The following reflection on our A typology of universalisms post is offered by Spears, clerk of the Quaker Universalism Friends steering committee. The QUF archive to which he refers is found on our Publications page, especially through the links to…
“Quaker Universalism in a World Religious Setting,” by Paul Alan Laughlin, in Universalism & Religions: Quaker Universalist Reader Number 2 (2007) Reprinted from Universalist Friends: The Journal of the Quaker Universalist Fellowship, Number 42 Spring/Summer (2005)…
I guess you could say that I am in Quaker kindergarten. As a new follower of Quakers and universalism, a roadmap would be helpful to build my understanding of these institutions. The QUF weblog has spawned many new ideas and raised questions for me…
The April 7 thDo humanism and universalism differ? blog post drew a number of interesting comments. The post itself was a response to “The Interior Life and the Universal,” a 1984 article by Lorna M. Marsden which was reprinted in 2007 in Universalism and Religions: Quaker…
This essay was originally published in Universalist Friends, Spring 1997, v.26, p.10, and was republished in Universalism and Religions: Quaker Universalist Reader Number 2 , 2007, pp.75-77. The core belief of Quakerism as preached by George Fox is…
The founding of a Universalist Group, if deliberately so named in an attempt to repudiate the symbolic forms which orient this human journey —it will become as sterile as that modern form of so-called humanism which imagines a complete foundation for human…
Michael Elkin, our guest author for this post, says he writes from “the perspective of a non-Quaker who finds the Quaker educational system incredible.” We welcome his encouraging commentary. Michael Elkin is a features and op-ed columnist writing for papers…
Readers of the What is ‘religion’? post will remember the citation of Donald K. Swearer’s Harvard Divinity Bulletin article about Wilfred Cantwell Smith. As Swearer writes, Smith’s controversial “personalism” approach to the study of…
Here are some observations drawn from the comments for What is ‘religion’?. One Friend offers this definition: Religion is an authority which intermediates between a community or set of communities and the object of that religion – i.e., that which is…
We have been exploring the possible connotations of the term “belief” from the perspective of various readers of this blog. The exploration was sparked by Katie Kent’s comment that, for her, being a Quaker is “a spiritual discipline and practice, rather…
