Topo maps Map links Trains Magazene. Since the summer of 1998 I have devoted myself to starting an effort to create a full-time Quaker volunteer service program. Similiar to Jesuit Volunteer Corps or Lutheren Volunteer Corps , the program will place full-time volunteers with community organizations and offer a structure for community, spiritual development and leadership training. I feel an urgency about this project because it has come to me that Quakers are about to be needed by the larger culture. Underneath the ills we face as a nation is a spiritual problem of violence and dominance over other people and life.
Friends have a tradition that presents an alternative.
The essential gem of Quakerism is the knowledge that each person is part of the divine, that we need to treat everybody as equal and sacred. While I am comfortable with more witness than Friends usually muster, I do believe that faith is more easily caught than taught. But the Society of Friends is not in great shape. Friends are unfocused and tired. Often young adult Friends are missing.