Preparing for the talk, Eileen Flanagan book reading.
Book reading audience, Eileen Flanagan book reading.
I wasn’t the only photographer! Eileen Flanagan book reading.
Discussion over hors d’oeuvres, Eileen Flanagan book reading.
Wisdom to Know the Difference book reading:
Quaker blogger Eileen Flanagan (Imperfect Serenity) gives a reading from her new book The Wisdom to Know the Difference in the Big Blue Marble bookstore in Philadelphia’s Mt Airy section.
The morning after this talk Eileen wrote a post “Eight Things I’ve Learned (So Far) About Giving a Book Talk.”
Recently, however, there has been an uncomfortable sense that God is calling us to make and advocate for changes more difficult and radical than adding solar panels or a green roof…. The willingness to confront both our own failings and the ways of the prevailing culture are among the qualities that have enabled Quakers to influence history out of proportion to our numbers.
From a British blogger:
There’s no cosy way of saying this. David Boulton, the “humanist and Quaker” author of The Trouble with God: Building the Republic of Heaven, has written an anti-Quaker book. The Trouble with God is not a work of Quaker universalism; it’s not Quaker humanism; it’s not Quaker atheism or Quaker non-theism or Quaker agnosticism. It’s not Quaker anything. It’s anti-Quaker. It’s against any and all sorts of Quaker testimony or subdivisional -ism.
Book: You Will Go to the Moon: Theo just picked this up. From 1959. The moon buggies look like some kind of Prius hotrods!
When I picked it up in the bookstore, I was worried that it just be a trainwreck of cultural conflict, but flipping through it was clear the train stayed on the tracks. In fact, it’s easily the best…
