As Shan Cretin prepares to take over as the AFSC’s new General Secretary, she will no doubt get lots of advice about how to renew and revive the organization. I’m going to join the queue and offer mine here. To lay the groundwork for that, first a bit of background, and some diagnosis.
The AFSC Board has sent out a letter confirming our report of the appointment of Shan Cretin as the new General Secretary. The letter and a brief biographical sketch are here.
Reliable sources in & around Philadelphia tell us that AFSC has picked Shan Cretin, Director of its Southern California office, as its new national General Secretary. No announcement has been seen on the AFSC website as of late Saturday June 12, but our sources are highly credible.
Or so goes the breathless headline from ekklesia, an ecumenical news service Over There: Quakers to break tradition and allow journalists at annual meeting
A headline in this Memorial Day’s paper sent me reeling down the shadowed halls of memory. The news was from Uganda, where the president has signed a new law which increases the legal penalties against homosexuality to life imprisonment, and in some cases death. Merely “promoting” homosexuality can get twenty years.