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“Love Thy Neighbor as Yourself:” Discourse on the Nature of Christ

Today’s “Christianity,” and the Gospels, do not focus on the true beliefs of the message of Jesus, but instead on his “Resurrection,” his supposed divinity, salvation, and other divine aspects. This focus tends to make the true ethical and moral message of Jesus secondary to an attempt to fulfill the Jewish messianic prophecy. It is not that divine aspects are wrong or bad, but that the message and true values of Jesus are lost to the divine message.

Found in: /weblog/nature-of-christ


Help for Moral Injury: Strategies and Interventions, by Cecelia Yocum – A Review

The phenomenon of moral injury is currently being explored seriously in the areas of military service and torture experience, and it has been recognized as a genuine challenge by leaders of the U.S. Armed Forces branches and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

It is also becoming the object of broader serious discussion in areas of human experience relating to sexuality, abortion, child abuse and poverty.

Found in: /reviews/moral-injury-review


Reflections on QUF’s 2019 Themes

Quaker’s faith is all about practical Christianity, both in personal and communal prayers, and personal and communal good works.

Faith can’t be complete without good works. Mere good work without faith to God, the creator, author, and the beginning and end of all things, isn’t also enough. These are inseparable as intertwining. Real faith is walking with good actions in genuinely free-will practice.

Found in: /weblog/reflections-eric


Are Quakers Humanized? – A review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now

Have Quakers humanized themselves since the 17th century? If there have been changes, are these changes conscious through a process of “continuing revelation”?

The new book by Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, indicates that this humanization process is indeed the case for Quakers and other religious groups.

Found in: /reviews/are-quakers-humanized-a-review-of-steven-pinker-s-enlightenment-now


A Spiritual Journey

Kristin Loken attends Shepherdstown Monthly Meeting in West Virginia. From her little cottage beside the Potomac River in West Virginia, Kristin writes and works locally on problems she sees as critical to a just and sustainable world. … A few years ago, someone asked…

Found in: /weblog/my-spiritual-journey


“Above the snake line”

[If] it wasn’t for the Quaker Brother Bayard Rustin, the 1963 March on Washington wouldn’t have ever gotten out of the gate…. Rustin said, “My activism did not spring from being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the…

Found in: /weblog/above-the-snake-line


Moral Injury

Moral injury is an emerging concept whose deep spiritual reality should be obvious to Quakers. A deep sense of transgression including feelings of shame, grief, meaninglessness, and remorse from having violated core moral beliefs. Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini…

Found in: /weblog/moral-injury