Stunned silence
Friends, I’m sorry for the lack of posts over the past few weeks. I do not know how to respond with words to the cascading violence. Blessings, Mike Shell
In Memoriam: Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
Friend Gerry Yokota an American living in Japan, a member of Osaka Monthly Meeting, Japan Yearly Meeting. Born (Ohio) and raised (Kentucky) Southern Baptist, began attending Friends Meeting in Princeton, NJ, in the early nineties and then became a member of
“Friends and Truth”
Excerpts from “Transition Quaker”
Craig Barnett is a Quaker living in Sheffield (UK), and currently serving as an elder of Sheffield and Balby Area Quaker Meeting. The following are excerpts from the 6/2/16 post on his blog, Transition Quaker . We encourage you to read the complete blog post. As…
Religion and Violence
Badshah Khan and Sayyid Qutb
People in the traditions of Christianity and Islam have partial experiences of both violent and peaceful conducting of conflict. Neither is perfect. Neither community is clean or clear from bad motives, fringe renegades and duplicity. Yet both communities have internal resources…
“Religion, In a Nutshell,” by Winston Davis
Excerpts from a new QUF article
We have just posted Winston Davis’ extended article, “Religion, In a Nutshell,” on the QUF Publications page. The present post offers some excerpts from the new work and invites blog followers to read the article in full. Modest doubt…
The Jester’s Net I Gave Me
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…
“Spiritual Eldership”
Excerpts from “Transition Quaker”
Craig Barnett is a Quaker living in Sheffield (UK), and currently serving as an elder of Sheffield and Balby Area Quaker Meeting. The following are excerpts from the 4/8/16 post on his blog, Transition Quaker . We encourage you to read the complete blog post.
What is The Lesser Good?
A poem
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…
Neither universalist nor christocentric
Quaker Universalist Fellowship Newsletter (excerpt) — #21 Winter 1993/94
During my reflections throughout this period I knew it was right for me to refuse to allow myself to be labelled universalist or christocentric. I was aware also that some meetings in London Yearly Meeting are tearing themselves apart over the matter. It has come to me strongly…
“Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me”
by Kate Bowler in “The New York Times” (excerpts)
Kate Bowler is an assistant professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School and the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (2013). The following are excerpts from her 2/14/2016 article in The New York…