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is it yes ter day because i know quak ers can be real ly real ly bad at this make sure you have a web site that lists a phone num ber that rings through to a real per son in real time one that also lists an email that will be prompt ly read and answered this event came togeth er pret ty fast from the first phone call from town ship offi cial sta cy webb late tues day after noon to my unlock ing the meet ing house doors was about 24 hours i was on a video call when stacy s first call came in so i had to let it go to voice mail so also have voice mail set up after my pre vi ous call end ed i was able to reply to sta cy s email and then fol lowup with a quick call to con firm details this was one less detail she had to wor ry about in an event with lots of mov ing parts in addi tion to a half dozen tru itt fam i ly mem bers we had the may or deputy may or town ship man ag er a police liai son and a com mu ni ca tions staffer with a cam era that s a lot of peo ple to coor di nate in a lull in the event sta cy told me it was great that she find and reach some one at crop well meet ing so easily i know com mu ni ca tion can be hard but we need to be acces si ble i ve been ghost ed so many times when try ing to call or email quak er meet ings and it s not just the small ones that don t get back to me some times meet ings with paid office staff also don t return mes sages crop well uses a google voice num ber to for ward phone calls to my per son al cell and emails also auto mat i cal ly for ward to me it s not over whelm ing not in the least i let things for ward to voice mail when i need to and i have ringers turned off at night but because crop well set this up even before i became involved i ve been able to respond to inquiries quick ly once even as i was dri ving to meet ing on sun day morn ing don t wor ry i pulled over peo ple already think we re extinct don t give them more rea sons to think that s true august 20th 2026 in quaker tagged email google lot meetinghouse members quakers surprise web leave a comment truitt family visits meeting august 20 2026 08 20 2026 08 20 2026 martin kelley i had a won der ful time play ing host for a vis it by an old crop well meet ing fam i ly that was vis it ing the area this week the tru itts were a free black fam i ly in delaware who joined self emancipating enslaved peo ple in that state and on mary land s east ern shore to set tle among south jer sey quak ers in the ear ly 1800s the high light was def i nite ly 103 year old mar garet adele mcgee who told sto ries of wor ship ing at crop well in the 1920s tru itt fam i ly vis its meet ing house crop well quakers on wednes day august 19 mem bers of the extend ed tru itt fam i ly led by 103 year old mar garet adele mcgee dropped by crop well quakers august 20th 2026 in quaker tagged highlight law maryland meetinghouse quakers settle south jersey war leave a comment philosophers rediscovering plainness and integrity in an always online world august 12 2026 08 12 2026 08 12 2026 martin kelley i love it when cul tur al essay ists redis cov er a core quak er obser va tion about plain ness and human nature and give it a new name remem ber a few that s ago when norm core became a thing now we have uni context the idea that our online social lives bleed into all of our dif fer ent net works think friends work col leagues roman tic inter ests so much that the net works have been flat tened the con text has col lapsed there s a whole wikipedia post on this the refine ment of this idea into uni context comes from agnes callard a uchica go prof where once we could show dif fer ent faces to dif fer ent audi ences now every one sees all first off i m not sure i real ly buy it from a cul tur al tech per spec tive the orig i nal face book ide al of wide social graphs and pub lic accounts feels like a dinosaur i picked up this arti cle from jason kot tke who notes that blogs have glob al con text twen ty years ago yes many of us were liv ing very pub lic online lives or at least made an image of our selves that was very acces si ble on blogs and in net works like the og image sharing net work flickr which default ed to pub lic access i don t think that s the case any more gen z is most ly absent from pub lic spaces like face book and usu al ly keeps pret ty locked down accounts the app that has come to define the 2020s is tik tok and its clones which is a high ly per for ma tive space where most of us con sume not cre ate i had a great after meeting talk with two younger quak ers this week end about out reach most of their dis cus sions hap pen on var i ous dis cords net works so pri vate you gen er al ly can t even find out about par tic u lar serv er except through word of mouth when i asked them how inter est ed seek ers were sup posed to find local friends if every thing was locked down on pri vate net works one of them sug gest ed there should be an email list i m glad i was n t drink ing any cof fee at that moment because i would have had a real life spit take my first quak er orga niz ing thir ty years ago was putting togeth er an email con tact list first for yafs in my area and then world wide because i did n t see any one else doing it back then local yaf net works were invis i ble to out siders because the web as we know it bare ly exist ed one could argue that genz has rein vent ed the pri va cy but also invis i bil i ty of the 1990s but grant i ng the uni context con ceit for argu ment this is a big post of quak er plain ness yes there were most ly unwrit ten rules but if you open up an old copy of one of the books of dis ci pline and turn to the plain ness sec tion you ll find that it focus es on inten tion my favorite query asks if you dress in a way cal cu lat ed to please a vain and wan ton mind it is the quak er con cept of intregri ty at play going back to root mean ings some thing that is inte gral can not be bro ken into pieces with out los ing its iden ti ty we should act and present our selves in the same way in all con text who we are should be who we are whether at work play church etc sim i lar ly our yeas should be yeas and our nays nays in all con text so that we don t need a spe cial incan ta tion of swear ing to tell the absolute truth of course our lives are com plex i m a run ner and i put on run ning gear when i go out espe cial ly in the august heat but i m not doing that for a cal cu lat ed rea son but a prac ti cal one and i often have a pre run run ning shirt on when i log into a work zoom call any way it s sort of sad that so many friends have con signed old quak er prac tices to the dust heap the ethics if not the details might be some thing philoso phers are seek ing today a philosopher s one word the o ry to explain why the world feels so weird once you learn what the uni context is you won t stop see ing it everywhere www derek thomp son org august 12th 2026 in quaker tagged adult friends blog blogs books essay flickr friends identity love outreach plain rant theo web yaf leave a comment finding the sweet harmony in friends worship august 5 2026 08 05 2026 08 07 2026 martin kelley i interview john helding on the quaker talk podcast about worship fluid quakerism the new issue of friends jour nal is up i wrote the among friends intro this month wax ing lyri cal ly on the son ic land scape of my meet ing in august the sounds of our august silence are far from pure although the calls of red shouldered hawks can be a bit harsh hear ing them reminds me that a fam i ly shares the trees of our bur ial ground the crunch of the grav el in the dri ve way reas sures me that one of our per pet u al late comers is about to join our fel low ship not all the sounds are nat ur al of course once or twice in the hour some one will red line a motor cy cle on the street out side the whiny revs and gear changes drift ing over to bounce inside our wor ship space i usu al ly try to tune out this sound but some times i smile instead know ing that some one is hav ing fun on a hot sum mer day i say a lit tle prayer for their safe ty and wish them well i ve also record ed a new episode of my author video pod cast with john held ing who wrote how can i keep from singing the mar velous mys tery of worship fluid meet ings he tells a great sto ry of going from a very died in the wool unpro grammed meet ing to lopez island wor ship group now full quak er meet ing that sched uled month ly singing wor ship and wor ship shar ing i think i m always going to pre fer the mod el of sit ting down qui et ly and wait ing for the holy spir it but i do appre ci ate that it s hard to build up a meet ing cul ture that invites min istry i m hap py that the wor ship shar ing at lopez island helped uncork nascent min istry in the stan dard open worship as i wrote a few years ago i think min istry should be an expect ed mir a cle and not have quite so high a bar that peo ple are intim i dat ed from speak ing it takes prac tice to know when min istry is spirit led and maybe part of that prac tice is not always get ting it right i know some meet ings face the oppo site prob lem min istry that is per haps too fre quent and too head strong and inap pro pri ate but a friends meet ing is a bit like a choir in that it is always need ing cre ative rene go ti a tion to find the sweet har mo ny we are a cho sen fam i ly that just shows up every week with peo ple expe ri enced and new work ing and learn ing how to hold the body together august 5th 2026 in quaker tagged act appreciate friends friends journal friends meeting ministry prayer quakerism spirit leave a comment reddit thread on quakers and generative ai art august 4 2026 08 04 2026 08 06 2026 martin kelley an inter est ing red dit thread on quak ers and gen er a tive ai art by user balsawoodspirit i encour age friends to please remem ber that gen er a tive ai art is pro duced uneth i cal ly from ai mod els that scrape the work of real artists with out con sent or com pen sa tion in the last few weeks i have encoun tered two instances of quak ers using gen er a tive ai as a part of their out reach this is deeply dis turb ing to me there is no legit i mate rea son to use gen er a tive ai art you can use open source images you can hire artists or you can make your own art or use no art at all bet ter that than to steal from artists and dis play art you hand no hand in making my face book feed is awash in ter ri ble ai art accom pa nied by ter ri ble ai written feel good sto ries shared as much by quak ers as by any oth er demo graph ic my bad for still being on there perhaps quak erism is a spir i tu al i ty that requires active par tic i pa tion you can t just nod off in the back well you can but you should n t quak er com mu ni ties have been lived expe ri ences as some one who works dai ly with writ ers it s stun ning just how much ai has become a crutch for peo ple there are some very active writ ers in quak er online spaces whose work is most ly ai is it for the social boost that comes from being ubiquitous a weird tan gent but hear me out if you read a lot of clas sic quak er jour nals there s fre quent ly sto ries from their teens in which the author con scious ly wres tles with plain dress they talk about the lost friend ships that came when they adopt ed a more uni form style and also about how hard it is to dis cern and nav i gate the inevitable voice of pride inside them selves look at me i m plain with their legit i mate wish and lead ing to be of use to the fel low ship that process of wrestling with ego is some thing that nev er ends for any of us but espe cial ly not one of these min is ters know ing when min istry is spirit led or ego fed is a core com pe ten cy for this work in the end the dress did n t mat ter so much but the baby steps of wor ry ing about it was an ear ly work out of those dis cern ment muscles when we turn to ai we stop work ing those mus cles and offload so much to the machine skip ping the baby steps means we re not nec es sar i ly going to be as prac ticed when impor tant deci sions need to be made let s put out bad art if it means we ll start learn ing how to put out more authen tic art as we develop august 4th 2026 in quaker tagged discern friends lost outreach plain plain dress quakerism quakers spirituality leave a comment u s quaker colleges responding to war in the 1940s july 31 2026 07 31 2026 08 06 2026 martin kelley from sergei grushko a look at the choic es of quak er insti tu tions in a time of war world war ii pre sent ed a severe chal lenge for amer i can col leges but per haps no group faced a more dif fi cult dilem ma than the insti tu tions of high er edu ca tion found ed by quak ers how could they rec on cile a centuries old wit ness to peace with the need to survive i didn t know much of this his to ry and nev er thought about the exis ten tial threats to high er edu ca tion in the 1940s when cam pus es were large ly emp tied of their male students quak er col leges in the usa dur ing world war ii polit i cal and cul tur al obser va tions in light of quak er discipleship blog canyoube lieve me july 31st 2026 in quaker tagged america blog htm institutions quakers time war witness leave a comment the peaceable kingdom lost june 30 2026 06 30 2026 08 06 2026 martin kelley a sto ry by charles fox of just a few of the mas sacres of indige nous peo ple in penn syl va nia in the late 1700s while the friends and mora vians often har bored endan gered susque han nock their paci fism meant they were large ly unable to stop the maraud ing scots irish who were doing the killing as one his to ri an wrote the fron tier did col lapse in late 1763 the sur prise was that the armed mob that descend ed from the fron tier into lan cast er and then to philadel phia in 1764 were white fron tiers men every body had expect ed it would be indians even more trag i cal ly a few of the peo ple who escaped the mobs end ed up being slaugh tered in lat er attacks much of the colo nial gov ern ment was n t quak er in the lat ter half of the cen tu ry includ ing some of william pen n s descen dants still friends today can won der whether the high minded promis es of eter nal friend ship between quak ers and indige nous peo ples were more hol low and aspi ra tional than we d like to admit of course most of the lenape and susque han nock died from european imported dis eases with every boat load of set tlers bring ing more death to the orig i nal inhabitants the peace able king dom lost a friend ship found ict the con esto ga mas sacres in penn syl va nia more than 250 years ago for ev er changed native white relations ict june 30th 2026 in quaker tagged admit friends laugh lost philadelphia quakers surprise william penn leave a comment johan maurer whose faith whose practice april 16 2026 04 16 2026 08 06 2026 martin kelley johan mau r er brings up a ques tion in a post about what was the lon don year ly meet ing s book of chris t ian faith and prac tice he asks whether 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