I was reading Friend Mark's blog - Community, build it or break it.  It's dangerous reading Quaker blogs after meeting for worship when you have let down your guard and opened yourself up to God's will.  He raises a point I have heard in my own meeting and that is that our meeting houses are in affluent areas.  This is raised as an answer to the question of why don't we minister to the poor as much as the early Quakers did.  So as a suicidal act that will make me personna non grata at my…

The coach of a college basketball team at Baylor, Scott Drew, is being chastised for his holier than thou personna while breaking NCAA rules on recruiting.  He is being compared to teleevangelists in his hyprocracy because while recruiting high school basketball players in violation of the NCAA rules he would pray and sing hymns.  I guess only Holy people can pray and sing Hymns. 

A problem facing members of today's church is that they are held to a higher standard then those with…

Let me start by saying I really enjoy Micah Bales blog posts.  I admire that he is trying to walk the talk.  However I can't get on the "occupy" bandwagon.  At least not yet.

When it started I read the complaints of the occupiers and recognized the legitimacy of the complaints against the present economic powers, both government and corporate.  However, I also recognized that a lot of the complaints were the result of their own poor judgment.  They borrowed money to pursue interests…