Originally posted in July, 2009 In the current health-care melee, we hear much alarmist talk and Canada-bashing, aimed at their single-payer health system. A few days back, I had an unexpected chance to observe the Canadian system up close. What I saw was very instructive. Here’s what happened: on the last evening of a Toronto … Continue reading Dog Days Flashback: Enlightenment In A Canadian Emergency Room
A good friend of mine from college days is a member of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian church in Knoxville that was shot up on Sunday, July 27. She was there with her husband, but thankfully was not hit. (“Thankfully.” I feel a twinge of survivor’s guilt writing that; but there it is.) The reports Monday … Continue reading Knoxville & “Killing All Liberals”
Below is the complete text of two epistles issued by East Africa Yearly Meeting — North. I note that the 2007 Epistle comments on the statements at the FUM General Board session in Kenya, as well as responding to some reaction to them from a Yearly Meeting in North America. From this 2007 Epistle, it … Continue reading The Shame of Kenya: Epistles of Hate
By Chuck Fager Dear Friends, One of the finest, most eloquent ministers of this generation of liberal Quakers has left us. William J. “Bill” Kreidler, of Beacon Hill Meeting in Boston, died on June 10, 2000. This is a time to mourn, and also a time to remember, and to pay tribute, which is what … Continue reading Bill Kreidler: A Personal Tribute
The 1989 Friends Ministers Conference was the fourth in a series that were held every five years. The event had started out as the Friends Pastors Conference, but this was changed for the 1984 gathering in a bow to traditional Quaker nomenclature, and to accommodate the sensibilities of the handful of attenders who came from … Continue reading Fleecing The Faithful – Prelude: Down the Garden Path & Opening Pandora’s Box