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Simple Church asks why we don’t remember the future like we do the past. "What we need to recognize and own for ourselves is our future in Christ and eternity largely depends on our ability to remember the 'Future..."
On the same morning I took a three hour bike-train-train-car commute to visit Middletown Meeting, Kwakersaur wrote an ode to sleeping in: "This fine First-Day morning I will practice that most ancient of spiritual practices: nesting."
The New York Times reports on a growing number of religion-oriented blogs, many of them irreverent and contrarian. Irreverent? Contrarian? We here at Quaker Ranter haven't seen any irreverent religions blogs
Quaker Dharma shares a true story: "A man walks into his church. In the course of conversation with his pastor, he shares that his son has become Quaker. His pastor smiles broadly and retorts, 'What committee is he on?'" (The post that follows is even better, so click that link!)
Update: Rich the Brooklyn Quaker has a great-looking post on prophetic ministry that I can't wait to read!

Quaker Storytelling as Religious Ed, a review of Brinton's "Quaker Journals"
Hey, Who am I to Decide Anything on leaderless dynamics w/in liberal Quakerism
Convergence and Ecumenism comparing styles of old & new cross-reach.
Why Would a Quaker Do a Crazy Thing Like That? on Tom Fox and the Friends’ response.
Packing Our Own Bags at the Checkout Line
We’re all Ranters Now, on Liberal Friends
‘Conservative Liberal Quakers’ and not becoming a least common denominator sentimental faith
Living in the Power, Reclaiming the Source, on the peace testimony
The Lost Quaker Generation
It’s My Language Now, thinking about youth ministry
The Emergent Church Movement, the younger Evangelicals and Quaker renewal