Stephen Angell, professor of religion at Earlham College, writes about the belief among early Friends that one could attain “absolute Truth” through the Inward Light of Christ, and how challenging this idea is for us today: This has been a fascinating and…
Adria Gulizia responds to by James Riemermann’s post: … I did not intend to caricature universalism, but to speak to a particular form of universalism that I have seen in Friends meetings and that, frankly, doesn’t make much sense. The fact of the matter is…
by James Riemermann … I would like to ask just who it is that sees universalism as the idea that all religions are equally valid. There may be universalists here and there who actually subscribe to this, but overwhelmingly I hear this view of universalism trotted out not by…
by Adria Gulizia … Is it possible for a Christian to be a Universalist? This question made me think about the common assumption that universalism is a monolith, or at least that all forms of universalism are somehow equivalent. However, while I believe that the historical…
Prefer not to receive webinar invitations? Click Here. Greening Your Religious Community … Wednesday, May 11, 2011 … 10:00am U.S. Central Time … Rev. Dr. Clare Butterfield, the Executive Director of Faith in Place, will provide training in basic…
This Saturday ICUJP will be sponsoring a peace and justice book fair called “Cost of War, Culture of Peace” at the LA Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California. I will be part of an afternoon panel with my dear Sufi Friend John…
David R. Woolley, a Friend from Minneapolis who runs a software design company, sent us the following idea for how Friends might turn the 10th anniversary of 9/11 into a national day of reconciliation: … **** … I woke up one morning last week with an idea in my…
By Erika Thorne, Managing Director, FNVW … “Shukran jazeelan!! [Thank you very much!!] “You have given us a wonderful conference. I came away with more of a sense of HOPE for peace than when I came this…
The interfaith community of California has issued a resolution against our federal government permitting the building of any new land-based nuclear power plants. So has Quaker EarthLight Witness (QEW), the national Quaker environmental organization.
The “Universal Freedom Seder”—an event bringing together Jews, Christians, and Muslims as well as those of 12 other faiths in the Los Angeles area—was organized by Ruth Broyde Sharone, film maker (“God and Allah Need to Talk”) and co-chair of…
