Stop The Presses! Britain Yearly Meeting To Admit Non-Quaker Reporters!
Or so goes the breathless headline from ekklesia, an ecumenical news service Over There: Quakers to break tradition and allow journalists at annual meeting
“Re-Closeting,” Life & Death: A Reading for Another Kind of Memorial Day
A headline in this Memorial Day’s paper sent me reeling down the shadowed halls of memory. The news was from Uganda, where the president has signed a new law which increases the legal penalties against homosexuality to life imprisonment, and in some cases death. Merely “promoting” homosexuality can get twenty years.
“24” The Saga Continues, Unfortunately
Yesterday the question was: Is this, at long last, the end of the long-running torture infomercial “24″?? Today we know the answer: It is not just NO, but Hell NO!
The “Great Quaker Turnover” Is Underway
Have you noticed the “Great Quaker Turnover” yet? It’s well underway. The Great Quaker Turnover (GQT for short) is a change in top management at a number of the major Quaker organizations. Among them are AFSC, FCNL, FGC, and even Quaker House here on the doorstep of the Military machine. I hear there are others, … Continue reading The “Great Quaker Turnover” Is Underway
Behold: The Future of Quakerism
My son Asa, his “one seriously pregnant” wife Jessica, and “one seriously growing” baby Eli, due to “seriously pop out” next month. Seriously.