Strangers to the Covenant
A workshop led by Zachary Moon and Martin Kelley at the 2005 FGC Gathering of Friends. This is for Young Friends who want to break into the power of Quakerism: it’s the stuff you didn’t get in First...
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A walk around the Occupy Philly encampment
There's a different feel since I last visited--it's quieter and more lived-in. Less a protest and more a small town. Services are organized and there's less people standing with signs and taking each...
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“The drafters of the statement included Quaker Symon Hill who has written of…
"The drafters of the statement included Quaker Symon Hill who has written of the statement: “As one of the drafters of the statement, I want to make clear that we want to act in solidarity with people...
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Occupy Philly as urban form http://philadelphia2050.blogspot.com/2011/11/photopost-occupy-philly-as-spontaneous.html Google+: View post on Google+
View ArticleKevin C T on the politics of the DC occupiers and differences from the Civil...
Kevin C T on the politics of the DC occupiers and differences from the Civil Rights movement. http://cabaretic.blogspot.com/2011/11/occupy-movement-needs-good-sales-pitch.html
View ArticleTorching Meetinghouses Ctd.
Apparently Micah Bales wasn’t calling for twenty-something Friends to engage in a reign of terror, of kerosene and matches. He was engaging in something called he calls metaphor. Micah reminds us that...
View ArticleThe Bean Defense
Readers might remember the field day I had a few weeks ago when US occupying forces announced they had uncovered a cache of beans. They claimed Saddam Hussein had stockpiled a few hundred bags of...
View ArticleBlueprint for a Mess, the planning behind the U.S. occupation
For those asleep for the past two years, the _New York Times Magazine_ has a long article by David Rieff, “Blueprint for a Mess”:www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/magazine/02iraq.html, that looks at ongoing...
View ArticleThe Passion of Uncomfortable Orthodoxies: Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ”
Mel Gibson’s movie _The Passion of Christ_ is a challenge for many modern Quakers. Most of the rich metaphors of co-mingled joy and suffering of the early Friends have been dumbed-down to feel-good...
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