Friends,
The Quaker Universalist Fellowship is pleased to announce the availability of our newest Pamphlet on the web: "Radiant in Joy" by Paul Gilk. This free material can be read on the screen, or downloaded in two different formats. You can find this new publication at http://www.universalistfriends.org/gilk06.html
Paul Gilk is an independent scholar and writer. He lives in a 19th-century log house he reconstructed for himself on land that was once a part of his family's farm in the woods of northern Wisconsin. His roots go deep into what he calls the peasant culture of his German/Austrian immigrant ancestors who homesteaded there. With his Swiss-born wife, Susanna, he raises much of his own food, and they are folk musicians in demand for musical performances throughout the area.
In this analysis Gilk focuses on the widening gulf between fundamentalism and gospel order. "With the rise in the U.S. of the Christian Right, the cleavage between those who live by Christian myth and those who at least attempt to live by gospel has grown wider and deeper and has reached the point of radically distinct spiritualities. When myth achieves the power by which to function independently of gospel, those who struggle for gospel become the enemies of myth."
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