Quaker Pagan Reflections

For Quakers, the most topical part of this essay is probably going to be towards the end, where I'm going to try to say at least a little about the current contretemps about the discriminatory FUM personnel policy, and how Quakers, as a community, are dealing with it. For Pagans, the most interesting bits may be some thoughts about creating peace even in the face of injustice. I'll try not to ramble much, guys, but the issues are complex. Anyway, I'll start with a news story that caught my eye and got me writing this morning: Cruising through the excerpted blogs at QuakerQuaker , I came across this account of a visit of a group of Christian GLBT activists to George Fox University --an evangelical Quaker college with a policy that, alas, discriminates against gays and lesbians. I'm impressed with the " Equality Riders ," of course, but that's not what made this post resonate so strongly with me. Instead, it is the actions of the administration, faculty,...