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Why Should A Quaker Care?

Earlon William (Bill) Carsley writes on the New Foundation site: > One of Lewis Bensen’s cherished visions was for the everlasting gospel message of Fox to break out of the confines of sectarian “Quakerism”. He believed God’s intent for the movement was that it should become a universal Christian faith.

Reflections on the 2014 Swarthmore LectuBeing honest about the stories we tell

Mark Russ on the stories in our Quaker theologies:

We need good theology, because there’s a lot of bad theology out there. I believe that theology in its simplest form is the story we tell as a religious community, about our beginnings, how we got here and where we’re going.

PNC to cut back financing of mountaintop removal

The Earth Quaker Action Team has been lobbying the bank for years:

The move is seen as a victory by anti-coal activists as PNC joins a growing group of banks that formerly loaned collective billions to coal extraction companies and say they are cutting back on the practice.

A story incomplete: Virginia Alexander's life among Friends

In the AFSC blog, the story of pioneering Friend:

Even though Dr. Alexander graduated from two elite universities, cared for Quakers in her medical practice, and was very active in Quaker circles, she was still not welcomed by all into a religious community that she claimed as her own.

Quaker grey, Bolivian style

Nancy Thomas shows off some fancy shawls:

A beautiful shawl tells people, “I’ve arrived. I’m important.” If the Quaker value for understatement and plainness is to catch on here, it has to come from within the culture, not imposed from the outside. In the meantime, I, personally, enjoy the display.

A Methodist take on clearness committees

Danny E Morris tries out the Quaker practice in his Methodist church:

The clearness committee was introduced to our congregation through a sermon on Communion Sunday. The history of its origin, the unique features that give it spiritual power, and a step-by-step description of the process were essential elements of the initial introduction.

Equality and employee fairness

Gordon Ferguson writes of pickets at London’s Friend House:

There is a world of difference between being nice to people and treating them equally, and at the end of the day Friends House Hospitality are merely ‘unprofitable servants’ doing their duty by by law and good practice.