November 2007
It's a trick-or-treater Charlie Brown!
A few decades ago a little boy named Linus van Pelt sat in a pumpkin patch waiting in vain for the return of the Great Pumpkin (gotta love Wikipedia). Nowadays he might as well sit on his front stoop waiting for the trick-or-treaters. With the two hour “official” time almost at an end we’ve had only one lonely costumer come to our door. We ourselves went up and down the street...
October 2007
Robin M reads Rufus Jones' call to the youth of... →
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Go read it for yourself and tell me how many of these things you have said yourself. Why are we still working on these same things? Is this required every generation or so?.. What is different now?
Ben's friend Maggie wants more traveling ministry →
Since.. the majority of Quakers in this century will be convinced Friends, I believe we are in need of a revival of traveling recorded ministers speaking out to meetings.
Anna at New York YM, the fear of following God →
We sometimes forget that in its demand that we all open ourselves to God and dedicate every facet of our lives to Her grace and glory, Quakerism is the very antithesis of safe and easy.
martin_kelley: Jeanne on blocks that have come up talking about class: And once again, school is providing affirma.. http://tinyurl.com/3asp25 (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
martin_kelley: Bucolic Batsto: martin_kelley posted a photo: Batsto general store http://tinyurl.com/399749 (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
martin_kelley: town halloween parade finally was this night, no good pics, mostly just walked up & down repeatedly! (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
martin_kelley: ooh, but intense debate will import existing comments http://intensedebate.com/ (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
martin_kelley: Disqus is certainly getting the hype machine treatment, is it this good? disqus.com (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
Links: The big fat wall of Quakerism
Jeanne on blocks that have come up talking about class
And once again, school is providing affirmation and an outlet for my passion. Quakerism sure does look like it’s providing a big fat wall. That or God’s putting a wedge between me and Quakerism.
(tags: quaker quaker.witness checkback)
(via Quaker Ranter Martin Kelley)
The big fat wall of Quakerism
Jeanne on blocks that have come up talking about class
And once again, school is providing affirmation and an outlet for my passion. Quakerism sure does look like it’s providing a big fat wall. That or God’s putting a wedge between me and Quakerism.
(tags: quaker quaker.witness checkback)
(via Quaker Ranter Martin Kelley)
Jeanne on blocks that have come up talking about... →
And once again, school is providing affirmation and an outlet for my passion. Quakerism sure does look like it’s providing a big fat wall. That or God’s putting a wedge between me and Quakerism.
martin_kelley: cool map hack of Wikipedia edits http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
An Autumnal Halloween
The Batsto Village Halloween party wasn’t quite so much fun this year: their website didn’t mention that most activities ended part-way through the afternoon so that the organizers could sit in front of the old houses giving out candy. We arrived on the late side so face painting or pony rides for the boys butterflies. We still had fun in the first really autumn day of the season...
Tweet (#370488862)
who the who are the bellrays and why haven’t i been listening to them all my life?
http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/370488862 (via Quaker Ranter Martin Kelley)
martin_kelley: who the f are the bellrays and why haven’t i been listening to them all my life? (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
Link: Quaker blog talking about Quaker blogs...
Quaker educator on the gathering place of blogs (via QuakerQuaker.org)
Our presence in cyberspace may not be sorely needed, but it is certainly a place that most educators, including Friends, have not yet fully explored. Let’s get off our chairs and off the meeting room bench, so to speak, and into the online game.
(tags: quaker quaker.blogs quaker.youth)
(via Quaker Ranter Martin...
links for 2007-10-28
Quaker educator on the gathering place of blogs (via QuakerQuaker.org)
Our presence in cyberspace may not be sorely needed, but it is certainly a place that most educators, including Friends, have not yet fully explored. Let’s get off our chairs and off the meeting room bench, so to speak, and into the online game.
(tags: quaker quaker.blogs quaker.youth)
(via Quaker Ranter Martin...
Quaker educator on the gathering place of blogs... →
Our presence in cyberspace may not be sorely needed, but it is certainly a place that most educators, including Friends, have not yet fully explored. Letâs get off our chairs and off the meeting room bench, so to speak, and into the online game.
martin_kelley: why are there so few reblog plugins around?, if used in legit way a useful tool (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
links for 2007-10-27
Among Fds Carol wonders what Quakers would you most like to be rid of?
Are they the image of Christ? What does it mean if they are? And who am I the image of Christ to? Who are you?
(tags: quaker quaker.liberal)
Forest on social change and the “Kingdom Strategy”
Where are we putting our faith? In God’s ability to put our minds to use?—or primarily in the...
Butterfly Love
The town parade was postponed by rain again last night but as the butterfly boys were all dressed up we ducked into our favorite pizza shop for some mozzarella sticks and a slice of bruchetta-topped tomato pie. We got out without inflicting any major structural damage or physical injury, though Theo was only a twist or two away from destroying one of their neon signs. Rumor has it that the parade...
martin_kelley: fussing w/moved QuakerRanter site, twitter not pulling in, comments still screwy (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
What Canst Thou Say?: The Challenge of Jesus →
Wright on how to be Christian: Neither on a shrill and shallow level, denying the depth of the problems our world faces; nor weakly and thoroughly compromised by worldly pressures; nor by escaping to a place of idealized and isolated purity.
Forest on social change and the "Kingdom... →
Where are we putting our faith? In God’s ability to put our minds to use?—or primarily in the strategic use of our minds? I’m not just saying that this comes close to being a dangerous form of idolatry, and that you people need to watch out for it!
Among Fds Carol wonders what Quakers would you... →
Are they the image of Christ? What does it mean if they are? And who am I the image of Christ to? Who are you?
martin_kelley: @cwdaniels let me know how gorillapod works for you, my probl with my old-school tripod is i always forget to bring it w/me (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
martin_kelley: ah so its microsoft that nabs facebook, too bad (what do they know about social media?) (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
Tweet (#355622392)
quakerranter.org will soon be down for maintenance (transfering host)
http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/355622392 (via Quaker Ranter Martin Kelley)
martin_kelley: quakerranter.org will soon be down for maintenance (transfering host) (via Twitter / martin_kelley)
Nineteen Century Friends Joshua Maule cited on war... →
Joshua Maule… gives a good look at how the debate over war tax resistance played out among Quakers during the American Civil War.
New blog for Quaker Pamphlets Online project →
Writers like Rufus Jones, Howard Brinton, Douglas Steere, Thomas Kelly and John Yungblut have developed their thoughts in print… This blog is an introduction and review of that literature.
Tweet (#354098872)
listening to neil young’s latest
http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/354098872 (via Quaker Ranter Martin Kelley)
Tweet (#354010172)
finally transfering quakerranter domain, tired of all the site outages
http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/354010172 (via Quaker Ranter Martin Kelley)
martin_kelley: listening to neil young’s latest (via Twitter / martin_kelley)