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21 hours ago (6 November 09)
LizOpp: Pride and privilege (and credit)

I know this because I am getting lessons about pride and privilege nearly every day it seems, from different people, over and over and over again. So it must be important and I need to pay closer…

Posted: 4:05 PM
Inside Facebook: Churches Use Facebook To Develop Online Congregations

While church-focused Facebook applications have been around for years, now real-life churches across the country are spreading their messages online, giving more people access to worship services and…

Posted: 4:05 PM
Emerging Diane has seen the damage done by gossip

Factionalism, favoritism, in-groups and gossip do immense, and I would say, often unacknowledged, damage to Quaker institutions and meetings, as well as in the wider world. I’ve seen the “mischief…

2 days ago (4 November 09)
Quakernomics Matthews tells us not to be positive!

I feel we need to return to those earlier Quaker values it’s a hard road and there are no guarantees but being dreamily positive is no substitute for a realistic understanding of the problems we…

3 days ago (3 November 09)
Peterson compiles his "Jesus Loves You!" posts

Over at Facebook we have had long discussions about certiain ones. Sometimes people get tickled, offended or downright inspired. Some in the series are ironic, some silly, some serious. I will let…

Posted: 4:42 PM
Quaker musician Jon Watts just left from a nice visit to the Convergent Friends South Jersey HQ (aka my dining room table!). Jon’s become world famous as the musician behind Youtube’s most watched Quaker video, Dance Party Erupts During Quaker Meeting for Worship (embedded below). Good conversation about Quakers inside and out, and the tensions between “what Quakerism is” versus “what it can be” and what that means for outreach. The discussion was too good to interrupt with a video interview, but the sketch we made while talking (above) should give you the gist. You can check out his QuakerPoet blog here. Those confused/offended/elated by his video should pay special attention to Dance Party Reflections Two Months Later.

Quaker musician Jon Watts just left from a nice visit to the Convergent Friends South Jersey HQ (aka my dining room table!). Jon’s become world famous as the musician behind Youtube’s most watched Quaker video, Dance Party Erupts During Quaker Meeting for Worship (embedded below). Good conversation about Quakers inside and out, and the tensions between “what Quakerism is” versus “what it can be” and what that means for outreach. The discussion was too good to interrupt with a video interview, but the sketch we made while talking (above) should give you the gist. You can check out his QuakerPoet blog here. Those confused/offended/elated by his video should pay special attention to Dance Party Reflections Two Months Later.

Posted: 10:13 AM
Gossip and ownward spirals
4 days ago (2 November 09)
The Complete Guide to Google Wave

An ebook by Lifehacker’s Adam Pash and ex-Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani. There are plans to keep it updated through Wave’s evolution over the next year.

Posted: 6:35 PM
“ The study is important because it looked at drugs that have been used for decades without large studies of their safety in pregnant women…
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Study Ties Some Antibiotics to Birth Defects

Just the fact that there are commonly used drugs that no one’s bothered to test on pregnant women despite decades of use is pretty messed up.

Posted: 2:50 PM
“ It was also an example of how Twitter reinforces the tendency of adults to behave like high school students, passing rude notes, spreading exaggerated rumors and obsessing endlessly — and pointlessly — about who said what mean thing about whom.
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Behaving badly online. The only qualm I have reposting this quote is that high schoolers often aren’t nearly as bad as the most vitriolic adults.

From A Tweet Unleashes Vitriol on a User in Britain (NYTimes).

5 days ago (1 November 09)
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Recording of old time Quaker singsong from Haverford’s Music and Quakerism project:

Singsong or Intoned Preaching: One method of “singing in the spirit” sometimes exhibited during Quaker worship was a form of singsong or intoned chant undertaken by those delivering a message. Documented from the 18th through the early 20th centuries, this practice has now died out, though a few examples have been recorded in sound.

Here’s the description in the credits: “Singsong or Intoned Preaching. Intoning by preachers Tom Jones & Esther Jones, recorded prior to 1968. Gift of Earlham College.”

Hat tip to Jon Watts’ comment on Joan’s guest post on Chel’s blog.

1 week ago (31 October 09)
Alice M Yaxley: Sustainable economy for the future?

If we experience such a leading and gathering, can our communities reach out to convince others of the joy and liberation that comes from living God’s way, in such numbers that we can choose life for…

1 week ago (30 October 09)
Inside Facebook w/5 Things Brand Managers Should Know About the Updats

Excerpt: “This means significant changes are happening across the Facebook ecosystem that marketers and brands need to be aware of and account for in their products and strategies.”

Link | Comments | Tags: facebook, tech,
Posted: 11:15 AM
Emerging Diane: New Age Girls (and Boys), Quakers and sweat lodges

I appreciate the Quaker emphasis on finding that of God in everyone, emphasizing grace over sin and understanding every person as having direct access to the light of the Holy Spirit. But if this slides into denying the existence of evil, then we become a society of Pollyannas, hoping to smile injustice away or to melt cruelty because of our radiant “patterns” of good living. Da Nile is a long river.

Posted: 10:16 AM
Hammonton Halloween: A butterfly named Francis and a clown named Theo watch the annual Halloween Parade.

Hammonton Halloween:

A butterfly named Francis and a clown named Theo watch the annual Halloween Parade.

Comments | Tags: theo, hammonton,

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