CONTENTS I. Selected Correspondence since July 2020 II. Previous Blog Posts >> I. Selected Correspondence, July-September 21, 2020 (Scroll down to read) 1. H. Larry Ingle Email – July 10, 2020 2. Ron McDonald Email – August 7, 2020 3. Huntsville, Alabama Area Friends Meeting, Minute – August 9, 2020: 4.[Excerpt] From: Michael Galovic, Email …
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From “The Church, the Draft Board, and Me” by George Amoss, Jr.
This recounts my conflicts with the Catholic Church, whose ethics were called into question by the war in Vietnam, and the U.S. Selective Service System, which refused to honor my conscientious objection to participation in war. In telling that story, it sketches my evolution, despite encounters with predatory priests and a vindictive draft board, from youthful candidate for the Catholic priesthood to adult a-theistic Quaker who still asserts that “God is love.”
DODGING THE “REALIGNMENT” BULLET: THE IOWA CONFERENCE MISFIRES
http://www.afriendlyletter.com/AFL-archives/AFL-archives/125-AFL-10-1991.pdf
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[INTRODUCTORY NOTE: These discussions were sparked by an event that is unmentioned in these documents: the publication in The New Republic magazine of a cover story by Stephen Chapman called “Shot From Guns: the Lost Pacifism of the Quakers,” in its June 9, 1979 issue. The piece was especially critical of AFSC. I figured there …
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I am a Quaker lawyer finding myself in the middle of the legal defense of Quakers arrested for failing to disperse from an unlawful assembly at the North Carolina General Assembly during the “Moral Monday” protests this summer. I have been inspired, moved, and challenged by Moral Monday protesters. I am now reflecting on my …
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Quaker Theology #33 — Winter 2019 Moment of Truth: Wilmington Yearly Meeting Divides over a Familiar Set of Issues By Stephen W. Angell Wilmington Yearly Meeting (WYM), assembled at the Friends Meeting in Maryville, Tennessee, on the last weekend of July, released five meetings (four monthly meetings and one preparatory meeting) which requested to sever …
About The Contributors, #18
Stephen W. Angell, is Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at Earlham School of Religion. Chuck Fager, Editor of Quaker Theology, is Director of Quaker House in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Jeanne-Henriette Louis is a retired professor of American Studies, and Clerk of France yearly Meeting. She lives in Paris. David Zarembka is a member of Bethesda …
“Many Friends do not know ‘where they are’: Some Divisions in London Yearly Meeting During the First World War”
Thomas Kennedyauthor of British Quakerism 1860-1920 Late in 2001 in the terrible aftermath of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center, Scott Simon, newsman and commentator for National Public Radio who claims membership in the Society of Friends, presented solemn public testimony in which he declared that because of the deaths of so …