Sunday, August 12, 2012

Vive la Difference! Reflections on Ramadan

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This is my twelfth year observing the fast during Ramadan. I began after September 11th, 2001, because I wanted to reach out to my Muslim ne...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

A Quaker View of John’s Gospel

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We just finished our home study of the "subversive wisdom" of John's Gospel, led by Bert Newton,  and it went very well, with ...
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Friday, July 6, 2012

Hypocrisy of July 4th

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At today's meeting of Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP),  our President Steve Rohde read, in his booming lawye...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Celebrating Interdependence Day

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It's been three years since I started this blog on what I called "Interdependence Day." I was still grieving for the loss of m...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Why Quakers did not celebrate the Fourth of July

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The Missing Peace: The Search for Nonviolent Alternatives in United States History by James Juhnke and Carol Hunter,  (2004) discusses t...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

A Small Church with a Huge Heart for the Homeless

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Recently, I had the chance to interview Pastor Henry Sideropoulos, a friend of Jill's who has a church in our area (Northwest Pasadena) ...

The Gospel of John as a dramatic narrative, with a Zen Buddhist perspective

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To prepare for our series on the Gospel of John, we invited people to our home to watch the film version of this story. As wikipedia explain...