Exclusive Quaker News: ESR Dean To Retire. The Future of ESR — Up In The Air?

[Richmond Indiana, December 19, 2025] This is an Inside Quaker report; non-Quakers might be missing some background.] Gretchen Castle, Dean of the Earlham School of Religion (the main U. S. Quaker seminary), is leaving. She’ll retire officially on June 30, 2026. This change has not been made public by ESR, but Castle confirmed it to … Continue reading Exclusive Quaker News: ESR Dean To Retire. The Future of ESR — Up In The Air? →

A Durham Double-Take & Berlin Wants You! (Who — Me?? No — YOU!)

So yesterday I’m scrolling through the New York Times, and then up pops this big ad: If I was writing copy for that ad, the statue would be pointing at the reader and the bold bright headline would thunder “BERLIN WANTS YOU!” But that message still got through, especially if one clicked a link to … Continue reading A Durham Double-Take & Berlin Wants You! (Who — Me?? No — YOU!) →