Both Buddhism and Quakerism embrace paradox. The ways that each of these spiritual paths takes to get to higher and nobler living involves going deeper into the human experience. Thus, the first of “The Four Noble Truths” of Buddhism is, oddly enough, “Pain…
Clem Gerdelmann had a final contribution to our “Judaism and Quakerism” conversation which we were not able to publish before the end of October. Here it is. The contemporary mystic Richard Rohr postulates that, for every century of human existence, humanity itself…
To introduce our November conversation on Buddhism and Quakerism, T. Hamboyan Harrison (who goes by “T.” online) has given us permission to republish the following post from her blog, Light & Lotus. T. is a convinced Quaker and member of Third Haven Monthly…
In early September, we published a Call for Authors on three monthly conversation subjects. October — Judaism and Quakerism … Regular readers have seen a rich range of posts during October. • Clem Gerdelmann shared three pieces pondering the similarities between two…
Here is a third contribution to our “Judaism and Quakerism” conversation from Clem Gerdelmann of Chester (PA) Monthly Meeting. “Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest religion of all?” … You, my Friends, would think that Quakerism, as Judaism…
Friend Stanley, I am very grateful to you for this post, for my own 63-year path has been a long one of rediscovering and re-embracing the Yeshua of my 1950s Lutheran preacher’s kid childhood. In my late 30s, having quested through Pagan and Buddhist realms of…
Stanley Zarowin, formerly of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Meeting, now lives in Zionsville, Indiana, and is member of North Meadow Circle of Friends (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting). He is a freelance journalist specializing in technology. Stanley has published A Visit to Israel by a Quaker Jew…
On October 1st, Friend Clem Gerdelmann of Chester (PA ) Monthly Meeting introduced our topic of Judaism and Quakerism with “Isn’t That Peculiar.” Here is his second contribution. Quakerism, like Judaism, has always had and honored its human Publishers of Truth.
Free Polazzo is a member of Atlanta Friends Meeting and Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting & Association (SAYMA). He is also SAYMA’s representative to the American Friends Service Committee (
Here is our second guest post on the topic of Judaism and Quakerism. Liz Oppenheimer is author of the blog The Good Raised Up: A Quaker woman’s journey to be faithful in the face of her and others’ humanness, and the editor of Writing Cheerfully on the Web: A Quaker…
