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, … Continue reading The “Great Quaker Turnover” Is Underway
My son Asa, his “one seriously pregnant” wife Jessica, and “one seriously growing” baby Eli, due to “seriously pop out” next month. Seriously.
[Note: Part I of this review is here.] Two pieces in “Spirit Rising deal with the phenomenon known as “Convergent Friends,” a loose network of people, mostly younger than fifty, talking across various traditional divisional lines: “Convergent Friends as New Jazz Traditionalists,” by Chad Stephenson of San Francisco Meeting; and “Convergent Friendship and Playing with … Continue reading Spirit Rising – A Review In Installments – Part 2: Convergent Friends, Unequal Yokes & All That Jazz
So I’m out and about Thursday, trying to be a Christian (Matthew 25:36 variety), by visiting a friend who’s got some issues. And when I arrive at the door to his place, there’s this notice on the door. Seems they’ve got a dress code:
A woman Friend who, like me, is not age-eligible to attend the Wichita YAF Conference, has sent on the best rationale I have yet seen for the planners’ no-sex-even-for-married-couples policy for the event. She deemed the policy, “quite lovely.” So Let’s hear why, and then consider it: