Quaker 2.0

Much discussion has arisen due to the interest groups that Robin, Martin, Liz, AJ and others have been a part of.

I often get the feeling that in America politics are just another spectator sport - not something to engage in but something to talk and argue about with feigned authority.

Let’s just get this out of the way… Yes, the title is supposed to have a double meaning.

It was about 5 months ago when I stumbled onto Quaker 2.0, the first thing that drew me to it was the wonderful layout of the page: I love a good looking website. But as I dug into what was written here, I began to really appreciate Chris’s ideas about Quakerism in the [...]

In particular, Jim Loney has become both a revered voice of what consistency in a peace-testimony can look like as well as a target for those seeking to connect the antiwar movement with movements popularly deemed “anti-christian.”

The whole “emergent church” movement has always embraced the idea that they were counter-cultural within the evangelical context, so I’m sure Brian McLaren wouldn’t be surprised to see yet another “hotlist” of warnings that “Your pastor might be emergent if…” In that vein, I present one bloggers attempt at a non-exhaustive list of characteristics that [...]