Clem Gerdelmann had a final contribution to our “Judaism and Quakerism” conversation which we were not able to publish before the end of October. Here it is. The contemporary mystic Richard Rohr postulates that, for every century of human existence, humanity itself…
To introduce our November conversation on Buddhism and Quakerism, T. Hamboyan Harrison (who goes by “T.” online) has given us permission to republish the following post from her blog, Light & Lotus. T. is a convinced Quaker and member of Third Haven Monthly…
Friend Stanley, I am very grateful to you for this post, for my own 63-year path has been a long one of rediscovering and re-embracing the Yeshua of my 1950s Lutheran preacher’s kid childhood. In my late 30s, having quested through Pagan and Buddhist realms of…
Stanley Zarowin, formerly of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting, now lives in Zionsville, Indiana, and is member of North Meadow Circle of Friends (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting). He is a freelance journalist specializing in technology. Stanley has published A Visit to Israel by a Quaker Jew…
Here is our second guest post on the topic of Judaism and Quakerism. Liz Oppenheimer is author of the blog The Good Raised Up: A Quaker woman’s journey to be faithful in the face of her and others’ humanness, and the editor of Writing Cheerfully on the Web: A Quaker…
Many of us have come to Quakerism as a safe refuge and home in which we can give voice to those heart-deep truths we reclaim from our birth religions, without needing to draw boundaries defining “right doctrine.” … Many others have come to trust Quakerism as a safe…
Republishing Cat Chapin-Bishop’s “Open Letter to my Christian Quaker Friends” (Part 1 and Part 2) as guest posts is part of our effort to expand both the audience for Quaker Universalist Conversations and its pool of writers. Cat practices what she…
I am beginning to suspect that we Quakers have a disturbing tendency to objectify, through our pity or our zeal, those we want to feel ourselves to be “helping.” I think I’ve seen us do it to our youth; I think I’ve seen us do it around race; I think…
What is required is to stay low to the Truth, not to hide it or apologize for it…. Do not share one syllable more of your Scriptures than the “Spirit that gave them forth” is speaking in you—but equally, do not share one syllable less. When speaking from…
How can the Society of Friends be both authentically Christian and meaningfully universalist? I am not sure of the answer, beyond the conviction that this is the right question to be grappling with. —Chuck Fager, “Robert Barclay, Theologian of Quaker…