I’ve written about the upcoming Quaker Youth Book project I’m working with and said we would soon be giving our call for submissions. Well, the time has come! If you consider yourself a Quaker or a part of the Friends Church and are between the ages of 15 and 35 then we’re talking to you! Here’s the description: The Quaker Youth Book Project of Quakers Uniting in Publications (QUIP) will feature short, multilingual, non-fiction prose, poetry and visual art by international young Quakers, appro

"The Call for Submissions is now available and includes submission guidelines for writing and art and suggested topics and queries. All Friends ages 15-35 are invited to submit their creative work. Click here to get the full Call for Submissions as text and as a pdf download to share with your Friends meeting, church, youth group, community etc. or look at the guidelines below. Submissions are being accepted NOW and the final deadline is February 28th, 2009. Click here to meet the editorial boa

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I have reprinted here my response to Cranath's post related to the May 4, 2008 Christianity Today article, "Are the Quakers Going Pagan?" I originally found this article titillating to my spiritual senses. I even brought a copy to my Adult RE class in our meeting, where we have been discussing just what we each believe, curious to see how others would respond. However, when I read the noted blog by Cranath about our "new Church growth strategy," I felt myself called to respond. I find that I c

I’m headed off to Greensboro, North Carolina on Thursday for the annual meeting of Quakers Uniting in Publications (QUIP). On Friday night, I’ll be part of a panel with Will T. and Gil Skidmore about Blogging as Ministry: The Quaker Way. I’m still developing what I might say, but here are some of the points that I thought of: Q blogs offer spiritual material to read between magazine issuesQ blogs are a form of contemporary, narrative theology Q blogs offer connections across boundaries - window

Young Friends conversation Posted on April 15, 2008 by 27wishes Last week, I was invited to speak to young adult Friends at my local meeting.  I didn’t have so much a typical presentation as lots of question about what it means to be a young Friend today. As one who might not even be included in this group, I actually felt there would be a cultural divide based on something as small as ten-year age difference as well as the modern culture that had developed during that gap in time.  For exa

Let me start by saying it was very nice. 11 people. 6 yearly meetings: Western, Wilmington, Ohio Valley, Ohio (Conservative), North Pacific, and Pacific. Delicious dinner prepared by Nancy Bill. Thank you to everyone who came and participated! I am grateful to Cathy H. for a ride from the FWCC meeting to the dinner. We also rode with Ann S., who was staying with Cathy, and going up to Earlham afterwards. We went over to the Plainfield Meeting gathering because we thought we were going to be too