We Quakers should be cooler than the Sweat Lodge
I have just come back from a “Meeting for Listening for Sweat Lodge Concerns,” described as “an opportunity for persons to express their feelings in a worshipful manner about the cancellation of the...
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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 ArticleThe Messy Work Begins
One of the takeaways of this election this is that we’ve all siloed ourselves away in our self-selected Facebook feeds. We listen to most our news and hang out primarily with those who think and talk...
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The sobriety of Barclay: games, sports, and comedies
The sobriety of Barclay: games, sports, and comedies So here I am, reading detective novels, getting massages, listening to blues, and grieving the death of Harry Anderson. Are my recreations evidence...
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What do Quaker believe anyway?
Answer quickly: what are three things Quakers believe? Unless you’ve practiced an answer to this question, chances are you’ll end up with a lot of umm’s and ahh’s and sentences so built up with...
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Jeff Kisling: Resist not evil today
When looking back to Nazi Germany in the 1930s are we so sure God Could not have found a way? Henry Cadbury believed the Jewish people should have appealed to the German sense of justice and national...
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Isaac Smith on Quaker Faith & Podcast on Plainness
Thoughts after listening to the latest edition of the podcast: So we can imagine Mark Zuckerberg and his assistant both wearing t-shirts and jeans, but one of them buys from, say, DKNY or Kenneth Cole,...
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Somberly dressed men astride horses
Colonial-era Quakers weren’t all saints when it came to opposing slavery but there are some moments we afford to look back to with a smidge of pride. In 1783, a delegation from Philadelphia Yearly...
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The Doctrine of Discovery, white guilt, and Friends
Johan Maurer starts with “it’s complicated” and goes on from there. A passage I find particularly interesting is his explanation of why looking at large-scale state-level atrocities like the stealing...
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‘I would like to… make life kinder, freer and more respectful for for the...
An interview with British Friend Lucy-Anne Holmes: I’m sitting in a cafe in Potters Bar and listening to a Quaker telling me about an orgasm she had that felt like it could create world peace. Yes,...
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