Can you believe?

Fifth-day commentaries,
published every Thursday (mostly)

Archive
Contact
Books
Tags
Profile

Five questions about racism

Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

No comments:

Post a Comment

Home
View mobile version
Subscribe to: Comments (Atom)

                 source.

Pages

  • Home
  • Contact
  • Five questions about racism
  • 32 Radio Street
Get new posts by e-mail:

Service supplied by follow.it.

Blog Archive

Popular Posts

  • Christmas shorts (and a midlength bit on FUM)
    Winter gains a foothold on Mir Street. My Western-calendar Christmas has been just about like any other day--I went to several stores, s...
  • Leading Friends United Meeting, continued
    Behind our building, construction continues The main thing I'd like you to do today is to look at the comments that came in from last ...
  • FUM and symbolic politics
    The recent microcontroversy about the Friends United Meeting board meetings last month in Kenya strike me as coming from a small place, not ...
  • Are Quakers Protestant?
    A few days ago I was talking with a group about the importance of the Protestant-Eastern Orthodox dialogue, identifying us Friends with Pr...
  • Are Quakers marginal? part two
    I've been thinking about readers' responses to my question. Since it has been a couple of weeks since I first posted it , I'm co...
  • What is really wrong with Friends United Meeting
    Source .   . . . but first, what is NOT wrong! What is not wrong with FUM as FUM is the controversial policy on hiring and personal ethic...
  • What differentiates Quakers from other Christians?
    Of all the things I could be writing about--the arrival of spring, the great novel I just finished reading, the pleasure of composing text f...
  • Other people's patriotism
    Poster in the Moscow Metro quoting Francis Bacon: "Love of the motherland starts within the family." ( Source .) This tribute to...
  • Trinity
    Mosier, Oregon: Amy H's Pi Day pies. Apple for humans plus three dogfood pies for dogs. (Not connected with Trinity.) In ...
  • A very good gospel
    It was our first morning of our long Father's Day weekend in Pacific City that we heard about the stroke that would take Tom Mullen fro...

Selected commentaries

  • Annual digests: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.
  • "The cult of personality and its consequences."
  • Belonging to Friends.
  • What I know for certain.
  • Are we agents of Lucifer?
  • 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, part three.
  • 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

Labels (tags)

blues quakers russia personal politics discipleship spirituality quaker books USA bible rhetoric theology gospel peace evangelism mideast christianity history trump prayer elektrostal ukraine culture space palestine evangelical films justice orthodox soul fum evangelicalism civilsoc iraq blog jesus norway worship race cpt perpetualwar blogs education missiology environment israel music church mission obama wwii nonviolence internet poetry war orthodoxy bloom sexuality linux ramallah journalism nwym feminism ellen islam reedwood germany Thomas computers iran afghanistan africa antisemitism rswr scymf fwcc realignment torture Francis economics fox protestant religion biography ecumenism humor immigration japan racism travel christian christmas convergence development ethics navalny news philanthropy buzuluk king leadership postmodernism russian Catholic art chicago curmudgeon death lamson occupation occupy pandemic pentecostal putin #blacklivesmatter canada finke judy moscow science sermon silence youth abortion bush community digest emergent engelhardt guns linguistics ottawa rock tangaroa ussr #ChurchToo Bolivia coronavirus easter europe grace magness masculinity mississippi olympics perkins richmond sheehan taize MeToo book britain christians deconstruction democracy friends haiti healing health jazz rockabilly ruzicka stalin #MeToo architecture atheism barclay biden calvin conjunto crosscultural eliot evil family fascism haggard jamaica kazakhstan kelley khrushchev mccutchen media medicine persecution spann stewardship tsvetaeva wwi yerevan NDE SilenceIsNotSpiritual abuse ankeny belarus blooks censorship chaplain charismatic class crane cuba demonic eugene harris holocaust india integrity ivins judaism kelly kennan kenya liturgy london medvedev mortality mysticism nixon politkovskaya refugees reverence roosevelt satan schmemann terrorism thatcher theater tutu venezuela watergate woolman

Books I'm reading

my currently-reading shelf:
Johan Maurer's book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (currently-reading shelf)

Books I've read

my read shelf:
Johan Maurer's book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)

About Me

My photo
Johan Maurer
Member of Moscow Friends Meeting, Russia, attending Reedwood Friends Church, Portland, Oregon, 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.
View my complete profile

Total Pageviews since May 2010
Powered by Blogger.