Quaker Universalist Voice

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Topic: Interfaith


Islam in the Scope of U.S. Religious Freedom

A Book Review of Asma T. Uddin, When Islam is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom (2019)

The story told here is the incremental recognition, expansion, and protection of religious freedom in the U.S.  Asma T.  Uddin, When Islam is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for…

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We are in It Together

A Book Review of Gabriel Reynolds,The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary (2018)

Gabriel Reynolds, The Qur’an and the Bible: Text and Commentary (2018) will be seen as a major contribution to global interfaith dialogue…

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More than One Religion?

A Book Review of Duane Bidwell, When One Religion Isn’t Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People (2018)

D. Bidwell, When One Religion Isn’t Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People (2018) is unexpected and valuable for counselors, and…

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An Exposition of Laozi’s “Essence of Dao”

From a monotheistic culture without direct revelation, Laozi was trying to make sense of what was going on in his time in China, when the country was divided and fighting one another. Is it the will of heaven, or it is just the corruption of humankind?

His ideas are very interesting when compared with those of a monotheistic culture which does describe direct revelations: law given by the God without a name; spiritual communities developed by the law of the Spirit; and a new commandment to love one another according to the love of Christ.

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The Canaanite woman: Recognizing kinship

“Jesus’ own vision of his ministry was more universal than you say. This is one of our key stories which illustrate the movement within Jesus during his lifetime enabling him to see his mission as one including us. This woman…is indeed for us the foremother of the mission which includes us as Gentiles. Just as she won healing and wholeness for her daughter, so too she won it for us, her daughters and sons today.”

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Exit West and Immigrants

A Note on the novel by Mohsid Hamid

Mohsid Hamid’s Exit West is a novel exploring the experience of refugees in this world, with a little magic in the mechanism of magic doors that permit refugees to engage with the real experiences of refugees in other countries and situations. The theme is…

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