To everything there is a season . . . and in the small field of Quaker publishing, this seems to be the season for books to help Friends, and friends of Friends, get through hard times. I won’t rehash the reasons for this spurt; they’re as near as the morning’s headlines. It will suffice to … Continue reading Pride: Learning to Endure with Bill Kreidler & “Tending The Fire”
New York Times: Excerpts from, Why Churches Should Drop Their Online Services By Tish Harrison Warren — Jan. 30, 2022 (My comments follow.) Over the past two years a refrain has become common in churches and other religious communities: “Join us in person or online.” I was a big proponent of that “or online” part. In … Continue reading Drop Online Church?? Bad Idea of the Week (and it’s only Monday morning)
if you saw this guy wandering the streets with his weatherbeaten sign, it was probably me. And . . . The original of this Far Side cartoon is much funnier, but it doesn’t keep me awake. Besides . . . Since last time I saw the same therapist, but it didn’t help. More about this … Continue reading It’s Almost Here, Again . . .
Having read and pondered the lengthy memo from General Secretary Joyce Aljouny laying out the plans for the latest AFSC Restructure, I think I’ve figured out what’s going on there. It has little to do with the current effort to stoke a staff rebellion, so we’ll deal with that only in passing. Its roots, I … Continue reading AFSC After “The Day The Movement Died”
It appears AFSC’s “LT” (Leadership Team) is serious. In the post below, copied from the Western Friend page, Lucy Duncan states she was fired on Monday January 3. The dismissal was not a surprise (Duncan herself had predicted it). But it was revealing nonetheless, answering questions raised by Duncan’s “Perilous Crossroads” letter: Would the LT … Continue reading AFSC & The Hammer: Duncan Fired