John Linton, member of London Yearly Meeting and founder of the Quaker Universalist Group, spent September through November [1982] in the United States speaking about Quakers and universalism.
Richard Van Dellen is a member of Rochester (MN) Friends Meeting and a longtime convinced Friend. In 2016 we published his review of Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifetime Activist , the autobiography of David Hartsough. … This piece rises from…
Cap Kaylor is part of University Quakers at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Norman, Oklahoma. He has published with us several times, most recently with “Be the Change” in April 2015. … He is the night clerk at a liquor store in Norman. While sacking my…
Scott Martin is a member of Centre Friends Meeting in Centreville, DE, a small, rural meeting established in the late 1600’s, where he recently served as clerk. In retirement, he teaches fall prevention to older adults and writes the blog The Jungian…
The World After Truth … “You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” —John 8:32 … “’What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.” —Francis Bacon … “The ideal subject of totalitarian…
The fragments of one of the world’s oldest manuscripts of the Quran has been found at the University of Birmingham (see “A Find in Britain: Quran Fragments Perhaps as Old as Islam,” New York Times, 7/22/2015). The significance of these fragments…
Peter M. Leschak wrote the following in a review of Kathleen Stocking’s 1991 book, Letters from the Leelanau: Essays of People and Place: “All of us are watchers, but few are observers. Missing are the village elders and seers, the astute perceivers who…
Just as there are many “Christianities,” there are many forms of “Christian Universalism.” … I seek to follow the faith and practice of the historical Jesus, regardless of how later belief systems and their enforcers may have reinterpreted his ministry to…
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…
With A Garden Grows: Quakerism in Nazi Germany , her new book of translations from the German, Mary Mills has given us a challenging glimpse into the heart of courageous, faith-driven action during exceedingly dangerous times. The context for these writings is the…