Bring into your mind the Holy, the Mystery, always within us and always around us. This Holy Mystery, I call “Christ.” I feel Christ flowing like water, blowing like wind, surrounding us, penetrating us, flowing outward from us. In this awareness, we can know that all of us belong to one another and to all creation.
Notes from a conversation among Friends in the West and beyond, October 11, 2018, concerning Friends’ experiences with a wide range of religious beliefs within their Quaker meetings.
Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West and beyond, October 11, 2018, concerning Friends’ experiences with a wide range of religious beliefs within their Quaker meetings.
The Call to Radical Faithfulness:
Covenant in Quaker Experience
Written by Douglas Gwyn
Reviewed by Liz Baker
Dear Editor: I write in response to the article, “Shining Light on Anti-Semitism,” published in the July/August 2016 issue of Western Friend.
American Friends Service Committee is encouraging Friends and others to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign (BDS) until Israel complies with international law to treat Palestinians fairly. I am happy with that, since I work with Jewish Voice for Peace on this issue.
Eastern Light: Awakening to Presence in Zen, Quakerism and Christianity
by Steve Smith
reviewed by Irene Webb
I began attending Quaker Meeting at a time of darkness – it was both Winter Solstice, and I was struggling with life transitions. My husband and I had recently moved to Washington from my hometown in Missouri. Six months prior to our move, my grandfather had passed away. I struggled with my sense of family in the face of loss, and home in the face of moving.
A Sustainable Life
by Douglas Gwyn
reviewed by Paul Niebanck
Doug Gwyn has established himself among Friends as a scholar, teacher, and writer of consequence. He has helped us through several decades to appreciate and vitalize our peculiar ways of being.
