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Georges And Trayvons
Over on Mobtownblues, Kevin Griffin Moreno cops to being George Zimmerman. Thankfully, he’s not: when feeling threatened in a recent situation with racial overtones, he chose to walk away, but it is...
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Desert temptations
Yesterday I was home with the kids on comp time and got to participate in their religion session (my wife keeps them to a schedule in the summers and religion makes for a quiet half hour midday). My 9...
View ArticleQuaker Folkways and Being Patterns on the Interwebs
Last Sunday I have a presentation to Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting’s adult First-day school class about “Sharing the Good News with Social Media.” As I prepared I found I was less and less interested in...
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Digging into the first selfie, from Philly!
This guy in Streetview is standing near the spot where the world’s first #selfie portrait was taken in 1839. Robert Cornelius was one of the first people to try to reproduce Louis Daguerre’s...
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Black with a capital B
It’s been a long-running debate in editorial circles: whether to capitalize ‘black’ and ‘white’ in print publications when referring to groups of people. I remember discussions about it in the early...
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The Quaker Art of Dying?
Hopewell Cemetery, Winslow Township N.J. One of the many South Jersey Quaker burial grounds on long-bypassed country roads. The meetinghouse that was here is long gone. We’re now casting about for...
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Easy Prey
This passage from Ezekiel struck me this evening: What sorrow awaits you shepherds who feed yourselves instead of your flocks. Shouldn’t shepherds feed their sheep?.. You have not tended the sick or...
View ArticleAsk Me Anything: Do Quakers celebrate Easter and if so, how?
A question From Jessica F about Friends and Easter. On the face of it, this is an easy question. Early Friends were loath to recognize any liturgical practices and they were lower-p puritanical about...
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Profiting on empire
We think of slavery as issue that tore Friends apart as the consensus on its acceptability shifted in our religious society. A review of a book shows that in the U.K., gun manufacturing underwent this...
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Words and Wounds: Reflections from Britain Yearly Meeting
Words and Wounds: Reflections from Britain Yearly Meeting I was particularly moved by the presence of our international Quaker visitors. To travel all that way just for our little gathering! It struck...
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Henry Cadbury’s 1934 speech and us
In 1934, Philadelphia Friend and co-founder of the American Friends Service Committee Henry Cadbury gave a speech to a conference of American rabbis in which he urged them to call off a boycott of Nazi...
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The freedom to seek sanctuary
From Lucy Duncan at the American Friends Service Commitee: What if, instead of characterizing folks seeking home as “threats” or “invaders,” we understood them to be our neighbors, that our futures are...
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