If we’re not participants in that promise and in that hope of a God present to us now, we are in a dead religion. If so, we’re in a religion of people who have come and gone; it does not belong to us; it is meaningless to us except as “pie in the sky by and by.” Tags: quaker evangelical oregon blogs http://dlvr.it/zJ4hD
The emerging church and mothering sites are what drew me initially into the blogosphere: daily I would check for new Quakes or young adults crying out for more authentic living and worship (and new funny ‘here’s the many colors of poo of my child today’ stories: when you’re sleep-deprived, they’re a hoot). As blogging’s become more normalized, posts feels very mechanical, formulaic. The topics are rehashed, and unless serious digging takes place, the grand sense is evangelical white males talking about oppression: something’s a bit off in that scenario.
From the blogger:
I want to reengage with my readers and with contemporary issues with a new series of posts on Jesus’ politics and, specifically, on the politics behind his words and actions in the last week of his prophetic ministry. By ‘politics’ I mean, in general, the relationships a person or a movement or community has with the institutions of power in their culture and with the people who wield that power.
Writing Cheerfully on the Web: A Quaker Blog Reader
Printed: 277 pages, 5.83” x 8.26”, perfect binding, black and white interior ink. Paperback: $19.98
Description: This book brings to print the online conversation that has been mending the historical schisms in Quakerism. The contemporary writing by 32 bloggers shatters the stereotypes of who the “real” Quakers are and points to the wholeness that is the Religious Society of Friends.
His description:
I see original Quakerism as essentially an unmasking and dethroning of that “normal” psychological self-metanarrative — i.e., the pervasive subliminal orientation toward self that seems to characterize the human condition — and a surrender to a new orientation toward what John Woolman called “universal love.” How that critical process is understood and accomplished is the principal theme I hope to explore here — with, no doubt, many digressions along the way.
What follows below are answers to what I suspect will be frequently asked questions regarding the creation of the book Writing Cheerfully on the Web: A Quaker Blog Reader.
“Meditations and Experiences” is devotional literature. Shewen presents 70 short thoughts, possibly shorter versions of messages given in worship, that describe the Quaker faith as he experienced it….
