February 2008
why is networking still so primitive? home is out just trying to install printer
Trick or Treat, it's George Fox my terror buddy! →
Quakerthink Kevin with the scary tale of the Curse of the “Early Friends” The problem with the Curse of the Early Friends is that very soon it seems to become a metric, a canon, an instant…
This is so crazy: 1 in 100 Americans behind bars, it’s 1 in 9 for black me between 20 & 34 http://tinyurl.com/2jytkx
links for 2008-02-27 →
Quakerthink Kevin with the scary tale of the Curse of the “Early Friends” The problem with the Curse of the Early Friends is that very soon it seems to become a metric, a canon, an instant tool for assessing the validity of an assertion. Folks, not one of the Early Friends ever experienced a flush toilet, either. (tags: quaker quaker.conservative quaker.vision) Recommended site:...
Quakerthink Kevin with the scary tale of the Curse... →
The problem with the Curse of the Early Friends is that very soon it seems to become a metric, a canon, an instant tool for assessing the validity of an assertion. Folks, not one of the Early Friends ever experienced a flush toilet, either.
QOTD: “I’m not sure why it’s going to take them three hours to learn how to press a button.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb …
Hallelujah Quakers out in the open (Links) →
Robin M on unprogrammed Friends being willing to follow God into dramatic exhortation Then a very elderly woman, a lifelong Quaker (a very weighty Friend, we would say), stood up in the silence and said, “I wish our Friend would run up and down shouting Hallelujah if God is asking him to.” (tags: quaker quaker.ministry) LizOpp on sharing leadings with our own meeting community The...
links for 2008-02-26 →
Robin M on unprogrammed Friends being willing to follow God into dramatic exhortation Then a very elderly woman, a lifelong Quaker (a very weighty Friend, we would say), stood up in the silence and said, “I wish our Friend would run up and down shouting Hallelujah if God is asking him to.” (tags: quaker quaker.ministry) LizOpp on sharing leadings with our own meeting community The...
Robin M on unprogrammed Friends being willing to... →
Then a very elderly woman, a lifelong Quaker (a very weighty Friend, we would say), stood up in the silence and said, “I wish our Friend would run up and down shouting Hallelujah if God is asking him to.”
LizOpp on sharing leadings with our own meeting... →
The panel had a chance to share with the wider meeting community the tenderness, vulnerability, intimacy, and challenge of working with an ongoing care-and-accountability committee.
Susanne K on why she's a (liberal) Quaker →
Form of worship, reliance on unmediated revelation, potential for living into the Light and decision-making assumptions top the list. She also lists issues she didn’t discuss, including freedom of belief.
Tweet (#758318412) →
clinton’s not denying staffer sent obama photo to drudge, i guess this is what “experience” is? Link http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/758318412
clinton’s not denying staffer sent obama photo to drudge, i guess this is what “experience” is? http://tinyurl.com/3c3h6u
Tweet (#748198792) →
all i’m saying is: if i lived on sodor i’d walk a lot. those trains are ALWAYS crashing! Link http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/748198792
all i’m saying is: if i lived on sodor i’d walk a lot. those trains are ALWAYS crashing! http://tinyurl.com/2u7ngp
Finally, some real snow! →
Geeky Flickr tricks plus eco-moms and ecstatic... →
New Mozilla Thunderbird group thinks email is broken As the number of such interactions grows, and as the number of ways in which we interact grows, the joy that communication can bring is too often replaced by frustration, confusion, or stress. (tags: tech comment) Blog post on using Flickr and Lightbox Lightbox lets blog users enlarge Flickr photos on a website. (tags: tech tech.flickr) ...
New Blog: The Ecstatic Quaker →
A blog dedicated to the revitalization of Quakerism through a rediscovery of the ecstatic experiences of early Friends. From a Friend in Delaware USA.
links for 2008-02-21 →
New Mozilla Thunderbird group thinks email is broken As the number of such interactions grows, and as the number of ways in which we interact grows, the joy that communication can bring is too often replaced by frustration, confusion, or stress. (tags: tech comment) Blog post on using Flickr and Lightbox Lightbox lets blog users enlarge Flickr photos on a website. (tags: tech tech.flickr) ...
Imperfect Eileen on "eco-moms" and working a... →
It’s been pretty lonely being the only family on the block that composts, yet in my Quaker meeting I compare myself to some of the single people who live much less wasteful lives. Talking with other parents… seems like a good next step.
Anarchists and Easy Blogs (Links) →
Paul L explores the realities and myths of Quaker/anarchist links I think that Quakers have always carried an anti-authoritarian gene in their DNA — the affinity you’re probably talking about — and they probably share this gene with others who would characterize themselves as anarchists. (tags: quaker quaker.influences) Quaker blogs: you can start right here at QuakerQuaker...
Tweet (#734684442) →
4yo Theo woke up early this a.m. to play eclipse. Guess we’re staying up late tonight! Link http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/734684442
4yo Theo woke up early this a.m. to play eclipse. Guess we’re staying up late tonight! http://tinyurl.com/3364lm
links for 2008-02-20 →
Paul L explores the realities and myths of Quaker/anarchist links I think that Quakers have always carried an anti-authoritarian gene in their DNA — the affinity you’re probably talking about — and they probably share this gene with others who would characterize themselves as anarchists. (tags: quaker quaker.influences) Quaker blogs: you can start right here at QuakerQuaker...
Tweet (#732511902) →
The BBC ends more shortwave service, wow. This was MY LIFE back in seventh grade! Link http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/732511902
Paul L explores the realities and myths of... →
I think that Quakers have always carried an anti-authoritarian gene in their DNA — the affinity you’re probably talking about — and they probably share this gene with others who would characterize themselves as anarchists.
Quaker blogs: you can start right here at... →
Really just a new way of using the QuakerQuaker discussion board, I’m trying to give curious potential bloggers a way of testing the waters before starting an established blog elsewhere.
The BBC ends more shortwave service, wow. This was MY LIFE back in seventh grade! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/business/media/19bee …
Musharraf accepts defeat AND Castro resigns AND we get the Kennedy files opened. Whew!
Tweet (#731840872) →
Musharraf accepts defeat AND Castro resigns AND we get the Kennedy files opened. Whew! http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/731840872
Paper, pacifism and Quaker Idol (Links) →
Robin M buys paper and thinks about the craft of writing Have any of you taken or taught a writing class recently? Do you recommend a particular school or type of class? Or a book on the subject? (tags: comment) Cherice on pro-war theory at seminary I just got done with my small group discussion session for my “War & Christian Conscience” class. In my discussion group,...
links for 2008-02-19 →
Robin M buys paper and thinks about the craft of writing Have any of you taken or taught a writing class recently? Do you recommend a particular school or type of class? Or a book on the subject? (tags: comment) Cherice on pro-war theory at seminary I just got done with my small group discussion session for my “War & Christian Conscience” class. In my discussion group,...
Tweet (#728528052) →
muscles aching, head hurting and cough of last few days becoming more prounounced: late winter cold here I come? http://twitter.com/martin_kelley/statuses/728528052
muscles aching, head hurting and cough of last few days becoming more prounounced: late winter cold here I come?
Baltimore Emergent Church Quaker experiment →
My friend Kevin-Douglas emailed recently about a new worship group he’s helped to start in downtown Baltimore. It sounds like some of the other Christ-center worship groups that have been popping up the shadow of established Quaker meetings. It’s consciously small and home-based, taking place at a non-traditional time with an implicit Emergent Church flavor. Experienced Friends are...
Showmen Ben on trusting individual discernment and... →
If I don’t trust my Friend, then I won’t trust her initiative and I will resist her ideas. Trust is the trust we give the Holy Spirit, the trust we give to Jesus, the trust of handing our will and our lives over to a power greater than ourselves.
Paul on confusing God by making an idol of... →
Almost immediately, I regreted putting it the way I did, and the reason why came up a few minutes later when another Friend, a noted Quaker historian and writer, admitted to sometimes making an idol out his Quakerism instead of worshiping the Living God.
Repeating ministry (Links) →
Flourishing Jaime wonders if pacifism really is a Quaker belief Quakers have made a doctrine out of pacifism when it was not intended to be so. Fox [argued] pacifism based on personal feelings against serving as an officer in the army. [Early Fds] never explicitly state that to be Quaker means to be pacifist. (tags: quaker quaker.witness) Johan M on Quaker scale in a church where there are...
links for 2008-02-17 →
Flourishing Jaime wonders if pacifism really is a Quaker belief Quakers have made a doctrine out of pacifism when it was not intended to be so. Fox [argued] pacifism based on personal feelings against serving as an officer in the army. [Early Fds] never explicitly state that to be Quaker means to be pacifist. (tags: quaker quaker.witness) Johan M on Quaker scale in a chruch where there are...
Skoolr (Links) →
Interview w/Chris Lehmann, principal of Philadelphia’s “School 2.0” experiment “School 2.0” goes beyond technology. Likewise, a school that truly is designed for the future may also go beyond the literal building itself. Sometimes it shows up in small choices that allow kids and teachers to connect, collaborate, and create. (tags: tech tech.internetculture) ...
Flourishing Jaime wonders if pacifism really is a... →
Quakers have made a doctrine out of pacifism when it was not intended to be so. Fox [argued] pacifism based on personal feelings against serving as an officer in the army. [Early Fds] never explicitly state that to be Quaker means to be pacifist.
Johan M on Quaker scale in a chruch where there... →
I was curious about how it would feel inside to speak three times from essentially the same burst of inspiration. Would it feel artificial the third time—would the inspiration “wear out”?. Would I get confused?
links for 2008-02-16 →
Interview w/Chris Lehmann, principal of Philadelphia’s “School 2.0” experiment “School 2.0” goes beyond technology. Likewise, a school that truly is designed for the future may also go beyond the literal building itself. Sometimes it shows up in small choices that allow kids and teachers to connect, collaborate, and create. (tags: tech tech.internetculture) ...
Movable Type getting cool and Quaker alphabets... →
Friendly Funnel’s introduction to FLGBTQC Written for her monthly meeting newsletter: “I hope that I’ve cleared up the necessity of each of the initials in FLGBTQC; and that by doing so have made the acronym easier to remember.” (tags: quaker quaker.sexuality) Movable Love A showcase of interesting and beautiful sites powered by Movable Type (tags: tech.movabletype...
links for 2008-02-15 →
Friendly Funnel’s introduction to FLGBTQC Written for her monthly meeting newsletter: “I hope that I’ve cleared up the necessity of each of the initials in FLGBTQC; and that by doing so have made the acronym easier to remember.” (tags: quaker quaker.sexuality) Movable Love A showcase of interesting and beautiful sites powered by Movable Type (tags: tech.movabletype...