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Blogs that talk about all the various types of diversity as related to Friends: race, class, age and gender to name a few.

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Emerging Diane: Two evangelical Baltimore meetings

Ken, Sophie an. attended not one, but two, Evangelical Friends churches in Baltimore. Oh what an adventure!chrismsf 2009-05-07T19:59:16Z

Cherice asks questions at youth ministry forum, day 3

It seems to me like we need to start doing something big a. Society of Friends. Something that will address the divide between "us" and "them," us who give and are so generous to those needy people, who are only needy because the wa. live and earn money and buy things cheaply is because they are not paid adequately or treated justly... How can we stand up against the oppression that happens every day in our country and bec

Cherice at a forum on youth ministry

I went t. workshop on "the empowering mosaic," meaning encouraging diversity in our faith communities.chrismsf 2009-04-28T16:09:07Z

Robin reports from FWCC in Canby, Oregon

I chose worship sharing in Spanish again, and it stretches my mind and my spirit greatly to do that, bu. think it's good for the Latin Americans to be the fluent ones and folks like me to be the ones stumbling, groping for words to express something important to us.chrismsf 2009-03-20T19:30:47Z

How'd I End Up Here? Amy on a day spent in worship

"I spent yesterday at NYYM Meeting for Discernment. It wa. long day... My daughter, who had been invited to act a. elder for the meeting, was give. message early in the day..." plus Amy reflects on Quakers and class.chrismsf 2009-03-19T20:09:21Z

Betsy B: Quakers & Gender Equality

It has almost been enough to make me want to give up at times and become some version o. secluded, misguided Quaker nun. Yet giving up on men—roughly half the world’s population—or the possibility of Truth revealing itself through the Christian experience seems lik. vastly limiting and sad resolve.martin_kelley 2009-02-27T22:41:26Z

Wha'd Julian: when diversity is not just tolerated but needed

Part of what young people, people of color, and all of our other visitors are looking for i. community where the things they can contribute are not only treated with respect, but treated as something truly needed and wanted by the community. It's okay to tell us that some of our contributions to the community are not helpful, but that needs to be balanced with help and encouragement in making contributions that are helpful.martin_kelley 20

Social Class Jeanne on sanctimonious Friends and songs

More than once I've been a. Quaker sing and someone suggests Little Boxes. Smiles spread through the room like The Wave at the Metrodome and we sing loudly and look around as if we were saying to each other, "What in the world are those people thinking, why would they choose to march in lock-step with each other in the suburbs." And unspoken, because we'd never say suc. thing, "Idiots."martin_kelley 2009-01-11T02

EarthQuaker Carl expresses his gratitude

The underlying issue is one of how the church can be relevant i. post-modern, pluralist society. The only way forward is with compassion on all sides. Christ’s teaching and example will never be irrelevant. God is not changeable, though our understanding is.chrismsf 2008-12-03T01:20:33Z

What Are We Advancing

in NYYM newsletter, Rich of Brooklyn Quaker says advancement is more than publicity or membership recruiting.Richquaker 2008-12-02T22:32:41Z

Quakerism Explained to a Roman Catholic Audience

A talk given in January 2006.Richquaker 2008-12-01T20:58:56Z

Wapo: Obama kids going to Sidwell Friends

Coverage stresses elitism: Continuin. tradition among Washington's power elite, President-elect Barack Obama and his wife have decided to send their kids to Sidwell Friends School. It is believed that Sidwell's experience with handling the security and privacy of the children of government leaders playe. role. President Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia went to Sidwell. Vice President Al Gore's son, Albert Gore III, graduate

Social Class and Quakers: A Start at the Kingdom

Guest post by Eric Evans. often hear Quakers talk about “choices”... How do we consider what it would be like to grow up withou. sense of choices or alternatives?chrismsf 2008-11-17T20:04:49Z

Jeanne wonders what alternatives Quakers offer to military recruiting

and what is the "other side" all the middle and owning class Quakers are offering poor and working class high school studentschrismsf 2008-09-06T04:17:03Z

Jeanne reports on interest group at FGC Gathering on Quakers and social class

Standing before the interest group felt easier than any group I've experienced. felt such deep care and love for each person in the room the whole two hours.chrismsf 2008-07-12T01:39:59Z

Doug Gwyn on class & Quaker worship via Chris M

There i. popular notion, even among some Friends, that the Quaker "brand" of worship is not for everyone; that it require. cool, detached, middle- to upper-middle class Anglo-American temperament. [This notion] constitute. terrible misunderstandingmartin_kelley 2008-04-20T15:45:45Z

Video: Philadelphia Quaker on life in interracial community in US South in 1950s

Sue Angry lived i. pioneering interracial community in Georgia until gunfire and racist threats forced her to come north for shelter and support. (Follow link to related article).martin_kelley 2008-03-15T03:15:01Z

Peterson Toscano on defensive shields around diversity work

I know we have work to do in our meetings around heterosexism and even homophobia. But when the shields go up--We have already dealt with that stuff--then the meetings can grow stagnant with some people feeling silenced or marginalized.martin_kelley 2008-03-13T20:51:18Z

Jeanne with what class diversity offers Friends

Poor and working class values can help the Meeting community. We are hard workers, we bring the perspective of the not-so-privileged to committee work and MfWfB, and we can refocus conversation away from process and toward tasks.martin_kelley 2008-03-12T21:13:48Z