In Britain Yearly Meeting, the “Mother Church” of Quakerism, the senior staff member and CEO is the Recording Clerk. This person heads up a staff of more than one hundred, and an organization that in 2009 had revenues of 9,000,000 Pounds (about $14 million US dollars). This staff is based at Friends House, which takes … Continue reading The Great Quaker Turnover Comes To London
[Sigh] I would have been very satisfied had I gone to my grave without ever mentioning the words “Glenn” and “Beck” together on this blog, or any other page. Ten years ago, in the summer of 2010, Beck was one of the behemoths of rightwing talk media, big on Fox, big on radio, mainlining anti-immigrant … Continue reading Taking Names In Vain: Glenn Beck, Dr. King, & Me
A few weeks back, I attended North Carolina YM Conservative. It’s a VERY small group — in the business sessions I was in, there were an average of 30 NCYMC Friends, plus about ten visitors. (By contrast, my home YM, Baltimore, typically gets nearly ten times as many attenders; and Philadelphia more like 20x; even … Continue reading Going “Conservative” With North Carolina Quakers
Earlier posts in this series: Part I Part II Part III Here’s a quick quiz: Two of these three church-related service projects are holding their own, and one is in trouble. Can you tell which one has problems? A. The Mennonite Central Committee B. The Mormon Church missionary program; and C. The American Friends Service … Continue reading AFSC & Friends IV: A Suggested Survival Kit
Before blogs were invented, there were newsletters. And that’s how A Friendly Letter got started, as an independent monthly, printed on paper and sent out by US mail. There were 134 issues published in this format, and after many hours of grunt work, I am pleased to announce that ALL of these print issues are … Continue reading A New Addition: Online Archive of Print Issues of “A Friendly Letter”