Writing

Ongoing:

• Friends Journal (2011-present): Frequent author of the “Among Friends” column (recent examples include “The Truth of Untruth,” “Welcoming a New Generation of Visitors,” and “A Humble Band of Prophets“).
• Host of Friends Journal’s Quaker author chats (also available as a YouTube playlist).

Quaker Slavery and Manumissions. Video talk with Avis Wanda McClinton. Friends Journal, Feb. 2022.

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI. Friends Journal book review, Jan. 2014.

ReadWriteWeb (republished on NYTimes.com), Technology is Great but Are We Forgetting to Live? Quote and citation. January 21, 2009.

O’Reilly Media, Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggregators. Book published as part of O’Reilly Media Shortcuts Series. Author.

Western Friend: Quakers in the Blogosphere (PDF). Editorial features Quakerquaker.org. February-March 2006.

FGConnections, The Witness of Our Lost Twenty-Somethings: Spring 2005. Author.

Friends Journal, The World Is Hungry for What We’ve Tasted: October 2006. Author.

Beliefnet.com, Best Spiritual Blogs: Cited Quakerquaker.org. August 2006. 

Washington Post, Waging War on War, April 15, 1999: profile of a number of peace groups including Nonviolence.org.

Atlantic Monthly, Not Your Father’s Antiwar Movement, April 14, 1999: Cited Nonviolence.org.

USA Today, Missiles Aren’t the Answer: Featured Op-Ed, November 16, 1998. Author.

New York Times, Iraqi Crisis Increases Activity on Peace Network: featured New York Times profile of Martin Kelley, February 21, 1998.

Major Blog Posts

The Lost Quaker Generation (2003)
Peace and Twenty-Somethings (2003)
We’re All Ranters Now (2003)
Passing the Faith, Planet of the Quaker Style (2004)
Quaker Testimonies (2004)
Hey, Who Am I To Decide Anything? (2007)
The Biggest Most Vibranty Most Outreachiest Program Ever (2010)
Getting a Horse to Drink (on Philadelphia YM) (2010)
Tell Them All This But Don’t Expect Them to Listen (2010)
Normcore and the New-Old Quaker Plain (2014)
North American Quaker statistics 1937-2017 (2018)
William Penn’s 12 slaves (a citation mystery) (2021)
Belong Behave Believe (2023)