I have had the privilege of teaching First Day (Sunday) School these past four months. I have certainly learned much, as a teacher, about Quaker history and Quaker curriculum. For example, in what other group would the curriculum start off with the statement “To talk about…
During a one-month practice period (dathun) at the Buddhist Gampo Abbey in the spring of 1989, Pema Chödrön gave morning talks to encourage participants “to use the abundant material of daily life as their primary teacher and guide.” … Midway…
In its June/July 2014: Concepts of God issue, Friends Journal published a rich series of articles, including the following: • “On the Porch with God” by Sarah Katreen Hoggatt … • “Exploring New Images of God” by Bruce Birchard … •…
In August, Friend Barbara Alison Bryant shared two passages from Elias Hicks (1748-1830). Here she offers some information about sources Hicks may have been influenced by. (See the previous post’s “Resources on Elias Hicks” for additional information.) While…
Friend Barbara Alison Bryant offers us two passages from Elias Hick (1748-1830), an eminent Quaker minister from Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. In the 1820s, a religious controversy within the Society of Friends which focused on Hicks’ ministry led to the Hicksite-Orthodox…
Poet Michele Madigan Somerville (see her blog, Fresh Poetry Daily) is the author of WISEGAL and Black Irish . She lives in New York City. The following is excerpted from her article “I’m with Jack” in the…
Brent Nongbri is a post-doctoral research fellow in early Christianity at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His 2013 book, Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept , offers a corrective to the modern concept of religion “as a universal…
Quaker blogger Steven Davison writes of himself : I’ve been a Friend since the mid-1980s and I’ve always had a passion for the study of Quakerism—its history, its ‘theology’, its approach to the life of the spirit, both personal and corporate, its…
Stephan Finlan is pastor of Mathewson Street United Methodist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. He has taught theology at Fordham, Drew, Seton Hall, and Durham Universities. He is author of The Apostle Paul and the Pauline Tradition (2008), Options on…
In March we published QUF Interview: Daniel A. Seeger. More recently we have been reminded of a QUF pamphlet which Friend Dan published in 1997: I Have Called You Friends: A Quaker Universalist’s Understanding of…