Here’s a movie I want to see, Four Lions, for more than a couple of reasons…
It’s getting good reviews, and it’s supposed to be funny.
DARK, yes, and funny.
It’ll get us to think about difficult topics, like terrorism.
Parts of it are set in Yorkshire, England.
Awhile ago I noticed that a lot of news stories about Muslim […]
I’ve been interested for awhile in the historic parallels between pirates (the English-speaking ones, especially in the Atlantic ocean) and Quakers. Of course, in a compare-and-contrast exercise, there’d be more contrast than comparison, but still…
Here’s an article that may spark some thoughts along those lines:
“A History of Pirates” or “Bootylicious: What do the pirates of […]
WASHINGTON — It was April 1972, and American B-52 bombers were pummeling North Vietnam. President Richard M. Nixon got on the phone with his national security adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, for an update on the air assault on the port city of Haiphong. The men struggled to persuade each other that the war might still […]
Has anyone else received the following email? I wonder how they’re picking out Friends to solicit…
From: “Casting Wife Swap” <castingwifeswap@gmail.com>
Date: December 9, 2008 5:00:58 PM EST
Subject: Opportunity for Quakers
Hi, my name is Jodi Friedman and I am the casting producer for ABC’s reality show Wife Swap. I apologize if you have received this email more […]
I’ve just started reading a book. I wanted to finish it before writing a full review, but it speaks so clearly to my condition that I want to mention it now. We’ll be coming back to it here from time to time.
From an email I sent a few Friends a few days ago:
Here’s the book […]
Especially in recent weeks, our meeting has had more than a handful of out-of-town visitors who were part of the grassroots Obama campaign. (We’re in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state.) That’s perhaps the best evidence I can offer to support the notion that organized Quakerdom is somehow congruent with the movement that took shape around […]
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, aka Clark Rockefeller, aka Christopher Chichester, Professor Plum, aka Chip Smith:
His lawyer, Mr. Hrones, says his client’s decision to take his daughter did not constitute kidnapping, and that the divorce and custody order are not valid because the couple, wed in a Quaker ceremony on Nantucket, never took out a marriage license, […]
Perhaps Friends in the 1800s would have been interested to read this article in the Christian Science Monitor. Episcopalians in the U.S. are wondering what happens with church property used by breakaway congregations. The law is unclear.
[O]n June 27, a Virginia county court upheld the constitutionality of a Civil War-era state law that would allow […]
… starring Sammy Davis Jr. (age 7) and Ethel Waters.
Wow! Hat-tip to Andrew Sullivan.
Some of our oldest Friends may remember when this short movie came out in 1933. This is the first I’ve heard of it.
(For those who don’t know who our Rufus Jones was: He was a prominent Friend in the first half […]
Just a thought from a Quaker perspective…
It seems a fair reflection of the general political-religious discourse today that pastor Wright is confounded with the religious community that Obama joined. Well, maybe Obama has emphasized the pastor Wright as part of his inspiration, but in his speech today he also spoke of the congregation at large:
Like […]
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