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06 November 2008

Where were you on November 4?


Posted by Johan Maurer at 06 November
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  • Not bearing false witness: a grievously neglected commandment
  • Love: a heavy cross
  • Exceptional pride: USA and Russia, including Anthony Bloom on Holy Russia
  • Being perfect
  • Straw feminists
  • Rostropovich: genius of the cello
  • Meditations on sectarianism
  • Pussy Riot, part one (It is impossible that no offenses should arise...), part two (Prayer and place), part three (Is Christianity under attack?)
  • Why conversion?
  • Love and truth and religion addiction
  • Signs, part one (road), part two (welcome), part three (and wonders), part four (revival)
  • "If you know what's good for you..."
  • Diffident no more
  • How to write about Russia
  • Hall of mirrors
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  • Occupation
  • Anthony Bloom on the Bible, part one, part two
  • Forgiveness, part one, part two
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  • Khrushchev and his time
  • Meeting Jesus halfway
  • Neutrality and advocacy, part one, part two
  • Odessa and Getting the Blues
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  • Publishers of Truth, part one, part two, part three
  • Biblical realism and perpetual war
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  • Evangelical machismo, part one, part two
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  • Losses, part one, part two
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  • Martin Kelley: Quaker Ranter
  • In the Shadow of Babylon with Adria Gulizia
  • Katie Lynn Comfort
  • Rebecca Ankeny's Reconciliation Papers
  • Embrace Katie Terrell
  • Beth Woolsey: Five Kids Is A Lot of Kids
  • Doug Bennett's Observatory and River View
  • Bill Samuel's Quakerinfo.com
  • Josh Brown: Are We Friends?
  • A Friendly Letter, The Blog
  • Nancy Thomas: Mil gracias
  • Eric Muhr's Long Story Short
  • Diana and John Lampen: The Hope Project
  • Gathering in Light
  • Among Friends
  • Ashley M. Wilcox, Musings and Leadings
  • A Musing Environment
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  • Silly Poor Gospel
  • Micah Bales
  • The Good Raised Up
  • Robin M.: What Canst Thou Say?
  • Chris M.: Tables, Chairs and Oaken Chests
  • Noli Irritare Leones
  • Leadership Matters, Kate Dickson on educational leadership
  • Kjeld Renato Lings
  • Annie Patterson and Peter Blood, Rise Up and Sing
  • ...and Peter's site for Quaker resources, Inward Light
  • Pamela MacCarthy's Meladramas
  • ExecutiveSoul.com, Margaret Benefiel on spiritual transformation for leaders and organizations
  • Sabrina Sigal Falls
  • Sveta Politova

Friends and Peace Churches--congregations, ministries, networks

  • Evangelism and the Quaker Testimonies Google group; and its original site on Network 54
  • Moscow (Russia) Friends Meeting (English) (Russian)
  • Reedwood Friends Church, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends
  • Good News Associates
  • Friends United Meeting
  • Friends of Jesus--DC Metro Area, Washington, DC, USA
  • Friends International Center in Ramallah
  • Friends Theological College, Kenya
  • The Conservative Friend
  • Friends House Moscow
  • Barclay Press
  • Third Way Cafe Anabaptist Web site
  • Center on Conscience & War, formerly NISBCO
  • Quaker Heritage Press
  • Pontius' Puddle, the Mennonite Frog and his Friends
  • In Communion, the Orthodox Peace Fellowship
  • Right Sharing of World Resources
  • Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
  • www.quaker.org, a comprehensive catalog of Quaker links
  • Christian Peacemaker Teams
  • Ramallah Friends Schools
  • School of the Spirit


Evangelical and Ecumenical

  • Trillia Newbell
  • Holy Spirit Activism
  • Donald Miller
  • Orthodox Wiki
  • Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Robin Parry's Theological Scribbles
  • Rachel Held Evans
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  • Books & Culture: A Christian Review
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  • Forum 18: Religious Freedom reports and advocacy
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  • PraiseNet.Org
  • Zoecarnate: "Earth's Mightiest Alternative Christian Link Portal"

Russia

  • Yandex Maps
  • The Moscow Times
  • Madina Iunosova's Eurasian Adventure
  • Bilingual Russian poetry site, including audio files
  • A Good Treaty
  • Sean's Russia Blog
  • RuNet Echo: Interpreting the Russian Internet
  • Russia Beyond the Headlines
  • Russian Reference Grammar
  • Johnson's Russia List
  • Official site for Elektrostal
  • Official site for Noginsk
  • Russia Today
  • Независимая газета
  • газета.ru
  • Портал-Credo.ru
  • Yakov Krotov's commentaries, library and links

Music

  • Russian Music
  • Far from Moscow: New Music from Russia and Beyond
  • NRK All-Classical from Norway
  • Radio Orpheus, Moscow
  • Maestro Aszemar Glenn
  • E|Classical, Classical MP3 download shop
  • Lalovibe
  • Oslo Gospel Choir
  • Galbadia Hotel

Blues

  • National Blues Museum, St. Louis, USA
  • Reviews from Don and Sheryl
  • The Blues Foundation
  • The Roadhouse blues podcasts
  • Cascade Blues Association
  • KMHD-FM, Gresham, Oregon: Jazz, blues, and NPR news
  • Blues in Russia
  • NRK Blues Asylum
  • Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland,
    Oregon
  • Blues Festivals
  • Notodden Blues Festival, Norway
  • Buddy Guy
  • Layla Musselwhite
  • Janiva Magness
  • Ana Popovic

International and Development

  • World 66, travelers' reference site
  • News from Kenya
  • Haaretz English-Language Site
  • Jamaica Gleaner Online
  • Vårt Land, Oslo
  • Klassekampen, Oslo
  • News of Norway
  • Lonely Planet Online
  • CIA World Factbook
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  • Mennonite Central Committee

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  • Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
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  • Essential Information
  • Juan Cole's Informed Comment
  • Naomi Klein
  • electoral-vote.com, aggregating political polling data and electoral results (USA)

Law

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  • American Judicature Society
  • The Pop Tort
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  • Georgia Civil Justice Foundation
  • World Court

Other

  • New Humanities Institute, Elektrostal
  • Crane MetaMarketing Ltd.
  • Abuse Recovery Ministry and Services
  • Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation
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  • beingmeta (Ken Haase)
  • Berry Noir
  • I Love Bees
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