About Martin

Martin Profile PictureI’m a Quaker edi­tor and blog­ger liv­ing about thirty miles out­side Philadel­phia in the South Jer­sey pine bar­rens. I’m a “con­vinced” Friend, walk­ing into my first meet­ing­house around the age of twenty. I’m offi­cially a mem­ber of Atlantic City Area Monthly Meet­ing of Philadel­phia Yearly Meet­ing.I’m Edi­tor at Friends Jour­nal, the ven­er­a­ble monthly mag­a­zine of “Quaker Thought and Life Today” (if you’re inter­ested in writ­ing for it, please check out our Edi­to­r­ial Guide­lines)

I also pub­lish Quak​erQuaker​.org. It started around 2003 as a side­bar of my per­sonal blog where I high­lighted the day’s inter­est­ing links. In 2005 I was awarded recog­ni­tion and a mod­est grant from the Clarence and Lilly Pick­ett Endow­ment for Quaker Lead­er­ship to turn it into an online mag­a­zine (dubbed Quak­erQuaker after a 2003 essay). In 2010 I launched the Quaker Ad Net­work in coop­er­a­tion with Friends Jour­nal magazine.

Quak­er­Ran­ter is my free-for-all blog. There’s a lot of posts about Quak­ers and also about cool places I’ve explored in the South Jer­sey. But I let myself talk about what­ever I want and my post on baby nam­ing is actu­ally one of the most vis­ited on the site! Fel­low Friends mys­ti­fied or offended by the “Ranter” title should read “We’re all Ranters Now.” I want to keep the spirit of a blog with this site and post on any topic that flits across my mind, includ­ing my kidsTheo, Fran­cis, Gre­gory and Laura.

I was very involved in paci­fist pub­lish­ing in my 20, work­ing as a designer and edi­tor at collectively-run New Soci­ety Pub­lish­ers for six years in the early 1990s. In 1995, I founded Non​vi​o​lence​.org (archive), a pio­neer­ing peace por­tal and early blog that I finally shut­tered in 2008. In my thir­ties I served on the staff of Friends Gen­eral Con­fer­ence  and worked on free­lance projects with numer­ous Quaker nonprofits. I’ve been build­ing Quak­er­ish web­sites since 1995 and have been blog­ging since 1998 and edit­ing on-and-off since 1990.

Biogra­phies

Tech: 
Mar­tin Kel­ley is a Philadel­phia area web designer who has been build­ing online com­mu­ni­ties since 1995. An early adopter of user-created media, he was blog­ging in 1997 and picks up every social media ser­vice. In 2008 O’Reilly Media pub­lished “Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggre­ga­tors,” his first pub­lished tech pub­li­ca­tion. A pro­fes­sional web devel­oper and con­sul­tant, he builds sites and writes about tech issues on Mar​tinKel​ley​.com.

Quaker: 
Mar­tin Kel­ley is a Philadelphia-area Friend with a love out of out­reach and min­istry and a pas­sion for look­ing afresh at Friends’ tes­ti­monies, lan­guage and prac­tices. He is edi­tor of Friends Jour­nal, a monthly Quaker mag­a­zine, and pub­lisher of the online com­mu­nity site, Quak​erQuaker​.org. An early adopter of user-created media, Mar­tin has been build­ing online com­mu­ni­ties since 1995; in 2008 O’Reilly Media pub­lished “Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggre­ga­tors.” He writes about tech issues on Mar​tinKel​ley​.com and spir­i­tu­al­ity at Quak​er​Ran​ter​.org.

Past Work­shops & Pre­sen­ta­tions
2012:

  • Co-presenter, Quak­ers Unit­ing in Pub­li­ca­tions, “From Do-It-Yourself to Big Quaker Pub­lish­ing: The Spec­trum and How it Serves Read­ers and Writ­ers.” Pen­dle Hill Con­fer­ence Cen­ter, Walling­ford, Pa. Sat­ur­day, May 12, 2012.

2011:

  • Speaker, Abing­ton Friends Meet­ing, “Lessons on Vocal Min­istry from Early Friends,” talk given at First-day school adult class. Jenk­in­town, Pa., Novem­ber 6, 2011.
  • Class guest, Earl­ham School of Reli­gion. “Writ­ing for Today’s Media Mar­ket” taught by J Brent Bill. May 24, 2011. Rich­mond, Ind. via video.
  • Pan­elist, Pacific North­west Quar­terly Meet­ing, “Sim­plic­ity, Integrity, Clar­ity: What is Plain Speech Today?” Wash­ing­ton State via video. April 16, 2011.

2010:

  • Speaker, Philadel­phia Yearly Meet­ing, “Find­ing Fel­low­ship Between Friends Through the Inter­net,” part of the “Friends 2.0: New Tools for Our Faith” speaker series. Arch Street Meet­ing­house fol­low­ing Interim Meet­ing ses­sions, Philadel­phia, Pa. Sep­tem­ber 11, 2010.
  • Panel Speaker, Writer’s Con­fer­ence spon­sored by Quak­ers Unit­ing in Pub­li­ca­tions. Rich­mond, Ind., via video. April 2010.
  • Asso­ciate Teacher, Pen­dle Hill, for a week­end work­shop “Con­ver­gent Friends and the New Monas­tics.” Pen­dle Hill Con­fer­ence Cen­ter. Walling­ford, Pa. May 2010.

2009:

  • Speaker, “An Intro­duc­tion to Con­ver­gent Friends.” Salem Quar­ter Meet­ing. Green­wich, N.J. Sep­tem­ber 13, 2009.
  • Facil­i­ta­tor, “Friends Tes­ti­monies, What Canst Thou Say?” Two-part ses­sion. Young Friends Sum­mer Gath­er­ing (Philadel­phia Yearly Meet­ing). Camp Onas, Ottsville, Pa. August 25, 2009.
  • Co-leader, “Reclaim­ing the Power of Prim­i­tive Quak­erism.” Week­end work­shop. Ben Lomond Friends Cen­ter. Ben Lomond, Calif. Feb­ru­ary 2009.
  • Pre­sen­ter, “Friends Schools and Web 2.0” (video). Panel dis­cus­sion for Friends Coun­cil on Edu­ca­tion. At Ger­man­town Friends School, Philadel­phia, Pa.. Jan­u­ary 2009.

2007:

  • Pre­sen­ter, Reli­gion and Tech­nol­ogy Teach­ers Peer Net­work (Friends Coun­cil on Edu­ca­tion). Cen­ter City Philadel­phia, Pa., Decem­ber 2007. Also avail­able asGoogle Slideshow Presentation
  • Co-presenter, with C Wess Daniels, for a panel on the Con­ver­gent Friends move­ment. Ohio Yearly Meet­ing annual ses­sions. Bar­nesville, Ohio, August 2007.

2006:

2005:

  • Co-leader, Strangers to the Covenant (five ses­sions), work­shop for high-school Friends, FGC Gath­er­ing. Nor­mal, Ill., July 2005.

2004:

  • Teacher, Quak­erism 101 (six ses­sions), Med­ford Friends Meet­ing. Med­ford, N.J. September-November, 2004.

2003:

  • Teacher, “Liv­ing in the Light” Quak­erism 101 course (one ses­sion), Cen­tral Philadel­phia Friends Meet­ing. Philadel­phia, Pa. March 2003.

Publications/Media

Fel­low­ships

Con­tact Information

  • Email: martink@martinkelley.com
  • Phone: (609) 365‑0123