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.
For Memorial Day: A Book From The Other “Front Line” Of Our Wars
For several years I frequently visited Camp Lejeune, the large Marine base on the North Carolina coast, about three hours east of where I lived. I went because they had a brig — a jail — and several of the troops I had worked with as resisters to war served time in it. I went … Continue reading For Memorial Day: A Book From The Other “Front Line” Of Our Wars
March 10: Remember Tom Fox
March 10: Remember Tom Fox March 10 — how could I forget? How dare I fail to remember. Four years and four months ago, John Stephens and I began a blog site called freethecaptivesnow.org , as both a personal vigil and a community service, compiling and posting nightly updates of reports — or mostly the … Continue reading March 10: Remember Tom Fox