Issues from 2004

These issues are available in sections as listed below. The contents of each section are listed following the link to the section. Click on the section link to read an article in that section.

2004 Issues

• 2004 Issue #1
• 2004 Issue #2 Why I Am a Member of the Religious Society of Friends: What Makes a Quaker a Quaker?
• 2004 Issue #3 Diversity: Is there Enough Evidence to Convict Quakers?
• 2004 Issue #4 Canadian Yearly Meeting 2004
• 2004 Issue #5 Friends and Money

Earlier Issues

• 2003 Issues
• 2002 Issues
• August 2001 Theme: Summer issue
• May 2001 Theme: Forgiveness
• March 2001 Theme: Simplicity
• Archives: 1996-1999

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2004 Issue #1 (.pdf format)

In This Issue

Cover
Table of Contents
Vigil at the School of the Americas 4
Don Bowyer
Young Adult Friends Retreat Epistle 5
A History of Penn’s Field NB (from an 1893 newspaper) 6
Margaret McClure and Vince Zelazny
Writing and Peace—Is Writing Work? 7
Margaret Slavin
A Letter to Canadian Friends 8
Chuck Fager
The Role of Faith in Healing the Trauma of Childhood Abuse 11
Wendy Read
Sermon in Providence Bay United Church 12
Jane McKay-Wright
Taking to the Streets 14
Bert Horwood
A Left-Handed Life 15
Michael Phillips
Awakening 16
Keith Maddock
Apart 16
Janeal Ravndal
Sympathetic Attender of Quaker Meetings 17
Catherine Raine
A Great Canadian Friend’s Myth 18
Meredith Egan
What Do All These Committees Do? (Corrected Information) 19
Marilyn Manzer and Steve Fick for CYM Nominating Committee
FWCC: Reflections from my First Year as CYM Representative 21
Shauna Curry
Book Reviews 22
Barbara J. Bucknall, Jim Adamson, Rose Marie Cipryk, Arnold Ranneris
Sing and Rejoice and Have Hope: American and Canadian Friends… 25
Rose Mae Harkness
The Clerking Corner: Phases of a typical Quaker business meeting 26
June Etta Chenard
Readership Survey 28
Memorial Minute: Elaine Florence Wood (Horst) 29
Progress Report from the Faith and Practice Development Committee 29
Molly Walsh
Around the Family 30
Themes, Deadlines and Queries for Upcoming Issues 31
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2004 Issue #2 (.pdf format)

Why I Am a Member of the Religious Society of Friends: What Makes a Quaker a Quaker?

In This Issue

Cover and Contents
Taking the Long Road to Membership 4
Dana Mullen
Membership Implies a Desire to Enter Joyfully 5
Nori Sinclair
Queries about Creative Gifts 6
Margaret Slavin
Of Carrots and Belief System Pies: Why I Am a Quaker 7
Molly Walsh
For All These Reasons, That’s Why I Am a Quaker 8
Dan Poisson
Faith and Practice in the Spiritual Formation of Friends 9
Arnold Ranneris
Linking Torah: Finding the Way Home 10
Keith Maddock
It Is Almost the Season 13
Declan Hill
A Request for CYM Friends Reflecting on Diversity 15
Friends World Committee for Consultation
Susan Bax Memorial Fund for Women Travelling in the Ministry 16
Friends World Committee for Consultation
Responsibility to Resist 17
Margaret Slavin and Rose Marie Cipryk
The Life of Kathleen Amy Starr as Recalled by Her Siblings 18
Margaret, Edwin and Mark Abbott
Me, a Quaker Pastor? 20
Anne Thomas
“Renewing the Sacred Balance” Campaign 23
Linda Foy
Highlights from HMAC’s Spring Meeting 24
Bert Horwood
Book Reviews 26
Barbara Bucknall, Bea Chapman, Chuck Fager, Brent Bowyer, Kathleen Hertzberg
News from Baghdad, 10 April 2004 30
Jane McKay-Wright
Letter to the Editor 32
Peter McClure
Margaret Slavin’s Travels in the Ministry 32
The Clerking Corner: Phases of a Typical Quaker Business Meeting 33
June Etta Chenard
Around the Family 34
Themes, Deadlines and Queries for Upcoming Issues 36

2004 Issue #3 (.pdf format)

Diversity: Is there Enough Evidence to Convict Quakers?

In This Issue

Cover
Table of Contents 2
Editor's Introduction 3
Diversity: Is There Enough Evidence to Convict Quakers? 4
Lynne Phillips
The Web of Faith Has Many Weavers 5
Sarah Chandler
Dans quelle langue respirait ta grand-mère?
In what language did your grandmother breathe? 7
Sophie Bérubé
Tiger 8
Clive Doucet
Walking in the Light 9
Miriam Maxcy
That of God in Every Byte 10
Gabriel Gosselin
Turmoil in the House of Abraham 11
Laurel Dee Gugler
Seeking, Leaving and Finding 12
Marilyn and Harrison Roper
Becoming a Friend 14
Jack Ross
Two Yearly Meetings? 15
Margaret Slavin
News from Baghdad, 10 April 2004 (continued from Vol. 100 #2) 19
Jane McKay-Wright
Book Reviews 20
Margaret Slavin; June Etta Chenard
Images of the Blessed Darkness 22
June Etta Chenard
Two Historical Quaker Weddings 23
Friends Ways: A New Curriculum for Self-Directed Seekers and Learners 24
Canadian Yearly Meeting Religious Education Committee
The Clerking Corner: FGConnections 25
June Etta Chenard
Imagine: Quaker International Affairs Committee Report 27
Sarah Chandler
Faith and Practice Development Committee Report 28
Molly Walsh
St. Lawrence Area Regional Gathering: Report on Uganda Projects 29
Claire Adamson
Around the Family 30
Themes, Deadlines and Queries for Upcoming Issues 32

2004 Issue #4 (.pdf format)

Canadian Yearly Meeting 2004

In This Issue

Cover
Table of Contents 2
Editor's Introduction 3
Where Am I? 4
Susan Stevenson
Lessons from Silence 5
Margaret Slavin
Bible Study with Janet Ross 6
Jacqueline Karsemeyer
Sexual Harassment and Abuse Minute (Closed meeting of YMM&C) 7
Reflections on the Healing Power of Prayer 7
Gini Smith
How We Add Injury to Victims of Sexual Abuse 8
Marilyn Manzer
Unity among Friends 9
Gordon McClure
CYM Minute of Record re: Abuse of prisoners (— Yonge Street MM) 11
Finding my Place with Friends 11
Jean Morse
The River of God and Canadian Yearly Meeting 12
Bert Horwood
Spirit of the Place 12
Jasmine Land
Report on Keith Helmuth’s Sunderland P. Gardiner Lecture 14
Edith Miller
Photos of some Canadian Friends at CYM 2004 14
A Summer Holiday at CYM: Lingering Images 15
Rose Mae Harkness
Responses to the CF Readership Survey 15
Jerusalem Songs (Come Together; Broken Branches) 16
Laurel Dee Gugler
Quaker Youth Pilgrimage Report 17
Amy-Jean Singleton Polster, Catherine Hope, Sandy Zelazny
Epistles from Canadian Yearly Meeting 2004 18
CYM Food Co-op 2004: Minute and Report 21
Report by John Calder
Special Interest Group Report on Palestine 22
Maxine Kauffman-Lacusta
Living in Community 23
Donald Bowyer
Strange Bedfellows 24
Robert Smith-Jones
Gleanings 24
Message of appreciation 25
Suzette Wollinger
Canadian Yearly Meeting National Listeners 25
Quaker Book Service: Recent Arrivals 26
Obituary: Edith Janet Adamson (1913 — 2004) 27
Book Reviews 28
Keith R. Maddock, Jo Vallentine, June Etta Chenard
Columbus Day Queries 31
Janeal Turnbull-Ravndal
Letters to the Editor 32
More Friendly Faces from CYM 2004 33
Around the Family 34

2004 Issue #5 (.pdf format)

Friends and Money

In This Issue

Cover
Table of Contents 2
Editor's Introduction 3
Spirituality and Falling Incomes: Involuntary Simplicity 4
Bernard Schulmann
The Grey Rain Falling 5
Beverly Shepard
Sometimes a Share Is More Than a Share 6
Kristin Lord
Paying our Way - An Example from Ottawa Monthly Meeting 8
Rose Mae Harkness
Three Hundred Words and Six Thousand Numbers 9
Dan Poisson
Environmental and Social Responsibility Tools 10
Adrian Dolling
What Would You Want Me To Do If He Was Your Son? 11
Joy Newall
A Look Backwards at Montreal Monthly Meeting 13
Molly Walsh
Page 14
Petit a petit : 1'oiseau fait son nid 15
Chantal Fournier
Epistle from Young Adult Friends' Fall Retreat 16
Camp NeeKauNis 17
Response to Declan Hill's Challenge to Canadian Friends 18
Kathleen Hertzberg
Balancing -The Canadian Friend Budget 19
Considering a Canadian Civilian Peace Service 20
Sybil Grace
Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation 21
FUM Personnel Policy, and [Some] Resultant Correspondence 22
Fresh from God 24
Carol Leigh Wehking
Page 25
Book Reviews 26
Dana Mullen, Barbara J Bucknall Keith R Maddock
Page 27
Prayer Wheels 28
Maida Follini
Quaker Book Service: Recent Arrivals 29
Listeners of Canadian Yearly Meeting 30
Interviews from Western Half-Yearly Meeting 31
Noah Garver and Colleen Holloran
Spirit-Led Activism: A Workshop at FGC Gathering 32
Reykia Fick
St. Lawrence Regional Gathering, October, 2004 33
Linda Cameron
Around the Family 34
Page 35
Themes, Deadlines and Queries for Upcoming Issues 36