The Quaker Widow, By Bayard Taylor THEE finds me in the garden, Hannah,—come in! ’T is kind of theeTo wait until the Friends were gone, who came to comfort me.The still and quiet company a peace may give, indeed,But blessed is the single heart that comes to us at need. Come, sit thee down! Here … Continue reading “The Quaker Widow”: A diverting poem for our moment?
On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2020, the Washington Post ran an engaging story of two independent-minded women who faced down the CIA and won. That’s our first story: The two women were Florence Thorne and Margaret Scattergood. The Post: Five thousand square feet, wide windows, a grand staircase, a front porch with a panoramic view … Continue reading Two Stories of Quaker Women: One True, One (Maybe) Fiction
The little church challenging the huge California Quaker megachurch (described in the blog post, David vs. Goliath, the “Friendly” Version, of January 30), won a round in court on January 31; but its reward was only a reprieve. The struggle over an aborted effort to help the homeless continues. Orange County superior court judge Thomas … Continue reading Midway City Update: Quaker David, Goliath & the Two Witnesses
A bulletin from southern California: The biggest Quaker church in the world wants to shut down one of the smallest. The small church sued in late 2018 to stop the shutdown. But a hearing in Orange County Superior Court on January 31 could lock their doors & make the
Ken Bradstock had something valuable to say. A lot, actually. Enough to fill a book. I hope he got it down, on paper or on disk, whatever, before he died on January 22. If I remember right, I first noticed Ken during the bad days of turmoil among North Carolina pastoral Quakers. Ken had been … Continue reading Ken Bradstock, Edward Hicks & Me