EOF08B The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 8 Part B: Depression, WW II, and Wider service

We read a vivid slice of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative history where Quaker peace testimony becomes hands-on relief during the Great Depression and grows into wider service through the American Friends Service Committee. We also follow Carl Patterson’s outward ministry in Europe and the steady push by younger Friends to open the yearly meeting to new connections and shared leadership.

• AFSC relief work in Ohio Yearly Meeting territory during the 1930s
• Uneven support for the AFSC and the silence of official records
• Launching child feeding near Wheeling and scaling quickly
• Kentucky coalfield service bringing food, clothing, hope, and cooperation
• AFSC work camps shaped by nonviolence and Gandhi’s example
• Carl Patterson and Mifflin Hull traveling to Ireland and England
• Ending isolationism through renewed contact with other yearly meetings
• Younger Friends conferences and new roles for emerging leaders
• Discipline changes and gradual modernization across meetings

We will finish reading chapter 8 in the next podcast.