Invisible Quaker Misfits
This week I received an email from a young seeker in the Philadelphia area who found my 2005 article “Witness of Our Lost Twenty-Somethings” published in FGConnections. She’s a former youth ministries...
View ArticleQuakermaps: DIY Friends FTW!
A few weeks ago Micah Bales IM’ed me, as he often does, and asked for my feedback on a project he and Jon Watts were working on. They were building a map of all the Friends meetinghouses and churches...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Yearly Meeting’s Interim Meeting: Getting a horse to drink
This past weekend I gave a talk at the Arch Street Meetinghouse after the Interim Meeting sessions of Philadlephia Yearly Meeting. Interim Meeting is the group that meets sort-of monthly between yearly...
View ArticleRethinking Blogs
In last weekend’s NYTimes Magazine, Michael Erard writes about the history of online comments. Even though I was involved with blogging from its earliest days, it surprised me to remember that...
View ArticleBetsy Cazden’s new site
I’m pleased to announce that my latest freelance project has just launched: BetsyCazden.com. There’s nothing particularly revolutionary about the technology behind the site or its design, but the...
View ArticleSEO Myths I: Analyze This
Every web designer under the sun talks about search engine optimization (SEO), but it amazes me to see how often basic principles are ignored. I’m in-between jobs right now, which means I’m spending a...
View ArticleWhat Convergence means to Ohio Conservative
Robin M’s recent post on a “Convergent Friends definition”:http://robinmsf.blogspot.com/2007/07/two-convergent-events-in-california.html has garnered a number of fascinating commenters. The latest...
View ArticleSite update
Warning: Geek to follow: Thanks to readers for their patience these past few days as I’ve transferred QuakerRanter to a new web host. My old account had multiple sites on the same server, including...
View ArticleSave St. Mary’s
Julie’s been busy this weekend following up on the rally she attended Friday, hooking up with all of the organizing that’s happening to save St. Mary’s Church in Malaga NJ. She’s taken lots of pictures...
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