“Does thee, Friend, care for a drink?”
By Rachel Stacy … … In contemplating things that people give up for Lent, my attention turned to the debate among…
Topic: Religious/spiritual practice
Fasting as an Interfaith Discipline
By Rachel Stacy … The ritual of Lent usually involves the individual giving up something until the Easter celebration. Often I hear about people giving up chocolate, sugar, fast-food, or smoking. Occasionally the more rebellious Lent-followers declare that instead of giving…
Karen Armstrong, Jean Zaru and the “Charter of Compassion”
Karen Armstrong, author of numerous books on comparative religion, and Palestinian Quaker peace activist Jean Zaru collaborated on The Charter of Compassion, an important peace-building initiative that reaches out with a universal message: The Charter for…
QUF and CIRC: Friendly Synergy
This blog will feature entries relating not only to Quaker Universalist Fellowship (QUF), but also to the Christian and Interfaith Relations Committee (CIRC) of Friends General Conference (FGC).
The Golden Rule: The Movie
The Catholic theologian Han Kung summed up the goal of the interfaith movement in these memorable words: “There can be no peace without peace among the religions. There can be no peace among the religions without dialogue. And there can be no dialogue without a common ethic.”…
Muslim Women Gain Higher Profile in the US
The empowerment of women is always good news, especially for Quakers, who have empowered women to serve in the ministry since the founding of the Religious Society of Friends 350 years ago. Just as Quakerism has gained from honoring the gifts of women, Islam is also benefitting…
Hazardous Engagement: God Makes a Friend
This spiritual autobiography, written during 2001 and 2002, is framed as a series of monthly letters to the spiritual presence. The author later discovered that this spiritual presence who had been her teacher during those seven years had taught lessons that were in close accordance with the theology of the first Quakers!