Ever since I was diagnosed with a heart condition, I have rarely gone a month without attending to the needed remedy (for a benign condition). I try to get weekly outdoor exercise and shop for omega-3 foods. I also look to Friends to be just that—an accepting…
The sociologist of religious transmission from University of Southern California, Vern Bengston, makes an unfamiliar argument about the role of grandparents in the inter-generational transmission of spirituality and religion. Bengtson is the founder of the Longitudinal Study of…
Another in our series of interviews with people long associated with Quakers and Quaker Universalist Fellowship. Cherie Roberts interviewed Daniel A. Seeger in November of 2013. Daniel Seeger served as the clerk of Quaker Universalist Fellowship. He has worked in key senior…
Cap Kaylor of University Quakers at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Norman, Oklahoma, addresses a concern about religious treatment of sexual minority people. Below is the beginning of a list of resources for religious affirmation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered…
James P. Carse taught at New York University for thirty years as the Professor of the History and Literature of Religion, and Director of the Religious Studies Program. He retired from the University in 1996. He is a writer and an artist, and lives in New York City and…
Earth has a global, electronic, technology, service economy. Industrial Corporations shifted operations to lower cost labor, countries. Calling a business telephone number may reach half-way around the world. Schools are creating one-on-one education with PCs, laptops and…
In “Renewing Our Native Religion,” the most recent post on Experimental Theology, his beautiful blog, Richard Beck shares the following quotation from Wendell Berry: [T]here are an enormous number of people—and I am one of them—whose native religion, for…
George Amoss Jr., a former member of the QUF Steering Committee, is an active participant in worship and other activities, including Experiment with Light, at Homewood Friends Meeting in Baltimore, MD, and at Little Falls Meeting in Fallston, MD. This…
It is somewhat common for universalists to argue that, when it comes to the various religions of the world, “all roads up the mountain lead to the same summit.” … Yet, as Douglas V. Steere in Mutual Irradiation: A Quaker View of Ecumenism writes…
Acharya Pema Chödrön is principal teacher for Gampo Abbey, a Western Buddhist Monastery in the Shambhala Tradition, located in Nova Scotia, Canada, which was founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1984. She has written several books: “The Wisdom of No…
