AP News: “A Good Man”: Exhibits honor ‘Peanuts’ creator Schulz on 100th BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AND PATRICK ORSAGOS May 27, 2022 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a series of “Peanuts” comic strips that ran in mid–April of 1956, Charlie Brown grasps the string of his kite, which was stuck in what came to be known in … Continue reading Will Lucy ALWAYS Snatch Away The Football, Charlie Brown??
If I was a “consultant” and needed work, I’d get in line at AFSC. By my count, the group is hosting its third round of outside consultants, laboring earnestly (and raking in the billable hours) trying to help it square the circles of what is called at 1501 Cherry Street, Philly “Restructuring.” The Restructuring plan … Continue reading AFSC Restructure Update: Staff Uprising? What Happened?
From the reports I see, the pandemic was bad for most churches: attendance is off, and (more important) ka-ching in the collection plates is down. The possible exceptions are clustered among the most shamelessly antivaxx megabucks preachers. Theirs was a win-win setup: if they died, they were martyrs gone home to Jesus; if they lived, … Continue reading Sayonara to FGC and The Gathering?
Someday, I’m thinking, there will be a historic marker on (or near) the campus of Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. And if I last long enough to see it go up, I gotta take a selfie standing next to it. And if I’m really lucky, maybe Caitlyn Fox will take one with me. I’ll get … Continue reading Well, FU to Friends University: you Flunked the Freedom of Expression Exam Big Time.
SPECIAL FOR WOMEN’s HISTORY MONTH — NOW BANNED BY PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER It was a great day for an “overground railroad” escape. Maybe not such a great day to die, but for some there was no escaping that. Imagine we were in Aiken, South Carolina: a pretty town, near Augusta and the Georgia border, with … Continue reading Remembering Friend Martha Schofield & Her Courageous Leading