Jonathan Ferguson is a freelance journalist, satirist, poet and author. He writes: “I help Brian K. White edit the long-running satire site Glossy News . See my Medium, Twitter and Facebook. If you find my work of interest, you can sponsor me on Patreon…
The remarkable three-part documentary series, 1 Five Came Back (Netflix streaming), tells the story of the roles of five famous Hollywood film directors: Frank Capra ( Mr. Smith Goes to…
You are a valued critic when it comes to the integration of traditional Buddhist teachings and values into our western societies. What are you currently missing in our Western discussion of Buddhist ethics? … One big issue we need to rethink is how we understand…
Wayne Ferguson shared a previous post with us (see “The Universality of Christ”). Here is a 2014 piece from the blog God, Consciousness, & Cosmos that he sees as relevant to our March-April theme of Interfaith Action.
“Jesus’ own vision of his ministry was more universal than you say. This is one of our key stories which illustrate the movement within Jesus during his lifetime enabling him to see his mission as one including us. This woman…is indeed for us the foremother of the mission which includes us as Gentiles. Just as she won healing and wholeness for her daughter, so too she won it for us, her daughters and sons today.”
Scott Martin is a member of Centre Friends Meeting in Centreville, DE, a small, rural meeting established in the late 1600’s, where he recently served as clerk. In retirement, he teaches fall prevention to older adults and writes the blog The Jungian…
Mohsid Hamid’s Exit West is a novel exploring the experience of refugees in this world, with a little magic in the mechanism of magic doors that permit refugees to engage with the real experiences of refugees in other countries and situations. The theme is…
Kristin Loken attends Shepherdstown Monthly Meeting in West Virginia. From her little cottage beside the Potomac River in West Virginia, Kristin writes and works locally on problems she sees as critical to a just and sustainable world. … A few years ago, someone asked…
How does a Quaker meeting or church prepare for its ministry to immigrants in the U.S. in 2017? Here is a beginning for discernment in one meeting. It is a matter of discernment. See how the Duluth-Superior Friends Meeting in Minnesota is approaching discernment and including…
The world is once again being fragmented by fearful, angry politics and warfare, and religion is often in the mix in dangerous and destructive ways. Even so, we are seeing a resurgence of people reaching out with hands and hearts across the supposed boundaries of their…
