this book for Lacey that occasionally we can see no alternative review together with to violence – but this should not deter us from Paul Lacey’s Swarthmore proclaiming that pacification is ultimately ineffective Lecture The unequal world because it is based on self-perpetuating violence and Iwe inhabit . Paul argued that does not heal the underlying hurts. Friends have made nonviolence a shibboleth; if we take seriously She and her peacebuilding colleagues often feel the ‘responsibility to protect’ people threatened by like small drops trying to move against the prevailing violence, we must accept the principle of using force moral current in a large sea. But there are stronger sometimes. Diana Francis challenges this reasoning elements also moving our way, the many ‘movements’ with arguments rooted in moral sensitivity and wide for freedom, rights and participation. Some of peaceworking experience. these, from Eastern Europe to the Philippines, have transformed regimes. She urges an alliance between Diana identifies two opposing philosophies: movements and conflict transformation professionals, pacification suppresses conflicts and imposes order pressing for a new politics. through military and economic control, while peacebuilding encourages groups and nations to The book is rich in topics (gender oppression, evolve their own harmonious solutions. This may colonialism, changing cultures, donor power, misused seem unrealistic, but it is widespread and effective language) rigorously examined. It is condensed and in the ordinary business of life and has seldom been could be a tough read for anyone unfamiliar with tested in international peacemaking. ‘Pursuing our the field. (The case studies to bring it alive are in responsibility for each other’s wellbeing through Diana’s earlier People, Peace and Power.) But this is an violence is a desperate and contradictory way of important book, a vision of a peaceful world coupled building peace’ and pacification easily slips into war, as with practical steps towards realising it. Kosovo and Afghanistan show. Moreover it is almost John Lampen always tainted by the self-interest of those powers strong enough to enforce it. As Tacitus said of the John is a member of Central England Area Meeting. Residents of Abyei march to march Residents celebrate of Abyei the decision of the Court Permanent of Arbitration that ruled on the boundaries Area of the after the two Abyei parties the to Agreement referred case the to Comprehensive Peace the Tim court McKulka/UN Photo. according Road Map. to Abyei Photo:

the Friend, 9 July 2010 13 Politics Coalition government

Everything must change so that everything can remain the same Tancredi in Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Leopard

he first coalition for sixty years, the election leader’s determination to make addressing climate of Britain’s first Green MP and a race for the change an issue that defines his relationship with leadership of the opposition that includes a his Conservative predecessors. But where will the black woman MP gives parliamentary politics investment come from to turn these aspirations into Ta different dynamic to the end game of the last Labour new industry and jobs? government. On economic issues our testimony to equality can In coalitions, tone and substance can affect each invigorate political debate. In times of austerity the other. In the crucible of government will the two need for justice is sharper than in years of boom. chemicals of Liberal Democrat and Conservative Maintaining a commitment to abolish child poverty policies fuse as a new compound or will they separate by 2020 is of great symbolic importance. Will the in a vote of no confidence? The fact of consultation appointment of Labour MP Frank Field to lead an can change the policies – there is independent review into poverty in a need for a constant conversation On civil liberties Britain find ways of meeting that within government. We are likely to aim? see more consultations and maybe the government more inquiries. Richard Wilkinson and Kate offers a fresh Pickett, in their book The Spirit Level, On civil liberties the government have highlighted the detriment caused offers a fresh start. The coalition has start. The by inequality, not just to the poorest scrapped plans for identity cards. but to us all – more equal societies It is committed to restore rights to coalition has are healthier, happier, better educated, nonviolent protest and has promised have lower rates of crime and greater to end the detention of children scrapped plans for trust than unequal societies. David for asylum purposes. There is a Cameron, in his Guardian speech possibility here to contribute to a identity cards before the election, applauded their government review. work. But if poor people lose their jobs they are going to get poorer. If new houses are not On the environment, the government has cancelled built it is the poor who will be homeless first. When plans for a third runway at Heathrow, is setting up VAT rises to twenty per cent, proportionately who will a green investment bank and is working towards it affect most? an agreement on cutting EU carbon emissions by thirty per cent by 2020. In these areas Liberal In the scrutiny of military policy the peace Democrat thinking has amplified the Conservative testimony offers a distinctive Quaker voice. The

14 the Friend, 9 July 2010 All smiles: Nick Clegg (left) and David Cameron at their first press conference together as deputy prime minister and prime minister. Photo number10gov/flickr CC. cancellation of a replacement for Trident would Afghanistan features prominently in annals of indicate the seriousness of the UK commitment to the British regiments. In none of its three previous Afghan Non Proliferation Treaty and incidentally save billions wars has Britain been victorious. Perhaps if the UK of pounds. Yet the nuclear arsenal has not been can learn not just from their experiences of Northern included in the strategic defence review. Ireland but of the nineteenth century ‘great game’ it can bring the soft power of diplomacy to helping the There may be more opportunity of being heard International Security Assistance Forces withdraw on the issue of recruitment where many Liberal from an unrealistic mandate in Afghanistan today. Democrats have supported proposals to raise the minimum age to eighteen. This step would help ensure The new foreign secretary, William Hague, has that only those who have made an informed decision announced an inquiry into allegations that UK – as an adult – would enlist in the armed forces. security services have been complicit in torture overseas. This will include allegations that Ethiopian- It is not primarily the soldiers but those deploying born Binyam Mohamed was tortured in Pakistan, them who need to be held to account. The UK Morocco and Afghanistan before being transferred to presence in Afghanistan has already cost the lives of Guantanamo Bay. Will this inquiry offer the catharsis over 300 British soldiers alone. In the aftermath of of a fresh start or will we have to wait another forty the Iraq war thousands were detained without trial. years before a justice of the Supreme Court examines Degrading treatment – rightly condemned by general the prevalence of torture in Iraq and extraordinary Mike Jackson – at Britain’s Basra base mirrored the rendition from the battle fields Afghanistan in a mid- experience of Abu Ghraib. There have been allegations twenty-first century Saville Inquiry ? that the UK seized insurgents in Afghanistan and handed them over to the Afghan authorities to torture. A Ministry of Defence assurance that ‘experience Michael is parliamentary secretary of Britain Yearly of UK forces does not suggest that torture is used Meeting and is a member of Westminster Meeting. He routinely to extract confessions’ does not particularly is co-author of Nonsense on Stilts? A Quaker view of inspire confidence. human rights.

the Friend, 9 July 2010 15 Eye [email protected]

convicts aboard the Rajah as they were being Approach to prayer transported to Van Diemen’s Land (present day Tasmania). Elizabeth Fry’s social reform initiative TONY BALDRY MP told the Church Times last week: donated sewing equipment to create what is now the ‘My approach to prayer is very much the result of a only transportation quilt in a national collection, Quaker education. It tends to be silence, clearing my never before shown outside Australia. The Friend has mind, seeking to achieve calmness and then, hopefully, plans for a feature on the quilt and we would welcome being moved by the Spirit. I still go to Meeting input on ideas for complementary articles. sometimes, and that helps me to participate more easily with other faith groups.’ The former Leighton Park pupil is the government’s new second church estates commissioner (there are The stage as a mirror three). They represent the church commissioners in EYE SPOTTED Margaret Beckett MP at the theatre general Synod. this week, watching ‘Women, Power & Politics: Now’, Tony has the job of answering to parliament for a series of five short plays. The first, Acting Leader, by the business of the commissioners. The church Joy Wilkinson is about Margaret’s situation after the commissioners manage the historic property assets of death of Labour leader John Smith in 1994 and her the Church of England. candidacy for leadership of the party. Eye wonders what it must be like seeing yourself portrayed on stage. Voulez-vous jouer votre Footprints for outreach vuvuzela? LEWES QUAKERS turned a potential problem into an opportunity for outreach. A statue of Tom Paine close to the Meeting house was to be unveiled on Sunday 4 July (celebration of American independence), at the same time as Meeting for Worship. Our Friend Bob Booth takes up the story: ‘With the agreement of Lewes council, laminated card “footprints” stuck to the ground led from the library to the Meeting house where there was a welcome with refreshments. Each footprint had a quote of Tom Paine’s with its eighteenth century date – often from his books Common Sense and the Rights of Man.’ About 100 visitors took the opportunity to visit the Two England fans get to grips with their vuvuzela. Quakers. Photo: Phillie Casablanca/flickr CC:BY.

THE FOLLOWING NOTICE appeared in the foyer of Bournemouth Meeting House during the weekend: ‘Please refrain from bringing your vuvuzela into Meeting’. Apparently, ‘this was a pre-emptive notice demonstrating topical awareness in world affairs, rather than a reaction to ministry during Meeting for Worship,’ our Friend-in-the-know tells Eye. Quaker quilt ‘I’M SURE MANY FRIENDS have seen the quilt exhibition at the V & A museum in London,’ Linda Green of Llandrindod & Pales Meeting tells Eye. It contains the ‘Rajah Quilt’, made in 1841 by women

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