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A Holy Experiment in the Interior: AFSC's Central Region at Age Fifty Quaker Seeking: Do We Ever Find Anything? Identity, Authority, and Community An Among Friends Independent magazine serving the Toward the Future Religious arly in 1998, Vinton Deming announced his intention to retire as editor­ Society of manager ofFRIENDSJ oURNAL. Our board of managers accepted Vim's letter Friends Ewith regret and set about the task of seeking our next editor-manager. A Search Committee worked through the summer. From a shon list of six applicants, two Editorial Vinton Deming (Editor-Manager), Kenneth Sutton excellent candidates were presented to be interviewed by the whole board in October. (Senior Editor), Claudia Wair (Assistant Editor), After deep searching the board reached unity in making an appointment, which I am Judith Brown (Poetry Editor), Maria Gargiulo pleased to announce to the readership at this time. (Intern) The new editor-manager is Susan M. Corson-Finneny. 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6 Quaker Seeking: Do We Ever Find Anything? 2 Among Friends Stanford J. Searle Jr. Interviews with 21 Friends give shape to our ideas ofhow (and 4 Forum what) Quakers seek. 22 Life in the Meeting 9 A Holy Experiment in the Interior: 24 Witness AFSC's Central Region at Age Fifty 25 Reports and Epistles Deborah Fink The work ofthe American Friends Service Committee Central 30 News Region reflects both the heartland ofthe United States and the heart 31 Bulletin Board ofQuaker service. 12 Hannah Whitall Smith: 32 Books The Inner Voice and Morbid Conscience 35 Milestones Dolores L. Noll 37 Classified One ofthe best-selling Christian writers in the English language was raised as a Friend 16 Identity, Authority, and Community Poetry Annis Bleeke and Carole Spencer Two Friends discuss the Friends World Committee for 8 Suspended Animation Consultation-sponsored gathering in july 1997 in Birmingham, Margo Waring England, exploring our identity as Friends and related topics. 21. Coltrane Greg Bamford

Cover woodcut ofTwin Cities (Minn.) Meetinghouse by Bill Myers

Participants In an International Student Seminar hosted by the American Friends Service Committee's Central Region In Denver, Colo., 1950

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How much technology? That Friend speaks my mind and he does it very ably. Having lived abroad in When it comes to consumerism, Nonh S.E. Asia, I have wimessed the present American Quakers do a pretty good job of global gulf berween rich and poor. Our staying behind the Joneses. That is, of technology and the grossly materialistic course, if we are comparing ourselves to culture that it reflects and engenders are Nonh American Joneses. On the whole, hugely divisive, I believe. The environmental we drive smaller, more fuel-efficient cars, concerns are every bit as worrisome. As we we dress more simply, our houses tend to become more enmeshed in a technological be more modestly furnished. way of life, our attitudes towards the earth Chuck Hosking panned back to a and the spiritual nature of people are surely wider view (F]Nov. 1998). Compared to changing as well. most of our siblings on earth, even "simple I, too, fear the same consequences and living" Quakers are ahead of the Joneses. feel the lack of direction in Quaker circles Way ahead. around questions ofsimplicity, lifestyle, and When we turn on the lights in our the integrity ofour beliefs. The concern houses, how many of us think of those Chuck Hosking raises in his tide, "Is who heat only with sticks that they carry Technology Our New God?" is rapidly in bundles on their backs? lf you had to physical tools humans have invented during being answered with a "yes." To me the tide carry the water from the town well, would their sojourn on earth. Technology includes revolves around concerns such as: What is you use as much for your dishes or your not only cars, computers, and guns, but also central in my life? Where do I seek answers shower? I know when I go on camping needles and thread, forks and spoons, to my concerns and problems? By what trips I am much more conservative in the screwdrivers and pliers. As a species we are process do I keep my life in balance? What use of fuel and water than I am at home, destined to use tools. Our ability to do so is am I doing to enrich my own spiritual life where all I have to do is flip a switch or what permitted us to survive in the and the spiritual lives of those around me? turn a lever. Darwinian world. Just how deep that I have found it difficult to raise concerns I cannot claim to be a neo-Luddite. I destiny runs is reflected by the great pleasure about technology in meeting and with love my computer and e-mail. I am not we derive from producing with our own friends. Consequently I've done a lot of (yet?) prepared to give up all things made hands things of beauty and usefulness, and thinking about ways these questions could be of metal or plastic. I know, however, that I by the faces of the rwo girls in the beautiful talked about, safely. and other Nonh American Quakers buy cover photograph, as they experience the joy Almost all of us have too much and live things we don't really need. We don't of discovery of what can be done with a tool. too lavishly and are more a part of our consider how much water was polluted in I wonder sometimes if our destiny with culture than we even wish to be. I believe producing the things we buy or how much tools will cut short our stay on earth as a we make a mistake if we argue cars and precious petroleum was used in bringing species. In earlier times societies could bicycles, pencils and e-mail. I would them to us. I'm trying to learn to do those survive the almost inevitable abuse of suggest we start sharing the decisions we things, but I'm looking over my shoulder technology by some. But the power of our have made, because I think most of us have at the Joneses. I'm afraid to get too much tools is now so great, abuse by a few can made them. "I decided to live my life out of step. cause vast destruction. A few individuals without a .. . because ...."We have to Thank you, Chuck Hosking, for can now make nuclear explosives, destroy start by backing away from our judgments helping to broaden our view of the a forest, or cause the destruction of entire about each other and by finding ways to Joneses. Maybe if we keep the worldwide ecosystems. share those values that are important. Joneses more in mind, we can help each Perhaps our destiny with technology In connection with Chuck Hosking's other get more in step. can be regarded as an addiction of the precipice, I'm not sure how far I can step Patricia McBee species. Can we collectively take the first back-certainly some. What I can do is Philadelphia, Pa. step of the 12-step program, recognize our stop, as an immediate response, and not powerlessness over our addiction, and turn buy the next new thing. This is a way to to our Higher Power for help? Hosking's restore intentionality into this problem: The queries offered by Chuck Hosking queries seem to be a good place for us to take time to reflect about my needs until I speak of technologies. The idea of begin. have had a chance to make my decisions discerning what technology is appropriate John N Howell from a Quaker center. When we've had a for any given circumstance seems to stand Athens, Ohio chance to stop and reflect, then perhaps we firmly in the tradition of John Woolman's can look at where we are heading. rejection of the use of dyed cloth produced In November you featured an article These are certainly baby steps. I'd love by slave labor. Unthinking acceptance of lamenting that technology, exemplified by to think they are not necessary, but it's not every new technology that comes along computers et a!., is our new god. Was it my perception. I think these questions of does imply the deification of technology. just chance that the cover pictured rwo lifestyle and technology are really loaded for If, however, we let our condemnation of young Friends school girls delightfully us. I look forward to more commentary. technology become general, we invariably fascinated by a computer? And thank you Chuck Hosking for putting find ourselves caught in paradoxes, like the Too bad the girls were not delving into your concerns before us. one so delightfully depicted by Qani Belul John Woolman! in "Claris and I: A Bitter Friendship." Phil Moulton Barbara Greenler Technology is the sum total of the Sandy Spring, Md. Mequon, Wis.

4 january 1999 FRIENDS }OURNAL I live and work in Nepal, as director of with the rights of civilian populations). How W esterbork, which was a staging post for the the Rural Development Centre, a project of can it have happened that chis genocide has extermination camps further east, makes me a large Christian nongovernmental been allowed to go on since 1991? angry and sad on behalf of all those people organization, the United Mission to What does our faith, our spirituality ask who tried to act against chis evil. Nepal. of us in such a situation? Does it not I can accept that for her it was a spiritual I took special interest in Chuck demand that we support those who urge journey and one that can be of value co Hosking's article for several reasons; he that these sanctions be lifred now and also others; however, I do feel the other side of lived in Africa for 5 years, and I also live that we support AFSC's effort to help the the coin also needs to be considered. abroad; I am a scientist by profession, but Iraqi people? now work with a rural development center Ingeborg Jack Sieneke Martin that offers skill-based technical training to Swarthmore, Pa. Birmingham, England villagers in such basic subjects as drinking water systems, agriculture, animal care, Peace victories and sustainable forestry management; and Salted peanuts finally, I am keenly interested in the I'm looking for a few sentences from impact of technology on society. people on victories the peace movement I consumed Christopher Densmore's I quickly found, however, that the article has won in the past year that we should all article "The Quaker Origins of the First served as an example of what I have come to be thankful for. Please e-mail me Woman's Rights Convention" (F] July disrespect about FJ The topic of the impact something. In addition to saying what you 1998) as if I were eating salted peanuts. of technology on society is indeed one of are thankful for, also include your full Last summer the International great importance. There is a great deal name as you'd like it co appear in our Association of Women Ministers, meeting publi~hed on the subject. Unfortunately, to paper (Dallas Peace Times) and the in Seneca Falls, N.Y., asked me co speak to accept for publication an article that is so organization and/or faith community to them about the events of 1848. I chose to shallow in analysis is not only a disservice to which you belong. review the fact that those who had most to the readership, but it is also untruthful to CliffPearson do with woman suffrage were Quaker. The those who seek some understanding of the more I learned, the more interested and topic. Editor, Dallas Peace Times [email protected] amazed I became--and the more horrified After reading Hosking's article, I that today' s feminists seem not to know immediately asked myself if he and his about our Quaker origins. family traveled co and from Africa by canoe, A different view Thank you, Christopher Densmore. I or did he avail himself of"modern will try as best I can to spread the word. technology?" Did he and his family receive After reading Peri McQuay's review of The whole world needs the leaven vaccinations? Do they still use antibiotics? An Interrupted Life: The Diaries ofEtty provided by the Religious Society of If his child became ill with appendicitis or Hillesum (FJ Sept. 1998), I discovered I Friends. (I was one of the first 11 women leukemia, would he not use every modern was feeling very angry. ordained as Episcopal priests in 197 4 but technology, medical or otherwise, co save the I was born in Holland during World am now disenchanted with the rigidiry of child's life? Or would he use the local witch War II and grew up afrerwards learning our hierarchy.) doctors? Why does he bother to use the about·what my parents' and grandparents' Betty Bone Schiess modern media-a very high tech industry­ generation had gone through during the Syracuse, N.Y. co communicate ? occupation. At first only the funny things The contradictions in the article are so came out, the way they do when other absurd that any refutation becomes equally memories are coo painful co be dealt with, so. There are serious issues worthy of but later I learned more about what living discussion on this topic; what I find so in an occupied country was like; about surprising is that the editor would choose what people tried co do to circumvent and this know-nothing article for publishing. undermine the occupier and how many would hope that in the future F] will strive people died as a result of their wimess co publish more carefully reviewed and against that occupier and against the war. objective articles, worthy of its readership. From 1942 onwards thousands of Dutch people cried co help the Jews, either as a john Ferchak group or as individuals: tried to help them FRIENDS JOURNAL welcomes Forum con­ Kathmandu, Nepal escape, to provide them with false papers, co tributions. Please try co be brief so we foster their children, to provide them with may include as many as possible. Limit Lift the sanctions secret shelters (Anne Frank being the best letters co 300 words, Viewpoint to 1,000 known example of chis in the wider words. Addresses are omitted to main­ Claudia Wair's interview with Kara world). Many people, and their families, tain the authors' privacy; those wishing Newell, "Friends in Iraq" (F] Oct. 1998) is lost their lives afrer being found out. to correspond directly with authors may heartrending. What is happening to the So reading of someone who not only send letters to FRIENDS JouRNAL co be Iraqi people and especially to the children seemed just co accept whatever she was forwarded. Authors' names are not to because of the imposed UN/U.S. made to do as a Jew in chis occupied be used for personal or organizational economic sanctions is against the United country, but who actually joined the solicitation. Nations Charter and against all Jewish organization that assisted the Nazis -Eds. international humanitarian laws (dealing in rounding up Jews, and who worked in

FRIENDS ]OURNAI..january 1999 5 Qulker Seeking: by Stanford J. Searl Jr.

e Quakers are always seeking. Don't we ever find anything?" ne of my research participants quoted this rather wry, funny, but possi­ bly disturbing statement from a seasoned Friend. For the past three years, I have been engaged in my own sort ofsearc hing and seeking, as I have asked 21 different U.S. Quakers (all but two of them from "si­ lent" meeting traditions) to describe their experiences within the meeting for wor­ ship. I wanted to know about how these Friends got started in worship, what the silence meant for them, about their proc­ ess of being together with other Quakers, and what it meant to listen to and some­ times to give vocal ministry. As with any research project, this one has had its un­ expected aspects; the most unanticipated consequences centered around the per­ sonal, devotional, and spiritual journey One woman, a convinced Friend and for people who are disaffected by their aspects. Within my conversations, as I a person who felt a real calling for spiri­ own tradition.' Well, that's true, but what have returned to them afrer transcribing, tual direction, answered rather directly they mean is they want to project onto listening, and reflecting, I have felt a the question about seeking and fmding, the Quaker process their own needs, and spiritual energy: these "ordinary" Quak­ even though her explanation emphasized maybe that's not what's there either.'' In ers possess rather extraordinary power at the complexiry of the issues. her own spiritual journey, she has be­ times. I wish to discuss one dimension of "In the sense in which the question is come aware about how previous baggage this personal spiritual energy and power, asked, the answer is no. But, what we do stood in the way, particularly ideas about particularly as connected to the idea of want to say is that we find a living experi­ prayer, God, and how the Spirit should what it means for Quakers to be seekers. ence. And we don't have a list of right work. On the one hand, I first thought, do answers. But many people need that." In a variety of different ways, some of we ever find? T hen I thought, well, many From her perspective, one informed the participants in my research study people might say that it's a mistaken by much committee work on the yearly talked about what it means to be seekers question, in that the seeking is the fmd­ meeting level and involvement in retreats and to participate in some "living experi­ ing. But rather than offer my own reac­ and various forms of spiritual direction, ence," as this woman did. tions, I would like to offer the responses Quakerism can be hard for people, par­ of some of the research participants as ticularly for those with a lot of "baggage" or more than one person, the pro­ they reflected about the meanings of from other traditions. "It's so unstruc­ cess of worship, how one enters and Quaker worship and their experience tured. We live with ambiguity," she com­ Fsustains oneself in the communal within it. mented. silence, has direct relevance to what it She thought there could be a real means to be a Quaker seeker and-at StanfordJ Searljr., a member ofSanta Monica downside to people who come to Quak­ least potentially-a finder of "living ex­ (Calif) Meeting, spent a term at Woodbrooke erism because they are fed up with other perience." Many Friends understand or College in Birmingham, Engbznd, reflecting on traditions. "People come to Quaker meet­ express themselves in ways that empha­ his research with 21 U.S. Quakers. ing, and they say, 'oh, this is a good place size how being "open" in the silent wor-

6 january 1999 FRIENDS j OURNAL ship means a rather direct, intimate, per­ new ways of thinking. People are "open" come-if you're a seeker, you'll spot the ~onal engagement in a process of seek­ in the sense of bringing themselves be­ one that has some meaning for you. And mg. fore God (as at least two people said then you'll respond to it." One Quaker said of settling down in directly) in order to be engaged in a I asked him to explain more about this the initial stages of the meeting for wor­ process of change. I understand this as process of his "wandering mind" as a way ship, "I usually ask myself, 'What is it that some son of inner, spiritual work that to think about messages that come out of God wants me to do?' And then I try to engages heart, mind, and spirit at once. the silent worship. be open to new things that might come Friends have described themselves as en­ "I watch ic unfold: the thing that may into my head, new ways of thinking about gaged in a discovery process, one that come through my mind which grabs my the whole." emphasizes being open to being found interest and artention might be a passage Another said, "If a concern comes to by the Spirit, by God. There are a num­ ofScripture, that just all ofa sudden carne me, something perhaps disturbing that's ber of different aspects of this openness, through to me. It might be a piece of happened during the week, and I can't this form of seeking. poetry that carne to me, or a thought of get it out of my mind, I don't try to. I let something during the week, that suddenly myself think about it in the usual pattern he silence marters. As one Quaker I saw in a different way." for a while. And then I start trying to said directly to me, the silence may Then he calked about how he might be think about it in a different way, either to T allow "another voice" or another compelled, physically, co come forward connect it with other thoughts I'm hav­ part of oneself to emerge. In addition, with this perspective. "Some people would ing, or to look within myself, look at my Quakers describe what it meant for them say that the true test of the true leading of feelings, think about how I'm reacting to be open to some creative form of the Spirit is that you are, in a sense, being and to put those things together.... improvisation, as they were open to be used. And it is not you who are organizing What I try to do is to make myself open brought before the Divine or as they the message but that the message is being and find connections between things that allowed the Divine to enter their lives. presented through you. Oh, I think there's may not be particularly connected on From many Friends, I heard the idea that great validity co that, no question. Whether such a process of becoming it is the essence ofevery message spoken in open meant a form ofcenter­ meeting, I doubt very much." ing, an experience of integra­ The image of the "wandering mind" tion with one's heart, mind, provides a way to talk about a number of and soul. Finally, for these dimensions within the Quaker as seeker. Do~Ever purposes, I was struck by how This particular Friend visualized himself this process of becoming in the posture or position of seeker, but open, more centered, reach­ with the assumption that the point of the Find Anything/ ing new spiritual depths, to­ seeking, of being open to the spiritual gether in the silence, meant imagination, is co allow a certain finding. the potencial for new sorts of Here, the "wandering mind" does not the surface." knowing, for a different vision of reality. mean distracted, superficial seeking; rather, A different Friend said, "Friends have One Friend described his process of it's an openness, an intuitive, inspirational taught me I'm not in charge. If I'm con­ inner engagement in the silent worship way to be open co the flow of what this centrating upon what I know, then I'm as a reflection about his creative "wan­ Friend described as a spiritual discipline, a not being open co what I have yet to dering mind." Interestingly, this notion form of waiting upon the Spirit in his discover." of the "wandering mind" has nothing to terms. Finally, in more direct language, one do with being distracted or daydreaming; In addition, then, such seeking implies of the research participants said that she rather, he cited this image as a way co calk an assumption about the potential for carne to the worship meeting with a fo­ about a spiritual discipline, one that in­ finding or, through this spiritually cen­ cused preparation. "Do you come pre­ volves creativity, the imagination, and an tered inward process of being an open pared to meet the living God and be intense inner searching. seeker, of being found. This is not the transformed at some level? You know, In our conversation together, we dis­ "Quaker way" of worship; it's not neces­ not that you expect major conversion cussed how he settled into the worship sarily for everyone. But for this particular experiences on a regular basis, but pre­ silence, and that some Friends thought Friend, the notion of inward seeking, of pared co have your self open for the work about this "waiting on God" (as he re­ being open co the dynamics of the "wan­ that God would do in you in that mo­ ferred to it) as a stilling of the mind. But dering mind," becomes a compelling im­ ment?" he understood the centering process as a age. And with this particular Quaker, the "So there's a cognitive component son of spiritually disciplined "free wheel­ findings were manifest and clear. there, but the deeper work is the spiritual ing." As we continued our conversation, and work of crying to just keep opening and "I don't attempt to still the mind. I let I asked him about the meanings of the opening up, and having new parts of the mind go. And what I do is, in a sense, silence, he cited two key Quaker texts. yourself that you realized are closed and stand aside like an observer; I watch it go. "Well, if the Quakers didn't grow out of opening those up as well." And if something then comes through­ the passage ofScripture , that in the begin­ These Quakers describe being "open" and this is the way, frankly, I think inspi­ ning was the Light and every man was as a process of seeking, a way to discover ration and any other intuitive thoughts endowed with this Light, the other pas-

FRIENDS ]OURNAL ]anuary 1999 7 sage ofScripture which surely would have been the Quaker Scripture would have been from the Psalm, 'Be still and know that I am God.' And there is no way, frankly, that we can understand or come close to the realization of what we are except through silence." And he paused, considering. "Now, that doesn't mean it has to be the silence of doing nothing. But it is the silence that allows another voice, and per­ spective of yourself, to emerge."

hinking about these conversations m connection with seeking, I won­ Tdered about the original question: Yes, we are all seekers, particularly in this sense of being open to the further work of Spirit, but what about the finding? Don't we ever find anything? One woman said, at the end of a detailed conversation in connection with what she termed the importance of"lived experience" as a way to think about Quaker fmdings, that what she found could be stated rather simply: "What I get out of it is joy." I had asked another Friend about when the entire meeting is silent. "What is that about?" I asked. "There's a great interconnection to the people in meeting with one another, I think. And I think they love each other; surely, they love each other." Another Friend, as we talked about his experiences in the same meeting for more than 40 years, pondered what he called the "core meaning" of his life. For him, one of these core meanings would be love. "What if there was, actually, a God? What would that God be? Well, the most universally positive experience and vital, life-sustaining experience is the thing called love. God is this thing we experi­ ence as love. It's an almost total identifi­ SUSPENDED cation of the creator and again ... it's the creative force, as we experience it in our ANIMATION lives." I sit In the woods. As Friends struggle to be open, to be No tree breathes. centered, to recognize the internal as­ pects of what it means to bring them­ No animal tracks selves before the Spirit, to wait on the Stir the snow. Spirit, as one Friend said, I think there Sap Is frozen. are findings, ofsorts. Some ofthese Quak­ Buds are an Idea. ers did feel the presence of love, if only Only the sky moves. momentarily and through personal expe­ rience. I hope that other Quakers can celebrate the connections, the possibili­ -Margo Waring ties for new sorts of knowing, for the Margo Waring is a member ofjuneau (Alaska) Meeting. J1 power of love in their lives. 0 L_------~------~~ 8 january 1999 FRIENDS }OURNAL A Holy Experiment in the Interior:

ast September a gath­ AFSC'S foreign service secre­ predominantly rural, the vast open spaces ering of American tary and Pauline overlaid with farms, ranches, Indian reser­ LFriends Service Com­ Clampitt worked in vations, and public lands. It was the last mittee Central Region sup­ CENTRAL material aids, but for part ofthe continental United States to be potters, past and present, years the couple invaded by immigrants, and it remains its celebrated 50 years ofAFSC REGION tripled as residents, most sparsely populated region. To out­ work done out of the re­ janitors, and general siders, it often seems boring or backward. gional office in Des Moines, fixers. Such resolute, Unlike the situation in the eastern United Iowa. A banquet attended AT AGE unostentatious com­ States, the Religious Society of Friends by 150 persons followed an mitment could not has a somewhat exotic aura here, confused afternoon open house show­ FIF·r·y help but draw others in unexpected quarters with various uto­ casing current AFSC re- to the endeavor, and a pian or dystopian cults, historical or gional programing along­ - diverse and changing present. Historically, the region has repre­ side scrapbooks and me­ by Deborah Fmk group of persons and sented the solid, apple-pie center of the mentos from earlier years. agencies have joined country, proudly sending disproportion­ Meticulous details, from ex- hands and spirits in ate numbers of its sons to fight in every traordinary wildflower bouquets to origi­ Friends House. Today, in addition to war of this century. nal hand-painted invitations and favors, AFSC and Des Moines Valley Friends The Des Moines AFSC office opened were testimony to the earnest dedication Meeting, the building shelters the Iowa in 1948, a time when the military was with which the holy experiment goes for­ Peace Network and Peace ward in the U.S. heartland. Music, in­ Resource Center, Catholic cluding group singing led by a contingent Peace Ministry, and other from Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), local agencies. mellowed those assembled, as did a rich assonment of stories and a reading from The Central Region the region's history as lovingly written by The particular thrust of longtime AFSC stalwart and Conserva­ AFSC in the middle of the tive Friend Reva Griffith. The remem­ country grows out of the brances reached back to the time when a economy, history, and ge­ regional AFSC office was but a gleam, ography of the prairie and albeit a focused gleam, in the eyes oflowa plains, the context of the Quakers. The work grew as Friends, some region's programing. In with deep pockets and others with modest 1948 Iowa, M innesota, means, gave lavishly and intemperately Notth and South Dakota, out of powerful leadings to create the Nebraska, and Missouri constituted what trumpeting its victory, a peacetime draft organization. then became the AFSC Notth Central was being instiruted, and vilification of The purchase of the present regional Region. With subsequent expansions, the pacifists was extreme and intimidating. office building on Des Moines' Grand most recent having been in 1998, Kansas, Not only were Quakers among a small Avenue, formerly a majestic family home, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkan­ nonconformist minority, they were more was but one manifestation ofdev otion to sas have joined the region. Reaching from dispersed and more vulnerable here than the cause. In 1953 Roy and Pauline Canada to Mexico, the name has recently elsewhere. Raising money in the context Clampitt, retired Quaker farmers, matt­ been changed to the Central Region. It is ofdominant redbaiting and suspicion was gaged their farm to make the down pay­ AFSC' s geographically difficult, but indignation ment. Their vision was for AFSC to move largest domestic region. at the accusations against out of its characteristically minimal quar­ The states, which span the Friends sometimes scimu- ters to establish itself in a location that U.S. political spectrum would be spacious enough for growth and from lefr to right and Above: AFSC Central would provide room for a variety of kin­ north to south, contain Region office on Grand dred causes. Roy Clampitt had the title of nearly 50 million persons. Avenue, Des Moines The region's largest cit­ These are personal reflections ofDeborah Fink, Left: Pauline and Roy who is on the Iowa AFSC program committee, ies-Minneapolis, St. Clampitt, who mortgaged the AFSC Central Region Executive Commit­ Louis, Houston, Dallas, t their farm to provide the tee, and the AFSC Board. She is a member of and Denver- hang close Jl down payment for the Ames (Iowa) Meeting. to its borders; its center is !§: office

FRIENDS ]OURNAI..january 1999 9 Right: "America's Town Meeting lated support. The landmark Supreme of the Air," broadcast from the Court decisio n in which Kenneth 1947 Institute of International Relations Boulding, a pacifist, was able to become a naturalized U.S. citizen was led by two Below: A conference on Iowa young Des Moines lawyers drawn to AFSC Labor and American Foreign as a stimulus to their social conscience and Polley sposored by AFL, CIO, and AFSC, 1952 a pathway for its expression. Bringing for­ ward a substantive AFSC witness was an affirmation that Friends remained engaged in the affairs of the world and an out­ stretched hand for others to join the struggle for peace. Since the establishment of the region, the flow of traffic into its constituent area offices has ebbed and flowed not only with the vigor of AFSC programing, but also with the press of wars and other crises in the world outside.

A Greenhouse for Spiritual Growth One broad arm of the AFSC mission has been to ameliorate or prevent suffer­ ing. Sometimes this occurs in the form of service to individuals totally unfamiliar with Friends and totally uninterested in becoming familiar. At other times, AFSC has served by nurturing the sensibilities of persons of tender conscience who have strengthened and deepened their own spiri­ tual impulses, either within or outside the Religious Society of Friends. Even in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Des Moines AFSC office reached out to surprising numbers of persons in small communities throughout the region. Con­ ferences, seminars, and institutes on world affairs were held in such places as Beatrice, Nebraska, and Sheldon, Iowa, as well as in

Left: A 1959 work camp In Newtown, S.D., during which sod-covered "earth lodges" were built

Above: A demonstration with a coalition of groups against nuclear testing at Rocky Flats (Colorado), 1970s

10 january 1999 FRIENDS JoURNAL cities. In the aftershock of the use of the atomic bomb in Japan and the descending cold war, some midwesterners were ges­ tating heretical seeds ofdoubt even as they \J heard the message of military inevitability ~ and invincibility all around them. AFSC ~ sometimes stood as a haven of friendship ~ and calm as the dominant voices crafted ~ an image of the United States as an armed i:1 fortress facing a hostile and invasive world. ~ Ministry to young people became es- '!: pecially pivotal in the 1960s and 1970s, ~ when fighting in Vietnam imposed the ~ inescapable need to decide where they stood with respect to committing their St. Louis, which pro­ Top left: AFSC staff own lives or those of their cohorts to the vides one-year intern­ member Kay Whitlock war machine. W ith abundant enthusiasm ships in community assisting with flood relief from college activists, albeit with slim fi­ organizing to African In the St. Louis area, 1993 nancial underpinnings, AFSC established American youths, and Left: Preparations for a small draft counseling offices in many lo­ the Help Increase the comlng-of·age ceremony; cations across the region during the Viet­ Peace (H IP) program community development nam War. This expansion, while para­ in Kansas City, which \J work with young people at doxically war-driven and nonsustainable, teaches racial under- ~ Pine Ridge Reservation , brought fresh energy and transforming standing and conflict 1i S.D. vision into AFSC. Young persons ques­ resolution in public ~ Above: Colorado tioned not only war, but also existing con­ schools. Linking to Disarmament Program ventions of race, gender, and class. In youth work done Director Byron Plumley and . ":! 1967, Janet Squires, a deeply committed across t h e nauon, .::1 Executive Director Kara Q uaker mother from Ames, became the Newell at the 50th these programs reflect ~ anniversary open house regional executive committee clerk, the a growing AFSC ap­ first woman to be named to lead the com­ preciation of the strength of coordinated wills, people who do not give up easily. mittee or staff in the North Central Re­ action building on the structural advan­ Sometimes what Robert Frost called a gion. Since then, women and persons of tages ofits extensive and diverse resources. "lover's quarrel with the world" gets mis­ color have routinely assumed regional and directed toward a less intimidating and local leadership positions. Speaking Bitterness more accessible entity. At other times, AFSC work continued to expand and A religious organization that nurtures AFSC structures and processes have failed refocus. In 197 4, two Catholic activists, peacemakers should be a center of har­ to capture the measure of their mission or Pam Solo and Judy Danielson, brought mony, but in addition to countless in­ to adequately redress egregious personal people together in Denver to talk about stances of positive interaction over its 50 wrongs. the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. years, AFSC's Central Region has a paral­ Saving the world is serious work; it can Soon AFSC established its Rocky Flats lel history of scratchy and painful internal be both disarmingly simple and distress­ project, hiring Pam and Judy in 1978. relations. Neither the written histoty dis­ ingly unattainable. It invites us to take The project helped to mobilize people tributed at the banquet nor the various ourselves too seriously, to work too hard, across the nation to oppose nuclear weap­ speakers focused on this scratchiness, but to trample on the insignificant. Distract­ ons production and fed into the Nuclear neither did they gloss it over. Some of the ing and perplexing as they are, personal Freeze effort of the 1980s, which further sadly empty places at the gathering and in conflicts are not likely to disappear. Bring­ broadened and popularized the concern many hearts might have been filled by ing them to the surface releases odors, but for peace. Although the United States per­ former staffand committee who no longer it may also reinforce the common struggle. manently ended weapons production at choose to appear at AFSC events. It is worth a try. Rocky Flats in 1992, the Denver office Mikel Johnson, a former North Cen­ continues the process ofdeveloping a main­ tral Region executive secretary who now These are but a few reflections from the stream consensus advocating peace works for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Region's longer journey toward through friendship and disarmament. Re­ Greater Kansas City, spoke at the banquet peace and reconciliation in the heartland. cent AFSC programing in Denver ad­ and put her finger on one aspect ofpersi st­ A movement from the center of the coun­ dresses the militarization ofspace as a new ing tension within AFSC. She observed try is one that mikes at its foundation; it dimension of this effort. that AFSC is like a family, with all the has its own limitations and its own possi­ Racial polarization destroys both indi­ goodness and absurdity that this implies. bilities. A path was laid by humble and vidual lives and the social fabric. Among People bring burning and raw spiritual determined Quakers; the current AFSC current Central Region undertakings to impulses to AFSC, and they do not yield stewards, both Quakers and non-Quak­ combat racism are the Ujima program in these lightly. In fact, AFSC nurtures strong ers, build on a remarkable base. 0

FRIENDS JOURNAL. january 1999 11 he belief that God often gives very Hannah Whitall Smith specific instructions through inner T:leadings or impressions has been integral to the Religious Society of Friends from its beginning. Other forms ofChris­ tianity, particularly those that stress a close personal relationship with God, such as evangelicalism, also are likely to teach the importance of obeying the inner voice. Rational arguments to the contrary are to be ignored: the inner leading is to be obeyed implicitly and without delay. Al­ though the path may seem dark and fright­ ening, God will lead the trusting follower forward one step at a time: "Lead, Kindly Light . . . one step enough for me." Testimonies about remarkable and life­ changing events following upon obedi­ ence to inner impressions are common in spiritual journals and other religious literature. Although Friends and other spiritual writers may also speak of the need for discernment-for determining whether or not the inner leading truly comes from theSpirit-fewseem to question the "doc­ trine" of the inner voice itself A notable exception to this statement was Hannah Whitall Smith, a 19th-century birthright Quaker and the author of The Christian 's Secret ofa Happy Life, a religious classic that remains popular today. Hannah W. Smith, or H.W.S. (her pen name), sub­ jected the belief in the inner voice to profound scrutiny, concluding, at least in her private papers, that one's judgment is a more trustworthy means of discerning God's will than mental impressions. Although H.W.S. had been raised a Quaker, in her search for religious cer­ tainty and spiritual fulfillment she left the Friends and became associated succes­ sively with other Christian groups, most notably the Plymouth Brethren and the Methodists. She and her husband, Rob­ ert Pearsall Smith, also a former Friend, were highly successful evangelists whose fame peaked in England and on the Con­ THE INNER VoiCE tinent in 1873 and 1874. They preached a nonsectarian but evangelical and holi­ ness message called the Higher Life. In spite of his wife's warnings, Robert AND came to preach and practice also a secret doctrine involving his exchanging kisses MORBID CoNSCIENCE (presumably nothing more, though this is Dolores L. Noll is an emeritus professor ofEn­ glish at Kent State University and a member of Liberation United Church ofChrist in Cleve­ Dolores L. Noll land.

12 january 1999 FRJENDS JoURNAL debatable) with some female followers. renown and published in 1875. It became There was, however, an "admirable safe­ Exposed and disgraced, he returned to the world famous and was translated into many guard" within this Quaker teaching. Un­ United States, accompanied by Hannah languages. The second book, The Unse/f usual concerns or leadings were to be sub­ and their children. The couple soon gave ishness ofGod(1903; reprinted 1987), was mitted to the collective authority of the up their evangelistic work. Robert lost his her spiritual autobiography, written in the Elders and Overseers: faith and some years later died an embit­ last years of her life. . . . decisions arrived at under such circum­ tered man. H .W.S., however, continued The first of H.W.S.'s posthumous stances were always accepted as final, and the to write, to speak, and to counsel for the books of relevance here is a study of conscience of the individual, whose "leading" remainder of her long life. religious fanaticism written between 1890 was set aside, fdt itself freed from the burden. As time went on, H.W.S. became in- and 1900. It was based upon her own experiences and her contacts with reli­ In her chapter on guidance in The gious leaders; upon the insights gained Christians Secret ofa Happy Life, H.W.S. from her sympathetic listening to count­ presents, in my opinion, a confusing treat­ less persons who sought her out for spiri­ ment of the authority of the inner voice, tual advice; and upon information gar­ or "inward impressions"-a confusion nered from her large private collection of to be attributed, perhaps, to an imperfect newspaper articles about religious move­ assimilation ofher doubts about the valid­ ments of her day, a time of great spiritual ity of that voice into her earlier Quaker ferment and experimentation. According views. She lists the inner voice as one of to her granddaughter Ray Strachey, the four voices through which God's guid­ H.W.S. wanted her "Fanaticism Papers" ance comes. The others are the Scrip­ published-but only after her death and tures, "providential circumstances," and the deaths of those mentioned in the pa­ "the convictions of our own higher judg­ pers: ment." These four voices must "harmo­ nize" in any given instance. If they do .. . then I think they ought to be published. It won't hurt any of us when we're dead to have not, we must wait for further light. Im­ it all known, though it would cause a lot of pressions do not necessarily come from trouble now.... I think these things ought to God, H.W.S. continues. They may arise from the influence of strong personaliti~ creasingly less doctrinal in her religious be known, for they are a snare to many poor, innocent souls. around us, from our physical conditions, views, coming finally to believe that sim­ and even from "spiritual enemies," that ply "to hide oneself in God's will" was Strachey included some of these papers is, evil spirits. "It is not enough to have a enough. How to discern God's will, how­ within a book on 19th-century religious leading; we must find out the source of ever, was for many years an absorbing movements she herself authored under that leading before we give ourselves up question for her. She attributes her initial the title Religious Fanaticism: Extracts from to follow it." One of these tests must be interest in this topic to her upbringing as a the Papers ofHannah WhitaU Smith(1928). "our own spiritually enlightened judg­ Friend: Later she republished the book with the ment, or what is familiarly called 'com­ My idea of guidance in those days was of title Group Movements ofthe Past and Ex­ mon sense."' Furthermore, sincerity of having impressed on my mind ... the will of periments in Guidance(1934). Since within purpose is not enough: God, and the teaching I received was that the book itselfH.W.S.'s work is given the unquestioning obedience to these impressions subtitle Personal Experiences of Religious Many earnest and honest-hearted children of was the only way to make the thing a cer­ Fanaticism, I shall refer to it here as Per­ God have been thus dduded into paths of tainty. sona/Experiences. The second posthumous extreme fanaticism, while all the while think­ ing they were closely following the Lord. H.W.S. studied the effects ofthis teaching book I have used is a collection of her not only upon herself but also upon nu­ letters, Philadelphia Quaker: The Letters of We see in these warnings conclusions merous others whom she came to know or Hannah Whita/1 Smith, edited by her son, about the inner voice that H.W.S. was to to counsel during her many years as both a Logan Pearsall Smith (and after his death express more forcefully in her private pa­ seeker and a spiritual leader. Her conclu­ by Robert Gathorne-Hardy), and pub­ pers. In The Christians Secret ofa Happy sions about the validity of the inner voice lished in 1950. Life they are diluted by other advice. Al­ varied somewhat over the years, but to The underlying issue regarding the in­ though we must wait until all four voices one degree or another she took a critical ner voice for H.W.S. was the degree of are in harmony, she says, once that state stance toward the teaching. This was par­ authority it should command. In her spiri­ has been attained, we must obey immedi­ ticularly true in her private papers, in tual autobiography she explains that she ately: which she spoke more forthrightly than in learned in her younger years to place the If we "let in the reasoner," as the Quakers her published works. inner voice first: express it, the golden opportunity is lost, and H.W.S. wrote a number of books, four A Quaker "concern" was to my mind clothed obedience becomes more and more difficult of which I shall consider here. Two of with even more authority than the Bible .... with every moment's delay. these were published during her lifetime. The whole atmosphere . . . was certainly The first, The Christians Secret ofa Happy calculated to exalt the "inward voice" and its This is her Quaker teaching, of course, Life, was written at the height ofthe Smiths' communications above all other voices. coming to the fore. One might ask, as a

FRIENDS ]OURNALjanuary 1999 13 practical matter, how we are to distin­ forth in fascinating detail the results ofher and of dress and matters of daily life. guish between following "our own spiri­ long study of religious fanaticism. It is Nevertheless, she is somewhat critical of tually enlightened judgment," that is, perhaps disappointing but not surprising the Quakers here and elsewhere. As we "common sense," and "let[ting] in the that she did not want to publish this study have seen, the Methodist doctrine ofsanc­ reasoner." Can mental states really be so during her lifetime or the lifetimes ofthose tification was her first introduction to fa­ easily compartmentalized and analyzed? mentioned in it. Many of the stories she naticism, "ifl leave out all I got from the relates concern the potentially close rela­ Quakers, which was a good deal ...." In tionship between spiritual rapture and her letter to her sister, once again, she sexual ecstasy. Her introduction to the ''lV/ suggests that following impressions has subject of fanaticism, she says, "carne When people go l~y led to insanity among the Friends. In through the Methodist doctrine of entire . . . Personal Experiences, she speaks again of sanctification," a spiritual experience she zmpressums m opposztwn "this theory of guidance" as driving some had sought eagerly for many years. In the people "to the verge of, and even in some to theirjud._e:ments, they early 1870s she accompanied her hus­ cases, completely into insanity." She goes band, who had suffered a nervous break­ on to tell of a friend whose "childhood m-e tunzingjimtz the true down, to a sanatorium. There she and a and young girlhood ... were made miser­ friend, both of whom were "hungering able by this matter ofwhat she considered uoice ofGod, to_f{J!Iow the and thirsting to know the deep things of guidance." Her friend felt constantly led God," met a doctor who appeared to know false uoices r~(se(f,' orr~( to change articles ofclothing and to sacri­ "some secrets of the divine life. . . . " As fice pieces of her writing in the fire: euil spirits, or ofrnorbid they discovered in talks with him, his secret was "that the Baptism of the Holy The fact was that in this theory ofguidance all COllSClellCC. Spirit was a physical thing, felt by delight­ the things we liked best and enjoyed most ful thrills going through you from head to were the things that we had to sacrifice, and foot .. .. " He lived in an almost perpetual we were almost afraid to acknowledge to our­ selves that we enjoyed anything for fear that That H.W.S. carne to question her state of physical (sexual) excitement. Although initially shocked, H.W.S. we should immediately feel led to give it all own advice is indicated by a remarkable up. letter written to her sister in 1880: believed in the doctor's sincerity and passed along his views "to all with whom I dared False guidance through impressions is I have had a revelation about guidance that to touch on such a sacred, yet delicate, also caught by contagion, according to seems to make obedience a far simpler thing. subject . .. . " Some of those she told H.W.S. She gives an amusing example of It has come to me through seeing the fatally subsequently "received the baptism" she this phenomenon from a time when she sad mistakes made by so many. It is this­ described and went on to live transformed believed in being guided by impressions. that the voice of God comes through our lives. In other instances, however, "very judgments, and not through our impressions. A friend had told her of following an Our impressions may coincide with our judg­ disastrous outward falls from purity and inner voice telling her to kiss her dress­ ments or they may not, but it is through the righteousness . .. followed .. .. " Although maker, whereupon the "dressmaker had latter alone that God's voice comes. she does not mention him, the case of burst into tears and said that no one had Robert, her disgraced husband, must have kissed her since her mother's death some Whereas in The Christians Secret H.W.S. been among the latter in her thinking. years before." Afrer hearing this story, suggests that impressions may come from H.W.S. herself never felt any physical H.W.S., who had the same dressmaker, evil sources, in this letter she states un­ thrills accompanying spiritual experi­ also felt led to kiss her. Unfortunately, equivocally that they do come from such ences-a fact she eventually carne to re­ "the whole thing fell very flat." Both she sources if they are opposed to judgment: gard as a blessing, attributing it to a basic and the dres~maker were quite embar­ . .. when people go by impressions in opposi­ "weight of common sense" that, like a rassed. Then H.W.S. told her experience tion to their judgments, they are turning from child's "weighted toy-man," which always to another friend, who the next day also the true voice of God, to follow the false turns right-side-up, kept her from being felt led to kiss the very same dressmaker, voices of self, or of evil spirits, or of morbid misled. Fanaticism, she carne to believe, with equally embarrassing results. When conscience, or of some evil influence &om results from exalting feelings over judg­ H .W.S. heard this friend's account, she other people. ment, and "the first beginning of this had "a sudden illumination" and said to emotional evolution comes generally from her friend: She concludes that "this going by impres­ the fact that people take their inward im­ Sister Sarah, this whole thing is catching. I sions always leads either into fanaticism . . . pressions as being the voice of the Lord." or into insanity, as with the Friends. While caught it &om Miss W., and you caught it In Personal Experiences, H.W.S. does the people who are led by God through from me. Now we must put a stop to it, and not implicate any Friends in the sexual not tell another human being about it, or we their judgments make very few mistakes." experimentation she describes, noting that shall have every one of our friends kissing Some ten years after reponing this "rev­ their dressmakers, and making fools of them­ elation about guidance" to her sister, . . . among the Quakers this guidance was so selves all round . H.W.S. began writing her Personal Expe­ well regulated that it never took the form of riences. Here, in plain, forthright prose, any extreme Fanaticism, but was mostly con­ In Personal Experiences, H.W.S. comes often touched with dry humor, she sets cerned with the subject of religious service, to the conclusion that

14 january 1999 FRIENDS JOURNAL ... an ordinary everyday walking in the path with the society I never knew of any in­ of dury, and especially in the path of kind­ stance of serious extravagance." So much ness, is a better foundation for doing good for insanity among the Friends! work for the Lord than any great ecstacies of One or two stories from Personal Expe­ inspiration, or any special sense of ... being F RIENDS riences do find their way into her chapter "called" ro a special service .... most of my work which has been most successful has been on "Quaker Scruples." One of these is the done purdy from motives of kindness and story of her friend who had constantly felt H OSPITAL courtesy. led to change articles of clothing and to burn pieces of her writing. In this chapter According to her granddaughter, as H .W .S. describes her as one who had "a H.W.S. grew into old age "she found that, particularly morbid conscience," for whom after all her searching and all her experi­ "life . . . became almost a torment" be­ Healing menting, she had come back very close to cause of "this inward voice that was con­ the position ofth e old Quakers from which tinually urging her to fresh sacrifice." Here she had started ...." This fact is discern­ the scrutiny is directed to the person, not the ible in her spiritual autobiography, The the doctrine. Unselfishness ofGod, in which almost half What conclusions can we draw, then, the chapters are about Quaker beliefs and about H.W.S.'s views of the inner voice? Several themes run through all of these books. Preeminent among them is her ''A commitment to God's "lovely will." She ./1.;, orrlilltllJ' ct'Cl)'dt~)' constantly urges her readers not to be fearful ofGod 's will but rather to embrace tu,dl.:ing in the path of it as a trusting child follows the wishes ofa loving parent who wishes only the best for Hospital has been help'ng those with du~J~ and c.,pccitd(J' ill the that child. Perhaps the depth ofH.W .S.'s dedication to God's will gave her the free­ r~f'/.:inrllle.\:1, il pttth is better dom to question the validity of inner im­ fr)undation fr)r doing good pressions as guides to that will. Secondly, H.W.S. reiterates time and workjr)r the l ord than again her belief that spiritual stability is to be found in attitudes of mind-faith, con­ ill~)' great eo-facies r~f' viction, judgment-rather than in feel­ outpatient offices. . . . ings. Fanaticism is often the result, she I Jl.ljJJ Jll I 101 l . says, of being guided by feelings and im­ pressions rather than by judgment or just plain common sense. She attributes her practices. H ere her criticism of the inner own escape from potential fanaticism to was founded to provide moral treatment' voice is toned down considerably, and for her inherent common sense and practical­ for those experiencing menral and the first time she even includes a positive ity, as well as to the fact that she does not story about obeying that voice. It is in­ have a very emotional nature. The reader emotional illnesses. structive to note, however, the context of ofh er autobiography may dispute this last that story. H .W.S., who was a staunch point. H er descriptions of her childhood, advocate of women's rights, looks upon when she enjoyed the warmth and love of For further information about outpatient, the Quaker respect for each person's inner her parents, and of her later years, when inpatient, or residential treatment, call fo r light as granting great personal freedom to she felt the warmth and love of God, women: " ... not the most tyrannical ' man suggest that she was at these times an a free brochure: 215-831-4770. Friend' ... would ever dare to curtail the extraordinarily happy woman. Neverthe­ liberty of his womenkind, if only they less, these emotions resulted from, rather could say they 'felt a concern' for any than directed, her circumstances and course of action." choices. Otherwise, H .W.S. retreats from her Perhaps the key to H .W.S.'s concept private criticisms of the teaching, stating of ideal guidance is contained in a passage that although in earlier times "this liberty on obedience and desire in The Christians in individual guidance" sometimes led into Secret ofa Happy Life. In the fully obedient "extravagances," in her day the Quaker person, she says, God's "suggestions" will 4641 Roosevelt Boulevard requirement that all unusualleadings be come not as commands but rather as "de­ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19124 submitted to the collective judgment of sires springing up within.... This makes 215-831-4600 the leaders prevented such problems: " ... it a service ofperfe ct liberty; for it is always during all my years of close association easy to do what we desire to do.'' 0

FRIENDS j OURNAL january 1999 15 Identity, Authority, and

Community The Experience of Two Friends at the Consultation by Annis Bleeke and Carole Spencer Authors' comment: We have no reason to community, in a particular place, at a strong statements that say where our au­ know each other, no reason to come together particular time. In coming to that com­ thority comes from and what our identity to attempt to share our faith except the munity, we discover that we are not alone, is. What we found at the consultation, Quakerism we both claim. Yet, with others that others share our experience, and we and what I have found in the Northwest here in our comer ofthe United States, we can find as a group that same spark of the and other travels, is that liberal Friends do come together as participants in the ongo­ Divine, those same leadings we experi­ want to hear about identity and authority ing women sgroups, theology retreats, and ence as individuals. When we do this, we from evangelical Friends. I deeply regret conferences for Quaker women in the Pa­ are open to questions ofwho we are, how that more evangelical Friends don't take cific Northwest. We joined together to par­ we know we are "right," and what it part in opportunities such as the consul­ ticipate in the Consultation on Identity, means to live in a religious community tation--opportunities to share their per­ Authority, and Community, which preceded with others of similar experience. These sonal faith and spiritual journey. the Friends World Committee for Consulta­ are questions of identity, authority, and What follows are Annis Bleeke' s and tion Triennial in Birmingham, England, community. I am not alone in wrestling Carole Spencer's responses about their per­ in july 1997 On our return we were in­ with them. We in our local meetings, in sonal experiences, in their local meetings, vited to report on the consultation to Willamette Quarterly Meeting, in North to the four areas considered at the consul­ Willamette Quarterly Meeting. This essay Pacific Yearly Meeting, in North America, tation. Each section is preceded by an grows out of our shared comments to that and around the world, are not alone. And appropriate paragraph from the consulta­ group. Our "conversation" was moderated so we come together to consider them in tion epistle. Both authors served on the by Cilde Grover, executive secretary ofFWCC order to know ourselves, our history, our committee that drafted the epistle. Section of the Americas, and opened with current practice, and each other. background comments from Annis Bleeke. Cilde Grover: As we prepared this pre­ IDENTITY Annis Bleeke: We come to Friends as sentation for Willamette Quarterly Meet­ individuals; we discover that spark of the ing of North Pacific Yearly Meeting, we Divine, the Inner Light, the Christ Within realized our area was the only place where Many Friends poke ofthe need to de­ that leads us back again and again to this dialog could take place easily. The scribe more clearly who we are today, espe­ meeting for worship in a particular Friends three members of Evangelical Friends cially to inquirers, our children, and people International yearly meetings in the of other faiths. Attempting to describe a Annis Bleeke represented North Pacific Yearly Meeting at the Consultation on Identity, Au­ United States who took part in the con­ reality which cannot be captured adequately thority, and Community. A member ofthe Reli­ sultation are members of Northwest in words, we have spoken of Quaker iden­ gious Society ofFriends for more than 30 years, Yearly Meeting. The two yearly meet­ tity as a sacred community, a family, and a she is from the libera4 unprogrammed branch of ings in the Pacific Northwest ofthe United people ofGod shaped by our experience ofthe Quakerism and for the last 12 years has been States are diverse in belief and practice. A Spirit of Christ, of the Light Within. We actively involved in fostering connections among few ofus have worked together since 1985 share a desire to know more foUy our Q}iaker, Friends of varying traditions. Recently retired trying to facilitate dialog between the di­ Christian, and biblical heritages and to see from teaching, she is active in a variety ofFriends verse groups. how such knowledge might bring us closer concerns. The responses from yearly meetings together. Carole Spencer, one of three representatives to and participation at the consultation were the consultation from the evangelical branch of strongly skewed toward the liberal, un­ Annis Bleeke: One of the traditions at Friends, is a memberofReedwood (Oreg.) Friends Church and has been an active participant in programmed meetings. In thinking about Woodbrooke is a worship session to dose Northwest Yearly Meeting for more than 15 that, we are aware that most evangelical the day. On the evening of the first full years. She teaches church history and spirituality Friends find little need to discuss the day of the consultation, the worship com­ at Western Evangelical Seminary, a graduate topics of authority and identity because mittee planned this epilog and asked each school ofGeorge Fox University. our books of Faith and Practice include of us present to write a description of the

16 january 1999 FRIENDS j OURNAL Religious Society of Friends. My state­ more pluralistic. Evangelical Quakers re­ gical form in which the gathered commu­ ment is still quite clear in my mind and main clear about the central Christian nity is connected to the divine mind. true for me. My understanding of the core of their identity, though they wrestle I carne to the conference with the as­ identity ofQuakers is that we are a people with many peripheral issues. Evangelical sumption that liberal Quakerism has been who recognize a Divine Power at work in Quakers, though claiming to be slowly evolving away from its explicitly the world, which can be known and can noncreedal and nonconfessional, do have Christian roots. This assumption was chal­ influence our behavior individually and written statements of faith that members lenged in part by the voices of participants corporately. We are of the Christian tra­ affirm. As such, they draw identity bound­ who expressed a desire to return to a more dition but know the Divine as more than aries that most liberal Friends consider to traditional religious faith with more bibli­ any single entity. We believe the Lord be narrow and exclusive. All Evangelical cal and theological content. Other voices, God, Christ, the Inner Light speaks to Friends are Christ-centered and accept however, confirmed my sense that liberal and through us individually and corpo­ the classically orthodox tradition of the Quakerism desires to rid itself of tradi­ rately. In our worship we seek this con­ Christian church, but with a wide variety tional Christian language and content, tact with the Divine Source. of expression within their various which it sees as a barrier to community. As Those of us present recognized that churches. an evangelical in the midst ofthis dialectic this consultation was not fully representa­ As an evangelical entering the wider ofvoices, I found it difficult to speak truly tive of the Religious Society of Friends world of Quakerdom, I find a very differ­ from the heart of my faith when language worldwide. Yet, the statement in the epistle ent place, a different culture. But it is a and symbols that express it are alternately of the need to know who we are for our religious culture, and many of its mem­ reclaimed by some and repudiated by oth­ children and for newcomers transcends bers cultivate a deep interior life. I find a ers. tradition and nationality as does the desire blending of all kinds of spiritual tradi­ To be religious in an explicitly Chris­ to know our multiple heritages. tions, philosophies, and worldviews. The tian way is not easy within the broader Quakerism represented by this gathering spectrum of Friends. It is hard to feel an Carole Spencer: I want to preface my was highly individualistic, syncretistic, integral part of a community on good remarks by being clear about my own eclectic, and diffuse. Individuals seem to feelings and good intentions alone with­ biases and assumptions. I carne to this shape the community, whereas among out a shared language of faith. I person­ conference as an evangelical who has had evangelicals, the community more often ally need religious language and symbols more contact, and I would add, deeply shapes the individual. In religious com­ to express my faith. I understand all lan­ enriching contact, with nonevangelical munities, identity comes from shared ex­ guage is metaphor, but the metaphors Quakers than most of my coreligionists. periences and shared faith. Most of the that speak to me are those of the Bible, Yet, this was my first experience and voices at the consultation expressed a which have been appropriated by spiri­ exposure to dialog within the broadest strong desire for a spiritual community, tual guides and Christian mystics and spectrum ofinternational Quakers. I wish where they can live out their Quaker have endured through the centuries. They simply to share my personal reflections testimonies and values. But unlike evan­ are words and symbols that have taken on the Quaker tradition as it was repre­ gelical Quakers, the spiritual experience on transcendent meaning for me. As sented by this gathering at Woodbrooke does not always have a faith content. Quakers we all acknowledge our Chris­ to which I was invited and welcomed. The strongest element of shared faith tian heritage. If it is viewed as merely a My perspective is that of an evangelical among the consultation participants historical foomote or a social construct, Quaker who desires to recover seemed to be faith what meaning or power can it possibly and reclaim the deeply transcen­ in the Quaker pro­ have for religious seekers of truth among dent spirituality at the heart of Weare a cess ofdoing busi­ us? Do we simply create an individualis­ the original Quaker experience. ness. All had tic, expressive spirituality of pure experi­ One participant summarized people who strong faith in the ence with no connecting links to a central my initial response to the confer­ recognize decisions and tradition?What basis do we have to evalu­ ence with the conclusion that a Divine Power statements that ate spirituality and discern truth? Why is Quakers have "many identities, come out of the a crystal ball any less certain than the many authorities, varying com­ at work in the sense of the meet­ Bible for guidance? munities, and many approaches world, which ing. A strong ele­ I share with others at the consultation to Scripture." That, of course, ment of faith is the worry that the image of Quakerism is says nothing new or different from can be known placed in the pro­ eroding because the tradition on which it what all ofus already know about andean cess itself, which is based is no longer central. What then do Quakers. operates through a we pass on to the next generation? Everyone at the conference ac­ influence our beliefthatacettain knowledged that Quakerism has behavior transcendent ele­ a strong, biblical, Christian heri­ ment enters into SCRIPTURE tage, but it seems that the iden­ individually the Quaker way of tity ofQuakers today is in some­ and doing business. thing of a crisis, as the tradition Quaker business The importance and use ofthe Bible in evolves away from its specifically corporately. process has devel­ ourpersonal and corporate lives varies widely. Christian roots and becomes oped into a litur- Some see it as authoritative; some find it a

FRIENDS ]OURNALjanuary 1999 17 precious resource; and some are the Bible for themselves ries at my meeting using a structured cur­ unfamiliar or uncomfortable they recognized that riculum; and I remain in confusion. I with it. Many Friends wish they I don't read through the centuries the cannot easily quote from the Bible; I knew the Bible better, and some Scripture church had gotten some struggle with interpreting many of the that Friends generally did so. things wrong. That is what Old and NewTestament stories and often to learn reformation and renewal do not remember them accurately. Carole Spencer: Scripture is a doctrine. I are all about: allowing the My statements are not unrepresenta­ mixed bag for most of us. Spirit to reinterpret the tive of other Friends in North Pacific Evangelicals puzzle over Scrip­ don't read it Bible anew. As Quakers, Yearly Meeting. They are a real cause for ture and wish they knew (un­ to find we have our own favorite distress for some who also bear the name derstood) it better, just as lib­ texts and interpretations of Friends. The carefully crafted words of erals do, though they are more answers that have shaped our tra­ the epistle read: "Many Friends wish they willing to appropriate it by a to every dition, theology, and spiri­ knew the Bible better ..."-That's me!­ leap of faith as they read it tuality in unique ways, " ... and some that Friends generally did devotionally. As an evangeli­ question. I whether we are aware of so." Those "some" draw inspiration and cal, I fully believe in a divine read it to find them or not. comfort from Bible teachings; it is that presence in Scripture. Scrip­ All Quakers would inspiration and comfort they wish for those ture reveals God and inspires God. probably agree that Scrip­ of us who do not. and guides. It is a divine and ture is powerfully subjec­ human document. tive. It contains truth in a For Fox and the early Quakers, the metaphorical, symbolic way. It is story AUTHORITY Bible shaped their faith and provided a and poetry rather than doctrine. Like story language for their spiritual experiences. and poetry, it speaks truth to the indi­ They shared the biblical worldview and vidual on many different levels. I don't Authority is difficult for Friends. Though claimed it as the divine Word, but they read Scripture to learn doctrine. I don't given different emphases by various groups of did not idolize the Bible. Yet Q uakers read it to find answers to every question. I Friends, the Bible, the Inner Light, Christ claimed reason and experience would never read it to find God, and I can testify along Within, the Holy Spirit, group discernment, contradict Scripture. They could say it with many clouds ofwitnesses to encoun­ and Quaker tradition and testimonies all and mean it because they shared the bibli­ tering God in the experience of reading constitute sources ofauthority for us toddy. cal worldview. Almost 2,000 years of his­ and meditating on biblical texts. torical distance separates us from the primi­ Annis Bleeke: My education among tive biblical world, so it is no wonder the Annis Bleeke: I was a representative to Friends happened locally, in Multnomah Bible is so puzzling. this consultation, appointed at my re­ Monthly Meeting, in Wtllamette Quar­ Many evangelical Quakers admit that quest by my yearly meeting. When speak­ terly Meeting, and in North Pacific Yearly the Bible is a human document as well as ing of identity, authority, Meeting. What I know, I a divine one and are willing to apply and community, I felt on began to know from some of the biblical criticism of the past relatively firm ground, Friends in these meetings. 200 years in our understanding of its personally and for the Scripture and This is some of what I meaning. In our awareness that the bibli­ mainstream in our yearly the collected know from being among cal writers were fallible human beings meeting. But in speaking them. writing within their social-cultural con­ about Friends' use of the wisdom of the When we address the text, we are less loathe to admit they had Bible fo r devotion, in de­ past, as well as source or sources ofauthor­ misconceptions about some things, such cision making, as authori­ ity for Friends, whether in­ as the nature of the universe, acceptance tative or not, as a help or the collected dividually or corporately, of patriarchy, and the institution of sla­ hindrance in interactions wisdom of our the secular world's indi­ very. God reveals Godself to us through with those of other faiths vidualism and privatization limited, earthbound vessels-our minds, or Friends of other tradi­ present of Life invade our commu­ our thoughts, our language, our rituals, tions, and what it all may community, nity. Is "consensus" what our gathered community, and the sacred mean, I have no firm we do? How is "sense of text of our Christian tradition, the Bible. ground. help give us the Meeting" different The Bible is a part of our tradition, the Personally, I have stud­ words for our from that? How do we broad Christian tradition as well as the ied Old and New Testa­ avoid the dangers described Quaker tradition. In a real sense, the ment in an academic set­ experience in the past as "ranterism" Bible and tradition are one and the same. ting; I have read the Gos­ and point us and still allow all voices to The communal decisions of the early pels with a Bible commen­ be heard? Why isn't it church created the canon, the writings tary at my side; I have to the truth enough that I am led to do we call the Bible. Tradition is the reading friends who are teachers that we can't something? These are ques­ of, wrestling with, and interpreting of and interpreters of Old tions we wrestle with. Scripture over time through the lens of and New Testament; I fully see. When I spoke of iden­ our culture. When the early Q uakers read even led a Bible study se- tity, I could fall back on

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And lastly, what does live in isolation without and cultural opportunities my reason confirm about it? communities. a local Friends' commu­ Reasonable • Not-for-Profit We could easily call it the nity. ~ Founded and operated by Quakers "Barclayan Quadrilateral," It is God who L.::J 400 North Walnut Street: as it is the same classical gives us to one Carole Spencer: All of WestChester,PA 19380 (610)696-1536 method used by the Quaker us who gathered at theologian Robert Barclay. another and to Woodbrooke came For Quakers, experience the community. with a strong sense of has always been primary, but living in a fragmented never autonomous. The ex­ Our world, within a land­ perience of early Quakers relationship scape that is continu­ nI~ ~&.,r"ir~;~ was immersed in Scripture, is ally slipping beneath our shaped by the Christian tra­ with others feet. Religion and com­ • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. dition, and confirmed by divinely munity used to provide • 42 apartments for independent human reason. Today, nei­ mediated. the integration in our living, 60 private personal care ther the Bible nor tradition lives and the solid rooms, 120 nursing home beds. has much appeal as a source grounding and security ofauthority for many Quak- we all crave. Many • Peace of mind. Supportive medical ers. But experience by itselfcan be confus­ people now feel they must integrate from and social services throughout your ing if it is not attached to some guide or within and create their own meaning. Yet stay. framework in which to interpret it. Expe­ the desire to connect with others and to • An active lifestyle in a beautiful, rience by itself is not a reliable guide. Even belong to a community seemed especially graceful setting. collective experience is not always reliable. intense among the Friends gathered at How do we know when we are being led Woodbrooke. • Meals, housekeeping, transportation, cultural and social activities. astray or embracing falsehood or new idola­ My experience at the consultation con­ tries? firmed to me that Quakerism is a religion • A history of caring since 1904. I believe that Quakers are right to em­ of intense, shared feelings. This has al­ phasize experience. In fact, in all honesty, ways been true for evangelicals, but I was Stapeley In Germantown everyone starts with experience in the surprised to find it as true among liberal 6300 Greene Street search for truth-it's the human way. It is Friends. Of course, the feelings shared Philadelphia, PA 19144 always the starting point, but I'm doubt­ are often very different. I also sensed ful it can be the ending point. Pure experi­ some nostalgia for a Quaker community Call Carol Nemeroff Admissions Director ence without any kind oftheo logical frame­ more God-oriented than some of the (215) 844-0700 work can easily become spiritual narcis­ monthly meetings from which partici­ sism. Experience must be interpreted, and pants carne, even though no one would Scripture and the collected wisdom of the want to return to an outmoded past. past, as well as the collected wisdom ofour Some participants at the conference ex­ present community (which include writ­ pressed a deep sense of being a gathered ten documents ofFaith and Practice), help community. Others felt we groped for The Bible Association of Friends give us words for our experience and point community and didn't quite succeed. In in America us to the truth that we can't fully see. the midst of all our talking and sharing, since 1829 has offered Bibles, New Testaments, our words often lacked a depth of com­ and Portions free or at cost to Friends munication and sense of real understand­ institutions, individuals, and others worldwide. ing. We were reluctant to speak of what Write to: P.O. Box 3, Riverton, NJ 08077 COMMUNITY really bothers us, what really divides us. We try so hard to find commonality that In speaking about community, we real­ we sweep our differences under the table. DISCOVER QUAKER PHILADELPHIA ized that we had come foU circle. Commu­ Vast cultural and theological differ­ Two-hour walking tours of William Penn's nity encompasses our it/entity, our attitude ences separated the participants at the original city of brotherly love, in honor of toward and use ofScripture, and our under­ Woodbrooke gathering. Evangelicals and Penn's 350th birthday. Send a SASE for schedule to: QUAKER standing ofauthority. Community has both liberals, for example, do not really speak TOURS, Box l632,Media,PA 19063. a physical and spiritual dimension. In a the same language. It was noted that worldwide context, many of us recognize most unprogrammed Friends have only

20 january 1999 FRIENDS jOURNAL a dim awareness of evangelicals. The two branches come together with different goals and priorities in addition to their very different spiritualities. Someone said that for a liberal Quaker, God is a mys­ tery beyond words, and for an evangeli­ cal, the way to experience God is through words. (I personally find both to be true.) In the worship groups, we kindly and gently pressured people to share. As much as Quakers love silence, we also seem to crave words; we want everyone to speak. Great pressure was placed on the few evangelicals in attendance to speak from their hearts. As an evangelical, I believe it was difficult to feel enough trust amidst such a diverse group to speak of what really matters spiritually. I feared giving offense to those who cannot tolerate tra­ ditional religious language. I also felt that if someone truly spoke the pain of their heart, it might shatter the veneer of the community we had created. Community is our deepest desire and longing, yet the reality of a true commu­ nity of unity in diversity is incredibly difficult to sustain.

Annis Bleeke: Ideally, our Friends meet­ ings are covenant communities. In Scrip­ ture, covenant refers to a relationship of abiding trust and fidelity with God. So in a covenant community, we are first called into a relationship with God. It is God who gives us to one another and to the community. Our relationship with oth­ ers is divinely mediated. Our relationship with God changes us, changes the way we live, and gives us a new order to our lives; we cannot live that new social pat­ tern alone. In the secular world, we choose to be there with those people. To a large de­ gree, we have the luxury of choice. Many of us can pick up and go elsewhere if we choose. Picking up and leaving the Reli­ gious Society of Friends is really not an option, not ifwe are to remain faithful in our relationship to the God who led us here in the first place. Where is here? In my experience, it is wherever I am among Friends. It is where all that we may say and feel and actually do with regard to identity, authority, and Scripture is tested and acted out. It is because we cannot live alone that new social pattern, those divinely mediated relationships, that we came together as a worldwide community of Friends in Birmingham. 0

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Family Style Living Voices Working Farm Small Classes Boarding Grades 9-12, PG by Julie Shaull Financial aid available uaker life is founded upon receiving But it's amazing how the world offers nudges guidance from the Divine Source. once we ask! Suddenly, books open to signifi­ But relearning the language ofSpirit cant passages. Being with our child brings an Qisn't easy. Giving over our will to awareness. Chance events reveal opponuni­ the Divine may bring up fears. Can we still ties to give our gifts or satisfY our needs. support ourselves financially? Will we lose Messages may come during dreams, medita­ someone' s respect? Can we give up our idea of tion, or prayer, in the form of images, words, who we are? And haven't we been taught not or feelings in our bodies. Or we may wake up to be sheep? Until we understand God's pres­ Quaker Faith and Practice are at the core one morning with that feeling of knowing. ence within and learn to truSt, being guided We find God by paying attention to the present of TMS daily life. Our progressive aca­ may feel like jumping offa cliff. Yetwelongto moment. demic and experiential education instills become part of the flow of the Universe. love oflearning, while teaching group dis­ How do we tell a true leading? If only inter­ cernment process, stewardship ofland, and H ow do we open ourselves to leadings? Try­ preting guidance was as simple as choosing ing to give up control doesn't work-it just berween the angel whispering in one ear and dignity ofwork As a community, we value makes us hard on ourselves. All we can do is to the devil in the other! But it takes practice to the persistent practice of inrellecrual and intend and ask to be led. We can change our know who's talking. Is our helpful urge a spiritual openness. lives so that guidance finds fertile ground. ministry, or that old desire to fix the world? If Learning to live in a loving universe means we see visions or hear voices, are we inspired www.mv.com/ipusers.tm s slowing down, reevaluating priorities, and re­ or crazy? alizing that there is always enough time. Worry or a warning? If a fearful image telephone: (603) 899-3366 What brings us into the quiet space from arises from a sea of fears, it's likely to be a email: [email protected] which we can listen may be discipline or play. worry. But ifitcomes "out ofthe blue," it may It may be chanting or singing in the shower, be a warning. Asking more can help us be meditation or dancing, making art or mudpies. certain. Action may also prepare us to be led. Once we Seasoning is ofren necessary while we wait have done the physical or intellectual foot­ for further clarification or confirmation. We Holy Land/Israel work, inspiration can take over. As we try out must respect fallow waiting time, for ourselves a variety of actions, God can lead us by open­ and for others. If we stay in touch with our Travel with other Quakers ing doors. Divine Partner, we will be able to act when and Unitarian Universalists Clearing our ears means becoming aware the time is right. of and beginning to heal our wounded places. When leadings come through our bod­ Jerusalem • Bethlehem Gently, though-we won't heal more quickly ies, they speak in a language that can't be Sea of Galilee by beating ourselves over the head. We don't confused with "just thinking." Gut feelings Join have to heal completely before we can honor can warn us or confirm a choice. Our hearts Vernon Chandler our emotions as messengers of the Divine. may be "strangely warmed," or energy may UU minister & QUF member Being guided isn't like making a cake, tingle through our bodies as the Divine fills $1698* Depart Newark where you mix it up and sit back until it's us. Kinesthetic sensations may bring us mes­ March 1.6, 1999 baked. It's more like dancing with a partner. sages about our healing on all levels. Ten Days of Biblical Discovery If you're not following continual subtle mo­ Opening to the Divine may become Round trip Air, First Class Hotels tions, you aren't being led. But ifwe wake up confusing and frightening if experiences take Guided Sightseeing, Lectures and realize we don't even know where our us far from normal reality. Spiritual direc­ Two meals daily and much more! Divine Partner is, we shouldn't worry. tion and contact with our spiritual commu­ Travel to the Holy Land with There's always another leading for us. And nity is helpful. Signals given in prayer can let North America's Largest Organizer as we respond to leadings, we open ourselves us know when the Divine, and not some less of Christian Groups to more. rrusrworthy voice, is speaking. Call Vernon Chandler Being guided doesn't give us permission 803-568-3577 How do we receive leadings? God doesn't to throw out common sense or moral stan­ PO Box 430 usually tell us what to do in so many words. dards. We need to ask, "Is it right? Is it true? Educational Good for Gaia, me, and you?" Opportunities Swansea, sc 29160 julie Shaull is a member of Madison (Wis.) For Quakers, "Love God and do what email: [email protected] Meeting, where she serves on the Overseers Com­ you will" might be better put, "Be God mittee. This article is reprinted ftom the April and do what you will." Our constant duty EO is a Seller ol travel Reg . No. 10041 'Plus tax, tips, fees 1998 Madison Friends Newsletter. is to make sure that we are aligned with

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How does discernment work in community? Many seets that arose concurrently with Quak­ erism foundered because they did not require leadings to be tested within community. Our tradition provides beautifully useful methods to support individual and group discernment. Spiritual friendships and committees for clearness or support of ministry help us dis­ cover and act on leadings. We may be wise to choose people to share with who have com­ patible communication styles and prepare them to be most helpful to us. But willingness to be led can turn even blunders into God's work! Support of discernment within our com­ munity depends on our ability to interact in ways that speak to the God within each. In worship, we learn to speak and listen from within our connection to Spirit. In clearness committees, silence and gentle questions assist the flow of guidance. During eldering, both parties seek to labor within the loving, nonjudging Divine Presence. Our practice in meetings for business allows us to give leadings over as gifts to the community. In all these settings, we learn that the vision ofothers may complete, clarify, or transform that which we have been able to receive on our own. Our Quaker community, built on a foun­ dation of contemplation followed by right action, must always relearn how to be quiet before God. As we learn to let Love be the first motion, we find that our lives bring forth fruits of the Spirit in abundance. D

FRIENDS j OURNAL j anuary 1999 23 Witness for Students with \\'av t bs with Learning "Quakerland" Community Seeks Harmony Nature ( )~icncd Differences n 1981, in response to a gift of ten acres and generous gifts of CoUege preparatory • Grades 7·12 • & Summer School I time and money, a Quaker Call (610) 640-4150 for infonnation spiritual retreat center was begun D ELAWARE V ALLEY FRIENDS S CHOOL in the Hill Country of central 19 E. Central Avenue, Paoli, PA 19301 Texas with the construction of a meetinghouse. But until 1993 Admission Tours held monthly November- May this dream remained incomplete, the land and meetinghouse largely unused because of the great dis­ tances and relatively small num­ ber of Friends in Texas. At this time the Quakers of South Cen­ tral Yearly Meeting (SCYM) de­ One of Quakerland's first straw-bale houses cided to fulfill the Quakerland dream, affirming Friends' belief in "continu­ women's silent retreats, a youth summer camp, ing revelation" and faith that "way will open." a men's spiritual retreat, a spiritual healing From the silence came the idea of a residential . workshop, and several workshops in con­ faith community that would nurture and junction with straw-bale construction. Fol­ develop the spiritual retreat center. lowing the spirirualleadings of its members, From the yearly meeting a group began to the community works to develop programs pursue the creation of a community that that enrich our lives and our connection to would be Spirit-based, function in the man­ the Earth. As a Quaker retreat center we also ner of Friends, and follow the will of God. welcome ideas for retreats and seminars from The resulting community now comprises 142 all other Quakers. acres and is organized as Quakerland Friends With the first residence, "the Hermitage," Community, a 50l(c){3) nonprofit, tax­ occupied in winter 1997, we have started exempt religious and educational institution. down our road of building a Quaker com­ Members have affiliated with Hill Country munity. "Sojourner," a guest house, should Meeting in Kerrville, Texas. be complete in 1999, and its residents are Our mission is to: now living on the land. The original cabin, • Build a Friends faith community to support "the Studio," is used as a guest house and ~ ~ spiritual growth of its members and printmaking studio. Plans are underway for Ask how you can help VISitorS. the next two residences, "the Porches" and bring Friends' concern for • Honor the presence of God within each "the Patio." peace andjus t ice to Capitol Hill person and within all life, seeing everyday life In keeping with the gift of love that in­ as our spiritual teacher. spired the original donation of land and the FRIENDS COMMIITEE ON NATIONAL L EGISLATION creation of the meetinghouse, the residences 245 Second Street N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002-5795 • Live in harmony with nature, with the goal of ecological sustainability. of Quakerland are also a gift to the commu­ • Conduct our community life in the manner nity. As we move from our establishment of Friends, incorporating the testimonies of stage, we will progress to settlement, during Make friends, harmony, equality, integrity, simplicity, and which time we expect the community to Make music community. grow and find its natural balance, culminat­ at As a first step in being in harmony with ing in the "fulfillment" stage-the time when nature, we built the first two residences with Quakerland, still growing and changing, will straw bales. They are energy efficient, or­ be a mature retreat center and community. Friends ganic, and a renewable resource. The build­ We see this as a long-term process of discern­ ing process itself nurtures community. ment, contemplation, and understanding. For Music In cooperation with the National Resources centuries, living in community was the glue Conservation Council and the Texas Agri­ that bound people with each other and with Camp cultural Extension Service, we have devel­ the grace of God. We are rediscovering this oped a wildlife management plan to restore central condition of humanity. ages 10-18 the land as a natural habitat for wildlife. Come visit! To arrange a visit call Cathy July 11 -August 8, 1999 Interest in the community's building projects Matlock at (830) 257-5673. For more infor­ at Barnesville, Ohio has generated much local publicity and tours mation write to Quakerland Friends Com­ are given by appointment. munity, 345 Thrill Hill, Ingram, TX 78025; For brochure: FMC, P.O. Box 427 In addition to the desire to form a residen­ e-mail us at ; or Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 tial faith community, members have made a visit our web site at . Ph: 937-767-1311 or 937-767-1 818 commitment to the original dream ofa Quaker retreat center. To date, we have held several -Shelly Angel, clerk

24 january 1999 F RIENDS jOURNAL Reports and Epistles Friends Association for A retirement community Higher Education 19th Annual Conference: with many opportunities. Listenin~ Learnin~ Leading: Friends and the Cultivation of Leadership

. . . The greatest among you must behave as if the youngest, the leader as ifthe one who serves. For who is the greater: the one at the table, or the one who serves? The one at table, surely? Yet here am I among you as one who serves. A non-profit retirement community and healthcare provider - Luke 22: 27-29 operated by members of the Religious Society of Friends. Residential Apartments • Assisted Living/Personal Care • Skilled Nursing ~e Friends University welcomed FAHE with a warmth that went far beyond temperature. O ur hosts brought us together with generous attention to details: our sessions were bathed 1120 Meetinghouse Road • Gwynedd PA 19436 in stained glass light, and we were serenaded [email protected] • www.foulkeways.org at a glorious Saturday evening songfest. O ur fellowship, too, was warmly felt. We were For more information, call Nancy B. Gold, C=}IJ"'.d'::,.,;.:7.:JI"'I graced by the presence of far-flung Friends, Director of Admissions, at 215-643-2200. including Joseph Kisia of Kenya Yearly Meet­ ·~ ing. Our newly traditional grassroots poetry movement saw its first prin t offshoot: Sterling Olmsted's Poems from Six Decades, published by FAHE under the oversight of Barbara wcTntcd to ·(,:;rite The Witness magazine Dixson. considers today's societal, At FAHE 1998 we asked ourselves just 1nd express my cultural and religious issues what Quaker leadership means; as Quakers, from a left -w ing, Christian, we seek the sense of the Spirit as it arises out of lecp io)' cTt j/ndin,~ our corporate process, rather than by follow­ l and frequently iconoclastic ing bold, charismatic leader-figures. Asia your po(;_:(')jlt! cllld perspective. Each monthly Bennett gave us the gift of her experienced nccessd1)' pu/J/ic<~tion. I issue is topical. Study Guide optimism, seasoned by her years as a Quaker packets of eight copies (of leader-in the AFSC, FWCC, and as a trustee 7..:.mrk ·-.;.·ith the homeless one issue) of t he magazine at Haverford and Guilford Colleges. She iden­ and a Study Guide are $25. ti£ed challenges we face as leaders within higher and 'i;)orking, poor in A one year subscription (1 0 education; we are often better at identifying problems and expressing vision than we are at Den'(.,'Cr ,md hd'(.,'C issues) is $25. Checks, Visa sustaining the process of transforming our in­ appreci[1tcd the 'l.~Mys in and Mastercard accepted. stitutions. How can we address such cruxes as For a complimentary copy of racial and gender representation , even vio­ which The Witness the magazine and/or more lence? Of critical mass fo r Friends in our spmks to soci.d rmlities information about the Study colleges? H ow can we state our distinctive Guide Program, call: 313- identity as Quakers, leaders, people of faith from an 11njlinching 841 - 1967; fax : 313-841- whose work is ministry, for our own institu­ tions, for the students we serve, and for our perspccti'l-·e ofj.1ith .md 1956. Or contact us by e­ own diverse community? mail: [email protected]. Our answer-atticulated by Asia, Char­ compassion. I will The Witness, 7000 M ichigan lotte Roberts, alumni, students, myriad pre­ cert~.tinly be s11bscribing. A ve., Dept. F, Detroit, Ml senters, and our own clerk, Jan Wood-was 48210-2872. that our Q uaker beliefs and testimonies in fact equip us uniquely well to meet these chal­ - D.m V L'Ll, lenges and more. Asia recalled for us David A \t:'a ness rl',lLkr Dawson's concern that we may need to lead in DL·nn·r, CO in higher education precisely as a community /foJf~

F RIENDS j OURNAL january 1999 25 of faith, so that "consensus could cease being a will for us, and for our institutions, percep­ silently presupposed outcome and become in­ tible through the witness of our work. as ser­ stead what it is in Quakerism: a difficult and vant leaders. completely contingent achievement." In short, "it may no longer be possible to have specifi­ -Barbara Dixson, Timothy Peterson, Michele Tarter, Susanne Wei! Quaker Values cally Quaker values without Quakerism." Coeducational Charlotte Roberts suggested that Quakers Academic Excellence make natural leaders because we are already Illinois Yearly Meeting Preschool - Grade 6 trained in the method that modern manage­ Call 610-642-2334 ment research suggests is most effective: stew­ The theme of the 1998 IYM session, "Re­ 891 BUCit LANE HAVEitFOI.D, FA 19041 ardship, not autocracy. A leader needssensibil­ freshing the Children of the Light," proved iry-sensibility of what the group wants to challenging and uplifring throughout the week. create, of "what wants to happen." We are As usual we felt inspired by our environment. skilled in discernment and in listening to the Our companions were pines, maples, and a leading within. Vision is incomplete when hackberry. We were surrounded by children seekers do not go deeply enough into relation­ who ran, played, and talked among :us, and ship and fail to ask for whom their vision is also by the flat fields of corn and soybeans, all Excelling intended. ripening under the sun. We were blessed with IN A CHANGING WORLD As Quakers, this sensibility ofand sensitiv­ beautiful weather. ity to relationship enables us to elicit both our On Wednesday evening, Johan Maurer, own gifts and those of the ones we serve. the general secretary of Friends United Meet­ FRIENDS SELECT Through Quaker process, we can offer sim­ ing, set the tone. He spoke with humor and plicity where we find the pain of downsizing sensibility about the different traditions of and burnout; the truth of our plain dealing, Friends in the United States. He asked us to Pre-K to 12th grade tempered by love for our students and col­ avoid the false heroisms that have impelled us 17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway leagues; and our modeling ofbusiness practice toward separation. He urged us to refrain Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-12.84 that can shine with effective integrity when it from comparing our best with their worst. is kept as transparent and present as we know Johan Maurer proposed that we each take a 215-561-5900 how. spiritual inventory of where we are relative to As Monteze Snyder and Asia cautioned, where God wants us to be. He passionately this listening to others involves not simply spoke of preparing the groundwork for fruit­ acknowledging and tolerating differences with ful vision through prayer and asked us to other5--{)r dissonances within ourselves-but move from passivity to the liberation of our transcending both difference and dissonance gifrs, to liberation from sin and from mistaken G to listen for the harmony of oneness and unity hopes. He redefined repentance, explaining beyond. that its meaning might better lie in contrast­ F As our clerk, Jan Wood, said in her open­ ing things-as-they-might-be with things-as­ ing address, Quaker leadership involves"power they-are. Ultimately Johan Maurer asked us s for, not power over"; our leadership works best to heal the wounds between the two "camps" Germantown Friends School when it "sounds the anthem our hearts want and to attempt more dialog and cooperation. to sing. Love wells up within us to flow over all On Saturday evening, Patrick Nugent (215) 951-2346 life and erase dichotomies like sacred and spoke to us about the Inward Light, about Please come to our Open Houses: secular, spirit and 'real world."' As Quakers, how the Light refreshes us, how it convinces • Saturday, Oct. 24, 2-4 p.m. we refuse to make such divisions, and this is us how to overcome our missteps; how it • Wednesday, Nov.ll, 8:30-11 a.m. what sets us apart. God is appropriate in the reveals truth, and how we cannot hide from it. • Monday, Apri/12, 8:30-11 a.m. faculty meeting, even in the science class­ Patrick explained to us that Fox's phrase, that room. Our responsibility to God's gift, Jan of God in everyone, is ofren misunderstood suggested, "is to respond by transforming all and that it can be better understood as not we encounter with the power of God . . . to being our own piece of God, but rather as a inhale life as it is and exhale life as it is meant relationship that enables God to set us free 1999 to be." from our own self-imposed captivity. He com­ To educate, in its Latin original educare, pared a relationship with God to a marriage, Religious means "to lead out." Our work is to listen to maturing and ripening in spirituality and with Emphasis the leadings within us, within our students, deepening joy. He suggested we should wor­ Week with within our colleagues- to trust those leadings, ship with one another more ofren than on Admissions Office and to help them out into the light ofday. We First Days only, so we might attain greater 5800 W est Friendly Avenue "Tribe 1." Greensboro, NC 27410 must ask God to be with us perceptibry, and, as spiritual refreshment. He also suggested that leaders, we must manifest God's will in ways we encourage those among us who are gifred 336.316.2100 January 24-30 1.800.992.7759 that make God's vision for us perceptible as in the ministry of the word. FAX 336.316.2954 well. Like the fireflies that lit the Friends During the Plummer Lecture on First Day Quaker Education campus by night, divinely given insight flashes morning, Maurine Pyle of Lake Forest Meet­ www.guilford.edu Since 1837 from different individuals within our corpo­ ing gave us an inspiring talk about her life rate body. 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26 january 1999 fRIENDS }OURNAL 1\n Adventure for the Summer • • • like a musical graphic design. She told us about growing up Christian-Catholic and of Memories for a Ufetime" her spiritual transformation after having had a Unique multicultural communities where every child feels important vision of a woman at the foot ofthe Cross. She told us the biblical account of Jesus with the woman at the well induced within her a life­ o CAMP REGIS APPLEJACK TEEN CAMP transforming walk with him. She has since Co-ed 6-12 Co-ed 13-16 gained in wisdom and has been enabled to help many others. She spoke of the impor­ Family owned and operated, specializing in first time campers. Friendly Quaker tance of being a companion to others during our spiritual journeys. leadership since 1946. Mature, nurturing staff, close supervision, ratio 1 to 3. Following custom, adult Friends met dur­ Rustic cabins with fireplaces overlooking a majestic Adirondack lake. ing the mornings in meetings for worship Warm, supportive, relaxed environment where the fun never stops. Over 50 with a concern for business. Among other activities to choose from including sailing, water skiing (superb % mile private things: waterfront), all land sports, tennis (7 new courts), music, dance, drama (large We approved the effort to raise the $30,000 theater), art, gymnastics, wilderness canoe and mountain trips, nature/ needed for a new roof over the yearly meeting ecology (farm with animals), mountain biking, and much more! house and for future maintenance. We decided to lay down the Commirtee of Teen Adventure Programs include tours to Canada, Cape Cod, and Maine. the Listening Project, with the condition that 4- and 8-week sessions available with introductory 2-week program for its records might be sent to monthly meetings younger, first-time campers. ACA accredited. For video and brochure: upon request, and its leaders also agreed to help out as needed. Michael F. Humes We approved the establishment for the 107 Robinhood Rd. term ofa year of a Committee of Oversight to White Plains, NY 10605 augment the work of our clerk coordinator, (914) 997-7039 Mary N urenberg. This committee will be com­ • www.campregis-applejack.com prised ofmembers, ex-officio, ofexisting stand­ ing committees and the clerks of IYM. We extended the term of our field secretary, Barry Zalph, for three more years. We resolved to continue the work of the Faith and Practice Committee and its section on membership, and we hope to finish this section in called meetings during our next annual session in the summer of 1999. We have discovered it is not easy to write our own WESTTOWN book of Faith and Practice. Mary Lord of Baltimore Yearly Meeting told us about the Quaker Volunteer Service and Witness Network, which grew out of concerns and initiatives oflllinois Yearly Meet­ ing in recent years. This activity now has a newsletter and a website. We decided to ac­ cept the interim oversight and funding ad­ ministration of this project. She also told us about the Friends Peace Team Project, affili­ ated with Christian Peacemaker T earns; these are a combined effort of the Brethren, Men­ nonites, and Friends and have been operating for the past several years in Bosnia, Haiti, Hebron in Palestine, Chiapas in Mexico, and Richmond in Virginia. We heard a report presented by Anna Rich about the Quaker UN Office and also one by Mary Lord, the field secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Mary Lord's report was about the new game in Washington, and it was sobering to under­ stand that the FCNL needed the presence of individual Friends in order to gain entrance to the offices of our representatives and senators. From this we deduce that money plays an ever

FRIENDS }OURNALjanuary 1999 27 105 North Fourth Street HENRY Centerville, IN 47330 more important role in our nation's capitol. We heard a report from Eloise Cranke and FREEMAN James Burke of the American Friends Service ASSOCIATES 3298 Bristol Road Chalfont, PA 18914 Committee, and we also heard from the Friends World Committee for Consultation. Phone: 800-707-1920 The FWCC report included a video presenta­ tion about raising children in a nonviolent way. We heard about Youth Quake. While there, IYM Friends of high-school age became bet­ ter acquainted with other Young Friends from different Friends' traditions despite differences With offices near Richmond, Indiana and in the Philadelphia area, Henry in beliefs. T hey found this to be a worthwhile Freeman Associates provides services to organizations and institutions experience. During three afternoons of this throughout the country, with many clients located along annual session, our own Young Friends oper­ the eastern seaboard (Washington, D.C. to Boston) and in the midwest. ated an outdoor coffee bar to raise money to Fundraising services include capital campaign planning, major gift work, go to the next YouthQuake. Young Friends planned giving, development program evaluation, foundation research and also enjoyed workshops on topics ranging from annual giving. Organizational development services include training, strategic Earlham College to the Q uaker UN Office, planning, organizational analysis, board development, and time management. and they went on what has become an annual field trip to the LaSalle water park. Slightly Recent Friends-affiliated clients include: older Young Adult Friends enjoyed hanging Pendle Hill, Earlham College, Friends General Conference, Friends World out together under the trees. Committee, Friends Journal, Friends United Meeting, Friends Council on O ur afternoon workshops included: Education, and Cambridge Friends School. Sustainability,Agriculture, and Urban Sprawl; The Listening Project; A H istory of Quaker We invite you to contact us. Women in America; Adult Religious Educa­ tion, Companions Along the Way; FWCC; C hrist H as Come to Teach His People Him­ self; H ow Do We Raise Our Children in a Violent World?; Readings in Revelation; and YouthQuake '97. Our afternoons included worship sharing where small groups of us were able to experi­ ence spiritual refreshment under the shade of Oakwood Friends School the five new maple trees. The queries spoken located in the historical Hudson Valley, 75 miles north of New York City during worship sharing focused on how we might be spiritually repressed and how we might discern spiritual refreshment.

- Kai lmmler, Don MacCrimmon, Alissa Rowan, Scott Searles Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting Greetings to Friends everywhere. From meetings scattered in seven south­ eastern states of the U nited States, Friends came for the 28th annual sessions ofthe South­ ern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Associa­ Coed boarding and day school for grades 7-12 and postgraduate tion, June 11-14, 1998, in beautiful weather and beautiful surroundings at H iwassee Col­ Small class size Rigorous college preparatory curriculum lege in Madisonville, Tenn. Visual and performing arts Unique Senior Program Our theme, "A Centering People: Seeking Strong, nurturing community Athletic Program International Program Community Service and Speaking O ur Truths," was addressed mostly through worship-sharing sessions, but the queries we considered spoke to some of us Sixth grade to open Fall 1999 ofour experiences throughout the year and in Please contact* the Admissions Office, 515 South Road, Poughkeepsie* , NY 12601 meeting for worship for business. Two of (914) 462-4200 I www.o-f-s.org these were "H ow do we discern truth?" and "How do we deal with conflicts between ideas

28 j anuary 1999 FRIENDS j OURNAL perceived to be true?" Conllict is a pan of life, and we have had our share, yet we seem now to be blessed with Some kids earn an extra diploma at George School peace on several fronts. At yearly meeting Friends continued the process of working r;;,--- SOME VERY CAPABLE GEORGE SCHOOL through conflicts that have been painful to 1 students can earn both a traditional diploma some of us. and an International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma. After many years of struggle, frustration, pondering, and waiting, our hard working ~ In 1998, 21 George School students earned Faith and Practice Examining Committee was the internationally recognized IB diploma. able to lay itself down when Friends reached They had spent their junior and senior years agreement on the issues that have engaged at George School participating in the acade­ numerous Quakers. We replaced the words mically rigorous IB program. Many colleges - "man and woman" in the marriage section even the most selective - will grant them with "two persons." And we decided that the up to a fu ll year's college credit for successful tide "Christ" may refer either to the historical IB scores. Jesus or to the inward and present teacher who leads us toward oneness with God: This To find our more about George School pro­ statement won warm assent from Friends of grams, contact the Admission Office. both Christian and non-Christian persuasions. Our Southern Appalachian Young Friends George School, Box 4460, Newtown, PA 18940 have done an admirable job of addressing Phone: 215-579-6547, fax: 215-579-6549 concerns raised about their program. They E-mail: [email protected] developed a process of discernment that older Web: www.georgeschool.pvt.ki2.pa.us members might do well to emulate. Many issues regarding the youth program were re­ solved as the yearly meeting sought a balance between trust and guidance. Hence we believe SAYF will continue to grow, flourish, and find ways to adapt. The youth are a much valued pan of SAYMA. We were occupied at several points with questions about process. One Friend reminded us that while the purpose of consensus is to reach a goal, reaching a sense of the meeting involves nurturing the process, with a decision FRIENDs JoURNAL as as being only one pan of that: a happy by­ is designed to nourish the mind well the soul with product when and if it does occur. articles on social and political concerns, spiritual journeys, and Quaker news. In many ways, and as usual, the personal Our readers enjoy the stimulating articles, sensitive poetry and illustrations, contacts were as significant as the formal ac­ thoughtful book reviews, timely news features, and lively readers' forum. We tions, as we discovered that our individual invite your participation in the dialog. experiences were mirrored in others. An infor­ mal discussion on the first night on "Sharing Three free issues - or-16 issues for the price of12 the Lives of Our Meetings" fostered unity as Ifyou enjoy your Only $29. we spoke spontaneously out of silence rather free issues, consider a (Overseas subscribers add $6 than simply reading our state of the meeting subscription. for postage.) reports. Meetings for worship were moving, espe­ Pkase sign me up for: cially one at dusk in the open air, serenaded by DThree free issues. D 16 issues for the price of 12. swifts and touched by gentle breezes that flowed Name.______through the trees from the nearby hills. The Address closeness ofthe Spirit was underscored by one Friend's quote from Dorothy Day, ''Take away City/State/Zip ------my heart of stone and give me a heart of Phone.______flesh." God's Spirit seemed palpable to us in such a setting, and we prayed that Quakers­ D Check enclosed DBill me C harge my: DMasterCard DVISA as well as others-will know its presence too. Credit Card N o. Exp. Date.____ _

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An urgent appeal to stop the execution of commute Reeves' sentence. A delegation of churches in Honduras and Guatemala can be Randy Reeves in Nebraska, scheduled for Friends will travel to Nebraska to plead Randy's sene to Central American Disaster Relief, January 14, is underway. Reeves was con­ case. Friends Church Southwest Yearly Meeting, victed of murdering two women at Central Please write or call the following officials: P.O. Box 1607, Whittier, CA 90609-1607. City (Neb.) Meetinghouse after drinking Gov. Elect Mike Johanns, 317 South 12th heavily and ingesting peyote in 1980. One of Street, Lincoln NE 68508, phone (402) 477- The National Religio us Leadership the victims, Janet Mesner, was a friend of his 6655, fax (402) 475-9996. Sec. of State Roundtable will hold its second meeting on since childhood and the caretaker ofthe meet­ Scott Moore, State Capitol, Suite 2300, January 25-26. The meeting follows the inghouse. The families of both Randy Reeves Lincoln, NE 68509, phone (402) 471-2554, successful founding meeting held in July and Janet Mesner are members of Cemral fax (402) 471-3237. Attorney General Don 1998. The roundtable was formed to act as a City Meeting. Friends may remember the Stenberg, State Capitol, P.O. Box 98920, voice of faith communities in suppott of gay article, "Two Flowers in the Sanctuary," by Lincoln, NE 68509-8920, phone (402) 471- rights and gay spirituality. The gathering Wilmer Tjossem (Fj Jan. 1988) about the 2455, fax (402) 471-3297. When writing or was diverse, including Christian, Muslim, meeting's response to the tragedy. The Mesner faxing please mark the envelope or cover and Jewish people, gays and non-gays. Jane family along with other Friends are pleading page "Executive Clemency." Please send cop­ Motz represemed American Friends Service for Randy's life to be spared. Nebraskans ies ofletters and faxes to Friends Committee Committee at the roundtable. The January Against the Death Penalty and Friends Com­ to Abolish the Death Penalty, 1501 Cherry meeting will address several vital questions: mittee to Abolish the Death Penalty are work­ Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. How can the anguish over the murder of ing with Randy's lawyers in an appeal for Matthew Shepard in Wyoming become a executive clemency. They are joined in this American Friends Service committee will ac­ positive force? Where should the religious effott by the Omaha Indian Tribe and Grace cept financial donations to assist victims of community stand on hate crime legislation? Blackbird, Randy's bitth mother. Grace Black­ Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. The storm What do the November elections tell us bird and others arranged for a prayer vigil on has lefr an estimated 100,000 people home­ about gay bashing as a political device? the Omaha Reservation in November. Mem­ less. Donations will be distributed through bers of Central City Meeting are considering AFSC's programs and program partnerships Sarah Knowlton, a member ofSandy Spring joining in public wimess at the prison on working in Honduras, including Mennonite (Md.) Meeting participated in a Global January 14, should the execution take place. Social Action Committee. Donations can be Volunteers service program in Xi' an, China. Friends are asked to contact the Nebraska made to Hurricane Relief, AFSC, 1501 Cherry Knowlton was part of a 16-member ream Board of Pardons to strongly urge the board Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Any dona­ who taught conversational English. Based in to recommend clemency and the governor to tions that you might like to channel to Friends Sr. Paul, Minn., Global Volunteers is a

On the Road to India QJmker Study spend the millennium with Friends on a journey in the Mahatma Gandhi was one of the greatest peacemak­ Footsteps ers the world has ever known. As the world stands on of the brink of a new millennium, the Gandhian chal­ lenge is greater than ever. What more fitting way to Gandhi enter it than to see in the new century with other A Quaker Study Tour Quakers at Gandhi's own ashram? On this journey we will follow in Gandhi's footsteps, from his birthplace Led by Ben Pink Dandelion on the coast of Gujarat, to his final samadhi in Delhi. Woodbrooke Quaker Studies Tutor And we will explore something of the great spiritual and religious traditions of India and the connections 18 December 1999- 3 January 2000 they have to Quaker thought.

Interested? Contact Admissions, Woodbrooke, 1046, Bristol Road, Birmingham, B29 6LJ, UK Tel: +44(0) 121 472 5171 • Fax: +44(0) 121 472 5173 e-mail: [email protected] • http:/ / www.woodbrooke.org.uk/ woodbrooke

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Upcoming Events will convene the first World Summit for Youth Peacemakers. NCPCR is looking for •February 18-21-Cuba Yearly Meeting young people who are currently working to reduce conflict within their families, neigh­ Resources borhoods, broader communities, and coun­ •The Quaker United Nations Office now tries. Presentations can be in the form of ..... has a home page. There are briefing papers workshops, keynote speeches, panel discus­ ~ on selected topics as well as the regular sions, or artistic presentations. For more in­ ~ QUNO report, "In and Around the United formation contact J'Lein Liese, Co-Chair, ~ Nations." The Internet address is . (602) 992-3913, e-mail: imsi@ earthlink.net, or Steve Gonzales, Co-Chair, 15244 South s •Syracuse Cultural Workers is an educa­ 44th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85044, (602) 940- d tional and cultural organization founded to 7594, e-mail: fielding@phnx. uswest.net. You Volunteer Sarah Knowlton teaches help create a culture that honors diversity also may visit their web site at . work as an essential part of and support nonprofit organization that offers people the for political and economic change. To re­ opportunity to volunteer on short-term de­ ceive a copy of their catalog, "Tools for • Dandi Daley Mackall and Prima Publishing velopment projects in 19 countries. "This Change," (3 15) 474-1132, e-mail , or visit their web site under to write essays on God for a new book. "and I noticed much growth and improved The tentative title is Why Kids Believe in God. . " at . economic status. Children can write their personal experience Opportunities of God and how God works for them. Guide­ Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting approved a minute on lines include: personal essays, 300 words or population and consumption that states in •There is a call for youth presenters for the more; original; use "I" and "me"; state why part: Friends seek a world where each life is National Conference on Peacemaking and you believe; include your name, age, school, welcomed at birth, valued as a child of God, Conflict Resolution that will take place May and address. The publishers will contact par­ and supported in a community where re­ 28- June I in Phoenix, Ariwna. With the ents for permission. Mail essays to Dandi sources are available to provide individual theme "Weaving a New Beginning: Libera­ Mackall, 1254 Tupelo Ln., W. Salem, OH growth and loving care. As we look around tion, Healing, and Community,'' NCPCR 44287; e-mail: dmackall@ ashland.edu. our earth, we see rapid population growth in an ecosystem with finite natural resources­ resources that will be unable to sustain the population growth in the future. We are led to take a stand on these issues, because John Punshon, Professor of Quaker population growth and unwise use of re­ Tour England: sources threaten life support systems of the Studies at Earlham School of Religion, earth. We ask all to search together for the The Birthplace of and his wife, Veronica, will lead their leading of the Spirit. We urge Friends every­ fifth group to the historic sites associ­ where to examine openly and fully the prob­ Quakerism lem of world population growth, overcon­ ated with the rise of Quakerism. A sumption, and the resultant disruption of sampling: Bunhill Fields in London, the entire earth community. We ask you June 14-29, 1999 William Penn's Jordans, Pendle Hill, to consider how further damage can be prevented. Firbank Fell, the Quaker tapestries at Kendal, Swarthmoor Hall, the lronbridge The World Christian Gathering of Indig­ Gorge, Coventry Cathedral, the Tower enous People convened in the United States in September 1998. Maori, Australian Ab­ of London, York Minster, and Earlham origine, Sioux, Saarni, Inca, Zulu, and Es­ Hall in Norwich. Experience the Royal kimo Christians met in Rapid Ciry, South Shakespeare Company at Stratford. Dakota, to bring their songs, dances, lan­ guages, traditional dress, and stories as offer­ Travel by private bus. Accommodations ings of praise and worship to God. The in superior to first class hotels. event was cosponsored by the American Bible Society. "Never before has a Christian gathering of tribal people of this size and For further information, contact international scope assembled together in John Owen, Earlham College, the history of North America. The goal of this gathering is to realize that Christianity Drawer 193, Richmond, IN 47374-4095 or and Native culture are not mutually exclu­ with fohn Punshon phone 765/983-1631. sive," said Richard Twiss, cochairman of the E-mail: . gathering.

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The readers of FRIENDS JoURNAL, and all The Struggle against the Quakers, will be interested in many references to Quaker action against the bomb. Friends' Bomb, Vol. II, Resisting the work against the bomb is reponed from the Bomb: A History of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Austra­ lia, and New Zealand. There are a number of Nuclear Disarmament references to actions ofAmerican Friends Ser­ vice Committee and a reference to the Phila­ Movement, 1954--1970 delphia Yearly Meeting Peace Committee. The By Lawrence S. Wtttner. Stanford University book is well indexed, so it is easy to look up Press, Stanford, Calif., 1998. 641 pages. $651 organizations, countries, or individual leaders. hardback, $24.95/paperback. Peace organizations to which many Friends This is the second volume of a trilogy by belong, such as Fellowship of Reconciliation, Open your child's Lawrence S. Wittner. The fuse volume, One Women's International League for Peace and World or None, covered the development of Freedom, War Resisters League, and SANE, mind to the world nuclear energy from the 1940s to 1953. The were all active against the bomb, and their third volume will cover 1971 to an as yet activities are well covered. Many new organi­ ABINGTON undetermined date of"the present." zations were created for the sole purpose of FRIENDS If this book were about a football game, it working against the bomb. SCHOOL would be heralded as the story ofan underdog Nuclear powers, and particularly the United against the world champion. It is about the States, developed an intense sensitivity to public A Quaker coeducational citizens of the world against the most power­ reactions against the bomb. M uch of the ar­ day school grades ful governments of the world. The citizens try gument centered on the danger, or lack of Preschool through 12 to banish, or at least control, nuclear bombs danger, of fallout from nuclear testing. Of the while governments wish to continue testing devastating H -Bomb test at Bikini in 1954, For more information, call and producing the bombs as instruments of Nixon's concern was that the United States 215-886-4350 national power. Unfortunately, it is not a was "taking a hell of a licking" on the propa­ 575 Washington Lane· Jenkintown, PA 19046 game but a deadly serious effon to save hu­ ganda front. manity. In 1954, the State Department opposed The activities against the bomb by many release of an Atomic Energy Commission re­ individuals and organizations in many coun­ pon on fallout arguing that it would "stimu­ tries are shared with readers. Activities, per­ late pacifism." Pacifism had become a bad sonalities, and statements, both private and word laid on those against the bomb. Much of government, are reponed from around the the time, the Soviet position on nuclear test­ world. Every statement and every action is ing was unclear, but Khrushchev was quoted documented. This book includes an unbeliev­ as saying, "Pacifism is a dangerous experiment able amount of careful research. in today's world." uaker QuiptoquotP.e------. by Adelbert Mason

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32 january 1999 FRIENDS j OURNAL t beg w t h ... Leaders against the bomb were subjected to much public and undercover harassment. When Alben Schweitzer came out strongly :5; against the bomb, the CIA and FBI went to ~11-iri work immediately to attempt to find Com­ munist connections or other ways to dispar­ J'8EPARATION age his worldwide affection. The attempt failed FOR MINISTRY to find "din" or stop Schweitzer. You didn't have to be in the Schweitzer You've been called to ministry preparation, league to have investigative flies in Washing­ ministry, now where ESR offers distinctive ton. Many active pacifists, including this re­ do you begin? experiences for those viewer, had such a file. Material I recovered With the foundation. pursuing Master ofArts via the Freedom of Information Act included and Master of Divinity a FRIENDSJ OURNAL article that only mentioned ESR helps you degrees. me as chair of a conference session. How prepare for ministry, Prepare for ministry many tax dollars go to CIA and FBI agents for building a strong with us, in a reading FRIENDS JouRNAL? center through supportive, Christ­ Citizens ofthe world have won a few scrim­ spiritual and academic centered, learning mages: the nuclear testing moratorium of 1958, preparation. With the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty of 1963, seven emphases of community. and the Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968. But Ann Miller guides the struggle continues with literally thousands ofnuclear weapons scattered around the world. At a minimum, this book needs to be in all EARLHAM SCHOOL ofRELIGION Quaker high school and college libraries. This An Investment in Friends Leadership is political and Quaker history from which we still have much to learn. 228 College Avenue, Richmond, Indiana 47374-4095 • 1-800-432-1ESR -Lyle Tatum http://www.ear lham.edu/esr Lyle Tatum is a retiree ftomAFSC and an active member ofHadt:UJnfield Meeting.

Women and Redemption: A Theological History ~cZ\Qe - ~tu.C1es cZ\broA.C Rosemary Radford Ruether. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 1998. 366pages. $451 1o QlobAl e.tueAt1oo hardback, $19/paperback. A quick glance at the index shows why this book is directly relevant to Friends. One can A Unique Experience In Education In India fmd there Margaret, Sarah, and Thomas Fell, Elizabeth Bathurst, Lucretia Mott, and • Year abroad program for high school students Angelina and Sarah Grimke. Not a bad con­ tribution to the development ofa theology of women's salvation. Why, however, are there • Excellent academic preparation at a fully accredited school no 20th-century Quaker women in the fore­ front of theological thought? • American high school diploma or International Baccalaureate Ruether traces the complex, and at times convoluted, ways in which theologians have viewed women since the start of the Christian • Extra-curricular activities including music, art, drama, sports, era. She brings us through the ages, examin­ and hiking ing the various understandings of redemption and gender. She ends with the emerging thought in South America, Africa, and Asia, • Students take a Winter Tour of India and volunteer in including provocative statements such as: community projects "Christ is set in tension with Christianity and aligned with the struggle and hope for African Contact: KW International, Inc~,159 Ralph McGill Blvd. Room 408, women's liberation." For Ruether, the crucial groundwork for Atlanta, GA 30308 modern feminist theology was laid in pan by Phone: 404/524-0988 Fax:404/523-5420 17th-century Quakers. Friends affirmed com­ [email protected] plete equality in the creation of men and

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34 january 1999 FRIENDS }OURNAL Milestones journalingfor joy: 'lllrnaling Writing YOur Wly to ing from the ministry in the early '60s, Paul worked Births J'"f / . Pasonal Frudom as a mental health clinical counselor and advocate ~ . by Joyce Chapman Orefice--justin Gamtt Orefice and Matthew in MassachusettS and New Hampshire. He married 1991,206 Gamtt Orefice, on September 8, 1998, ro his wife, Elizabeth, in 1966, and together they Jennifer Garrett and Anthony Orefice, of operate? a halfWay house for the emotionally dis­ pages Abington (Pa.) Meeting. turbed m the 1970s. In 1976, Paul retired, living $14.95 first on Peak's .Island, Maine, then moving in 1984 Posci-]akob Kenneth Posti, on May 1, 1998, to ~o Port St. Lucte, Fla., and finally moved to Missoula Lifo's Companion: journal Josephine and Steve Posri of Palm Beach (Fla.) In 1992. ~hroughout these " retirement" years, Paul Writing as a Spiritual Qum Meeting. worked ttrelessly and gave generously of his time by Christina Baldwin and money to many organizations, including Habi­ 1990, 350 pages $13.95 Deaths tat for Humanity, American Friends Service Com­ Boeger-fo!elvi.n H. Boeger, 67, on April28, 1998, mittee, Co-Op America, and Union of Concerned peacefUlly m his sleep at Crosslands Retirement Scientists; he was a representative of the Rainbow FGC Bookstore Coalition. H e was a visible and vocal opponent of Center .in K:nnerr. Square, Pa. Mel grew up near I -8oo-966-455 6 St. Lows, Missouri. Ever an ardent Cardinals lim nuclear power. When Paul joined Missoula Friends Bookstore he would have been proud of their glorious 199S just two short years ago, at the age of84, he clerked Friends General Conference the Adult Education Committee and jump-started seas?~· He attended ~e University of Missouri, 1216 Arch Street, 2B r;::;:;,;:a receivmg both bachelor sand master's degrees from the Peace and Social Concerns Committee. When Philadelphia, PA 19107 l.m!J Friends visited him and Berry in their home, they the school of journalism. He worked for several were treated to a guided tour of his collection of newspapers as a reporter and editorial writer before paintings of influential figures who have worked joining the Public Affairs Division of Shell Oil for peace. The week before he died, the Peace and Company. For 3? year~ Mel ~orked as a manager, speech and movie scnpr writer, and editor of a Social Concerns Committee met around his bed in his hospital room where Paul raised the concern of company magazine. In 1957 Mel married Yvonne 9-day Wal•ing To•r or 8-day Genealogy Tour the issues facingMonrana's Native American popu­ Y~~er and the two of them began a search for a Wales Experience the Welsh countryside and spmtual home. Through reading Quaker literature, lation and urged Friends to find a way to act. With T culture with local hiking guides or explore especially Frimd of Life: The Biography of Rufos the support of his wife, Paul's commitment and I OURS your Welsh heritage with professional '. . ' genealogists. Quaker locus available. Jones, by Elizabeth Gray Vining, they were led to activism continued until the very end of his life. H e felt called to urge Friends to bear active witness Contact Jim Kalish , 41 S. Newberry Street, seek o ur a 9-uaker ~ee~ng. They joined Orange • . York, PA 17404. Grove (Calif) Meermg m Pasadena in 1962. Mel to their leadings-ro nor wait, as time is short. The May 1999 Tel: 717/843-9309. E-mail: [email protected] was a member of Live Oak (Tex.) Meeting in pr~~ of his dying was a gift to the meeting: his Houston for the last 23 years of his life. Houston lucidtty and grace in letting go, his asking for what Friends will remember his sense of humor that he he ~eeded .(incl~di~g a Friend's classical guitar used from rime ro rime to defuse a tense situation playmg), hts bnngmg the Friends' community in a .meeting for .business. H e seldom spoke in together. Paul is survived by his wife Elizabeth; meeung for worship, bur when he did, his remarks four childr:n from his first marriage, Dorothy, Moorestown· were heartfelt and to the point. He developed a Paul, Paulme, and Carl; three step-children, D:borah, Alan, and William Newell; 11 grand­ ~pecial ministry of greeting newcomers and mak­ children; and one great-grandchild. Friends ~~~ti~~oN . m~ ~em feel ar. home. He took a keen delight in edinng the meen~g newslerre~ to which he brought a touch ofp rofessional expernse. Mel was a faithful Steele-Charks William Stuk, 73, on April 17, Educational Excellence for Over 200 Years 1998,.in an a~to accident in Central Point, Oreg. arrender at South Cent~ Yearly Meeting, serving Age three through 12th grade on a number of commmees. H e also became edi­ Electncal engmeer, human rights activist, hus­ tor of the yearly meeting newsletter. In 1996 the band, father, and beloved member of Rogue Val­ 1998199 OPEN HOUSE DATES ley (Oreg.) Meeting, Chuck was a gentle human ~eland Yvonne Boeger Ministry Fund was estab­ November 8, 1998 • January 24, 1999 lished by SCYM, to enable more yearly meeting being with a core of inner suength that perfectly mat0ed his name. Born in Galesburg, ill., Chuck February 23, 1999 • April6, 1999 Friends ro attend Quaker events such as the FGC May 16,1999 Gathering or workshops at Pendle Hill. In 1995 recet~ed an autho.ritarian religious upbringing that led htm to ~uesnon both authority and religion. Mel and Yv~nne m~ved ro .Cro~lands. Although .MoQrestown Friends ScHooii Mel was afflicted with Parkinson s disease, he did Drafted durmg WW II, he served as a radio opera­ tor in the Philippines and Egypt and afterwards t1t0 E. Main • Moorest

FRIENDS ]OURNALjanuary 1999 35 WilliAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 to work on military projects, demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and joined protests following Over 300 Years of Quaker Education the assassination of Harvey Milk. After two of his The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school daughters came out to him as lesbians, he found the cause he would most idenrif}r with. He and stressing high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter Candace founded the Peninsula Chapter of Par­ is committed to nurturing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an ents and Friends ofLesbians and Gays (PFLAG) in atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her their Palo Alto living room and worked tirelessly fullest potential. Kindergarten through twelfth grade. for the organization there, in Minneapolis, and in Ashland, where they started PFLAG's Southern Earl J. Ball m, Head of School Oregon Chapter. They also opened their home to 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 gay and lesbian youth whose own parents had (215) 844-3460 rejected them. Agnostic as a young adult, Chuck later expressed "continuous surprise" at how much Quakerism meant to him, leading him to request membership afi:er arriving in Ashland. He served Rogue Valley Meeting as a member of the Peace and Social Concerns Committee and as a represen­ tative to the local Ministerial Association, and his quiet, solid, thoroughly grounded presence each First Day anchored meeting for worship. H e also served on the Ministry and Oversight Committees for North Pacific Yearly Meeting and worked dili­ 1951 Delta Avenue West Branch, Iowa 52358-8507 gently to get the Yearly Meeting to recognize gay and lesbian marriages, a quest he saw fulfilled at the 1997 annual session. Chuck loved the our­ doors, opera, ferry boats, and playing with his cat, Mouse. He was a member ofthe Magnetic Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engi­ neers, the electrical engineering honorary Eta Kappa Nu, the Audobon Society, The Nature Conser­ vancy, and a life member of the Sierra Club. He is survived by his wife; three daughters; one grand­ child; and numerous surrogate children to whom he opened his home, his pocketbook, and his large and generous heart. Vogel-Robert Samuel Vogel, 81, on April 15, 1998. A conscientious objector, Bob served three Education research informs us that in order to be effective, years in Civilian Public Service. H e worked 40 learning must be comprehensive. Learning must take place within many years in Pasadena, Calif., and New York Ciry for settings - the classroom, the home, the community, the workplace and at the American Friends Service Committee as Peace Education Secretary, Regional Executive Director one's place of worship. Scattergood Friends School encompasses all of these (New York), and fundraiser. Bob also provided elements. Our challenging college preparatory curriculum is enhanced effective leadership in the American Civil Liberties by dormitory living, a learning community comprised of students and those Union (serving as a life board member from 1952 who teach, a work-crew and farm program, and Friends Worship. and president from 1956-1960), the United Na­ Value based education has been the foundation for tions Association, Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Los Angeles Counry Grand Jury, Pasadena academic excellence at Scattergood since its founding in 1890. Healthy Start, and the Lincoln-Howard-Arroyo­ For more infonnation, call 319-643-7628, or, 319-643-7600. Freeway Neighborhood Association. In 1943, Bob World Wide Web: http://www.scattergood.org became a member of the Religious Sociery of Friends in Syracuse, New York, and transferred his E-mail address: SFS/[email protected] membership to Orange Grove Meeting when he Fax number: 319-643-7485 moved ro Pasadena in 1946. Bob served as clerk of Pacific Yearly Meeting (1982-1985) and was a Brinton Visitor to North Pacific and Pacific Yearly Meetings (1995-1996). Bob was a member of the Pendle Hill General Board and served as Friend in Residence at Woodbroke College in Birmingham, BENJAMIN England (1994-1995). Bob had a special concern 'lhe Meetinghouse Mouse for the world body of Quakers and worked dili­ gently for Friends World Committee for Consul­ lfyou remember the Benjamin stories in past issues, you will be happy to tation. Bob will be remembered for his clarity of share them-now in book form-with your children, grandchildren, vision, leadership, steadfustness, and courage in his and Friends! Available for $6per copy from the FRIENDS jOURNAL office. ' witness. We will miss his kind eyes, instant smile, and generous, playful nature. He had a gift for Add $2 for shipping and handling to the US., Canada, and Mexico; making new attendees of meeting feel welcome. $3.50 elsewhere. Ortler a copy for the young Quaker in your life! Bob is survived by his four children, Jan, David, Jonathan, and Russell; nine grandchildren; and his sisters, Thelma Flynn and Jeanne Vogt.

36 january 1999 FRIENDS j OURNAL Classified Books and Publications Pendle Hill Seeks Applicants For Scholarships Pendle Hill is requesting applications for 1999- For Information call (215) 563-8629. New book about our country and the Constitution. Read 2000 scholarships. The Henry J . Cadbury Schol­ Classified rates 65q: per word. Minimum cha rge is about our wonderful heritage. Free Literature. Bob Wallace, arship is awarded to a Quaker scholar with serious $15. Logo is additional $15. Add 10% if boxed. 10% Aladdin Publishing, P.O. Box 820925, Fort Worth, Texas interest in Quaker faith, practice, or history to work discount for three consecutive insertions, 25% tor 76182. Visit our website at www.aladdinpubllshing.com. I on a research project benefiting the larger Reli­ six. Appearance of any advertisement does not Transitions Abroad Magazine-Thousands of overseas gious Society of Friends. 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It is located on 23 acres of wooded Advertising Manager, Friends Journal West Ma1n, Kalamazoo, Ml 49006-2842. grounds 12 miles southwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylva­ 1216 Arch Street, 2A nia. For details and application, please contact Liz Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 You' re In good company with Friends United Press au­ Kamphausen , Admissions, 338 Plush Mill Road, (215) 563-8629 thors-including Douglas Steere, Howard Thurman, Daisy Wallingford, PA 19086, (BOO) 742-3150, ext. 126; fax: Newman, John Punshon, Tom Mullen, Doug Gwyn, Louise (610) 566·3679; e-mail: [email protected]. Applica­ Wilson, Wil Cooper, T. Canby Jones, D. Elton Trueblood­ tions due by March 15, 1999. Accommodations and, of course, George Fox, John Woolman, and William Penn. Inspiration, humor, fiction, and history that takes you Scotland Tour and Northam England. July 2~August 7. Quaker House, Managua, Nicaragua. Simple hospitality to the roots of Quaker beginnings, belief, and beyond. Write Highlands and Islands. lona, Edinburgh and the Tattoo, shared kitchen. Reservations: 011-505·266-3216 (Spanishi 101-A Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374 tor a tree Undisfarne, and much more. Details: Predestination Tours, or 011_-505-266-o984 (English). For general information, call catalog or call (800) 537-8839 www tum org Telephone: (606) 573-9n1. Fax: (606) 573-2311 . Pro-NJCa: (727) 821-2428 or e-mail: linj @gte.net. Big Island Friends invite you into their homes tor mutual Read Without Apology by Chuck Fager. Assertive, Weekends At Pendle Hill Quaker sharing. Donations. 89-n2 Hua Nul Road, Captain upbeat liberal Quaker theology for today. Historian Larry Enlarging Your Prayer Life, Jan Wood, January 15-17. Cook, Hawaii 96704. (808) 328-8711 , 325-7323, 322-31 16. Ingle calls it "an important addition to any Quaker library. Strengthening and Nurturing Enduring Relationships, I know of nothing else quite like it. .. ." 190 pages, $11 .70 Arlene Kelly, January 22-24. The Currier's House, 5 Harkness Road, Jaffrey Center, postpaid. Orders: (800) 742-3150; or from Kimo Press, Clerking, Katherine Smith, February 5-7. N.H. Three comfortable rooms, all with private bath, in an P.O. Box 82, Bellefonte, PA 16623. Ministry or Madness? Quaker Educators in Public 1810 country Bed and Breakfast. Close to Mt. Monadnock Schools, Cynthia Cox Crispin, George Crispin, and Julia (climb it 14 different ways!), Monadnock Monthly Meeting, Dlgney, February 12-14. and The Meeting School. Take time to think and relax or Quaker Books. Rare and out-of-print, journals, memori- Jesus at the Movies, Anne Thomas, February 12-14. hike, bike, snooze, snack, walk, and talk. Small families als, histories, inspirational. Send tor free catalog or spe- Nurturing New, Small, or Isolated Meetings, Betty welcome but no pets, please. This is a smoke-free environ­ cific wants. Vintage Books, 181 Hayden Rowe St., Polster and Linda Chidsey, February 19-21. ment. Proprietor: Nancy Uoyd (GS '62) Telephone/Fax: Hopkinton, MA 01748. Visit our Web page at: http:// Faith and Medical Ethics, Richard Davis and Keith (603) 532-7670, e-mail: [email protected]. www.abebooks.comlhome/HAINES. Dobyns, February 26-28. Coming to London? Friendly B&B just a block from the Contact: Registrar, Pendle Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill British Museum and very close to London University. A liil Bookstore. Serving Friends and seekers Road, Wallingford, PA 19086. (610) 566-4507 or (800) central location for all tourist activities. Ideal tor persons worldwide with Quaker-related books, tracts, 742-3150, ext. 142. traveling alone. Direct subway and bus links with Heathrow and curricula for all ages. Materials to meet Short Courses At Pendle Hill Airport. The Penn Club, 21 Bedford Place, London WC1 B needs and interests of individuals, religious educators, James Nayler: Lost Sheep or Forsaken Lamb? Eliza­ 5JJ. Telephone: (0171) &36-4718. Fax: (0171) 636-5516. and meeting communities. Free catalog of over 500 titles. beth Kamphausen, January 17-22. Pittsburgh-Well located. Affordable, third-floor (walk up) Religious education consultation. Call, write, or visit: Survival o r Transformation: Maintaining a Sense of Direction amid Change, John Welton, January 24-29. guest room~ with shared bath. Single or double occupancy. Friends General Conference Bookstore, 1216 Arch Street, K1tchen available. Contact: House Manager, Friends Meet­ 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107, M-F 9a.m.-4:30 p.m. EST, Prayer: No Strings Attached, Chris Ravndal, February Inghouse, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. (800) 966-4556, e-mail: . 7- 12. Telephone: (412) 683-2669. Growing in Perfection: Spirituality a mong Friends, Marge Abbott, February 14-19. Chicago-Affordable guest accommodations in historic For Purchase Launching Your Spiritual Autobiography, Helen Hom, Friends meetinghouse. Short-or long-term. Contact: Assistant February 2&-March 5. Director, Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chi­ Wanted to buy: Westtown Sampler. Old books of Quaker Call: Pendle Hill, (610) 566-4507 or (800) 742·3150 ext. cago, IL60637. (n3) 288-3066, e-mail: [email protected]. interest. Grandfather clock. Please call or write: Eart Evens, 137. 20761 Old Wire Road, Laurinburg, NC 28352. (910) 369- An oasis of calm in the heart of Lo ndon? Yes at the 2803. Quaker International Centre, where short-, mediu~- . and Community Service and Leadership Development In­ longer-term accommodation is available as well as confer­ terns, Ages 18-24: Work at Pendie Hill and at volunteer ence facilities. Excellent homemade food. For further Opportunities placement sites; worship and reflect together; participate in information contact telephone: (0171) 387-5648, tax: (0171) workshops and consuH with experienced Friends; develop Angel Wanted--help me se~-publish "Certified Pure and 383-3722, or write to: 1 Byng Place, London WC1E 7JH. Segregated. "Personal experiences of se~ and w~e in Shangri your leadership skills; build your own community-and have a lot offun doing it. young aduHs. Some experience of Coming to DC? Stay with Friends on Capitol Hill. William La of Civilian Public Service Camp 27F. Also Powellsville 1~12 Quakerism required. Modest stipend. June 16-August 1. Penn House, a Quaker Seminar and Hospitality Center in Gainesville, and Gatlinburg . Includes humorous articles by beautiful, historic townhouse, is located five blocks east of Red Stephenson, Hal Cope, and Bard McAIIester written in For details contact Youth Coordinator after January 15, the U.S. Capitol. Convenient to Union Station for train and 1945. LesterJ. Clarke, P.O. Box 145, South Lee, MA01260. Pendle Hill, 338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086, (610) 566-4507 or (800) 742-3150 x 129. METRO connections. Shared accommodations including Telephone: (413) 243-1575. oon~nental breakfast, for groups, individuals. 515 East Capitol Consider a Coatis Rica Study Tour. March 4-15, 1999. E­ Monteverde Studios of the Arts, Monteverde, Costa Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003. E-mail: dirpennhouse@ mail: [email protected] or Fax: 011 (506) 645-5528 pennsnet.org. Telephone: (202)543-5560 Fax: (202) 543-3814. Rica: Where Craft and Culture Meet. "Participate in week­ or write Sarah Stuckey de Araya, Apdo. 46-5655, Monteverde, long classes in a community founded by Quakers in Looking for a creative living alternative in New York City? Costa Rica, Central America. Or, write Lori Musselman, 661 1951. Attend Quaker meeting. Take classes in ceramics, Penington Friends House may be the place for you I We are N. South Street, Wilmington, O H 45177. painting and drawing, textiles, stained glass, jewelry, look1ng for people of all ages who want to make a serious Lutheran Volunteer Corps seeks individllals to Worlc For basketry, woodworking, dance, photography, leatheiWork, commitment to a community lifestyle based on Quaker prin­ Social Justice in 9 urban areas. Explore spirituality through a storytelling, cooking; also personality studies. Work in ciples. For information call (212) 673-1730. We also have Simplified Lifestyle and by living with 4-7 people in Inten­ studios of your teachers and share in the same inspira­ overnight accommodations. tiOnal Community. Full-time, year-long jobs with stipend tional luxuriant surroundings of the rainforest. All artists available in various nonprofit agencies. Placements include are residents of this multicuHural community where North Audio-VIsual heaHhcare, education, housing, public policy, shelters, and Americans and Costa Ricans live in seamless contiguity. mor.e. Open to all faith traditions and ethnic backgrounds. Brochure: (800) 370-3331, www.rnvstudios.com. P.O. Box elizabeth Cady Stanton and Simple Gifts are two songs on M1mmum: 21 years old. LVC is a ministry of Luther Place 766-F, Narberth, PA 19072. Clare Wettemann's cassette "0 Come Sing (Songs for Memorial Church in Washington, D.C. Application deadlines the Seasons of Life)" $12, postpaid (or SASE tor descrip- are March 1-June 1. Call: (202) 387·3222 or write Consider Investing in affordable retirement property in the ~~)1~~l~r( ~~tt;~~~~ ~~ 9 Summit Hill Road, Jordanville, [email protected] or LVC, 1226 Vermont Avenue NW Southern Arizona high desert. Nearby Friends Meeting at 3 3 Washington, DC 20005. ' ' McNeal. Write or telephone: Karo lyn Huffman, 901 E. Belve­ Videos For Outreach and Education by dere Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21212. Telephone: (410) Claire Simon. Fifth Quaker Study Tour Of Bolivia 323-1 749. Of Lime, Stones, and Wood: Historic July 27-August13, 1999 Quaker Meeting Houses in the New Yorlr Another chance to join the highly successful Tour to visit Travel to Tuscany and Provence Yeerly Meeting Region. Appr. so min. the Quakers of the Andes. Quakerism in Bolivia has Taste of Tuscany and Friends In France trip programs V.H.S. $35.00. flourished among the poor highland Aymara people. Our offered each tail and spring. Learn about art, cuHure, and Who Are Quakers? 27 min. $30.00. tour seeks to build bridges between U.S., British, and cuisine in small groups of 8-12 people with excellent Crones: Interviews with Elder Quaker Women. 20 min. Bolivian Friends in this stunningly beautiful country. 14 accommodations, food, and expert guidance. Guests $18.00. mghts in hotels, 2 staying with a Quaker family. Approxi­ stay at historic villas in the countrY near Lucca and Avignon. Woman and Her Symbols, a series of 4 parts, by Mary R. mate cost from Miami $1675. For information brochure Information contact: Mark Haskell, Friends and Food Hopkins, Approx. 50 min. ea. $110.00 set. contact tour leaders: Ken and Pam Barratt, 4 722 Delmonte International, 1707 Taylor Street, NW, Washington, Quaker Video, P.O. Box 292, Maplewood, NJ 07040. Avenue, San Diego, CA 92107. Telephone: (619) 454- DC 20011 , USA. Tel/Fax (202) 726-4616, e-mail: Prices include postage. e-mail: [email protected]. 2809, e-mail: [email protected]. [email protected].

FRIENDS j OURNAL january 1999 37 Part-time Pastor sought by Poplar Ridge Monthly Meeting Interns, 9-12 month commitment, beginning January, June, Walk Cheerfully Across The Worldl in the Fingerlakes region of upstate New Vorl< to serve an or September. Assist with seminars and hospitality at Will­ Explore Britain's history with an expert Quaker guide. active meeting affiliated with FUM and FGC. Candidates iam Penn House, 5 blocks from U.S. Capitol. Room, board, Castles, cathedrals, stately homes, prehistoric and Ro­ should be interested in serving a community that comfort­ and small stipend. WPH, 515 East Capitol Street, SE, Wash­ man Britain, Quaker sites. Travel byways as well as ably includes Christ-centered and universalist members, ington, DC 20003. highways. Unhurried itineraries allow time to explore an­ and blends programmed and unprogrammed traditions. Di­ tique shops and stop for tea. Maximum of six on each tour Friend(s) in Residence. Mature individual or oouple to rect inquiries to Larry Buffam (315) 364-8901 or Hannah assist with hospitality, maintenance, programs lor Quaker ensures a high degree of individual attention. Price per Richter (315) 364-3531 . person per week of $1290 includes B&B accommodation Seminars and Hospitality Center. Room, board, insurance, in a characterful hotel, all travel within the UK, expert Twin Cities Friends Meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota seeks small stipend. WPH, 515 East Capitol Street, SE, Washing­ guided tours, and all entry fees. Special exclusive pack­ individual or couple for Friend-in-Residence position ton, DC 20003. age available foroouples. Full details from Binney's Castle starting June 1, 1999. On-site apartment provided. Call Carol Director of Development and Cathedral Tours, 12 Nursery Gardens, Tring, HP23 Bartoo, (651) 690-2852. Applications accepted through Buckingham Friends School 5HZ, England. TeVIax: 011 44 1442 828444; e-mail: March 1, 1999. Immediate Opening, lull-time, lor one-person development [email protected] or see http:!/ Each year Sandy Spring Friends School has a lew faculty office. Responsibilities include annual lund drive, worl. pend. June 16-August 1. See lull description under (conferences, newsletter, alumni contact, and reunions). "Opportunities. • Intimate community of staff and students; staff-run by con­ Contact: Youth Program Coordinator after January 15, Pendle sensus. Modest salary + full benefits. Experience required. Positions Vacant Hill,338 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA 19086-8099, (610) Contact or send resume with oover letter to: John Logue or 566-4507 or (800) 742-3150, x 129. Quaker Middle East Affairs Representative(s): American Sherrill Senseney, AMS, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Dean of Student Development Burnsville, NC 28714. (828) 675-4262. Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Quaker International Affairs program based in Amman, Jordan. in consuttation Earlham College Director, Monteverde Friends School. MFS is an En­ with Middle East International Regional Program staff in The Search Committee of Earlham College seeks nomina­ glish-dominant, bilingual school in Costa Rica's rural Philadelphia, the Quaker Middle East Affairs Representa­ tions lor and expressions of interest in the position of Dean mountains with 65 students in multi-graded classes from tives strengthen AFSC oontacts in the Middle East; build on of Student Development. preschool to grade 12. We seek individuals who share the worl< of previous Representatives to identify issues of Founded in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quak­ Quaker values, have experience with Quakerism and/or common ooncem on which to worl<; organize meetings, ers), Earlham College is a lour-year, coeducational, Quaker institutions, are bilingual English-Spanish, love exchanges, and study tours; write analytical reports on re­ residential, liberal arts oollege of 1,000 students. Through children and worl

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Foxdate VIllage, for Quaker-directed life care. A vibrant and Rentals & Retreats caring community that encourages and support~ men and Quaker Writers and Artists! Bald Head Island, N.C. Panoramic view of ocean, dunes, women as they seek to live life fully and gracefully 1n harmony Join the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts. FQA's goal: "To nurture and showcase the literal)!, visual, musical, lagoon, and golf course from four-bedroom, two-bathroom, with the principles of simplicity, diversity, equality, m~tual and pertorming arts ~hin the Religious Society of Friends, beautifully furnished house with wrap-around deck, two elec· respect, compassion, and personal involveme~!· Spac1ous tric golf carts. 14 miles of beach, champ1onsh1p golf, tenms, ground-floor apartments and community amemtles such as for purposes of Quaker expression, ministry, witness, and croquet, swimming, and fishing. 13,000 acres of mant1me libral)l, auditorium, woodshop, computer lab. Entl)l fees outreach. To these ends, we will offer sp1ntual, practical, wilderness. Many birds and wildflowers. No cars on ISland. $43,000-$148,000; monthly fees $1 ,372-$2,522. Fees 1n· and financial support as way opens." Help build an inter· Peaceful, friendly. Rental by day or week. (215) 699·9186. elude medical care. 500 East Mal)llyn Avenue, Department F, national network of creative support and celebrat1on. State College, PA 16801·6269. Telephone: (800) 253-4951. Membership, $15/year. FQA, P.O. Box 58565, Philadel· Provence France. Beautiful secluded stone house, village phia, PA 19102. E·mail: fqa @quaker.org. Our Web Page: near Avig~on , 3 bedroom (sleeps 5), kitchen/dining room, http://www.quaker.org/fqa. spacious living room, modem bathroom. Terrace, courtyard, Schools view of medieval castle. $2,230/mo June-Sept., $1 ,730/mo October. Marc Simon, rue Oume, 30290 Saint Victor, France, Westbury Friends School-Nurturing Quaker environment for 150 children, nursel)l-iJrade 6, on beaut1ful 17-ac.re HENRY 1105 North Fourth Street [email protected]; or J. Simon, 217 High Park Blvd., F Centerville, IN 47330 Buffalo, NY 14226. (716) 836·8698. grounds. Small classes and highly qualified teachers. Mus1c, REEMAN Phone: 80().707-1920 art, computers, Spanish, French, gym. Extended-day, vaca· Quaker·based, rural, high desert community ~ents to win· ASSOC/A TES Fax: 765-855·5278 ter visitors and prospective members. Wnte Fnends lion-holiday, summer programs. Half· and full-day nursel)l, preK. Brochure: Westbul)l Friends School, 550 Post Av· Consulting Services for educational institutions . and Southwest Center, At.1 , Box 170 #6, McNeal, AZ85617. non-profit organizations. Fundra1s1ng. Cap!tal campa1gns. enue, Westbul)l, NY 11590. (516) 333·3178. Pocono Manor. Beautiful, rustic mountain house suitable Planned giving. Recent clients 1nclude liberal arts col· for gatherings retreats, and reunions. Seven bedrooms. Come visit Olney Friends School on your cross·countl)l leges, seminaries, independent schools, soc1al serv1ce Three full baths. Beds for 15. Fully equipped. Deck w~h travels, six miles south of I· 70 in the green hills of eastern agencies, Friends Journal, and many other Fnends mountain view. Hiking trails from back door. Weekends or by Ohio. A residential high school and farm, next to Stillwater organizations. the week, May through October. Contact Jonathan Smpes: Meetinghouse, Olney is college preparation buin . around (215) 736·1856. truthful thinking, inward listening, loving commun1ty, a~ Wedding Certificates, b1rth testimonials, poe.tl)l, ~lfts . all useful work. 61830 Sandy Ridge Road, Barnesville, Oh10 done in beautiful calligraphy and watercolor 1IIUm1nat1on. A Friendly Maui vacation on a Quaker family organic 43713. (740) 425·3655. Book early for spring weddings. Wnte or call Leslie M1tchell, 2840 Bristol Ad., Bensalem, PA 19020. (215) 752·5554. farm. 20 minutes to local beaches. New stone and cedar Frankford Friends School: coed, K-6, serving center c~. building with large octagonal room, skylig~t , ocean vie~, northeast and most areas of Philadelphia. We provide children We are a fellowship, Friends mostly, seeking to enrich and walk·in closet, and private bath. Full k1tchen, orgamc with an ~ffordable yet challenging academic program in a expand our spiritual experience. We seek to obey t he vegetable garden, and hot tub. Bed and breakfast or bed small nurturing environment. Frankford Friends School, 1500 promptings of the Spirit, however named. We meet, publish, and supper: $70 per day. Weekly and monthly. rates Orthodox Street, Philadelphia, PA 19124. (215) 533· 5368. correspond. Inquiri es welcome! Wnte Quaker Universalist available. Write or call Hennetta & Wm. V1tarelli, 375 Fellowshlp, 121 Watson Mill Road, Landenberg, PA 19350· Kawelo Road, Haiku, HI 96708. Telephone: (808) 572· Westtown School: Under the care of Philadelphia Yearly 9344. 9205. Fax: 572-6048. Meeting since 1799, Westtown seeks Quaker children for day (PreK-10) and boarding (9-12). Boarding is required in 11th Forum Travel and 12th grades. Significant Quaker presence among 600 Quaker-owned-and-managed travel Retirement Living students, 80 teachers. Challenging academics, arts, athlet· agency. Friendly, experienced service; ics, in a school where students from diverse racial, national, domestic and international; overnight de­ Friends House, a Quaker-sponsored retirement commun~ economic, and religious backgrounds come tDllether.to form livel)l. (800) 888-4099. in Santa Rosa, California, offers one· and two-bedroom a strong community of shared values. F1nanc1al ass1stance garden apartments or more spacious three-bedroom, two­ is available. Westtown, PA 19395. (610) 399·7900. Friendly Financial Services. Let me help you prepare for bath homes for independent living. Immediate occupancy retirement or work out an estate plan. Socially responsible may be available. An assisted-living home, a skilled nursmg The Quaker School at Horsham, a value-centered elemen· • investments--my specialty. Call Joyce Moore, LUT(;F, Joyce facility, and adult day care services are also available on tal)! and middle school for students with learn in~ differences. Small, remedial classes, qualified staff, Moore Financial Services at (610) 966-6127 ore-ma1l JMFS@ campus. Friends House is situated one north of San serv1ng Ph1ladel· hou~ phia, Bucks, and Montgomel)l Counties. 318 Meetmg AOL.com. (Securities offered by Washington Square Secu· Francisco with convenient access to the PacifiC coast, red· rities, 20 Washington Square South, Mmneapol1s, MN 55401.) wood forests, cultural events, medical services. and shopping. House Road, Horsham, PA 19044. (215) 674·2875. Friends House, 684 Benicia Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95409. (707) 538.0152 www friendshouse.org. Junior high boarding school for grades 7_. 8, 9. Small academic classes, challenging outdoor expenencas, com· ~ tud;os Friends Homes, Inc., founded by the mun~ service, consensus decision making, daily work North Carolina Yearly Meeting of the Society projects in a small, caring, commumtyenwonment. Arthur of Friends, has been providing retirement Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. (828) 675-4262. Marriage certificates, announcements, Invitations, etc. options since 1968. Both Friends Homes at Do justice to your event with our calligraphy and award· Guilford and Friends Homes West are fee· winning graphic design. (800) 763.0053. __ for-service continuing care reti~emen t John Woolman School. Rural California, grades 9-12. Preparation for college and adulthood, small classes, caring communities offering independent 1 1v1ng, as· Celo Valley Books: Personal attention to all phases of book flsisted living , and skilled nursing care. Located in Greens· staff, work program, service projects; board, day. 13075 Woolman Lan e, Nevada C~. CA 95959. (530) 273·3183. production (25 to 5,000 copies). Typ1ng, ed1tmg •. layout, f1nal bore, North Carolina, both communities are close to delivel)l. Free brochure. 346 Seven M1le A1dge Road, Guilford College and several Friends meetings. Enjoy the United Friends School: coed; preschool-S; emphasizing Burnsville, NC 28714. beauty of four seasons, as well as outstanding cultural, integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum, includ· intellectual, and spiritual opportunities in an area where ing whole language and manipulative math; seMng upper Moving to North Carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker Quaker roots run deep. For information please call: (336) Bucks County. 20 South 1Oth Street, Quakertown, PA 18951. real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pinewood 292·9952 or write: Friends Homes West, 6100W. Friendly (215) 538·1733. Or., Greensboro, NC 27410. (336) 294-2095. Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27410. Friends Homes, Inc. Lansdowne Friends School-A small Friends school for Marriage Certificates. Fine calligr~phy in trad ~ional. plain owns and operates communities dedicated to the letter styles or decorated with beautiful, custom-designed and spirit of Equal Housing Opportunity. boys and girts three years of age through sixth grade! rooted in Quaker values. We provide children with a quality aca· borders. Also Family Trees for holiday gifts, births, anniver· demic and a developmentally appropriate program in a saries, family reunions. Call or write Carol Si'!lon Sexton, nurturing environment. Whole language, thematic educa· Clear Creek Design, 820 West Ma1n Street, Richmond, IN tion, conflict resolution, Spanish, alter-school care, summer 47374. (765) 962· 1794. program. 110 N. Lansdowne Avenue, Lansdowne, PA 19050. (610) 623·2548. Summer Camps ~11 Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic pro· SERVJCFS FOR OLDER PEOPLE gram in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for children Journey's End Farm Camp Kendal communities and services reflect sound manage· ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Small classes and an is a farm devoted to children for sessions of two to eight weeks each summer. Farm animals, gardening, nature, ment, adherenca to Quaker values, and respect for each enriched curriculum answer the needs of the whole ch11d. An individual. at·risk program for fiVe·year-<>lds is available. The school ceramics, shop. Nonviolence, simplicity, rever~nce for Continuing care retirement communities: also offers an extended day program, tutoring, and sum":ler nature are emphasized in our program centered 1n the life Kendal at Longwood; Crosslands • Kennett Square, Pa. school. Information: Stratford Friends School, 5 Uand1llo of a Quaker farm family. For 32 boys and g1rts, 7-12 Kendal at Hanover • Hanover, N.H. Road, Havertown, PA 19083. (610) 446·3144. years. Welcome all races. Apply in December..Janual)l. Kendal at Oberlin • Oberlin, Ohio. Carl & Kristin Curtis, Box 136, Newfoundland, PA 18445. Kendal at Ithaca • Ithaca, N.Y. Services Offered Telephone: (717) 689·3911 ; 0604. Communities under development: Kendal at Lexington • Lexington, Va. Friends Music Cam~xcit i ng , challenging Quaker·spon· Kendal on Hudson • Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. Downsizing and Relocation Consultant: You, too, can sored program fo r ages 1G-18-invites your inquiries. Why Independent living with residential services: benefit from my 35+ years of professional evaluation and do so many Friends Music Campers return year after year? Coniston and Carlmel • Kennett Square, Pa. liquidation experience in both personal property and real Music, musical theatre, fnendsh1ps, canoe tnp •. soccer, Skilled nursing care; assisted living: estate. Call Jim Boswell, CAl, at (610) 692·2226. Retired Quaker community. FMC, PO Box 427, Yellow Spnngs, OH Barclay Friends • West Chester, Pa. auctioneer, appraiser, and broker. 45387. (937) 767·1311 or (937) 767·1818. Advocacy/education programs: Camp Woodbr ooke, Wisconsin. Make friends, Untie the Elderly • Pa. Restraint Reduction Initiative Marriage Certificates: Send for free samples of wedd1ng certificates, invitations, artwork, ideas, tips, more! Gay and experience commun~. develop skills, a~d learn Kendal Corporation Internships about the environment. Quaker Leadership. 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FRIENDS ]oURNAL january 1999 39 "I don't want to retire to a place where everyone is the same. What are Q!taker programs for the aging doing about diversity?"

Quaker organizations serving the aging have always welcomed diversity-and many now celebrate resident and client communities Arbor Glen that are rich in their representation of rdigions, cultural backgrounds, Barclay Friends and nationalities. Yet when it comes to racial diversity, many of our programs have Broad.mead faced big hurdles: Catlbury •!• The histories of most of our organizations provide few models ChanJ/er Hall for serving racially diverse populations. But we are learning Crosskmds from those models that do exist. Foulkeways at Gwynedd •!• Economic barriers have prevented many people of color from Foxdak ViUage using our services. While seeking to expand options for all people Friends Home, ,Kennett Square of modest means, we also understand that there are people of Friends at all races who can afford the services they want and need. Home Woodstown Friends Hospital •!• The enduring tradition of family members taking care of dders in many communities of color has meant that our services have Friends Life Care at Home not been rdevant to many. Yet we know that this pattern is Friends Rehabilitation Program changing. The Greenkaf Clearly, new initiatives are needed~d are beginning. Quaker The Hickman service providers affiliated with Friends Services for the Aging are Jeanes Hospital taking practical steps to make their services more widdy known and Kendal at Longwood available. These initiatives include: The McCutchen •!• Building relationships with diverse organizations in our surrounding communities. Medford Leas •!• Training our staffin the skills ofattracting and honoring diversity . Pennswood VtOage •!• Developing new public relations, advertising, and consumer education Stapeley in Germantown strategies. Join us as we continue our journey in learning, changing, and building community! Hdp us spread the word that Quaker retirement and senior service programs wdcome diversity. Write for your free copy of the Guide to QJ«lker Services for the Aging. FRIENDS SERVICES FOR THE AGING Program locations are in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 1m Sentry Parkway West Dublin Hall, Suite 208 Blue Bell, PA 19422 (215) 619-7949; fax (215) 619-7950; e-mail: [email protected] EQUAL HOUSING www.libertynet.orgl..-fsainfo OPPORTUNITY