February 2012
Sapping Attention: Making Downton more traditional
Data mining language to spot Downton’s anachronisms. http://dlvr.it/1C5w5k
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Patricia Barber: Will the Real Quakers Stand Up?...
For almost 200 years, we’ve been squabbling about who the real Quakers are. We’ve all headed off in high dudgeon to our various fortresses, currently named FGC, FUM, EFI and (Conservative), from which we occasionally sally forth to mingle with Them.
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Since we unplugged coaxial cable there’s no way to watch Grammies. But then I’ve never watched more than 10 mins. I’ll rely on tweets.
Mark Wukta; Let All Things Be Done Unto Edifying
When I hear Friends talk about Quakerism, I often find that our supposedly creedless faith is described in terms of what we believe (“we believe there is that of God..”, “we believe in equality, simplicity, etc.”). It seems like many Quaker Quest sessions also present our faith tradition in terms of its beliefs or ideas. Why does it seem rare to hear people speak about...
Quaker Bloggers Respond to Maggie’s Post “YOU ARE...
In the first few days after Maggie’s recent blog post, we realized that she had hit a nerve as the comments just kept coming in. That realization deepened over the following days, as we started to see blog entries popping up in response
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Cathy Barney: The purity of clearness in community
It is a beautiful process and one in which I was the recipient. Too often, in my experience, we want to do what we do in the secular world: listen briefly, then try to fix it for the person in question. Either that or leave it merely at listening.
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Johan Maurer: Diffident no more
Not that I’m signing any manifestos. I’ve already explicitly refused to lay any claim on being able to define “real” Friends. But I still want to know, does anyone care if you or I are Friends? Do you? Does God? Is any person’s life made more whole by the fact that you or I identify with Quakers?
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Ashley Wilcox and Clothing | Clothe Yourself in...
A few years ago, my sister gave me a bright red coat for Christmas. I love it and I frequently get compliments when I wear it. At the time, I was feeling led to stop trying to be invisible and to let my light shine. Wearing my red coat is one of the ways I remind myself to do that.
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Victoria Pearson: Called Out, Called In: Maggie...
And how do I handle being called out? Not too well, it seems, given the number of days I dismissed this challenge, this clear call to be more than what my un-committed commitment to seeking has led me to be. But I’m writing this, after all, so maybe there’s some hope yet.
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At least this doctor’s office has Blondie playing.
Johan Maurer: Trust, the first testimony
To me, trust is SPICE’s missing ingredient, namely the crucial link between faith (or conversion) and discipleship. Without trust, SPICE remains theoretical. Without trust, how can we unbind ourselves from greed, violence, intrigue, autonomy, and elitism? In the absence of real trust, the church drifts back into functional atheism…
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Greg Woods: A Messy Faith- Inclusivity Within...
I want to keep Quakerism a messy community. I want to invest in my fellow Quakers and to keep challenging them to go deeper in their faith, while they challenge me to go deeper. I do not want to be involved in a faith where everybody follows the rules for fear of being expelled.
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Cherice B: how do we vote with integrity?
Since it’s an election year, this problem is bound to come up again, and it’s something I think about a lot. What do we do, as Friends, when either a) there aren’t any good candidates, or b) the good candidates have no chance of winning, and if we vote for them, the worse candidates are likely to get elected instead of the not-quite-as-bad?
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Four of the six family members down with nasty bug. Normalcy still an elusive goal.
At empty pizza shop, Julie asked if there’s a game today. Laughter ensued.
At least we know what sport the Superbowl represents—football, right?
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Just mounted our new internet TV on wall. Hasn’t fallen yet.
Karen Mercer: How much clothing matters
I know that it might be easy for critics to point out that in chosing religious dress I am merely repeating my own past. It may be so….but now I am doing so consciously. I don’t sneer at people for taking my dress as the reality anymore.
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'Huffington Post' Employee Sucked Into Aggregation...
“I heard this grinding noise, and then I saw all these Washington Post stories, sexy pictures of people in the workplace, and celebrity anti-vaccine editorials start to back up on the factory floor,” said Huffington Post editor Emily Paxton. http://dlvr.it/18wxWn
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Beginning to think Laura and I aren’t the triage priority here in the E.R. Of course that’s a good thing.
Sue Doessel: Primary and secondary messages within...
These are some of the fears we meet if we seek to live by the primary message of Quakerism, that it is possible to be in direct relationship with the Source, and to live our lives in accordance with guidance from there. None of these fears are new.
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Jon Watts: Why Being Told I Wasn’t a Quaker Was...
Instead of encouragement, I was surprised to find that my mentor was not only not excited about the prospect of me as clerk, but began to question my involvement in the program itself. At the root of his questioning was my relationship with Quakerism. He distinguished two categories of Quakerism: practicing Quakers and cultural Quakers…and then he suggested that I was the latter.
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Jon Watts: What’s Your Relationship With Clothing?
If you take a moment to tell us about your personal philosophy, submit a picture and tell us where you’re from, we’ll compile it into a page called “Modern Quakers and Clothing”, and… viola! We’re in a real conversation.
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I like the profile description for a person who just signed up for one of my sites: “i am a seo profesional and web blogger not spammmer”
A nasty bug sweeping house. I’d like to crawl into bed and sleep till next week.