Having just posted a basically intellectual reply to two comments on “Carrying the Society as long as you can”, I want to also affirm the wisdom of what philosopher Philip Kitcher says in this interview, which you should listen to if you have any interest in the things I’ve been writing about lately. One of […]
September 2nd, 2007 | Nontheism, Religion & irreligion, Spirituality & psychology and Post-Quakerism.
September 2nd, 2007 | Quakerism, Early Friends, Authority, Nontheism, Liberal Quakerism, Religion & irreligion, Testimony and Post-Quakerism.
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Recent Posts
- Closing time
- Lessons on outreach from British Friends
- A note on being constructive
- The post-religious destiny of Quakerism
- Business, Quaker chocolate and dried peas
- Carrying the Society as long as you can
- Mutual aid and Olympia Friends
- La espiritualidad post-religiosa
- Report on the Nontheist Friends interest group at New England Yearly Meeting
- Nontheist Friends interest group on Tuesday
Selected Posts
Post-Quakerism
- Carrying the Society as long as you can
- La espiritualidad post-religiosa
- The universe keeps surprising me (on evangelical Friends)
- More on understanding Quaker business method
- Rationalizing Quaker business theory
- A post-Quaker vision of the Society of Friends
Nontheism/humanism
- Report on the Nontheist Friends interest group at New England YM
- New humanist blogroll
- "God's will" for a nontheist
- Nontheism & Quaker meeting for business
- James Riemermann's "Two Gods at least"
- "There is no God" at New England Yearly Meeting
- On "honest but timid souls"
Sexuality
Other contemporary issues
- Mutual aid and Olympia Friends
- Early report on NEYM and FUM
- On birthright membership
- Four ways to make your meeting Christian
- Boston Young Adult Friends
- Simplicity, beauty & testimony
- A business meeting at Cambridge on child abuse
- New England YM 2006 Sessions roundup
Early Friends
- The signatures of early Friends
- The place of the past in the Quaker present
- Introduction to Richard Hubberthorne
- The scandal of early Quaker studies
- The Friends that Quakers aren't
About me
Quote
It seems to me to be a major issue for the Society of Friends today whether on the whole its emphasis is to be, once more, as in the beginning, for this type of open, expectant religion, or whether it is to seek for comfortable formulations that seem to ensure its safety, and that will be hostages against new and dangerous enterprises in the realm of truth.
Rufus Jones, Rethinking Quaker Principles p. 12
Links
Evidence-based spirituality
- Sam Harris:
- – A Contemplative Science
- – Killing the Buddha
- – Selfless Consciousness without Faith
- Experiment with Light main site
- Experiment with Light on Quakerpedia
- Light to Live By (CDs)
- Truth of the Heart
Quaker links
- Quaker Information Center
- Quakerpedia
- Quaker Youth
- Nontheist Friends (discussion list)
- Quaker Heritage Press
- Polyamorous Quakers
Quaker blogs
- reaching for the light
- Mind on Fire
- A Tentative Quaker
- A Friend in Need
- Ruby Third-Day
- The Friendly Funnel
- the seams of a (newly) peculiar queer
- Quaker Social Action
- Quaker Street
- A Place to Stand
- Light and silence
- The Lamb's War
- Quaker Pagan Reflections
- Peterson Toscano
- A West Rindge Quaker
- More: QuakerQuaker / Zebby
Unitarian Universalist blogs
- Occam's Trowel
- Arbitrary Marks
- debitage
- Free & Responsible Search
- reason and reverence
- Philocrites
- Earthbound Spirit
- UU Rampage!
Humanist/atheist blogs
- New Humanist (UK) Blog
- The Spiritual Humanist
- Glittering Muse
- philalethia
- Pink Prozac
- Aggregators:
- Planet Atheism
- Planet Humanism (meta)