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East & Central Africa | Quaker Africa Interest (QAIG)
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Quaker Africa Interest (QAIG). Links to Friends' activities and interests in Africa. East and Central Africa. East and Central Africa. Congo, Burundi, Eastern DRC. Quaker Peace and Social Witness. Successful nonviolent campaigns for social justice have held local authorities to account in Kenya, challenging corruption and upholding responsible leadership. Rwanda and Eastern DRC. African Great Lakes Peace Trust. Website: www.africangreatlakespeacetrust.org.uk. Green Olive Trust UK. Our main programme link...
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Can you believe?: Home
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Published every Thursday (mostly). Last year, I returned to Stuttgart for the first time in 48 years. After that long, my ties to the city as a whole didn't feel strong. And as I recounted. Last year, the house we lived in had been torn down and replaced by high-end condominiums. But one of the owners was willing to let me look over her back veranda. There was the garden where my sister Ellen and I gathered plums. That. Place tugged at my heart. On Quaker community: a dose of humility? Isn't there a bett...
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Can you believe?: Quakers' best-fit market
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Published every Thursday (mostly). I've always resisted the idea that Friends faith and practice are for special people. Since we welcome anyone who yearns to live with Jesus at the center of the community and learn with the rest of us how to live that way (including its ethical consequences), there is no limit on what "kinds" of people - sophisticated or unsophisticated (who's to say! Calm or emotional, of whatever race or nation or culture or even religion - could potentially feel at home among us.
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Can you believe?: a 50th birthday
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Published every Thursday (mostly). Today, June 30, is Ellen Maurer's fiftieth birthday. A year ago I posted my article " On losing a sister to murder. 8212;I don't want to repeat those sentiments now, I just want to remind the world that she really did exist. But in any case, how could she have anticipated such a devastating response from her mother? In mid-March 1970, she disappeared from ISPI. I got a call from her on my birthday, March 23, but she didn't reveal her location. On the 28th, my fa...It re...
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Can you believe?: Heroes, true and false
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Published every Thursday (mostly). Heroes, true and false. Poster by Sally Wern Comport; this copy. Found at Friends Community Church in Fresno. Read Micah Bales on " Who Are the Heroes? Micah contrasts the world's expectations of a hero with the hallmarks of true heroism. Micah's essay is positive and useful. Forgive me for presenting a slightly sour counterpoint: what are the hallmarks of false heroism? False heroism builds community through shared enemy lists. You're considered "sound" if you say ...
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Can you believe?: Genius of the cello
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Published every Thursday (mostly). Genius of the cello. Scenes from the BBC documentary. Rostropovich: Genius of the Cello. But because we suffer.". Of course we know our father's voice.". They were chalk and cheese, but their relationship was. Re-experiencing the Shostakovich cello concerto premiere. Xavier Phillips on Rostropovich's ideal endless bow. He would kiss anything he could kiss.". I was always vaguely aware of the cello, thanks to Pablo Casals and his brief appearance in the film Windjammer.
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Can you believe?: "Don't look for enemies! Look for friends!"
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Published every Thursday (mostly). Don't look for enemies! Don't look for enemies! Peace demonstration in Moscow, September 21, 2014. Source. The enemy of my enemy" is a policy that guarantees. Incoherence and confusion. ( Source. Based on authoritarianism and identity politics are common, it's worth thinking about what "looking for friends" really means. The places where I have struggled, failed . these are what I'd prefer you didn't know about, but if I keep them hidden from you, I'm undermining ou...
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Can you believe?: How the Grinch stole Hiroshima (repost)
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Published every Thursday (mostly). How the Grinch stole Hiroshima (repost). These are my reflections from ten years ago on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. For comments at the time, see the original post. It is the season. For Hiroshima and Nagasaki observances, and once again I will not take part. That was my last Hiroshima memorial meeting. I now prefer to keep my mourning private (excepting, maybe, this weblog entry). Years ago, Dale Aukerman wrote an amazing book,. My priority is the Lamb's War. ...
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Can you believe?: Friday PS: The hyphen within
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Published every Thursday (mostly). Friday PS: The hyphen within. A Poor Wayfaring Stranger. With his post on " A Quaker Path? Set up a train of thoughts that can't wait until next Thursday to depart the station. Briefly:. Would ask the Catholic church to stop talking about Jesus and Mary and the Bible. Paradoxically, who we are. Is a people of hospitality and tender ears. This is precisely why some of our meetings and churches receive people who have allergies and grievances, or who are by nature ske...
