I have been asked what a post about a beloved Jewish songwriter/singer Debbie Friedman has to do with Quakerism and Universalism. It’s a fair question, and here’s my response. First, a number of Friends of Jewish background are members of our Quaker meetings and play…
January 9, 2011 … Today I would like to join with the Jewish community in mourning the passing of Debbie Friedman, a singer/songwriter who embodied the heart of contemporary Jewish worship. I was deeply moved by her music and her spirituality. To appreciate Judaism, we need…
The tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona, affects us all, and is deeply disturbing because of the escalating violence in the United States—“violence of the tongue, heart and mind” (to use Dr. King’s phrase). Below is a response to this tragedy from the…
Dr. Martin Luther King made one of the most profound and prophetic statements about Universalism in his Nobel prize speech: “We have inherited a big house, a great “world house” in which we have to live together – black and white, Easterners and…
Members are linked by the spiritual connections between their local desert landscapes and the parched sacred grounds that have nurtured some of the world’s great religions. By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times … January 8, 2011 … Advertisement … Seven religious leaders…
Theomorphology fr. Gr. THEO + MORPH + LOGY: the theory that the concept of the divine is continually and always in the process of evolutionary change. … At the very heart of…
Karen Armstrong, author of numerous books on comparative religion, and Palestinian Quaker peace activist Jean Zaru collaborated on The Charter of Compassion, an important peace-building initiative that reaches out with a universal message: The Charter for…
This blog will feature entries relating not only to Quaker Universalist Fellowship (QUF), but also to the Christian and Interfaith Relations Committee (CIRC) of Friends General Conference (FGC).
QUF would like to remember the birthday of Kahlil Gibran, a poet/writer from Lebanon whom Friends have long admired. As Rhoda Gilman observed in her QUF pamphlet “The Universality of Unknowing”: … …
Beginning January 2011, the Quaker Universalist Fellowship (QUF) is replacing its semiannual newsletter/journal, Universalist Friends, with this interactive blog. Our print journal served us well for 27 years, helping universalist-minded…
