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2009 Issue #1 (.pdf format) Matters of Justice

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In This Issue

CYM 2009 Gathering Insert

Editorial 2
The Grace of God in the Life of John McKendy 4
  New Brunswick Monthly Meeting
Alternatives to Violence in Atlantic Canada 5
  ‘Vital” Vince Zelazny
On Being a Chaplain 6
  Kate Johnson
A Mindfulness Approach to Restorative...Healing 7
  Sarah Chandler
Quakers Fostering Justice Associate Members 8
  Dawne Ardith Clarke and Stephen J. Pidwysocky
Defining a Prisoner 9
  Brigid Egan-Pimblett
Quote 9
  Arundhati Roy
From Prison Abolition to Penal Abolition 9
  Meredith Egan
An Elder Talks of Taking Sacred Bundle... 12
  Edith Miller
Awkward Question 13
  Bert Horwood
Missing 14
  Jane MacKay Wright
The Struggle For Justice in Eastern Congo 14
  Eric Schiller
Advertisement - Singing to Freedom 15
Street Justice 16
  Rick Juliusson
The Great Turning and Justice For the Earth 17
  Roger Davies
Book Review 18
  Anne Mitchell
Quaker Book Service 19
African Summer Workcamps Ad 19
Book Review 20
  Meredith Egan
Pashta’s Concern For Justice 21
  Maggie Knight
Canadian Peace and Security Spending 22
  Donald Woodside and Murray Thomson
Poem 22
  Carole Langille
“When Silence ...is a Lie” 23
  Diana Mitchell
A Call For Friends to Look at Bullying in Meeting 24
  Jane Stokes
Highlights / Reflections of Representative Meeting 26
  Dale Dewar and Adrian Dolling
Notice of Podcasts: Intro. to Quakerism 27
St. Lawrence Regional Gathering 27
  Molly Walsh
Advertisement 27
Around the Family 28
Isolated Friends: A Letter 28
  Greg Wyborn
Ted Rogers and the Rogers Family 29
  Jane Zavitz-Bond
Inside View of CFSC... 30
  Lynne Phillips
Rethinking Our Pamphlets For Inquirers 31
  Fred Holtz


2009 Issue #2 (.pdf format) "Sporadical" - Young Adult Friends Edition

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In This Issue

Message from the Editor
  By Rebecca Ivanoff 5
How Lucky I Am
  By Katrina McQuail 5
Living South of the Border
  By Jaya Karsemeyer 6
Living as Friends, Listening Within
  By Ravi Joshi 8
Quaker Youth Pilgrimage 2008
  By Rachel Singleton-Polster 9
Following a Calling: an Interview with Liz Wine
  By Rebecca Ivanoff 11
A Diverse Community Speaks Truth Into My Life
  By Rebecca Ivanoff 13
Experiences That Have Made Me a Friend
  By Amy Jean Singleton-Polster 15
The Words We Use: an Interview with Edith Madrid
  By Rebecca Ivanoff 16
My Experiences of Quakers Abroad
  By Aden Spurr 18
Thoughts on a Pilgrimage
  By Nori Sinclair 19
The Love of God: Drawing the Branches Together
  By Micah Bales 20
Letter from Young Adult Friends Conference 22
An Open Letter on Friends United Meeting Affiliation
  By Kody Gabriel Hersh 23
Reflecting on Relocation and Renewal
  By Maggie Knight 25
Quaker United Nations Organization
  By Francis Prescott 26


2009 Issue #3 (.pdf format) Gnostics - Christians - Quakers

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Cover 1
Editorial 2
Table of Contents 3
Meeting
  Rod Packwood 4
Coming Home
  Madeline Campbell 5
Retreating to the Present
  Rick Juliusson 5
What the Queen Anne’s Lace Told Me
  Beverly Shepard 6
Layers of Silence
  Reta Hatfield 6
Wall Journaling: A Method for Personal Discernment
  Steve Fick 7
An Examination of ‘Quaker Christian’
  Peter Stevenson 8
Toward a Fresh Understanding of God
  Michael R. Miller 9-10
Awkward Question #2
  Bert Horwood 10
The Long Search for God
  Charles Gee 11
Ask Margaret Fell 12
The QUIP Report 2009
  Sherryll Harris 12-13
Spring 2009 WHYM Epistle 14
I Have a Dream
  Dan Poisson 14
Jesus, Gnostics, Christians, and Quakers
  Siepko Loc 15-17
Representative Meeting May 2009
  Anne Mitchell 17
The Saami People of the Arctic
  Linda Kreitzer 18
Succeeding Against the Odds - Support for a Ugandan Community
  Sheila Havard 19-20
The Gift
  Reta Hatfield 21
Art photo by Rod Packwood 21
Voluntary Simplicity
  Bill McMechan 21 -22
Book Review
  Janine Bandcroft 23
Quaker Book Service 24
Notice Board 25
Around the Family 26-27
Back Cover 28


2009 Issue #4 (.pdf format) CYM in Review

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2 Editor’s Corner
4 Letters to the Editor
5 Anne Caza Responds
5 A Quaker Minute on Climate Change
6 Some Things I Learned at CYM
     By Sybil Grace
7 The Light of Presence and Presence of Light
      By Keith Helmuth
10 Getting There - Testing the Waters
     By Alison and Jim Prentice
11 One Million Quaker Acts of Green
     By Lee Webb
11 Is CYM Capable of Action on Climate Change?
      By Bert Horwood
12 Pants A Million
     By John-Paul Flintoff
13 Excerpt from CYM Epistle 2009
13 Ask Margaret Fell
14 Photo Collage / Gleanings
16 High Points By David Millar
16 Memories of Yearly Meeting 1970
     By Jo Vellacott
17 Thoughts about CYM in Session
     By Dorothy Parshall
18 Statement on Nuclear Power
     Address to CYM by Marilyn Manzer
19 Interviews with:
     Kathleen Hertzberg and Jim Adamson
20 CYM Impresses New Quaker
     By Pat Moauro
21 A Horse at Meeting for Worship
     By Ruth Lor Malloy
22 What is it to be Human?
     By Margaret Slavin
24 Engaging Christian Language:
     By Peter Stevenson
25 Sacred Memories
     By Sylvia Graves
26 The Prophetic Community
     By Eric Schiller
27 Interview with Ed Abbott
28 Quaker Book Service
28 Notice Board
29 Around the Family
30 View from the Clerks’ Table
     By Beverly Shepard
31 Last Words
     By Doris Calder


2009 Issue #5 (.pdf format) Cultivating Peace -
How Passive is Your Pacifism?

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2 Editor’s Corner
4 Letters to the Editor
5 Michael Overington Responds
6 John Hillman Responds
7 Poems, by Francis Howgill, Wilf Ruland,
and Kenna Creer Manos

8 The Essential Roots of Violence
     By Bert Horwood
9 Peace With Our Place on the Planet
     By Tony McQuail
10 Symposium in Montreal
     By Carol Dixon
11 Ed Abbott’s Peace Testimony
13 How Passive is Your Pacifism
     By Linda Taffs
13 A New Beginning - Epistle
14 Department of Peace
     By Dick Preston
15 Accomplice to Death
     By Dan Poisson
15 Book Review
     By Donna Henningson
16 Why I Left
     By Jamie K. Donaldson
17 Why I Stayed
     By Alan Rhodes
19 Program Committee Report
     By Margot Overington
19 The Future of Yearly Meeting?
     By John Dixon and Margo Overington
20 Yonge Sreet Half Yearly Meeting
     By Gordon Thompson
21 Uranium Working Group Report
     By Marilyn Manzer
21 Film Review
     By Dean Johnson
22 Awkward Question No. 4
     By Bert Horwood
23 Theorizing Violence to Illuminate War
     By Rick McCutcheon
24 Ask Margaret Fell
24 Remembering Muriel Duckworth
25 Remembering Sandra Dean
25 Remembering Ross Alden
25 Around the Family
26 Quaker Book Service
26 Notice Board
27 Last Words
     By Meg Casey

27 Excerpt from Prayer for the New Year
     By Jeanne Lohmann



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