Quaker Theology is a progressive Journal and Forum for Discussion and Study. Founded in 1999, it publishes essays, reports and reviews on matters relating to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). This issue includes: > an article on a Quaker approach to teaching interreligous dialogue; > a profile and reflections on an aged Friend who chose death by fasting; > a look back at Tom Fox, a Quaker peace worker who's kidnaped and murdered in Iraq in 2006; > reflections on same sex marriage by Quaker author Philip Gulley; > a major analysis of Quaker connections in Walt Whitman's early,...

This book describes Chuck Fager's transition from a conservative Catholic, pro-military youth to an active peace witness and a lengthy period of "spiritual formation" among progressive Quakers. All this happened in a time of war, sharp social upheaval and personal turmoil. The account culminates in a special religious coming of age in the mid-1970s, which in turn marked the opening of another period of intertwined personal and broader history, in a continuing time of tumult and change. The result is both a compelling story of our time, and the narrative of a unique personal quest for meaning,...

Quaker Theology is a progressive, twice-yearly Journal and Forum for Discussion and Study. Founded in 1999, it publishes essays, reports and reviews on matters relating to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). This issue includes: > an article on the influence of psychoanalysis an popular psychology on liberal Quaker thought and practice; > a narrative theology essay about one Friend's connection to the land, and how that has shaped the evolution of his faith; > a historian's retrieval of the Quaker role in the famous Alger Hiss Communist spy case of the late 1940s, including the Quaker...

"To every thing there is a season," says the biblical sage Ecclesiastes, A time to gain, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away . . . A time to keep silence, and a time to speak," and I would add, A time to endure, and a time to resist. As I write, in early 2017, in the United States, such a time of resistance is upon us. This collection is for those who have been through "a time to lose," indeed many shocking losses -- losses that, as I write, are far from over. Some of these losses will have to be endured for a time, perhaps a long time. Yet if so, they are not to be...