What do Quakers say about the dilemma provided in the biblical Book of Job? Mark Larrimore’s The Book of Job: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2013) focuses the reader’s attention on the experience of injustice, the success of the wicked, and the suffering…
Quakers are right to select Paul as one of their spiritual ancestors … Careful choice of ancestors is important to our spiritual lives of all humans. Paul is a good early selection. Paul helps set us on an accurate path in the moral landscape of reality. Paul sensed that the arc…
Just as there are many “Christianities,” there are many forms of “Christian Universalism.” … I seek to follow the faith and practice of the historical Jesus, regardless of how later belief systems and their enforcers may have reinterpreted his ministry to…
James P. Carse taught at New York University for thirty years as the Professor of the History and Literature of Religion, and Director of the Religious Studies Program. He retired from the University in 1996. He is a writer and an artist, and lives in New York City and…