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.
Have you noticed the “Great Quaker Turnover” yet? It’s well underway. The Great Quaker Turnover (GQT for short) is a change in top management at a number of the major Quaker organizations. Among them are AFSC, FCNL, FGC, and even Quaker House here on the doorstep of the Military machine. I hear there are others, … Continue reading The “Great Quaker Turnover” Is Underway
My son Asa, his “one seriously pregnant” wife Jessica, and “one seriously growing” baby Eli, due to “seriously pop out” next month. Seriously.