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…
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…
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…
Alert, alert! Watch for the economic ideas advocated by Quaker Richard Murphy in public debate in Britain. Jeremy Corbyn is the new leader of the Labour Party in Britain, which party just lost badly the recent election in Britain. The voters returned the Conservative Party to…
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…
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.
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…
The fragments of one of the world’s oldest manuscripts of the Quran has been found at the University of Birmingham (see “A Find in Britain: Quran Fragments Perhaps as Old as Islam,” New York Times, 7/22/2015). The significance of these fragments…
