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A New Creation Story
A nice piece on Philadelphia Friend O: For O., a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, carrying this query for pastoral ministry awakens joy in her heart. It raises important questions: Are...
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Creeds and stories
Isaac Smith was going to write something about creeds: I had been kicking around writing something on the uses and abuses of creeds in the Quaker tradition, but then I discovered that Ben Wood had...
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Facebook superposters and the loss of our own narrative
In the NYTimes, a fascinating piece on filter bubbles and the ability of Facebook “superposters” to dominate feeds, distort reality, and promote paranoia and violence. Superposters tend to be “more...
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At 95, Ned Rorem Is Done Composing. But He’s Not Done Living
The Times has a nice profile of the not-dead Pulitzer Prize composer and gay icon. The piece doesn’t mention his Quaker roots (he was born in Richmond, Indiana and raised as a Friend) but an embedded...
View ArticleLetter of condolence from Friends General Conference
FGC’s Central Committee is meeting this weekend and wrote a letter of condolences to Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, site of the recent shooting We are deeply saddened by the brutal slaying and...
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Kristallnacht, Kindertransport, and help for refugees
Quaker refugee work circa 1933: The reports gathered from the Jewish community in Germany by Quakers were of influence when Quakers accompanied the Jewish delegation who went to see Home Secretary Sir...
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Poking pigs?
Bucks County, Pa., Friend Norval Reece has a piece on fake and real news, with a great line from his mother: Polls and analysts confirm a growing trend for people to tune in almost exclusively to those...
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The Religious SocieChildren of Prophets or Children of Propheticide?
A strenuously and lengthily argued dunciation of the fallenness of modern Friends, this piece is argued almost exclusively from books. It’s interesting (and much of it is undeniably true) though the...
View ArticleWhat Does the Outside Say?
Also in Friends Journal’s issue, “Outside the Meetinghouse,” a piece from Brad Stocker of Miami Meeting in Florida: Most Friends have an understanding of the architectural message that our...
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