In “Renewing Our Native Religion,” the most recent post on Experimental Theology, his beautiful blog, Richard Beck shares the following quotation from Wendell Berry: [T]here are an enormous number of people—and I am one of them—whose native religion, for…
I have a personal blog called The Empty Path in which I publish my concerns and openings as a “Christocentric-Universalist” Quaker. A passage by Stephen Jay Gould sets the tone: Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or even…
A long-time ecological thinker and critic of American consumerist society, h has also written two books and a collection of poetry. The essay presented here has been condensed from a longer piece, and I hope that in “pruning” it I have preserved for QUF readers a lot of its unique style—often blunt, sometimes whimsical, and always deeply thoughtful. Paul is the kind of appreciative author an editor loves to work with, and I follow his express instructions here in “taking a deep bow.” R.R.G.