Friend Jim Wilson has a helpful comment on the QuakerQuaker republishing of my post, “Seeing beyond Identities”: Mike, I wonder if your statement, “identities are figments of human conceptualization, not real boundary markers”, makes sense. It sounds to…
In “Seeing beyond the Projections” (9/7/2015), I voiced my concern that modern Friends across the spectrum tend to perceive liberal or universalist Quakerism as representing anything but Christianity. As Wendy Geiger has put it so gracefully in her commen…
Howard Brod first wrote this piece as a comment responding to the QuakerQuaker (QQ) version of Mike Shell’s “Seeing beyond the Projections.” He republished the comment as a post on his own QQ blog (shared here with his permission). There is a rich…
When I first started to attend Quaker meeting as a young adult, I was immediately drawn into the experience of deep, expectant opening to a living sacred presence, both within myself and among those of us present. This was and is an experience of a profound encounter with…
Some recent conversations with Friends revealed that they considered Quaker Universalism to represent anything but Christianity. This is not surprising either psychologically or historically, yet it misses the core premise of universalism: inclusion.
In her own words, Sally Hinshaw Rickerman described herself: Quakerism can be a beautiful multi-colored shawl. It has grades and shades of color for interest. Its richness and strength are shown through its weaving. The disparate threads contained are, in the cloth of a…
This is my current statement of my tradition: I grew out of the … • Mid-western tradition of the … • U.S. tradition of the … • Quaker tradition of the … • Protestant tradition of the … • Catholic tradition of the … • Jewish tradition of the primordial human condition with…
Friends, The steering committee of Quaker Universalist Fellowship has developed a list of potential blog post themes. We invite you to let us know your own preferences for themes for the remainder of 2014. Please give this some thought and then send us your prioritizing of the…
A month ago we published our interview with Daniel A. Seeger. Reading through this interview to find an extract for a promotional blog post, I found one passage in particular which speaks to my condition. Friend Seeger writes: I practiced a kind of smorgasbord approach, or…
Another in our series of interviews with people long associated with Quakers and Quaker Universalist Fellowship. Cherie Roberts interviewed Daniel A. Seeger in November of 2013. Daniel Seeger served as the clerk of Quaker Universalist Fellowship. He has worked in key senior…