August 2011
Emerging Diana A Portraiture of Quakerism, I →
A recurring question in contemporary Quakerism in this: Should we be more of a “peculiar” people? Some Quakers do adopt plain dress and use “thee” and “thou.” I have no objection to these kinds of…
Tim McGeary: A Visitor Among Friends →
My soul has been longing for something new, and the fundamentalist Christian world I came from ceased having all the answers. I’ve soaked up many books aiming new ideas on faith, doubt, and…
RT @nbc40weather: Almost 15,000 Atlantic City Electric customers without power…78 active outages throughout South Jersey.
Sadie Forsythe on the crossroads of Young Adult... →
Young adults have been the leaders in many social and religious movements throughout history, including many influential times in our past as Quakers. I see that happening in exciting ways today,…
I like that twitter’s doing pictures, but few of mine get listed. Will this random one display? http://t.co/pBGZSVb
“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple...”
– Steve Job, in Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes - Digits - WSJ
“Apple has been so innovative because Jobs takes major risks, which is rare in...”
– Steve Jobs biographer Alan Deutschman, in Jobs Steps Down at Apple, Saying He Can’t Meet Duties in the NYTimes.
More from self-indulgent curiosity, I went to GMaps to get a distance of yesterday’s post-#eastquake walk: 4.2 miles.
Will T on a potentially controversial committee... →
It was clear that this change could become a flash point for all of the tensions in the Yearly Meeting between Christian and non-Christian Friends. The first speaker was a well-known Christian and…
RT @quakerquaker: Will T on a potentially controversial committee name change at New England YM http://t.co/08SG8QD #quakers
Becky Memmelaar: Big Tent Quakerism →
‘Big Tent’ evokes the image of the revival tent that folks used to set up just outside of town. Here differences were (in theory) set aside while people sought transformation and a new direction in…
Quaker poets – Listen to Them Breathing →
The programme elegantly draws out intersecting lines between Quaker worship and poetry, that have taken some of the poets interviewed years to discern. Philip Gross says: ‘I spent twenty years…
RT @friendsjournal: Excited to announce upcoming focus topics for Friends Journal. Which issues are you most looking forward to? Link.
“You’d much rather see Apple spend some of that $4 billion on new...”
– On the patent wars
I hate how rice on the stove goes from barely steamy to bubbling over in less than two status updates.
Micah Bales: Ohio YM minute on continuing... →
Despite the challenge of facing head-on our varied understandings of human sexuality, we were able to not only confess our disagreements in the matter, but also to agree to continue the work of…
Weapons of Mass Stink returns - A New York Times headline warns that al Qaeda operatives in Yemen are trying… http://t.co/qBlITQY
Wess Daniels: Reading the Bible for Transformation →
. Our approach to the bible needs to be completely different. It needs to be not in searching for justification for prior ideas mind, but rather as a means of transformation of ourselves as Fox…
Weapons of Mass Stink returns →
A New York Times headline warns that al Qaeda operatives in Yemen are trying to make biological weapons from castor beans. Sounded familiar so I did a quick search of the old Nonviolence.org (RIP) archives and see that a similar claim of a plot was one of the WMD threats we were told the Iraqis were working on.
Minding the Light Journal: When has your longing... →
Minding the Light is a bimonthly collection of personal stories from the lives of members and attenders of West Hills Friends. Each issue is organized around a query. Our stories affirm the Quaker…
It feels somehow unfair that climate change is hitting soybeans. What about all us righteous vegans and our tofu? http://nyti.ms/rmJIx4
Quakernomics: Low carbon future for British... →
The decision is rooted in Quakers’ longstanding work for a peaceful and more equal world. Quakers understand that many global problems are connected: speakers during the week highlighted the fact…
Power and politics in Anonymous →
“To understand the dynamics of power and authority in Anonymous one must confront what is one of the most interesting, prevalent, and socially-vibrant norms within Anonymous: its anti-leader and anti-celebrity ethic. This ethic that modulates, even if it does not fully eliminate, the concentration of power. Anonymous provides what Mike Wesch had described as “a scathing critique of the...