‘I believe God will save every person’
Chuck Fager reveals the trials and tribulations of an American pastor who has embraced ‘universalism’
If The Church Were Christian by Philip Gulley, HarperOne, ISBN 978 006 169 8767. £14.98.
Indiana Quaker pastor and author Philip Gulley has been shaking the foundations of midwestern US Quakerism for almost ten years. This book could produce another much needed shaking there.
In the 1990s Philip Gulley published a popular series of Front Porch Tales, books of often humorous stories loosely based on his experiences with church Quakers in and around his Indiana Friends Meeting.
Then in 2002, Gulley co-authored a book called, If Grace Is True. In it, he announced that he had abandoned not Christianity, but his conventional heaven-hell theology, in favour of a universalist view that ‘God will save every person’.
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