December 2009
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Media Outlets Prepare to Charge for Content Online →
From the NYTimes:
For more than a decade, media companies have hoped for a day when they could either control access to their products online or at least put a price on them that a mass market would bear. But that day has never come. What has changed is the level of threat they face, given the worst advertising downturn in memory.
Count me as one of skeptical ones when it comes to large-scale...
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“You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.’ But...”
– John 4:35+
Pilgrim & Stranger: Overseers, Committees and... →
Traditionally Quakers have had 3 offices: gospel ministers, elders and overseers. In modern liberal Quakerism none of these offices exist (in most circles). We no longer encourage or nurture gifts in…
Chuck Fager: Time's up for the indirect,... →
Buddies ask her “What do Quakers believe?” “Do they believe Jesus is the Son of God, who died for your sins?” These may be pesky, but they’re legitimate inquiries. Further, Lucretia has discovered…
Wess Daniels: Advent Message “Come Be Born in Us” →
The father of Quakerism, George Fox, wrote in his journal of his present and personal experience of Christ when he said: “Jesus has come to teach the people himself,” meaning that for Christians…
Passionate Ashley lifting her voice to... →
He was condescending, he didn’t listen, and he interrupted women while they were speaking. I struggle with hearing men talk about God. This is hard for me because I know these men are good people and…
Comment portability the missing link for these...
I’m interested that Posterous can import blogs. In a perfect world I’d be happy to combine my Tumblr lifestream blog with my Movable Type “serious” blog but the only way I’d do that is if I could keep comments working. Both sites currently rely on the awesome Disqus, but as that relies mostly on URL structure, any new system would likely lose the comments. A great...
R. Scot Miller: Friends and the Apocalyptic →
The great thing about Revelation is that it articulates what early Friends took up as “The Lambs War.” Whether we like war language or not, it is important to note that lambs are unalterably a symbol…
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I like reading parrot discussion boards pretending... →
“If you open your window, wherever you are in the world, I will take my Quaker outside and I think you could hear her.”
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Nathan Sebens encourages parents to sharing their... →
I think that so often, we refrain from speaking to children about faith in fear of impacting the decisions they must make for themselves. I believe that this all too common silence comes from a place of good intentions, but I want to challenge it. In order for the faith of our children to be alive and vibrant, they must discover it themselves. But as adults, we have some maps that we can share...
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Emerging Diane: Blessings and gratitude →
I am convinced that God’s true blessings are meant for everyone. When the Bible says the sun shines on the good and the evil alike, it points to the paradox of rewards but it also describes how God gives. God rains down blessings on us in great abundance. Indiscriminately. Not just on the “deserving.” The forces of evil would try to hoard those blessings for the few. But at the...
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“I’ll leave them to their theology. I’m out to save souls. I have more friends...”
– Oral Roberts, who died today, on critics of his healing ministry.
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Forrest C: Should a Friends Meeting Have an Open... →
Over some 300 years, we’ve evolved ways to handle the tension between what some individual member might feel divinely led to say or do, and what his Quaker Meeting as a whole could approve. We tend to be free about individual stands, cautious about anything said in the name of a Meeting. A blog moves the tension into a whole new context. People aren’t always rational, attentive, or...
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WatchTraction engine at the move from the Hammonton Christmas parade. Apologies for the odd video noise, the camera which took this will soon turn seven years old!
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Checking out the new Google URL shortener...
Is Feedburner and Goo.gl faster than Twitterfeed and Bit.ly? Check my Twitter account for the answer!
Update: three hours later, the post still hasn’t come through Feedburner & Goo.gl. Closing down this experiment and sticking with Twitterfeed.
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Sustaining the purpose for which we were... →
A new post over on my more serious QuakerRanter blog.
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“Quaker minister do not spring from music and folk-dancing. There is still a need...”
– Kenneth S. P. Morse near the end of “A History of Conservative Friends” (1926, p. 62-3).
Chuck Fager starts QuakerQuaker discussion about... →
Recently there was a blog post here which spoke of not wanting to inherit “your” Quaker institutions. Looks like that wish may come a bit closer to being true soon: Friends Journal has an open letter…
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