[NOTE: No wonder D. C. is in such a terrible mess! This is clearly a job for the spotlight-shunning Friendly Homeland Security Emergency Rescue Team. Sound the Silent Alarms!] {UPDATE: The following article is not a spoof; as far as we know.] Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook , your guide to the people and … Continue reading Gray Alert for U. S. Quakers: Help Find The Missing White House Meditation Room!
October is Visitation & Board meeting month for Friends United Meeting (FUM). Besides board members from FUM’s shrinking but scattered territories, notable Friends will be gathering in and around its home turf of Richmond Indiana. Among the most notable of these visitors is Kenyan Friend John Muhanji, who heads FUM’s African ministries. Besides official sessions, … Continue reading FUM, John Muhanji, Uganda & “KILL The GAYS Laws: A Few Questions
Religious News Service ‘The Great Dechurching’ explores America’s religious exodus A new study looks at why millions of Americans left church — and what might bring them back. September 7, 2023 By Bob Smietana (RNS) — Jim Davis and Michael Graham knew something was up in their hometown of Orlando, Florida. But they couldn’t put … Continue reading The “Great Dechurching”: Can it be stopped? Should It?
The total number of splits in American Quakerdom since 2000 has just gone from five to six. And signs of more trouble are on the horizon. Indiana Yearly Meeting (IYM), which saw eighteen of its meetings expelled or withdraw in 2013, has now pushed its separatism further by leaving Friends United Meeting. But IYM … Continue reading Another Quaker Breakup: Indiana YM “Quits” FUM (Sort of)- Wants to Take Africa Missions With It
Florida Quakers give away hundreds of Black-history books By Special to the Beacon August 8, 2023 BOOK GIVEAWAY A SUCCESS — Members of the DeLand Quakers stand in front of a portion of the books on Black history collected to be distributed at the recent rescheduled Juneteenth celebration. In front, from left, are Kathy Hersh, … Continue reading Quaker Book Giveaway: Turning the Page on Florida Censorship