Year Ago October https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/year-ago-october/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:12:42 +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 Year Ago October https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/year-ago-october/ 32 32 16720591 October flashbacks: Turns of phrases, Quaker political influence, and of course Halloween https://www.quakerranter.org/october-flashbacks-turns-of-phrases-quaker-political-influence-and-of-course-halloween/ https://www.quakerranter.org/october-flashbacks-turns-of-phrases-quaker-political-influence-and-of-course-halloween/#respond Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=58810 Apparently I once had an idea of periodically sharing posts from earlier eras of my blogs: flashbacks to archival posts written one, five, and ten years earlier. Maybe I could manage this once a month.

1 Year Ago: October 2016

Bring people to Christ / Leave them there: One thing I love to do is track back on cultural Quaker turns of phrase. Here I looked at a phrase sometimes attributed to George Fox and find a largely forgotten British Friend who laid much of the groundwork for Quaker modernism and the uniting of American Quakers.

5 Years: October 2012

The secret decoder ring for Red and Blue states: Discussion of the Quaker cultural influence of American voting patterns based on David Hack­ett Fischer’s fascinating (if over-argued) book Albion’s Seed.

10 Years: October 2007

An Autumnal Halloween: A family post, pictures of kids posted to the web long before Instagram was founded.

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