Today, after centuries of Christendom’s affirmations that “Jesus is the answer,” he is free at last to be the question again. After centuries in which Christian adherence served as a conformist cloak of social respectability for many, whatever their misgivings, confusions, and hypocrisies, the unabashed Christian is now rather suspect in growing sectors of western society. Now it is getting interesting! After centuries in the gilded cage of officially sanctioned…

A Garden Grows: Quakerism in Nazi Germany by Mary Mills, available as an e-book from Amazon or Smashwords through the QUF Bookstore, translates five essays by Hans Albrecht, Clerk of German Yearly Meeting from 1927 to 1947, along with the illustrated album written by children of…

Mary Mills is a retired teacher of French and German at County Prep High School in Jersey City, N.J., and a former member of Woodstown (N.J.) Meeting. She has served as a Mandel Teacher Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

In the…

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During a one-month practice period (dathun) at the Buddhist Gampo Abbey in the spring of 1989, …

Brent Nongbri is a post-doctoral research fellow in early Christianity at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His 2013 book, Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept, offers a corrective to the modern concept of religion “as…

The Lamb’s War – Christ is here to teach his people himselfThe Lamb’s War – Christ is here to teach his people himselfOriginally published on Quaker Universalist Conversations, 6/13/2014.…

Friends,

Quaker Universalist Conversations, the blog of the Quaker Universalist Fellowship, is inviting folks to contribute guest blog posts over the coming months. Here is a description of our first three featured topics.

Many of us have…