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Noli Lynn: Social and civic responsibility--and blogging as activism?

There are some situations where blogging can b. real form of activism; you can see that both in the way countries like Iran try to contain their bloggers, and in the way politicians in the US try to appeal to netroots. But, on the other hand, fo. small time blogger like myself. lot of the time it feels more lik. hobby, eve. time sink, chatting with online friends, than real activism. Shoul. sometimes be getting off the blog, and doing

Dan Evans on guns and jesus and guns in churches

Whether followers of the teachings of Jesus must be pacifists i. good question, but is not the questio. want to address today. The question that concerns me today is whethe. true Christian should allow his love of his guns to interfere or compete with his love for God, or his love for his fellow man.martin_kelley 2009-06-29T15:30:06Z

Johan M: Using bibical realism to forge alliances against the Long War

The same skepticism that conservatives like to train on bleeding-heart idealists might also help creat. more critical and careful examination of wealth, power, the possibility of structural injustice, and the possibility that some enemies might even become friends--and at less expense than it would take to kill them. Both progressives and conservatives, unfortunately, get too caught up in their own identities, rather than using their philosophi

Quaker Take Timothy on Being Alone...or not.

[A] young man told me that he didn’t like to be alone.... Quakers have addressed this phenomenon. Fox, Penington and others in the first generation saw this as Christ, or the Light, or the Spirit working in us—showing us the parts of our lives, as manifested in these uncomfortable thoughts, that need to be addressed.chrismsf 2009-06-01T20:13:13Z

Gun Shop Protesters Acquitted

The twelve activists -- Quaker, Mennonite, Brethren, and others -- from the Heeding God's Call peace gathering who were arrested i. protest against gun violence in Philadelphia were acquitted. Links and info here.Friends.Journal 2009-05-27T14:15:30Z

New Site: Quaker Earthcare Witness

Quaker Earthcare Witness has just opened QEWnet.ning.com to all Friends after an experimental period.martin_kelley 2009-05-09T20:45:59Z

Walkin' Darcy in Monteverde, Costa Rica, on the Walk With Earth

Monteverde i. community in the cloud forest of Costa Rica, started b. few Quakers who moved there in 1951 after being jailed for refusing to sign up for the draft during the Korean war. They chose Costa Rica because it is the only nation withou. military and because the area of Monteverde wa. good place to move their dairy farming.chrismsf 2009-05-03T03:06:42Z

Emerging Diane: Paul Mills on Peace

I foun. box o. shelf in the Olney school library containing pamphlets about peace. One was called "The Bible and War" by Paul M. Mills. It was issued by Oregon Yearly Meeting, perhaps 1945... "The moral damage of war is worse than the physical." Do you agree?chrismsf 2009-04-23T05:02:51Z

Friendly Funnel wants us to claim Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin more loudly

Writing this has been more difficult for me tha. expected. It almost felt lik. wanted to write two different posts: one about how reading Rustin affected me, and one about ho. wish Quakers would mak. bigger deal out of Rustin.martin_kelley 2009-04-18T14:12:26Z

A Quaker Watering Hole: Being a NonQuaker Friend

I wanted to put all that into the report. wanted to say that we weren’t being what we were called to be. Whatever faith and power Early Friends had found, we didn’t want it!chrismsf 2009-04-16T04:29:29Z

Controversy about London's Friends House and Islamic Extremists

[Ed's Note: there i. lot of talk on this issue in various UK blogs and on the Britain YM discussion board] “Liberal hawk” website Harry’s Place attacks the managers of Friends House, the Quakers’ apostrophe-less London HQ in Euston Road, for allowing it to be used as the venue fo. public meeting with Hussein el-Hajj Hassan. Lebanese MP who is als. member of Hezbollah. Quakers, of course, are radical pacifists, and the Meeting House i

John Dear SJ on Loving our enemies: The people of Iran

A delegation of 20 American peacemakers planned to visit the much maligned nation of Iran in late February. Only six received visas. Among these were David Hartsough and Franciscan Fr. Louie Vitale... David, the delegation leader, i. long time Quaker peacemaker.chrismsf 2009-03-18T02:59:42Z

Anj on a Terrifying Thing...

“But,” she responded, “you make it so hard. Who holds your hand? Who tells you what you need to do? Who gives you the reading list?” "There are many meetings that are an inch deep an. mile wide. But we ar. meeting that is committed to bein. mile deep."chrismsf 2009-03-07T04:34:28Z

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

40 Year anti-war witness Quaker House looking at its history

This remarkable saga of persistent, creative peace action is full of implications for future work to end war and find alternatives to militarism.martin_kelley 2009-02-27T14:14:21Z

Lillian Willoughby, Quaker activist, dies at 93 | Philadelphia Daily News

She and her husband, George, dedicated Quakers, chased this impossible dream all over the world, conducting nonviolent protests against war and preparations for war for nearly 70 years.martin_kelley 2009-01-27T02:16:27Z

Aj Schwanz on doable spiritual community organizing vs future despair

These pictures give me something to move towards, something to look forward for, something to share with and promote in my community, something that gives me an option other than spending all my time rolling my homemade tortillas or all my money buyin. four-pound free-range organic grass-fed fryer chicken. My dilemma is still present, but at perhaps it’s forcing me to move toward. healthier, doable option.martin_kelley 2009-01-24T21:41:38Z

Can you believe Johan on transfers of power and not resorting to political cynicism

Christians should tell the truth about the powers and elites, but should never demonize the people in those places of power, even in the service of community organizing or to sound progressive. Evangelism is relationship-building. Those who have more power or wealth than they can spiritually handle are as much in bondage as the victims of their power; our Gospel invitation must extend to all. We cannot say "thou fool" to ANYONE without

Quaker Agitator gives an alternative invocation for the Obama Inaugural

Unprogammed/liberal members of the Religious Society of Friends like myself don’t traditionally go in for out-loud prayer. Sometimes during meeting for Worship, Friends will feel led to rise and give vocal ministry, and that ministry may come out in the form o. prayer. So I’m not really sure ho. Friend would deliver an inauguaral invocation, when the gathered crowd would be expecting an oral presentation of some kind. But i. was inclined to

Gregg K: would I have spoken up? What should I be speaking up about now?

Bein. pastor take. tremendous amount of self-definition to not be swayed by how people in the congregation respond (or how you think people will respond) t. particular issue. find myself often having strong, radical feelings about various issues, and am so aware of ho. church has so many pulls toward tempering those feelings.martin_kelley 2009-01-21T22:23:30Z