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Not One Quaker Experience but Many
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Quakers and Christianity
A Space for Doubt
When religious services are stripped of doctrinal claims, doubters an skeptics can participate with greater integrity.
Jeff Rasley is a retired attorney who serves on the boards of six nonprofit organizations. He has taught classes at Butler and Marian Universities about culturally sensitive development in agrarian communities. He is a regular attender of Indianapolis (Ind.) First Friends Meeting.
Posted in: Features, Quakers and Christianity
Quaker Christian Ways and Roots
Returning to a comprehensive Christianity of behavior and belief.
Donne Hayden is a recorded minister and convinced Friend (convinced that all the first Friends were convinced Friends!). She served seven years as minister at Cincinnati (Ohio) Meeting and is still a member. She retired in 2015 and currently works part-time for Wilmington Yearly Meeting as office administrator.
Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and Christianity
How Am I a Christian?
Will others see us as Christians by our love?
Douglas C. Bennett served as president of Earlham College from 1997 to 2011. Now retired, he is a member of Durham (Maine) Meeting.
Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and Christianity
Sweet Baby Jesus
The present‐tense verbs of George Fox.
A convinced Friend since 1982, Patricia Wild is a member of Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.), where she serves on its Ministry and Counsel and Prison Fellowship Group. Her latest "book, _WellingUp.net_, is an interactive, experimental website that tells a Quaker novel online using podcasts and supplementary materials and links.
Posted in: Online Features, Quakers and Christianity
Forum November 2018
Letters from our readers and news from Friends Journal.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, Forum
Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe
By Philip Gulley. Convergent Books, 2018. 224 pages. $22.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. The words “unlearning” and “unbelieving” make it plain that this […]
William Shetter is a member of Bloomington (Ind.) Meeting. Much of the conservative Baptist Church of his childhood years now seems a remote though still treasured world.
Posted in: Books That Have Changed Us, November 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Simple, Relevant, Amusing
How do you sum up your experience and share it in 5 words or less?
Kathleen Wooten is a member of Fresh Pond Meeting in Cambridge, Mass. She travels among Friends both digitally and in person, and carries a minute of travel from her meeting. Kathleen also administers social media accounts for New England Yearly Meeting. She shares about her travels at quakerkathleen.org.
Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Online Features
Sparking a Quakerish Epidemic
A society of Friends ought to be a natural for friendship with God.
Forrest Curo is a poet and member of San Diego (Calif.) Meeting. He ran the Aardvark Bookstore here from 1985–1998 and founded Street Light (modeled on American Friends Service Committee’s Street Spirit) in 1996. He put in a year at Pendle Hill Conference Center in 2002 in hopes of finding a spiritual handle on the intractable politics of poverty and is now retired.
Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Online Features
The Ecology of Quaker Meeting
By James W. Hood. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 449), 2018. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. James Hood, a member of Friendship Meeting […]
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Quakers and Christianity
December 2018 Full Issue Access
Features:
The Continuing Revelation of My Christianity by Lauren Brownlee
Are We Really Christian? by Margaret Namubuya Amudavi
Inward Power by Gene Hillman
God, Jesus, Christianity, and Quakers by Jim Cain
Understanding Belief by Elizabeth Boardman
A Consideration of Metaphors by Rhiannon Grant
A Space for Doubt by Jeff Rasley
Online Features:
Quaker Christian Ways and Roots by Donne Hayden
How Am I a Christian? by Douglas C. Bennett
The White Rabbit of Quaker Theology by Christy Randazzo
Sweet Baby Jesus! by Patricia Wild
The Challenge of Quaker Christianity by Andrew Gage
Learning from John Woolman by Helene Pollock
Staying in It: Being Quaker and Radically Christian in Our Time by Marcelle Martin
Poetry:
Holy Night, Holy Light by Ken Gibble
A Chore Worth Doing by Bear Jack Gerhardt
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