Contents

This is an alphabetized list of most of the posts on this blog. (A couple of very brief, non-topical posts are omitted.) To list only posts relating to a specific topic, you may use the Categories button in the right sidebar of any page.

A Nontheist’s Ash Wednesday Meditation – on death and life

A Quaker Christmas Message

A Quaker Easter Message

An Alien in a Liberal-Liberal Land? – part of a critique of liberal Quakerism

An An-alleluial Allele? Genes, Depression, & Spirituality

“Answering That of God” as Revolutionary Praxis – on the inner revolution that begins Quaker life

Answering That of God, Part 1 – 1st part of an analysis of the popular phrase

Answering That of God, Part 2 – 2nd part of an analysis of the popular phrase

Antiquaker: Further Reflections on the Dark Side of Liberal Quakerism

Archaic Torso of Christ – riffing on Rilke

Concerning Love – a brief but powerful essay by Isaac Penington

Confessing Together that Christ Is Come – a point of convergence for all Quakers?

Days of Visitation – assessing my life

Endarkenment – enlightenment and the lack thereof

Excess, Violence, and Us – our environmental abuse

Eye Hath Not Seen – longing for justice

Failure – a personal reflection on failure and hope

Faith and Practice – their unity

For Father John – a good priest in a compromised church

Friendly Paralogy – a brief reflection on blogging

From Silence to Peace: A Brief Guide to Quaker Logos Spirituality — via Mother Teresa

George Fox Series – a 9-part analysis of Fox’s “conversion” according to his Journal

Gnosis of the Heart – the opening of the heart

“I know what it’s like to be dead” – reflections on death (first post)

Light, Right, and Unity – unity even in disagreement

Metanarrative & Metanoia in Zen & Quakerism – the two as critiques of normality

Miracle and Sense – Must the world make sense?

Modern Liberal Quakerism – a brief beginning for a critique

Of Smiles, Secrets, Strawberries, Sunyata – life as a falling through void

On Extended Wings – reflections on aging

Outside of the Text – reflections inspired by a passage from John Berger’s Bento’s Sketchbook

Perfection and Pacifism – Why did George Fox refuse military service?

“Primitive Christianity Revived” — Christianity as protest against natural selection

Questioning Quakerism as Mysticism — Did George Fox have a classic mystical experience? Should Quakers be mystics?

Re-wiring for Love – more on Christianity as protest against selection

Saving Selving – reflections on a poem by Gerard Manly Hopkins

Sunyata: an Unorthodox Experience – living in “emptiness”

Tears of Fire – transcription of brief vocal ministry on apocalypse and hope

Text and Antitext – reflections on the marginalization of others

“That of God” and the Other – How does our belief affect our ethic?

“That of God” Means No Excuses ― A Quaker Interpretation of Romans 1:16-25

That of God, Spirit, and Light ― Lite – further critique of liberal Quakerism

The Darkness of Mother Teresa — Part 1 – Part 1 of a book review essay

The Darkness of Mother Teresa — Part 2 – Part 2 of a book review essay

The Heart of Quakerism – reflections on being a Quaker

The Religion of the Broken-Hearted – Quakerism as a religion of the heart

The Sacrament of Peace – reflections on our identity as peacemakers

The Turning of the Wheel (1): Jesus as Poet – the poet of the Kingdom

The Turning of the Wheel (2): Buddhism and Quakerism – a comparison

Three Aspects of Metanarrative – a very brief look at religion as metanarrative

Variation on a Theme by Bernanos – reflections on loving

What’s the Point? – Why study the words of the first Quakers?

Worship, Nontheism, & Convergence – Quaker convergence: the point of unity

Wrestling with Nothingness – reflections on death (second post)

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