Sandy Spring Friends School
All School Peace Committee
Next Peace Committee Meeting: March 31, 2005 Moore Hall, Room 3, 7:15pm.
Testimony:
The Quaker Peace Testomony, like all Quaker thought, is not a creed that is written down, it is an emerging philosophy that is open to continuing revelation. Here, though is one of the most famous statements by a Quaker about the Quaker philosophy of non-violence.
We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fighting with outward weapons for any end or under any pretense whatsoever; this is our testimony to the whole world . . . .
. . . The Spirit of Christ by which we are guided is not changeable, so as once to command us from a thing of evil and again to move us into it; and we certainly know and testify to the world that the Spirit of Christ which leads us into all truth will never move us to fight and war against any man with outward weapons, neither for the Kingdom of Christ nor for the kingdoms of this world...therefore we cannot learn war anymore.
Excerpts from a Statement by the Quakers to King Charles II (1660
Read the All-School Peace Committee's Charge
Contact a member of the Peace Committee:
Mike Ackerson
Alison Baker
Linda Cooper
Caroline Finn
Lori Gravley-Novello
Elizabeth Johnston
Kate Santorineos
Bim Schauffler
Meeting House at Sandy Spring Friends School
Peace Places: Of all the places where peace gathers in the life of a Quaker school, none is more central than the meeting house. It is in the silence of meeting that students at the school, Quaker or not, can find a still and quiet place to listen to the spirit or to their own thoughts and worries. The quiet allows students to work out conflicts and think things through.