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…
Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the Perennial Tradition. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in…
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…
This video comes to us from Aeon Magazine (4/14/2015). We blogged about it on April 15th, but we are reposting it forward to be part of our series on “Quaker Families.” … Five was created by Daniel & Katina Mercadante, a filmmaking team…
Jami Hart of Multnomah Monthly Meeting (North Pacific Yearly Meeting) has given us permission to republish this essay, originally published in the March 1995 issue of Friends Bulletin (p.89), and republished recently in slightly different format as a blog post on…
Yun Choi Yeung is from Hong Kong and has been living in the United Kingdom since October 2010. Yun is promoting the exercise program of “Exercise as if we were in the Garden of Eden” in the UK and China, and has have just completed a missional evaluation of this…
Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core and author of Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America (Beacon Press, 2013) and Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a…