I am a South Jersey Friend and dad with a love out of outreach and a passion for looking afresh at Friends' testimonies, language and practices. I am the publisher of Quaker Quaker, a community site for Friends, and write about online publicity, organizing and design on my business site at MartinKelley.com.
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On a recent evening I met up with Gathering in Light Wess, who was in Philadelphia for a Quaker-sponsored peace conference. Over the next few hours, six of us went out for a great dinner, Wess and I tested some testimonies,
and a revolving group of Friends ended up around a table in the
conference's hotel lobby talking late into the night (the links are
Wess' reviews, these days you can reverse stalk him through his Yelp
account).
Of all of the many people I spoke with, only one had any kind of featured role at the conference. Without exception my conversation partners were fascinating and insightful about the issues that had brought them to Philadelphia, yet I sensed a pervading sense of missed opportunity: hundreds of lives rearranged and thousands of air miles flown mostly to listen to others talk. I spent my long commute home wondering what it would have been like to have spent the weekend in the hotel lobby recording ten minute Youtube interviews with as many conference participants as I could. We would have ended up with a snapshot of faith-based peace organizing circa 2009.
Next weekend I'll be burning up more of the ozone layer by flying to California to co-lead a workshop with Wess and Robin M. (details at ConvergentFriends.org, I'm sure we can squeeze more people in!) The participant list looks fabulous. I don't know everyone but there's at least half a dozen people coming who I would be thrilled to take workshops from. I really don't want to spend the weekend hearing myself talk! I also know there are plenty of people who can't come because of commitments and costs.
So we're going to try some experiments--they might work, they might not. On QuakerQuaker, there's a new group for the event and a discussion thread open to all QQ members (sign up is quick and painless). For those of you comfortable with the QQ tagging system, the Delicious tag for the event is "quaker.reclaiming2009". Robin M has proposed using #convergentfriends as our Twitter hashtag.
There's all sorts of mad things we could try (Ustream video or live blogging via Twitter, anyone?), wacky wacky stuff that would distract us from whatever message the Inward Christ might be trying to give us. But behind all this is a real questions about why and how we should gather together as Friends. As the banking system tanks, as the environment strains, as communications costs drop and we find ourselves in a curious new economy, what challenges and opportunities open up?
Of all of the many people I spoke with, only one had any kind of featured role at the conference. Without exception my conversation partners were fascinating and insightful about the issues that had brought them to Philadelphia, yet I sensed a pervading sense of missed opportunity: hundreds of lives rearranged and thousands of air miles flown mostly to listen to others talk. I spent my long commute home wondering what it would have been like to have spent the weekend in the hotel lobby recording ten minute Youtube interviews with as many conference participants as I could. We would have ended up with a snapshot of faith-based peace organizing circa 2009.
Next weekend I'll be burning up more of the ozone layer by flying to California to co-lead a workshop with Wess and Robin M. (details at ConvergentFriends.org, I'm sure we can squeeze more people in!) The participant list looks fabulous. I don't know everyone but there's at least half a dozen people coming who I would be thrilled to take workshops from. I really don't want to spend the weekend hearing myself talk! I also know there are plenty of people who can't come because of commitments and costs.
So we're going to try some experiments--they might work, they might not. On QuakerQuaker, there's a new group for the event and a discussion thread open to all QQ members (sign up is quick and painless). For those of you comfortable with the QQ tagging system, the Delicious tag for the event is "quaker.reclaiming2009". Robin M has proposed using #convergentfriends as our Twitter hashtag.
There's all sorts of mad things we could try (Ustream video or live blogging via Twitter, anyone?), wacky wacky stuff that would distract us from whatever message the Inward Christ might be trying to give us. But behind all this is a real questions about why and how we should gather together as Friends. As the banking system tanks, as the environment strains, as communications costs drop and we find ourselves in a curious new economy, what challenges and opportunities open up?
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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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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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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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- Christs' role, distinctions in games. Chronicler on ideas about vs experience of God "People who have moved from ideas about God to an intimate... September 11, 2007 1:29 AM. View Comments
- Busy Friends. Blue Gal and Quaker busy-ness "I think Quakers... tend to be self-motivated thinkers, but that can getcha into trouble.... September 9, 2007 1:25 AM. View Comments
- Avoiding political traps. Can you believe: The "surge" is not a failure! Arguing about the success or failure of the escalation traps... September 8, 2007 1:24 AM. View Comments
- Faking weightiness. Richard M on the self-defined faces of Quakerism "One way to become a public Friend is to create a... September 6, 2007 1:37 AM. View Comments
- Baby Names Gone Wild!!. The Bad Baby Names Blog (tags: julie)... September 3, 2007 1:30 AM. View Comments
- Feed your Twitter, Surf 'Nam (not necessarily in that order). twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter Pulls RSS feeds into Twitter accounts (tags: tech.design) Tam's Pub & Surf... August 30, 2007 1:30 AM. View Comments
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