December 2007
moving yet another website to a new host, just LOVE all the little details that can go wrong
Christ in us and adding a little programming to... →
Simon SL continues with Fox’s view of salvation My current best guess is that George Fox’s message that “Christ is come to teach his people himself” was not just apocalyptic, but about the nature of salvation: Christ comes not just as a visitor, but as a permanent and growing part of us. (tags: quaker quaker.christianity comment) Peterson Toscano recommends a little...
Peterson Toscano recommends a little programming... →
In the old days people hung out more and spoke about what happened in worship and learned about faith and practice over a meal or while working on a project. But today most people blow into meeting and blow out.
Simon SL continues with Fox's view of salvation →
My current best guess is that George Fox’s message that “Christ is come to teach his people himself” was not just apocalyptic, but about the nature of salvation: Christ comes not just as a visitor, but as a permanent and growing part of us.
Assassins and a Quaker media site →
Bhutto Assassinated in Attack on Rally - New York Times The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated near the capital, Islamabad, on Thursday. Witnesses said Ms. Bhutto, who was appearing at a political campaign rally, was fired upon at close range by a gunman, and then struck by shrapnel. (tags: nv) New site: SpeakingTruth.org Audio podcasts, visual media, and articles....
New site: SpeakingTruth.org →
Audio podcasts, visual media, and articles. Welcomes contributors from all branches of the Quaker tradition, of all ages and backgrounds.
Ah, the Christmas question (Links) →
Embracing Complexity polls Friends about celebrating Christmas Yet I know that many (most?) Quaker families do celebrate Christmas at home. And some Meetings do mark the occasion in a number of ways. So I am curious about Friends’ thoughts on this. (tags: quaker)
Embracing Complexity polls Friends about... →
Yet I know that many (most?) Quaker families do celebrate Christmas at home. And some Meetings do mark the occasion in a number of ways. So I am curious about Friends’ thoughts on this.
Light Simon on "deification" theology in... →
It all depends, however, on how we read [it]. If “dwelling in the light” is being a nice person, following God’s commands, and otherwise being respectful of a power then this is not a text about deification. This light seems, however, to be transforming.
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Sorry I’ve been awol on the blog lately. What a crazy few weeks this has been, as those who know my alter-ego can probably imagine. Not to be a scrooge but when did Christmas become such a monstrosity? I’m looking forward to a few stolen moments with family, hopefully with no hospital visits or bad flus!
Putting the $ back into Chri$tma$ →
Sorry I’ve been awol on the blog lately. What a crazy few weeks this has been, as those who know my alter-ego can probably imagine. Not to be a scrooge but when did Christmas become such a monstrosity? I’m looking forward to a few stolen moments with family, hopefully with minimal sniffles all around. Anyone liking music might want to try out Jango.com. It’s the best...
@tet3 look at that hip action, i never imagined you were such a crazy dancer (sorry about car)
Dinosaurs, sheeps and Unitarians, oh my! (Links) →
Pentagon lobbies for escalation of Afghan war (Washington Post) With violence on the decline in Iraq but on the upswing in Afghanistan, President Bush is facing new pressure from the U.S. military to accelerate a troop drawdown in Iraq and bulk up force levels in Afghanistan, according to senior U.S. officials. (tags: nv) Kirk W on Quaker and other meanings for worship I’ve found some food...
Susanne K on the centrality of serving the... →
A faith community that does not evoke the sense of Godâs abundance is not doing its job. A church/Meeting that doesnât put care for the marginalized at the center is âletting its sheep strayâ. Like Fox, I can tap into a whole lot of anger on this
Bold Juniper in new city, new meeting, drawn in by... →
The Christmas songs were creating a bridge between what I enjoyed most about the Episcopal services of my childhood and the silence and Light of the Quaker worship of my adulthood. It drew me a little closer to finding my place the Meeting community.
A new visitor to Friends describes why he left... →
It’s a circle-the-wagons,insular,bubble mentality that reminds me a little of a Soviet Propaganda film. This defensive posture couches all events, identities, policies, and daily minutia in cloying, self-referential terms of purpose and esoteric phrasing.
Susanne K on the dinosaurs in our midst →
Sometimes it feels like the church community itself is the dinosaur. If it isnât half-extinct already, it seems like it ought to be. That is - believe it or not - entirely to be expected!
Kirk W on Quaker and other meanings for worship →
Iâve found some food for thought in the word âworship.â It never occurred to me, until now, that the Quaker phrase âmeeting for worshipâ might mean something different to other people.
Losing wars against earth and peoples (Links) →
Afghan Mission Is Reviewed as Concerns Rise - New York Times “These efforts reflect a growing apprehension that one of the administration’s most important legacies—the routing of Taliban and Qaeda forces in Afghanistan after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—may slip away, according to senior administration offic (tags: nv)
U.N. Conference Adopts Global Warming Pact - washingtonpost.com...
links for 2007-12-16 →
U.N. Conference Adopts Global Warming Pact - washingtonpost.com U.S. told to “Lead … or get out of the way!”, agrees to pact which really only amounts to a promise for further talks. US already took off proposal that called “on industrialized countries to cut their emissions 25 to 40 percent by 2020.” (tags: nv)
Of prophets, "Quakers" and music to wed by (Links) →
Home Cookin’ bluegrass The great bluegrass band that played at our wedding! (tags: south-jersey) Noli Lynn on her post-9/11 solidarity head covering I was taking part in an expression of solidarity with Muslim women in this country who might be experiencing hostility in the wake of 9/11; it was a sort of semi-organized Quaker activity that spread by word of mouth and email at the time....
Sheffield Peter asks about the prophetic voice →
We don’t know what is to come but we can develop so we be flexible enough to respond but are we in danger of losing sight of that and taking on board aspects of managerialism which have blighted so much of recent life?
favorite search phrase of the day: how do we detect quakering http://tinyurl.com/2ecq2l
links for 2007-12-13 →
Wandering Gavin wonders who waits for the clearness committee’s report? Does anyone wait for the results of a [marriage] clearness process before deciding that they are getting married? Is it necessary? Have we ever, as a Society, had this as a practice? (tags: quaker.clearness quaker comment) Barry C promises to start blogging again I’ve missed all of you who chose to share in...
Clearnesses and a Nobel campaign →
Wandering Gavin wonders who waits for the clearness committee’s report? Does anyone wait for the results of a [marriage] clearness process before deciding that they are getting married? Is it necessary? Have we ever, as a Society, had this as a practice? (tags: quaker.clearness quaker comment) Barry C promises to start blogging again I’ve missed all of you who chose to share in...
Moving Nonviolence.org →
Just a quick heads-up that I’m moving the Nonviolence.org server. A few emails to martink at nonviolence dot org might get lost in the transition. Please resend any if you get error messages or don’t hear back from me within a few days. Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience!
Wandering Gavin wonders who waits for the... →
Does anyone wait for the results of a [marriage] clearness process before deciding that they are getting married? Is it necessary? Have we ever, as a Society, had this as a practice?
Bombs, dating, questionaire Quakerism and bad... →
Press story on how Quaker Mtg discovered & bought munitions detectors Today, three detectors - two bought by the Quakers for about $1,500 and a third donated as part of a deal with the manufacturer - are being used under U.N. auspices in Tajikistan. And Lenik, his fellow Quakers, and others are raising money to buy more. (tags: quaker quaker.witness) Robin M on Sojourners call to...
@cwdaniels: if Wess can install Firefox 3, I sure can
The spiritual discipline of sailing in circles →
An interesting image in meeting yesterday. “CS” rose after the break of worship to share a story from a old Quaker journal he’s been reading. The minister in question was in England at the time and felt a strong leading to visit Friends in Ireland. Being dutiful he arranged passage in a ship heading west and boarded it thinking he would soon reach his destination. But the winds...
Sheffield Craig on prophetic leadings and... →
My understanding of discernment is that it is a process of seeking the will of God in a particular situation. Can this be done with a questionnaire?
Wanderer Gavin on Quaker dating (via... →
Iâve been thinking, for a couple of years now, about a Young Adult Friends (YAF) workshop on Quaker romance. I was hoping this blog post might try to address some of the questions that come up for me about what it means to date as a Friend.
New blog: Quaker Queeries, for dialog around... →
Holding the tension that surrounds faith, religion, sexual orientation and sexual identity In The Light
Qr Street Jez looking at why we do outreach →
We are trying to help people know who and what we are, what we believe and where they might or might not fit in. In another sense, we have a sense that there are some answers here among our Quaker faith and it is important to share it.
Robin M on Sojourners call to conversion →
If George Fox had lived in 1981, he might have written a sentence like that. I think this is where the RsoF at its best is headed again. We may or may not name the force … âChrist.â We are nonetheless hearing the call to conversion.
Press story on how Quaker Mtg discovered &... →
Today, three detectors - two bought by the Quakers for about $1,500 and a third donated as part of a deal with the manufacturer - are being used under U.N. auspices in Tajikistan. And Lenik, his fellow Quakers, and others are raising money to buy more.
links for 2007-12-07 →
FORpeace.net A community of bloggers associated with the U.S. Fellowship of Reconciliation (tags: nv)
might have figured out the looping on Quakerranter.org, annoying by-product of host move
links for 2007-12-06 →
Jesusland Revo: If not “secular,” then what? Critiqued over “use of the categories of ‘secular progressive’ and ‘progressive evangelical.’ There has got to be some acceptable way for us to talk about these two different cultures. Yes, they overlap. (More and more, I’m an example of that myself.)” (tags: relgion comment) Richard M on sexual...
Liz posts Marshall channeling "Early... →
Just speaking personally, it seems to me that the answers to all these questions become fairly obvious, once we understand that it is God who is in charge and not ourselves!
Raised Anna surveys the issues of New York Yearly... →
I spoke that soon would come a time when God would tell us ‘you are healed, stand up and walk’ and we as a body will stand whole and healed anew. The time Friends is coming for us to stand and walk.
Richard M on sexual double standards →
Our greater awareness of the testimony of equality makes such a double standard unacceptable now that we fully see it. But once seen how is the discrepancy to be fixed?.. Elimination… does not necessarily imply a low standard for everyone.
God-centrism, secularity and Quaker sex →
Jesusland Revo: If not “secular,” then what? Critiqued over “use of the categories of ‘secular progressive’ and ‘progressive evangelical.’ There has got to be some acceptable way for us to talk about these two different cultures. Yes, they overlap. (More and more, I’m an example of that myself.)” (tags: relgion comment) Richard M on sexual...
ahhh, the first south jersey snow!
Tweet (#472270912) →
ahhh, the first south jersey snow! http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/472270912
Facebook follies? →
O’Reilly Media group on Facebook And under-used groups in general (tags: tech comments)
The activist un-resume →
I recently applied for a position at a well-known Quaker social justice organization and decided to put together something of an activist resume. The resume I usually circulate understandably focuses on my tech work and professional experience and tries the impossible task of downplaying the Quaker connection (I’ve almost heard the application being crumpled on the other end of a phone...
Crazy Quaker videos, blogging Russians and the new... →
In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are Written On Mobile Phones Half of the top ten selling works of fiction in the first six months of 2007 were composed on mobile phones… Mobile phone novels… have become a publishing phenomenon in Japan, “turning middle-of-the-road publishing houses into major concerns.” (tags: publishing) “Why can’t we be Friends?”, Kirk W...