Indianapolis, Indiana, April 4, 1968 link to photo gallery April 4, 1968, Robert F Kennedy gave several speeches in Indiana as he campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. This young white man, as the United … Continue reading
I’ve mentioned that each month Quaker Meetings in Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) consider one of the twelve sets of advices and queries, which are questions aimed at fostering discussions of the spiritual life of our meetings. This month’s topic is … Continue reading
I discovered early in life that I am an adrenaline junkie. Going up against the Selective Service System as a draft resister was an early clue. Then the years working in Neonatal Intensive Care, and especially the intense situations in … Continue reading
Mind maps are a visual tool to help organize how you think about a subject. The are like an outline, but also show the relationships or connections between parts of the subject. A number of (many free) mind mapping software … Continue reading
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Easter morning, 2016 It used to make me uncomfortable to think about the miracles of Jesus’ birth and rising from the dead. One of the reasons I have remained a Quaker is that most of…
What is the peace movement to make of Donald Trump’s position that the United States should get out of the world police/nation building business, reported in this article in The Nation: Donald Trump Could Be the Military-Industrial Complex’s Worst Nightmare: … Continue reading
What could be more outrageous than creating an environment that allows private businesses to profit, hugely, from the process of incarceration? Who could not know that would result in significant efforts on the part of the prison industry to encourage … Continue reading
As described here, Friends in Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) have wanted to collect stories of Quakers and their lives, to preserve and to share. The Quaker Story Project website categorized the stories so they could be searched by person, subject, … Continue reading
My friend Derek Glass is too busy developing digital community tools like Sustainability Scout to do much writing, but he gave me permission to share the following from a recent email message. This is how we make progress, one story … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 