Kids these days

This post from Nancy Thomas about Friends and Orthodox tradition in Russia beautifully illustrates the weight of spiritual elders:

http://nancyjthomas.blogspot.com/2012/06/quakers-in-context-russia.html




On the other hand, RantWoman never tires of good youthful tantrums:

Manifesto of the Mennonite Anti-Mission Association
http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2012/07/07/manifesto-of-the-mennonite-anti-mission-association/

Extra credit for:

--Using the word "manifesto"

--Vigorously and to RantWoman's ear incisively eldering elders

--Sounding suspiciously like universalist Friends what with all that multifaith radical listening


More Micah Bales bomb-throwing, er excuse me summons to prophetic witness: Burn Down the Meetnghouse
http://lambswar.blogspot.com/2012/07/burn-down-meeting-house.html

The RantWoman department of unsolicited Advices offers:

--a prescription to read John Woolman's Journal about eldering one's elders

----Channeling  Grace the Office Manager from RantWoman's long ago spell selling the nuclear freeze door to door, people who compile terrorist watch lists tend to be sort of metaphor-impaired. If you are going to get inscribed in such a list in reference to burning something down, should you maybe consider a bigger target than your Yearly Meeting?

--a prescription to read John Woolman's Journal about eldering one's elders, again! RantWoman does not know when to quit about many matters on her mind. RantWoman herself has been known to rail about the entire baby boom. And still, RantWoman persists in thinking that HOW one lives one's faith matters, and this includes sitting with the issue of possibly unnecessary intergenerational strife or how all generations suffer when our world is out of balance.


--admonitions to bear with matters of stewardshp of property. God has certainly granted us the capacity to figure out both matters of our own carpets and care of our planet. One should perhaps not rule out the possibility of learning about how to care for the latter by tending to the former.

--If the people lead, eventually the leaders will follow. One assumes Quaker youth have much to say, not only to their elders but to the wider world as well!