From moriah at preferred.com  Mon Sep  1 15:27:19 2003
From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun)
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:27:19 -0500
Subject: [saymaListserv] 1553 Clerk's e-mail addr {lis}
Message-ID: <005201c370bf$d4e8d900$b872fea9@Mary>

Dear f/Friends,

(Please excuse the duplication if you get more than one of this message; it
was addressed to individuals, and also posted to the SAYMA listserver.)

Dear f/Friends who are:
            meeting clerks or worship group contacts
            SAYMA reps appointed by their meeting or worship group
            yearly meeting clerks or treasurer
            yearly meeting committee clerks
            yearly meeting representatives to wider Quaker organizations
            administrative assistants

(Please excuse the duplication if you get more than one of this message; it
was addressed to individuals, and also posted to the SAYMA list-server.)

**New**
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Sharon Annis, clerk of SAYMA, has a new e-mail address
                        sharonannis at comcast.net


:-)   :-) Please Note:  not-so-new, but still very useful (-:   (-:
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clerk of SAYMA can always be e-mailed at
                        Clerk at sayma.org
a "forwarding address" at our website that serves as insurance in days of
frequently changing e-mail addresses

^o^
\_/
Mary
AdminAsst at sayma.org
276-628-5852
POB 2191, Abingdon VA 24212-2191



From bright_crow at mindspring.com  Tue Sep  2 23:16:26 2003
From: bright_crow at mindspring.com (Michael Austin Shell)
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 23:16:26 -0400
Subject: [saymaListserv] Fwd: Updates to SEYMpeace.org
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20030902231516.009ea090@pop.mindspring.com>


>Friends,
>
>There are some key updates to http://seympeace.org, including a new 
>"Thought for Ninth Month" from historian Karen Armstong's book, THE BATTLE 
>FOR GOD, correcting the Western misunderstanding of Islam's notion of "the 
>Great Satan."
>
>Check the "Topics of Concern" section and the "Meeting News & Action 
>Updates" for some important links and announcements.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike Shell.




From earthsteward at urisp.net  Wed Sep 10 23:29:30 2003
From: earthsteward at urisp.net (Daryl Bergquist)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:29:30 -0500
Subject: [saymaListserv] UN peace network
Message-ID: <3F5FEC1A.8090805@urisp.net>

A network endorsed by the UN working toward a Culture of  Peace.
 I thought you might be interested,  Daryl

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	How can we know if the culture of peace is advancing?
Date: 	Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:15:37 -0000
From: 	David Adams <administrator at cpnn-usa.net>
To: 	monitor at cpnn-usa.net <monitor at cpnn-usa.net>



Dear Friends of Peace and Justice,

Greetings from the Culture of Peace News Network at http://cpnn-usa.org 
. This is the third and last monthly update that you will receive from 
us unless you subscribe. If you wish to receive these monthly updates in 
the future, you must reply "subscribe" to us at 
administrator at cpnn-usa.net <mailto:administrator at cpnn-usa.net> .

How can we know if the culture of peace is advancing? From the 
commercial media? Academia? the UN? Or do we need new forms of 
communication using the Internet, like CPNN? This discussion , including 
replies from as far away as France and Mozambique, is one of the most 
recent on the CPNN Discussion Board. It may be found at 
http://cpnn-usa.org/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi?s=;act=ST;f=25;t=132

The only way that we can know if the culture of peace is advancing in 
your community and share the news with others is if you tell us about 
it. See the write zone of CPNN at http://cpnn-usa.org/write/index.html

New reports in August include:

* Legacy of a Nonviolent Political Leader: Governor Guillermo Gaviria of 
Colombia along with the remarkable letter written by Gaviria to his 
father just before his death. It may be found at 
http://cpnn-usa.org/cgi-bin/read/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=78

You are invited to take part in continuing discussions raised by this 
and other recent reports, as well as the discussion about whether the 
culture of peace is advancing.

As you know, CPNN is unique because it is endorsed by the UN General 
Assembly and it is based on the values of a culture of peace adopted in 
UN resolutions and supported by 75 million people during the 
International Year for the Culture of Peace.

We will appreciate your sending this message to other friends and 
colleagues. Also we appreciate your putting links to CPNN on your own 
personal and organizational websites.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Peace,

David Adams
administrator at cpnn-usa.net <mailto:administrator at cpnn-usa.net>


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From kcarlyle at main.nc.us  Mon Sep 15 15:55:15 2003
From: kcarlyle at main.nc.us (Kim Carlyle)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:55:15 -0400
Subject: [saymaListserv] SAF Tenth Month
Message-ID: <009101c37bc3$5ace1400$986dc0d1@qew>

Friends,

It's that time again.

Please submit news items, letters to the editor, articles, poetry, tidbits,
recipes, jokes, shopping lists, whatever for the next issue of our yearly
meeting newsletter.

Please send to SAFeditor at SAYMA.org by 10/01/2003.

EarthPeace, Kim Carlyle


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    A candidate with a brain and a heart and a backbone!
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From tlamm at chpl.net  Thu Sep 18 10:25:36 2003
From: tlamm at chpl.net (Tim Lamm)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:25:36 -0400
Subject: [saymaListserv] Faith and Practice on-line
Message-ID: <005001c37df1$2be25770$3da8a8c0@TimLamm>

Dear Friends in SAYMA,

The current working version of the Guide to Our Faith and Practice (with the
changes to Part 1 approved in June 2003) and the proposed revisions to Part
2 (Fall 2003 draft) are now available at www.sayma.org/online_documents.
Thanks to Ceal Wutka for help in converting these documents to PDF.

---Tim Lamm, web manager
Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting & Association
www.SAYMA.org



From CIsland at aol.com  Fri Sep 19 15:31:55 2003
From: CIsland at aol.com (CIsland at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:31:55 EDT
Subject: [saymaListserv] The International Day of Peace - September 21
Message-ID: <144.1936899d.2c9cb3ab@aol.com>

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From jhminshall at comcast.net  Sat Sep 27 12:46:32 2003
From: jhminshall at comcast.net (Janet Minshall)
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:46:32 -0400
Subject: [saymaListserv] Fwd: For all Americans: A High Holiday Message
Message-ID: <p05210600bb9b67d096f1@[192.168.1.101]>

Dear Friends, Given the Judeo-Christian roots of our tradition, I 
wish you a Happy Rosh Hashanah (New Year) and commend to you these 
messages from Rabbi Lerner. Blessings, Janet Minshall



>A Letter from Rabbi Michael Lerner:
>
>FOR ALL AMERICANS: A HIGH HOLIDAY MESSAGE
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>Blessings for a New Year of peace, social justice, and social healing.
>
>Let this New Year be one in which all people on the planet open their hearts
>to each other, experience the beauty and sanctity of each other, and begin to
>transform their economic, political and social institutions in ways 
>that support
>all of us to be more loving and generous in our daily lives.
>
>Let it be a New Year in which each of us becomes more fully our highest
>selves, and each of us sees through the various ways that we hide from each
>other--so that we can assist each other to feel safer, more loved, and more
>recognized for who we really are. Let it be a New Year in which those who
>advocate safety through domination come to see that the best path for safety
>is through mutual cooperation.
>
>And let it be a New Year in which each of us personally finds ourselves more
>joyous, more loving and loved, healthier, more filled with life and with God's
>energy, more compassionate and more fulfilled at every level of our being.
>
>Le'shana Tovah Teekateyvu--Be inscribed for a Good New Year!
>
>Warm regards,
>Rabbi Michael Lerner
>
>P.S. If I have in some way offended or hurt or disrespected you this 
>year, I ask for your forgiveness. Like every other person on the 
>planet, I am a limited and flawed human being who makes mistakes, at 
>times acts unconsciously and
>out of impure motives, and does not always take into account the needs of
>those receiving my words or actions. For all this, I ask for your pardon.
>



>WHY AMERICA BADLY NEEDS TEN DAYS OF REPENTANCE--AND SOON!
>
>By RABBI MICHAEL LERNER
>
>Just as Christmas has entered American mass culture as a season for good
>feelings,  Americans could benefit from embracing the Jewish Days of
>Repentance (this year from Sept. 26h to October 6th) as a season for  self-
>examination, both as individuals and as a society.
>
>Although the original symbolism of the Jewish High Holidays (God judging us
>and sealing our fate--"Who shall live and who shall die? Who shall be exalted
>and who shall be brought low?"--in the Book of Life) may have little
>resonance for a secular culture, there is a real power in the underlying idea.
>Environmentalists have helped us understand that there is a karmic order to
>the universe: the damage we are doing now will in fact reverberate in our
>futures and in the lives of our children. In fact, the human race may be
>dangerously close to global ecological catastrophe on a scale that the Bible
>predicted when it claimed that the natural cycles would fail if people did not
>create a moral order in their daily lives. And we've witnessed how the quick
>resort to violence and military intervention, providing a quick fix, 
>actually has not made our world much safer, glad though we may be to 
>be rid of Saddam.
>
>On the personal and the global level, ten days of repentance might give us
>the opportunity to explore how we've been missing the mark, and what we
>can do to get re-aligned with our highest selves. We might discover the ways
>that we've allowed a cynical media and a societal ethos of materialism and
>"looking out for number one" to obscure our collective longing for love and
>community, for a world of generosity and kindness.
>
>For liberals and progressives, the highest priority today is to stop President
>Bush from destroying our freedoms and militarizing our world--all in the name
>of security. Yet the real problems we face are far deeper than replacing one
>set of politicians with another. We need a New Bottom Line of love and caring
>so that institutions and social practices are judged rational and 
>efficient notonly to the extent that they maximize our money and 
>power, but also to the
>extent that they maximize our capacities  to be loving, generous, kind,
>ecologically and ethically sensitive, and capable of responding to the
>grandeur of creation with awe and wonder. A societal period of repentance
>might have as one dimension the envisioning of how to recreate our economy
>and political institutions with that New Bottom Line.
>
>As a first step, we might acknowledge our sins--the ways that we've betrayed
>our highest capacities. The Hebrew word for sin, cheyt, has none of the
>implications of deep flaws, but rather is based on the notion of "missing the
>mark"--as though we had temporarily gone astray, and this occasion gives us "
>the opportunity to return to our highest selves. That's why in my 
>congregation, Beyt Tikkun in San Francisco, we start any reflections 
>on our "sins" by saying first: "Who are WE--we are light and beauty, 
>infinite wisdom, eternal goodness; but, we have strayed, we have 
>moved out of contact with our
>highest selves, and we intend to get back to the source of holiness 
>within us."
>
>For Our Sins As Americans:
>
>o  allowing our government to lie its way into the war in Iraq
>o  believing that security can be achieved through domination of the others
>    rather than through cooperation
>o  allowing our legitimate fear and outrage at terror to be 
>manipulated for the
>    sake of undermining civil liberaties and constitutional 
>protections that were earned through the struggles of previous 
>generations and which were a
>    central part of what made us proud to be Americans
>o  enjoying the benefits of living in the richest country on the earth while
>    refusing to share what we have with the 2 billion people on the planet who
>    live on less than $2 a day, many of whom will die from diseases directly
>    related to malnutrition and poverty
>o  failing to share our wealth with those who are impoverished, and denying
>    healthcare, education, employment, housing and other needed social
>    goods to the poor, while further enriching the rich
>o  letting our government block and undermine international environmental
>    agreements rather than taking the lead in repairing environmental damage
>o  consuming goods we do not need and thinking we always need more and
>    newer
>o  feeling powerless, becoming cynical, and giving up on larger social change
>
>
>For Our Sins As Human Beings:
>
>o  not adequately rejoicing and celebrating the beauty and grandeur of the
>    world around us;
>o  ignoring the oneness of all humanity, and instead thinking that our group,
>    our tribe, our country, our corporation, our political party is 
>so much more
>    deserving than everyone else.
>o  being cyncical about the possibility of building a world based on love
>o  not seeing the spark of divinity within each person we encounter
>o  looking at the world, and at other human beings, through the lens of
>    utilitarian reductionism ("is there something here that can be OF USE to
>    me") and allowing to atrophy our capacity to respond to the grandeur of
>    creation and to the mystery of other human beings  with awe and wonder
>    and a sense of the sacred that surrounds us.
>o  not realizing that we are enough, there is enough, and that we already
>    have all that we need if only we learn to share it lovingly
>
>
>As a Jew, I'd add some for my own people, and hope you'd do some for your
>own group or religion or tribe:
>
>o  not publicly criticizing Israel for its unwillingness to end the 
>Occupation of
>    the West Bank and allowing the Palestinian people to build their 
>own society
>o  blaming the entire Palestinian people for the (inexcusable and murderous)
>    acts of a few hundred immoral terrorists, and then inflicting collective
>    punishment on the entire Palestinian people, including denial of food and
>    water, bombings from the sky, assassinations of suspected terrorists that
>    often involve killing dozens of other innocents, house demolitions, and the
>    building of a "security Wall" in the midst  of the West Bank (thereby
>    expropriating yet more land)
>o  not adequately supporting those who have courageously stood up for
>    justice and peace, even at great personal expense (most recently, 
>the 27 Air
>    Force officers in Israel who announced on September 24, 2003,that they
>    would refuse to fly missions in the West Bank aimed at destroying
>    Palestinians from the sky)--thereby allowing the rest of the 
>world to believe
>    that the Jewish people are being fairly represented by our current array of
>    leaders who are either apologists for the Occupation or too scared to speak
>    out unequivocally against it.
>o  not standing up for Israel or the Jewish people when it is being unfairly
>    criticized, held to a different standard than everyone else, and not
>    adequately challenging anti-Semitism when it rears its ugly head 
>in the anti-
>    war movement or among those who have legitimate criticisms of Israeli
>    policy but then move beyond that to sweepingly dismiss the rights of the
>    Jewish people, including our right to be just as screwed up as everyone
>    else without being singled out for being worse than we really are.
>o  not learning from the wisdom of, and affirming the beauty and goodness of,
>    every other people and religious/spiritual tradition--for fear 
>that doing so
>    would somehow diminish our commitment to our own worth or our own
>    wisdom
>o  thinking that our pain is so much more important than anyone else's pain
>o  allowing the riches of the Jewish tradition to be appropriated by 
>hateful and
>    reactionary forces, rather than immersing ourselves in it, reclaiming and
>    renewing it, and learning from its immense beauty and wisdom.
>
>
>Well, you could certainly fill out these lists in your own way. But 
>imagine how
>healing it would be if our society were to adopt, in a secularized but morally
>serious manner, the practice of enumerating these sins, and then (and here is
>the rub), actually developing strategies for how we are to change. 
>It's a gift the
>Jews might offer America, if anyone is willing to take it.
>


-- 
Janet's new e mail address is :  jhminshall at comcast.net