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Too Many Dave’s
And now for something out of the ordinary. Since we have small children in the house, we get our fair share of
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New Monastics and Convergent Friends Retreat Outline
Martin Kelley and I will be leading a weekend retreat at Pendle Hill in just a couple weeks (May 14-16) and
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Community Supported Agriculture in Southwest Washington
As we try to find ways to eat more locally grown, organic produce, it’s always nice to know what are our
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A New “Convergent” Mapping Project hits the Web
Martin Kelley isn’t the only one really excited about the new Quakermaps.com project from Micah Bales and Jon Watts. While
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(mis)Quote of the Day: Jesus and Equipment
The recent arrest of a “Christian” militia group (yea Ohio and Michigan) has made international news (just what I want my friends
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Christ would not be Redeemer
Today is the feast of Oscar Romero so as I think about his work today and pray for all those who are
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Helping the World? Get Fuzzy
Found this today in the paper. I love it. I feel like I know so many people who live out of this
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Homeless in Our Town?
Since high school I have been drawn to ministry among the poor. Part of it was because we grew up poor (at
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Conversion(s) b
Just as I was heading to bed last night I learned that Howard Zinn, history professor and author at Boston University, had
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Reader Poll: Sermon Texts on the Blog?
[crowdsignal poll=2580078] Would you like for Wess’ sermon texts to be posted on the blog so you can read them? (polling)
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A Thought for Quakers on Change
I am preparing my discussion for our Sunday morning meeting for worship and am thinking a lot about what Kester Brewin calls
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Favorite Music of 2009
Here’s a list of my favorite, or at least most listened to, albums from this past year. Elvis Perkins In Dearland
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Dowd on (Role) Modeling
I came across this today while I was doing some back reading from this weekend’s newspaper. It struck me as really
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‘Dont Buy It’ – Slam Poetry from the Climate Camp for OneClimate.net
Came across this today while reading Jarrod McKenna’s post on climate change over at the sojo blog. The poem is really
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Home From a Retreat at the Beach
This past Friday I gave a bit of a cry-for-help and have been feeling under a lot of pressure lately
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