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Seeing Wales through a Quaker Filter Can't See the Covenant for the Contracts • Circumcision of the Heart Editor-Manager Vmton Deming Among Friends Associate Editor Kenneth Sutton Assistant Editor Timothy Drake Where One Starts From Editorial Assistant ome is where one starts from," wrote T.S. Eliot. If this is true, I'm a Claudia Wair Midwesterner, for that's where I got started. I spent a happy childhood on Poetry Editor Judith Brown H Chicago's North Shore; holidays with my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and Art Director cousins in an old West Side neighborhood of the city; summers in the woods of Barbara Benron Production Assistant northern Michigan; college years in Wisconsin; and my first years as a high school Alia Podolsky English teacher in a small town in northern Illinois. I also can trace my Quaker Marketing and Advertising Manager spiritual roots to Chicago, where I attended 57th Street Meeting in the 1960s while Nagendran Gulendran employed by the American Friends Service Committee. Circulation Assistant This March I enjoyed visiting with Chicago-area friends and Friends of old, Nicole Hackel Administrative Secretary several of whom I had not seen in more than 30 years (including two students from Marianne De Lange my first year as a high school English teacher in Round Lake, Illinois). It was good to Bookkeeper meet new friends as well, one of the real "fringe benefits" of traveling for the JouRNAL Juliet Resos My few days were busy ones. I managed to meet with Friends at three local Development Consultant Henry Freeman meetings--Lake Forest, Evanston, and North Side-and, of course, to enjoy several Development Assistant excellent potluck meals. 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7 Dancing Cheerfully over the World Answering 2 Among Friends That of God in All 4 Forum Rosemary K Coffey Reconciliation is at the heart ofthe Friendly FolkDancers' ministry. 22 lntemational Notes 10 Circumcision of the Heart 25 News of Friends Tom Gates 26 Bulletin Board How do we discern between the essentials ofa Christian lifo and the assumptions ofculture? 27 Calendar 12 Seeing Wales through a Quaker Filter 28 Books Jim Kalish 32 Resources A visitor from Pennsylvania finds many historic Quaker ties to Wales. 34 Milestones 14 Quaker Mystics Today 36 Classified Nearly 100 Friends gathered for two weekends devoted to mystical experience. Several participants share their reflections. A Mystical Weekend Kathryn Gordon Subtle Mysticism Marty Grundy A Holy Experience James Baker Mysticism among Friends Jean RobertS 19 Can't See the Covenant for the Contracts Douglas Gwyn The author ofThe Covenant Crucified: Quakers and the Rise of Capitalism examines the culture ofcapitalism and how it routinely reduces God's creatures to marketplace commodities.

Children gather for a performance by the Friendly FolkDancers at Cover photo by jim Kalish Malava Friends Girls School In Kenya.

fRIENDS JOURNAL May 1997 3 Forum Thanks, Claudia account for some 12 percent of the state's (budget-making, appropriation) to use current prison population of 144,000. money out ofthe common fund for I have been sitting on an article to The public is thought to be heavily military purposes. submit to FRIENDS jOURNAL since August supportive of the California law, which has A meeting for business is not a meeting 1996. It now appears that I was waiting for been sold by legislators (and a very strong for worship. A meeting for the purpose of Friend Claudia Wair to write her thoughts pro-prison-building lobby) as a way to worship lasts for about an hour, there is no on liberal Quakerism in the 21st century remove violent repeat criminals from the recognition of speakers, there is no agenda, (FJ Jan.). All that remains for me to write is: streets. As enacted, however, California's and no minutes are taken. It's the name for "That Friends speaks my mind." law has led to disproportionately long a very special experience in itself. Nothing Peggy Spohr sentences for nonviolent offenders. In one else is like it. "Periods of worship" do not Flossmoor, Ill. recent case, prosecutors sought a 35-years­ give the necessary scope. Holding agenda in to-life sentence for a 31-year-old man worship is not having a meeting for Claudia Wair's article gives clarity and whose three convictions were for daylight worship. A business meeting, it ought to go words to things that have concerned me for burglaries of TV sets. Even local juries have without saying, is held in a worshipful quite a long time. I, too, spent time at balked at such sentences as this. manner. A Friends meeting that needs to Pendle Hill and felt deeply nourished by We in the Monterey Peninsula (Calif.) spell this out must be having difficulty. that experience, the daily meeting for Meeting believe a law that imposes such I am a native American; that is, I was worship being a very important part of that Draconian sentences for nonviolent crimes born in the U.S. American Indians seem to time. Thank you for this thought­ is badly flawed. According to our local be equally comfortable being called provoking article. district artorney, it costs $20,000 a year to "American Indians"; some of their own Harriet Elkington keep a person in prison in California. active organizations even use that name. Santa Fe, N.Mex. Multiply that by 25 years and the They have their own real names in their cumulative cost of carrying out a Three own languages, regardless of what English­ As a lifelong Friend, I am asking what Strikes sentence is at least a half-million speaking intellectuals decide to call them. our role is as a Religious Society of Friends dollars. The human costs of a life so wasted While inclusive language is much to be at this time. How can we make sure the are incalculable. worked on, there are some words it would essence of our faith in the Christ within is We will be working this coming year be absurd to avoid. To be truthful, the central to us as Friends? toward having California's Three Strikes symbolic and poetic uses of the words Would it be helpful for Friends meetings law amended to distinguish clearly between "dark" and "black," for example ("ocean of to ask themselves Claudia Wair's questions violent and nonviolent crimes and to darkness"), generally refer to the absence of and to answer them in the manner in impose shorter prison terms for the larter. light, not to the skin colors of significant · which the queries are answered? We are also starting to look at alternatives parts of the human race. to prison sentences. William Kriebel Louise Wilson We would like to hear from other Lexington, Mass. Virginia Beach, Va. meetings throughout the country that may be concerned with the Three Strikes issue. Congratulations on your editorial Nourishing the vine diplomacy in running both Claudia Wair's Bob faster I would like to make a couple of article and Sigrid Lund's article in the same 22 Via Buena Vista suggestions to Larry Ingle (Forum Dec. issue, the two writers espousing almost Monterey, CA 93940 1996). diametrically different views. As a Quaker 1) Look up Edwin Arlington Robinson's universalist, I found myself in complete poem "Miniver Cheevy." The metaphor is accord with Sigrid Lund's perspective, but I How truthful? not Quaker, but the problem of trying to do appreciate Claudia Wair's concerns. ''You know what I mean!" make the past the present is ever with us. I think so, but shouldn't Friends be 2) Larry, come stay and worship and Roger Christeck more specific? work with us in O lympia (Wash.) Meeting. Swansea, Ill. I look up the meaning of"racist." It I think you would find David Albert means to believe and teach others that one ("Some Notions on Why Friends Meetings race is superior to others. Those who have Do Not Artract Minorities," Fj Oct. 1996) A Quakerly concern come to the prayerful point of joining a very different person than. your So far 24 states have enacted "Three Friends are truly not "racist." Those who presumptions. The reading of purpose, Strikes" laws, so named because they call Friends racist probably mean that motivation, and personality into someone mandate extremely long sentences for although we may think we are free of bias, else's writing is not necessary in disagreeing people convicted of a third felony. unconsciously we carry prejudices Oike all with context or content. California's law is by far the most punitive. our fellow human beings). "Racist" is a At Olympia Meeting we have a loving, It doubles the sentence for a second felony careless epithet that allows us to shrug off joyful communiry of active, involved and imposes a mandatory sentence of 25- criticism instead of looking with interest people-a diverse age group from infants to years-to-life for a third felony, even where into our prejudices. 80+ year olds, and a variety of racial none of the three were violent crimes. . There are no "war taxes." All income tax backgrounds. We also have a diversity of California's is also the most frequently money goes into the treasury without theological perspective in meeting and in invoked Three Strikes law; since voters earmarking for the military. Taxation is a our Bible Study Group that has run approved the legislation in 1994, the legitimate power of any government. Our vigorously for over three years. We have a 17,000 people sentenced under its terms points of protest really are the decisions Women's Group, a Prayer Group, a Peace

4 May 1997 FRIENDS jOURNAL and Social Action Committee, an Aging This activity celebrates an historic era in and those of Quakers have their own Well Group. We take an active part in our culture when the Quakers and other unique features and that these may nurture Associated Ministries, which includes non­ abolitionists took action to save Africans a different sense of worship experience in Christian groups and has replaced the and African-Americans who fled the South their respective tradition/practice, neither of Council of Churches in Olympia. Our to seek freedom. It required a blind faith them has an edge over the other. liaison with Associated Ministries is David from both blacks and whites, trusting to There are many points of contact Albert. God that the leap would be successful. It between Quakers (and other Christians) We have marched as a meeting with the was especially hard for the blacks whose and Buddhists, especially the socially Gay Pride Parade, stood with the past life experience had taught them there engaged Buddhists. We must recognize the Fellowship of Reconciliation on weekly and was precious little compassion in whites. differences berween our practices not in yearly Christmas vigils. We have appeared For the whites involved, it was a hazard, terms of better or worse but in the on local TV to talk about conscientious too. To run the Underground Railroad was appreciation for diversity that is essentially a objection to war and have taken our turn at risky; they could lose their property and part of the Creation itself. 'The Pastor's Perspective" (a weekly forum gain the censure of their communities. Robert L Hopper piece in the Daily Olympian), using the It is noteworthy that at South Central Evanston, Ill. opportunities to explain our beliefs and way Yearly Meeting the young people have of worship. We have worked with the never plotted the activity to thwart the legislature on many issues. We have not blacks. In the real world, it stands to reason On being Jewish stormed churches where many of the that there would be times when the sheriffs I was troubled by the responses to my members and pastors share our concerns. and the slave owners were successful in article, "Being Jewish at Christmas" (FJ We have not tried to embarrass the reapprehending their victims. But our Dec. 1996), in the March FRIENDS jOURNAL legislature that we have helped elect and present-day youth never let that happen. and by a similar letter sent to me privately who need us and we them. Their story always ends with the victims by a reader. Rather than looking inward to We have love and concern for each making it to the next station. ask how their actions and assumptions as other. The suppott many of us have Re-enacting the Underground Railroad members of a majority group might be experienced in sickness, death, family celebrates the brave blacks who strove so causing others pain, the writers seem eager breakup, etc., is a result of community. The hard for freedom, and the Quakers who to point out how I and other Jews are meeting community centers on the meeting had the compassion and bravery to act in wrong to feel marginalized by the for worship and makes it possible for us to defiance of the law. Acting out this drama is proliferation of Christmas music and go forth trying to answer to that of God in good pedagogy for our meetings and good decorations in workplaces, stores, and other everyone we meet. Our worship nourishes experience for young people. I earnestly public and semi-public spaces each the vine, and the vine bears fruit. pray that we not censure such December. re-enactments but encourage ourselves to My article did not, I believe, deny the WardC Miles blossom out into acceptance of the history value of Christian ritual or say I felt Olympia, Wash. we have been born into, and the passion of "diminished" by it; rather, it urges the our forebears. private reclamation of ritual from the jeannette Larson public, secular, and commercial realms and Underground Railroad Ft. Worth, Tex. asks how Christians and other majority The articles about the Underground group members in a multicultural United Railroad game for Quaker youth have held States can learn to share space more my interest. Having seen no writing in sensitively with members of religious and support of such activities, I submit this other minorities. account of the experience of South Central At a time when anti-Semitism is on the Yearly Meeting with the hope that it may rise worldwide-reflected in the U.S. present this subject in a new light. recently by right-wing militia literature The monthly meetings have prepared describing Jews as "Satan's spawn," a the children with study of the historic swastika painted on a Jewish community­ Underground Railroad in First-day school run daycare center near my home, and prior to yearly meeting-how it operated harassment of a Vermont student protesting and what the hazards and emotions were. Christmas decorations in her high school- The children are urged to write their own 1 would hope that well-meaning Christians, dialogue. The youth leaders carry forward including Quakers, would ask how they can the tradition but the children do the work. Besting the Buddhists? stand with their Jewish friends and As the children grow, they expand the I was somewhat disturbed by the neighbors as allies, rather than dismiss our script, imagining new lines, trying new reference to Quakers having "an edge on pain as illegitimate. approaches, keeping what works and the Buddhists" in Judith Brown's article To deny, as the respondents to my discarding what does not. "The Interconnected Web of Friends article do, that Christmas wreaths and trees It is outdoor theater. While the young Silence" (F] March). Perhaps it was not her are Christmas symbols, whatever their people pace out their journey, the audience intention, but this phrase certainly gives the pagan origins; or to suggest that Jews-less follows, trying to keep up with the action. impression of a hierarchical, "we're better than three percent of the U.S. It is exciting, interracial, intergenerational, than them" attitude and view. I too have population-should somehow counter unprogrammed, and aglow with the practiced Zen Buddhism. While I agree Christian cultural hegemony by "sharing togetherness of actors and adults. that the worship practices of Zen Buddhists ourselves" more aggressively; or to tell

FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1997 5 members of a minority group how we road surface, for he thinks it implies that _ carefully to each other." Agreed! May I add should feel and act-that we should be African Americans are treacherous. How that we need also to listen with as much "proud Jesus was Jewish," as one absurd can you get? compassion as we can muster-with divine correspondent wrote me-is to deny the Thomas Bassett assistance to be sure. A political organizer reality of anti-Semitism or to reject Shelburne, Vt. friend with much experience of responsibility for raking action against it. multiculrural work tells me that when we Jesus' first followers were Jewish. So white folks stan this listening to people of Roberta Spivek were his opponents. The latter came from color, we must expect to hear a lot of anger Philadelphia, Pa. the hereditary and professional priesthood, and terror. etc. Any attempt by anyone to read more Second, it seems to me that regarding into the phrase "the Holy People" in environmentalism and the promotion of Quaker grammar? Caner's song "Lord of the Dance" than sustainable living, perhaps we are seeing the I was astounded to read the letter from that is ludicrous, even paranoid. Any beginnings of a process similar to what Esther S. Bennett (Fj Feb.). Her fond attempt to cast the composer as anti­ JoAnne describes. Thousan~millions?­ reminiscences of using "thee" when Semitic is unjustifiable. of people in the United States and other speaking to parents, teachers, and elders Paul Thompson industrial countries are alienated from certainly gave one a warm feeling, but the Scone, Scotland capitalist consumerism and tempted to look usage she describes is precisely the opposite at corporate and mainstream culture in "us of the intent of plain speaking. I have enjoyed owning the new hymnal vs. them" terms. Yet thousan~again, In the 17th century the English published by Friends General Conference, millions?--of outwardly "mainstream" language had two forms of the second Worship in Song. However, I found the people are also appalled at the ecological person pronoun. The familiar form was other day a glaring omission. I had just catastrophes facing both the planet and used with children, family members, and finished reading of the trying times endured many communities in the next century. "inferiors." "You" was formal and polite, by Quakers late in the 17th century. Words These people seem for the most pan willing used in all other settings, and panicularly kept flowing through my mind: "Faith of to make major shi&s in their lifestyles and toward your "superiors." Those forms were our fathers living still, in spite of dungeon, to support big changes that would push analogous to the French tu and vous. fire, and sword." I reached for my hymnal governments, businesses, and others much When the early Friends adopted the to recall the entire hymn. Not present! I further towards sustainable public policies. practice of addressing everyone with the picked up the older Friends Hymnal and Perhaps we rieed to expand, as widely and familiar form, the purpose was not found that there were in that hymnal even soon as possible, processes of deference but leveling. By speaking to a more Quakerly words:"... we will love compassionate, careful listening between king or a judge in the familiar, a Quaker both friend and foe in all our strife." "simple-living" f/Friends and "mainstream" was making a statement about the equality I tried to think what rationale the people? of all persons. Like their position on hat compilers might have employed to cast the john MacDougall honor, it was a refusal to recognize greater hymn aside. I could come up with only one West ford, Mass. or lesser degrees of dignity simply by virtue likely answer. In this day of sensitivity to of societal rank or post. sexist language, the term "father" might Over the centuries the familiar forms have seemed offensive. I'm sure it would Campaign reform have dropped from popular usage. Probably infringe on copyright to substitute a non­ Many thanks for the editor's personal thanks in large measure to a offensive term such as "forbears" for the remarks (Among Friends, Feb.) on the misunderstanding of the King James Bible, male noun. The editors did keep Whittier's subject of strong campaign finance reform they gradually became regarded as "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind," legislation. The overriding importance of reverential. So I guess it's a good thing that which could have been eliminated on three such reform certainly warrants the personal their use among Friends is disappearing. counts. and editorial attention you gave it. In my Omission or not, I am g~teful for the view, our democracy will become joe Ossmann new hymnal. I was glad to find copies on increasingly dimmed unless Congress acts Carmichael, Calif. the seats when I visited the Woodstown sooner rather than later. (N.J.) Meeting. I took it as a sign that even Bill Ludlow an unprogrammed meeting was open to its Philadelphia, Pa. Discordant notes use when the spirit moved. Some Quakers assign guilt by Philip Kelrey association. David Rush (Fj March) is one Somers Point, N.J. FRIENDS) OURNAL welcomes Forum con­ who thinks that because some Jews tributions. Please try to be brief so we panicipated in the crucifixion of the Jew may include as many as possible. Limit Jesus, all Jews are Christ-killers. Nonsense. Carefully listening letters to 300 words, Viewpoint to 1 ,000 He is a victim of the &llacy that if some do Many thanks for JoAnne Schneider's words. Addresses are omitted to main­ something bad, all of that class are forever piece, "Racism, Quakers, and the tain the authors' privacy; those wishing guilty. David is telling Christians not to Underground Railroad Game" (Fj to correspond directly with authors may celebrate their central story whose core is December 1996). I found it very rich, send letters to FRIENDS jOURNAL to be "Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again." thoughtful, and helpful (confession: I am a forwarded. Authors' names are not to be I have a neighbor who thinks we WASP, convinced Friend). used for personal or organizational so­ shouldn't speak of "black ice," which is Two thoughts on the anicle. licitation. -Eds. treacherous because you can't see it on the First, JoAnne said, "we must listen

6 May 1997 fRIENDS jOURNAL Dancing Cheerfully over the World The audience joins In a Japanese coal miners' dance at Tulol Friends Church, Kenya.

ith this modification ofGeorge Meanwhile, the FolkDancers were re­ Fox's injunction to his followers Answering ceiving advice &om Friends "in the know": W to walk cheerfully over the Women should wear skirts (the longer the world, answering that of God in every better), not slacks. W e should not expect one," the Friendly FolkDancers have been That of God Kenyan men and women to hold each bringing their message of peace through other's hands and dance together. We dance to Friends for the past ten years. In ourselves should not have men and women early May 19J6 I joined one such group in All dance face to face unless they are married of dancers &om the United States and to each other. We should avoid discussing Britain who were planning to extend their by Rosemary K Coffey politics. We should be prepared to stay in ministry to Kenyan Friends. What began homes with no plumbing or electricity. as an exercise in faith on both sides ended We would be traveling in the rainy sea­ as a heartfelt appreciation for each other's son. We needed malaria pills and immu­ values and principles despite differences made? And how would Kenyan Friends nizations against yellow fever, cholera, in customs and forms. react to the idea of dancing as a form of meningitis, hepatitis, polio, tetanus, diph­ The trip began with a dream, articu­ prayer? theria, and so on. What on earth were we lated by Mark Judkins Helpsmeet, one of In 1994 I represented Lake Erie Yearly getting ourselves into?! the founders of the Friendly FolkDancers Meeting at the Friends World Commit­ But Mark continued to line up poten­ (FJ July 1988) and a member of Eau tee for Consultation Triennial at Ghost tial tour members, and by the rime Gladys Claire-Menomonie (Wis.) Meeting. Ranch, New Mexico, where I met some had a Kenyan itinerary in place, he had Groups of FolkDancers had already vis­ Kenyan Friends and introduced the idea commitments from nine Friendly ited England and Scodand in addition to of a Friendly FolkDancers tour of their FolkDancers, including Elizabeth Cave touring the United States. Surely it was country. The Kenyans were polite but &om Britain Yearly Meeting. The others rime to bring this ministry to Kenya, skeptical. Surely we meant well, but what were: Mark and Sandra Hdpsmeet, Denise home of 13 yearly meetings and tens of on earth were we really planning to do? Madland, Demi Miller, and Grace Valen­ thousands ofQuakers. But the FolkDanc­ N egociacions went on by mail, but progress tine &om Northern Yearly Meeting; Liseli ers came &om silent, unprogrammed meet­ seemed to come to an end when our Haines &om New York Yearly Meeting; ings, mosdy in the East and Midwest, Kenyan connection le& FWCC for other and Zig Dermer and I &om Lake Erie while the Kenyans favored Friends activities. Then Barnabas Lugonw, assis­ Yearly Meeting. When we arrived in churches featuring pastors, programs, and tant clerk ofFWCC, Africa Section, wrote Nairobi, immunized and exhausted, on prayers. How could the connections be that he was turning over the correspon­ or about May 9, we were met by Gladys dence file to Gladys Kang' ahi, a dynamic and other local Friends and distributed Rosemary K Coffey is a member ofP ittsburgh leader of the United Society of Friends among them for hospitality. The first per­ (Pa.) Meeting and clerk of the International Women (USFW) of Kenya. With are­ formance was to be at the Friends Centre­ Q!taker Aid Committee ofFWCC. The trip to newal of energy on both sides, planning Ofafa, in the eastern part of Nairobi, on Kenya was her fifth Friendly FolkDancer tour. for the tour resumed. Saturday, May 11.

FruENDSJ oURNAL May I 997 7 The program, tided "Dancing the Maliki; and Tuesday Left: A Mallkl Friend World Together," featured sets of dances morning at the Sipala ties a sash around a from peoples and regions that are, or have Friends School near dancer's waist during a welcome been, at war. The dancing was presented Lugulu. We were on our dance. as a prayer for the well-being ofall people. way! Deinah made it In the tradition ofFriends, we intended to dear that, while she was Below: Students at go beyond taking sides; rather, we chose not at all sure what we Malava Friends Boys School watch all sides, in that we were reaching out to were going to do, local a performance. embrace all parties to a conflict. The dance Friends had nonetheless sets united Russia and the United States; been praying for our Arabs and Israelis; England and Ireland; safety and our ministry. downpour prevented France and Germany; and the three main In Kitale most of us us from driving on ethnidreligious groups of the former Yu­ stayed at the home of to Lugulu as origi­ goslavia. Following the formal program, Ezekiel Wanyonyi, a nally planned. Mean­ members of the audience were invited to former clerk ofEast Af- while, we were be­ join in performing typi­ coming accustomed cal folk dances from to sumptuous meals of local foods: rice, South America, Eu­ bananas, plantains, cassava, sweet pota­ rope, Asia, and Africa. toes, cooked cabbage, bean soup, meat Our closing dance was stews, hard-boiled eggs, and the ubiqui­ usually 'The Bells of tous ugali, a Kenyan staple made ofground Peace," sung by all in maize and water, served in both light and three concentric walk­ (with sorghum added) dark versions. ing circles. Whatever else happened, it was dear we After the event, at­ would not go hungry. tended by about 70 Our next three performances were people, Africa Section at Friends schools near Lugulu and in assistant clerk Barnabas Malava. They provided us with our first Lugonzo wrote: "We experiences of dancing for an audience of welcome the message nearly 1, 000 people at each stop! Young­ delivered through the sters enrolled at nearby schools had been various dances per­ invited, along with the regular students formed ... and pray that it will yield fruits rica Yearly Meeting-North. We performed at our host schools and a good rep­ of friendship and appreciation of efforts a Bosnian/Croatian mourning dance resentation of adult Friends from the being made for closer relationships of the around the grave of his recently deceased local monthly or quarterly meetings. Our world's nations. May the Almighty God wife, Rachel, before leaving for our first first try at participation dancing was bless the endeavours ofthe dancing group." engagement, where we danced outside, scary: when we invited the students to Buoyed by our hosts' cordial response on rather uneven ground, with about 300 move their chairs and benches out of to our first performance, we left Nairobi people in the audience. Some of them the way and join us in the center, near~ the next morning, accompanied by Helen later danced for us, as well as with us. chaos resulted. No one was hun, how­ Kavugwi of Langata Monthly Meeting, Since electricity was not available, we con­ ever, and we learned quickly: at the next in two rented vans with drivers. We were nected our sound system through a trans­ stop, we each personally invited three or heading for Western Province, a region former to the battery in one of the vans, a four people to join us and then stressed where fully 30 percent of the inhabitants solution that served us well throughout dances with lots of hand movements, so are Quakers, thanks to missionary efforts most of the trip. On the side of the van we others could participate from their seats. of midwestern Friends who arrived in hung for a backdrop a plastic shower (One of the dances that we taught was the Kaimosi in 1902. Even today efforts are curtain with a colorful map of the world, "Macarena"-months before it became continuing to spread the word, as one of on which we had marked the countries of popular in the United States!) Since our the pastors in Nandi Yearly Meeting told origin of our dances. audience on U.S. tours normally num­ us ofhis plans to follow George Fox rather In the afternoon we presented a some­ bers from 15 to 60, we were thunderstruck more literally than we were doing, by what shorter program to the Maliki by these opportUnities to share our minis­ setting out on foot to seek converts. Monthly Meeting, also outside, at the try with so many. We were met in Kitale by the first of farm belonging to Isaac Luvaga, then clerk Around this time Mark was inspired to Gladys Kang'ahi's surrogates, Deinah ofEastAfrica Yearly Meeting-Kitale. Qust introduce our performance by observing Ongeti, clerk of USFW-Kitale, who an­ a month later Isaac suffered a fatal heart that we were all familiar with using our nounced that she had scheduled us for attack while in Athens, Ohio, to celebrate lips, our voices, and our hands to pray; three performances in the next two days: his daughter's completion of her PhD what we would show them here, however, Monday morning at the Serende Friends requirements.) Isaac's wife Esther and was how to use our entire bodies as a Church in Kitale; Monday afternoon at other family members welcomed us and prayer for peace. This formulation, which the home of Isaac and Esther Luvaga of put us up for the night when a heavy was comfortable for everyone, enabled us

8 May 1997 FRIENDS ) OURNAL Left: All join In a dance at Serende Friends Church, Kltale. Below: Friendly FolkDancers perform a dance of mourning from Croatia/ Bosnia­ Herzegovina.

the vans there was no available source of electricity. Tilolwa Friends were having such a good time dancing with us afTer­ wards that it was hard to break for the afternoon meal. Dorcas's later comments seemed to sum up the general impression Kenyan Friends had of our tour:

We received the group with joy and appreci­ ated their ministry through dancing. It was to use dance in a nonthreatening manner. numerous speeches in Swahili and Luhya. quite a new way to minister to God's people. It has never been the concept of dancing as In fact, contrary to what we had been It was not the best venue for our ministry, contributing to the Quaker way of thought told, we found that men, women, and especially since the hall was reserved for amongst East African Friends. It's now a new children were ready to join in the partici­ the adults; the children had to stay our­ dimension, more so as it strives to appreciate pation dancing with unfeigned delight. side in a large courtyard, pressing up and unite the cultural values in each of the The other point of instant connection against the windows and doors to try to hostile and warring systems and peoples of turned out to be our families. Kenyan see what we were doing. Fortunately, we the world. Friends, when hearing the word "danc­ had another chance the follow­ ers," had assumed that we would be young, ing morning to perform for many bold, and maybe hard to relate to. When of the same Friends, who were they saw that we were essentially middle then better able to understand aged (ranging from 41 to 59 years old), our intention. Rasoah Mwashi, most of us with several children each (and presiding clerk, USFW-East M­ some even with grandchildren), every­ rica Yearly Meeting, told us that body relaxed. One man even said to me: they were encouraged "with the "Some ofour members use their advanced different ways that can be ap­ age as an excuse not to do something plied to bring about peace among they've been asked to do; now all we'll Friends and friends of Friends. have to say is, 'Remember the Folk­ In order to have peace and unity Dancers! If they could do all that, you can in our yearly meetings and among do this!'" friends, we shall endeavour to Before we left Malava, Zipporah apply this technique." Mameti, vice presiding clerk of USFW­ Our final two performances Malava, wrote: were held under the auspices of Nandi Yearly Meeting, the most recently It was also at Nandi that several Friends It is very true that your dancers have pre­ founded of Kenyan yearly meetings. Be­ talked with us about how they might use sented very interesting, entertaining, and re­ fore the last one, however, our valiant van dance to attract more young people to freshing dances. The main ideas of the per­ formances are very educative and also reveal drivers rebelled at the depth of the pot­ Quakerism. The idea of learning dances the spiritual peace in one's life. We shall holes on the muddy roads leading to the from various Kenyan tribes and present­ continue praying for you. Tilolwa Friends Church. We thereupon ing them, as we had, as a prayer for peace walked to our various hosts' homes, won­ among warring peoples fired the imagina­ Our next stop was Kaimosi, heart of dering how we would get our sound sys­ tion of many. The Nairobi Friend who the Quaker presence in Kenya. Liseli tem and numerous costumes to the church accompanied us on our travels was also Haines, who had spent a year at the the next morning. We needn't have wor­ inspired to work toward this goal through Kaimosi Friends Mission when she was ried: Dorcas Kinyangi, presiding clerk, her own yearly meeting. The FolkDancers 15, was especially eager to glimpse her old USFW-Nandi Yearly Meeting, arranged are, in addition, exploring the possibility house and rekindle her memories of a for a couple of stalwart young men to of arranging for a Kenyan Friend to join pivotal period in her life. Our arrival coin­ transport our equipment in wheelbarrows. one of our tours in Europe or the United cided with "Education Day" for the Tiriki It was a Sunday, so we took part in meet­ States at a future time. We are humbled East Division, which featured the 1995 ing fqr worship and then did our full by these fruits of our ministry, which we Prize and Trophy Awards. We were first program of five sets. We operated the could not have imagined when we first on the schedule, with other performances sound system on flashlight barteries (saved began. The Spirit does indeed move in offered by local schoolchildren in between for just such an occasion!), as without mysterious ways. D

FRIENDS j OURNAL May 1997 9 CIRCUMCISION OF THE HFART

For he is not a few who is one outwardly, nor. is true. . czrcumcmon an outward andphysical thing. Rather, he is a few who is one inwardly, and true circumcision is ofthe heart, spiritual and not literal Such a L Paul am telling you person receives praise that ifyou let yourselves not ftom humans but be circumcised, Christ ftom God by Tom Gates will be ofno benefit to the tropical African sun began to rise in the east, Romans 2:28-29 you . ... Every man who people-young and old, at least a hundred of lets himselfbe circumcised them-ambled toward the family shamba and gathered silently in the cool morning air. Mine was con­ ... is obliged to obey the spicuously the only white face. As the sound ofdrums and entire law. lOu who want chanting grew louder, anticipation was palpably rising. I was about to witness an event that everyone here had to be justified by the law assured me was the most important cultural rite of the have cut yourselfoff ftom Bukusu people ofWestern Kenya: the initiation of a 14- Christ. ... For in Christ year-old boy into manhood by undergoing the traditional ceremony ofcircumcision. jesus neither circumcision This ritual was not an isolated event but the culmina­ nor unczrcumczswn tion of a period of community preparation. For several counts for anything; the days, the circumcision candidate, along with a small co­ Tom Gates is a family practitioner hort of age-mates and male relatives, h~d been parading and mmzber oflAncaster (Pa.) Meet­ only thing that counts is through the village and the surrounding countryside, ing. Along with his wife Elizabeth faith working through running as a group, beating drums, and waving tree and sons Matthew and Nathan, he branches. The purpose of this was two-fold: they were lived and worked among Kenyan kwe. ostensibly visiting all their relatives to announce the up­ Q;takers at Friends Lugulu Hospital coming ceremony, but they also seemed to be preparing from 1991 to 1994, under the spon­ Galatians 5:2-6 the candidate, sometimes almost taunting him, as if to sorship ofFriends United Meeting. ready him physically and psychologically for his upcoming

10 May 1997 FRIENDS jOURNAL ordeal. Finally, on the day before the stand. We had many occasions to grapple their cattle. Was it possible, we wondered, circumcision, they traveled to the home­ with cultural issues, trying to discern when for these people to consider themselves stead of his oldest maternal uncle, who to attribute questionable conduct to the Christians if they disobeyed the biblical privately instructed the candidate in the cultural gulf that separated us from our command and continued to observe this ways of Bukusu manhood, and then pre­ hosts, and when to say, "No, this is aspect of their cultural tradition? Or was sented him with a young cow, the most wrong." At times it was an excruciatingly this instead an example of the cultural tangible form of wealth in that culture. difficult line to walk: avoiding the trap of limitations of the Bible? The prohibition The entourage then proceeded back to cultural arrogance, offailing to distinguish against drinking blood might have made the boy's shamba, driving the rambunc­ between Western culture and the King­ sense within the context of Jewish belief tious heifer in front ofthem. They arrived dom of God (as perhaps previous genera­ that the blood of a sacrificed animal is to find most of the village gathered and tions ofmissionaries had sometimes failed); reserved for the Lord, or early Christian preparing a lavish feast. A cow was slaugh­ and yet at the same time not neglecting concerns about meat that was sacrificed to tered, and the boy's maternal grandfather our responsibility to call our Kenyan broth­ idols, but is it now irrelevant to the cul­ fashioned a necklace out of the cow's ers and sisters to the high standards of ture ofAfrican nomadic pastoralists? How stomach, placing it over the candidate's God's universal Wisdom and Truth. do we discern what is a binding command head while exhorting him to be brave and As we struggled with all this, we were and what is merely cultural? bring honor to his family. There followed surprised to find that the one place we several hours of drumming and dancing, were most able to constructively face is­ his process ofquestioning was not with groups ofdancers taking turns keep­ sues of culture was in the small weekly a one-way street: just as our ing the candidate moving and mesmer­ Bible study we attended with members of T Kenyan friends found in the Bible ized, until by the middle of the night he the hospital staff. As we encountered the a radical challenge to some aspects of their approached a state offrenzied exhaustion. scriptures together, we found that this culture, so we too found that the Gospel Afrer a few brief hours of sleep, the boy forum sometimes highlighted our cul­ forced us to confront some of our own had been awakened well before dawn and tural differences, but also could provide cultural assumptions. Kenyan Christians esconed to the river, where he underwent unexpected opportunity for us to com­ may have a blind spot when it comes to a ritual cleansing. municate meaningfully across the cultural matters like ritual circumcision, but we Now, as dawn broke, the assembled divide. I vividly remember a particular have our own blind spots and are forced crowd peered toward the approaching session when the topic was Acts 15, the to confront the many ways in which our sound of drums, until finally the young decision by the Council ofJerusalem that Western culture also falls shon of the man was sighted, approaching at a half­ the Jewish rite of circumcision was not standard ofthe Gospel. Coming as we did run and surrounded by a phalanx ofyoung binding on gentile Christians. The dis­ from a culture of unimaginable wealth men, his naked body glistening with the cussion turned to circumcision in the Old and living among people who were poor river mud. They carne to rest at a small Testament, and how it was similar to and in possessions but who retain a strong rise not far from the family homestead. different from the local custom. Our sense ofcommunal responsibility and kin­ The candidate stood straight and tall, his Kenyan friends wanted to believe that ship ties, the Gospel continually chal­ back to the rising sun, as the others stepped since circumcision was in the Bible, and lenged us in words like these: "Do not back. Suddenly, the traditional circumciser since the Bukusu practiced circumcision, store up for yourselves treasures on earth" ran forward from out ofthe crowd, dressed then somehow the local rite was integrally (Matt. 6:19); "No one can serve two in clown-like garb and brandishing a large connected to the Christianity they pro­ masters . . . you cannot serve God and knife. He knelt in front ofthe boy and, in fessed. But here in Acts 15, as well as Money" (Matt. 6:24); "Give to everyone one smooth motion lasting less than ten Paul's letter to the Galatians, we were who begs from you . . . lend, expecting seconds, completed the circumcision-a finding an explicit repudiation ofthe ritual nothing in return" (Luke 6:30, 35); procedure that would take a surgeon 15 that was central to Bukusu culture. As the "Blessed are the poor" (Luke 6:20); "Be or 20 minutes. There was a brief moment conversation continued, I could see the on your guard against all kinds of greed, of hushed silence as the initiate stood Kenyans one by one come to the realiza­ for one's life does not consist in the abun­ absolutely unflinching, and then the crowd tion that, although a man might have to dance ofpossessions" (Luke 12:15); "What ofonlookers surged forward, dancing, sing­ be circumcised in order to be considered a good is it for someone to gain the whole ing, and drumming, as the young man Bukusu, he did not have to be circum­ world, and yet lose his very self?" (Luke slumped to the ground, an expression of cised to be a Christian. Being a Bukusu 9:25). stunned triumph on his face. In the eyes and being a Christian were not the same During our time in Kenya, we tried to of his people, he was now a man: he had thing, and they might even come into be sensitive to the way in which foreign proven himself wonhy by his willingness conflict. missionaries in the past had sometimes to suffer and shed his blood for the sake of Acts 15 does not let gentile Christians confused the realms of culture and relig­ the community. entirely off the hook; it explicitly instructs ion, ofren to the detriment of African them to "abstain from blood" (v. 29). I culture. We began to see that the Bible, erhaps nothing I wimessed in Kenya must confess that this is a matter that had far from being something that our culture so forcefully impressed upon me never much concerned me, but our "gave" to theirs, could be a powerful tool Pthe mysterious power of culture, Kenyan friends immediately saw its rel­ for cultural dialogue. In the process, we the realization that I was among people evance to their Masai and Turkana neigh­ gained some imponant insights into not whose ways I could never fully under- bors, who do indeed drink the blood of only Bukusu culture, but also our own. 0

FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1997 11 Seeing Wales through a Quaker Filter by Jim Kalish lease welcome Jim Kalish, a fellow Cader Idris Mountain. To the west, over Connections to the United States are seeker, as he travels among you." the often-photographed Mawddach Es­ many. In 1681, when William Penn ac­ P So started my letter of introduc­ tuary, lies the Irish Sea; to the north is quired Pennsylvania, Dr. Edward Jones tion from Lamar Matthew, clerk ofYork Snowdonia National Park, a lived-in 242- ofnearby Bala, Wales, left for the colony. (Pa.) Meeting. It was read at preparative square-mile gem. Soon hundreds followed him to the meeting on the first Sunday of my stay in There are no Welsh connections with 40,000-acre "Welsh Tract" near Philadel­ Dolgellau, Wales, by the clerk, Arthur my family, but after a number of visits, phia. A local boy, Ellis Pugh, wrote a Hughes. The letter gave me instant con­ most recently a two-month stay, Wales book on Quakerism that became the first tact with Friends, who, in their support, has become my second home. The won­ Welsh-language publication printed in the fellowship, and worship, helped me along drous natural beaury ofthe area, the proud colonies, typeset by Benjamin Franklin's on my personal journey and ensured that Welsh culture, the guttural tones of the father-in-law. Many Dolgellau immi­ my stay would be a good one. They guided ancient Celtic language, and the booming grants, gentry and peasant, were early me to 17th-century Quaker historic sites, male choirs all contribute to my good American Quaker leaders. many of them with direct connections to feelings. Yet it is knowing that this land The Quaker message ofthe Inner Light, Pennsylvania. They bid me go with them and its people played a major role in the seen as dangerous, led to persecutions in to the Hereford and Mid-Wales meeting origin and formation of the Religious Wales similar to those in the rest of En­ for business in Ludlow, England. They Sociery of Friends that gives my travels gland. Dolserau's Jane Owen resolutely contributed to my understanding and ap­ special significance. encouraged her husband to keep meet­ preciation of the origin and meaning of ings "all along [even in] the hottest perse­ the Religious Sociery of Friends. Pennsylvania's Gain, cution." Robett Owen spent five years in It was with a Quaker filter that I viewed Dolgellau's Loss a damp prison on the River Arran just the sights in and around beautiful In 1657 George Fox came to Dolgellau yards ftom where I stayed during my first Dolgellau (pronounced, more or less, Dol­ to preach, along with the first Welsh visit. geth-ee). This is an ancient Mid-Wales Quaker, John ap John. Fox liked what he Migration was seen by many as the valley town, with dark-stone buildings set saw, and his message convened many. wayoutofan intolerable situation. Within in a muddle oftwisting streets. Two thou­ Soon more than a half-dozen meetings a few generations most meetings in the sand mostly Welsh-speaking residents eke were established within a day's walk. These area disbanded or convened to other de­ out a living herding sheep, harvesting a communities prospered. In nearby nominations. On a tour east of town, planted forest, and serving summer tour­ Dolserau Meeting, now the site of a ma­ high in the hills, is Tyddyn y Garreg, now ists. Behind the town looms magnificent jor country hotel, the spacious building a working farm. This was once the home on First Day sometimes could not con­ of the early Quaker Owen Lewis and site Jim Kalish is a member of York (Pa.) Meeting tain all the worshipers, and they "were of the Yearly Meeting for Wales in 1682 and a frequent visitor to Wales. faign to meett out of doors under the and 1685. Behind is a fenced-off, grown­ © 1996jim Kalish shadie trees." over field, once a Quaker graveyard. Up

12 May 1997 FRIENDS j OURNAL the road is the picturesque Tabor Chapel, Meeting for Friends administrative structure. This was in pro­ since 1847 a Congregational church. To­ In Wales test of the undemocratic, unelecred na­ day it looks much as it did in 1792, when It is said that the cream of the Welsh ture of these bodies. On First Day there it was an active Friends meetinghouse. A Quaker crop left for the American colo­ was a bilingual silent meeting (if such a few years ago the Congregationalists in­ nies more than 300 years ago: the ambi­ description can be used) followed by an vited local Quakers to join them in a tious, rich and poor, who most yearned intergenerational program. The children bicentenary celebration. for the freedom to worship as they wished. listened to a story about how every rock is Of all the Quaker historic sites I vis­ Quakerism today, however, is still very different and how they come together to ited, none are as poignant as Hafod Fadog, much alive in Wales. The population left shape our land, only to split up and re­ 25 miles to the northeast. A local histo­ behind contains great strength and stay­ shape again. Sitting on the floor in the rian, Ifor Owen, described what was once ing power, as does the calling of the mes­ middle of the meeting, the children were a very active 17th-century farmhouse meet­ sage of Truth to newcomers. There are given pebbles to glue into designs; the ing place. It is now located a hundred feet now more than 600 Quakers in Wales in adults were given egg-sized stones of their ~ below the surface of llyn Celyn Reser­ a population of3.5 million-not what it own to fondle. It worked. People were ~ voir, built in the 1960s to provide water was in the 17th century, but the numbers moved to express feelings about life, about £: for English industrial towns a hundred and influence are steadily growing. their children, and about how we are all ~ miles away. Several witnesses recalled the This was clear to see in the first week­ alike in God's image. ..., losing fight to save not only the farm end retreat to be held by the newly formed My journey to Wales was coming to j house but also a whole valley of Welsh Meeting for Friends in Wales, which I an end. The next Sunday ten of us sat ~ people and culture. A bronze plaque im­ was privileged to attend in Bala. Some silently in meeting for worship in Arthur bedded in a large rock is the only visual Welsh Friends are nationalist and most Hughes' Dolgellau living room. I thought reminder to the passerby. have a strong affinity to their land. Re­ about my two months in Wales: my walks Most lifelong citizens ofDolgellau (and cently they formed this all-Welsh venue on paths where George Fox and John ap the Welsh in general) have only a scant for Quaker thought and action. Two of John once trod; abandoned meetinghouses idea ofwhat Quakerism is all about. How­ the three monthly meetings here (struc­ once filled to overflowing; the vibrant and ever, when the name is mentioned the tured like quarterly meetings in the United alive Welsh Quaker communjry of today. response is usually quite positive. They States) include both English and Welsh I have come to understand a great deal know about the U.S. connection, where Friends. Previously there was no structure more about Quakerism, and hopefully, a so many of their ancestors and relatives within Britain Yearly Meeting for all Welsh little more about myself 0 now reside. Also, as Welsh men and Friends to gather as a group. women who have fought English domi­ Friends told the organ­ nation for a thousand years, they relate izers I was coming, but my strongly to Quaker resistance to misuse of last name was unknown, so state and religious power. my place card read, "Jim The Information Center located in the the American." I took it as middle of Dolgellau's Eldon Square in­ a compliment. This form cludes a Quaker History Exhibit. Here of naming is an ancient are photographs of old prints, maps, and Welsh custom, for example, paintings oflocal Quakers and the events Bill the Tinker or Jones the they lived through, both here and as they Small Farmer. migrated to the Americas. An exquisite There was an all-day car Quaker tapestry designed by a local Friend, caravan tour to historic sites. artist Bronwen Roberts, holds center stage. At business meeting a deci­ A 14-minute video, in both English and sion was made not to send Welsh, tells the dramatic story of faith, names forward for commit­ persecution, and migration across the At­ tees to serve the Welsh Of­ lantic. It is a sympathetic treatment. The fice, part ofthe government sign-in book shows names ofmany Friends and visitors from around the world. It's good to see that their comments indicate great in­ terest in the exhibit and respect for the Quaker way.

Photos: In and near Dolgellau Above, right: Tabor Chapel, a former meetinghouse and now a Congregational church

FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1997 13 A MYSTICAL WEEKEND Pendle Hill Oct. 25-27, 1996

by Kathryn Gordon

"The fruit ofthe spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfUlness, gentleness, self­ control against which)) there is no Ia w. (Galatians: 5:22-23)

Friday behind a Garden State Parkway toll ix hours of Interstate, Parkway, booth screaming with frustration? Do I Turnpike, then again Interstate deserve to be here? The confusions and Sbefore I turn onto a tree-lined street evasions of the last six months come into for Pendle Hill. I quiet the engine and focus: my choices have moved me in the get out. I have been here before, on an wrong direction. With this clarity comes April daffodil day, Good Friday and a confident, unrecriminating urgency: I Passover. Now fallen leaves give their have work to do and will do it. "little noiseless noise" and mulch-scent After dinner we assemble in the Barn to the air. Surrounding this peace is the Meeting Room-more women than roar of the Blue Route--six lanes of men, more grey hair than not, fifty-one superhighway whose construction participants from fourteen states, five Pendle Hill and neighboring leaders: Marty Grundy, Marcelle Swarthmore College tried to stop for Martin, Pat McBee, Mike Resman, Bill years. Stillness is reached now despite it Taber. Hung above the facing benches is and within it-a metaphor, I think, for a quotation from Galatians: "The fruit contemporary Quakerism's challenge in of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, a rush-hour world. kindness, goodness, faithfulness, I find registration, feeling anxious gentleness, self-control, against which and exhausted. Have I missed dinner? there is no law" (5:22-23 RSV). Can people tell just by looking at me Pat McBee provides an overview, that a few hours before I was stuck emphasizing guidelines that recognize Kathryn GortkJn has applied for membership to "the varied ways in which we have New Paltz (N Y.) Meeting. She is coauthor experienced the Spirit and of the with Marcy Car/ina ofthe memoir Revolution tenderness with which many of us hold of the Heart. these experiences." One way Pat herself

14 May 1997 FRIENDS j OURNAL has experienced the Spirit, she reveals, is theme that will emerge strongly in the she speaks. Making a point, she casts her through quaking, but she has never conferen~ifts come to individuals hands toward us, as if spreading seed allowed herself to quake during Quaker for the good of the group. &om a supply stored there in the heart. meeting. When she raised the issue with Then it is Marcelle Martin's turn. I In 1985 she was walking out one the leadership team, they suggested she recall a night years before when she was night under the stars. It was during a "Let the Spirit move her even if it meant seated in my audience as I am now period ofquestioning about the nature literally moving." It did, and she would, seated in hers. I was reading &om my and meaning of life. Though she was a visible and entirely estimable novel-in-progress, which I didn't half way through a four-year graduate testimony. consciously know was about the writing program, she knew she would Each leader will speak to us of his or childhood incest I'd repressed. Her not find the answers there. She was her journey, starting tonight with Marty presence guided me then and would feeling sorry for herself. She looked up at Grundy and Marcelle Martin. With continue to guide me. I am grateful and the stars and thought-they're so far humble dignity, Marty Grundy speaks moved to be here. She stands and, after a away, I can have no connection with not of sudden transformations but of silence, begins. Often she brings her them (as a child she had supposed that growing acceptance that in her day-to­ hands together and touches her she could). Then suddenly she day life she is a mystic. She distills a fingertips to the center of her chest as experienced the reality that she and the

FRIENDS JouRNAL May 1997 15 stars and all the cosmos were one, Saturday Morning After meeting for worship, we break indivisibly united in a single whole. Mike Resman introduces the day's into our small groups. The room where With this realization, energy began topic, "How Mystical Experience we meet is large and comfortable--two streaming though her-up her feet, legs, Informs and Transforms Our Lives." He couches facing, a few upholstered chairs, into her heart, through her arms, and tells ofhis first mystical opening, which pleasant light. Above the mantle is a out her fingers into the world. I read about the day I was here last April painting I've seen in the library of my She knew that this power was divine ("The Inward Teacher Among Us meetinghouse: old time Quakers and could easily heal the world and all Today," Fj April1996). At meeting for gathered, all heads bowed but one--a its problems. She knew her role was to worship, while praying for his spiritual young woman looking up at the be a channel for that healing power. mentor, who had been badly hurt in a translucent Jesus figure who hovers Then followed a period of fierce seeking. car accident, he was shown heaven. He above the elders' bench, arms open in She sometimes wondered if she was knew himself to be in God's presence, blessing. Does she see Him, or is it faith crazy (an experience shared by others at whose love he experienced as "greater that lights her face? the conference). There were many than the love of all mothers over all After a silence, an elderly man begins. psychic openings. While teaching at her ttme.. " With growing emotion he speaks of school one day she was filled with a Mike Resman's story is the one with vicious letters from his estranged golden light. Emanating that light, she which I will identifY most because it daughter-fantasies, accusations. I know understood this to be her real teaching. starts with damage and anger It was hard after that, she joked, to talk passed on to him by his to her English composition students mother. I am learning the about paragraph structure. damage done to girls by Ifl say I was moved, how can I say fathers is not more tragic than how much I was moved? I had been the damage done to boys by both a beneficiary of the light coming mothers, nor is the resulting through this generous, steadfastly anguish greater. Although I opening heart and a witness to the had hoped to be in Marcelle's continuing travail such opening group, it seems right to me demanded. Here was a flowering of that when I learn I've been now 11-year-old vision. assigned to Mike's.

16 May 1997FRIENDS]OURNAL she is accusing him of incest. I love him often hear the word "representative" and shone. Now I sit among lanterns who completely. The past, his or mine, seems wonder what I might be a representative seem to feel neither grandiose nor irrelevant. Healing is happening, and I of. Then a wave of grief rises and I say, wonhless (sides of the same coin); who believe my concentration can help it "I suppose I represent the dead." I don't are steady, solid, and, when united as along. Maybe that makes me a mystic. know what I mean by that, but then I now, breathtakingly bright. Maybe that makes me alive. think of my mother, dead a year, and her At a meal I overhear Bill Taber telling The worshipful openness of this first sisters, alive and addicted, and my sister, a woman how he grounds himself. He sharing sets the tone. From the silence and my cousins, and the next says sometimes he simply rings a small come accounts of both sudden and generation-all, I fear, dead to the Light. bell and listens. I picture a bare, sunny gradual transform~tions: careers and I want to speak on their behalf before desk, a plain bell with a wooden handle marriages changed mid-course; healing this select group, many of them healers. motionless in the center of the sound it gifts discovered and nurtured; new and I feel I am the head of a body just has sent out. Bill Taber's talk seems to strange fields ofstudy opened; childhood emerging from a black bog. Because of me such a bell, its dear pitch offering trauma healed; visions ofJesus; the light in which I am held, I can open Friends a centered grounding force. knowing: an either instantaneous or my hean to the buried parts and yet still evolved cenainty that a particular course look up toward the sun. That must be Late evening is divinely guided. These Friends speak why the tears on my face are so hot. I find the elderly man. We sit in the with an authenticity and care I have dark dining room drinking tea. I ask come to identify with Quakerism. These Evening him about his daughter's accusing are not people whose veracity or motives Bill Taber speaks of "Grounding Our letters. She is accusing him, he says, of one tends to doubt. Experience in the Quaker Tradition." I sexual abuse. I admit I thought so, not I think I am moved to speak, recall by contrast some of my early because he seems an abuser-far from beginning with a joke. I still don't know mystical experiences. Ungrounded in a it-but because of the anguish with if this feeling in my stomach is a leading faith community, I suffered from self­ which he spoke. Slowly and carefully, he or fear- after all, I've only been delusion and ego-inflation, which says that, while there was one "totally attending meeting a year. We laugh, but polluted subsequent experience. To inappropriate" event, her accusations are now I have to step toward the layer of adapt a metaphor both Mike Resman false and, he believes, evidence of feeling I've been avoiding for six and Bill Taber used, I thought I was the possible mental disorder. He asks what I months. I say that when meditating I light and not the lantern, so nothing know about false memory syndrome. I admit I have suspected it is society's defense against a distressing truth. I tell how I resisted my own retrieved memories of incest, the first and dearest of which came during meditation in a sudden, seemingly guided re-enactment. I try to explain how the body embeds memories as pain and tension. Through these two difficult ceilings we each listen to the God in the other. He doesn't challenge my version of my life and I don't challenge his. I am beginning to better grasp that word "tender." With such tenderness, what two disputing people or factions cannot eventually reconcile?

Sunday I dream Marcelle invites me to get into a boat with her. A canoe. In the morning I can't remember much more of the dream than that, and her bright face. At breakfast, from the table behind me, I hear at least four times the emphasized phrase, "Get in the boat. Just get in the boat!" An important point in the conversation, it is repeated with emphasis and laughter: "And so I realized, just get in the boat and go." My view ofwhat's really real expands to include such graceful synchronicities.

FRIENDS jOURNAL May 1997 17 At the end ofour last small group Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. hands do God's work, and so these meeting, when we stand to join hands, Goodness. Faithfulness. Gendeness. Self­ hands are holy hands." A woman speaks Mike Resman and I must hoist the control. Against which there is no law. of a vision ofJesus she had the night elderly man out of his deep chair. Glancing around at the gathering faces, before, and I am reminded of the Moved to tears, he thanks Mike for his remembering the stories that have been thoughtful discussions I have heard here radiating presence. told and how they have been told, between Christ-centered and universalist As the circle separates, I reach up to knowing better now the truth of each Quakers, and of the need for such him. He says, "You know, last night you person in my group, I see everywhere thoughtfulness elsewhere. became as a daughter to me." these qualities embodied. Looking at I can see the face and square I nod yes but am too moved to speak. these faces after three days of mysticism, shoulders of the elderly man. The rising I have been given the reconciliation I I am filled with gratitude and hope. current is unblocking my heart. My thought I could never have. Waves of trembling pass through my trembling increases. I ride and resist the What a brave man. upper body. Father-related emotion flow at the same time. What would it I feel more than I have ever felt at continues. I wonder if my energy is feel like to give up entirely? once, and exactly what I need to feel. disruptive. It seems to me I am feeling The Pendle Hill lunch ends our Though I would rather have been rather than worshiping or waiting in worship, which has stretched 20 minutes having visions and bliss, here is the work expectancy. One man asks us to consider over the expected hour. I came this weekend to do: the light at addicts' addictions as attempts to ground Later, in the new year, I spoke with the end of the tunnel and an answer to themselves in their bodies. From another the elder from my small group about the prayers and mystical. man comes an outpouring of prayer for weekend and this article. He supplied In the Barn Meeting Room, waiting more female images of the divine. A the dosing words: ''This was a weekend for our last meeting to begin, I consider woman from my group, who will later about mysticism among Quakers, and the Galatians quote, cupping each noun reveal that she "just does not sing," rises we didn't just talk about it, we found like a sip of water in my palm. Love. to sing "These are holy hands. These ~" 0 MYSTICISM AMONG FRIENDS Ben Lomond phrases included: Heart's Truth, Seized a discussion on integrating Spirit with by Joy, Go Within, Christ daily life. This was accompanied by Quaker Center Consciousness, Transcendent Mystery, guided movement with a partner. Nov. 15-17, 1996 My heart singing, Self expanded, Taking turns, we used our hands as Experiencing the oneness, The dance instruments of healing as we tenderly that moves the world, Being tendered, placed them in various sites on the body by Jean Roberts Cosmic Consciousness, The power of of our partner. Saturday evening Elaine rom Washington and Oregon in love, Flowing energy, Participating with led the group in a feeling circle. the north to the southern part of the creator, Being held in the palm of Our last day together, Sunday, FCalifornia, 40 of us represented the God's hand, Dragged kicking into grace, focused on the question, "How can largest geographical area of any Still small voice, and many more. Many meetings be more responsive to the conference held at the Ben Lomond of us felt such delight when we heard spiritual experience?" Jean Roberts Quaker Center near Santa Cruz, Cali( someone else's two- or three-word facilitated the discussion. A short play Although many of us were strangers to description that "just fit." was presented about how not to help a one another, our focus for the weekend, Some people attending the conference person who had a vision during meeting mysticism, seemed to put us on a deeper had had significant spiritual experiences for worship. Small groups then met and level of communication from the stan. they were willing to share. There were were asked to bring back a more positive This was gready facilitated by a get­ those who wondered whether their own solution. It became evident at this time acquainted exercise where we were given encounter with the divine had any that people had a lot more they wanted two minutes to list all the words that similarities with the experience of others, to say, more ideas, more personal stories, might describe a spiritual experience. and there were a few for whom this was and they wanted this sharing to take We then mingled with one another the first opportunity to talk about that place in the large group, not the smaller listening to the special words ofothers. which had never before been spoken ones. Since it was almost time for the Those that had meaning for us we aloud. On Saturday our large group weekend to end, we were able to satisfy added to our own list. Some of the gathered for our first presentation. only a few of these longings for more Walter Sullivan spoke of the movement interaction. To more than a few of us jean Robms is a member ofEastside (Wash.) of the holy spirit as evidenced in the this gathering seemed to be a significant Meeting. writings of early Friends and in the lives first step in renewing the sharing of the This artick is reprinted with pmnission from and actions of Friends living today. divine mystical-the sharing that early the February 1997 What Canst Thou Say? Saturday afternoon Elaine Wadle led Friends knew so well. 0

18 May 1997 FRIENDS joURNAL Can't See the Covenant he old saying, "can't see the for­ dialogs we carry on, in which we are est for the trees," expresses a key accountable to one another, answerable T perceptual problem ofhuman ex­ for our words and actions. These relation­ istence. We lose the sense ofmatters, even ships embody certain values, or virtues, of life itself, as we get lost in the details. not all of which we understand or can This perceptual pitfull can become a deadly define. Some ofthese are in harmony with spiritual malaise. We easily lose the Spirit social norms, often making it easy to con­ of faith through our absorption in the form. Other values, especially those that letter of articulated belief. This is the all­ have no market value, may be difficult to too-familiar failing of the great religions maintain in our culture. We may have to of the book, but Eastern and New Age make sacrifices of worldly gain, status, or alternatives are not immune either. One comfort to embody these values. But that may succumb to an enlightenment-by- is a part of being in covenant. • the-numbers mentality just as easily as Particular realms ofcovenant are inevi­ one fulls prey to legalism or dogmatism. tably expressed in terms ofprinciples, laws, Finally, there is a social and economic or agreements. In science, they may be version of this age-old dilemma in our axiomatic laws of nature; in societies, they capitalist system. We routinely reduce may be constitutions or compacts; in re­ God's creatures to marketable commodi­ ligious faiths, they may be doctrines and ties. If we see only the trees-and if we moral systems; in relationships, they may see them only in board-feet-then we be marriage vows or other contracts of lose not only our sense of the forest, we mutual understanding. Martin Buber soon lose the forest itself. wrote that covenant is first, last, and al­ These dynamics apply to all forms of ways the "lived relationship" between its relationship. They make it difficult for us parties. But the explicit understandings to recognize covenant, within and around and agreements that evolve through the us. Covenant is foithfol loving relation­ relationship are important. ship. It is the hidden, binding force of the For example, the faithful love between universe. The Hebrew prophets were first parents and children is always accompa­ to articulate what covenant is. They un­ nied by serious boundaries to be respected derstood that covenant is the meaning and expectations to be fulfilled. Parents and purpose behind all God's creation. limit the children and children limit the The universe exists to embody covenant, parents. These limits often become real and covenant fulfills the purpose of each "bones ofcontention " in family life. Mem­ creature. To live in covenant is to be bers struggle at times to see the covenantal called, taught, led, and redeemed from love undergirding the many contractual senselessness by the same divine power agreements. Yet it is there, infusing it all, that formed the galaxies. All life is part of hoping beyond expectation, forgiving this great covenant drama, in which we lapses. struggle to act our faithful, loving roles Likewise, a local faith community-a with one another. In that sense, the uni­ Friends meeting, for example-is rife with verse is "the theater of God's glory," as understandings, rituals, and norms. The John Calvin put it. handshake at the close ofmeeting, or who Like a forest, covenant is a complex is expected to Jock the building: under­ moral ecology, an infinitely subtle net­ standings like these, both tacit and ex­ work ofrelation ships we struggle to main­ plicit, make up the warp and woof of a tain faithfuJJy-with God, with ourselves, meeting's fubric. Sometimes our struggle with one another, with the land on which with one another over these particulars we live. These relationships are a set of pushes our patience to the limit. Yet at for the some level, we know that the real life of Douglas Gwyn is a Friend-in-Residmce at the meeting exists both within and be­ Woodbrooke Colkge in Birmingham, England, yond all these arrangements. It is that during the 1996-97 year. He is finishing a secret life in covenantal trust, lived out book on Seekers in 17th-century England and Contracts through the promises we make and keep, today. He wilt speak to the FGC Gathering at that hopefuJJy carries us together through the 1997 FRIENDS jOURNAL Cadbury Event. by Douglas Gwyn it all.

FRIENDS JoURNAL May 1997 19 Or again, a good busi­ ful relationship, within and reenwood ness not only demonstrates beyond every good human integrity in all its contracts, hope. By that light, we may G Friends it also embodies a larger fi­ begin to rebuild our lives. delity to people, values, and School the physical environment be­ The capitalist social and yond the interested parties economic system that now What a great place! of any given contract. Any dominates our planet is a good business must struggle remarkably creative regime. Preschool-Elementary to maintain that fidelity in Its contractual method of New Middle School Program the face ofcompetition from organization has progres­ Beginning Fall 1997 other businesses that do not sively been applied to all uphold these larger values. realms of society-from +Parents and teachers working The temptation is great to market economics to demo­ together + In-depth science. math. and put on the moral "blinders" cratic politics to religious research of the limited contract, with pluralism. It has created • Logical and critical thinking the hidden proviso that "the an elastic, polymorphous skills applied devil take the hindmost." structure, allowing the + Writer's Workshop and foreign But businesses of integrity peoples of the world to in­ languages find a way. teract in unprecedented + State-of-the-art, hands-on ways. Over its four centu­ technology It is not surprising that + Peer mediation and conflict God's great covenant part­ ries of development, capi­ resolution ner, Israel, bears a name talism has exerted a perma­ meaning "wrestler with nent state of revolution on Where learning and life connect God." Because it is dialogi­ every society where it takes and where each child's cal, covenant always in­ hold. Its speed ofeconomic uniqueness is nurtured. cludes struggle. Yet the fruit of covenant expansion and social transformation only struggle, according to Hebrew Scripture, seems to accelerate. +Diversity is our strength is shalom, a "peace" that is more vibrant, Like all revolutions and their ruling + Financial aid is available integrative, and all-encompassing than regimes, capitalism has its destructive side. + Transportation from seven the usual connotations of our English As the revolution accelerates, so does the districts word. It is the peace that surpasses all destruction. The massive scale of human Super Summer Science understandings. exploitation that keeps capitalism expand­ and More '97 Early Friends wrote of the "covenant ing has produced mind-numbing suffer­ for ages 3-12. of light, life, and peace" they had found ing and social blight. In particular, poor June 23-August 1. together. The light was their lived rela­ nations and the poor sectors ofour society Free brochures tionship with God and with one another. bear the "hidden" costs ofaffiuence in the available It brought them to a peace they had never United States and other wealthy nations. by calling before known. The early Quaker under­ Moreover, the simple arithmetic of con­ (717) 458-5532 standing of the light was strongly cov­ tinued capitalist expansion on a planet of enantal. They witnessed the covenant of limited resources and fragile ecological Greenwood Friends School light to shine forth in all people, every­ balances can only add up to the physical is located 3.5 miles east of where, undergirding everything. and spiritual degradation of that planet Millville, Pa .• on Route 254 Yet that very quality of omnipresence and all of us on it. Even those of us living Interested parents please call means that the light is also hidden to us. in this vast system's more privileged sec­ (717) 458-5532 We are like fish living in the sea, not tors feel its ravages on the life we hold knowing what water is. It is often by some sacred. The upwardly mobile often pay experience ofdesertion, darkness, or faith­ dearly for their ascent in terms of their lessness that we begin to know the cov­ spiritual, family, and community lives. enant of light explicitly. The loss of a We see it everywhere. loved one, the failure of a marriage, un­ Capitalism poses as a relatively value­ employment, or an experience of betrayal free system, creating opportunity in all drives us into a place of darkness. Hope­ directions for all participants. Yet because fully, our eyes will eventually begin to the system is weighted in favor of those perceive a subtle light there. It is always who possess capital resources, it tends to there, but we are unable to see it until our carry inherited, pernicious biases along constructed world of understandings and with it. Thus, capitalism is not inherently agreements falls apart. That light is the racist or sexist, yet it has accommodated covenant. .It abides within and beyond those inequities for centuries. It is only as each of us, within and beyond every faith- the market has demanded the wider par- 20 May 1997FRIENDs]oURNAL ticipation ofminorities and only thing left that is still women-both as produc­ larger than the global Babel ers and as consumers-that we have helped build. capitalist society ha5 become Covenant is a crucial un­ inspired with the novel idea derstanding for us to reclaim that they deserve a better today, precisely because it is chance to play the game. intimately related to the con­ Technology is the dar­ tractual culture of capital­ ling child of capitalism, ism. In fact, covenant was a which has fostered its devel­ key intellectual factor in the opment as no other eco­ development of capitalism. nomic system has in his­ During the Reformation era, tory. Technology too poses the Protestant concern to re­ as morally neutral. After all, structure the Church as a a tool is subject to whatever covenantal community spun designs are upon the mind offreevaluations ofall realms of the one who wields it, ofsociety. In economic life, right? But as society becomes covenant helped inform the increasingly elaborate tech­ contractual basis of a mar­ Excelling nologically, we begin to rec­ ket society. In science, the ognize a force with a life of covenantal sense of God's IN A CHANGING WORLD its own. Like capitalism, well-ordered creation influ­ technology is a means that enced the search for depend­ tends to reshape the ends to able laws governing nature. which it is exerted. Noble In political thought, cov­ ends-socially conscious enant helped nurture the so­ Pre-K to 12th grade and environmentally responsible---=are cial contract theories that gave rise to the 17th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway daily subverted by the sheer possibility of modern democratic state. Thus, on many Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1 91 o 3- 1 2 84 achieving other ends more easily and more &ants, covenant is the forgotten utopian profitably. A mundane example is never­ motive behind the edifice of modernity. It 215-561-5900 theless a telling one: how many people do needs to be reclaimed if we are to correct you know who are intrigued (or perhaps the course that society has taken. totally enraptured) by the internet? There In The Covenant Crucified: Quakers is so much one might do with it; one and the Rise ofCapitalism, I explored the becomes feverishly obsessed with finding role of early Friends in the beginning of something to do with it. our modern, capitalist era. Through their Yet we continue to be naively surprised prophetic preaching and their alternative that the system has somehow cast off or social ordering, early Quakers charted a left behind people, values, lands, and spe­ covenantal course for capitalist society. cies that we hold dear. We feel compelled They had a covenantal sense of direction to defend them, yet find ourselves always for the new regime. The heroic sacrifices on the defensive, reacting to the latest hor­ made by these ordinary men and women ror story ofinjustice, violence, or pollution. to win the hearts and minds of their There are many struggles to be waged neighbors and rulers underscores the holy, socially and politically against the blights covenantal nature of their calling. It is a of the system that engulfs us so totally. powerful story; bittersweet, considering But if we are to move beyond a reactive the hope that lived and died in those first 1851 Quakerdale has political posture, we must reclaim a sense years of Quaker witness. It offers us a blended history, vision and of covenant. Covenant is nor a super­ glimpse not only of a fuller Quaker vi­ Christian values to strengthen theory defining everything. It is not a sion, but of a larger, covenantal social youth and their families. 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FRIENDS j oURNAL May 1997 21 FRIENDS CAMP International Notes South China, Maine Charney Manor *Ages 7-17 * Coed - Residential by Harvey Gillman * Non-competitive * $510 for 2 weeks Friends we do not set much store on holy places. We talk of the whole of life A unique camp program which in­ . .as sacramen.tai, so that we may find dudes intemational campers, Quaker the dtVIne at any time or place and in any community living, decision making, group of people. But there can be no doubt pe.tce communications center, cr.tft~. that some places lend themselves more drama, sport<>, water activities, and than others to a sense of the something be­ other cre.ttive programs. yond, whether because many people have Call or write: sought and found God there, or because Susan Morris, Director there is something about the place, its smell, P.O. llox 84 its beauty, its gentleness, that eases the come almost a second home. To leave the E. Vassalboro, ME 04935 encounter. ofl:ice in London on a busy and crowded (207) 923-3975 Talk to most Friends in Britain Yearly Fnday afternoon and within an hour and a Meeting and they will know of Charney half to be in the remote countryside really Manor. Many of them will have been there. does cleanse the body and the soul. The It is the place where committees have sat and surrounding villages are charming with many One pathway to peace deliberated, where monthly meetings have thatched-roof cottages and ancient farms. Escapism? I think not. One never escapes leads right through the spent time and had fun together, where women protesting against nuclear weapons from the self. The groups that have met there halls of Congress . at Greenham Common have come to relax have often left with a deeper sense of com­ m~tment: To meet up to 30 strangers on a and t~e a shower, where groups have come to wnte poetry, play viols, and talk about the Fnday ntght and watch them discover them­ Call 202 547-6000 Alternatives to Violence Project. selv~, each other, and the wider Religious Charney Manor is the oldest inhabited Soctety of Friends is a real privilege. It is not A5k how you can h~lp the place that is sacred but the relationships brine Frl~ndt;' conum for building in the Vale of the White Horse, built up in and with the place that are sacra­ p~au and ju5tlc~ to Capitol Hill southwest of Oxford. It was built between 1250 and 1280 in the village of Charney mental. I shall never forget the woman who FRIENDS COMM11TEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION one Saturday night told us that as a child she 245 Second Street N.E. Washi.ngton. D.C. 20002-5795 Bassett by the monks of Abingron, possibly on the site of an earlier Saxon wooden hall. was told she was never to dance, and who had Since that time it has been added to and felt inhibited ever since. As we sat in the modified and has served a number of differ­ ancient solarium listening to music, she got THE HICKMAN ent functions, as f.um house, barn, a f.unily up and danced for us, telling us that that home, as well as having been left derelict. In weekend had fteed her to explore the divine the 1940s it was bought by Henry Gillett, within herself. And there was the weekend the Quaker mayor of Oxford, and his Ameri­ on Spirituality and Ecology that gave bitth to can wife Lucy, and given to Friends as a place the Quaker Green concern; and the weekend of peace and recreation, and for educational that began with a Jewish Friday night liturgy Independent LMng and Personal Care and ended on Sunday after meeting for wor­ purpo~es. A trust fund was set up in memory Convenient to shops, businesses, of thetr daughter who died tragically. This ship when half the members of one local and OJ/turol Of>POrUJnilies meeting began to dance to Hassidic music. Reasonable • Not{or..Profit has helped with the upkeep of the manor and Founded and operated by Quakers has offered bursaries to enable many people There is no bar to the workings of the Spirit. to attend courses. At one weekend earlier this year called 9 400 North Walnut Street The manor consists of four main blocks: "Another language, a creative retreat using West Chester,PA 19380 (610) 696-1536 the old house with its beautiful solarium and poetry," one Friend wrote: dining room where courses are run; the an- nex with bedrooms {the manor can: accom- The old chair in the Solar speaks to me- modate up to 30 people); the renovated barn "I am so still and delicate yet strong, The next generation and those i> come that offers more space for groups {and where you can dance without the fear of bringing My dark wood shines with age and wear. need to know your life story. We will Here I belong, in this quiet corner, travel to you. record you as you share the do~~ the floor of one of England's oldest experiences that have shaped your life. buildings); and the Gilletts, which are cot­ lit from leaded windows. and gather the richness of your memories tages on the grounds where individuals can My spokes bent and imperfect­ into a beautiful book-a cherished legacy stay on a self-catering basis. lovingly crafted by worn hands. for those you love. My own association with Charney goes My armrests curved to welcome you." back 13 years when I was appointed Quaker Uncia Lyman & Marty Walton Home Service outreach secretary. It has be- For details of Charney and its courses, 505 WiUow Road. Bellinglwn. WA 98225 contact The Resident Friends, Charney 1-360-738-8599 or 1-800-738-8599 Harvey Gillman is a member of Lewes (En­ Manor, Charney Bassett, Wantage, Oxon, gland) Meeting. 0~12 OEJ, United Kingdom. [J

22 May 1997 FRIENDS joURNAL through the European Community. The organization. The recent accession of several A European Quaker United Nations Office in New York newly "liberated" countries of Eastern and and Geneva was naturally a source of inspira­ Central Europe to the Council of Europe has tion. It was agreed that the three pillars of enhanced the importance of Quaker witness Presence QCEA's work should be peace, human rights, in areas such as voting rights, conscientious and the right sharing of world resources. objection to military service, and capital pun­ he Quaker Council for European Af­ These linked themes have proven to be vi­ ishment. The desire of these countries to fairs (QCEA) was founded in Brus­ tally important as the European Community acquire legitimacy and respectability has pro­ T sels, Belgium, in 1979, by members has evolved into the European Union and vided an opportunity to promote acceptable of the newly formed Belgium and Luxem­ plays an increasingly important role in people's standards in these areas. Incidentally, the bourg Monthly Meeting, several of whom lives throughout the world. Moreover, the United States no longer meets the criteria for had come &om Britain and Ireland to work presence ot NATO's headquarters in Brus­ membership in the Council of Europe be­ for European institutions and related organi­ sels has given QCEA another arena in which cause of its use of the death penalty. zations. Belgium, a strongly Catholic coun­ to put forward the Quaker peace testimony. QCEA is now financed and supported by try, has little tradition of Quakerism, although Over the years, QCEA has cooperated closely Belgium/Luxembourg Meeting and yearly the small number of native Friends in the with other church, ecumenical, and humani­ meetings throughout Europe: Britain, Neth­ country has grown somewhat over the years. tarian groups pursuing similar work. erlands, German, Switzerland, Ireland, QCEA aimed to pursue the traditional The organization also has developed links France, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Quakerly practice of"speaking truth to power" with the Council of Europe, an intergovern­ Each of these are represented in QCEA, by ensuring a Friends' presence alongside mental body concerned especially with hu­ which also has observers from Friends World new political institutions that were acquiring man rights and cultural questions, based in Committee for Consultation (Europe and increasing importance as Western European Strasbourg, France, which accords QCEA Middle East Section), Quaker Peace and Ser­ countries cemented closer relationships the status of an accredited nongovernmental vice (London), QUNO (Geneva), and the

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Corinne B. Johnson, director of the Interna­ this broad base of support means that mem­ the court sentenced him to death. What tional Division of the American Friends Ser­ bers of Congress, even conservative mem­ amazed prosecutors and brought national at­ vice Committee, retired on Feb. 28 after 30 bers, take the issue more seriously." In De­ tention to the case was the fact that Janet's years of service with the organization. She cember 1996 a delegation of campaign sup­ parents, both Friends who had actively op­ had served as director of international pro­ porters visited President Clinton's liaison for posed the death penalty, publicly disagreed grams since 1979. In a statement released on religious affairs at the White House. More with the sentence. In fact, throughout the Feb. 28, Kara Newell, executive director of recently, Marian Franz and representatives · trial the Mesners maintained their friendship AFSC, said, "Because of Corinne's leader­ &om religious organizations now supporting with, and were supported by, the Reeves ship, AFSC's international programs are the campaign were able to meet with influen­ family, also members of Central City Meet­ known for consistency, for ethical imple­ tial members of Congress, such as Senator ing who had previously testified against the mentation, and for 'being there' until self­ Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who chairs the Sen­ death penalty. In December 1996 the panel direction is solid." Corinne first joined AFSC ate Judiciary Committee, to discuss the bill. of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1957 and held administrative positions decided that Reeves' jury, which considered until 1960. She returned in 1968 as assistant A federal appeals pand has ruled that a the charge against Reeves of committing director of the AFSC Overseas Refugee Pro­ Nebraska Friend now on death row must be murder while committing a felony, should gram, and &om 1969 to 1972 she was associ­ given either a sentence of life in prison or a have been told that it could convict Reeves of ate director of the Family Planning and Popu­ retrial because of an error during his 1981 a lesser charge, such as second-degree murder lation Education Program. Corinne then murder trial. This revelation updates the story or manslaughter. Though the State of Ne­ served as director of AFSC's Latin America told in "Two Flowers in the Sanctuary," by braska has not yet responded, the ruling Program &om 1972 to 1979 before becom­ Wilmer Tjossem (F] Jan. 1988). When could challenge Nebraska's current law that ing director of the International Division. Randolph Reeves was convicted of the mur­ limits sentences in felony-murder cases to AFSC has chosen Martin Garate to be the der of Janet Mesner, a family friend and death or life in prison. The State is expected new director for the International Division. fellow member of Central City (Nebr.) Meet­ to appeal the decision, and the case could end Martin, a Friend who has worked at the ing, and her friend, Victoria Lamm, in 1981, up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Quaker United Nations Office in New York City and served as co-director of the Cornice de Servicio Chileno Cuaquero (Quaker Ser­ vice Chile) in Santiago, Chile, will begin work on May 1. Martin brings to the posi­ :The FRl ENDS tion experience with grassroots programming and administration, as well as 13 years of JOURNAL Otmpaign work with the AFSC. New Gift Annuity Rates Support for the National Campaign for a Over the past year, FRIENDS jOURNAL with FRIENDS JouRNAL? The chart below Peace Tax Fund bill grew in November has greatly benefited &om support of the provides examples, based on a $25,000 1996 with backing &om the National Asso­ Campaign through gifts to the JoURNAL's cash gift, of possible gift annuity rates ciation of Evangelicals. Forrest Montgomery, Gift Annuity Program. This program, and tax savings available to a participant NAE's Washington, D.C., legal representa­ which was established two years ago, not in the JOURNAL's Gift Annuity Program tive, addressed the campaign's Nov. 8-9 board only provides for the JouRNAL's future, (please note that the charitable deduction meeting to share that the NAE will support but also is an excellent way for Friends to will vary slightly depending on the date the Peace T ax Fund bill on the grounds of support the work of the JouRNAL while at of the gift). religious liberty- the current system violates the same time receiving a fixed-rate in­ Savings on capital gains taxes are also conscientious objectors' practice of their faith. come for the life of the donor. possible when gifts of stock (rather The National Campaign for a Peace Tax How much can a retired Friend count than cash) are used to establish a gift Fund advocates for legislation enabling con­ on receiving &om a gift annuiry contract annuity with the JouRNAL. (The mini­ scientious objectors to war to have the mili­ mum gift needed to establish tary portion of their federal income taxes Annual Annuity Charitable a FRIENDS jOURNAL gift annu­ directed to a special fund for projects that Age Rate Income Deduction ity is $5,000.) enhance peace. Several member churches of For more information 65 7.2% $1,800 $9,511 the NAE, such as the Church of the Breth­ about how you can support 70 7.7% $1 ,925 $10,349 ren, have been long-time supporters of the the FRIENDS JouRNAL Cam­ 75 8.4% $2,100 $11 ,251 campaign. "At first this was just a lonely paign through an annuity gift, 80 9.4% $2,350 $12,272 struggle for the peace churches," said Marian please contact us by calling 85 10.5% $2,625 $13,587 Franz, director of the campaign, "then we Mike Johnson at (800) 988- 90 12.0% $3,000 $14,702 got the support of the mainline churches, 1105. which represent over 12 million people. Now we have support from more conservative re­ ligious organizations, who, until recently, had Campaign Ends June 30th seemed to be unlikely allies." Marian at­ With plans underway to complete country. March and April were particu­ tributes the recently attained, broad base of the jOURNAL Campaign by June 30th, larly busy months with a four-day trip support to a change in tactics &om an issue of Vinton Deming is spending much of his to the Chicago area in mid March fol­ conscientious objection to an issue of relig­ time meeting with Friends around the lowed by several days in North Carolina. ious liberties. Marian explained that "having

FRIENDS j OURNAL May 1997 25 Bulletin Board College preparatory •The 1997 Consultation ofFriends at Quaker 254-5911 (days) or (802) 254-2826 (eve­ Grades 7-12 Hill Conference Center, Richmond, Ind., nings and weekends), fax (802) 257-2850, e­ DELAWARE VALLEY May 30-June 1, will address the theme of mail [email protected]. & Summer School FRIEN DS S CHOO L "Friends Diversity and Its Future Signifi­ cance." This gathering will be the last in a •The Religious Education Committee of for Students with Learning Differences 16-year series of consultations to discuss mat­ Friends General Conference is seeking assis­ ters of importance to Quakers and Quaker­ tance as it revises the "Lives That Speak" DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL ism. The weekend will include presentations, First-day school curriculum. The original 730 Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA discussions, and workshops under the leader­ "Living Light" series, published by FGC, Call (610) 526-9595 for info & a video ship of John Punshon. Wilmer Cooper will contained stories of the lives of impottant be among the presenters. For registration historical Friends. FGC would now like chil­ information and program details, contact dren in grades five through eight to learn of David Edinger, Quaker Hill Conference Cen­ recent or contemporary Quakers whose lives Executive Director ter, 101 Quaker Hill Dr., Richmond, IN speak of the testimonies Friends hold dear: Friends Center Corporation is searching 47374, telephone (371) 962-5741. (From simplicity, honesty, peace, nonviolence, equal­ for a new Executive Director who will be The New England Friend, Wtnter 1997) ity, and stewardship of the earth. Suggestions responsible for the overall operation of of modern influential Friends, accompanied Friends Center at 1515 Cherry Street, •Russian young Friends are inviting young by a short paragraph about why the person Philadelphia. The search process will end Friends in North America to join them for should be included, may be sent to Marguerite with a prospective hiring in May, 1997. their annual summer gathering in late July Clark, "Lives That Speak," 317 Forbush The Executive Director should have excel­ Mountain Dr., Chapel Hill, NC 27514. lent interpersonal, financial management, and early August. For the last three summers, property management, plant maintenance, Russian young Friends have gathered at a (From the FLGC Wtnter 1996-97 newsletter) and leadership skills. The Executive Di­ different location around western Russia for rector reports to a Quaker Board of Direc­ a week of fUn and spiritual sharing. This year •The Fellowship of Quaker Artists is accept­ tors. A complete job description is avail­ they plan to meet outside of Novgorod, an ing submissions for an art show it is sponsor­ able by written request. Interested par­ ancient city in northwestern Russia. The ing during Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's resi­ ties should send a resume and letter of group is eager for contact with young Friends dential gathering, July 15-20, at Allentown interest to: Clerk, Search Committee, from other countries. In past summers they College in Center Valley, Pa. All pictures Friends Center Corporation, 1515 Cherry welcomed several visitors from Europe, but must be framed, wired, and ready for hang­ Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. few have come from North America. The ing. Artwork may be for sale. A 20 percent group acknowledges that airfare across the commission will be charged on pieces sold to Atlantic is expensive, but costs for the gather­ cover expenses. Artists may submit one piece, ing itself will be kept to a minimum. Friends which must be accompanied by a mission from all branches of Quakerism who are statement. The statement may be an expla- 16-30 years old (these ages are only guide­ nation of the work, a poem or prose that lines, not rules) are encouraged enhances the message of the nI~ ~Ie,ri~~ to consider this opportunity. work, or a statement of how • Quality care in the Quaker tradition. For more information, con­ your spiritual beliefs influ­ tact Tom Anthony, e-mail ence your art. The typed • 42 apartments for independent living, [email protected], tele­ statement should be 60 private personal care rooms, 120 phone 7-095-122-3010, or mounted on a 5" x 7" card, nursing home beds. Friends House Moscow, e-mail which will be hung next to [email protected], fax 7-095- the work. A reception to • Peace of mind. Supportive medical 241-3487. meet the artists will take and social services throughout your place Saturday evening, July stay. •The Campaign for Equity- · 19. Artwork not retrieved • An active lifestyle in a beautifUl, Restorative Justice (CERJ), ~~~~~~~~:=;JJ by 3:30p.m. onJuly20will gracefUl setting. sponsored by the American Friends Service be subject to handling and storage fees. A Committee and Traprock Peace Center in catalog for the show will be printed, and June • Meals, housekeeping, transportation, Massachusetts, will hold a public organiza- 10 is the deadline for the following informa- cultural and social activities. tional meeting for speaking out against the cion: name, address, telephone number, name criminal justice system on May 9 in New of artwork, approximate size, and, space per- • A history of caring since 1904. York City. The meeting will also include mining, similar information for a second discussion of plans for forming an ecumeni- submission. Informacion and questions should Stapeley In Germantown cal, inter-religious, and secular campaign for be sent to Kathleen Sheehan, P.O. Box 110, 6300 Greene Street restorative justice. CERJ is a new, commu- Spring Manor, PA 19478, telephone (610) Phi"iadelphia, PA 19144 nity-based public education and citizen-level 287-7220, e-mail [email protected]. Call Carol Nemeroff lobbying initiative for dramatic public policy Admissions Director reform. For more information on CERJ and •On June 21-24, Bread for the World, a (215) 844-0700 the upcoming organizational meeting, con­ non-partisan Christian antihunger lobbying tact John Wilmerding, Convener, Campaign movement, will host its 1997 N a tiona! Gath­ 9 for Equity-Restorative Justice, 111 High St., ering at American University in Washing­ Brattleboro, VT 05301-3018, telephone (802) ton, D.C. The weekend will include wor-

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ship, issues and skills workshops, speakers MAY Helsinki, Finland, telephone (358-9) 7284565. from around the world, and a Lobby Day to 2-4-Denmark Yearly Meeting. Contact Oerk, 17-19--Switzerland Yearly Meeting, at Hotel teach participants the most effective ways to Quaker Centre, Vendersgade 29, DK-1363 Friedegg, Aeschi bei Spicz, Switzerland. Contact present hunger issues to representatives and K0benhavn K, Denmark, telephone (45-35) Clerks, CH YM, Maison Quaker, 13 ave du senators. Cost for the gathering is $15 5, 830976. Mervelet, CH-1209, Geneve, Switzerland, tele­ phone (41-22) 733-3397, fax 734-0015. which includes program materials and meals. 4-Spring meeting of the Friends Historical So­ Lodging is available. For further informa­ ciety, 11 a.m. at Middletown (Pa.) Meeting­ 23-25-Netherlands Yearly Meeting, at tion, contact Bread for the World, National house, Uma, Pa. The program will fearure "Anti­ Mennorode Centre, Elspeet, Netherlands. Con­ Gathering, 1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1000, slavery assemblages: the Quaker silhouette album,» tact Quaker Secretariaat, VossiusSuaat 20, 1071 a presentation by Anne A. Verplanck, curator of AD Amsterdam, Netherlands, telephone (31-20) Silver Spring, MD 20910, telephone (301) 6794238, fax 6721158. 608-2400, fax (30 1} 608-2401, e-mail maritime collections at the Maryland Historical 23-26-"Embracing the Mystery of Change," [email protected]. Society. The day will also include worship and lunch with Middletown Friends. Contact Friends the 1997 gathering of Friends Conference on Historical Society, (610) 896-1161, e-mail Religion and Psychology at Lebanon Valley Col­ •The 1997 Swackhamer Peace Essay Con­ [email protected]. lege, Annville, Pa. Carol Pearson, author ofAwak­ ming the Heroes Within, &tum of Merlin, and test, with prizes of up to $1,500, is open to all 8-11--Sweden Yearly Meeting, at Svartbacken, Magic at Work, will lead four plenary sessions. high school students. Sponsored by Nuclear Sweden. Contact Kvakargarden, P.O. Box 9166, Contact Lucy Eddinger, Registrar, 3901 Con­ S-102 72 Stockholm, Sweden, telephone/fax (46- Age Peace Foundation, the contest will judge necticutAve. NW,#109, Washington, DC20008, 8) 668-68-16. essays on the following topic: "In the form of e-mail [email protected]. a letter to the Secretary General of the United 11-The annual Ernest and Esther Weed Memo­ 30-June 1-"Peaceable Crucible: Quaker Revival · Nations, describe ways in which you have rial Lecture, 1:30 p.m., at Beacon Hill Friends in a Time of Turmoil," an imergenerational gath­ resolved conflicts peacefully in your family, House in Boston, Mass. Johan Maurer, general ering sponsored by the Northeast Regional Con­ school, or community, and how you would secretary of Friends United Meeting, will address ference of Friends World Committee for Consul­ apply these to achieving peace in the world." "2002-A Quaker Odyssey: When Friends Go ration at Mount Misery Retreat Center in Browns Beyond the Arlantic Culrure. » 2002 marks the Mills, N.J. Panelists and workshop leaders include The deadline for submissions is June 6. For 1OOth anniversary of Friends ouueach to Mrica. Vanessa Julye, Niyonu Spann, Jorge Arauz, Barty rules and other information, contact Nuclear Contact Beacon Hill Friends House, 6 Chestnut Age Peace Foundation, 1187 Coast Village Scott, and Evangeline Lynn. Contact Neil St., Boston, MA 02108, telephone (617) 227- Hartman, 110 S. Church St., Moorestown, NJ Rd., Ste. 123, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, 9118. 08057, telephone (609) 235-4507. web site http://www.napf.org. (From the 16-18-Finland Yearly Meeting, at Viittakivi Wilmington Colkge Peace Resource Center 1996 International Centre, Hauho, Finland. Contact Winter newsletter) Pirkko Lehto, FYM, Urakkatie 20 C, SF-00680

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28 May 1991 FRIENDs j oURNAL e patterns, be examples in NEW! Posters The founding of the Center of Peace, Non­ B all countries, places, violence, and Human Rights has led to a islands, nations, wherever you network of communities for peace. Adam come; that your carriage and from the FGC Bookstore life may preach among all Curle places this drama of hope in his re­ sons of people, and to them. sponse to contemporary violence. His is a Then you will come to for your meeting P!e_a for change of heart and for sense of walk cheerfully over the VISIOn. world, answering that of Posters are 24 by 36 inches -Bob Cory God in everyone. and are $8.00 each. Cl OilCI Fox, tlu.uu. Bob Cory, a member of Friends Meeting of tfl14-lflyl Washington (D.C), has been involved in the Silence peace movement for over 50 years. l Friends W11rship is a natural demand W"- arc met m a ..:rc:.tt r ~tsk when we m~t mgcthcr in born of a need for God , 0 worship, no less thrm tn n:aliz..:. the Divine Pn..-scncc. felt by young and old, It is our ptlft tu make ready for that rcaliz.atum ;.uul in all the world's religions. An Energy Field More - to crc-.uc an atmosph ere.: in which that Presence ami Power can touch us into fu ller life. In silence we may worship together, Intense than War: The Once we rcmcmhcr th is, we cannot hut approach the sharing our search for life , ocasioo wnh reverent humility and cxpoct.ninn ami the dt:Sirc that noc.hinK on our part may hinder or t.listurh. sharing our quest for peace , Nonviolent Tradition and It is somcthmg holy and womlcrful we arc tryin~; to huild ur sharing God's gift of love. togcthcr- rhc consciousness of the Prcsc::ncc with us ht:rc American Literature and the realaty of communion with God. By Michael True. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY., 1995. xxiii+169 pages. $34.95/cloth; $16.95/paperback. IR An Energy Field More Intense Than To order, and for a full catalog of Quaker resources, contact: War, Michael True writes: Friends General Conference Bookstore l"iiPJa 1216 Arch Street, 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107 Most Americans grow up '!illiterate" regarding nonviolent conflict resolution and active peace­ Lm!l or call1,800,966,4556 Monday-Friday 9:00AM to 4:30PM making . ... While other imponant achievements in American culture-public education, the dis­ rriburion of goods and services, the orderly trans­ fer of power within institutions--pass from one generation to the next, refined by each, nonvio­ lence has to be rdeamed, almost from scratch. This short history of nonviolent discourse in the United States attempts to make its readers "literate" and "educated" and to pre­ Broadmead serve and deepen the peace narrative chat is desperately trying to assert itself as a way of telling the story of human experience. The book attempts a sweeping history of nonviolent discourse in the U.S. in seven short chapters packed with references to writ­ ers, activists, and social change movements. For some readers, especially chose unfamiliar with the work of Lynd, Cooney, and Michalowski, Chatfield, Bebedetti, Brock, and O'Gorman, chis material will be new; for scholars in the history of nonviolence in the U.S., there may be little introduction to new material or thinkers; but for everyone there is A Friends Continuing Care Retirement Community presented a most useful digest of often ne­ An Accredited Non-Profit Facility glected voices in the shaping of our culture and national character. To give onesel(1 70 pages to cover more chan 200 years of U.S. cultural history is to risk charges of oversim­ plification and superficialiry, but Michael True manages to escape chat sort of criticism. His book is evocative rather chan exhaustive, 13801 York Road Cockeysville. MD 21030 and it has a very useful bibliographical essay chat reveals True's command of his material 410-527-1900 Est. in 1979 as well as being extremely helpful to chose wanting to know more about the subject.

FRIENDS j OURNAL May 1997 29 Spirituality and theJflrts From the outset of the book, True is clear to make his definition of "literature" not A VACATION OPPORTUNITY AT PENDLE HILL "belles lettres in the traditional sense" but rather "written discourse describing or re­ * Painting as Meditation flecting initiatives for nonviolent social -HELEN DAVID BRANCATO JuLY 18-21 change." This broader definition proves use­ * Shaping Thoughts & Dreams in Metal ful in exploring the diversity of U.S. culture, -GREGORY ZEORLIN jULY 25-28 as does his decision to include two defini­ Moving Toward Wholeness: tions of nonviolence-"vision of love as an * agent for fundamental social change" and the Healing & the Arts second, strategic or pragmatic nonviolence, -CHRISTINE LINNEHAN JuLY 25-28 defined by True as a "method of wielding * Soul in Slow Motion: journal-Making social, political, and economic power." & Poetry by Hand & Heart When reading this history, one will en­ -PAuLus BERENSOHN AucusT 1-5 counter many familiar names in the history * The Art ofDrama: Another Way ofKnowing of U.S. literature-Melville, Hawthorne, -JunY NicHOLSON AssELIN AucusT 1-5 Twain, Hemingway, Thoreau, and others, but the most interesting, and perhaps also * The Ministry ofWritingfor Publication the most influential, writers on nonviolence -ToM MuLLEN AucusT 8-12 have not been writers of fiction but essay­ See Classified Ads for full * Hearing with Our Hands: ists, pamphleteers, and poets. True briefly listing of spring and The Psalms & Mixed Media sketches the lives arid works of persons like summer programs. -NANCY CHINN AuGUST 8-12 Penn, Woolman, Paine, Garrison, Ballou, Burritt, Debs, Goldman, Day, King, etc., but many readers will find themselves more PENDLE HILL · A CENTER FOR STUDY AND CoNTEMPLATION ~ intrigued by the treatment he gives to per­ V r-8oo-742-J15o, EXT. 142 · Box F · 338 PLusH MILL RoAD· WALuNCFORD, PA 19086 haps lesser known figures. I have made a list for myself of writers True mentions whom I need to know more about, like Meridel LeSeuer, Muriel Rukeyser, Ammon Hennacy, Randolph Bourne, Stanley Kunitz, and Thomas McGrath, and no doubt many other readers interested both in cultural history and in the specific history of nonviolence in the U.S. will make similar lists of their own. Spiritualfjfe enrichment One leaves a reading of the whole book not A SUMMER OPPORTUNITY AT ...... ~ only looking forward to encountering these unfamiliar voices, but also with the deepened With Barbarajene WiUtams awareness of the existence of a narrative that must be heard and promulgated if the "peace­ able kingdom" imagined by the early founders o you hunger for a less harriedW of the United States is ever to be realized. A deeper relationship with God? D Come join us for one or more -Anthony Bing weeks of spiritual life enrichment including: {Reprinted from Quaker History, Fall 1996) Barbarajene WiUtams ~ Guided experience in prayer, ts an educator, poet, Anthony Bing, a member ofClear Creek (Jnd) Meeting, is a professor ofEnglish and director spiritual listening, journal nature wnter, graduate ofpeace studies at Earlham College. He also writing and the Enneagram of/knlbam School of is executive director of the Peace Studies ~ Spiritual direction with Barbarajene Reltgton and spiritual Association. ~ Daily meeting for worship nurtU~YW/director for the ~ Spiritual friendships Pen4fle Hill community. ~ Use of our arts and crafts studio 1-800-,42-3150 EXT 142 Mention ad "F"

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The concept of extracting from the gos­ pels the words that can be directly anributed to Jesus is not new. Norris Chumley's goal was to record these teachings on the lips­ ] ;{ore than 200 seniors with our first residents moving in this and in the hearts-of modern Americans: 1 V.la!re ady have reserved summer. You can choose from a variety rich and poor, young and old, women and of floor plans ranging from a cozy men, educated and uneducated, black, white, residences at Arbor Glen Continuing yellow, and brown. This real life "Living Care Retirement Community in studio to a spacious villa with cathedral Gospel" can be embraced by believers and Bridgewater. You, too, can plan for a ceilings, fireplace and two bedrooms. non-believers alike. secure future - with the assurance of Come visit our Information Panicipants include: the Abyssinian Bap­ an active retirement lifestyle, first Center and furnished tist Sanctuary Choir, Maya Angelou, Calvin quality health care, and a financial m Butts, Deepak Chopra, Judy Collins, Ram plan that protects against the Dass, Shakti Gawain, Erica Jong, Norman Lear, Marianne Wtlliamson, and many others. enormous costs oflong·term nursing. The first tape, one hour long, is the read­ Spanning wellness programs, ings themselves. The second, a bit shorter, assisted living, and skilled nursing includes reflections and comments &om many care, our residents will have access to See the handsome architectural of the panicipants of the first. The questions the area's finest physicians at our features and design of our community. they ask and the issues they raise may help on-site geriatric care Meet our staff and talk to future you on your own spiritual journey. residents. Daily hours are from 10 am Needless to say, I have watched The Gos­ pel According to Jesus several times, and gain to 4 pm and on week -ends from more insight each time. If there is a defect, it 12 noon to 4 pm. Discover why the would be the length. The timing makes dis­ circle of mends at Arbor Glen could cussion following a long evening an effort. It fit your plans for your future. just isn't possible to select "my favorite pas­ .....,.,...,.._,_.., ... .. sage" for a focus discussion. The effort to Our Quaker-directed community watch one tape at a sitting, however, is well worthwhile. will be built on 24 acres in -Phil Gilbert Bridgewater, New Jersey. The first %trrGen construction phase includes 142 AFriends Continuing Care Retirement Community Phil Gilbert is a member ofManhasset (NY.) residential apartments, 15 villas, Meeting. ~t$1~ 45 assisted living and 50 nursing units,

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Births/Adoptions University of Pennsylva­ Weddle; and two sisters, nia. He studied engineer­ Helen Harris and Barbara Costello-Wkabm Thomas Cosre/JQ, on Nov. ing but soon began a life­ Eccles. I4, I996, to Chinda and Paul Costello of long effort to improve the Rochester (N.Y.) Meeting. King-joulyn Brown/u condition of society. He King, 87, on November II, Dew-Madison Ltigh Dro~, on Ocr. I, I996, to worked for the Philadel­ I996, in Madison, WJS. Born Lisa and Thomas Dew. Thomas is a member of phia Relief Board, was in Indiana, Jocelyn accom­ Wilmington (Del.) Meeting. the first employee of the panied her missionary par­ Experiment in Interna­ Monet-Sy/via Eikm Mona, on June 26, I996, ents in the West Indies, Bo­ tional Living, managed livia, Panama, and Costa to Alice Babcock Monet and David Monet. consumer cooperatives, David is a member ofWtlmington (Del.) Rica. She graduated from did social work with the Meeting. Asbury College in Kentucky, Navajo and Hopi, and where she met Wmston L taught high school math King. They were married in Marriages/Unions in Afghanistan, Iran, Ari­ I93l. They spent the next Anderer-Dew-Ktvin William Dro~ and Lynda zona, and at Friends Cen- ~ I8 years in New England, J~an Andn-", on June 7, I996, under the joint tral School in Philadel- ~ and in I 964 the couple trav­ care of Milwaukee (Wis.) and Wtlminron phia, Pa. He confounded ~ eled to Burma and India, (Del.) Meetings. Kevin is a member o his draft board when he, ...:::l studying Buddhism and Wtlmington (Del.) Meeting. although over-aged, in­ Hinduism. They then moved sisted on volunteering as a to Nashville, Tenn., where Bloxom-Costell-MichMI A. CosteU and conscientious objector. they joined the Religious So­ Mariann~ Bloxom, on Dec. 28, I996, under C They invented a separate classification for him ciety of Friends and Nashville (Tenn.) Meeting. the care ofWtlmington (Del.) Meeting. that he was the only person ever to hold. Afi:er Jocelyn was very active in the meeting and en­ Brooking-Hannan-William Harman Jr. and retiring he served as a full-time volunteer for the joyed teaching First-day school. Afi:er WinstOn Ann~ Brooking, on Sept. 28, I996, under the American Friends Service Committee program­ retired, they spent time researching Zen and Pure care of Wilmington (Del.) Meeting. ming computers. Then at the age of70 his com­ Land Buddhism in Japan. While attending other mitment to a world where people of different Devlin-Cooley-]a77US Cooky and Mary Drolin, meetings during these years, they kept their backgrounds find ways to cooperate led him to on Dec. 28, I996, under the care of Pima membership at Nashville Meeting. In I979 they (Ariz.) Meeting. Monteverde, a multicultural community in Costa moved to Madison, Wis., to live with their daugh­ Rica. There he was active in the Friends meeting ter. Jocelyn was a woman of great empathy who Hearne-Jackson-Douglas jackson and and on the committees that helped run the schools, loved writing poetry, music, teaching, and com­ Alexandra H~arm, on Oct. 5, I996, under the a cultural center, and a facility for the aging. His posing. She is survived by her husband; two sons, care of Haverford (Pa.) Meeting. many interests included travel, hiking, reading, Christopher and Jonathan; a daughter, Carroll; Keiter-MacQueen-Robm Mac~m and and pets. He laughed easily, was cheery, stubborn, three grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; Mary Baiu~ Krit", on May I8, I996, under the and outgoing until his tranquil end surrounded three great-grandchildren; and a brother. care of Nashville (Tenn.) Meeting. by friends. Osborne is survived by his wife of 60 years, Rebecca Shannon Cresson; two children, Myers-Ekanor Emkn Myers, 7I, on Dec. I2, Keltz-Prill-jos~h Prill and Cathmn~ ]~an Wetherill and Os; and six grand- and great-grand­ I996, in Tamworth, N.H. Born in Philadelphia, <z, on Dec. I4, I996, under the care of Falls children. she attended Germantown Friends School and (Pa.) Meeting. was a member of Germantown (Pa.) Meeting. McNally-Brown-David Millard Brown and Eccles-Pa" W. Eccks, 60, on Dec. I3, I996, in She graduated from George School, in Pennsylva­ Scarsdale, N.Y., of a respiratory ailment. Born in nia, and Wheelock College, in Massachusetts. G~orgia Larmour McNally, on Nov. 23, I996, under the care ofWtlmington (Del.) Meeting, Lawrence, N.Y., Peter attended Dartmouth Col­ Eleanor received an MA in child development of which Georgia is a member. lege where he was a Dartmouth Senior Fellow and from Michigan State University. During WWII worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He she volunteered at Topaz, Utah, Japanese reloca­ Mydland-Zimmer-MichMI Zimm" and jill graduated cum laude in I958. That summer Peter tion center, where she directed activities for chil­ Mydland, on Nov. 2, I996, under the care of worked for the American Friends Service Com­ dren. Afi:er the war she and her husband, Wtlson Norristown (Pa.) Meeting, of which both mittee, which sent him to international confer­ Myers, joined the American Friends Service Com­ Michael and Jill are members. ences. He later joined the Religious Society of mittee's relief efforts in Germany, where Eleanor Rarig-Williams-Gr~g Williams and Alict Rarig, Friends while at Cambridge University on a helped stan a daycare center and distributed food on Dec. 3I, I996, under the care ofMt. Toby Fulbright Fellowship. There he met and married and clothing. On returning to the United States, (Mass.) Meeting, with the assistance of fellow student Achla Chib of New Delhi. In I959 she helped found the John Woolman School and Abington (Pa.) Meeting, of which Alice is a and I960 he studied in Paris and then attended taught at the Walden School in California. The member. Greg is a member ofWtlmington Harvard Law School. While there he and Achla couple moved tO East Lansing, Mich., in I965. (Ohio) Meeting. attended Cambridge (Mass.) Meeting. While Upon completing her MA, Eleanor worked for working for the World Bank in Washington, the State Department of Social Services as a li­ Salladin-Bagnez-Mark Douglas Bagnez and D.C., the couple attended Florida Avenue (D.C.) censing consultant for daycare centers. Later she Laura Elizab~th Salladin, on June 29, I996, Meeting. In I965 they moved to New York City, joined Head Stan and the Family Resource Pro­ under the care of Gunpowder (Md.) Meeting. where Peter worked for a law firm, and there they gram, providing support to Head Stan programs Mark is a member ofWtlmington (Del.) attended Fifteenth Street (N.Y.) Meeting. In I967 in rural Michigan. In I973 Eleanor and her hus­ Meeting. the couple moved to Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., band did archeological field work in the Mediter­ Snyder-Beck- Hmry Beck and Sandra Snydn, and the following year Peter transferred his mem­ ranean, where she developed her photographic on Oct. 5, I996, under the care of Gwynedd bership to Scarsdale (N.Y.) Meeting. He worked skills. Together the Myers published Th~ A~l (Pa.) Meeting. in the fmance industry and for several years was Atlas ofAncimt Crew. Eleanor's interest in chil­ posted in Brazil. On returning to the United dren, nature, and cultural history merged with States, Peter began his own international fmance photography. She developed a personal portfolio Deaths consulting firm. At Scarsdale Meeting, he served of photographs reflecting her observations. In Cresson-Osborn~ Coaus Cmson, 92, on Dec. on the Finance and Social Concerns Committees. 1987 Eleanor transferred her membership to 3I, I996, in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Osborne He is survived by his wife; his father; a son, Peter Hanover (N.H.) Meeting and later to North was a graduate of Haverford School, Pa., and the Rahul Eccles; a daughter, Radika Elisabeth Eccles Sandwich (N.H.) Meeting. She is survived by her

34 May 1997 fRIENDS JOURNAL husband, Wtlson; three sons, Emlen, Anhur, and David; six grandchildren; a brother, Anhur Cope WilliAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL Est. 1689 Emlen; and a sister, Marie Hochstrasser. 307 Years of Quaker Education

Nelson-Thomar W. Nelson, 83, on Aug. 30, The William Penn Charter School is a Quaker college-preparatory school 1996, in Lacey, Wash. Thomas was born in stressing high standards in academics, the arts, and athletics. Penn Charter Littlerock, Wash., and spent his early years in is committed to nurturing girls and boys of diverse backgrounds in an Olympia. After graduating from Bellingham atmosphere designed to stimulate each student to work to his or her Normal he returned to teach in Littlerock and fullest potential. Kindergarten through twelfth grade. later in Tumwater, Wash. He married Grace Hopp in 1936. In 1941 he completed graduate studies in social work and was employed by the Earl J. BalliD, Head of School Farm Security Administration as a social worker 3000 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 for migrant workers and their families. During (215) 844-3460 World War II he administered various programs for the War Food Administration, helping to resettle persons displaced during the war. He also worked for the American Friends Service Com­ minee to direct a halfway house for released fel­ FRIENDS HoME AT WooDsToWN ons. He became the associate director of the National Association of Social Workers, Califor­ A Q!iaker-Sponsored Retirement Facility nia Chapter, from which he retired in 1979. Thomas continued to serve the community as a • One-bedroom Woods Court • 60-bed Medicare & Medicaid prison visitor and was a longrime volunteer for Apartments for People over 60 Certified Nursing Home VISA. Thomas is survived by his wife, Grace • Residential facility with • Pastoral Setting Hopp Nelson; two sons, Erik and Blaine; three community dining • Caring, supportive staff grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. VVOODSTOWN • Delicious, nutritious meals Webb-George Webb, 76, on June 20, 1996, in Baltimore, Md. Born in Fredricktown, Ohio, P.O. Box457, Friends Drive • Woodstown, NJ 08098 • (609) 769-1500 George studied engineering until he was drafred during WWII. He registered as a conscientious objector and served four years in Civilian Public Service working at soil conservation, fire-fighting, in a mental hospital, and volunteering for experi­ ments in scientific research. After marrying Eleanor Brooks in June 1946, George graduated from the University of Toledo, Ohio, and received an MS from North Carolina State College in 1952. Searching for a job that would combine his engi­ 1951 Delta Avenue West Branch, Iowa 52358-8507 neering skills and his interest in medicine, and one that would not contribute to the military, George took a position at the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland as an electronics engineer, where he worked until his retirement in the 1980s. His professional work included helping develop biomedical engineering into a large department at Hopkins, setting up its first cardiac intensive care unit, and working with national and international biomedical engineer­ ing organizations. In 1954 he joined Stony Run (Md.) Meeting where he was a vital patticipant, serving on numerous comminees, working on building renovation, and devising the meeting's first computer program. George led the meeting to grant funds to projects embodying Quaker Education research informs us that in order to be effective, values and initiated the Nunure Fund, enabling learning must be comprehensive. Learning must take place within many members to attend activities that would aid their settings - the classroom, the home, the community, the workplace and at spiritual growth. In the larger Quaker world he one's place of worship. Scattergood Friends School encompasses all of these carried many responsibilities, serving Baltimore Yearly Meeting and Friends General Conference elements. Our challenging coUege preparatory curriculum is enhanced Central Committee. George and Eleanor visited by donnitory Jiving, a learning community comprised of students and those other branches of Quakerism and sought com­ who teach, a work-crew and farm program, and Friends Worship. mon ground between Friends United Meeting, Value based education has been the foundation for Friends General Conference, and Evangelical academic excellence at Scattergood since its founding in 1890. Friends. He was a warm, exuberant host, who enjoyed travel, railroad trains, fme woodworking, For more infonnation, call319-643-7628, or, 319-643-7600. growing orchids, and photography. George was World Wide Web: http://www.scattergood.org survived by his wife, Eleanor, who died on March E-mail address: SFS/[email protected] 5, 1997; a son, Randall Lawrence Webb; and a Fax number: 319-643-7485 daughter, Alison Webb Schweiger.

FRIENDS jOURNAL May 1997 35 Books-Quaker spiritual classics, history, biography, Classified Assistance Sought and current Quaker experience, published by Friends United Press, 101 -A Quaker Hill Or., Richmond, IN 47374. Quaker Inner-City School Endowment Fund. A small Write for free catalog. For Information call (215) 241-7279. group of well-integrated Quaker schools are doing a 55¢ per word. Minimum charge is $11. terrific job in inner cities. Help them raise sufficient en­ Pastoral Care Newsletter: four issues per year, on Add 10% if boxed. 10% discount for three dowments for long-term financial stability. For information topics of interest to Friends providing care of members: consecutive insertions, 25% for six. contact: Imogene Angell, 150 Kendal Drive, Kennett mental illness, membership, marriage, community build­ Appearance of any advertisement does not Square, PA 19348, Telephone: (610) 388-0935. ing. For subscription information or a sample copy, send imply endorsement by Friends Journal. a stamped, self-addressed business envelope to: FRC/ Rarnallah Friends Meeting needs financial help with PYM, 1515 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Classified Ad Deadlines: their Play Center Program for 50 five-year-old West Bank refugee children. Dear Friends, we depend on you to help "Quaker Profiles & Practices• by William Kashatus is July issue: May 12 us plant the seeds of brotherhood, understanding, and an "imaginative and creative text on Quakerism for middle August issue: June 9 love In the hearts of these children. Contact: Violet school students;" "well-written and inviting" (PYM staff). Zarou, P.O. Box 1180, Ramallah, West Bank, via Israel. Send $9.50 plus $2.50 shipping to PPress, POB 553, Submit your ad to: Northampton, MA 01061. Advertising Manager, Friends Journal 1501 Cherry Street Audio-VIsual Quaker Books. Rare and out-<>f-print, joumals, memori­ Philadelphia, PA 19102·1497 als, histories, inspirational. Send for free calalog or specific Fax: (215)5~1377 Of Lime, Stones and Wood: Historic wants. Vintage Books, 181 Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton, Quaker Meeting Houses of the New MA01748. Yorfr Yearly Meeting Region, by Claire Simon. Three historic Friends meetinghouses For Sale Accommodations come alive w~h exc~ ing stories of their past, including the Colonial period and Abolition: Flush­ Peak Island, Maine, B&B. (Hourly ferry from Portland.) Marketplace available to you! Special Quaker ing, Nine Partners, and Shrewsbury, N.J. Narrated by commemorative plates, coffee mugs, T­ Woodsy slope, bayview summer home. Varied shore- ~ems, Friends who have intimate knowledge of these meeting­ shirts, wood products, Quaker dolls, and more. line, historic sites; village. Refrigeration, bikes. $60 double. houses. Appr. 50 min. V.H.S. $35. Berry (207) 766-3366 or (941 ) 995-1234. Write for New Free Brochure. Quaker Heritage Also available in V.H.S. Video: Who Are Quakers? De­ Showcase, 10711 N. Kittatinny Ave., Tucson, scribes Friends worship, ministry, and decision-making. AZ85737. The Blue Idol Quaker Guesthouse is an ideal base for 27 min. $29.50, and Crones: Interviews with Elder i you to explore England and discover your Quaker roots. Quaker Women. Quaker women speak unselfconsciously You will be in the heart of rural Sussex near to Gatwick about being Quaker women and their feelings about aging. Opportunities Airport, London, Brighton, and the South Coast. 20 min. $18. Excellent tools for outreach and education. All prices include postage. Allow three weeks for deliv­ A beautiful 16th~tury house, converted by William Upcoming Conferences At Pendle Hill Penn, combines a guest- and meetinghouse in spacious ery. Quaker Video, P.O. Box 292, Maplewood, NJ 07040. Healing Life's Wounds, John Calvi, May 23-26. gardens amidst peaceful English countryside. Tamar, Rehab, Ruth, and Bathsheba, Elizabeth Watson, Bed and Breakfast £22pp per night. Contact: Julie and May 3Ch.June 1. Jonathan Spencer, The Blue Idol, Coolham, Horsham, Books and Publications Knowing One Another In That Which Is Eternal: The W. Sussex RH1 38QP. Telephone: 01144 1403-741241. Practice of Spiritual Friendship, Margery Larrabee, Fax: 01144 1403-741841. E·mall: 106700.3252@ June 13-15. CompuServe.com. Sources of Spiritual Renewal for Educators, Paul and The Blue Idol-"More than just a place to stay. • Margaret Lacey, June 23-27. Jesus, Rebecca Mays, June 27-29. Transforming Ourselves: Finding Creative Responses Beacon Hill Friends House: Quaker-sponsored resi­ to Conflict, co-sponsored with Alternatives to Violence dence of 19 interested in community living, spiritual Project, June 27-29. growth, peace, and social concerns. All faiths welcome. High School Workcamp, Alex Kern et. al., July 6-13. Openings in June, September. For information, applica­ Basic Quakerism, Jonathan Vogel-Borne and Mickey tion: BHFH, 6 Chestnut Street, Boston, MA 02108-3624. Edgerton, July 11-13. (617) 227-91 18. Overnight accommodations also available. • See display ads on page 30 for details of: Big Island Fr)ends invite you into their homes for mutual Summer Arts Programs Quaker sharing. Donations. HC1, Box 12-0, Captain Spiritual Life Enrichment Program Cook, HI 96704. (808) 328-8711, 325-7323, or 322-311 6. Contact: Registrar, Pendle Hill, Box F, 338 Plush Mill Coming to London? Friendly B&B just a block from the Road, Wallingford, PA 19086-6099. (610) 566-4507 or British Museum and very close to London University. A (800) 742-3150, X 142. central location for all tourist activities. Ideal for persons traveling alone. Direct subway and bus links with Heathrow Friendly Nudist Informal Get-Together before FGC Airport. The Penn Club, 21 Bedford Place, London WC1 B Gatherihg at Avalon In W.Va., June 26-28, 1997. For 5JJ. Telephone: (0171) 636-4718. Fax: (0171) 636-5516. info call Kate or Ed, (603) 876-4562. E-mail: bababear@ galaxyij.mv.com. Pittsburgh-Affordable, comfortable third-floor (walk up) Creating a Caring Community . . • The Story of bedrooms with shared bath for visiting Friends. Single or Pennswood VIllage details the founding of this Quaker­ double occupancy. Short- to medium-term. Kitchen avail­ Community of Hospitality, a faith-based Intentional com­ directed continuing care retirement community, as told munity, seeks full-time volunteers to work at Cafe 458, a able. Convenient to universilies, shops, hospitals, and by resident Gordon Manser. He spent three years re­ free restaurant for people who are homeless. Contact: cultural attractions. Send inquiries with introductory let­ searching the archives and interviewing the founders to ter from Clerk to: House Manager, Friends Meetinghouse, Volunteer Coordinator, P.O. Box 89125, Atlanta, GA capture this history, full of determination on the part of a 30312• (404) 523-1239 4836 Ellsworth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. (412) few who faced many challenges as Pennswood grew 683-2669. from a dream to reality. The 100 pages of text with General Gathering of Conservative Friends. All are Chicago-Affordable guest accommodations in historic colorful illustrations recounts the period from 1973 through invited to gather with Conservative Friends and those of Friends meetinghouse. Short- or long-term. Contact: 1995. To order a copy, send $15 plus $2 postage to: like mind at Stillwater Meetinghouse and Olney Friends Assistant Director, Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Pennswood Village, 1382 Newtown-Langhorne Road, School campus, near Barnesville, Ohio, on Sixth Month Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. (773) 288-3066, e-mail: Newtown, PA 18940-2401, Attn: Helen King. 20th-22nd, 1997. We look forward with joy to a full [email protected]. weekend of unprogrammed, w~ing worship and fellow- Quaker House, Managua, Nicaragua. Simple hospitality; Bookstore. Serving Friends and seekers ship, wherein we may w~ to be gathered as one in shared kitchen. Reservations: 011·505-2-663216 (Span­ worldwide~ Quaker-related books and cur­ Christ Jesus. To register, write to: Nancy Hawkins, 5190 ish) or 011 -505-2-660984 (English). For general ricula for all ages. Materials to meet needs Kirk Road, Columbiana, OH 44408. information, call Pro-Nica (813) 821 -2428. and interests of individuals, religious educators, and spiritual communities. Free catalog of over 500 titles. An oasis of calm In the heart of London? Yes, at the Woodbrooke Religious education consuijation. Call, write, or visit: Quaker Study Centre Quaker International Centre, where short-, medium-, and Friends General Conference Bookstore, 1216 Arch Street, longer-term accommodation is available as well as con­ Eva Koch Research Fellowship 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107, M-f 9 a.m.-4:30p.m. EST, We are now taking applications for this latest Woodbrooke ference facilities. Excellent homemade food. For further (800) 966-4556. information contact telephone: (0171) 387-5648, fax: initiative. The Eva Koch Research Fellowship offers ac- (0171) 383-3722, or write to: 1 Byng Place, London commodation and an honorarium of up to £1 ,000. It is Worship In Song: A Friends Hymns/, 335 songs, hiS­ WC1E 7JH. tenable for up to 28 weeks, starting September 1997 or torical notes, indexes, durable hardcover. $20/copy (U.S. January 1998. We are seeking proposals in any area of Looking for a creative living alternative in New York funds) plus shipping/handling. Soflcover spiral copies at Quaker Studies. The majority of the research will take City? Penington Friends House may be the place for you! same price. Call for quantity rates. Order FGC Bookstore, place at Woodbrooke, successful applicants having ac- We are looking for people of all ages who want to make a 1216 Arch Street, 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107 or call cess to our well stocked library with ~s major Quaker serious commitment to a community lifestyle based on (800) 966-4556. collection and linking with our wide range of research Quaker principles. For information call (212) 673-1730. experience. No postgraduate qualification necessary. For We also have overnight accommodations. Without Apology, a new book by Chuck Fager. Asser· more details, contact Ben Pink Dandelion at Woodbrooke, tive, upbeat liberal Quaker theology for the 21st century. NYC-Greenwich VIllage Accommodation. Walk to 15th 1046 Bristol Road, Birmingham, B29 6W, UK, telephone: 190 pages, $11.70 postpaid. Orders: (800) 742-3150; or Street Meeting. 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36 May 1997 FRIENDS JOURNAL Study Vacations For The Socially Concerned House and Land For Sale. May be of interestto Friends. Tour Peruvian Amazon and Cuzoo/Machu Picchu August Positions Sought Retreat-like setting in the Blue Ridge, near Floyd, Va. 2-17, 1997, with Quaker educator, Robert Hinshaw. Young, Quaker educator seelks employment informa­ 52.85 acres of rolling fields and woods, bordered by Also, in '98 to Guatemala in February, Sweden/Finland in tion and opportunities in Denver, Colo., (K-12). Please stream. Farmhouse with spacious rooms, built 1991. June, and Nova Scotia in September. For travel with an call (Home) (215) 351-0580 or (Work) (215) 895-1594, or Greenhouse, woodworking shop/guest house, walled back anthropological focus, write Hinshaw Tours, 2696 West email: [email protected] with any com­ garden with bearing apple trees. Meetinghouse nearby. 160th Terrace, Stilwell, KS 66085. (913) ~2808. ments or suggestions. Housekeeping and mowing services in place. Roanoke Airport 1 hour. Greensboro, N.C. 2 hours. Ann Martyn Mexico City Volunteer Opportunities: one-week, ser­ Therapist with 20-plus years experience wants to ex­ and Frank O'Brien, Rt. 2, Box 152, Floyd, VA 24091. vice-learning seminars; six-month internships; positions plore teaming with one or several therapists Interested in Telephone: (540) 745-4340. Fax: (540) 745-4649. managing Quaker center. Casa de los Amlgos, Ignacio having a managed care free practice with an educational fobrien@swvanet. $260,000. Mariscal 132, Mexico, OF 06030; (52-5) 705-0521; rather than a medical model in the suburban area west of amigos@laneta ape org Philadelphia. Active Quaker. (717) 56D-1605. Cozy summer cottage for sale. Quiet woods, Hunterdon County, N.J., 2Q-acre cooperative, swimming pond. 70 Friends Association for Higher Education Positions Vacant minutes from NYC, Philadelphia $35,000. (908) 832- The voice that speaks for a Friends vision of higher 7044. education. American Friends Servlca Committee In Tucson, Ariz., • Encouraging Quaker colleges and study centers. is seeking a full-time 1997-98 intern (to start September • Supporting Friends educators in colleges and univer- 8, 1997) to work with Program Coordinator and commit­ Rentals Be Retreats sities worldwide. tee members on: death penalty abQiition, criminal justice, Secluded Pocono Cottage. Two bedrooms, living/dining • Offering orientation services to faculty, administrators, U.S.-Mexico border issues, conflict resolution in high room, kitchen, bathroom, and deck. Adjacent to 1 OQ-acre and trustees. schools, Alternatives to Violence workshops in prison, woods with hiking trails and stream. Fly-fishing and ex­ • Uniting through a quarterly newsletter, annual confer- and alternatives to military service for youth. Intern will cellent birding. $350/week; $175/weekend; $60/day. Call ences. be offered heafthcare, intentional community housing, John: (610) 964-8331 . Your membership makes a difference. and stipend of $4,000. Deadline is May 30. Call (520) 623-9141 for application details Cozy Maine Cottage. On quiet island minutes across Web sHe: http:llwww.georgefox.edu/nonfoxlfahe swing bridge from restaurants and shops of Boothbay FAHE, Guilford College, P.O. Box 18741, Greensboro, Harbor. Great home base for exploring Maine coast. NC 27419. (910) 852-2028. Regional Coordinator wanted to work with outreach, young people, and their meetings. Western suburbs of Sleeps 6. $475/week. Homan (610) 828-3192. Philadelphia, Pa. Dynamic person with depth of Quaker Vermont. Comfortable housekeeping cabins at Forest Travel to Tuscany experience. Full time. Starts September 1997. Contact Echo Farm in Mount Holly near Appalachian Trail. Simple, The Taste of Tuscany trip program, an Italian seminar Lark Worth, 854 Brintons Bridge Road, West Chester, PA secluded, swimming, boating. Contact Caroline Bailey. offered each April and October. learn about Tuscan art, 19382. Telephone: (610)793-0063before9:30p.m. (EST). (802) 258-4544. 1 029A Upper Dummerston Rd., culture, and cuisine. Small groups of 8-12 people, excel- Brattleboro, VT 05301. lent accommodations and food, and expert guidance. Staff Opening at Pendle HUll Bald Head Island, N.C. Panoramic view of ocean, dunes, Guests stay at Villa Marzalla in the hills between Flo- lagoon, and golf course from four-bedroom, two-bath­ renee and Lucca. For information contact: Mark Haskell, Registrar Pendle Hill seeks a person with strong interpersonal and room, beautifully furnished house with wrap-around deck, Friends and Food International, Inc., 1802 Lawrence organizational skills, and solid computer skills, to fill the two electric golf carts. Fourteen miles of beach, champi­ Street, NE, Washington, DC 20018, USA. Telephone/ onship golf, tennis, croquet, swimming, and fishing. 13,000 Fax(202)529h3210. key posHion of Registrar. The Registrar is responsible for registering program participants in Pendle Hill events, acres of maritime wilderness. Many birds and wildflow­ scheduling faciiHies for maximum utilization, and corre- ers. No cars on island. Peaceful, friendly. Rental by day Working Horse Farm IS look1ng for Interested person(s) spondence and communication with both participants or week. (215) 699-9186. for co-ownership, northern Chester County, Pottstown, and support staff. Salary is approximately $11 ,000 plus Maine Coast. Spacious house sleeps eight. Deck over­ Pa. For more information, please call Lorraine Clark, on-<:ampus room and board, excellent benefits. Applies- (610) 97Q-1373. . looks pond. Beautiful woods, salt-water cove. Swimming, lions are welcome from all who share Pendle Hill's canoeing-islands, bays. Near beaches, woods walks, principles, regardless of religious affiliation, race, age, island ferries, theaters, concerts. $700+/week, except The Mary Jeanes Loan Fund and the Anne Townsend gender, national origin, or sexual orientation. For appli- $800+/week in August. Weekends available spring, fall. Grant Fund for members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting cation and job description, please call Laura Beatty (61 0) Dam Cove Lodge. (207) 443-9446. are now taking applications for financial aid for post­ 566-4507, ext 131, 9-5, M-F. We expect to fill this secondary school education for the 1997-1998 school posHion by the end of May. A Friendly Maul vacation on a Quaker family organic year. farm. 20 minutes to local beaches. New stone and cedar With interest income and repayments of earlier loans The Equity Trust, a small nonprofit orgamzabon With Inno­ building with large octagonal room, skylight, ocean view, being our only funding sources, and increasing need vative national programs of land reform and community walk-in closet, and private bath. Full kHchen, organic being expressed by applicants, have been able to we development finance and special initiatives dealing with vegetable garden, and hot tub. Bed and breakfast or bed help with loans and/or grants averaging about $600. community supported agriculture and stewardship of re­ and supper: $70 per day. Weekly and monthly rates May 15, 1997, Is the deadline for the submission of ligious lands, seeks a Loan Fund Manager and an Office available. Write or call Henrietta & Wm. Vitarelli, 375 applications. Manager. Compensation modest, according to need, room Kawelo Road, Haiku, HI 96708. Telephone: (808) 572- For more informatkJn, please contact Philadelphia Y ear1y and board provided. Contact: Chuck Matthel, 539 Beach 9205. Fax: 572-oo48. Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Committee Pond Road, Voluntown, CT 06384; (860) 376-6174. on Education, 1515 Cheny Street, Philadelphia, PA 191 02. Need Counselors, Cook, and Counselor/Lifeguards Telephone: (215) 241-7223. (18+) for Quaker-led farm camp near the Poconos. Help Retirement Living children (aged 7-12) with gardening, animal chores, na­ Consider Investing In affordable retirement property ture awareness, arts and crafts, woodworking, pottery, in the Southern Arizona high desert. Write or telephone etc. Teach skills you have to offer. Homegrown foods, Roy Joe and Ruth Stuckey, care of Elaine De Manicor, woods, streams, fields, pastures. Join us for a coopera­ Rt.1 Box 170 #11 , McNeal, AZ 85617. Telephone: (520) tive, fun summer-family style. Carl and Kristin Curtis, 642-9319. Journey's End Farm Camp, RR #1 , Box 136, Newfound­ land, PA 18445. (717) 689-3911. ~~ Quaker House Intentional community seelks residents. SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE Share living and meal arrangements in historic Friends Service Community, lnnlsfree Village. Volunteers live meetinghouse. Common interests in spirituality, peace, and work with adults with mental disabilities on a farm in All Kendal communities and services reflect our sound and social concerns. One- or two-year terms. Directors, the Blue Ridge Mountains. Must be 21, able to stay one Quaker management, adherence to Friendly values, and Quaker House, 5615 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL year. Receive room, board, medical benefits, and $160/ respect for each individual. Full service continuing care 60637. (773) 288-3066, e-mail: [email protected]. month. Recruiting, lnnisfree, Rte. 2, Box 506, Crozet, VA retirement communities: 22932. Kendal at Longwood; Crosslands • Kennett Square, Right Uvellhood Opportunity. Part-time. Home-based. Pa. Arthur Morgan School. A small junior high boarding Organic food. Nurture health, be prosperous with ethical, Kendal at Hanover· Hanover, N.H. school seeks several houseparents for '97-98 school visionary company. Requires commitment. Training pro­ Kendal at Oberlin • Oberlin, Ohio year. Positions also include a mix of other responsibili­ vided. (800) 927-2527, ext. 01442. Kendal at hhaca • Ithaca, N.Y. ties-teaching (academics and/or electives-music, art, Independent living wHh residential services and access etc.), leading work projects and outdoor trips, mainte­ to health care: nance, gardening, cooking, bookkeeping, and Conlaton and Cartmel • Kennett Square, Pa. Personals administration. Intimate community of staff and students; Individualized skilled nursing care, respite care, consensus run. Simple living; beautiful mountain setting. Single Booklovers, a national group, has been getting Contact or send resume to: Shan Overton or Sherrill Alzheimer's care, and personal care residences: unattached booklovers together since 1970. Please write Barclay Friends • West Chester, Pa Senseney, AMS, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, Box 117, Gradyville, PA 19039, or call (61 0) 358-5049. For information call or wrHe: Doris Lambert, The Kendal NC 28714. (704) 675-4262. Corporation, P.O. Box 100, Kennett Square, PA 19348. Enjoy rent-free living! The caretaker Gazette publishes (610) 388-5581. 80+ property caretaking jobs each issue, worldwide. $24/ year. 1845 Deane-FR, Pullman, WA 99163-3509. (509) Foxdale VIllage, a Quaker life-care community. Thought­ ConcernedUineks_ 332-0806. fully designed cottages complemented by attractive dining facilities, auditorium, library, and full medical protection. Concerned Singles Newsletter links compatible, so­ Setting is a wonderful combination of rural and university cially conscious singles who care about peace, social Real Estate justice, civil rights, gender equHy, and the environment environment. Entry fees from $42,Q00-$147 ,000; monthly fees from $1 ,205--$2,437. 500 East Marylyn Avenue, Nationwide. All ages. Since 1984. Free sample: Box 444- Wanted For Purchase Or Rental: Woodland or country FJ, Lenox Dale, MA 01242, or (413) 445-6309. get-away house. Prefer close to Chicago; will consider Department F, State College, PA 16801-6269. Telephone: greater distance. (773) 907-0732 or [email protected]. (800) 253-4951 .

FRIENDS joURNAL May 1997 37 Junior high boarding school for grades 7, 8, 9. Small FRIENDS HOMES academic classes, challenging outdoor experiences, com­ mun~ service, consensus decision making, daily work ~tud i os projects in a small, caring, community environment. Arthur West Morgan School, 1901 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. (704) 675-4262. Friends Homes West, the new continuing care retirement Marriage certificates, Announcements, Invitations, etc. community in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now open. Do justice to your event with our calligraphy and award­ The Meeting School: a Quaker alternative high school Friends Homes West is owned by Friends Homes, Inc., winning graphic design. (800) 763-0053.We are a for 30 students who want an education and life­ specialists in retirement living since 1968. Friends Homes fellowship, Friends mostly, seeking to enrich and expand West includes 171 apartments for independent living and style promoting Friends testimonies of peace, equality, our spiritual experience. We seek to obey the promptings on-s~e health care services in the 28 private rooms of and simplicity. Students live in faculty homes, sharing of the Spirit, however named. We meet, publish, corre­ the Assisted Uving Unit or the 40 private rooms of the meals, campus work, silence, community decision making. Characteristic classes include: Conflict Resolu­ spond. Inquiries welcome! Wrije Quaker Universalist Skilled Care Nursing Unit. Enjoy a beautiful community in Fellowship, 121 Watson Mill Road, Landenberg, PA a location with temperate winters and changing seasons. tion, Native American Studies, Ecology, Human Rights, For more information, please call (91 0) 292-9952, or Alternative Housing, Mythology, Quantum Physics. Col­ 19350-9344. lege preparatory and alternative graduation plans. Wooded write Friends Homes West, 6100 West Friendly Road, Friends Helping Friends Grow. Investment certificates Greensboro, NC 27410. rural setting near Mt. Monadnock; organic garden, draft horses, sheep, poultry. Annual four-week intensive inde­ are available from Friends Extension Corporation. These pendent study projects. The Meeting School, 56 Thomas investments promote the growth of Friends by providing New England Friends Home Road, Rindge, NH 03461. (603) 899-3366. low cost loans to build new facilities or renovate existing Operated under the care of the facilities. For information contact Margaret Bennington, New England Yearly Meeting, Lansdowne Friends School-A small Friends school for 101 Quaker Hill Drive, Richmond, IN 47374. Telephone: the Friends Home provides a boys and girls three years of age through sixth grade, (317) 962-7573. home-like setting for elders in a rooted in Quaker values. We provide children with a Moving to North carolina? Maybe David Brown, a Quaker ·· ---· · C.:::: gracious brick house high on a quality academic and a developmentally appropriate pro­ real estate broker, can help. Contact him at 1208 Pine­ hill in Hingham, Mass. gram in a nurturing environment. Whole language, wood Dr., Greensboro, NC 27410. (910) 294-2095. -The exterior view of the changing New England seasons thematic education, conflict resolution, Spanish, after­ is breathtaking, and the interior atmosphere of warmth school care, summer program. 110 N. Lansdowne Avenue, House-sit for summer (June-August). Can take care of and community is evident to all. Lansdowne, PA 19050. (610) 623-2548. pets and plants. Write: Ruth Kirk, 21 Los Ebano Street, Mercedes, TX 78570. Telephone: (21 0) 565-1662. For information about this small and surprisingly afford­ Stratford Friends School provides a strong academic able alternative to larger, more institutional settings, program in a warm, supportive, ungraded setting for please call or write: Gretchen Condon, New England children ages 5 to 13 who learn differently. Small classes Summer Camps Friends Home, 86 Turkey Hill Lane, Hingham, MA 02043, and an enriched curriculum answer the needs of the (617) 749-3556. whole child. An at-risk program for five-year-olds is avail­ Horse/Pony Day Camp-Ages five through adult. Riding able. The school also offers an extended day program, instruction and basic pony care. Also lessons, boarding, tutoring, and summer school. Information: Stratford training available. Pottstown, Pa. (610) 97Q-1373. Schools Friends School, 5 Llandillo Road, Havertown, PA 19083. Friends Music camp: Fantastic music-Quaker-commu­ (61 0) 446-3144. Sandy Spring Friends School. 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38 May 1997 FRIENDS JOURNAL What's so Quakerly ... about FriendsJ programs for older adults?

We are often asked: '11re there special qualities that can be found in these programs that Friends have established in Maryland, New Arbor Glen jersey, and Pennsylvania?"We think the answer is yes. Barclay Friends Broadmead •!• First, all were begun by Friends. Some by individual Friends Gulbury with a sense of mission. Some by monthly, quarterly, and yearly Chandler HaD meetings. Some by small groups ofFriends who shared a vision Crosslands ofproviding needed supports in new ways. Foulkeways at Gwynedd •!• Then there is governance. Each ofthe organizations Foxdale ViUage belonging to Friends Services for the Aging is operated with Friends Boarding Home oversight of a predominantly Quaker board, carrying out its Friends Home at Woodstoum business through Friends' processes. Friends Hospital Friends Lifo Care at Home •!• Perhaps most important, we all seek to embody in our Friends Rehabilitation Program services the Quaker commitment of respect for all individuals. The Greenleaf We recognize and seek to enhance the independence of older The Hickman adults, including those who may be frail or suffering from Jeanes Hospital dementia. We focus on capacities and strengths, not disabilities ~/at Longwood and needs. The McCutchen •!• Our staff and those we serve come from many different Medford Leas religious backgrounds.They find that there is something Pennswood ViUage authentically Quaker in our conviction that the later years ofone's Stapeley in Germantown life are full ofpotential for love, growth, friendship, and contributions to others. We find that our Quaker service is enriched by our employees' dedication to the values we hold in common.

Write or call for a free copy of Guide to Q!taker Services for the Aging for yourself or a loved one. FRIENDS SERVICES FOR THE AGING 1777 Sentry Parkway West Dublin Hall, Suite 400 Blue Bell, PA 19422

EOUAL HOU&NG (215) 619-7949; fax (215) 619-7950; e-mail [email protected] OPPORTUNITY CREMATION, SIMPLE BURIAL OR TRADITIONAL BURIAL NEW BENEFITS

New benefits are available to provide up to half of the costs of either burial services or cremation services for any member of PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING. The benefit available is up to $4,000 per member of PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING. This new pilot program is available now and is in addition to the AnnaT. Jeanes Fund. Yerkes Funeral Home, Inc., 2811 West Chester Pike, Broomall (Charles Ford, supervisor), and 8645 West Chester Pike, Upper Darby (Harry Croll, supervisor), will be administering and providing these benefits to PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING members in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Locations other than Broomall and Upper Darby are available in eastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, central Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey. For services or information please call: (610) 356-0500 • (215) 729-4858 • (610) 446-4903

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