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• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 130
  "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
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• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 130
  "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 ...
  1 week ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 130
  "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 ...
  1 week ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 130
  "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: 411
  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: 130
  "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: 130
  "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
  2 weeks ago

• Malcolm Washington Penn Basketball

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 168
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 168
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quaker Wisdom for Today

  
  Holy Ordinary: Quaker Thoughts on Life — Authority: 130
  "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 ...
  2 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. ...
  2 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 ...
  2 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
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 648
  [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

• Did Dems Ever Do This to the Bush Twins?

  
  Delaware Liberal — Authority: 562
  Oh, wait, Dems weren’t allowed in the clubs’ VIP rooms when the Bushies were cavorting.Anyways, here’s what happened at Sidwell Friends (where the Obama girls go to school) this morning.I am sure that the Quaker school took this message from the Westboro Baptist Church directly to heart:“Quakers?! Are you ...
  3 weeks ago

• Day 0300 - Misc Goals Check In

  
  101 Of A Wolf — Authority: 117
  Completed goals in this category: 017. Attend a Quaker meeting ( More info ) 018. Throw a message in a bottle into the sea ( More info ) 036. Collect shells on the beach ( More info ) 090. Go to a service at the Unitarian church ( More info ) Outstanding goals in this category: ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Truest Story

  
  The Red Electric — Authority: 118
  In the silence of this morning’s Quaker meeting, it occurred to me that I wouldn’t be sitting in this spartan sanctuary if it weren’t for the literal version of the New Testament story. I’ve always tried to see through that over-the-top story to the historical Jesus. The Jesus who didn’t walk on water and ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Rival Rundown: Columbia vs. UPenn

  
  College Candy — Authority: 648
  Welcome back to The Rival Rundown! If you’ve always wanted to give props to your school on CC, now’s your chance! Shoot us an email explaining what’s awesome and unique about your school (or what stinks about Rival U) at rivalrundown@collegecandy.com ! This week begins the World Series, the premier sporting ...
  4 weeks ago

• Creche Clash: Religious Right Launches Another Bogus Persecution Claim

  
  The Wall of Separation — Authority: 564
  Yesterday was the 350th anniversary of the hanging of two Quakers by the Puritan establishment in Massachusetts Bay Colony.William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson had come from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution. But on Oct. 27, 1659, they became the first Quakers in America to be executed because of ...
  4 weeks ago

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