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On My Way To Ohio
Heading out to Ohio today so I won’t be available much till next week. I will be at Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) in Barnesville with Martin Kelley Friday evening helping to lead a discussion
2000 pictures on flickr
And it is of the beginning of our new garden, which I am totally excited about. See here, here and here.
LIfe At Woodbrooke Part 2 | Reading and Writing
I’ve been reading and writing a ton while here at woodbrooke, which I suppose is good since that’s why I came here!? I just finished a fourth section to my final paper, it
(un)Programmed: Towards the Program of the Spirit | YQ Article
About a week ago I had an article come out in Young Quaker, the publication run by Young Friends General Meeting in Britain (See volue 53,number 6). This edition was the last one for
Weekend Away | Teflord’s Iron Bridge and the Shropshire’s Buildwas Abbey
This past last weekend I had the opportunity to go visit my friend Simon in his home town of Telford and he took me to see some really cool things. Instead of going into great
An Apologetic for a Quaker Theology | Do We Need It (or want it)?
This is a response to a comment I received yesterday about Quaker theology. The comment was good enough that I decided to write a post about it, because I know that many people have the
Some Problems with Online Christian Communities | And Why You Should Stay Away
Online communities continue to grow Myspace, Virb, Facebook, delicious, flickr, twitter, digg, 30boxes, box.net, etc, etc, all offer a way for people to share and stay in touch. I personally like the attention web
Meeting House Innovative? | Visual Arts and Creativity in Quakerism
Recently I had a great talk with a woman from Essex, and she goes to a Quaker meeting that’s doing some really cool stuff. I asked her about her meeting and she told me
Towards a Post-Foundationalist Quaker Theology: Slavoj Zizek, Quietism and Pink Dandelion
Accepting the whole of a tradition and not just the parts I found Slavoj Zizeks opening to his book The Fragile Absolute, to be instructive for a present day study of Quaker theology. He
1970’s Convergent Friends? | A Brief History
My good friend Shawna from Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) sent this to a bunch of us the other day intimating at Convergent Friends being much older than we thought. A conference of Friends in 1970,