Jonathan Ferguson is a freelance journalist, satirist, poet and author. He writes: “I help Brian K. White edit the long-running satire site Glossy News . See my Medium, Twitter and Facebook. If you find my work of interest, you can sponsor me on Patreon…
During my reflections throughout this period I knew it was right for me to refuse to allow myself to be labelled universalist or christocentric. I was aware also that some meetings in London Yearly Meeting are tearing themselves apart over the matter. It has come to me strongly…
Steve Smith’s Eastern Light: Awakening to Presence in Zen, Quakerism and Christianity is a remarkable book in the form of a quasi-autobiographical reflection on the author’s reembracing of Quaker tradition, broadened through the assistance of Buddhist insigh…
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…
Craig Barnett is a Quaker living in Sheffield (UK), and currently serving as an elder of Sheffield and Balby Area Quaker Meeting. The following are excerpts from the 12/31/15 post on his blog, Transition Quaker . We encourage you to read the complete blog post.
Rev. Timothy Bupp is pastor of Reformation Lutheran Church in Columbia, SC. Reformation is a Reconciling in Christ congregation. The following is Pastor Tim’s column for the January 2016 issue of Reformation’s newsletter, The Reporter. Vicious attacks on…
Eugene Ackerman, PhD, Emeritus Professor Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota died on September 25, 2014. Active in the Religious Society of Friends, Gene was member of the Prospect Hill Friends Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, a supporter of Quaker…
Humans are trapped in bodies, burdened by mortality, cursed with self-reflective thought, limited in freedom, lacking evidence for human progress, confused by morality, and without relief in knowledge or education. That is the universal human condition according to John…
Leaveners: Inspiring Change through the Arts is a Quaker arts charity in the United Kingdom. In 2005, they published Sing in the Spirit: A Book of Quaker Songs (revised edition in 2012). The title comes from The Journal of George Fox , and the words…
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…