Quaker Universalist Fellowship

The Quaker Universalist Fellowship is a religious organization serving predominantly individuals with an ongoing association with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), a universalist understanding of Quaker teachings and traditions, and a commitment to religious pluralism. It has published books and periodicals from Landenberg, Pennsylvania since the 1980s.^[1]

It calls itself

an informal gathering of persons who cherish the spirit of universality that has always been intrinsic to the Quaker faith^[2]

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.^[3]

Somewhat different from the way the term Universalism is typically understood in Christian theology, Quaker universalism focuses on the “belief that there is a spirit of universal love in every person, and that a compassion-centered life is therefore available to people of all faiths and backgrounds.”^[4]

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 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 G Manousos, Islam from a Quaker perspective, 2002
• A. Ernest Morgan, Should Quakers receive the Good Samaritan into their membership?, 1998
• John Nicholson (Quaker writer), 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

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