The One Who Is to Come?
The Synoptic tradition relates that when Jesus was asked, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?” he pointed to his praxis, his deeds of compassion and liberation.
A Quaker Christmas Message
On December 24, 2009, I published a reflection on Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem, “Christ Climbed Down.” This is a revision of that post.
Book Review: Following Jesus
As posted here, my review of Paul Anderson’s Following Jesus: The Heart of Faith and Practice is slightly revised from the version published in Quaker Theology #25.
George Fox’s Marriage Proposal
George Fox’s poignant letter on the celebration of marriage, written over 300 years ago, is here arranged in verse form and paraphrased for contemporary readers.
Missional Life
Particularly in this age of what Jean-François Lyotard called “incredulity toward metanarratives,” when master-narratives such as Christianity are perceived as inherently oppressive, to be missional must be to live “in Christ.” The first Quakers knew that to be “in Christ” is to be liberated from the self-centeredness that produces human injustice. […]
A Quaker Reading of John 4:1-42
My interest lies in reading the text from a traditional Quaker perspective, which stresses scripture as pointer to inward reality and asserts that the living Christ, not the scripture, is the “Word” of God ….
Only Love Remains
The possibility of faith and hope as Paul understood them has ended for us not in the eschaton but in its failure. But for us, too, love does not fail. […]
The Power of Suffering Love: James Nayler and Robert Rich
Nayler was engaging in a bit of “street theater” to demonstrate … that the same Spirit which was in Jesus and his disciples is available to us today ….
