Errg, home #verizon dsl connection acting up again. Bits and pieces of websites (including Gmail) are down on mulitple machines.
05/15 @ 8:23 PM
Latest Quaker Posts
- (Too) Silent Worship and Whithered Meetings:
One of the things I liked about my old Quaker job is that I occasionally had a moment in between all of the staff meetings (and meetings about staff meetings, and meetings about meetings about staff meetings, I kid you not) to take interesting calls... (Apr 27) - Burnt Ubers and Reluctant Ranters:
Interesting reading today about how our Quaker structures can choke the Spirit and hem in our communities. Johan M is no stranger to Quaker institutions, but in "Clerk Please" he writes: But who will see and proclaim these things to new audiences if we are... (Apr 18) - More ways to QuakeQuake in the socialscape:
For any bleeding edge Web 2.0 Quakers out there, there's now a QuakerQuaker FriendFeed account to go along with its Twitter account. Both accounts simply spit out the QuakerQuaker RSS feed but there might be some practical uses. I actually follow QQ primary by Twitter... (Apr 7)
Blog Posts
Doh! The sun on the deck must have gotten to me, forgot power cord @ work. Do I waste good karma of bike/train commute to drive back?
05/14 @ 3:01 PM
Moving to the deck to work. Ahhh.... Link
05/14 @ 1:41 PM
Putting newcomer #Cushycms.com thru paces w/Dreamweaver-built site. Embedded Google Map seems to knock it out. Anyone else using Cushy?
05/14 @ 1:26 PM
Excuse me while I continue to question the relevance of artsy websites that are hard to navigate & scream "aren't we full of ourselves?"
05/14 @ 12:51 PM
Enjoying first iced coffee of the season. My 3 morning/week job is w/in walking distance of half dozen coffeeshops, I get kind of spoiled.
05/14 @ 12:19 PM
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Flash/javascript rich fonts for websites
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But only from their own service, Panoramio. Yahoo's Flickr is snubbed. Does Google really need to use it's dominant mapping service to wrest control from one of the few well-known services it doesn't own?
Oh what the heck, sure I'll queue the Last Shadow Puppets album again Link
05/12 @ 10:36 PM
Burt Bacharach tribute on the radio now, I just don't think I'm ready for this stuff to get retro cool...
05/12 @ 12:26 PM
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You have a mountain of communications companies hoping to adapt quickly [and] you have businesses who aren’t as motivated to change their internal processes. But will there be a point where businesses take back their external arms for outreach to their
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A member said "I oppose K-, her vision, and everything she stands for." I was stunned. The meeting was silent. No one responded, and I said, somewhat choked, that such a response made me want to take my children and never come back. I was in tears when I
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family’s Quaker homeschooling journey * Home A personal blog about a Quaker homeschooling family.
Trouble logging into @verizon dsl, resetting modem takes me through their spyware installs. Thank goodness for neighbor's insecure wifi!
05/11 @ 11:19 PM
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While Quakerism is (still) Christian, it often comes over as a separate religion, a law unto itself in a sense. They talk primarily about the Quaker heritage, while the Christian character is not adequately covered.
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The Quakers are finding a new strategy for church growth: Merge with paganism! From “Pagans find a sometimes uneasy home among Quakers”, referring to “a small but growing movement of Quakers who also identify as pagan.
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FutureChurch, no study cited.
Getting ready for date night, which at this very moment means clearning up place so that it's at minimal acceptability levels for babysitter
05/09 @ 6:49 PM
Still early in data but first results show amazing analytics numbers on new savestmarys.net campaign site. Link
05/09 @ 4:39 PM
Trying online video conferencing software, research for client. Anyone have favorites I should look at? Should look professional.
05/09 @ 11:09 AM
Trying Moodblast
05/08 @ 8:25 PM
An update to Save St Mary's campaign Julie's gotten so involved with. She's now finished typing in a 1990s-era church history and put up a report of today's rally, along with some pictures. Very cool.
Hey Jeff @hipp2bsquare, welcome to Twitter, now share something trivial with us all!
05/08 @ 4:32 PM
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This may be a somewhat new phenomenon to Streib, but it's not to Evangelical Friends. So how do I answer Streib's question? As Evangelical Quakers in Evangelical Friends Church Southwest, the answer is a firm and loving "No".
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Originally I created this blog to be a non-threatening discussion board for people in the Tacoma community. It turned into a forum for unprogrammed and semi-programmed and programmed Friends to interact, share perspectives, and learn from one another.
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I quickly learned that there was a video feed (which I’m working on finding an archive of), and others were watching from afar. And before I knew it…my twittering turned my timeline into a back channel for the Philadelphia City Council Public Hearing
Olympic torch on Mt. Everest. And I care....why??
05/07 @ 9:24 PM
Paypal just called to see if @freshbooks charge was legit. Oh yes, an essential service for freelancers like me! Link
05/07 @ 7:11 PM
Email to F/fd: "Is it too unrealistic to want a Mtg 1) grounded in Quakerism, 2) that includes families, and 3) is within a 1/2 hr's drive?"
05/07 @ 7:09 PM
Hey @ruby, I might have tuned in, your feed was my news source while I tried to get the new Mac to play nice w/MSNBC & CNN!
05/07 @ 6:41 PM
What's more surprising?: George McGovern switching from Hill to Barak or George McGovern still being around?! Wow!
05/07 @ 4:26 PM
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Skitch lets you take easily take screenshots. Now with Twitter support! "Combine the power of email, image creation/capture devices and micro-blogging platforms like Twitter and you can communicate & collaborate with a powerful visual voice."
Just launched: Link
05/06 @ 7:15 PM
#GoDaddy is king of bait-and-switch, just needed 2nd account upgrade to run cgi. Their website help seems purposefully vague re:features.
05/06 @ 11:53 AM
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The abstractions within modern globalized religious movements.
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The Quaker Agitator is looking for help writing a small grant. Any Ranter readers able to lend a hand?
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"Socialism" draws with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England."
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That said, there is a quiet pride that lends itself to being low, and then there is another sort of pride that lends itself to being high, to pushing God out of our lives because we mistakenly take up the belief that there is no more room.
Hi @cwdaniels, sure, here's a post explaining my Twitter-sytled Del.icio.us post. Link
05/05 @ 5:49 PM
I'm a big user of both Del.icio.us, the social bookmarking system (it powers QuakerQuaker and the daily posts of links) and Twitter, the "micro-blogging" system that puts mini-messages into Quaker Ranter (currently with a brown woodsy boxes). They both serve different purposes for me and have different styles. Well, I just realized I had written a Deli.icio.us post in a Twitter style.
I was bookmarking a new post by Dave the "Quaker Agitator," who's looking for help writing a small grant. I left a minor comment and bookmarked the post in Del.icio.us. I try to do that for most comments so that I can go back later and see if any interesting conversation took place in the meantime. This time though I made an appeal for readers directly through the Del.icio.us description: "The Quaker Agitator is looking for help writing a small grant. Any Ranter readers able to lend a hand?" I did this knowing that a few hundred sympathetic readers will see this tomorrow morning when the links go up. It's probably a moot point as the Quaker Agitator has a much larger audience of sympathetic readers.
But stylistically it's an example of a culture of a new media form starting to change an older form. This is a common phenomenon in this fast-moving Web 2.0 world. Whether my Del.icio.us style will adapt or not I don't know. It's just an observation for now.
Tags: twitter, del.icio.us, web 2.0, styles,
Just wrote a Del.icio.us bookmark in a Twitter style. An anomoly?
05/05 @ 5:34 PM
Oooh, just got some cool emergent church review books from Michael Morell @ zoecarnate--what, no twitter acct? Link
05/05 @ 4:21 PM
Interesting that #NYTimes is asking for on-the-ground help in reporting Myanmar Cyclone. And they're Gmall users? Link
05/05 @ 2:00 PM
I hope #Yahoo's stock price survive this week's freefall and that the post-MS lesson is FOCUS. There are some good services in there.
05/05 @ 1:55 PM
Julie's been busy this weekend following up on the rally she attended Friday, hooking up with all of the organizing that's happening to save St. Mary's Church in Malaga NJ. She's taken lots of pictures of St. Mary's and yesterday made up t-shirts for the cause!
One positive element to come of the Bishop's decision to close down St. Mary's and half the Catholic churches in South Jersey is how parishioners are coming together for their churches. Julie's already typed in half of a 1997 history of St. Mary's onto the internet, and there are plans to interview elderly members, the oldest of whom remember the church being built.
The story of a little church in a sleepy rural town is the really the story of the Italian Catholic experience in America. There's a certificate in the back of the church that lists all of the donations that were collected to build the church, some from dirt poor farmers who couldn't even afford a dollar but still put all they could to build a house of worship.
To my Quaker readers: don't worry, I'm not going Catholic on you all. It's just that even I can tell there's something special about St. Mary's and the devotion and the newfound-feistiness of it's community (how did they makes the Times?! And two pictures!). The bishop wants to sell all these little rural churches and replace them with impersonal mega-churches. The struggle for authenticity, humanity and the remembrance of the experience of those who struggled before us transcends religious denominations. We'd all lose something if churches like St. Mary's were all torn down to make way for more Super Wawa's.
Tags: southjersey, catholic, st mary's, malaga, nj, diocese of camden, bishop galiante, farmers, italian, authenticity
Sleep is just so overrated.
05/05 @ 4:17 AM
But I do want to say I appreciate my office mates in p/t job, who gave v. helpful feedback for design I was working on last week.
05/05 @ 12:38 AM
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And CamTwist
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How to make a professional show on Ustream
Twitter is like having officemates to chat with, to shoot the breeze, or troubleshoot. Prob. wastes less time than real office mates.
05/04 @ 11:52 PM
Doing research on #podcasts, is there really no "flickr of podcasts"? Why are options so limited? Of course I'm writing on #Odeo's spawn!
05/04 @ 10:34 PM
Propping my eyelids open with virtual toothpicks and cranking the music to stay up and productive after a too-late night last night.
05/04 @ 9:47 PM
Oh my goodness @cwdaniels yes it is late. But I'm on a Mac & an honorary Californian (or would that be an honorary Chinaman?)
05/04 @ 1:23 AM
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Official website of St. Mary's parish in Malaga, NJ.
The extra cost of a Mac might be worth it for a wifi signal that reaches the hammock! Link
05/03 @ 4:16 PM
Entering the Jesus for President bloggy giveaway run by a local crunchy/conservative Mennonite! Link
05/03 @ 2:11 PM
Just blogged about using VMWare Fusion to help in transfer from Windows to Mac user Link
05/03 @ 1:25 PM
My #Verizon DSL service is telling me "Sorry, 'www.youtube.com' does not exist or is not available." Excuse me?
05/03 @ 9:11 AM
First successful Skype video call, I feel just like George Jetson!
05/02 @ 10:41 PM
Have #Ubuntu 8.04 Linux installed (being a geek) but w/2 OS's already running (Mac OS X and Windows XP), don't really know when I'd use it.
05/02 @ 9:34 PM
Julie and Theo took a bus into Camden NJ this morning to attend a rally in support of St Mary's. It's one of dozens of churches that the Diocese of Camden has slated for closure. St. Mary's Father Romanowski was scheduled to meet Bishop Galante today but the Bishop canceled at the last minute. Channel Six Action News profiled St Mary's a few days ago and the video gives you a little idea why it's a special little church.
More pictures of the St Mary's rally here. Congrats to #Digsby for Facebook chat! Next a #Mac client for this recent Windows defector? In the meantime I'm running it through #Fusion.
05/01 @ 8:59 PM
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A short video about the CQIM (Christian Quaker Internet Mission).
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A British Friend gives a video response to a recent editorial.
Got beta invite for #Dropbox, a folder syncing service that really is easy to set up, here's dragged & dropped pics of 4yo Link
04/30 @ 9:56 PM
#DefLeppard has a new album, time to revert to high school. They still totally rock live Link
04/30 @ 9:25 PM
I think it's tacky when hackers write code that isn't HTML validated. There's never an excuse for bad design.
04/30 @ 1:56 PM
Thanks to #Fusion virtual machine, Mac is now playing #Rhapsody and #Netflix Watch Now. All right!
04/29 @ 11:34 PM
First things first, installing VM Fusion so I can retreat back to XP when necessary. Now if only I get get a loud fan simulator to play...
04/29 @ 4:44 PM
Yes it's true I'm now a #Mac user.
04/29 @ 4:40 PM
My wallet's too heavy--heading down to the AC casinos to spend it & bringing my 4yo, the good luck kid Link
04/29 @ 9:51 AM
Never realized Rev Wright was a Philly boy. His Dad graduated same seminary as my uncle & pastored at church near my mom's current house.
04/28 @ 8:15 PM
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In February 1999 a college radio disc jockey named Lance Ledbetter set out on a mission to compile rare and essential recordings of vintage religious music. Four and a half years later the result of this journey was released as a box set called Goodbye, B
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Art of Field Recording Volume I is a four disc set with a 96 page book that contains essays and annotations by Art and over 100 illustrations and photographs by Art and his wife Margo.
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Quaker history also presents a challenge to all of its modern tellers. Like the early Christians, early Quakers laid down their history after the initial flames had cooled, and re-told the stories in ways that reflected their comunity.
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B.L. Ochman has a nice post about a memorable business card. Prompts me to trot out the pre-release version of my newest card. It's a whole newspaper, with four articles about me. They say long copy sells... I sure hope so.
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YouTube offers several RSS feeds for categorized groups of videos (such as recently uploaded, top viewed etc) as well as customized feeds for users and tags. To subscribe to categorized groups of videos, simply click on the orange 'RSS' button next to eac
One of the things I liked about my old Quaker job is that I occasionally had a moment in between all of the staff meetings (and meetings about staff meetings, and meetings about meetings about staff meetings, I kid you not) to take interesting calls and emails from Friends wanting to talk about the state of Friends in their area: how to start a worship group if no Friends existed, how to revitalize a local Meeting, how to work through some growing pains or cultural conflicts. I've thought about replicating that on the blog, and halfway through responding to one of tonight's emails I realized I was practically writing a blog post. So here it is. Please feel free to add your own responses to this Friend in the comments.
I can't think of any specific source for that observation. It is sometimes used as an argument against waiting worship, a prelude to the introduction of some sort of programming. While it's true that too much silence can be a warning sign, I suspect that Meetings that talk too much are probably also just as likely to wither away (at least to Inward Christ that often seems to speak in whispers). I think the determining factor is less decibel level but attention to the workings of the Holy Spirit.
One of the main roles of ministry is to teach. Another is to remind us to keep turning to God. Another is to remind us that we live by higher standards than the default required by the secular world in which we live. If the Friends community is fulfilling these functions through some other channel than ministry in meeting for worship then the Meeting's probably healthy even if it is quiet.
Unfortunately there are plenty of Meetings are too silent on all fronts. This means that the young and the newcomers will have a hard time getting brought into the spiritual life of Friends. Once upon a time the Meeting annually reviewed the state of its ministry as part of its queries to Quarterly and Yearly Meetings, which gave neighboring Friends opportunities to provide assistance, advise or even ministers. The practice of written answers to queries have been dropped by most Friends but the possibility of appealing to other Quaker bodies is still a definite possibility.
Your Friend, Martin
Dear MartinDear CC,
I have read that Meetings that are silent for long periods of time often wither away. But I can't remember where I read that, or if the observation has facts to back it up. Do you know of any source where I can look this up?
Thanks,
CC
I can't think of any specific source for that observation. It is sometimes used as an argument against waiting worship, a prelude to the introduction of some sort of programming. While it's true that too much silence can be a warning sign, I suspect that Meetings that talk too much are probably also just as likely to wither away (at least to Inward Christ that often seems to speak in whispers). I think the determining factor is less decibel level but attention to the workings of the Holy Spirit.
One of the main roles of ministry is to teach. Another is to remind us to keep turning to God. Another is to remind us that we live by higher standards than the default required by the secular world in which we live. If the Friends community is fulfilling these functions through some other channel than ministry in meeting for worship then the Meeting's probably healthy even if it is quiet.
Unfortunately there are plenty of Meetings are too silent on all fronts. This means that the young and the newcomers will have a hard time getting brought into the spiritual life of Friends. Once upon a time the Meeting annually reviewed the state of its ministry as part of its queries to Quarterly and Yearly Meetings, which gave neighboring Friends opportunities to provide assistance, advise or even ministers. The practice of written answers to queries have been dropped by most Friends but the possibility of appealing to other Quaker bodies is still a definite possibility.
Your Friend, Martin
Across the street,a Mexican landscaping team is covering the lawn in pesticides. Closing windows...
04/27 @ 2:18 PM
My infrequency of posts over the last two weeks is the result of a dead laptop. I'm back up with a loaner but I've lost a lot of time trying to resuscitate the old one and configure the loaner so no extended posts for me. Over on MartinKelley.com, I took a moment to use the experience to talk about consumer-level "cloud computing." Because most of my e-life is online, surprisingly little is lost to me from the laptop that won't turn on.
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Once upon a time having a suddenly dead computer in the middle of a bunch of big projects would have been disaster. But over the last few years I've been putting more and more of my data "in the cloud," that is: with software services that store it for me.
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Not every small business can afford to hire someone to create or maintain a website. So let's go over some relatively easy do-it-yourself ways to build your site, kind of two by two. It just so happens that these are all free, or nearly so.
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My answer: no. But some argue that " keyword search is already delivering diminishing returns...As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data--keyword search--will one day break down."
Broke down and got cheapest-plan cable installed before digital switchover. Now I can finally watch America's Funniest Home Videos again!!!!
04/25 @ 8:22 PM
Dishonesty is weird but dishonesty when everyone knows that no one's being fooled is just plain bizarre.
04/25 @ 6:21 PM
Sorry, only 1000 baloons. My bad. Link
04/25 @ 1:33 AM
Priest goes floating off to sea in a seat tied to 10,000 party baloons? His name isn't Father Ted? Link
04/25 @ 1:31 AM
Laptop still dead (forever) but at least I got a more modern borrowed computer working. Now for lots of coffee and lots of catching up
04/24 @ 10:39 PM
Excited about #Cushycms, could be good bridge between old school web designers and CMS-wanting clients. Link
04/24 @ 10:04 AM
Laptop officially dead, will test my data-in-a-cloud strategy as I temporarily work off of 20th Century relic in the basement!
04/22 @ 8:39 AM
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There is a popular notion, even among some Friends, that the Quaker "brand" of worship is not for everyone; that it requires a cool, detached, middle- to upper-middle class Anglo-American temperament. [This notion] constitutes a terrible misunderstanding
Computer dying on bootup w/mysterious symptoms... I hate operating systems on principle
04/20 @ 3:02 PM
See also the guest post here on Quakerranter from one of it's founders.
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An "emergent Quaker" congregation
Great NYTimes interactive feature about Pentagon PR campaign Link
04/19 @ 7:44 PM
First mow of the season, that Saturday ritual of surburbia. My neighbor is doubtlessly relieved since he's moved 1/2 dozen times already.
04/19 @ 5:21 PM
2:19am and the strong coffee is overpowered by the yawning. Clients will have to wait another eight hours for my attention.
04/19 @ 2:21 AM
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But who will see and proclaim these things to new audiences if we are so busy trying to sort out our structures, nomination processes, and interpersonal animosities that we don't take the time to discern and honor leadings?
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One of the key parts of George Fox's revelation was that religious structures can kill the free movement of the Spirit. My Ffriend R has advocated the practice of disbanding the Religious Society of Friends every 50 years.
Interesting reading today about how our Quaker structures can choke the Spirit and hem in our communities. Johan M is no stranger to Quaker institutions, but in "Clerk Please" he writes:
But who will see and proclaim these things to new audiences if we are so busy trying to sort out our structures, nomination processes, and interpersonal animosities that we don't take the time to discern and honor leadings?
Susanne K echos some of these themes in her latest post, "Quakerism and Structure":
One of the key parts of George Fox's revelation was that religious structures can kill the free movement of the Spirit... My Ffriend R has advocated the practice of disbanding the Religious Society of Friends every 50 years. He believes that the spark of the initial vision and passion of religious groups only survives for about 50 years before developing structures start to choke the movement of the Spirit.
It's been about eighteen months since I was sidelined from the professional Quaker world (I work for some Quakers now, but on a contract basis and the relationship is much different). A year or two before this, my monthly meeting melted down and more or less devolved into a worship group and while I've found a more active meeting to attend, it's not particularly close and I haven't joined.
The result of these two changes is that I haven't sat in a staff meeting for over a year; I don't attend business meetings; I don't belong to any committees; I don't represent any group at conferences. After years of being what Evan Welkin called an uberQuaker, I'm an uninvolved slacker. Bad Martin, right?
Except I'm not uninvolved of course. I feel I'm doing as much now to help people find and grow into Quakerism than I did when I was paid to do this. I don't spend much time with that 2% skim of Quaker elite who attend all the same conferences and appoint each other to all the same committees, but then catering to their needs was pretty high maintenance and was never something I thought of as the real mission.
Suzanne talks about the "Sabbatical Year" meme, and of course lots of electrons fly about the blogosphere about the possibilities of the Emerging Church movement. There's a hunger for a different way of being a Friend. I know one Quaker who threatens to burn down the famous meetinghouse he worships in because he feels that the building has become an empty icon, a weight of bricks upon the Spirit (I'll leave him anonymous in case something mysterious happens to the meetinghouse tonight!). How tragic would it be, really, if some of institutional baggage was laid down and we had to find other ways to confirm and support one another's ministries?
I love teaching Quakerism, I love helping Quakers use the internet for outreach and I love reaching out to potential Friends with my writing. I'm doing all that without committees or staff meetings. No budgets to fight over, no mission statements to write.
Half a decade ago now I wrote about the "lost Quaker generation," active and visionary Gen X Friends who seemed to be dropping out in droves. We're all keeping in better touch now via Facebook but I haven't noticed much jumping back into the fray. What I have noticed is a phenomenon where Friends half a generation older are taking on Quaker responsibilities only to drop away from active meeting involvement when their terms ended.
If we could pull together all of the dropouts together and start meetings that focused on worship, religious education and deep-community activities, I think we'd see something interesting. I envy those with less-musty, Gen-X heavy meetings nearby (Robin M showcased her meeting recently). And don't get me wrong: I also love the old Quaker ideal of the strong local Quaker community and the bonds of the community on the individual, etc., etc. But I don't see meetings like that anywhere nearby and the only clear leading I really have is to continue this "freelance" teaching, writing and organizing. It's not the situation I want but it's the situation I have and at this point I have to just trust the leadings as they come step by step and have faith they're going somewhere. Boy though, I wish I knew where all this was heading sometimes!
Off to the park to enjoy #spring, nighttime will have to be work time!
04/17 @ 4:58 PM
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The line that seems to be working is this: 'We're not trying to convert anybody who's not interested. We're just trying to make it easier for the people who are looking for a faith community to find us.'
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I've finished Shane Claiborne's Irresistible Revolution. Claiborne's Christianity looks almost identical to Christ-centered Quakerism. He embodies the Quaker testimonies of simplicity, peace, equality, community and integrity.
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I am a member of the Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends; that is, I am a Conservative Quaker. Although the Peace Testimony of the Friends is what drew me to the Society, it is actually their worship that "convinced" me.
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Christine Trevett, early Quakerism scholar and co-organizer of research on Religion and Autism.
Just testing
04/16 @ 9:02 PM
Shel Israel interviews #Twitter founders, pretty interesting Link
04/16 @ 7:50 PM
Long in the works, my O'Reilly Media-published "Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggregators" is available. The title could sort of be boiled down to "hey this QuakerQuaker.org thing has become kind of neat" but it's more than that. I wax lyrical about the different kind of aggregator community sites and I throw a new tongue-twister into the social media arena: "folksonomic density" (Google it now kids and you'll see the only references are mine; a few years from now you can say you knew the guy who coined the phrase that set the technosphere on fire and launched Web 3.0 and ushered in the second phase of the Age of Aquarius, yada yada).A hundred thank you's to my fine and patient editor S. (don't know if you want to be outed here). I've been an editor myself in one capacity or another for fifteen years (I've sometimes even been paid for it) so it was educational to experience the relationship from the other side. I wrote this while living an insane schedule and it's amazing I found any time at get all this down.
As luck would have it I've just gotten my design site at MartinKelley.com up and running fully again, so I hope to do some posts related to the PDF in the weeks to come. In the meantime, below is the marketing copy for Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggregators. It is available for $9.99 from the O'Reilly website.
Web aggregators select and present content culled from multiple sources, playing an important taste-making and promotional role. Larger aggregators are starting to compete with mainstream news sources but a new class of niche and do-it-yourself aggregators are organizing around specific interests. Niche aggregators harness the power of the internet to build communities previously separated by geography or institutional inertia. These micro-communities serve a trend-setting role. Understanding their operation is critical for those wanting to understand or predict cultural change and for those who want to harness the power of the long tail by catering to niches.
My O'Reilly PDF is out: "Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggregators." Feel the folksonomic density! Link
04/15 @ 2:55 AM
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