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Martin Kelley

About Martin

Martin Profile PictureI'm a Quaker blogger, web designer and dad living about thirty miles outside Philadelphia in the South Jersey pine barrens. I'm a "convinced" Friend, walking into my first meetinghouse around the age of twenty. I'm a member of Atlantic City Area Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. I served on the staff of Friends General Conference for eight years and Friends Journal for two. Over the last twenty years I've worked on projects with FWCC, AFSC, FCE, PYM and pretty much every other Philadelphia-based Quaker acronym you can think of. I'm occasionally asked to lead workshops and give talks on Quakerism. I've been building Quakerish websites since 1995 and have been blogging since 1998.

I'm the founder and publisher of QuakerQuaker.org. It started around 2003 as a sidebar of my personal blog where I highlighted the day's interesting links. In 2005 I was awarded recognition and a modest grant from the Clarence and Lilly Pickett Endowment for Quaker Leadership to turn it into an online magazine (dubbed QuakerQuaker after a 2003 essay). In 2008 it was reborn yet again as a Ning-powered social media network.

I still occasionally write as the Quaker Ranter and I have a tech blog at MartinKelley.com. You see the daily flow of odds and ends that come across my screen at my "lifestream" blog QuackQuack. Yes, I'm on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

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My bread and butter is web design. If you like the kind of work you see here, then call or email me. From small business to personal blog to nonprofit social media I can work with you to get your ideas online. Check me out at QuakerDesign.com or browse the portfolio of my recent sites.

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Quakerranter.org blog
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Quaker blogger, web designer and social media consultant in the greater Philadelphia area.
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http://www.quakerdesign.com/
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http://twitter.com/martin_kelley
Delicious.com Page
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November 18
Hi Scott: I hope you've also read through some of Jon Watt's blog posts about the video. Interesting guy, someone who's trying to walk a fine line as he works his way through Quaker worlds. It's can be a long way from the Baltimore Yearly Meeting ...
November 17
Since it was a quote from my blog, I'll clarify that I was referring to our Religious Society's long-standing testimony against gossip and detraction. It should be there in your copy of "Faith and Practice," which is our collective wisdom about th...
November 9
Good ol' Wikipedia. I haven't seen that entry. I'm not going to dive into those waters but I'm glad you're doing it. There are some knowledgeable people who work on the main Quaker entry but like most things Wikipedia those with the strongest opin...
November 9
An event by Martin Kelley was featured
November 15, 2009 from 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Max Carter is campus ministry coordinator and director of the Friends Center at Guilford College. This annual lecture is part of a series sponsored by the Bible Association of Friends in America and the Adult Religious Education Working Group of ...
November 8
November 4
November 4
Hey Dan: better pay is good. And in the meantime, FWCC decided this was something worth doing, sent me their database and: http://www.fwccamericas.org/friends/ The opening map is just a way to get into the regional maps, which are true Google map ...
November 3

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At 3:13pm on November 4, 2009, Kathy Wingard said…
Thanks Martin! I'm happy and privileged to be here. It's great to know like-minded folk and seekers are just a click away. Very comforting to be able to read active thoughts and get in the spirit at any time. Lots of good Quaker stuff here!
At 4:14am on October 20, 2009, Nikolas Southwell said…
Thank you! Im really touched that everyone is taking time for me! I will certainly be in touch again
take care Nik
At 1:51pm on October 1, 2009, Carole Dale Spencer said…
Happy to be here! Look forward to your booklist!
Carole
At 1:27pm on September 29, 2009, Daniel Fairman said…
I really enjoy your writings and videos! I'm a new quaker, of the conservative flavor. I'm interested in plain dress and simplicity in in general. I'm a lone Quaker in La vista ne!
At 11:48am on September 24, 2009, Laurie Kruczek said…
Thank you, Martin! You are so good about sharing Quaker news, no matter how small ;)

WHF has re-energized me and my spirituality. They are the meeting I have always been looking for :) It took our whole family moving back to Portland to be able to attend, but I am so grateful we have a church home. It is cool you know some of those folks, too. We also look forward to paying a visit to Wess in Camas, as he is just over the river from where we live. Lots of fun stuff ahead!

Hope all is well with you and your family, btw ;)
 
 

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I'm pleased to announce that the brand-new Issue #16 of the journal “Quaker Theology” is not published, in both print and online editions. The online edition (read it for free) is at” www.quaker.org/quest . Among the high lights of this issue ar...
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Chronicler The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all.
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Hi Mark, I think you are right to caution against both over-spiritualization and over-politicization. We are called to bring our lives under the ordering of the Spirit of Christ, leading us to God's shalom. This new humanity or new creation howeve...
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Mark, I want to testify to that power that enables us to do what we are called to do. I have been empowered to do things I know were against my nature, and I have been given an inward strength and sense of wholeness and complete security dealing w...
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