William Ashworth

What Every Artist Knows

• Author(s):
• William Ashworth

 

Issue: On Perception (March 2023)

A Fitting Punishment

• Author(s):
• William Ashworth

Dear Friends: Drought and forest fires all over the West. Two simultaneous hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. The North Pole going ice-free. Each summer hotter than the summer before.

Issue: On Rules (November 2020)

No Map to Sustainability (2)

• Author(s):
• William Ashworth

Dear Editor: Friend Bob Langfelder is correct that my article is not a roadmap to get a whole society off fossil fuels. It was not meant to be. No map is necessary before a journey is undertaken. My purpose was to encourage Friends to undertake the journey.

Issue: On Secrets (July 2020)

Gasoline and Leadings

• Author(s):
• William Ashworth

William Penn became a Quaker in 1666, and immediately realized he had a problem. He was a member of the court of King Charles II. As a courtier, he was expected to wear a sword; as a Quaker, he had abjured the sword’s use. What to do? Legend says that he approached George Fox with this conundrum, and Fox cut through it with a simple test: Wear thy sword as long as thou canst.

Issue: On Wealth (May 2020)

Quaker Composer

• Author(s):
• William Ashworth

When the English composer Solomon Eccles became a Quaker around 1665, he sold or gave away all his musical instruments and all his printed music. Then, fearful that by doing so he had led the recipients morally astray, he bought everything back, carried it to the top of London’s Temple Hill, stomped it to pieces, and set it all on fire.

Issue: On Music (March 2018)

Quaker Composer (unabridged)

Authored by: William Ashworth