The Committee on Conflict Transformation

RantWoman is terribly excited!

Thank you New York Yearly meeting for something called the Committee on Conflict Transformation:

https://www.nyym.org/committee/conflict-transformation-committee

No, RantWoman does not have time today to read in detail. In fact, RantWoman wants reading in detail to be a shared project. RantWoman is not sure, shared among who all exactly, but for now RantWoman is terribly excited to have the link.

Backstory:

RantWoman remains highly peeved about the phrase "Couples counseling" as applied to generalized conflict resolution. For details, put couples in the search baron this blog. RantWoman thinks it is PERFECTLY reasonable to expect that others in her Meeting might be able to find resources that help RantWoman tame her outrage and EVEN that others in her Meeting might be able to help find resources online so that they are more accessible to RantWoman than things in print.

RantWoman is certain the desires above are entirely reasonable. God apparently is less certain. So far what has been served up includes a 30-year-old document approved by two committees in her Meeting. Hello. That was before RantWoman even came to town. Equally important our meeting is blessed by attenders who ere not even born then. RantWoman is not even apologizing for wanting something more current and more alive among more people than just the people in an email thread. Hello, you have reached Dial-a-Tirade. Understood?

North Pacific Yearly Meeting wants to rename the committee now called Ministry and Oversight. RantWoman's soul is a simmering pot of resentments about how the renaming of what was formerly called Oversight Committee in her own meeting. In support of the NPYM effort, RantWoman has sailed out onto the interwebs to see what other Yearly Meetings call this committee. What an interesting list, just from a fast partial check so far:


Baltimore Yearly Meeting: Ministry and Pastoral care

Intermountain Yearly Meeting: Ministry and Counsel

New England Yearly Meeting: Ministry and Counsel

New York Yearly Meeting: Community Life and Pastoral Care
https://www.nyym.org/content/nyym-committee
https://www.nyym.org/content/nyym-committees#ministry

North Carolina Yearly Meeting Conservative: nothing helpful

Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting: Religious Nurture and education committee
http://quaker.org/legacy/ovym/index_files/ministries.html

Pacific Yearly Meeting: both a Ministry and Oversight committee and a junion Ministry and Oversight committee

Okay, okay, so RantWoman wants discernment about a new name for That Committee in NPYM to look at and prayerfully hold options. rantWoman would further like it if discernment did not hurry but came back to Annual Session next year.

God? Friends? Are you listening?