I really don't update this Livejournal site very much, do I? The new URLs are QuakerRanter.org for my blog and QuakerQuaker.org for the old "Quaker Blogwatch" that has now grown up and become collaboratively-edited.

In addition I have MartinKelley.com which mostly serves to advertise my web services but also has a design blog for the techs out there.

I've started listing the blog posts I find most interesting, calling it the Quaker Blog Watch.

Also on my main site is a start to a collection looking at our Quaker Testimonies. Most of the ones recite (and teach to Quaker youth) date back to 1952. Why did we give up on 300 years of testimonies and what can the old testimonies say to us today? Also of interest is my piece on the Quaker peace testimony.

I'm about to finish up teaching a six-session Quakerism 101 course at Medford Monthly Meeting (New Jersey), part of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. If you follow the link to my main blog you'll see the curriculum I developed plus my concerns about how useful the whole academic-influenced Quakerism 101 format really is.

Also, some links on my personal blog that might be of interest. I'm trying to keep a list of sites & blogs I like. It's not meant to be all-inclusive so I call it my Subjective Guide to Quaker Websites and Blogs. I've also made a special page with some of my Young Adult Friends writings altogether.

Hi everyone. I've updated my list of Young Adult Friends Contacts, which started probably six or seven years ago. I've been somewhat inconsistent about keeping it updated. If there are new updates, please email them onto me at martink@nonviolence.org.

If there are any YAFs out here in LiveJournal land that feel motivated to take on the list themselves, that would be great. We could even do it jointly for awhile. I'm a bit long in the tooth to still be doing it... It's put together as a blog entry so no particular HTML expertise is needed.
Martin

Hi all,
I have my main Quaker-related site at my Quaker peace ranter page. Here's a copy of the current intro to those pages.

One of my interests is re-examining the historic Quaker testimonies, many of which I find still have a lot of power. I think they can guide us most modern of Friends as we struggle with faith in a larger culture were consumerism threatens all aspects of lives. In “Living in the Power”, I address the Quaker peace testimony , and in “My Experiments with Plainness,” I look at plain dress , the testimony least in fashion with today’s Friends.

I also hold a great concern about generational changes happening within the Society of Friends. I don’t think we’re speaking to the condition of younger seekers and I think we’re loosing them in droves. In The Lost Quaker Generation, I lament all the thirty-something Friends of mine who have dropped away from Quakerism. There’s an invisibility and institutional tone-deafness to generational outlooks, which I explore with Peace and Twenty-Somethings. It’s not all gloom and doom, however. Friends have a lot of possiblities with the “emerging church” of Gen-x Post-Evangelicals, seen in The Young Evangelicals and the Younger Quakers, where I map out the cultural baggage we will need to examine if we are able to reach out to the younger generations of seekers. In We’re All Ranters Now I talk about the theology of radically-individualistic faith which is the de facto standard modern-day liberal Quakerism (and explain this site’s name and purpose!)

In peace, friendship, and obedience to the Spirit,
Martin Kelley