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This heirloom quality quilt has been donated to Freedom Friends Church to sell for the benefit of the church.
The details are at A Silly Poor Gospel.

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Lillian Willoughby, Quaker activist, dies at 93.

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Copied verbatim from Noli Irritare Leones because it is just so good:
Heard in the social room after meeting for worship this Sunday
What Quakers are like: “We’re like a small yappy terrier that doesn’t know it’s small.”

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First-person reflections on the Republican National Convention in St. Paul over at Showers of Blessings
But I was appalled at the disproportionality of the display of force throughout the week. It started with forcible entries to four or five homes Saturday morning to arrest RNC WC members and to execute search warrants. Police reportedly used battering [...]

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Andrew J. Brown, an English liberal Christian Unitarian, blogs at CAUTE: Some more thoughts on Garden Academies
. . . if liberals are going to get real things done in these difficult times then we need to recall that our power has always been in the cultivation of small and ever-evolving gardens which, collectively, show something [...]

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My Second-Life alter ego has posted some photos to mark A year of Quaker meeting in SL.
It was a year ago that we held our first Quaker meeting for worship in Second Life, and here we are, still meeting weekly, with a midweek meeting at a more Euro-friendly time getting started, and a beautiful meetinghouse.

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David Zarembka critiques a few news reports on the situation in his Report 17 – Hoodwinked: International Coverage of the Crisis in Kenya
If this story had been true, it would have been one of the biggest massacres in the current violence in Kenya. Even though the story was fabricated, it was passed on by at [...]

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Carol, blogging at among Friends has a number of posts about the situation in Kenya, including a message from Friends United Meeting staff yesterday:
The country Kenya is now in chaos now and many people are dying and properties destroyed as a reaction to the announcement of the results. We are appealing for prayers that calmness [...]

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Well, I’ve cherry-picked the best part of Paul’s post: Showers of Blessings: La Natividad: Year 2
The most touching part for me happens at St. Paul’s when, through a nice bit of stagecraft, the masked José y Maria are replaced with a flesh-and-blood couple holding a real baby. The switcheroo can’t be seen by the audience [...]

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Via QuakerQuaker and Martin Kelley, I found Jeanne’s Social Class & Quakers blog and her blog game on class. As she says,
It’s based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. . . . The exercise developers hold the copyright but have [...]

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