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.”
Sin: The Early History of an Idea
by Paula Fredriksen – A Review
Sin: The Early History of an Idea , by Paula Fredriksen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012) … The dominant current view of sin is that it changes throughout history to fit the culture, and that sin is rightly understood as a result of error…
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…
Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifetime Activist
By David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday – A Review
Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifetime Activist , by David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday. Foreword by John Dear; Introduction by George Lakey; Afterward by Ken Butigan. (PM Press, Oakland CA, 2014. 243 pages. $20, paperback) Reviewer Rich Van Dellan is a…
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…