Quaker Theology

20/05/2024

Rushdie: "Free Palestine" today would be a Taliban state

Writer Salman Rushdie: “Free Palestine would be a Taliban state”   [NOTE: This text was published by Die Bild, a German newspaper, and machine-translated from German into English. ] May 19, 20…

16/05/2024

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The Economist — Time’s up— Volodymyr Zelensky’s five-year term ends on May 20th But he has no plans to step down or call an election during wartime Five years ago, on May 20th, 2019, a fresh-faced …

15/05/2024

Flashback: To Fill Our Wednesday Time of (No) Trial:

Washington Post From, “Behind a pseudonym, literary provocation” James Campbell’s ‘NB by J.C.’ brings together the columns of an incendiary cultural critic. . . . By Michael Dirda
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08/05/2024

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an early feminist writer and artist. She’s remembered today mainly as the author of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a short story about . . . well, about a woman being driven m…

06/05/2024

The Law and Disorder

Here it is: I didn’t vote for Hubert Humphrey for president in 1968. Humphrey lost to Richard Nixon, by less than one percent. And as Andy Young had warned me, it’s been (almost) all do…

02/05/2024

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AP News: United Methodists repeal longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy BY PETER SMITH May 1, 2024 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — United Methodist delegates repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ cle…

17/04/2024

NPR Dissident Editor Quits (my cabbage is still chill)

08/04/2024

Me? I'll stay on the sunny side . . .

The best part for me about the total solar eclipse I actually saw (on July 10, 1972), came several months later, in Carly Simon’s wonderfully bitter tune “You’re So Vain,” a…

24/03/2024

It's time

Dear March—Come in—(1320) Emily Dickinson — 1830 –1886 Dear March—Come in— How glad I am— I hoped for you before— Put down your Hat— You must have walked— How out of Breath you are— Dear Marc…

31/01/2024

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BY ELÉONORE HUGHES January 30, 2024 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The executive manager for institutional relations at a Brazilian state bank took the microphone before roughly 150 people at a forum on sla…

24/01/2024

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Chamomile tea? St. John’s Wort? Staying up all night? Nothing seems to work! I’d even try Kale . . . . (But I did that last year; no luck.) Watch This Space. The Clock is Ticking . . .

15/01/2024

For The Day, and Our Time

Selma, Alabama — February 1965 I In the decades since Dr. King’s murder, I have been bemusedly tolerant of the plethora of conspiracy theories offered in explanation, tending to believe and d…