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Requesting your queries
As I’ve been writing lately, some Friends of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) feel this is a time we could revise our advices and queries, and the Ministry and Counsel Committee has encouraged us to do so. I’ve made a number … Continue reading
Scattergood Journal — February 1970
February 1, 1970 I finished reading Dag Hammarskjold, a Spiritual Portrait by Sven Stolpe. The book increased my interest in and admiration of the man who I can identify with in part. Not in his apparently vast intellectual capacities and … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged draft resistance, Scattergood
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Revising Queries 2
The Ministry and Counsel Committee of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) is asking our monthly meetings to consider possible revisions to our advices and queries. During the online Facebook discussion about this, Marshall Massey wrote: Just speaking for myself, I do not think … Continue reading
Posted in Black Lives, Kheprw Institute, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged queries
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Australian Peace Activists
Today’s New York Times has an interesting article about antiwar activists in Australia, An American Spy Base Hidden in Australia’s Outback. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the United States base known as the Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap … Continue reading
Thankful to be Alive
Thanksgiving Day is when we reflect on all we have to be thankful for. Often this involves paying attention to things we unintentionally take for granted during the routines of daily life and struggles. We so often forget to be … Continue reading
Thanksgiving 2017
One of the things I’m most thankful for this Thanksgiving is having been able to make connections with Native Americans. I’m not going to go into the false, sanitized versions of the Thanksgiving story and our settler-colonial history. Rather, I’d … Continue reading
Silence = Death
“SILENCE = DEATH” was used by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power(ACT UP), a group committed to the use of direct action to end the AIDS crisis, which is still active 30 years later. From the website: “For meeting the … Continue reading
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Tagged environmental justice
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Reflections on Scattergood Senior Trip
I’ve recently shared my journal entries from the trip to Washington, DC, and New York City that our Scattergood Friends School Senior class took in 1970. Looking back forty seven years later, I realize a number of significant things that … Continue reading
Scattergood Journal – Senior Trip – New York City
Journal, January 28, 1970 (continued) Then we began the trip to New York City. We arrived at about 5:30 and it was dark. At 8:00 pm we went to the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center (65th floor). We had a … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 