Christopher Bagley’s Islam Today: A Muslim Quaker’s View is very helpful addition to the Quaker meeting toolbox. The author speaks as both a Quaker and a Muslim, giving us his experience and understanding of reality from two viewpoints of tradition. Can there be a…
Steve Smith’s Eastern Light: Awakening to Presence in Zen, Quakerism and Christianity is a remarkable book in the form of a quasi-autobiographical reflection on the author’s reembracing of Quaker tradition, broadened through the assistance of Buddhist insigh…
The mission of the Bridging the Gap Foundation is to improve reproductive health and contraceptive decision-making of women and men by providing up-to-date educational resources to the physicians, nurses and public health leaders of tomorrow. Quakers once had a…
During a one-month practice period (dathun) at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön gave morning talks to the lay and monastic participants. This excerpt from Awakening Loving-Kindness echoes Richard Beck’s…
Richard Beck is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Abilene Christian University. On his popular blog Experimental Theology Richard will spend enormous amounts of time writing about the theology of Johnny Cash, the demonology of Scooby-Doo or his…
Craig Barnett is a Quaker living in Sheffield (UK), and currently serving as an elder of Sheffield and Balby Area Quaker Meeting. The following are excerpts from the 12/31/15 post on his blog, Transition Quaker . We encourage you to read the complete blog post.
Rev. Timothy Bupp is pastor of Reformation Lutheran Church in Columbia, SC. Reformation is a Reconciling in Christ congregation. The following is Pastor Tim’s column for the January 2016 issue of Reformation’s newsletter, The Reporter. Vicious attacks on…
Forrest Curo posts regularly on QuakerQuaker . In response to Forrest’s comment on our review of The Book of Job: A Biography , reviewer Larry Spears invited him to contribute the following blog post. (Forrest has also published this piece on his…
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…
We can all anticipate The Martian . This film is more than a single star vehicle for Matt Damon. It is more than a promo for NASA in showcasing the value and funding of continued space exploration. More than an argument for science and…
