The FGC Gathering 2010 — Freer At Last??
I think it’s been ten years since this oppressive rule was imposed. And finally, this past year, somehow the complaints began to register. And when the Advance program for the 2010 Gathering arrived in the mail this past week (one of the liberal Quaker signs of spring), the alert reader noticed a certain lacuna in the traditional daily schedule diagram: there was no more greyed out patch over Wednesday afternoon, bearing the cheery instruction to “Take a Nap!”
This is how Quaker committees typically backtrack: with as little admission of error as possible. Perhaps no one will notice, and everyone will go take a nap anyway.
But one notices. A quick email exchange with the relevant officials confirmed that it was not a misprint.
Yet the Sabbath, one was told, had not been given up; it had been merely, er, modified.