Quaker Universalist Fellowship

Quaker Universalist Fellowship

The Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a religious organization serving predominantly individuals with a prior association with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and a universalist understanding of Quaker teachings and traditions. It has published books and periodicals from Landenberg, Pennsylvania since the 1980s. [ [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AQuaker+Universalist+Fellowship.&qt=hot_author WorldCat author search] ]

It calls itself : an informal gathering of persons who cherish the spirit of universality that has always been intrinsic to the Quaker faith [ [http://www.universalistfriends.org/uf043.html Universalist Friends -- The Journal of the Quaker Universalist Fellowship] ] and says that its mission is: to foster the understanding that within everyone is a directly accessible spiritual light that can lead people to equality, simplicity, justice, compassion and peace. [ [http://www.universalistfriends.org/intro.html#mission Quaker Universalist Fellowship] ]

Publications

* Margery Post Abbott, Lanny Jay, W. Norman Cooper, "Waiting and resting in the true silence"
* David Boulton, "Militant seedbeds of early Quakerism : two essays"
* Samuel D. Caldwell, "That blessed principle : reflections on the uniqueness of Quaker universalism", 1988
* Avery Robert Dulles, "Revelation and the religions"
* Rhoda R. Gilman, "The universality of unknowing : Luther Askeland and the wordless way", 2007
* Douglas Gwyn, "The Quaker dynamic : personal faith and corporate vision"
* Gene Knudsen-Hoffman, Kingdon W. Swayne, "Spirit and trauma : a universalist world view as an instrument of healing"
* Margery Larrabee, "There is a hunger : mutual spiritual friendship", 1994
* Carol P. MacCormack, Jack Mongar, "Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century holistic world view"
* Anthony Manousos, "Islam from a Quaker perspective", 2002
* A. Ernest Morgan, "Should Quakers receive the Good Samaritan into their membership?", 1998
* John Nicholson, "The place of prayer is a precious habitation", 1994
* David Rush, "They too are Quakers : a survey of 199 nontheist Friends"
* Daniel A. Seeger
** "Quaker universalists : their ministry among Friends and in the world", 1989
** "The boundaries of our faith : a reflection on the practice of goddess spirituality in New York Yearly Meeting, from the perspective of a Universalist Friend", 1991
** "I have called you friends (John 15:15)", 1997
** "The mystical path : pilgrimage to the one who is always here", 2004
* Michael Anthony Sells, "The generous Qurʼan : ten selected suras"
* Mulford Quickert Sibley
** and Rhoda Gilman, "Authority and mysticism in Quaker and Buddhist thought : essays"
** "In praise of Gandhi : technology and the ordering of human relations", 2005
* Kingdon W Swayne, "Universalism and me"
* Elizabeth G. Watson, "Journey to universalism"
* Patricia A. Williams
** "Hazardous engagement : God makes a Friend", 2006
** "Universalism and religions", 2007

References


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