This essay was originally published in Universalist Friends, Spring 1997, v.26, p.10, and was republished in Universalism and Religions: Quaker Universalist Rea… Continue reading →

The founding of a Universalist Group, if deliberately so named in an attempt to repudiate the symbolic forms which orient this human journey —it will become as… Continue reading →

Michael Elkin, our guest author for this post, says he writes from “the perspective of a non-Quaker who finds the Quaker educational system incredible.” We wel… Continue reading →

In the February 2013 issue of Friends Journal, Anthony Manousos offers valuable leadings about practical universalism within the Religious Society of Friends. Fr… Continue reading →

Readers of the What is ‘religion’? post will remember the citation of Donald K. Swearer’s Harvard Divinity Bulletin article about Wilfred Cantwell Smith. As Sw… Continue reading →

Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation, by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2012) Life on the Bri… Continue reading →

Here are some observations drawn from the comments for What is ‘religion’?. One Friend offers this definition: Religion is an authority which intermediates bet… Continue reading →

We have been exploring the possible connotations of the term “belief” from the perspective of various readers of this blog. The exploration was sparked by Kati… Continue reading →

Breakfast at the Victory The ego is the dualist in us. It is the habit we have of seeing ourselves over and against someone else. As ego, my inwardness remains i… Continue reading →