from Gail Rogers … The Word Conference of Friends ends this week in Kenya. There is a study guide and study circles forming through the website at http://saltandlight2012.org/. QUF’s Anthony Manousos and Lyn Cope are there now, and we can look forward to hearing from them!
by Gail Rogers … During my 35 years as a Friend, I have heard various people say “I don’t fit in because I am a Christian,” or “I don’t feel welcome because I am not Christian,” or “I feel connected to nature in my spirituality…
by Anthony Manousos … For the past six years I have been the official Quaker representative to Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (icujp.org), which was started by religious leaders in Los Angeles after 9/11 with the motto: “Religious communities must stop…
In his blog, The Empty Path, Mike Shell shares his quest to understand how to “hear or to be heard across the boundaries of our differing belief systems.” How do you speak of your spiritual experiences among Friends, and to the world at large? Do you find…
Gail Rogers calls our attention to an interfaith panel on sustainability that took place at Marylhurst College : … A young Friend discusses Quaker practice and testimonies relating to the environment and sustainability:
Gail Rogers, a member of QUF, found some interesting postings on the quakerquaker.org website that she would like to share. She writes: … The first involves ideas of the Holy Spirit and Jesus in a universalist context- and includes a…
I am grateful for the discussion that has taken place this week in response to the question: Are Quakers Christian, non-Christian, or both? I especially appreciated the discussion of the Inward Light, since the second part of the workshop I have been asked to lead addresses the…
Are you interested in sharing in the exploration of universalism themes around the Quaker tradition? Issues of universalism are so important for how we link faith and practice and for our global future together. The Quaker Univeralist Fellowship Steering Committee would…
Brad Ogilvie, a member of the Christian and Interfaith Relations Committee (and a Quaker), writes about what he gets from occasionally attending an episcopal worship service at The National Cathedral. Do you go to worship services other than your own? Why? And what do you…
“Are Quakers Christian, not Christian—or both—in the historical perspective of 400 years? What has been your experience of Christianity? How have your experiences of Christianity influenced your spiritual journey? Have they strengthened you? Hurt…
