A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
a pink orchid just for beauty's sake
4/4 An amazing glorious way of life
3/3
"In unhurried assurance it bestrides this toppling world, & smiles patiently as it works.
You who have found this Life-or have been found by it—know what I mean."
2/2
"Victory is ever before it. Inward, it touches the periphery of the outward w exquisite techniques; outward, it brings all time & existence into the inner presence of the Divine Life, & refines the gold from the dross. In lowliness it is powerful...
1/1 Wed. Lectio Kelly's 1938 R Cary lecture in Germany --troubled times.
"There is an amazing, glorious way of life of which I would speak. It lies beyond struggle & strain. The deeper anxieties it knows not; its soul is in effortlessness & peace, & yet also in infinite labor & strength...
2026 Beane Lecture | “Walk Cheerfully Over the World”
Last week, I had the opportunity to offer the Beane Lecture at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa. My topic was, "'Walk Cheerfully Over the World': Living Justly Amidst Climate Change" (the link is to a video of the talk, if you're…
Early Quakers (1660) wrote this about war:
Book “Your guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village”
Doing some research for my trip to England and Cornwall
What can a vigil teach us about empathy?
A community vigil reveals how small acts of presence can resist fear and restore our shared humanity, writes Maggie Alsup.
@chaplainmags.bsky.social
The image includes the quotation below on a light green background, along with a picture of "The Quaker Faith" book cover: At the beginning, Friends were regarded as a highly disruptive presence, challenging the established Church and the secular authorities with messages of warning and denunciation… However, within a short period of time, they became a peaceable people who…were increasingly wealthy and respectable. This has created a dynamic tension between the prophetic impulse to be a rebellious people, and the desire to be a well-respected community. The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.157.
At the beginning, Friends were regarded as a highly disruptive presence...within a short period of time, they became... increasingly wealthy and respectable. This has created a dynamic tension between the prophetic impulse to be a rebellious people, and the desire to be a well-respected community.
Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws?
Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?
4/4 ORATIO: Sink into the words. What does it mean in/for today's Time-Now (Thomas Kelly)? What does this poem mean to ME personally in today's Time-Now? What does it mean (for ME) in the Eternal Now?
Contemplatio: If way opens, let go of words & sink into a deep rest in the Eternal Now.
3/4 MEDITATIO: notice the separation between 'out' and 'thrusting', the two forms of 'bless', the repetitions of 'though', the pronoun 'I' with predicate adjectives, the existential 'there'. What do these particular words & structures convey in the poem? What does this poem mean literally?
2/4 LECTIO: Wendell Berry: Woods
I part the out thrusting branches
and come in beneath
the blessed and the blessing trees.
Though I am silent
there is singing around me.
Though I am dark
there is vision around me.
Though I am heavy
there is flight around me.
1/4 Tuesday. I woke up too late (thanks DST) to go to the pool--too crowded for me to get a lane. Instead I'm preparing a Lectio Divina session for our Regional Gathering in College Park Quarter on Saturday. From W. Berry's poem called Woods (Collected Poems, 1957-1982. North Point Press, 1985)
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
of synchronized movements in a coordinated collective effort, even panting together in time. Once I saw it this way it was easier to take part in the 'gathered' body experience. Of course, there is no "direction" to this enthusiasm--- it seems purely joyful and uplifting pleasure of movement.
Today I added Zumba to my weekly workout routine & it was fun even tho I felt like a doofus not knowing the steps. Everyone else gyrated in time to the music, getting more frenzied as the hour wore on; dancing wildly & ecstatically. I suddenly saw my fellow Zumberas enacting a liturgy
This is a Constitutional crisis, and it’s a family emergency.
We’re wondering what happened to our nation, and to people we once loved and respected; to our parents, grandparents, siblings, neighbors, and best friends...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/yes-world-...
Margaret Fell was a key figure in the early Quaker movement. For #InternationalWomensDay, Rhiannon Grant reflects on women's religious leadership and Margaret Fell's 'Women's Speaking Justified' https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/women-s-preaching-still-justified
📣 New Video! To celebrate International Women's Day, we will be looking into the Mother of Quakerism herself, Margaret Fell!
#quakerism #quakers #britishquakers #iwd26
youtu.be/wk0EgcFGecU
To discover the truth about Jesus Christ and the truth about ourselves in him - and to believe it as the truth - is to have a different roux stirred into being in our souls. Not one of fear and anxiety, but one of hope and peace and assurance. C. Baxter Kruger
To discover the truth about Jesus Christ and the truth about ourselves in him - and to believe it as the truth - is to have a different roux stirred into being in our souls. Not one of fear and anxiety, but one of hope and peace and assurance.
C. Baxter Kruger
![“Whether practiced by men or nations, ]nonviolence] well may encounter opposition, hate, humiliation, utter defeat. In the familiar words of the epistle, such love suffers long, is always kind, never fails. It is a principle deeply grounded in the years of Quaker sufferings, imprisonments and death. From the dungeons of Lancaster Castle Friends spoke this Truth to Power: ‘But if ... not . . . then shall wee lye downe in the peace of our God and patiently Suffer under you."
This is the Spirit that overcomes the world.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:blszbqsm2jz3u7uqmxycbgy6/bafkreigtjir75p4upehvk3iolbehp46m4dndqtgas52pi7jms7eg5h3aly)
“Whether practiced by men or nations, ]nonviolence] well may encounter opposition, hate, humiliation, utter defeat. In the familiar words of the epistle, such love suffers long, is always kind, never fails. It is a principle deeply grounded in the years of Quaker sufferings, imprisonments and death. From the dungeons of Lancaster Castle Friends spoke this Truth to Power: ‘But if ... not . . . then shall wee lye downe in the peace of our God and patiently Suffer under you." This is the Spirit that overcomes the world.
Sunday. An Incarnational Theology of Nonviolence thanks to
American Friends Service Committee @afsc-org.bsky.social
Check out all the memes.
I am spending a lot of my time with Thomas Kelly and I agree with you about the consolation part.
COMMUNITY: “If there is to be a religious solution to the social problem there must also be renewed in a disintegrating society the sense of community, of mutuality, of responsible brotherhood for all men everywhere. Such community is built on trust and confidence, which some will say is not possible now because the communist cannot be trusted. The politics of eternity does not require that we trust him. They require us to love him and to trust God.”
Saturday. An Incarnational Theology of Nonviolence for Christianity TRUTH EMBODIMENT POWER TESTIMONY COMMUNITY SUFFERING
Kamala Harris: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not here to say 'I told you so,' but we did see it coming."
