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…
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…
T has shared two previous posts from nir blog: “Bi-religious Duality” and “My Center.” The following are excerpts from nir latest post. Here is an introduction from T’s About page: “The name T is encompassing of all my other names. As an…
Keep the Quaker Universalist Message Flourishing … In 1984, when visionary Quakers founded the Quaker Universalist Fellowship, they set up a foundation to ensure that a universalist voice in Quakerism would be available to the world. A legacy for QUF…
Quakers are right to select Paul as one of their spiritual ancestors … Careful choice of ancestors is important to our spiritual lives of all humans. Paul is a good early selection. Paul helps set us on an accurate path in the moral landscape of reality. Paul sensed that the arc…
Website innovation and creativity are universal and can be showcased by Monthly Meetings and Friends Churches across the Quaker spectrum. QUF offers an award of $100 to an innovative Monthly Meeting Quaker website. Find out more about how to enter.
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…
