Art Brings People Together
Department:
Dear Friends: A history of John Woolman School is in the works. Catherine Lenox, who grew up in the Santa Cruz Meeting and attended John Woolman School in the ‘60s, is the primary author. To ensure there will be sufficient funds to complete the project, Catherine asked me to set up a campaign to pre-sell copies of the book and seek sponsorships.
Dear Editor: Thanks to Sharon Doyle for her interesting and informative article in the Nov/Dec 2020 Western Friend about the evolution of the peace testimony. She walked us through centuries with a thumbnail sketch that managed to contain the essence of our inconsistencies, both successes and failures. I have a truer and humbler appreciation for our past.
Full text of a Letter to the Editor, published in part in the January/February 2021 issue of Western Friend magazine.
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song
by Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed
reviewed by Catherine Anderson
[The following article is abridged from a more complete original text, which is available at: westernfriend.org/media/evolution-testimony.]
Dear Editor: In response to Tyger Wright’s letter, “Growth Versus Preservation,” July/August 2020, I must express my distress at the impression it leaves that Friends in Santa Fe are insensitive to Quaker values and our inheritance from our beloved Olive Rush.
A history of Quaker architecture and the Orange Grove Friends Meetinghouse in Pasadena, CA.
Guides for a four-session group study course on the life and ministry of John Woolman, along with an accompanying essay, by David Albert of Olympia Friends meeting, who has led this course several
