January 2011
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Original James Bond song lyrics? ”I was born...
Clio on QQ: Plain Teenager: Perfectly Possible :) →
My parents accidentally sent me to a liberal Friends summer camp not expecting me to come back hungry for faith. I missed having meeting every day. I missed the peace I felt in the meeting circle…
FedUpMom: An insider/outsider's look at Quaker... →
Ah, Friends schools — where Protestants teach Jews how to be Quakers. It’s a beautiful thing… I attended a Quaker school myself for a couple of years, and it pretty well cured me of any interest…
Al Jazeera Plays Galvanizing Role in Arab Protests... →
From the NYTimes:
In many ways, it is Al Jazeera’s moment — not only because of the role it has played, but also because the channel has helped to shape a narrative of popular rage against oppressive American-backed Arab governments (and against Israel) ever since its founding 15 years ago. That narrative has long been implicit in the channel’s heavy emphasis on Arab suffering and political...
Iris reads Margery Abbott's "To be Broken and... →
I’m still learning to trust the healing power of my own words. Remembering I’m loved takes regular reminders. How often I slip back into worries about whether I’m doing enough, preoccupied with…
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Isabel Penraeth: Advices and Queries for Isolated... →
I have contemplated OYM’s Queries and Advices regularly as part of my own spiritual practice for a number of years. Over time, I felt that it would be good to re-work them slightly to emphasize the…
Guitar for Beginners →
Usborne. Thinking of this for 7yo Theo, who just got a guitar for Christmas. It’s his cousin Rose’s old guitar, still in good shape and tuned up by my brother.
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Steven Davison: The Protestant (Quaker) Ethic &... →
When you cannot achieve grace through sacraments, good works or confession, the only proof of grace is a way of life that is unmistakably different from that of others. This requires a certain…
Michael Jay: Do Friends have a future: The power... →
“How could we take advantage of our tradition of equipping all people for ministry? I suggest that we remember our past as pioneers in the house Church movement. We have a whole system designed to…
Report of FGC's Christian Interfaith Relations... →
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[Gloucester County Times] Protest heats up at... →
St. Mary’s of Malaga parishioners are preparing for the third round of snow due in the township tonight, but the group of prayerful protesters will have heat in the Old Dutch Mill Road church for…
“It used to be that if the US government wanted access to documents or letters in...”
– Paul Carr, Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud [Techcrunch]
[Vineland Daily Journal] Protesters at Malaga... →
There were no clergy, Communion or altar boys, but it was the only place where the parishioners of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church wanted to be Sunday. Despite objections from the Diocese of…
Sarah Palin's Facebook moderation →
An interesting look at the efficiency and omissions of Team Palin’s editorial cuts. “Sarah Palin has a reputation for being an agressive editor of comments on her Facebook page. But in the wake of…
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“I am horrified by the violent attack on Representative Gabrielle Giffords and...”
– John McCain
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“This is just the first salvo in a fight to elect people across the nation who...”
– Sarah Palin on Rep Giffords back in March, in a Facebook post with an accompanying graphic of a crosshair over Gifford’s district.
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WatchRep Giffords in a March 25th interview on violence: “Our democracy is a light of beacon around the world because we effect change at the ballot box and not because of these outbursts of violence and the yelling… For example, we’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list and the way she has it depicted is having the cross hairs of gun sight over our district. When people do that they have...
[Gloucester County Times[ $600G left to Malaga... →
Aunt Tess never would have wanted St. Mary’s Church in Malaga to close. If she had, the Malaga woman would not have willed $600,000 to the parish after her death in 2005. Theresa DiMatteo hadn’t…
[Gloucester County Now] 24/7 Vigil to Save St.... →
“The parishioners of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Malaga have begun an around-the-clock vigil inside the church to protest its closure on November 9, 2010. The surprise closure, effected by…
[Gloucester County Times] Malaga church protest... →
Since Sunday’s unofficial reopening of the St. Mary’s of Malaga Church, parishioners have huddled together in the building in shifts. They plan to be on the site 24 hours a day, every day, until…
[Phila Inquirer] Renegade parishioners defy order... →
By order of the bishop of Camden, St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church in Malaga should be dark and silent, its pews empty, its doors locked. But on Tuesday, a small band of parishioners sat huddled in…
[6abc News] NJ parishioners stage sit-in at their... →
Parishioners of a small church in Malaga, New Jersey say they love their house of worship and they don’t want to lose it and so they’re conducting a protest. Annotations: “We don’t want…
[Camden Courier Post] Faithful hole up inside... →
Deep in Gloucester County, the sign outside St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church is a call for the faithful to “open wide the doors to Jesus and Mary.” Those doors were shut by the Diocese of Camden…