On December 22, I posted on Facebook an article from the Washington Post: Televangelist Pat Robertson says it’s time for Trump to accept Biden’s win and ‘move on’ Televangelist Pat Robertson, one of President Trump’s staunchest backers, on Monday (December 21, 2020) described Trump as “very erratic,” called on him to accept that President-elect Joe … Continue reading Stamped By A Visit to an Alternate Reality
Author and novelist Jessamyn West (1902-1984), was raised and shaped by a long line of Quakers. Rooted in Indiana, they wound up evangelical and Holiness-centered, as well as cousins to Richard Nixon, in southern California. West is best remembered for her classic The Friendly Persuasion (book and movie). Her family left their southern Indiana Quaker … Continue reading Novelist Jessamyn West, Her Friendly Un-Persuasion, Christmas & “Returning Thanks”
One: Brooklyn, December 1967 I knew it was going to be a long day when I saw the woman having an epileptic seizure in the Intake room. She was on her back, eyes rolling, jerking and thrashing, head thumping on the cement floor. A Welfare Department security guard ran over and straddled her, trying to … Continue reading How I Got So Lucky: A True Quaker Christmas Story
Matt Hisrich, who was in his second year as Dean of Earlham School of Religion in Richmond Indiana, was abruptly banned from campus on Wednesday December 16 2020. His Earlham email was revoked that morning, and he was directed to vacate the campus by 3 PM. Co-workers hurriedly gathered that afternoon to bid him a … Continue reading ESR Upheaval: Dean Resigns, Is Abruptly Banned
Readers likely already know much of what I consider Wednesday’s good news: Covid vaccine treatments have started; “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg was tapped to be Transportation Secretary in Joe Biden’s cabinet; there are no more throw-out-the-[Democrats’]-voting-results lawsuits bouncing off the big doors at the Supreme Court; and only five more weeks til Inauguration Day. There’s a … Continue reading The Good news And The Other (Paranoid) News