The World After Truth
The World After Truth … “You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” —John 8:32 … “’What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.” —Francis Bacon … “The ideal subject of totalitarian…
Death penalty opposition in the Philippines
Statement of the Bohol Friends Worship Group in the Philippines
“We, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Philippines, hereby express our deep concern on the spate of killings and the intent to reimpose death penalty in our country which we vehemently oppose.”
Seekers again: The ministry of Quaker Universalist Fellowship
The poet Jalaluddin Rumi writes of night travelers who search the darkness instead of running from it, a companionship of people willing to know their own fear. (91) Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart … What we are learning … Many modern people have a…
“Who is my neighbor?”
Excerpts from Friends Journal
During August of 2016 in a blog post entitled “Neighbor,” we revisited Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan from Luke 10:25-37, in order to explore a deeper message from the Master which sometimes gets overlooked. Almost always our focus is on the…
What should I do?
I had a dream a few days ago, one of those rare wholly unambiguous dreams. It was a flying dream, but that’s not the relevant feature, just a plot device. I was returning home to an upper floor of a six-story apartment building. Flying over the roof, I saw that the…
Elections, emotions & open space
Skandha mara 1 is how we react when the rug is pulled out from under us…. We don’t know what’s going to happen next or even where we are. Then we re-create ourselves. We return to the…
Open Theology: Bible Translation issue (ed. Mark L. Strauss)
Last week we introduced Open Theology , an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal of research articles from established and emerging scholars in the field of religion. The journal has just published its “Bible Translation” topical…
Open Theology
A peer-reviewed, open access journal
Open Theology is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research articles of established and emerging scholars in the field of religion, relevant from academic and practical points of view addressing religion in its various forms…
Sitting in silence
A excerpt from The Quaker Way, by Rex Amber
Quakers sit in silence because they want to know something that words cannot tell them. They want to feel something or become aware of something that they can really make connection with. It is something fundamental to their life, they know that, indeed it is the underlying…
Biblical Studies Universality
Biblical studies are becoming global occupations. They are coalescing into a singular, increasingly coordinated, universal occupation. The parochial, particular, and narrow study of the Biblical studies is becoming things of the past. Much of this movement is due to the adven…