Blog Posts
Archived Posts from this Category
Welcome!
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.
God Circle
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
What is the basis of Quaker membership?
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 [...]
The NTF dove
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 [...]
What is a Nontheist?
Posted by James Riemermann on Sep 20 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts, Definitions
Both within and outside the informal association of Friends who call themselves nontheists, there is little common understanding of what the word nontheist means. There is also little common understanding of related words such as atheist, agnostic, humanist, and materialist, but believers and unbelievers alike have at least a sense of what they mean by [...]
One God at Most, or Two Gods at Least?
Posted by James Riemermann on Jul 15 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts, Definitions
If I am to speak of God at all, even metaphorically, I find I must speak of two gods. This may be the reason I tend not to speak of God. Both gods speak to me as metaphors, but I have difficulty calling them by the same name.
Quaker Culture vs. Quaker Faith
Posted by James Riemermann on Jun 12 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts
I’ve gotten into an interesting exchange HERE on Chris M’s mysteriously titled blog “Tables, Chairs and Oaken Chests.” I’ll have to look closer to see how he came to that title.
Anyway, Chris’s article holds up Samuel Caldwell’s well-known 1998 address at Pendle Hill, and I take a couple of jabs at it. Below is my [...]
Belief or Commitment
Posted by Bowen Alpern on Jun 11 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts
I know who you are. I have read the innermost secrets of your heart.
What is “God” anyway…
Posted by Lorcan Otway on Apr 17 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts, Definitions
I was reading a post here, a lovely and painful description of convincement and felt called to write a few lines.
It seems to be it all comes down to the Quaker practice of openness. God is only a word. We live in a universe that is following some sort of order, balance, cooperative motion, a [...]
A liberal Quaker rant against conservative-leaning liberal Quakerism
Posted by James Riemermann on Mar 25 2006 | Tagged as: Blog Posts
I’ve been bouncing around the world of Quaker blogs, as I sometimes do, and once again, I find that world filled with Friends who are disappointed with the liberalism of liberal Quakerism, who want it to become more conservative, which is mostly to say more narrowly defined and exclusive. Of course, they don’t want it [...]