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Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has a page devoted to issues of faith...

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has a page devoted to issues of faith and next year's presidential elections. Embedded Link 2012 Presidential Candidates Religious Backgrounds | Pew Forum on...

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The January issue of +Friends Journal will include an interview with +Robin...

The January issue of +Friends Journal will include an interview with +Robin Mohr. One of the classic Quaker tracts that's inspired her is a 1944 speech that Rufus M Jones gave to young Friends in...

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Rethinking Blogs

In last weekend’s NYTimes Magazine, Michael Erard writes about the history of online comments. Even though I was involved with blogging from its earliest days, it surprised me to remember that...

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Preaching 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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Remembering Juanita Nelson

One of the coolest activists of her (or any) generation is gone. Juanita Nelson’s obituary is up on the national war tax coalition’s site. My favorite Juanita story was when some agents came to arrest...

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Friends on Giving

The new issue of Friends Journal is available online. This month looks at Giving and Philanthropy. There's some good reflections from Friends on why they give to the causes and institutions they do....

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The demise of online subcultures?

An interesting profile of a niche community affected by the shift of attention from community-led sites to Facebook, “How Facebook – the Wal-Mart of the internet – dismantled online subcultures.” Over...

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Adele’s Raw Mic Feed From Her ‘SNL’ Performance Leaked

Somehow the raw mic feed from Adele’s “SNL” performance appears to have found its way online, and it’s pretty incredible. You can hear the faint instrumentals in the background, but besides that it’s...

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The January issue of +Friends Journal will include an interview with +Robin...

The January issue of +Friends Journal will include an interview with +Robin Mohr. One of the classic Quaker tracts that’s inspired her is a 1944 speech that Rufus M Jones gave to young Friends in...

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November Flashbacks

Once a month I’m doing flashbacks to past eras in my blog. One Year Ago: November 2016 A year ago the shock to the system was Trump’s election. One reaction of mine was a promise to blog more; I set up...

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Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has a page devoted to issues of faith...

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has a page devoted to issues of faith and next year’s presidential elections. Embedded Link 2012 Presidential Candidates Religious Backgrounds | Pew Forum on...

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The January issue of +Friends Journal will include an interview with +Robin...

The January issue of +Friends Journal will include an interview with +Robin Mohr. One of the classic Quaker tracts that’s inspired her is a 1944 speech that Rufus M Jones gave to young Friends in...

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What does normalization mean for Quaker process?

The March issue of Friends Journal dropped online last week (and will soon hit mailboxes) and the first featured article is from Mike Merryman-Lotze, AFSC’s Middle East Program director, and looks at...

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Whassup Quaker Internet?

The August issue of Friends Journal will look at “Going Viral with Quakerism.” I wrote an Editor’s Desk post with some ideas of topics I’d love to see and some queries: Do we have a vision of what kind...

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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...

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What are Quaker Values? Here are some answers.

A new issue of Friends Journal is up online: “What Are Quaker Values Anyway?” The phrase “Quaker values” has become a common way to explain our connection to one another but I wonder if we’re using it...

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A Racially Diverse Society of Friends?

The January issue of Friends Journal is online. I wrote the intro this month so I’ll just quote myself: In recent years, a number of Black Friends Journal contributors have shared heartbreaking stories...

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Help keep the work going!

If you spend much time online you’ll know that there’s a lot of noise and bad information on the Internet. This is true with Quaker material too. Every day I’m scanning the corners of the net to find...

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Is Quaker Culture an Obstacle to Faith?

From Isaac Smith: I have tended to describe this shift in understanding as the moment when Quakerism “clicked” for me—when it ceased to be just the weird subculture I grew up in, and more a matter of...

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A Quaker’s guide to online worship and meetings to the model safeguarding policy

From Woodbrooke in the UK, a 65-page PDF guide to hosting online Quaker worship. Very detailed and useful. A Quaker’s Guide (PDF)

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