July 2011
June 2011
New Blog: Liberalquakers.org →
James Riemermann of Nontheistfriends.org has launched a new site to share his vision of Liberal Quakers, a community “where radical inclusion meets diverse spiritual experience.” Tags: quaker
A once-confused seeker shares differences between... →
We had jpoined up with a group that did not draw on the bible for their services or discussions. I know this now, but at the time I really began to question why they were distanceing themselves…
And then my poor blueberry rolled out the door… well or was pushed for the sake of the musical narrative! http://picplz.com/B5s7
“Communities, like families, can be healthy or toxic, but western individualism...”
– Gregory Wolfe, “Religious but Not Spiritual,” Image, Winter 2010-11.
“Communities, like families, can be healthy or toxic, but western individualism...”
“Communities, like families, can be healthy or toxic, but western individualism...”
– Gregory Wolfe, “Religious but Not Spiritual,” Image, Winter 2010-11.
“Communities, like families, can be healthy or toxic, but western individualism...”
– Gregory Wolfe, “Religious but Not Spiritual,” Image, Winter 2010-11.
“Communities, like families, can be healthy or toxic, but western individualism...”
– Gregory Wolfe, “Religious but Not Spiritual,” Image, Winter 2010-11.
“Communities, like families, can be healthy or toxic, but western individualism...”
– Gregory Wolfe, “Religious but Not Spiritual,” Image, Winter 2010-11.
“Communities, like families, can be healthy or toxic, but western individualism...”
– Gregory Wolfe, “Religious but Not Spiritual,” Image, Winter 2010-11.
I really should start a s### my wife says tumblr…
Poor blog http://goo.gl/fb/h6hYK
Tall Skinny Kiwi: Special needs children in church →
“If Elevation Church can’t handle a special needs child in their distraction-free seeker sensitve service, then how the heck will they put up with my Pentecostal friends from Brazil?? Now that’s some yellin’ and whoopin’. I tell ya!”
Laura Ziesel on not fitting in →
I realized today that my hatred of being torn between these two perceived camps has created a new category of real Christians in my (ever so self-absorbed) mind: Real Christians are those who don’t feel at home in either conservative or liberal camps. Now I think everyone is questionable and few have found The Way.
Walmart on a Friday night in picking season. English might just have been the third most common language.
Ashley W: Why record women ministers? →
If the only models of ministers are men, we may miss the ways that women are expressing their gifts of ministry. This impoverishes our meetings and deprives women who are young in the ministry of…
In my mind the closing line of the “Elmo’s World” song is now “Yooooou’re almoooost laate!”… for the train.
Sheffield Quakers: Busyness →
Our life is love, and peace and tenderness. We do not need to be good to give or receive love, we do not need to feed people to feel loved. Love does not need an object –love is. Tags: quaker
Harriet Hart: Young Friends learning from our... →
Tags: quaker quaker.youth quaker.convergent quaker.britainym
RT @timoreilly: Atlantic piece about @ladygaga’s take on religion http://bit.ly/lW3sup via @jamesoreilly Trying to figure what this mean …
Micah Bales: Native American Quakerism at Great... →
Great Plains Yearly Meeting this year gave me much to think about, especially with regards to how our Quaker Christian faith plays out in different cultural contexts. What makes us Friends? Must we…
Soothed fussy baby back asleep around 1:30am. Today’s commute will feature sleep methinks.
Curious about the way Facebook commenting works on blogs. I’m trying a test install over on quackquack.org. Feel free to test it out with some comments!
“A religious publication must be the last to surrender to the pessimism that the...”
– Opening Editorial, Friends Journal, Volume 1, no. 1, July 2, 1955.
Adjusting to being a morning person. Or at least a morning train person…
[Gloucester County Times] St. Mary's of Malaga... →
arishioners have already realized the reality of the situation according to the vigiling sisters. In the end, after months or years of non-stop watch on the church, the church may still close.
“The…