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Another Quaker bookstore bites the dust
Not really news, but Friends United Meeting recently dedicated their new Welcome Center in what was once the FUM bookstore: On September 15, 2007, FUM dedicated the space once used as the Quaker Hill...
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Lessons in Social Media from Egyptian Protesters
A few days ago the NYTimes ran a fascinating early look-back at the relationship between social media and the largely-nonviolent revolution in Egypt written by David D Kirkpatrick and David E Sanger. I...
View ArticleReligion in the mainstream press
They default to the same boring tropes, says Amy Levin at TheRevealer: Religious wars, religious dress, religious money – these are the real and yet superbly complex elements of our cultural existence....
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A modern-day Commonplace Book?
From a post by Jamie Todd Rubin, \”Going Paperless: How Penultimate and Evernote Have Replaced My Pocket Notebook,\” I\’ve learned the concept of the \”Commonplace Book,\” which he attributes it to...
View ArticlePreaching our lives over the interwebs
Hello Jon, A.J. and Wess, So we’ve been asked to write a “synchroblog” organized by Quaker Voluntary Service. It is a weekday and there are work deadlines looming for me (there are always deadlines...
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This is how free speech gets shut down. #BoeingGate
Earlier today Donald Trump tweeted that Boeing was spending $4 billion dollars to renovate Air Force One. He was off the facts by orders of magnitude but that doesn’t mean he didn’t know knew exactly...
View ArticleThe inside story of The Jersey Shutdown, 2017
The Chris Christie beach memes are funny of course but I talked to more than a few local residents who wondered what the state shutdown was about. The Star Ledger has gone deep and interviewed the...
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Of Theo, threats and selective press quoting
The Baby Theo blog got a mention in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, It’s almost as good as being there, by Kathy Boccella. They missed out on a huge ratings bonanza by not picking Theo for their...
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Another Quaker bookstore bites the dust
Not really news, but Friends United Meeting recently dedicated their new Welcome Center in what was once the FUM bookstore: On September 15, 2007, FUM dedicated the space once used as the Quaker Hill...
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Quaker historic ocean of zen calm silence
The Young Quaker Podcast in the UK recently had an episode in which they had a mic run through 30 minutes of silent worship. I must admit I kind of laughed at the John Cage’ness of it. But it’s...
View ArticleFoxy George
Reader Carl Abbott of Multnomah Meeting in Portand, Oregon, wrote in with a bit more context about the local public school that’s shedding it’s Quaker mascot: The Franklin High mascot issue was very...
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Hey y’all, let’s start a blog!
Okay, it’s not specifically Quaker–it’s not actually at all Quaker–but I like the thinking behind Why You Should Start a Blog in 2019 by Ernie Smith in Tedium. Long-time readers will know I usually...
View ArticleChoose Democracy project getting more press
George Lakey’s campaign to prepare nonviolent activists for a possible coup attempt has made New Yorker and Buzzfeed. In August, Lakey helped form a group called Choose Democracy that has been...
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