Some of you may have noticed that over the last week this blog had a little bit of trouble. It got attacked by malware and was trying to spread that to anyone who visited the site. Fortunately enough, I don’t know of any serious problems it caused other than
Continue reading →I decided I wanted to jump start a new tradition at Camas Friends today so I took the initiative and ran with it. I’ve been working on a state of the meeting report with the elders for a couple months and I’ve really been wanting to present it
Continue reading →Well, I just noticed that I’ve hit the 1,000 blog post mark. I’m not sure exactly what this means other than I have been blogging for a pretty long time, and have shared a lot of myself with the world. I have been blessed through this blog
Continue reading →Just a quick note to say that Martin Kelley and Friends Journal have teamed up to create the Quaker Ad Network. Which is a pretty cool way for Quaker organizations, ministries and individuals to get the word out about events, products, etc. If you represent one of these groups you
Continue reading →This is a continuation from posts a and b. I’ve caught myself in the last few years reacting to my Evangelical upbringing around conversion. Why does it have to look and sound one way for everyone? It’s as if to say, “Come, go through the motions, say the
Continue reading →While preparing for a wedding this coming Saturday I ran across this quote from Barrow Cadbury (a Quaker who was related to and worked in the Cadbury Chocolate factory in Bournville England) on marital advice. I really enjoyed reading it. Barrow Cadbury, after forty years of marriage, wrote in 1933
Continue reading →A long while back a friend of mine wrote on his twitter this remark: There is no pure Christianity, it is all syncretist. And I agree with this point, all Christianity today is influenced to a smaller or larger extent by outside forces. I’m not sure it’s ever
Continue reading →Psalm 52. He and she who has ears to hear let them listen. To the fat cats of American capitalism: Why do you boast, O mighty one, of mischief done against the godly? All day long you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of
Continue reading →Introduction Our world is made up of questions and ambiguities. Probably all of you have watched Jeopardy. The unique thing about the game of Jeopardy, besides its suave host Alex Trebek, is that the contestants respond with a question in order to score points. For instance: Here is an answer
Continue reading →Opening Prayer (from the bulletin?) John Woolman is dead. These words may at first appear to be simply an obvious statement, uninteresting and useless. For some, it may be meaningless.Who is John Woolman, anyways? For others, to say that the 17th century Quaker abolitionist is dead understates the obvious
Continue reading →Editorial note: This week we discussed over email the question “What comes to mind for you when you think of plainness (or simplicity)?” We had a ton of responses from people on our church’s email group. All the responses were thoughtful and helpful. Because there was such a great
Continue reading →This is the mission entrusted to the church, a hard mission: to uproot sins from history, to uproot sins from the political order, to uproot sins from the economy, to uproot sins wherever they are. What a hard task! It has to meet conflicts amid so much selfishness, so much
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