Home of the Wanderer

On the first evening of the Young Adult Friends Conference this weekend here at Earlham, in Richmond, Indiana, I heard a lot of messages about perfection. (more…)

http://sillypoorgospel.blogspot.com/2008/03/geek-squad-jesus.html

Peggy Parsons, who has a paid position with universal tech support, writes skillfully about the ultimate programmer, the big software re-write, and the human interface. As a tech support volunteer – and as one who likes to customize the system settings, download new software, get all the latest upgrades, and sometimes even do beta testing – I’m particularly grateful for the 24/7 help-desk.

While I’m often more excited about the new releases than I’ve ever been about the millenia-old re-write, I recognize that it’s all being done by the same dev-team. In fact, I think that a lot of the new releases I get so excited about may really just be custom design adjustments to get my interface working. One thing I love about the dev-team: there is no abandon-ware, and they’re always taking bug reports. It’s nice to know that the lead hacker takes a personal interest in making the software work for each and every one of us.

Allison writes in this recent post about, among other things, the relationship between Quakerism, Universalism, and Christianity. That brought to mind this article, which my grandmother recently shared with me when I was back east visiting. In it, Samuel Caldwell argues that Quakerism not only marries Christianity to Universalism, but makes of them two sides of the same coin.

It was a refreshing read for me, as it seemed to speak to (and of) my own condition. I suppose I’ll need to make a note of it in my page about my spirituality.