Primitive Christianity Revived, Again
Just got home from a weekend at Powell House in NY on "The Greatest of These is Love". Like most of the weekends I spend at Powell House, I came away with a mini-revelation of how God is working…
Blog Love is flowing like a river 1 Like Qur'an, Sura 812 OR "where Were You When the World Stopped..." Hold Paris in the Light.A few weeks ago I spent a long weekend in retreat with some Friends at a…
Blog Monk for a Day 1 Like Come let us reason togetherIsa 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the…
Blog Come let us reason together 1 LikeI recently got my own copy of "Elias Hicks: Quaker Liberal," a book I borrowed from my university's library but did not finish before graduating and returning the book. On page 186, it says that…
Blog Elias Hicks on what is required of a Christian 3 Likes Seeing beyond IdentitiesRepublished from Quaker Universalist Conversations…
Blog Seeing beyond Identities 2 Likes The Absurdity of the Cross: Bearing our own for the sake of othersThe cross is lost to the church. While it hangs on walls of sacred buildings and around the necks of believers, we are no way yoked to it if our responses to murder are…
Blog The Absurdity of the Cross: Bearing our own for the sake of others 1 Like My Affirmation of Christian Faith Some Friends make the Christian faith out to be loaded with inhumane “freight” to which its adherents do not admit. Some Friends regard Christian faith as an unnecessary foundation of the Quaker wit… Discussion My Affirmation of Christian Faith 6 Likes Oath of Office?It is a Quaker practice, among many Friends, to avoid oath taking based on the New Testament book of Matthew,…
Blog Oath of Office? 2 LikesIntroduction
Today and tomorrow, I will be posting in two parts the paper that I gave at the New Foundation Fellowship gathering last month near Casper, Wyoming, U.S.A. As readers might…
Blog The Only Antidote (Introduction and Part One) 1 Like The Only Antidote (Part Two)We’re here today because we’ve gone through these trials; we've been tempted countless times to love something more than truth, and for the love of it, we’ve chosen truth instead, though our…
Blog The Only Antidote (Part Two) 1 LikeWhither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know…
Blog As I Have Loved You 1 LikeMy devotional reading today was from John’s gospel. Chapter four starts with Jesus meeting a woman at a well in a town in Samaria. I actually read the notes in my study Bible this time. They…
Blog Toward living water, worship, Spirit & Truth 2 LikesYesterday I spent time observing the territorial and migratory…
Blog Home in Presence 1 Like God and ObscurityGod and other artists are always a little obscure
~Oscar Wilde
I recently finished reading the new…
Blog God and Obscurity 1 LikeGrowing up Catholic in the '50s, attending Catholic Elementary School under the aegis of the Sisters of St. Joseph, I would occasionally hear that there was a "Mystical Body of Christ" to which…
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