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Over on Nontheist Friends website, there’s an article looking back at ten years of FGC Gathering workshops on their concern. There was also a post somewhere on the blogosphere (sorry I don’t remember...
View ArticleThe ascent of Apple Pie Hill
Yesterday the kids and I took a road trip to Apple Pie Hill, a summit of loose gravel that towers over the South Jersey pinelands from a dizzying height of 209 feet above sea level. A fire watch tower...
View ArticleAlliance Cemetery
I was hired to redesign the website of a cemetery that represents a fascinating slice of South Jersey history. In the 1880s, a group of Jews escaped Russian pogroms, came to America and started a...
View ArticleFWCC Google Maps Mashup
The Friends World Committee for Consultation unites Quakers of all stripes together in joint projects and dialog. It’s Americas office has the most complete listing of U.S. and Canadian Friends...
View ArticleHammonton Food Trucks
From the first Hammonton Food Truck Festival. Cool stuff but the lines are way too long for a single parent with four antsy kids. One of our friends said the line waits were up to 1.5 hrs. I could just...
View ArticleNeat idea: postcard for World Peace
A project from Estonia, a “blog of postcards for world peace”:http://postcardworldpeace.blogspot.com. From the site: bq. The idea is simple: Send us a postcard from your country/city (or any postcard...
View ArticleQuaker Map Hack
To the best of my knowledge this is the first Quaker Google Maps hack, showing the meetinghouses of downtown Philadelphia. Click on the thumbtacks for details; click on the satellite view for a cool...
View ArticleTwenty First Century traveling ministry: of uberQuakers, selfish Friends and...
A guest piece by Evan Welkin Shortly after finishing my second year at Guilford College, I set out to understand what brought me there. During the stressful process of deciding which college to attend,...
View ArticleThe Question of Suffering
The Question of Suffering I was taught to read the Bible in order to find answers to questions. Who am I? Why am I here? How ought I to live? But the Bible isn’t a collection of answers. It’s not a map...
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