O.M.G. —Wal-Freaking-Mart?? In Arkansas?? The Arkansas legislature has passed a religious-based antigay law, HB 1228, that is a near-clone of the controversial Indiana law. It now goes to the governor. But Attention Wal-Mart shoppers! Let me repeat that, after picking my jaw up off the floor: << “Every day in our stores, we see firsthand the … Continue reading O.M.G. –Wal-Freaking-Mart??
Review: A Convergent Model of Renewal By C. Wess Daniels. Wipf & Stock. Reviewed by Chuck Fager A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture. C. Wess Daniels. Pickwick/Wipf & Stock Publishers. 224 pages. Paper, $21.60. There’s more than little déjà vu about Wess Daniels’ book project. Quakerism, his book … Continue reading Review: “A Convergent Model of Renewal” (for Quakers)
BREAKING QUAKER NEWS: North Carolina Schism Takes Dramatic Turns Poplar Ridge Friends Meeting of Trinity, NC, the instigator of the attempted purge of “liberal” Meetings within North Carolina Yearly Meeting-FUM (NCYM), has drafted a letter addressed to “like-minded Friends,” proposing to abandon that effort, then leave NCYM and form a New Yearly Meeting, this blog … Continue reading BREAKING QUAKER NEWS: North Carolina Schism Takes Dramatic Turns
Vegas: the Beast & 7 Deadlies I admit that the tourist spectacle of Las Vegas, the very shamelessness of its gilt-edged tawdriness, stirs a certain repulsive fascination for me. But that aside, my sense of the city is that it combines a manifestation of the Beast of the Apocalypse with a showcase for the Seven Deadly … Continue reading A View of Vegas: the Beast & 7 Deadlies
Some Liberal Thoughts About Conservative Quakerism For as long as I’ve been among Friends, closing in on 50 years, there’s been a certain cachet to the Wilburite/Conservative (WC) strain, which