I’m glad to see that Australian Friend David Johnson is doing traveling ministry in the U.S. I hope to join the worship at Marlborough Meeting in Pennsylvania on July 28.
Doug Bennett wants us to rediscover the testimony of equality. I always think of equality as being one of the new formulations of Quaker testimonies brought to us by Howard Brinton and others in the mid-to-late twentieth century, so I’m not such a stickler about defining it but Bennett draws a distinction between it and equity and some of the DEI work happening. Not sure I agree with everything he says but it’s an interesting perspective.
Really happy to see Evan Welkin come in as FWCC-Americas head, filling the very big shoes of my friend Robin Mohr. Evan visited my house back in 2005 as part of a traveling ministries project sponsored by the Pickett Foundation (RIP) and memorably coined the term uberQuaker in a guest post here on Quaker Ranter. He’s written for Friends Journal a few times, most personally and poignantly this 2014 article on addiction.
OMG, a profile of Ruth Peterson in the Newtown Patch! “Old Age is Not for Sissies” Says 100-Year-Old Ruth Peterson. She was one of the first Quakers I met when I walked into the Abington (Pa.) Meetinghouse back in the late 1980s and she and her husband Charlie were always so bountifully supportive. When I took a year off after college to get my head straight, many of the people in my family worried about me but when I explained it to Ruth at coffee hour, she lit up and said “Oh, isn’t that so WONDERFUL!” Charlie hooked me up with various Quaker opportunities in the area, which led to a chain of events that landed me my first job. This was written by Barbara Simmons and posted by Norval Reece, who does a great job letting people in Bucks County know what’s happening with Friends.
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