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• Billy Lange After Navy’s Win Over Penn

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 179
  The Midshipmen beat Penn at home for the first time since 1988. Pete Gillen catches up with Head Coach Billy Lange after his teams great performance.
  13 hours ago

• Penn vs Navy Recap

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 179
  Shots from the charity stripe proved key in Navys win over Penn. The Midshipmen beat the Quakers 67-73.
  13 hours ago

• Pendle Hill Sojourn

  
  The Red Electric — Authority: 118
  Recently I had the privilege of staying at the Pendle Hill Quaker retreat in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. Although I was there for a course, the small campus slowed me down and touched my spirit. Simplicity, quiet, reflection and relaxed companionship marked my time at Pendle Hill.
  2 days ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 128
  "God the Lover, the accuser, the revealer of light and darkness presses within us. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. And all our apparent initiative is already a response, a testimonial to His secret presence and working within us. The basic response of the soul to the Light is internal adoration and joy, ...
  4 days ago

• The State of the Other 24: Cashin In At the Line Edition

  
  The Mid-Majority — Authority: 533
  The State of College Basketball is a ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 344 ( heres the long- winded version ). In its overall form, it retroactively picked three of the Final Four in a simulation ...
  1 week ago

• More on neutrality

  
  Can you believe? — Authority: 107
  But before that, Happy Thanksgiving Day . Today Judy made an incredible Thanksgiving meal for the teachers at the New Humanities Institute, including turkey, cranberry sauce, a pumpkin bread with a delicious swirl of tvorog inside (a worthy substitute for the cream cheese of the recipe), and ...
  1 week ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 128
  "We ... can send out the Eternal Love in silent, searching hope, and meet each person with a background of eternal expectations and a silent, wordless prayer of love." -- Thomas R. Kelly
  1 week ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 128
  "If God ever spoke, He is still speaking. ... He is still a communicating God as eager as ever to have listening and receptive souls. If there is something of His image and superscription in our inmost structure and being, we ought to expect a continuous revelation of His will and purpose through the ages.... He is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 128
  "All these somberly moral people whose characteristic is renunciation, completely forget what is essential. It is not morality, however indispensable and respectable that is….The essential is the joy, the splendor, the magnificence of each man, of all men. Virtue is only a means. The essential is life - splendid ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 128
  "What is the Quaker faith? It is not a tidy package of words which you can capture at any given time and then repeat weekly at a worship service. It is an experience of discovery which starts the discoverer on a journey which is life-long. The discovery in itself is not uniquely a property of Quakerism. It is as old ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nonviolence: 25 lessons from the history of a dangerous idea

  
  Tad DeLay — Authority: 413
  Mark Kurlansky’s magnum opus Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea has been on my reading list for two years now, but Barnes and Noble has continually thwarted me. In other news, I applied for my first real library card the other day.  Put those two things together, and I finally ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 128
  "My conviction led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the Light within us, resting on truth for authority, not on authority for truth. " -- Lucretia Mott
  2 weeks ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 128
  "May I be steadfast unto death, at the true call of the Spirit and by its help, where there are simple andreasonable things to stand for." -- Pierre Ceresole
  3 weeks ago

• Malcolm Washington Penn Basketball

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 171
  Denzel Washington plays as a proud father encouraged his son Malcolm first-team game of basketball at the University of Pennsylvania. Washington sat three rows behind the bench Friday night at Penn State College, Pa., home opener over the Quakers season at Penn State. Wearing a black sweatshirt and black cap on his ...
  3 weeks ago

• Actor Denzel Washington plays proud dad to cheer on son’s first ..

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 171
  Actor Denzel Washington played as a proud father encouraged his son Malcolm first-team game of basketball at the University of Pennsylvania. Washington sat three rows behind the Penn bench Friday night for the Quakers season opener at Penn State. Using a black shirt and black cap pulled down over his forehead, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 128
  "Prayer is an exercise of the spirit, as thought is of the mind. To pray about anything is to use the powers of our spirit on it, just as to think clearly is to use our mental powers. For the best solution of every problem, the best carrying out of every action, both thought and prayer are necessary... Prayer is not ...
  3 weeks ago

• When do we shift from "neutrality" to "advocacy"?

  
  Can you believe? — Authority: 107
  Oslo album Oslo inner harber--view from Akershus Fortress Akershus at dusk Pride: the polar ship Fram , which has sailed farther north and farther south than any other conventional ship. Shame: the wartime home of Vidkun Quisling, now the Holocaust Museum. ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK: Straight Couple Wants Civil Partnerships and Civil Marriage Open to All

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  In the latest challenge to what many see as unfair and restrictive marriage laws in Britain, a straight couple are attempting to register for a civil partnership. The couple, Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, say that it is unfair that different-sex couples may enter into a civil marriage but not a civil ...
  3 weeks ago

• To John Dalton (Plutonic Sonnets 59, courtesy of PublishAmerica)

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 168
  A Universe of atoms in the void: Some Greeks had tried, but could not make it stick. And it’s a fact I often have enjoyed: A sober English Quaker did the trick. read more
  3 weeks ago

• Thanking the Refugee (The Plank in Australia’s Eye, Part 2)

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 651
  [continued from part 1] Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas reminds us that “the other” is not an object for us to control but a subject of the Holy One for us to encounter that will inevitably leave us different. In welcoming the stranger…
  3 weeks ago

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