An Among Friends independent magazine serving the Religious Aspiring to Transformation Society of Friends this time of year my thoughts always turn to Jesus' death and resurrection. The theme is inescapable. I live in a temperate zone where trees are budding, Editorial A bulbs are poking new green shoots from the soil, and flowers are beginning Susan Corson-Finnerty (Publishn- and Executivt to bloom like tiny, shy harbingers ofspring. I love butterflies and moths-they are Editor), Robert Dockhorn (Smior Editor), Lisa Rand (Acting ksistant Editor), Judith Brown (Pottry another beautiful opening nature gives us to reflect on the transformational Editor), Ellen Michaud (Book &view Editor), possibilities of resurrection. Those first few spring moths batting against my kitchen J. Brent Bill {Assistant Book Rtview Editor), Joan window in the dark on mild evenings send a little thrill of anticipation through me. Overman (Book Rtviro~ ksistant}, Christine Rusch (Milestones Editor), Julie Gochenour, Robert Marks, The world is always new, always refreshing itself, always full of hidden potential just Cameron McWhirter (NtwS Editors), Kara Newell waiting to spring forth, even when it appears most lifeless. (Columnist), Marjorie Schier (Copytditor), Nara Alves {Intern) During some springtimes, my life has been full of personal loss and grief-like the Production spring four years ago when my dad died. Still, the clear message of nature burgeoning Barbara Benton {Art Dirtctor), Alia Podolsky around me has whispered the ancient truth of renewal, continuity, hope. {Assistant Art Dirtctor), Martin Kelley ( Wtb So many of us are grieving this spring; so many grappling for a handhold, a Managn-) foothold, a way to understand what has happened to us. In our lives, we each have Advertising, Circulation, Development Alex Doty (Circulation and Marketing Managn-, times when we are nailed by pain to crosses only we can name. Many of us now, like Devtlopmmt Coordinator), Nagendran Gulendran the disciples on the day following Jesus' death, are grieving for a wounded and broken (Advmising Managn-), Nicole Hackel (Circulation world, or feeling bereft and experiencing a terrible sense ofloss. There are no easy ksistant}, Pamela Nelson (Devtlopmmt ksistant), Kay Bacon, Ruth Peterson, Robert Sutton answers, but there is much to consider. {Voluntu rs) David Johns, in "The Silence ofHoly Saturday" (p.12), raises thoughtful concerns Administration about the haste with which both hawks and doves responded to the attacks of Marianne De Lange (Ojfiu Managn-), Tom McPeak (Accounting Strvicts), Tom Hanmann (Volunun-) September 11. "Holy Saturday is," he says, "a day of wondering, of anguish, of anger, BcNwd of Trustees of gnawing emptiness, of fear ... a place in-between, a time of waiting, a time for Barbara Andrews, Lucinda Anrrim, TylaAnn tears, a space for grieving." Perhaps as we grapple with the Peace Testimony and its Burger (Trtasum), Katharine Clark, Linda Coffin, meaning for us in these days, perhaps as we seek ways to be practical idealists like John Darnell, William Deursch, Maty Ann Downey, Walter Evans, Marsha Green (Rtcording Woolman or Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr., perhaps we should allow ourselves Clerk), Dan Hewitt, Linda Lyman, Larry Miller, plenty of time for that holy silence. Julian O'Reilley, Ruth Peterson, David Runkel, A year ago we published a group of articles focused on the suffering in the Middle Jonathan Tamez, Wilmer Tjossem, Elliabeth Yeats (Clerk), Anne-Marie Zilliacus East between Israelis and Palestinians. 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FRIENDS JouRNAL, 1216 Arch St., 2A Philadelphia, PA 19107-2835 • (215) 563-8629 • Fax (215) 568-1377 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.friendsjournal.org 2 March 2002 FRIENDS JouRNAL March 2002 FRIENDS Volume 48, No. 3 OURNAL Features Deparbnents 8 A Response to September Eleventh 2 Among Friends Stephen G. Cary The U.S. needs to reassess its relations with the rest ofthe 4 Forum world. 5 V~ewpoint 12 The Silence of Holy Saturday Our testimony to the world? David L. Johns 25 Witness Only the ports teams got it right after September 11. Students learn while folding peace cranes 14 HaH in Love with Easeful Death 26 Reports and Epistles Christopher L. King Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting Can we be comfortable in the knowledge that our bodies, La Maison Quaker de Congenies, France like all ofnature , will recycle? 28 Parents' Corner 16 Paul, Apostle of Love Parenting within the Peace Testimony John Pitts Corry The organizer ofthe Christian Church faces a news 30 Books conference. 37 News 17 A Peacemaking Presence in a Troubled Land 39 Bulletin Board Genie Durland 40 Milestones The author reports on a Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation to Israel and the occupied territories. 48 Classified 22 No Return to Oslo Jeff Halper When Israeli-Palestinian negotiations resume, the "hard issues" should not be put offuntil the end. Poetry 15 Ustening Out Loud Tina Tau McMahon 20 How to Write a Poem Now Frida Westford Cover photo by Ted Hetzel F RIENDS JoURNAL March 2002 3 Forum The Inner Light moving that in 1987 I wrote a poem and Another side to the sanctions song about him, which was set to music by Congrarulations and many thanks for Sharon Segal and sung at a memorial service It is clear that, since the end of the Persian David Leonard's excellent article, "Christ for Ben Linder in Philadelphia. I'm glad that GulfWar, great suffering has been borne by and Jesus in Early Quakerism" (F] Sept. Linder's memory continues to be honored. that portion of the Iraqi population under the 2001) I have been researching the Inner For the benefit of readers who may be control of the Ba' athist regime in Baghdad. Light according to George Fox and C. G. unfamiliar with Linder's story, I recommend Less clear are the reasons for their suffering. Jung for several years and find his comments Joan Kruckewitt's website (<http:// David Morse, in "Testimony in Iraq," (Fj very appropriate. www.sranford.edu/ ~ joank!Linder_Bookl> ), Sept. 2001) cites UNICEF as his authority Extremely helpful are his comments on which contains the following summary of for the claim that "a million Iraqi deaths the "Inner Light" as originating from the this heroic young man's life: have resulted directly from the sanctions." Universal Christ, which was made manifest "In the summer of 1983, a young I believe that there is a less than perfect in the historical Jesus and preexisted him, American engineer and unicyclist named cause-to-effect relationship between the testifying to the universal presence of God in Ben Linder flew to Managua, Nicaragua, as suffering of the Iraqis and the UN sanctions the depths of the psyche. Fox spoke of the one of thousands of foreigners offering their than Friend Morse suggests. For about six source of the Inner Light being from God skills in support of the revolutionary years the Baghdad regime refused to allow and Christ (meaning the Universal Christ). Sandinista government. While waiting for the implementation of the UN oil-for-food He mentioned "Inner Light" more than 100 an engineering job, Ben performed as a program. When it was finally accepted, it times in his journal and epistles, including clown in the circus and in poor considerably alleviated prior conditions of its functions in one's life.