Cut The Badass Baloney About Baltimore
In fact there were plenty of nonviolent black people on the Baltimore streets last night, doing their level best to protect other people of color, and black-owned (or black servicing) shops and property.
Category Archives: Hard-Core Quaker
Made In Vietnam: My World. (Yours Too?)
Made in Vietnam: My World. (Yours Too?) Just got a new blood pressure monitor. But this post is not about my blood pressure. The old monitor gave out after several years: nothing but error messages. Amazon was ready with a new one, delivered the next day. Dropped from a drone? I was running errands when … Continue reading Made In Vietnam: My World. (Yours Too?)
Baltimore Friends School Blows It
Baltimore Friends School Blows It The educational “Philosophy” stated on the website of the Baltimore Friends School [BFS] sounds great. The high points: [Baltimore] Friends School seeks to live the conviction that there is that of God in each person. At Friends, we work together to build and sustain a community that is inclusive, respectful, … Continue reading Baltimore Friends School Blows It
Book Review: Doug Gwyn’s Startling New Look At Liberal Quakerism
Besides, the book soon became an absorbing read – and how often can one honestly say that about an “institutional history”?
Except Gwyn has not set out to write an institutional history. “My training,” he says (vii) “is in biblical theology.” Hence, his slant is both different and more ambitious: the book is “probably best described as historical theology [his italics]. It examines how religious ideas, ideals, and practices have evolved over time through a particular institution, interacting with changes in the wider culture.”
Hence the subtitle, the “Life & Times” of Pendle Hill. Beyond the comings and goings, the highs and the lows, the book “ventures a theology of history.” [His italics again.] And in its eighty-plus years, Pendle Hill has been favored (and cursed) to have been through very interesting times, historically and theologically: not only wars and rumors of war, boom and bust, but also vast cultural changes in its Quaker constituency, with a theological evolution hardly less sweeping.
And yes, Doug Gwyn sets out to comprehend and grapple with it all.
Does he bring it off?
Review: “A Convergent Model of Renewal” (for Quakers)
Review: A Convergent Model of Renewal By C. Wess Daniels. Wipf & Stock. Reviewed by Chuck Fager A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture. C. Wess Daniels. Pickwick/Wipf & Stock Publishers. 224 pages. Paper, $21.60. There’s more than little déjà vu about Wess Daniels’ book project. Quakerism, his book … Continue reading Review: “A Convergent Model of Renewal” (for Quakers)