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Russian Old Believers in Millville NJ
A few weeks ago we were contacted by someone from the St Nicholas Center (http://www.stnicholascenter.org) asking if they could use some photos I had taken of the church my wife is attending, Millville...
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Make a buck, make a buck
“There’s a lot of bad ‘isms’ floatin’ around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck.” –Alfred, Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Did Thanksgiving even happen? Walking...
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A modern-day Commonplace Book?
From a post by Jamie Todd Rubin, \”Going Paperless: How Penultimate and Evernote Have Replaced My Pocket Notebook,\” I\’ve learned the concept of the \”Commonplace Book,\” which he attributes it to...
View ArticleQuaker Folkways and Being Patterns on the Interwebs
Last Sunday I have a presentation to Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting’s adult First-day school class about “Sharing the Good News with Social Media.” As I prepared I found I was less and less interested in...
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Hammonton Food Trucks
From the first Hammonton Food Truck Festival. Cool stuff but the lines are way too long for a single parent with four antsy kids. One of our friends said the line waits were up to 1.5 hrs. I could just...
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Early “photo of summer” candidate
I written many times before that I like to find family photos that encapsulate a feeling—a time and place, a moment in our collective lives. A few weeks ago I caught this shot, which I think will be...
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Remembering George Willoughby
There’s a nice remembrance of George Willoughby by the Brandywine Peace Community’s Bob Smith over on the War Resisters International site. George died a few days ago at the age of 95 [updated]. It’s...
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Gladwell and strong tie social media networks
A lot of people, include Jeanne Burns over on Quakerquaker, are talking about Malcolm Gladwell’s latest New Yorker article, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”. Malcolm Gladwell’s...
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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...
View ArticleArnold: Losing Our Religion
Johann Christoph Arnold has an interesting piece on the intersection of peace activism and religion [originally published on Nonviolence.org]. Here’s a taste: The day before Martin Luther King was...
View ArticleFocused blogs and side trips
Over on Eileen Flanagan’s Imperfect Serenity, there’s an interesting post on blog publicity, “Blogging dilemmas,” inspired in part by Robin M“‘s recent “How did you get here?” post. Both bring up...
View ArticleLooking at North American Friends and theological hotspots
Over on Friends Journal site, some recent stats on Friends mostly in the US and Canada. Written by Margaret Fraser, the head of FWCC, a group that tries to unite the different bodies of Friends, it’s a...
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Henry Cadbury’s 1934 speech and us
In 1934, Philadelphia Friend and co-founder of the American Friends Service Committee Henry Cadbury gave a speech to a conference of American rabbis in which he urged them to call off a boycott of Nazi...
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Dynamics of Evil
From Patricia Dallmann: Holding the line, speaking the truth is the Christian’s (Quaker’s) obligation in the Lamb’s War. If the God of truth is honored in just one mind, heart, and soul, the world is...
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“I Guess I’ll Read My Bible Elsewhere”
Mike Bevel with a funny/sad account of a kind of pathetic series of incidents. The help we want to give — the showy, busy, selfless work — is rarely the help that is needed. And the help that is needed...
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Jeff Kisling: Resist not evil today
When looking back to Nazi Germany in the 1930s are we so sure God Could not have found a way? Henry Cadbury believed the Jewish people should have appealed to the German sense of justice and national...
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Quaker cultures and young Friends
Emily Provance is back talking about the disconnect between different Quaker subcultures: In other words, as far as your personal experience tells you, Quaker meeting is supposed to be about fun and...
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Origins of the Check-In (Quakers)
Over on Medium, consultant Jim Ralley looks to Quakers for the origins of the facilitator’s check-in: The ‘check-in’ is a fundamental element in the repertoire of a facilitator. There’s no better way...
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Kristallnacht, Kindertransport, and help for refugees
Quaker refugee work circa 1933: The reports gathered from the Jewish community in Germany by Quakers were of influence when Quakers accompanied the Jewish delegation who went to see Home Secretary Sir...
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Poking pigs?
Bucks County, Pa., Friend Norval Reece has a piece on fake and real news, with a great line from his mother: Polls and analysts confirm a growing trend for people to tune in almost exclusively to those...
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