Isaac May
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Encounters from Beyond Quakerism, Belief in Extraterrestrials And the Boundaries of Liberal Religion
This article explores the Friends Committee on Outworld Relations (FCOR), a small Quaker group from the 1990s dedicated to facilitating friendly communication with extraterrestrials, and the challenges it faced within the liberal Quaker community. Despite Quakerism’s openness to diverse theological views, FCOR’s belief in empirical alien visitation and the desire to engage with extraterrestrials was…
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“Remaking Friends: How Progressive Friends Changed Quakerism & Helped Save America, 1822-1940″* A Review
This review of Chuck Fager’s *Remaking Friends* examines the historical role of the Progressive Friends, a radical nineteenth-century Quaker group influential in shaping modern liberal Quakerism. The book highlights their activism in abolition, women’s rights, and liberal theology, while also noting tensions with mainstream Hicksite Quakers and connections to Unitarian and broader reform movements. Despite…