July 2011
Sometimes my multi-tasking becomes multi-forgetting.
The internet is officially awesome. I was just able to double-check the wording on a 1675 advice from New England Friends.
Valerie Hurwit on momentous Indiana Yearly Meeting... →
Tags: quaker quaker.fum quaker.liberal quaker.indiana
A Connecticut cougar was well traveled: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/nyregion/wild-cougar-traveled-east-1500-miles-tests-find.xml
OMG, if you have a Roku player and Android this will blow you away. http://bit.ly/qkJE99
Noah Baker Merrill: Where Is the Life? →
Another way of understanding being a Friend has two parts. One is to affirm the near-infinite diversity and subtlety of the ways we can experience that which transcends any of our words or…
Following some guy out onto the water http://goo.gl/fb/Zz4rD
Allistair Lomax: Quaker Worship and 'Centering... →
I was recently asked a question about the term ‘to center down’ in the context of Quaker worship, and whether, as a phrase, it had been used by early Friends. A few checks confirmed my suspicions…
I’m really not sure we do need another social network after all. My Twitter and Facebook feeds are just Weather Channel reposts.
The search for the stereotypical gay accent →
I’m sure this is terribly over-simplified but it’s interesting in a language geeky way: “A recent paper in American Speech argues that American gay male voices tend towards the vowels of California. I
Rachel Held on God's presence →
“As a defense mechanism, we tend to elevate our own lifestyles as God’s will for all women everywhere. If God’s presence is here, we reason, it must not be there.”
Thanks to the new and improved Google Shopper I’ve learned I can get a discount in pole dancing lessons 27 miles away.
Just saw Cars 2, thought it was okay. Not as bad as I feared but not as good as it should have been.
Wess Daniels: Smoke and Mirrors, Authenticity and... →
Like Magicians who use a combination of timing, trick, and distraction to create the illusion of something magical taking place, the church in Fox’s time, and dare we say in our own, often succumbs…
Carl Williams: Unity among Friends →
our strength. Coming together to know each other as sisters and brothers, is how to find that strength. Wha Religious Society of Friends together is travel among o gatherings, like the upcoming…
I don’t care what y’all think, it’s a Blondie Friday.
Iris G: Telling Our Spiritual Stories →
Stories. They’re the best way I know to describe the indescribable Divine presence, and they’re often the way I encounter the Divine in others. So it’s no surprise that I’m drawn to a faith…
Thanks to Foursquare I know one neighbor dubs himself Action Man Ed & another calls their pool The Tiki Bar at D’Agostino’s. #smalltown2.0
Anna Obermayer on recent retreats of the New York... →
Our recent youth retreats have gone incredibly well also. We had a High School retreat on Gender and Sexuality called “He, She, Ze… Me?” in which we were blessed with the presence of some…
“Group 9 art!!!!” by Theo http://picplz.com/0hZq
Best wishes to the world’s newest country! http://t.co/Qo9BUpC
Micah Bales travels among Friends in the U.K. and... →
Feeling very blessed by the opportunities the Lord had opened for me in England, I took my leave of British Friends to continue on to Africa. Earlham School of Religion, where I work as Coordinator…
RT @skry: Usability is not just a matter of whether the users can find and press the button, it’s whether they hate you afterward or not.