This essay was originally published in Universalist Friends, Spring 1997, v.26, p.10, and was republished in Universalism and Religions: Quaker Universalist Reader Number 2 , 2007, pp.75-77. The core belief of Quakerism as preached by George Fox is…
Breakfast at the Victory … The ego is the dualist in us. It is the habit we have of seeing ourselves over and against someone else. As ego, my inwardness remains inward because it is completely closed off to you by my outwardness… … In fact, belief and unbelief are…
Friends have a healthy wariness of calendars, and particularly of names or ceremonies assigned to particular days in a calendar. Human beings by nature ascribe meaning—sometimes sacred meaning—to patterns of events and objects. Such naming is of biological…
Because my Meeting worships in the staff lounge of a large urban cemetery, we occasionally have intrusions from non-Quakers who break the silence with well-meant yet disruptive questions. Recently, three interruptions in a row had me first chuckling and then quaking with the…
Many Friends share mutual bemusement over what they call The Question, namely: “What do Quakers believe?” … In his “Among Friends” column for the January 2012 issue of Friends Journal , Gabriel Ehri describes how he learned not to preface her…
I had an opening early this morning, the sort of opening which I experience as remembering something I already knew. Intellect brings human beings to the doorway of awareness and leaves them there. I suppose my brain was riffing on another saying I don’t remember clearly…
by Rachel Stacy … Balancing several writing projects while touring another country is proving challenging but in these liminal spaces I feel incredibly aware of the world around me and my own processing of all these experiences. Yesterday in effort to get something out for this…
By Rhoda Gilman … During the past three years the Quaker Universalist Fellowship has discussed the possibility of following up its three QUF Readers with a book-length collection of Quaker universalist publications on mysticism. …
… I went to the Los Angeles screening of a new documentary“Out of Cordoba” at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills. The place was packed with people—Muslims, Christians, Jews and others who are part of LA’s dynamic interfaith community. I expected a film about the…
Our attempts to establish a vision of peace, justice, equality, respect for the environment, are all aspects of this spiritual vision. Indeed our testimony in the world is the proof of the depths of the vision we have been granted.