Wayne Ferguson has offered to share with us several posts from the blog Getting to Know Jesus in the 21st Century . In the introduction to the blog, he writes: The purpose of this blog, and the little book after which it is named, is to point— more or less…
Cap Kaylor is part of University Quakers at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Norman, Oklahoma. A slightly different version of this article was published in The Norman Transcript (3/26/2015). Recently I had the privilege of attending a lecture on campus by Arun…
Yun Choi Yeung is from Hong Kong and has been living in the United Kingdom since October 2010. Yun is promoting the exercise program of “Exercise as if we were in the Garden of Eden” in the UK and China, and has have just completed a missional evaluation of this…
Called a “rural seer” by the New York Times in 1991, Kathleen Stocking left Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula, took her powers of perception on the road, taught in the prisons and homeless shelters of California, taught in a scary private school in El…
Eboo Patel is the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core and author of Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America (Beacon Press, 2013) and Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a…
There has been a universalist dimension to Quaker-Christian faith from the beginning. It is grounded in a paradox that cannot be resolved, only lived. —Douglas Gwyn, 1 … ‘But Who Do You Say That I…
These excerpts from “Learning To Embrace the Hybrid Jew – You Don’t Always Have to Pick Judaism Over Another Religion,” written by Jay Michaelson (2/23/2015), are republished with permission from The Jewish Daily Forum . The…
Editor’s Note: In the course of our correspondence about the “Religion, Briefly Considered” series, I posed the following to Winston Davis: “I encourage you to consider following your series with a post or two sharing your personal ‘faith and…
Today, after centuries of Christendom’s affirmations that “Jesus is the answer,” he is free at last to be the question again. After centuries in which Christian adherence served as a conformist cloak of social respectability for many, whatever their…
Winston Davis’ “Religion, Briefly Considered” series: Part 1: Darwin’s Dog, or the Evolution of Religion … Part 2: When You Wish upon a Star: The Projection Theory of Religion … Part 3: Carving the Buddha: Was Feuerbach Right?. Part 4: Dojo: Rethinking…
