In 1995, I decided to explore the Holocaust with my German classes. This was shortly before I was selected as the first world language teacher and German teacher to be a Mandel Teacher Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in 1997. I made my…
This is my current statement of my tradition: I grew out of the … • Mid-western tradition of the … • U.S. tradition of the … • Quaker tradition of the … • Protestant tradition of the … • Catholic tradition of the … • Jewish tradition of the primordial human condition with…
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 Clem Gerdelmann, a member of Chester (PA ) Monthly Meeting and blogger on QuakerQuaker, has contributed numerous posts and comments to Quaker Universalist Conversations (see “Clem Gerdelmann”). This post offers Clem’s observations on two new books by…
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…
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…
Mary Mills is a retired teacher of French and German at County Prep High School in Jersey City, N.J., and a former member of Woodstown (N.J.) Meeting. She has served as a Mandel Teacher Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In the April 2003…
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…
The Essential Elias Hicks , by Paul Buckley (Inner Light Books, 2013; see excerpts). Paul Buckley attends Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a Quaker historian and theologian, known among Friends of all stripes for his workshops, short courses, and…
Géza Vermès was a prolific Hungarian Jewish “historical Jesus” scholar and translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls who died on May 8th (see this 1994 interview, Escape and Rescue—An Interview with Géza Vermès, and this eulogy by…