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churches. Our usual activities each month include meeting for worship, daily meditation, moving with music, meeting for healing, adult and youth religious education, Bible study, and shared meals.
Since the September attacks, a great deal of concern has been focused on the progress of the war in Afghanistan. Concern over the prosecution of the war, the shifting of national resources from peaceful to military purposes, the compromising of civil liberties, the voices raised for intensified aggression in the Middle East, and the talk of using "tactical" nuclear weapons have prompted a variety of actions on the part of DGFM members. Several members took part in a rally for peace and civil liberties at the DuPage County Courthouse in November, while others participated in marches in Washington in late April. Though members differ on what our response should be to the attack in September, the semi-declared "war without end" fits but poorly with anyone's notion of the Peaceable Kingdom.
Evanston Meeting of Friends
By Eleanor Johnson
In this, our 66nd year as a meeting, we took a look at our past as we try to prepare for the future. We reflected on the changes in our meeting, including how we employed a series of pastoral secretaries until 1972; how the meeting room was set up with pews in rows with the Elders sitting on the facing bench; how we were originally affiliated only with Western Yearly Meeting. Now we rely on a committee structure of dedicated members and attenders and a live-in custodian; our current seating arrangement is in the form of an open square; and we are affiliated with both Western and Illinois Yearly Meetings. What do you suppose lies ahead?
Each month during the second hour discussion period under the care of Ministry and Counsel we have engaged in an exploration of our spiritual foundations. We have looked at where indi
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viduals' beliefs converge and differ, the personal spiritual journey, identity as a Quaker, sources of spiritual authority and the nature of spiritual community. The Clerk of Western Yearly Meeting and the Clerk of Illinois Yearly Meeting have agreed to meet with us in May, at which time we will consider the question, "What are our responsibilities to the two Yearly Meetings to which we belong?"
At the request of the Meeting, the Peace and Social Concerns Committee prepared a working document on the Events of September 11 in Light of the Peace Testimony.
First Day School has had a good year . There were four classes, each with two teachers. The younger classes used the Jubilee Curriculum. The Junior High class learned about religion around the world. This spring they studied the lives and works of Jane Addams, William Penn, John Woolman and others. They are putting to
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