Moyers on faith and social justice

Once again, Bill Moyers demonstrates his mastery at bringing together powerhouse thinkers on progressive thought.  The July 3 show of Bill Moyers Journal titled “Faith and Social Justice” featured Cornel West, Gary Dorrien, and Serene Jones who collectively teach a course at Union Theological Seminary called “Christianity and the U.S. Crisis” (which can actually be [...]

Headphoneless: connecting to community

As part of a conference on Convergent Friends I went to a few weekends ago, I realized that one of my urban tools, headphones, were getting in the way of my connection to my community. One of my previous posts mentioned my love, fascination, and complex relationship I have with my noise-canceling headphones.  I fell [...]

Children’s books redux

Every year I get to go on a binge of children’s lit, taking a survey of what is out there, what are the trends, how things have(n’t) changed, and discover new pearls among…well.  What’s challenging is to realize that, in actuality, children’s book publishing is becoming more extensive than in the past.  This might go [...]

Passing on…

I’ve had to look up some information on Thai funerals recently (see here and here) due to my wife’s grandmother passing away yesterday. It looks like we’ll be heading to the local temple tomorrow, as she can’t get away from her work to go home, so we’ll have to do it from afar. Her family [...]

Young Friends conversation

Last week, I was invited to speak to young adult Friends at my local meeting.  I didn’t have so much a typical presentation as lots of question about what it means to be a young Friend today. As one who might not even be included in this group, I actually felt there would be a [...]