Pagan Quakers (Friends) and Quaker Pagans

By, for, and about Pagan Quakers (Friends) and Quaker Pagans

Places to start

• • "What Is a Pagan Quaker, or Quaker Pagan?," by Stasa Morgan-Appel. http://sites.google.com/site/stasasministry/pagan-quaker-ministry

  • "What is a Pagan?," by the Pagan Pride Project. http://sites.google.com/site/stasasministry/Home/resources-2/pagan-resources/what-is-a-pagan

  • "Pagans in Interfaith Dialogue," by Donald H. Frew of the Covenant of the Goddess.  http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Pagans-in-Interfaith-Dialogue?offset=0&max=1

  • "The Transforming Power of Pagan Religion in a Christian World," by Gus diZerega, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/pointedlypagan/2013/04/the-transforming-power-of-pagan-religion-in-a-christian-world/

  • "Christians in My Meeting Made Me Pagan," by Daniel Hall.  Christ, Light, and trees. http://home.earthlink.net/~danielhall/id2.html

  • "What Do You Mean, Quaker Pagan?," by Cat Chapin-Bishop.  "What do you mean, Quaker Pagan?  You can't possibly be both!"  http://quakerpagan.blogspot.com/2006/03/what-do-you-mean-quaker-pagan.html

  • The Epistle from the 2007 Great Waters Pagan Friends Gathering.  http://great-waters.blogspot.com/2007/08/epistle_27.html

  • "The Syncretic Pagan," by Laura Salmonstone.  "I have a Quaker heritage and foundation and it still has a presence in my life. At the same time, I have an eclectic Pagan practice in my day-to-day life. I have found room for both/and, not either/or." 

    • http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=uswa&c=words&id=8282 or 

  • https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzdGFzYXNtaW5pc3RyeXxneDo1ZjlmNDYzODJiYWY0ZGUw

  • My page on my Pagan Quaker / Quaker Pagan Ministry.  http://sites.google.com/site/stasasministry/Home/quaker-pagan-ministry

Places in cyberspace (list-serv, blogs, etc.)

• • Musings of a Quaker Witch, blog by Stasa Morgan-Appel.  http://aquakerwitch.blogspot.com/

  • Plainly Pagan: a Quaker Pagan Journal, blog by Hystery.  http://hystery.blogspot.com/

  • Quaker Pagan Reflections, blog by Cat Chapin-Bishop and Peter Bishop.  "The on-line journal of a pair of Quaker Pagans."  http://quakerpagan.blogspot.com/

  • The Wheel and the Disk, blog by Alyss Broderick.  http://thewheelandthedisk.blogspot.com/

  • QuakerPagans Yahoo! Group -- an email discussion list for Quakers who identify as Pagan, Pagans who identify as Quaker, and those of us in-between.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QuakerPagans/

More in-depth

• • Adult Religious Education Presentation on 'Four Doors to Meeting for Worship,' or, 'Four Doors to Meeting for Worship' from a Quaker Witch's Perspective 

On-line:  http://aquakerwitch.blogspot.com/2009/03/adult-religious-education-presentation.html

Printable .pdf file: http://sites.google.com/site/stasasministry/Home/resources-2/by-for-and-about-pagan-quakers-friends-and-quaker-pagans-1/FourDoorstoMeetingforWorship.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

Google docs:  http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzdGFzYXNtaW5pc3RyeXxneDo2MTcyY2E1NjhjZjAyMjg3

• • "I Am Who I Am," by Merry Stanford, from the February 2009 issue of Friends Journal.  http://www.friendsjournal.org/i-am-who-i-am

  • "My Pagan Values, My Quaker Values," by Stasa Morgan-Appel, for 2009 International Pagan Values Blogging Month.  "My Pagan values and my Quaker values can't be separated. My Quaker values and my Pagan values are the same."  http://aquakerwitch.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-pagan-values.html

  • Check out some of the Highlighted Posts at "Musings of a Quaker Witch." http://aquakerwitch.blogspot.com/search/label/featured%20posts.  

Interesting Odds and Ends

• • "On the Curb?  In the Back Yard?," by Stasa Morgan-Appel.  Why I'm a Quaker, rather than a Unitarian, a religiously observant Jew, or hanging out in the woods with other Quaker-influenced Pagans all by ourselves.  http://aquakerwitch.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-curb-in-back-yard.html

  • "Spiritual Purposes of Ordinary/Everyday and Special/Set-Apart Ritual," by Stasa Morgan-Appel.  From a paper I wrote for a class in Ritual Theory at Cherry Hill Seminary, and which explores some aspects of Quaker, Pagan, and Jewish ritual.  

Printable .pdf: http://sites.google.com/site/stasasministry/Home/resources-2/by-for-and-about-pagan-quakers-friends-and-quaker-pagans-1/spiritualpurposesofordinaryeverydayandspecialset-apartritual.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

Google docs: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzdGFzYXNtaW5pc3RyeXxneDoyNjE4NjZkYWQ4MDAxNGNj

• • "What is Quaker Paganism?," at Quaker Witness in Poland, by Bradius Maurus, http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~bmaurus/quakerpaganism.html

Further Interesting Tidbits

These are things I haven't read yet, or by people I haven't connected with yet but am trying to track down, etc. 

• • "Quagans: Fusing Quakerism with Contemporary Paganism," by Giselle Vincett.  Available for sale at http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/publications.php?action=publication&id=65.  (Please note, I have not read this yet and so cannot vouch for it yet.) 

  • "Journey of a Pagan Quaker," by Susan Dew-Jones, in "The Canadian Friend," November-December 1997.  http://www.quaker.ca/Publications/cfriend/cf6-97-6.html

  • "Seeking the Goddess in Silence - the Quaker Goddess Network," by Liz Perkins.  http://www.goddess-pages.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=279.  

  • Green Quakers, blog by Alison Leonard and Kevin Redpath, "...for those interested in exploring the links between our pagan heritage and our Quaker faith and practice" and for those who have attended their Woodbrooke workshops.  http://greenquakers.wordpress.com/

Stuff I'm missing?

If you know of specifically Pagan Quaker / Quaker Pagan resources I'm missing, please let me know!