Shantideva says a lot about our mindset. The mindset of friend and foe. Like and dislike. For me and against me. And how that very mechanism of buying so tightly into this notion of the good people and the bad people—the ones that I like and the ones I don’t…
Friend Gerry Yokota an American living in Japan, a member of Osaka Monthly Meeting, Japan Yearly Meeting. Born (Ohio) and raised (Kentucky) Southern Baptist, began attending Friends Meeting in Princeton, NJ, in the early nineties and then became a member of
People in the traditions of Christianity and Islam have partial experiences of both violent and peaceful conducting of conflict. Neither is perfect. Neither community is clean or clear from bad motives, fringe renegades and duplicity. Yet both communities have internal resources…
Two Christian theologians discuss, given God’s plan of salvation from the Christian tradition, whether aliens on another planet will need their own separate savior or whether Christ will be the savior for the whole universe. One theologian argues that aliens would need a savior…
Kate Bowler is an assistant professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School and the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (2013). The following are excerpts from her 2/14/2016 article in The New York…
Christopher Bagley’s Islam Today: A Muslim Quaker’s View is very helpful addition to the Quaker meeting toolbox. The author speaks as both a Quaker and a Muslim, giving us his experience and understanding of reality from two viewpoints of tradition. Can there be a…
During a one-month practice period (dathun) at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön gave morning talks to the lay and monastic participants. This excerpt from Awakening Loving-Kindness echoes Richard Beck’s…
T has shared two previous posts from nir blog: “Bi-religious Duality” and “My Center.” The following are excerpts from nir latest post. Here is an introduction from T’s About page: “The name T is encompassing of all my other names. As an…
Howard Brod first wrote this piece as a comment responding to the QuakerQuaker (QQ) version of Mike Shell’s “Seeing beyond the Projections.” He republished the comment as a post on his own QQ blog (shared here with his permission). There is a rich…
When I first started to attend Quaker meeting as a young adult, I was immediately drawn into the experience of deep, expectant opening to a living sacred presence, both within myself and among those of us present. This was and is an experience of a profound encounter with…