Category Archives: revolution

Sacred Activism

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

Sacred Activism is the subtitle of the book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible, by Charles Eisenstein, which I have been reading.  This is going to be the subject of the next book discussion at the Kheprw … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther King, Jr

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

Martin Luther King Day, 2017 “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution“ was the title of the commencement address Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, delivered at Oberlin College in 1965. “There are all too many people who, in some great period of … Continue reading →

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twitter-age civil rights movement

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

Social media is becoming increasingly influential in our political as well as social discourse.  A recent issue of Friends Journal is about Quakers and Social Media.  Many people seem to get much of their “news” from social media.  The decline … Continue reading →

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The Spirit Now

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

The reason I think it is important to discuss matters of the spirit now is because we are moving into a dark, unknown future.  Our civilization seems to go through cycles between times of relative peace and well being for most of … Continue reading →

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Emergence of a New Global Civilization

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

The following post is from the website, Walking the Red Road.  “We Walk the Red Road by Doing Our Utmost To Follow the Sacred Teachings of Those Beloved Elders That Made the Red Road Visible By Walking it Before Us!” … Continue reading →

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How to Prepare?

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

When I created this blog over two years (and 385 posts) ago, I called it “Quakers, Social Justice and Revolution” because great changes were occurring, and will continue to come faster and with more disruption in the coming days.  Revolution … Continue reading →

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Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

“Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution“ was the title of the commencement address Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, delivered at Oberlin College in 1965. “There are all too many people who, in some great period of social change, fail to achieve … Continue reading →

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Economic Failure

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

At the root of our problems today is the failure of our economic system.  The last century saw us convert from primarily a rural society to an urban, industrial one.  We changed from living in small communities where we raised our own … Continue reading →

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The Next American Revolution

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

I am especially grateful for our continuing book discussions at KI (Kheprw Institute) this month because the book we will be discussing (tomorrow) is The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige.   At the … Continue reading →

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Interconnections

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Jeff Kisling

In this time of increasing recognition of and actions on a wide range of social justice issues, by a rapidly increasing number of people, there comes a growing awareness of how  interrelated these things are. Each summer Quakers in the … Continue reading →

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