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I’m a sucker for a great line and Peggy Parsons delivers today in A Silly Poor Gospel: Protection Then I noticed that this God was a pretty crummy wiseguy. He often appeared to blast good people anyway. A God less honorable than the Mob was not a God I wanted. Hence the apostasy. As always, [...]

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Well, all I can say is, God bless Peggy Parsons: Star-belly Sneeches and modern day cossacks I don’t like fear-based segregation. I do not often find that it is based in reality. I like to challenge it and look for the good in the other side. That’s my default setting.

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I’d love to quote the conclusion of Nancy’s Apology: Harry Potter and the Eerie Silence, but that just wouldn’t be cool. It’s longish for a blog post, and worth every moment spent. I don’t think it was the pagan or magic aspects of the Potter books that drove the conservatives nutty: I think it was [...]

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On Friday 26 August 1664, Samuel Pepys mentions William Penn. This day my wife tells me Mr. Pen, Sir William’s son, is come back from France, and come to visit her. A most modish person, grown, she says, a fine gentleman.

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Yesterday I was on a panel in Second Life for a University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism fellowship program project. The fellows had researched and created reports on “Faces of Faith: God Sex Family” and decided to bring their reports into Second Life. As part of their weeklong exhibit, they organized this panel [...]

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My article on Quakers in Second Life has been published in the June issue of 2Life Magazine (pdf download).

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Fantastic post by Johan Maurer at Can You Believe? on Ten Commandments of Monthly Meetings for Business

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Today I came to a degree of clarity about the role-playing situation in Caledon, the Victorian Steampunk region of Second Life. Here’s the entry I posted to caledonforums this evening: Dear friends and neighbors, I have today come to the conclusion that I can no longer support Caledon’s military activities. While the original goals are [...]

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I’ve been having a lot of fun (and spending a lot of time) in Second Life. My original avatar, created on November 20, 2006, is Otenth Paderborn. Otenth has dabbled in land speculation, done a fair amount of shopping, and created a Quaker meeting in SL (First Friends Church of Second Life, SLurl: Quaker/155/22). He’s [...]

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Great post by Rik on The Click Heard Round the World: Learning to lead: Fundamentally, I need to invest more of me in my work. Not to let Rik the Quaker, Rik the dancer, and Rik the manager exist in these seperate spheres but really let all these integral pieces of myself come out in [...]

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