Quakers were among the first religious group to become actively engaged with the Occupy movement, as I learned when I was in Philadelphia a few weeks ago and attended a Quaker meeting for worship at an Occupy encampment at City Hall under the shadow of William Penn. Friends and…
Kenneth and Elise Boulding never felt it necessary to define themselves as Quaker universalists, although without question they were. Both were mystics and peace activists, students of the human condition in its relationships with nature, and devoted members of the Society of…
In an opening address given at the World Council of Churches International Ecumenical Peace Convocation, Paul Oestreicher, a British Quaker, called for the abolition of war by making war illegal. Dorothy Day, a member of the Christian and Interfaith Relations Committee of…
Rachel Stacy, member of QUF, is part of the the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) Delegation that has gone to the northern part of Iraq (near Kurdistan) and is due to return on Oct 25. … Rachel writes:
Over the past months and years there has been much discussion of the universalism and mysticism inherent in traditional Quaker practices. A recent book (Andrew Cornell, Oppose and Propose! Lessons from Movement for a New Society, AK Press , 2011) suggests to me that…
The QUF blog has “gone dark” for nearly three months—a blackout that requires some explanation. This long lapse was owing partly to a technical glitch, and partly to personal obligations which have taken up vast amounts of my time, and which I will discuss…
In writing Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction , historian John Fea has written a thoughtful book about our national story in the United States. In so writing, Professor…
Timothy L. Phillips, Ryan D. King, Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life (2010) 230 pp., $30.00. A review by Larry Spears. … How recently and often has anyone pushed…
By Rachel Stacy … While my last post reveled some of my inadequacies around safety, security, and fear, when I consulted my notes for what to write about next, I found that the keynote speaker at the opening plenary spoke directly to the issue of fear and how it plays a role in…
By Rachel Stacy … During our training as stewards we participated in a seminar on safety and security. Kingston, Jamaica, is recognized as one of the most dangerous cities in the world and in such a climate the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (
