Hi QuakerQuaker fans,

It's time to start the migration of QuakerQuaker to a new online platform. It started on Ning in almost 15 years ago. That's forever in internet years!

The first stage will be archiving the conversations currently on QuakerQuaker. There are many year's worth of great blog posts and invaluable discussion threads. A recent tool built to examine the source material for all the new AI chat bots found that QuakerQuaker is the internet's second largest online…

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Listen now: Quaker Ranter Podcast

QuakerQuaker member Madeline Schaefer recently started a podcasting interview program called Friends Speaks my Mind and wanted to know how to host it here on the site. We've…

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Listen to: Simplicity, Integrity, Clarity: What is Plain Speech Today?

A panel presentation for Pacific Northwest Quarterly Meeting on 4/16/2011, emceed by Western Friend's…

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Repost of a War Resisters International article on George WIlloughby, Quaker peace activist that died this week. The original version is at http://www.wri-irg.org/node/9522. I had an email chat w/WRI's Howard Clark after George's passing and know Bob Smith, the Philadelphia activist who wrote the piece, and I'm pretty sure they'd be fine with this reposting. If anyone knows of other remembrances, please add them in the comments.… Continue

I'm starting a new daily Quotes blog over on this new Quaker Quotes of the Day blog. My apologies for the duplicate posting, I'm just getting the system in place! See also: my post about this on Quakerranter.org.

Laurence Sigmond, a Germantown Meeting Friend (and QuakerQuaker member) died in his sleep Wednesday morning. From the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Young Friends page:



Many of you know Carl Sigmond from Young Friends. I have learned that Carl Sigmond's father, Laurence Sigmond, died in his sleep at about 5:00 A.M. this morning,… Continue

Over on the One Year Bible Quaker group, I've posted tomorrow's readings (1/29) with some early Quaker quotes courtesy of the wonderful Quaker Bible Index. It looks to be a good reading: Moses continues to tell the stubborn Pharaoh to "Let my people go," Jesus talks about the wisdom of children and gives his famous parable about camels going through eyes of needles.



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This is from a presentation I gave for Quaker educators attending a "peer group" meeting for the Friends Council on Education. I didn't design it to be independent of the talk but I'll share it here in case anyone finds it interesting!



Presenting at a Friends School (Google Docs Presentation). I also later turned it into a Youtube… Continue