I haven't worked on my blog in more than a week. I think I would have done so over the past weekend, but on Friday morning I suffered a seizure (the first one in my 61-year-old life) and spent the weekend in a local hospital. I'm feeling much better now and went back to work today, but I'll be conse...

Friends, I just added the following comment to my most recent post, and then thought it might be a good idea to also make it a post of its own. Friends, I've decided to implement moderation on my blog's comments, at least for awhile. I will review each comment before it appears in order to keep the ...

I left a comment on a quakerquaker video yesterday, stating that I think it would be better if we Friends, when doing "outreach" or "advancement", would talk less about ourselves and more about God. The following text is an example of what I think would be an improvement. It happens that I wrote it ...

I have long been an admirer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: because of his clear-sighted theology in prewar books such as The Cost of Discipleship, because he championed the "Confessing Church" and resisted the Nazification of Christian churches in Germany, and not least because of the courage with which he...

I just found out that over on the blog A Quaker's Flourishing Faith, friend Jamie has posted a meme and has tagged me. This was done on Feb 19th, but I was unaware of it until I happened to drop in on the blog today. I've never quite "gotten" memes in the sense that word is used by bloggers, and I u...

I hope the Young Friends who wrote the following epistle won't mind if I post it in full on my blog. It is also available at New York Yearly Meeting's Infoshare website . I don't know exactly when this event took place, but it was evidently quite recent, and it sounds like it was very valuable. I am...

Coming soon: My much-delayed self-evaluation of the talk on Quakerism I gave at 15th Street Meetinghouse on October 10th. Meanwhile: here's this: Jeanne, of the blog Social Class and Quakers has invited me to participate in an exercise, along with other bloggers. Each participant is to paste a serie...

The Quaker blogging world is growing so fast that I'm sure very few keep up with it all. However, I hope that people who read me (whoever you are) will also check out the relatively new blog called Among Friends . I'm probably biased because I so highly value Friends Kate, John, Carol and Elizabeth,...

Friends,I have not added much to this blog of late, in part because I've been putting a lot of energy into preparing for a talk about Quakerism which I am to give in the 15th Street Meetinghouse on October 10th. This talk grows out of a longstanding sense of being led by God to seek out opportunitie...

A Friend named Jeanne left a comment yesterday on my post from December 2005 about the New York City Transit Strike . Since not many people peruse my old posts, and since I think Jeanne's comment seems valuable to me, I am taking the liberty of offering it here as a guest post. BTW, I see that Jeann...