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“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Olney Friends School: Survival at Stake

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In Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard,   a family's fortunes become more and more dire, and yet the family is unwilling to sell its valuab...
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Monday, December 25, 2017

Dreams of Christmas

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Dreams of Christmas Ellen in a recent blog (https://austenreveries.wordpress.com/2017/12/25/doing-christmas-in-the-heartsomethingcath...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

For the first time on the web: Margaret Fell's "A Few Lines concerning Josiah Coale," 1671

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Thanks to fine sleuthing by John Jeremiah Edminster, we now have the entire text of Margaret Fell's only known poem to put on line, ...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Quakers and accumulation

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In her biography, Margaret Fell: Mother of Quakerism , Isabel Ross traces an 1826 Quaker advice on Keeping Clear Accounts back t...
Monday, May 8, 2017

Beyond Good and Evil ... the Quaker way

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“ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”  Imbolo Mbue,  Behold the Dreamers...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Katharine Jacobsen's Memorial: Love and Gratitude

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I was very grateful to have had the opportunity of attending the memorial service at Stillwater Meeting House in Barnesville this past Satur...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Towards Peace: Hannah Arendt

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Given how violence-saturated our culture continues to be and how wedded we are in the U.S. to thinking violence is the only viable form of ...
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