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Are We More Than Our Demographics?
One of the things that is intriguing me lately is the nature of Quaker debate. There are half a dozen seemingly-perennial political issues around which Friends in my circles have very strong opinions...
View ArticleLast weekend I was invited to speak to Abington (Pa.) Meeting's First-day...
Last weekend I was invited to speak to Abington (Pa.) Meeting's First-day school (n.b. proper FJ stylesheet) to talk about vocal ministry in worship. I haven't been to worship at that meeting for eons...
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Overnight camping at Fort Delaware on the Delaware River’s Pea Patch Island.
Earlier this month we took a family trip to the “Three Forts” along the lower Delaware—Fort DuPont on the Delaware side, Fort Mott in New Jersey, and Fort Delaware right in the middle (okay, it’s...
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Pareto opportunities for Friends?
Nate Silver recently ran a piece on Marco Rubio’s presidential chances has used the previously-unknown-to-me concept of the “Pareto frontier” to line up potential candidates: In economics, there’s a...
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Upcoming FJ submission: “Quaker Spaces”
I’ve been meaning to get more into the habit of sharing upcoming Friends Journal issue themes. We started focusing on themed issues back around 2012 as a way to bring some diversity to our subject...
View ArticleCast out by the Quakers, Abington’s abolitionist dwarf finally has his day
A nice story on the belated recognition being given abolitionist stalwart and political prankster Benjamin Lay up at Abington Meeting in Pennsylvania (my first meeting!): About 12 years ago, the...
View ArticlePhotons Don’t Phail
A few weeks ago I wrote about a New England Friends meeting that was working to share the electricity generated by its solar panels with its neighbors. In response, one of our longtime blogging Friends...
View ArticleIntroduction to “The Christian Universalism of George Fox”
Introduction to “The Christian Universalism of George Fox” Since Benson’s time, denominational-mindedness has gained ground among Quakers, and a diversity of philosophies is now seen as valid not only...
View ArticleDoug Gwyn on QuakerSpeak: What Does Quakerism Teach About Connecting to Nature?
A new video from Quaker historian Gwyn: Connecting with nature is about more than just exercise or tranquility. As Quaker author Doug Gwyn shares, even in the 17th century, Quakers were concerned about...
View ArticlePatricia Dallmann’s observations of Matthew 17
A fishy story: This isn’t your ordinary fish story, though it is incredible. Nevertheless, there’s a lesson about reality being taught here, a lesson to be confirmed by experience alone. For the...
View ArticleBritish Friends survey on diversity
From Britain Yearly Meeting: What ways are we already diverse? Where do our strengths and weaknesses lie in terms of inclusion? Both these questions need to be answered if we are to understand the...
View ArticleThe 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...
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