Plain in the city

A plain Quaker folk singer with a Juris Doctorate in his back pocket, salt in his blood, and a set of currach oars in the closet, Ulleann Pipes under his arm, guitar on his back, Anglo Irish baggage, wandering through New York City ... in constant amaze. Statement of Faithfulness. As a member of the Quaker Bloggers Ad Hoc Committee I affirm that I will be faithful to the Book of Discipline of my Meeting 15th Street Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Tell Pharaoh, Let His People Go...

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No Richard, thee is not Pharaoh. Pharaoh is the culture of greed, the culture of blind consumption. I am not Moses, I am only a Quaker. Mose...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

The last gasps of our former faith

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I would post these words to the 15th Street Meeting’s Google group, however, they now employ Richard A. Evans, as a censor and as a child of...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

A very Otway THanksgiving

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Ever since the first Otway fell off the boat into the new world, we celebrate Thanksgiving by remembering the story of the first thanksgivin...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Slavery and dissident Quaker voices today

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Elizabeth Buffum Chace Well over one hundred years ago, Elizabeth Buffum Chace wrote some words which I hope give comfort to the persistent ...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Faith or Fashion among Friends

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Dear Friends: I find a lot of wisdom in the plain faiths which have not given into the fashions of the day. A plain Mennonite was quoted in ...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Youngering or Eldering - a Core Problem

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Dear Friends: For years now I have seen the New York Quaker Quarter deal with conflict badly. We are pulled along by people with obvious iss...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Joe McCann and the war in Ireland - a letter to Nuala

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Belfast 1977 Nuala, a chara: Your father was killed when I was a teenager, trying to make up my mind about how, as a Quaker in the US, to ha...
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