The Sep­tem­ber episode of Quak­ers Today pod­cast dropped, this time an unusu­al look at whether untruth can some­times be more accu­rate than real­i­ty. Bonus: a Bar­bie tie-in!

Also, a new Quak­er­S­peak inter­view, this time with Carl Blu­men­thal talk­ing and Friends and men­tal health. Carl has writ­ten a his­to­ry on this for the mag­a­zine and I had a low-tech video inter­view with him. 

I can relate to Kath­leen Wooten’s metaphor about search­ing for the per­fect pen­cil that would make her effi­cient enough to do every­thing she want­ed (for what it’s worth, Kath­leen always seems to be accom­plish­ing a lot regard­less of mag­ic tools).

Johan Mau­r­er on the spir­i­tu­al resources and iden­ti­ty that a local Friends meet­ing might expect from a year­ly meeting.

The mas­sive dig­i­tal­iza­tion of old news­pa­pers in recent years has allowed his­to­ri­ans to deter­mine the source of the “Under­ground Rail­road” name.