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

• There exists, finally, a somewhat numerous class of honest but timid souls who, too intelligent to take the Christian dogmas seriously, reject them in detail, but have neither the courage nor the strength nor the necessary resolution to summarily renounce them altogether. They abandon to your criticism all the special absurdities of religion, they turn up their noses at all the miracles, but they cling desperately to the principal absurdity; the source of all the others, to the miracle that explains and justifies all the other miracles, the existence of God. Their God is not the vigorous and powerful being, the brutally positive God of theology. It is a nebulous, diaphanous, illusory being that vanishes into nothing at the first attempt to grasp it; it is a mirage, an ignis fatuus that neither warms nor illuminates. And yet they hold fast to it, and believe that, were it to disappear, all would disappear with it. They are uncertain, sickly souls, who have lost their reckoning in the present civilization, belonging to neither the present nor the future, pale phantoms eternally suspended between heaven and earth...

  Mikhail Bakunin
  God and the state
  (thoughts on)

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