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.
Diversity, rehab and the change of changlessness (Links)
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Of late I've been wondering about the connection between class and race in the Religious Society of Friends, but since I'm white, I don't feel like I have any authority on the matter.
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What if the indwelling Spirit IS calling us to join and mend the schism between us, but in that mending we must all call into question the very common habits of our everyday existence as Friends?
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I wouldn't be surprised if many are lost to the grinding wheels of development and the city looks radically different in ten years.
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The Orthodox emphasis on changelessness, going back to the apostles, and the Quaker idea of Primitive Christianity Revived may have brought them to similar places, however different they appear on the surface. (See his followup post for quotes)
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Robin’s question also made me think about the deeper issues of how we connect on the Internet and for what purpose... The main message [from a blogging workshop] was to link, link, link, both to other bloggers and to news sources.
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The old school model of content creation, content consumption and content distribution does not apply to blogs.... I started with setting the context about why blogs are different and why they present a unique measurement challenge.

