Does anyone go to the meeting in Dayton, Ohio? I live in Kettering, just south of Dayton and I don't drive and would like to attend the Dayton meeting...
... From: Date: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:33 pm Subject: Re: Iowa? Re: QRe: [quf] St. Charles Area Rainbow Pow-wow? To: quf@yahoogroups.com, ... [Non-text...
... These distinctions are not all that clear or simple, either regionally or nationally. I have visited FUM Friends Churches that clearly self-identified as ...
People of the United States! We are Unitarian Jihad! We can strike without warning. Pockets of reasonableness and harmony will appear as if from nowhere! Nice...
Thanks for sharing! James Riemermann <jamestr@...> wrote: People of the United States! We are Unitarian Jihad! We can strike without warning. Pockets of...
Hello, I am a new Quaker. My friend and I (who would probably claim to be a Universalist friend) have created an online community for Quakers called ...
Friends, The Quaker Universalist Fellowship is pleased to announce the availability of our newest Pamphlet on the web. This free material can be read on the...
Dear Friends The yearly meeting of Britain Yearly Meeting is taking place at present. Owing to ill health and other commitments I cannot attend in full. The...
Chris, I can speak briefly to 'Quakers and the Use of Power'. Paul Lacey, an experienced educator for many years at Earlham, speaks quite emotionally ... ...
... I was able to download the PDF of this pamphlet from the link you provided. I was a bit overwhelmed that it was originally published in 1948. The...
That is very useful - and very substantial! I am working my way through it. I wonder how many people attending Britain Yearly Meeting this weekend will have...
I also downloaded, read (with great interest), and was puzzled by the 1948 date. Perhaps just a typo - or maybe the essay was updated from an earlier version?...
J. D. Foshee
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Friends, My apologies. Pamphlet 241 was published in 1982. I'm not sure how that date of 1948 crept in. I'll try to find out.... Thanks for finding that, ...
Hello all, It's great to have some traffic on the QUF list. I was beginning to get lonely down here in Memphis, Tennessee. I think that sometimes when a...
Friends, I did want to see what reaction this message might bring. But >imho< I believe that there are better and more appropriate venues for this kind of...
Many thanks for this link. It does look as if Paul Lacey wrote it in the early 80's. It is quite a passionate statement against radical libertarian denial of...
Chris, I think that Paul Lacey is still around; you might want to pose your questions to him directly. I haven't yet been able to find an email entry for him,...
"Dreams and Visions" will be the theme of the 27th Annual Quaker Lesbian Conference. It will be held July 20-23 at Ben Lomond Quaker Center. Conference...
Does anyone know the work of Walter Wink and could say what in particular they recommend about it? His work "The powers that be" was recommended reading prior...
Chris: Not familiar with his work (and hadn't heard the name before), but the following Wickipedia article may help steer your search. His publications sound...
J. D. Foshee
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... Walter Wink was on the reading list of the late Tom Fox. - Roger Burns...
It is no surprise that Tom Fox had Walter Wink on his reading list. In three books : Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament (1984),...
Susan Rose
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Here is the first page of http://www.walterwink.com/ Dr. Walter Wink is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Interpretation at Auburn Theological Seminary in New...
"If I'da knowed I coulda rode I woulda went." It is really quite embarrassing to see your grammatical errors out there for all the world to see! Or are they...
Susan Rose
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Thanks to you and Susan for these links. My problem is that Walter Wink was another of the three recommended texts for further reading on the theme of Power...
I think it was A.J. Muste who around about 1939 said to his fellow pacifists "Our task is to love Hitler." I see it as my task to love George Bush and Tony...
Susan Rose
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Jun 16, 2006 4:51 am
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I have heard this connection between Gandhi's work and the Sermon on the Mount a number of times. I don't doubt the connection at all--it makes perfect...
I'm still reading Karen Armstrong's The Great Transformation but I heard her say that The Golden Rule is common to all the world's major religions in one form...
Chris Roberts
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Gandhi himself credits Tolstoy for his embrace of nonviolence: Source: http://www.practicalanarchy.org/fnb_crass.html Gandhi writes of Tolstoy in his...