Contributor Instructions

Posts to the homepage can only be added by the QuakerQuaker team, a group hand-picked by Martin. But each category page is now wide-open.

Posts you highlight should be explicitly Quaker and explain how Quakerism fits into the issue at hand. I don't want posts that go "I am a Quaker therefore of course I'm a pacifist therefore let me tell you want I think of President Bush" but rather "I am a Quaker and this is how I understand why it leads me to pacifism." There's probably no single testimony or cultural value that transcends the worldwide community of Friends. If we're going to communicate we need to be mindful of this and take the time to always draw out the connections between our faith and practice -- what we believe and how that influences our lives and values.

So you want to contribute? First, go to http://del.icio.us and open up one of their free accounts. You'll want to set up a button somewhere on your browser, so that you can click on it when you find a page you like. You can also have it be its own browser button if you go to http://del.icio.us/help/buttons.

When you run across a post that you think others should see, you should bookmark it in Del.icio.us. Rewrite the title so it's interesting and cut-and-paste a thoughtful quote out of the blog's body to put in the description field. Give the bookmark a tag that reads "quaker.category" (substituting the real category name of course!). For example, tagging a post "quaker.liberal" will send it up to the "Liberal Quakers" page.

Don't try to dominate any one category and don't use it as a bully pulpit. If you have strong opinions about the post (and I hope you do!), start a blog of your own and post your commentary there.

Please feel free to bookmark your own posts in these categories. This is actually a good way of letting people know what you're writing.