These excerpts from “Learning To Embrace the Hybrid Jew – You Don’t Always Have to Pick Judaism Over Another Religion,” written by Jay Michaelson (2/23/2015), are republished with permission from The Jewish Daily Forum . The…
The Seesaw: Answering All of Your Questions About Interfaith Life “is a new kind of advice column in which a broad range of columnists will address the real life issues faced by interfaith and families.” … Amanda Tobier of The Jewish Daily…
Philip Seldek describes himself as an anthropologist, linguist, scientist, researcher, communicator, music lover, conversationalist, sportsman, visitor and resident in many countries, speaker of many languages, worker in development, who can only say that most of the time…
T. Hamboyan Harrison (who goes by “T.” online), is a convinced Quaker, member of Third Haven Monthly Meeting in Easton, MD. She is also a Buddhist who has taken formal vows and been given the dharma name Tenzing Chödrön (“Truth light holder of the…
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 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…
Poet Michele Madigan Somerville (see her blog, Fresh Poetry Daily) is the author of WISEGAL and Black Irish . She lives in New York City. The following is excerpted from her article “I’m with Jack” in the…
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…
“To know is a civic responsibility. And we must learn to recognize demagogues for what they are when they try to wring poison from dogma.”
It is somewhat common for universalists to argue that, when it comes to the various religions of the world, “all roads up the mountain lead to the same summit.” … Yet, as Douglas V. Steere in Mutual Irradiation: A Quaker View of Ecumenism writes…