I’m a Quaker from
South Jersey with a love of
outreach and ministry.
More bio and my contact information in my
about Martin
post. My other sites: QuakerQuaker.org, a
social networking site for Quaker bloggers and
MartinKelley.com, my
technology blog and freelance web services site. Tumbld Rants collects my social media life: Twitter, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Youtube, etc.
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I've met and interacted with too many Quakers that engage in community out of a sense of obligation, "because that's what Quakers do." Surprisingly, that does not lead to remarkably profound spiritual community.
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"I've been wanting to do some kind of image-oriented promotion for this amazing Quaker event for at least two years now. Hope folks enjoy it!"
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Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone;
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Many of their youth have formed clandestine rock and roll bands and have rocked forth. Many of these songs were discovered by "the English," given slightly different lyrical phrasing, and been recorded by rock and roll stars as diverse as "The Beach Boys,
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[We use] a holistic method and its worldview has much in common with a Quaker worldview (from my perspective), it is a nice complement to our faith, but how exactly do I blend the truly Quaker bits of our faith into our learning?
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Basically, if you can reach the standard, then you calculate the percentage of the home office/storage area to your total house square footage. This percentage is then applied to the various expenses of running your house that would normally be considered
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Having nothing to do with the political definition of the Rush Limbaugh conservativism, Conservative Quakers are one of the 3 branches of the Religious Society of Friends. The speaker considers herself a "rowdy Conservative Friend".
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Bored beyond Belief podcast even includes a brief comparison to Quakes.
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The divine compass points us the mind and love of God. This blog is a place of theological hospitality and sharing experiences of spiritual discernment.
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As one of the organizers of this conference, it was a very different experience for me than if I had been solely a participant. I felt a strong sense of needing to ground the gathering, particularly the worship sessions, and worked with the pastoral care
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Campaign to save historic St. Mary's Catholic Church in Malaga NJ from completely unnecessary closure. Blog, articles, history and soon video about the campaign.
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An essential Firefox extension, now supporting Firefox 3 and including HTML Signatures.
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Evangelicals also proclaim Christ is Lord, but their emphasis on the written word as the sole determiner of Truth tends to contradict that. I am not an Evangelical because I’m not sure that Evangelicalism is really centered on Jesus Christ.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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,
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And CamTwist
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How to make a professional show on Ustream
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Official website of St. Mary's parish in Malaga, NJ.
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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.
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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
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."
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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
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An "emergent Quaker" congregation
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