Does Membership Matter? (conversation notes)
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Notes of a conversation among Friends in the West on March 21, 2019, about ways that they and their meetings view membership in the Religious Society of Friends.
Notes of a conversation among Friends in the West on March 21, 2019, about ways that they and their meetings view membership in the Religious Society of Friends.
Dear Friends: I want like to share with you an item I read in The Advocate (New Orleans newspaper) and my own mathematical reflections on it. On November 19, 2015, the Advocate reported that the U.S. drops an average of 2,228 bombs a month in Syria and Iraq, at a cost of $11.1 million a day.
Now that bitterness and hard-heartedness were no longer a very real threat, I no longer needed to be bicycling, particularly in the heat and humidity of late June in North Carolina. I still needed to get on to Savanna, George, but I had no need of a bicycle any more. Nor did I need all the bicycle stuff: tools, helmet, panniers, etc. I thought I’d just leave it all on the steps of a church.
Unabridged version of a story published in the July/August 2015 issue of Western Friend.
