May 2011
David R Woolley: Making 9-11-11 a National Day of... →
9/11 this year is a Sunday. What if Quaker meetings were to pair up with mosques and hold joint worship services? What if Friends were to attend Friday prayers at a mosque, and Muslims were to…
April 2011
Deborah (Judges 4&5) →
Reading the Daily Bible (a few days behind) and got to Judges 5, which sounded suddenly strange. Checked Wikipedia and indeed it is unique: written as early as the 12th Century BCE, it might be the earliest sample of Hebrew poetry.
South Jersey summers: turn off heater, turn on AC.
[Camden Courier Post] Easter provides churchgoers... →
As it is for other Christians, this should have been the holiest day of the year for parishioners of St. Mary’s Church in Malaga. Aside from the lack of a consecrated host or a priest on the…
The fam make the front page of the Camden Courier Post—incl Theo in his PJ’s! :) http://bit.ly/fzMjyZ
Think I’m going to have to stay offline till tonight’s #DoctorWho episode shows up on Amazon Instant. <REFRESH><REFRESH><REFRESH>
Sarah Hoggatt: the Lion Learned to Roar →
What happened that morning on the drive to the Kenya youth conference, something I have never written publicly about, is a conversation between God and I in the front seat of the van. I was praying…
RT @quakerquaker: QuakerQuaker This Week: The DIY Disconnect, Podcasts And Likability http://t.co/TCqDg0I
George Lakey talk on the call to leadership →
Philadelphia activist George Lakey gives the 2011 William Penn Lecture, corresponding with the 350th Anniversary of the Quaker Peace Testimony. Via Philadelphia YM Tags: quaker
Strange to be 82 degrees outside but chilly inside. Every so often a hot blast makes it thru open window into my cold basement lair.
RT @quakerquaker: Symon Hill: Quakers, ethics and capitalism http://bit.ly/eZT6iv #quakers
Sarah Hoggatt: You Know this Painting? →
“What did you say about that painting, Simon?” I ask from across the small wooden gallery. “It was painted here.” “REALLY?” “You know this painting?” he asks in surprise. “Of course!” Hugh and I…
Geez Magazine →
“Holy mischief in an age of Fast Faith”. Wess Daniels likes this. One year four issues cost $24.
RT @hotdogsladies: SEO: An industry based on yelling “NEW JERSEY!”—then hoping someone mistakes you for Bruce Springsteen. For a second.
Behind-the-scenes on @QuakerQuaker update: “good social media strategy needs your attention and time. No way around it” http://bit.ly/fWQ33b
QuakerQuaker This Week: DIY Tech, Quaker Buses and... →
I just posted this week’s update on QuakerQuaker. I’m giving up on the automated MailChimp emails. They were easy—set it up and ignore them—but they were boring. People weren’t engaging and some of the more interesting things on the site were overlooked.
The lesson in this is that a good social media strategy needs your attention, care and time. No way around it....
Lady Liberty Stamp Depicts a Vegas Replica -... →
The United States Postal Service has issued a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. Only the statue it features is not the one in the harbor, but the replica at the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas.
Micah Bales: À La Carte Spirituality and Embodied... →
This is the tragedy of our “spiritual but not religious” generation, our age of tradition-swapping and consumeristic religion: It simply does not work. Tradition and human community cannot be…
Bill Smith: The Quaker Witness against "hireling... →
Most yearly meeting programs that have to do with local meetings have been started and are cared on by non-staff groups and some have even been laid-down because of interactions with staff was…
NotNewYork's Bob Doto: Create a new space for... →
When confronted with a situation whereby a person or group’s ethics will be seriously compromised, that is, altered beyond the scope of acceptability, I have found it best to find ways setting up…
“:If Harvard were really the best education, if it makes that much of a...”
– Paypal’s Peter Thiel in TechCrunch: Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.
“I disagree with the idea you can convert churches into cash to pay people to...”
– Leah Vassallo of Save St Marys, in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Bishop Joseph Galante struggles with change in Camden’s Roman Catholic Diocese.
“If you’re a fifteen-year-old kid playing in a punk band and the local club won’t...”
– Money, Simplicity, and Embracing New Paradigms // Quaker Tuition Follow-up | NOT NEW YORK
Danny Coleman: An atheist reaction to Christian... →
There was a period of time when I was actively involved in dialogs and debates with hardcore atheists, via a web discussion forum called “The Raving Atheist.” What I found was that what the majority of atheists were really rejecting was the form of Christianity they had encountered (typically fundamentalism or Catholicism). Many had been deeply wounded by the church. The general view...
The Lamb's War: A Burning Fire →
What happened to the fire that drove early Friends to cross oceans? How many of our Meetings actively support the spread of the good news that Jesus Christ is here to teach us himself? We are often…
British Quakers to boycott products from Israeli... →
Quakers in Britain have agreed to boycott products from the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The settlements are illegal under international law. Quakers consider that this boycott is a…
Cherice B shares Quaker DIY stories →
For my work among Friends, technology has also been really helpful. Joel and I were the full group gathering coordinators for the World Gathering of Young Friends 2005, and we couldn’t have done…
Pavel Marušinec on Czech Friends →
I am from one of few countries in the world (Czech Republic), where majority of people do not have any religious affiliation. I started to search [and] found something about Quakers (reading for…
Doug Bennett: Simplicity and/or Quaker Education →
It is difficult to provide a quality education, Quaker or not, inexpensively. Does that undercut the possibility of living with simplicity? Certainly it makes it more difficult. But education is…
James C Schultz: Dung me Lord, dung me →
The bible tells us that unless the Lord builds the house all who labor do so in vain. Like that fig tree we are in need of constant fertilization if we are going to bear fruit. Some of us attend…
Brad Ogilvie: The Fragmentation of Friends? →
I see a pattern emerging among Friends that is immensely disturbing to me. There seems to be a drawing of lines along wealth and generations that is somewhat convoluted, and all are driven by the…
Danny Coleman: The Kingdom, the Gospel and Gospel... →
George Fox wrote this: “…the Kingdom of God, which most people talk of at a distance, and refer altogether to another life, is in some measure to be known and entered into in this life…” He…
[Camden Courier Post] Bishop: Real change coming →
Bishop starts laying out his real agenda: “The mergers have been like the process of clearing the fields,” Galante said at a ceremony that announced a partnership between the diocese and Villanova…
SLAPP Back →
On the Media had an interesting show on SLAPP lawsuits—meritless suits filed to intimidate critics. These days they often target bloggers. Interesting advice: many homeowner insurance companies provide additional coverage for defamation for only a few dollars a year.
Earlham College Pres Doug Bennett on NYTimes... →
The Times article isn’t especially thoughtful about the controversy. It names some issues that have been in contention, but doesn’t explore that the relationship should be between a church and a…
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Commercial free Internet radio →
One of my fav internet stations is Deeper into Music. Give them a listen!
WatchReligion prof Stephen Prothero tells Colbert about Friends, who liken us to a ride on a city bus. This inspired a Twitter meme called #quakerbuses :
“The main reason why Orthodoxy is so attractive to converts, at least to this...”
– “Crunchycon” Religion journalist Rod Dreher, What’s so appealing about Orthodoxy?