“Mapping The Left” In Carolina
Can you see the key to the Carolina “Left”here?? Well, me neither. But the rightwing Civitas “think” tank can see it all, right here. You gotta believe.
Booklist — Chuck Fager
You want fiction? Got it. Non-fiction? Got history, theology, Quakers, Bible study, peace & war, civil rights, a lot of jokes, and some other stuff that slips my mind right now.
Same Sex Marriage Comes to Fayetteville-Fort Bragg, North Carolina
My friend Katharine “Kat” Royal was also on hand. Kat is a minister, and she and her husband Micah performed several weddings right outside the courthouse in the warm sun.
While I was there, several same sex couples came into the county’s Register of Deeds office. I talked with two of them, one of them proceeded to get married on the spot, and more about this visit is in these seven photos below.
It was a big day.
Quaker Alert! Thunder In Carolina
Quaker Alert! There’s big trouble brewing in North Carolina Yearly Meeting-FUM: talk (and MORE than talk) about purges and schism. I’ve now uploaded an exclusive hot-off-the-digital-presses report, a Preview from the journal Quaker Theology. The full report is here:
“Survival & Resistance” A Message from 2006 That is Timely Again
[Note: This essay was originally published in Friends Journal; but it’s now behind their paywall. It still seems timely today; maybe more so.] Quakerism was born in a time of revolutionary upheaval. Yet it learned how to survive when the revolution failed and was followed by decades of persecution. I sometimes hear Quakers waxing nostalgic … Continue reading “Survival & Resistance” A Message from 2006 That is Timely Again