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Plow Up The Fallow Ground #411


Lu Harper Early Friends had a way of bringing scripture to life, a way of entering into the language and stories of the Bible to find meaningful expressions of their own experience and to find fresh truth in the Spirit that gave forth the scriptures. Following on examples from the writings of early Friends, Lu Harper explores the depth and variety of insights that can be found in biblical images of field and vineyard. What wisdom did early Friends find in these passages, and what do they say to us today? Through this extended exploration, and by offering rich queries for personal meditation, the author invites readers to rediscover a Quaker way of deriving powerful, personal meaning from the Bible. Keywords: Bible, Society of Friends Spiritual life, Early Friends, Parable of the Sower About the Author Lu Harper is a member of Rochester Friends Meeting in New York and works as an art museum librarian. She is a graduate of the 2008 class of School of the Spirit, and serves as an elder for Friends travelling in the ministry. She is particularly interested in understanding the interrelated functions of ministers and elders historically and in the present day.


Answering The Violence #412 John Lampen As a people committed to peace, Friends have nonetheless, from time to time, sought to build close relationships with perpetrators of violence, with groups and individuals who may be labeled oppressors or terrorists. Why? What part do such relationships play in efforts to end differences and build peace in troubled situations? John Lampen, who has served as a Quaker peace worker in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, draws on his own experiences and the accounts of other peace workers to explore the controversies, risks, rewards, and possible benefits of reaching out in friendship to perpetrators of violence. Discussion questions included. Keywords: Peace, Nonviolence, Quaker witness, Northern Ireland, peacemaking About the Author John Lampen is a member of Stourbridge Local Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting. Born in 1938, he served as a soldier during the insurgency in Cyprus, becoming a Quaker in 1968. He worked for twenty years with emotionally disturbed teenage boys in an experimental school. He and his wife Diana lived and worked in Northern Ireland from 1983 to 1994, as described in this pamphlet. Then they became freelance consultants/trainers in constructive conflict handling. Based in Britain, they have participated in postwar reconstruction, often working with children and teachers, with repeated visits to the former Yugoslavia, South Africa, Uganda, Denmark, the former Soviet Union, and the United States of America. Among Johns books are Mending Hurts (the 1987 Swarthmore Lecture at Britain Yearly Meeting); The Peace Kit: Everyday Peacemaking for Young People; The Worship Kit; and Findings: Poets and the Crisis of Faith (Pendle Hill Pamphlet 310). He edited No Alternative? Nonviolent Responses to Repressive Regimes.


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