Q. But if you don’t have paid ministers and a church hierarchy, won’t you people get sloppy and self-important, and won’t you start preaching all sorts of weird and irresponsible ideas?
A. We assert “the sufficiency and glorious privilege of inward and spiritual teachings.”
As people grow in grace, and know the anointing of the Word in […]
This past weekend I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress.
Many bloggers will have noticed that levels of comment-spam have escalated rapidly in recent weeks. WordPress now uses Akismet to filter comments, pulling aside comments identified by the Borg’s collective mind as coming from spammers.
The first downside I’ve found is that the old formatting plug-in […]
Christopher Hill’s book, The World Turned Upside Down, was a strong influence on me and my understanding of the roots of Quakerism. Today I’ve added the Rapture Index to the links on the right, and was wondering to myself why I did that.
Is it just a joke? No, not really.
The “World Turned Upside Down” is, […]
In an earlier post, I discussed the group of U.S. veterans approaching the U.S. Congress as Democratic candidates in the upcoming elections.
Using Chris Bower’s latest House Forecast 2006 and Senate Forecast 2006, and a list of “Fighting Dems” from the dKosopedia site, it looks like of the original 50+ possibilities, 4-6 new Democratic House Representatives […]
An email from my dad in Atlanta:
The operation is still scheduled for next Thursday at which time I will be in the hospital for three days. Several times when Kathy and I would ask a question during our pre-op sessions they would say I am in “the system”.
It reminded me of when the Open Door […]
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