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Gene leading a discussion at the old Third Haven Meeting House in Easton, Maryland
Brief Bio
(Mostly Quaker stuff)
Gene is a convinced Friend (convinced of the Gospel in its Quaker understanding), and member of Middletown Monthly Meeting (Concord Quarter of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting). He is former clerk of Annapolis Monthly Meeting, of the Peace Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, and of Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting. He was resident/staff at Pendle Hill in the late 1980s. In the 90s he served 10 years on the commissions and Board of Friends United Meeting. He has worked in prison ministry and, in the early 1990s, was lead trainer for the Alternatives to Violence Project at Gander Hill prison in Wilmington, Delaware. He has lectured on, led workshops and retreats, and otherwise taught Quakerism (beliefs, history, queries, testimonies), Bible, and related topics (e.g. devotional practices, mysticism) for Friends Meetings, workshops and retreats since 1988. In June 2001 he presented "Quakers and The Lamb’s War" at the International Consultation of Historic Peace Churches, at The Bienenberg in Liestal, Switzerland. He has also been active in youth ministry, most recently accompanying Young Friends from Philadelphia and New York Yearly Meetings to Youth Quake in Estes Park, Colorado in 2003.
Gene holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Lincoln University, a Master of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Arts in Theology from Villanova University. He served in the Peace Corps in Korea (K-6: Public Health, 1967-69), where he developed an interest in Buddhism, visiting nearby Temples. He also began his study of the martial arts, and currently practices Cheng Man Ch'ing's Yang style T'ai Chi Ch'uan.
Gene served Philadelphia Yearly Meeting as Coordinator of Adult Religious Education through June 2006. He is currently employed in addictions treatment for Gaudenzia, first at SCI-Chester, and now at Fresh Start in Wilmington, Delaware. He lives with his wife Patricia Daly, and their cat Sophie. He has an adult son Geoffrey.
Gene and Pat at their wedding on June 21, 2003, at Middletown Meeting House in Lima, Pa., with Gene's son Geoffrey and Pat's daughter Natalie.
"The smartest and most educated people are the scientists, for they have already found solutions to all our problems and will soon find solutions to all the problems resulting from their solutions to all the problems we used to have." Wendell Berry
A recent article and syllabi.
Gene's July 2003 Friends Journal Article on Quaker Adult Religious Education.Courses Gene teaches:
- Quakerism 101: Basic Quakerism
- Quakerism 201: Faith & Witness (resources)
- Bible
- Notes from other talks I have given
(some links broken,
and I have no control over page now)
Some useful links.
Bibles
Bible Study Tools from Crosswalk
Today's Readings: New American Bible
New Revised Standard Version
Theology and Religious Studies: Other Texts, and one Bookseller
Christian Classics Etherial Library
Dove Bookseller: Religious books
E-Pastors Library (Trinity College: Toronto)
Gnostic Archive
Humanities Resources at Intute UK resources (was Oxford: Humbul)
Religious Studies at UCSB
Penn's Online Books Page:
(Religion)
Really Sociology of Religion at UVa Religious Movements
An Orthodox statement on God as Light based on Gregory Nazianzen
See Peter Bien's Pendle Hill Pamphlet (#384) The Mystery of Quaker Light
Quaker sites
Earlham's Digital Quaker Collection
FCNL
Bill Samuels'QuakerInfo
Kirk Wattles' Street Corner Society
Marshall Massy's Quaker Magpie
Tract Association
Quaker Heritage Press
Some useful sites put up by academics
Thomas Martin: Patristics resources
Shiela McGinn: Bible and early church
Meditation and Devotional Practices
Centering Prayer Thomas Keating's site
Daily Office - a daily cycle of devotion
Examen - a Jesuit practice
Forward Day by Day Episcopalian Daily Reading
Lectio Divina
Icons at Skete's monestary store
Two Classics
The Cloud of Unknowing a 14th c classic
Dark Night of the Soul from 16th c. Spain
Retreat Centers
Community St John Baptist (Episcopal) convent in northern N.J.
Daylesford Abbey (R.C.) in Paoli, Pa.
Fransciscan Spiritual Center in Aston, Pa.
Holy Cross Monastery (Episcopalian) on the Hudson
Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pa.
Spruce Lake (Mennonite) in the Poconoes
The
See The Philadelphia Buddhist Association for local groups.
Heart Sutra
DOA resources
AA: SEPIA
NA in Delaware
NIDA: Drug Abuse
Kevin Griffin's site
Prison resources
Links at the Pennsylvania Prison Society
Bo Lozoff's Prison Ashram site