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Notes for “David Duncan and the Free Friends of Manchester”
Posted by Os Cresson on Mar 31 2006 | Tagged as: Blogroll, Republished
Here, after a brief introduction, are excerpts from the writings of the Free Friends of Manchester, England. These are meant to accompany the chapter, “The Making of a Quaker Nontheist Tradition,” in Godless for God’s Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism. The original text will be posted on this website in March 2007, but not before [...]
Notes for “Chanticleer’s Call: Religion As A Naturalist Views It”
Posted by Os Cresson on Mar 30 2006 | Tagged as: Blogroll, Republished
These notes are keyed to the paragraphs in my chapter, “Chanticleer’s Call: Religion As A Naturalist Views It,” in Godless for God’s Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism. The original text will not be posted on this website until March 2007 so as not to interfere with book sales as we attempt to recover the costs.
Godless [...]
Quakers, from the Viewpoint of a Naturalist
Posted by Os Cresson on Feb 22 2006 | Tagged as: Blogroll, Republished
(Friends Journal, March 2006, pp. 18-20) - with added notes
The text of the Friends Journal article follows, and then notes expanding on several cryptic statements in the article. At the end is a brief reading list.
I grew up loving nature and feeling part of it—dirt, bugs, people, and everything. It was, and still is, amazing [...]
Only Human
Posted by David Boulton on Jun 25 2005 | Tagged as: Blogroll, Republished
In the summer of 1991, at the Sea of Faith conference in Leicester, two intellectual bruisers debated religion and humanism. One was Nicolas Walter: anarchist, peace activist and passionate rationalist. The other was Don Cupitt: elegant, Cambridge, deanish and donnish. Their debate was not the familiar one which had raged for a century, between humanism and Christianity. What was at issue was not humanism but the kind of humanism which might speak to the condition of a postmodern world at the scruff-end of two Christian millennia.