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Annual digests: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.
The long defeat, part one, part two.
Silence, freedom, and trust, part one, part two.
The gospel according to Al Sharpton.
"The beautiful Russia of the future," part one, part two.
George Fox: a fresh encounter
Why evangelicals should like CRT
"A country deliberately founded on a good idea"
Seeking to justify myself
How to write about Russia, part one, part two, part three.
His eye is on the collateral damage, part one, part two, part three.
God's sweet revenge, part one, part two.
"The mere sound of his name will signal hope"
The most important question
Home, part one, part two, part three.
Prayer and politics, part one, part two.
Is the Bible nice?
William Barr, Max Boot, and "the vapor trails of Christianity"
Giving thanks for small things
Back in the USSR
Malice in Wonderland
Trustworthy churches, part one, part two, part three, part four.
Good news or bad news (white evangelicals and politics), part one, part two, part three
Let's play
Quakerism of the future
Our new yearly meeting stepping out of the boat
When grief just won't come
The Quaker movement's decline and persistence, part one, part two
What's so urgent about sex?
Labels: evangelical; conservative; radical; socialist.
A good Quaker is hard to find
It's hard to believe in Jesus
Maturity
"On the vocal ministry"
Evangelism and enemies
Grace and mercy
The Good News and identity politics, part one, part two, part three.
Post-Christians and the Bible
Barriers
Regarding, part one, part two
Thomas Kelly and Ilya Grits in conversation
Trust, the first testimony, part one, part two
Agnes Sanford
Evangelism or proselytism? (and P.S.)
Yearly meetings: myth and reality
Quakers' best-fit market
My privacy and your transparency
The ecstasy of worship is connected to pure intention
Boris Nemtsov 1959-2015
Do you want to be offended?
"Don't look for enemies! Look for friends!"
"Every knee shall bow"
"And the inquisitors sent for us..."
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
Open worship
Occupation
Anthony Bloom on the Bible, part one, part two
Forgiveness, part one, part two
Submission
Hope and cynicism
Leaks
Experimenting with prayer
Proclaiming or pandering?
Faith and certainty, part one, part two, part three, part four
Return to Buzuluk
The Quaker mass
Evil
Leading Friends United Meeting, part one; part two
Emotion
Gathering to meet with God
Khrushchev and his time
Meeting Jesus halfway
Neutrality and advocacy, part one, part two
Odessa and Getting the Blues
Gordon Browne
Publishers of Truth, part one, part two, part three
Biblical realism and perpetual war
Blues in the classroom
Are Quakers Protestant?
Evangelical machismo, part one, part two
Christmas shorts, including the Orthodox superintendents' letter to the FUM clerk
Are you adequately ashamed? Part one, part two
The gift of the stranger
To see light more clearly
Redefining Friends United Meeting
"Support our troops" and other incomplete sentiments
Rolling and reading Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction
Does God hate divorce?
Clerk, please
The atheist's gift
Losses, part one, part two
David Finke writes to Illinois Yearly Meeting Young Friends
Vanity of vanities: Friends and class
December shorts: do Friends lack reverence?
The romance of war, and the moral language of M.L. King
Worship seeking understanding, part one, part two, part three, part four
Gospel order revisited
Open hearts, open hospitality
Absurdly happy, part one, part two
Quaker revival
FUM identity retreat: Tom Hamm's interpretive history; what did we accomplish?
Recording ministers, calling pastors
Ten commandments of meetings for business
Why it's hard for me to criticize Biblical literalists (including a few words on John Wimber's Quaker roots)
What differentiates Quakers from other Christians?
New wineskins
How not to prepare for worship, especially on Palm Sunday
Thoughts on innocence
Friends United Meeting and symbolic politics
Rootless
The unbearable lightness of being Quaker
On the execution of Saddam Hussein: To the person hanging in darkness
Yearning for evidences of spiritual power
Where our hearts are, and who cares?
Why read Christian books? (including Mind the Light)
The golden age of evangelism, part one, part two (with Alan Rutherford)
Can evangelicals reproduce? (including Anthony Bloom on the reputation of Christianity)
Safety and the "nature of the world in which we live"
On being present where we are
The rhetoric of righteousness
Repentance
The use and abuse of doctrine (including Anthony Bloom on the development of Orthodox doctrine)
Are Quakers marginal? part one, part two
Why?
Risk and resurrection
On giving and receiving (ethics for donors and partners)
Religious behavior part one, part two
Borrowed time (including "Why Russians don't smile")
Nancy's question: What are we so afraid of?
The poets in my grandmother's world
Plain language, part two: torture
A birthday movie: Good Night, and Good Luck
Evil and Islamo-fascism
The Quaker voice
Give a man a cliché
How the Grinch stole Hiroshima
On losing a sister to murder, part one, part two
Mississippi mellowing?
Creative discontent
Bush's legs and other notes from Russia
Leaving Quakers; also, honoring Marla Ruzicka
Piano Blues: An Eastwood film with no villain
The Return and the cult of the patient woman
The sword of the Spirit
Quiet ecstasy
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Not too late to listen
Redemption and politics

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Johan Maurer: Recorded Friends (Quaker) minister. Member of Moscow Friends Meeting, Russia, and Camas Friends Church (Washington, USA). Past: denominational administrator, educator, pastor, bookseller, dishwasher. Present: freelance writer and translator, blogger. Blogs are personal; they do not speak for any organization or other person.

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