The Seed Lifting Up

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Selected Posts

Post-Quakerism

• Carrying the Society as long as you can
• La espiritualidad post-religiosa
• The universe keeps surprising me (on evangelical Friends)
• More on understanding Quaker business method
• Rationalizing Quaker business theory
• A post-Quaker vision of the Society of Friends

Nontheism/humanism

• Report on the Nontheist Friends interest group at New England YM
• New humanist blogroll
• "God's will" for a nontheist
• Nontheism & Quaker meeting for business
• James Riemermann's "Two Gods at least"
• "There is no God" at New England Yearly Meeting
• On "honest but timid souls"

Sexuality

• On Quakers and polyamory
• "Sex... with Quakers"

Other contemporary issues

• Mutual aid and Olympia Friends
• Early report on NEYM and FUM
• On birthright membership
• Four ways to make your meeting Christian
• Boston Young Adult Friends
• Simplicity, beauty & testimony
• A business meeting at Cambridge on child abuse
• New England YM 2006 Sessions roundup

Early Friends

• The signatures of early Friends
• The place of the past in the Quaker present
• Introduction to Richard Hubberthorne
• The scandal of early Quaker studies
• The Friends that Quakers aren't

About me

• My non-Quaker blog: Evolt
• Free, single & disengaged

Quote

• So his initial message was always the same: give up your dependence on doctrines, rituals, preachers and everything else that is external to you, and find the light within you because that will teach you all you need to know. And you already know what the light is, because it's that that makes you uncomfortable about the things you do wrong. So take note of those uncomfortable feelings, and let 'the light in your conscience' show you what they're all about it. If you allow it to, the light will show you the whole truth of your life, and if you then accept that truth, it will set you free – free from guilt and shame, but also free from the powerful desires that made you act wrongly in the first place.

  Rex Ambler,
  Light to Live By p. 7

Links

Evidence-based spirituality

• Sam Harris:
• – A Contemplative Science
• – Killing the Buddha
• – Selfless Consciousness without Faith
• Experiment with Light main site
• Experiment with Light on Quakerpedia
• Light to Live By (CDs)
• Truth of the Heart

Quaker links

• Quaker Information Center
• Quakerpedia
• Quaker Youth
• Nontheist Friends (discussion list)
• Quaker Heritage Press
• Polyamorous Quakers

Quaker blogs

• reaching for the light
• Mind on Fire
• A Tentative Quaker
• A Friend in Need
• Ruby Third-Day
• The Friendly Funnel
• the seams of a (newly) peculiar queer
• Quaker Social Action
• Quaker Street
• A Place to Stand
• Light and silence
• The Lamb's War
• Quaker Pagan Reflections
• Peterson Toscano
• A West Rindge Quaker
• More: QuakerQuaker / Zebby

Unitarian Universalist blogs

• Occam's Trowel
• Arbitrary Marks
• debitage
• Free & Responsible Search
• reason and reverence
• Philocrites
• Earthbound Spirit
• UU Rampage!

Humanist/atheist blogs

• New Humanist (UK) Blog
• The Spiritual Humanist
• Glittering Muse
• philalethia
• Pink Prozac
• Aggregators:
• Planet Atheism
• Planet Humanism (meta)

Science blogs

• ScienceBlogs
• — Brain & Behavior
• — Philosophy of Science
• — Culture Wars
• Mind Hacks