Stanley Zarowin, formerly of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting, now lives in Zionsville, Indiana, and is member of North Meadow Circle of Friends (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting). He is a freelance journalist specializing in technology. Stanley has published A Visit to Israel by a Quaker Jew…
On October 1st, Friend Clem Gerdelmann of Chester (PA ) Monthly Meeting introduced our topic of Judaism and Quakerism with “Isn’t That Peculiar.” Here is his second contribution. Quakerism, like Judaism, has always had and honored its human Publishers of Truth.
Free Polazzo is a member of Atlanta Friends Meeting and Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting & Association (SAYMA). He is also SAYMA’s representative to the American Friends Service Committee (
Here is our second guest post on the topic of Judaism and Quakerism. Liz Oppenheimer is author of the blog The Good Raised Up: A Quaker woman’s journey to be faithful in the face of her and others’ humanness, and the editor of Writing Cheerfully on the Web: A Quaker…
With this post we begin our October conversation about Judaism and Quakerism. Friend Clem Gerdelmann is a member of Chester (PA ) Monthly Meeting and a contributor to QuakerQuaker and Springfield Patch. He will be sharing a series of posts with us this month. The…
I am beginning to suspect that we Quakers have a disturbing tendency to objectify, through our pity or our zeal, those we want to feel ourselves to be “helping.” I think I’ve seen us do it to our youth; I think I’ve seen us do it around race; I think…
What is required is to stay low to the Truth, not to hide it or apologize for it…. Do not share one syllable more of your Scriptures than the “Spirit that gave them forth” is speaking in you—but equally, do not share one syllable less. When speaking from…
In the February 2013 issue of Friends Journal , Anthony Manousos offers valuable leadings about practical universalism within the Religious Society of Friends. Friend Manousos begins with familiar historical observations about the “Universalist Christian”…
Theomorphology fr. Gr. THEO + MORPH + LOGY: the theory that the concept of the divine is continually and always in the process of evolutionary change. … At the very heart of…