AFSC Confirms Our Report Re: Shan Cretin As New General Secretary
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.
Flash: AFSC Picks Shan Cretin as New Gen Secty
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.
Sedition Watch, Two Dispatches: Civil War; and He Wanted to Puke
First item: here’s most of a Letter to the Editor of our local North Carolina paper published on May 30, followed by a question to ponder:
Stop The Presses! Britain Yearly Meeting To Admit Non-Quaker Reporters!
Or so goes the breathless headline from ekklesia, an ecumenical news service Over There: Quakers to break tradition and allow journalists at annual meeting
“Re-Closeting,” Life & Death: A Reading for Another Kind of Memorial Day
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.