Quaker Religious Thought

16/12/2024

You can now access Quaker Religious Thought #139 (Fall 2022) and #140 (Spring 2023) digitally for free. Issue #139 is focused on "Decolonizing the Quaker Peace Testimony," and contains the following articles, with an editorial introduction by Jon R. Kershner: “Unsettling: On Palestinian Quaker Theology,” by Sa’ed Atshan “Decolonizing the Quaker Peace Testimony in the Global South,” by Cristina J. Montiel…...

You can now access Quaker Religious Thought #139 (Fall 2022) and #140 (Spring 2023) digitally for free. Issue #139 is focused on “Decolonizing the Quaker Peace Testimony,” and contains …

15/12/2024

The video of the second day of Quaker Theological Discussion Group presentations for 2024 is now available, on the topic of "Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God." Each presenter offered important wisdom and challenge to Friends regarding Friends history, reparations, and how we might live more fully into Quaker values in relation to people and the planet....

The video of the second day of Quaker Theological Discussion Group presentations for 2024 is now available, on the topic of “Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the …

13/12/2024

Today's panel was a great beginning of the Quaker Theological Discussion Group for 2024. If you missed it or want to watch again, the video is now available. You can also still register to attend the second panel tomorrow, 12/14/2024 (8–10am PST / 11am–1pm EST / 4–6pm GMT). Today's panelists were: Welling Hall: Economies Imagined in the Work of Havel, Boulding, and Brueggemann…...

Today’s panel was a great beginning of the Quaker Theological Discussion Group for 2024. If you missed it or want to watch again, the video is now available. You can also still register to at…

13/12/2024

Did you register for the Quaker Theological Discussion Group panels today and tomorrow, 12/13 and 12/14? Register now and we'll send you the Zoom link right before the first panel. Can't wait to hear what these great panelists have to say about "Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God." https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5fVo2iDLK65UPdlNEoY4Fql4MSI7qvtH7Cz0AuNC1AkK5aQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

06/12/2024

Announcing our panelists for the Quaker Theological Discussion Group panels that will be on Zoom on December 13–14, 2024, 8–10am PST / 11am–1pm EST / 4–6pm GMT / 7–9pm Eastern African Time. Register here.

Topic: Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God

Panel 2:  Dec. 14, 2024, 8–10am PST / 11am–1pm EST / 4–6pm GMT
Pamela Haines: Applying our Faith Values to Economics
Mary Watkins: Learning from the Demands and Visions of Black-Led Grassroots Reparations Campaigns 
Lina Blount:  Collective Witness and Interdependence in Dialogue with Individual Piety and Consumerism in Fossil Fuel Divestment
Cherice Harrison-Nelson and St. Clair Allmond, accompanied by Nathan Shroyer: Intraparticularity

06/12/2024

Announcing our panelists for the Quaker Theological Discussion Group panels that will be on Zoom on December 13–14, 2024, 8–10am PST / 11am–1pm EST / 4–6pm GMT / 7–9pm Eastern African Time. See https://qtdg.org for registration link.

Topic: Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God

Panel 1: Dec. 13, 2024, 8–10am PST / 11am–1pm EST / 4–6pm GMT
Welling Hall: Economies Imagined in the Work of Havel, Boulding, and Brueggemann
Stuart Smith: The Abolition That Could Have Been: The Free Produce Movement and the Loss of Momentum in Ending Chattel Slavery in America, 1800-1860
Jim Fussell: The World Shaking Power of “Holy Obedience”: Radical U.S. Quakers Divesting from Nuclear Arms, McCarthyism, and Racial Segregation, 1946-1956
Lisa Graustein:  Reparative Actions as a Guide for Stewarding Wealth

06/12/2024

Join us Dec. 13–14 for Quaker Theological Discussion Group 2024! The topic is "Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God." Here is Panel 2. Find registration info here: https://qtdg.org/2024/12/05/qtdg-2024-panelists-registration/

Pamela Haines: Applying our Faith Values to Economics
Mary Watkins: Learning from the Demands and Visions of Black-Led Grassroots Reparations Campaigns
Lina Blount: Collective Witness and Interdependence in Dialogue with Individual Piety and Consumerism in Fossil Fuel Divestment
Cherice Harrison-Nelson and St. Clair Allmond, accompanied by Nathan Shroyer: Intraparticularity

06/12/2024

Join us Dec. 13–14 for Quaker Theological Discussion Group 2024! The topic is "Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God." Here is Panel 1. Find registration info here: https://qtdg.org/2024/12/05/qtdg-2024-panelists-registration/

Welling Hall: Economies Imagined in the Work of Havel, Boulding, and Brueggemann
Stuart Smith: The Abolition That Could Have Been: The Free Produce Movement and the Loss of Momentum in Ending Chattel Slavery in America, 1800-1860
Jim Fussell: The World Shaking Power of “Holy Obedience”: Radical U.S. Quakers Divesting from Nuclear Arms, McCarthyism, and Racial Segregation, 1946-1956
Lisa Graustein: Reparative Actions as a Guide for Stewarding Wealth

29/10/2024

If you're subscribed to Quaker Religious Thought, you likely received your copy of QRT #142 in the mail earlier this year—we, however, just found this post in our "drafts." We still wanted to share about these wonderful articles! Our next issue will be out soon. Our QRT issues in 2024 honor the 400th anniversary of George Fox's birth through taking a look at global Quakerism today and the influence of Fox's ideas in different parts of the Quaker movement....

If you’re subscribed to Quaker Religious Thought, you likely received your copy of QRT #142 in the mail earlier this year—we, however, just found this post in our “drafts.” We sti…

07/08/2024

The 2024 theme for Theological Discussion Group is "Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God." Proposals are due by October 1. These can be scholarly articles on theory (biblical, ethical, economic, ecological...) and Quakerism, or explorations of historic Friends and their approaches to divestment (e.g., Friends refusing to purchase sugar or dyed cloth). It can be case studies or contextual theology. We're not looking for personal narratives alone--but you can place your personal narrative in context and conversation with Quaker theology/history and justice (Indigenous wisdom? theories of change? environmental ethics?). Read the full Call for Papers here and share with your networks: https://qtdg.org/2024/06/06/qtdg-2024-call-for-papers/

07/08/2024

The 2024 theme for Quaker Theological Discussion Group is "Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God." Proposals are due by October 1. These can be scholarly articles on theory (biblical, ethical, economic, ecological...) and Quakerism, or explorations of historic Friends and their approaches to divestment (e.g., Friends refusing to purchase sugar or dyed cloth). It can be case studies or contextual theology. We're not looking for personal narratives alone--but you can place your personal narrative in context and conversation with Quaker theology/history and justice (Indigenous wisdom? theories of change? environmental ethics?). Read the full Call for Papers here and share with your networks: https://qtdg.org/2024/06/06/qtdg-2024-call-for-papers/

07/06/2024

The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (QTDG) will hold two virtual panels December 13–14, 2024 on the topic, “Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God.” We invite Friends (and anyone with interest) to offer presentations on the topic described in the linked CFP. Panelists will each share for 12–15 minutes from their experience and/or research, followed by a question and answer session....

The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (QTDG) will hold two virtual panels December 13–14, 2024 on the topic, “Imagining Just Economies: Quaker Approaches to Divestment and the Kin-dom of God.” We…

20/12/2023

Religious Thought #141, our Fall 2023 issue, is available now! Articles are drawn from last year's "Unnamed Rules" panel, plus a book review. Subscribe today if you're not already, or consider a gift subscription for a special f/Friend! Http://QTDG.org/subscribe

Contributors include: Windy Cooler, Rhonda Pfaltzgraff-Carlson, Greg Woods, and Oscar Lugusa Malande, plus a book review by Tim Gee of Cherice Bock and Christy Randazzo's "Quakers, Ecology, and the Light," and editorial intro by Jeffrey Dudiak.

20/12/2023

Our Fall 2023 issue of Quaker Religious Thought ( #141) is now available! If you have subscribed to QRT, you probably received your issue in the mail already. If you did not receive a copy, please subscribe here. Additionally, perhaps you would like to purchase a gift subscription to QRT for a f/Friend who is not yet a subscriber. You are welcome to do so!...

Our Fall 2023 issue of Quaker Religious Thought ( #141) is now available! If you have subscribed to QRT, you probably received your issue in the mail already. If you did not receive a copy, please s…

05/12/2023

Saturday's Quaker Theological Discussion Group panel was engaging, insightful, and challenging, with presenters sharing on the topic, "A Great People Gathered? Quakers in Global Context." We heard from Friends in Bolivia, the United Kingdom, and Kenya about the echoes of George Fox and early Friends' understandings in our various contexts. You can now view videos of the presentations by Emma Mamani Condori, Mark Russ, Rhiannon Grant, and Robert J....

Saturday’s Quaker Theological Discussion Group panel was engaging, insightful, and challenging, with presenters sharing on the topic, “A Great People Gathered? Quakers in Global Context…

02/12/2023

Our first panel discussion of Quaker Theological Discussion Group is now available online! We heard excellent paper presentations on the topic, "Reconsidering Fox's Rejection of Rituals," as part of this year's theme, Tradition & Transformation: Quakerism 400 Years after the Birth of George Fox. See paper titles and presenter bios in English and Spanish. Join us in the morning (December 2, 2023) for our second session through registering here, find the time in your time zone.

Our first panel discussion of Quaker Theological Discussion Group is now available online! We heard excellent paper presentations on the topic, “Reconsidering Fox’s Rejection of Rituals…

27/11/2023

Registration and information about QTDG 2023, "Tradition and Transformation: Quakerism 400 Years after the Birth of George Fox," available at http://QTDG.org. This panel will be on Saturday, December 2, after a first one on Friday, Dec 1.

25/11/2023

Registration and information about QTDG 2023, "Tradition and Transformation: Quakerism 400 Years after the Birth of George Fox," available at http://QTDG.org. This panel will be on Friday, December 1, and there will be a second panel on Saturday, Dec 2.