The following is excerpted from Craig Barnett’s 30 November 2014 post on his blog, Transition Quaker . Craig is a Quaker living in Sheffield (UK), and currently serving as an elder of Sheffield and Balby Area Quaker Meeting. We recommend that visitors read the…
Listen carefully and you can hear the galloping hoof beats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse approaching. So the pundits at FOX, CNN, and MSNBC keep warning us: “Ebola, Ebola is washing up…
Winston Davis’ “Religion, Briefly Considered” series: Part 1: Darwin’s Dog, or the Evolution of Religion … Part 3: Carving the Buddha: Was Feuerbach Right?. Part 4: Dojo: Rethinking Projection Theory … Part 5: Religious Magic … Part 6: Religious…
On November 10th, we shared excerpts from Secret Quaker’s blog post, ‘Theists’ and ‘Non-Theists’ – Can we get on together? There were several interesting comments, and Steven Schwartz has allowed us to republish his in the following post. What…
In 1995, I decided to explore the Holocaust with my German classes. This was shortly before I was selected as the first world language teacher and German teacher to be a Mandel Teacher Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in 1997. I made my…
As Quakers stumble over the “G Word” not wishing to alienate the non-theists among us, it would seem of relevance to note that this is a very Old Testament Problem. Since it was impossible to see God, Jews developed ingenious ways to avoid saying his name, emphasised…
Cap Kaylor is part of University Quakers at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Norman, Oklahoma. In March 2014, he offered us “Church: Stumbling block or stepping stone?.” … See Image Sources for information and links related to the images. I grew up in a tough…
During a one-month practice period (dathun) at the Buddhist Gampo Abbey in the spring of 1989, Pema Chödrön gave morning talks to encourage participants “to use the abundant material of daily life as their primary teacher and guide.” … Midway…
Winston Davis’ “Religion, Briefly Considered” series: 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 Projection Theory … Part 5: Religious Magic … Part 6:
T. Hamboyan Harrison (who goes by “T.” online), is a convinced Quaker, member of Third Haven Monthly Meeting in Easton, MD. She is also a Buddhist who has taken formal vows and been given the dharma name Tenzing Chödrön (“Truth light holder of the…
