A prayer for those who work at Shadowcliff
Ed. Note: This prayer was written by Rev. Richard Deats, who joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation, in 1953 and served on FOR-USA’s national staff between 1972 to 2005. Throughout those 33 years Richard lived in Nyack, New York, and worked in FOR-USA’s...
Saying goodbye to Shadowcliff after 40 years
Creative Response to Conflict (CRC) came to the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 1978 through Lee Stern, a Quaker who worked in New York City with the Peace and Social Action Program, which helped to found CRC in 1972. Lee and Ruth lived in Nyack and had worked at FOR,...Shadowcliff memories: A community of comrades in the struggle
When FOR asked me to write a reflection of my time at Shadowcliff, I first thought about all the different parts of the building I had worked in and roles I held there. My first job in the building was as part-time administrative coordinator for the Jewish Peace...