https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:36:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 https://www.quakerranter.org/call_off_the_search_parties/ https://www.quakerranter.org/call_off_the_search_parties/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:46:51 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=251 The retreat at the Carmelite Monastery was nice. Here’s some pictures, the first of those “long-remembered”:/if_i_dont_make_it_back.php tall stone walls and the rest of the beautiful chapel:

It was a silent retreat–for us at least. There were three talks about “Teresa of Avila”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_of_Avila given by Father Tim Byerley, who also works with the “Collegium Center”:http://www.collegiumcenter.org/about.php, a kind of religious education outreach project for young adult Catholics in South Jersey (I mentioned it “a few months ago”:https://www.quakerranter.org/teaching_quakerism_again.php as a model of young adult youth outreach that Friends might want to consider). Much of what Teresa has to say about prayer is universal and very applicable to Friends, though I have to admit I started spacing out by around the fourth mansion of the “Interior Castle”:http://www.ccel.org/ccel/teresa/castle2.toc.html (I’ve never been good with numbered religious steps!).
I’m in no danger of following my wife Julie’s journey from Friends to Catholicism, though as always I very much enjoyed being in the midst of a gathered group committed to a spirituality. The idea of religious life as self-abnegation is an important one for all Christians in an age where “me-ism”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScWdek6_Ids&eurl has become the “secular state religion”:http://www.walmart.com/ and I hope to return to it in the near future.

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/call_off_the_search_parties/feed/ 14023 251 https://www.quakerranter.org/more_classic_quaker_books_avai/ https://www.quakerranter.org/more_classic_quaker_books_avai/#comments Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:03:32 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=231 Geeky readers out there might want to know that Google Books is now making many of its out-of-print collection available as downloadable and printable PDFs. They list 42,500 entries under “Society of Friends”:http://books.google.com/books?q=%22society+of+friends%22&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=1 I’m unsure whether this is books with that phrase or pages inside books with that phrase, but either way that’s a lot of reading. A quick breeze turns up some good titles. Thanks to “Tech Crunch”:http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/30/google-allows-downloads-of-out-of-copyright-books/ for the Google news. Older online book projects worth a mention: “Project Gutenberg”:http://www.gutenberg.org the “Christian Classics Etherial Library”:http://www.ccel.org/ and the Earlham School of Religion’s useful but clunky “Digital Quaker Collection”:http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/.

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