A headline in this Memorial Day’s paper sent me reeling down the shadowed halls of memory.
The news was from Uganda, where the president has signed a new law which increases the legal penalties against homosexuality to life imprisonment, and in some cases death. Merely “promoting” homosexuality can get twenty years. Continue reading “Re-Closeting,” Life & Death: A Reading for Another Kind of Memorial Day
Yesterday the question was: Is this, at long last, the end of the long-running torture infomercial “24″??
Today we know the answer: It is not just NO, but Hell NO!
Have you noticed the “Great Quaker Turnover” yet? It’s well underway.
The Great Quaker Turnover (GQT for short) is a change in top management at a number of the major Quaker organizations. Among them are AFSC, FCNL, FGC, and even Quaker House here on the doorstep of the Military machine. I hear there are others, including FUM, coming up. (Readers are invited to add to the list.)
Julian Brelsford is a Philadelphia YAF who is planning to attend the Wichita YAF conference. He’s been cited here before, in a roundup post with several pieces of feedback to earlier posts here about the conference, its dress code, other rules, and general framework.
Continue reading “One Seriously Angry Dude,” and the Wichita YAF Discussion