Posted by Nontheist Friends on Apr 10 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts
Nontheistfriends.org presents the work of Friends (Quakers) who are more concerned with the natural than the supernatural. Some of us understand “God” as a symbol of human values and some of us avoid the concept while accepting it as significant to others. We differ greatly in our religious experience and in the meaning we give religious terms.
Posted by James Riemermann on Mar 15 2008 | Tagged as: Events
Friends General Conference Gathering will take place at Johnstown, PA from June 28-July 5, with 63 week-long workshops, including one explicitly for nontheist Friends, and others that seek to bring nontheist and theist Friends together.
Please let me know if there are workshops that meet this description beyond those I have linked to below.
Nontheist Friends and [...]
Posted by Nontheist Friends on Feb 02 2008 | Tagged as: Definitions
Posted by Nontheist Friends on Dec 06 2007 | Tagged as: Events
Friends General Conference (FGC) 2008 Gathering of Friends
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
June 28 - July 5, 2008
Posted by Zach Alexander on Aug 09 2007 | Tagged as: Reports
There was a moment at one point where the “interested theist” Friend expressed some misgivings about his certainty of God’s existence, but then said that he was in his nineties, and without much time to engage in speculation — and he won’t have to wait long to find out firsthand anyway. He ended by saying, “I wouldn’t be surprised either way.”
“One way it’s hard to be surprised,” joked another, and we had a little laugh. …
Posted by James Riemermann on May 10 2007 | Tagged as: Blog Posts
1. Circle 1 = God
2. Circle 2 = the natural world
3. Circle 1 minus Circle 2 = the supernatural world
Posted by James Riemermann on Apr 08 2007 | Tagged as: Blog Posts
A Friend on the nontheist Friends email list asked what the basis for membership might be, or more specifically, what a basis might be for turning someone down for membership. The question was not specifically about belief/disbelief in God, so I did not particularly address that. I suppose, by not addressing such belief/disbelief, I am [...]
Posted by Robin Alpern on Mar 30 2007 | Tagged as: Reports
In 1996, Bowen Alpern, Glenn Mallison and I designed and presented a workshop called “Nontheism Among Friends” at the Friends General Conference Gathering. Since then, various people have led the workshop and offshoots from it. I have led seven so far. This year, I was particularly aware of [...]
Posted by Robin Alpern on Mar 02 2007 | Tagged as: Reports
The “Nontheism Among Friends” workshop was originally designed and led by Bowen Alpern (Scarsdale Meeting), the late Glenn Mallison (Ithaca Meeting), and myself (Scarsdale Meeting), at the Friends General Conference Gathering in 1996. Twenty years previously, Robert Morgan (PYM) had led a “Workshop for Nontheistic Friends” at the FGC Gathering; so far there has been no trace of any follow-up. The 1996 workshop was taken up by other leaders, and has been offered ever since at the Gathering. Many Friends have led similar conferences at Woodbrooke Study Center in England, Pendle Hill, and at their Monthly and Yearly Meetings.
Posted by Os Cresson on Feb 03 2007 | Tagged as: Blog Posts
It would be nice to know who else uses our dove logo. Happily, it appears on a page about a peace fair at Buckingham Friends School (http://home.comcast.net/~buckinghamfriends/peacefair.htm).
The dove was found in the public domain in 2004 by Crystal Hashmet when she created the first NTF website at www.quaker.org.
Let’s see where else this little bird has [...]