December 2008
I really don’t need yet another social media network to give all my data to. Fatique is setting in…
Wess on Christian forgiveness and politicians →
And isn’t the virtue and practice of forgiveness the very thing that was missing from a nation blindly attacked by terrorists? We, the church and we, the United States, could not respond in…
Chronicler Seth on everyday saints and a God of... →
When we allow the Holy Ghost to live in our hearts, we receive guidance on how to live a holy life. But let’s face facts. There are times when the Lord directs thee to do something that seems…
Growing Together Will learns about holiness →
Growing up as I did among liberal Friends I had tended to view holiness as something that had swept over 19’th century Friends and somehow subverted the Quaker movement. [Arthur Roberts’s “Through…
Light & Silence Simon returns to questions about... →
It matters because Quakers claim to be a community, with shared practices and beliefs. Communities always exist in a context - which is, generally speaking, their history. Deliberate amnesia is…
Taxonomy Access Control module | drupal.org →
Access control for user roles based on taxonomy categories (vocabulary, terms).
How to Use the TAC Module for Drupal →
The TAC module, short for Taxonomy Access Control, gives you the ability to manage Access control for user roles based on taxonomy categories (vocabulary, terms) in Drupal. This is a step by step…
Blagojevich’s senate pick should be disqualified simply for agreeing to stand on the same stage as the governor.
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All of my high school peeps seem to be spending holiday season connecting on Facebook. Cool but bizarre, e.g.: 4th grade class pic is up.
A Guide for the Married Man - Wikipedia, the free... →
A light romp through mid-60s gender politics, Gene Kelly directs and Walter Matthews stars in a movie about suburban swinging too clueless to be offensive. Star studded cameos add almost nothing. A…
NJ Sunbeam: Parish mergers shape up →
“No churches have actually been closed yet, but we think they’ll begin to in the spring,” said Leah Vassallo, council co-chair and member of St. Mary’s in Malaga. “Our job is to make sure…
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“Therefore take heed of the fleshly wisdom; take heed of thine own understanding;...”
– Isaac Penington, 1617-1679, early convert to Friends, in The Inward Journey of Isaac Penington (Robert Leach, 1943), p. 6.
Comment: did you ever read something and have that eerie feeling the writer is speaking directly to you? One reason I love old Quaker writings are because I often feel a close...
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“The beginning of this religion, of this power and holy inward covenant, is...”
– Isaac Penington, 1617-1679, early convert to Friends, in The Inward Journey of Isaac Penington (Robert Leach, 1943), p.5.
Apple juice all over the kitchen floor. Serves me right for leaving Francis alone for a minute. Squeaky sneakers!
Like tweetree.com for organizing Twitter conversations. Kind of like Quotably RIP but is working well and pulls in linked media.
Employment by Kaiser Chiefs →
Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand →
The Glasgowgians’ debut from 2004.
The End Is Not The End by House Of Heroes →
Matt Hoopes on GatheringinLight.com: “I really want to tell everyone about this record. I really love it and I am glad that it is finally available on iTunes. I don’t even know where to start on this…
Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes →
One of Matthew Hoopes’ recommendations on Gatheringinlight.com. Eclectic baroque sound, it’s interesting and different though sometimes skirts Enya territory.
Retweeting @ruby retweeting @guerrillamama: creating child friendly anarchist space: http://tinyurl.com/9wqual Esp for @robinmsf @cwdaniels
Passionate Ashley on holding on to Christmas →
It is true that every day is sacred, but why should we pretend that Christmas day is exactly the same as every other day? Instead, I choose to celebrate it as a day of joy and love, and a reminder of…
Johan M on some of divisions among Friends →
I wonder how many of FUM’s critics realize that FUM is not itself the fundamental problem among Friends. We still resist abandonment to divine providence; we still settle for secondary controversies,…
Shawna fills in some details of that birth two... →
Wandering all over Bethlehem with Joseph, as he looked up his relatives who lived in town. Discovering at each house that they already had a bunch of guests staying. No room. No room. And the…
Uninstalling Dropbox from my virtual machines. I love it but I’m using it heavily and don’t need files duplicated on same real machine.
SymbolicLinker →
Creates Unix-friendly alias for Mac that allow DropBox folder syncing.
LizOpp's reply on theological diversity and using... →
But what mattered in that split second was that to my friend, she cared about the language she used to express her love of me in a way that was meaningful to both her and her friend. And she gave me…
In brave new world where engagements are announced via Facebook, do both parties have to update Relationship Status simultaneously? Hmm.
Theo made acting debut tonight as a shepherd in St Mary’s mass. Photos to follow.
The Sharpie permanent marker corp should be ashamed. Permanent?!? Francis’s dawn-time scribling came right off kitchen floor tile.
Pittsburgh Priest begs PennDOT to raze historical... →
The Rev. Dan Whalen of St. Nicholas parish in Millvale told PennDOT to buy and raze the building, to make way for a Route 28 improvement project. “The best thing to do is to demolish the building,”…
Facebook Connect log-in now avaiable on comments on QuakerRanter and Tumbld Rants blog. Cool. Thanks Disqus.com!
Weird to be working late and seeing so many tweeting about Christmas travel. A side benefit of having nearby family, we’re all w/in 50 min.
Hate it when I go to pour something and out spills too much. In a few minutes I will be asked why tonight’s dinner is so vinegary…
Just robocalled by the pastor of local megachurch inviting us to Christmas eve service. Must not be a blog reader ;)
LizOpp on the stories Friends tell their kids at... →
A parent writes: “This brings me to the pageant. I see it not so much as a celebration, as a telling of a story. I see it not as what it does or does not represent in my faith as an adult, but as…
Click Ric on Quaker Christmas trees →
This afternoon I was surprised to see that there is a Christmas tree in the “coffee hour” area of the Brooklyn Quaker Meeting that I attend. Apparently Brooklyn Meeting even holds a “Christmas Tree…
just blogged: annual scrooge post on Quakers and Christianity & Christmas. Don’t know why I bother as no one agrees. http://snurl.com/90g8q
“Mr. Tapscott identifies eight norms of many members of the Net Generation: they...”
– Off the Shelf - In ‘Grown Up Digital,’ the Virtues of the Millennials - Review - NYTimes.com
Mac bookmark toolbar favicons (also Ubuntu) →
Sneaky ice patch alert : 5yo Theo just slipped under back porch handrail to head-dive onto driveway. He’s mostly okay, thank goodness.
Mac Fonts @ OSX-E →