Oh, No!! Lady Gaga Is NOT Coming to Selma!
Tragic News this morning: Lady Gaga can’t make it. Gee. Doggone. Well, since I’ve come as far as Montgomery, I might as well go on over. There must be SOMEbody coming who I’ve heard of . . . .
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New Report: “Quaker Thunder In Carolina”
A Preview of the forthcoming issue of “Quaker Theology is now onlineIt features “Thunder In Carolina,” a major report on the situation in NCYM-FUM, in which an evangelical faction is attempting to force a purge of “liberal/universalist” meetings, and a showdown is imminent. The report was written by Chuck Fager, Editor of the journal “Quaker … Continue reading New Report: “Quaker Thunder In Carolina”
Quakers & the Underground Railroad: Humility Time
. . . a great many whites exaggerated or invented their Underground Railroad support after the Civil War, and actual white URR activists were often valiant, but relatively few in number and were marginalized & vilified by both respectable folk & dangerous mobs.
Further, contrary to common Quaker legend, this marginalization was especially strong among Friends: the Quaker Establishment in all the branches was dead-set against it, visible supporters were often disowned or sidelined, and only after slavery was safely outlawed did a URR “pedigree” suddenly become widely fashionable among Quakers.
Yes, there were Quaker heroes of the URR. But . . .
Bartram & The Seminole King – A Quaker Lenten Meditation
Bartram & The Seminole King From Bartram’s Travels, published 1791 Alachua Indians AFTER crossing over this point or branch of the marshes, we entered a noble forest, the land level, and the soil fertile, being a loose, dark brown, coarse sandy loam, on a clay or marley foundation; the forests were Orange groves, overtoped by … Continue reading Bartram & The Seminole King – A Quaker Lenten Meditation