02.01.07
Alpha Mind blog has moved
My other blog, The Alpha Mind, has moved.
Actually, it didn’t move. I created a new blog of the same title, in a new domain. I didn’t move all the old posts.
Click the link to find the new blog.
04.22.06
Waiting Worship as Form
Kwakersaur: …it is not the form of waiting worship but the attitude we bring to it.
True, true (and Kwakersaur’s whole post is excellent.)
I like to see the phrase “waiting worship.” It’s the preferred phrase among some of the renewal activists in OYM(C). I like it mostly because I’ve seen it used by people who are denoting by it a different attitude from that of many people who prefer to say “unprogrammed” or “silent.” The “waiting” attitude is certainly humbler, perhaps more reverent. Among those who use it, the focus is not on the form, but on-and-for whom it is we wait.
But if that attitude changes, the phrase will (and already may, in circles in which I don’t travel) be no more meaningful than any other, and the form will be as hollow as the hollowest mass, or puritan lecture, or silent worship, or political potluck.
And CFC too!
I’m also working on the program (if indeed there will be one) for the Christian Friends Conference annual west coast gathering.
On Thursday our Program Committee of three had a meeting in San Francisco (thanks, AFSC, for letting us use the space), and we had a couple of ideas we liked well enough to explore further. One of them was to have a series of three speakers who’d be likely to give rather different answers to the question
What must take place in order for there to be a renewal of Christian Quakerism?
So, as I order and read Brian Drayton’s book, I’m also thinking about possibilities for CFC for this August.
04.21.06
Already thinking about QHD 2007
This year’s Quaker Heritage Day was a smashing success. We’re so excited we’re thinking about next year’s event already. I’ve gotten one recommendation: Brian Drayton. A member of Berkeley Friends Church is reading his new book On Living With a Concern for Gospel Ministry, and says it’s excellent.
I also find that Martin Kelley quoted it the other day, in a very helpful manner.
And then there’s the fact that I’ve taken a mini-course with Brian and appreciated it a lot.
So, we have a start on next year’s event.
04.10.06
A New Quaker Blog
I have put some Quaker-themed posts on my main weblog “The Alpha Mind.” However, I’ve started to think that, as I get more serious about posting, there will be very different audiences for my Quaker posts and my AlphaMind posts. So I’m separating them.
This new blog will be the Quaker blog. Just about everything else I think about will go on the other blog. I think life will be cleaner and easier this way.