Britain Yearly Meeting Of The Religious Society Of Friends Britain Yearly Meeting of the religious society of friends Ethnic and religiousdifferences may be exacerbated. Support for political extremists across http://www.ctbi.org.uk/intaff/iraq/friends03.htm
Extractions: We are deeply saddened by the decision to launch a war. We pray for combatants and non-combatants alike. We pray that God's grace will bring a rapid cessation. No end justifies the killing, maiming and bereaving of innocent people who already suffer economic sanctions. We fear that violence in the region will increase and undermine work for peaceful change. Ethnic and religious differences may be exacerbated. Support for political extremists across the world seems likely to increase. We deplore governments' disregard of the United Nations' constitutional objective to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", an objective which U.N. weapons' inspection sought to pursue. War is not the Christian way. Pray with us for the renouncing of all war.
Extractions: The early Friends felt that the churches' worship was not true worship. George Fox wrote, "For teachings, churches, and worships that have been set up by man's earthly understanding, knowledge, and will must be thrown down with the power of the Lord God." ( To Friends in the Ministry (1656) Friends had a distinctive worship, which Isaac Penington writes of: Our worship is a deep exercise of our spirits before the Lord, which doth not consist in an exercising the natural part or natural mind, either to hear or speak words, or in praying according to what we, of ourselves, can apprehend or comprehend concerning our needs; but we wait, in silence of the fleshly part, to hear with the new ear, what God shall please to speak inwardly in our own hearts; or outwardly through others, who speak with the new tongue, which he unlooseth, and teacheth to speak; and we pray in the Spirit, and with the new understanding, as God pleaseth to quicken, draw forth, and open our hearts towards himself. Thus our minds being gathered into the measure, or gift of grace, which is by Jesus Christ; here we appear before our God, and here our God, and his Christ, is witnessed in the midst of us.
Extractions: BYM Home Who We Are Local Meetings BYM Camps ... Site Index The Religious Society of Friends holds as the basis of its faith the belief that God endows each human being with a measure of the Divine Spirit. The gift of God's presence and the light of God's truth have been available to all people in all ages. Friends find this manifestation of God exemplified in Jesus of Nazareth. The Divine Spirit became so wholly Jesus' own that his teaching, example and sacrificial life reveal the will of God to humanity. As within ourselves we become conscious of the same Spirit (the "Inward Light" or the "Christ Within"), and as we submit ourselves to its leadings, we also are enabled to live in conformity to the will of God. Love, the outworking of the Divine Spirit, is the most potent influence that can be applied in human affairs, and this application of love to the whole of life is seen by the Society of Friends as the core of the Christian gospel. The immanence of God implies that all persons are children of the Divine and brothers and sisters one of another. All have the capacity to discern spiritual truth, and to hold direct communion with God. No mediator, rite, or outward sacrament is a necessary condition of worship. Inspiration and guidance may be realized through meeting with others in group worship where vision is made clearer by the shared experience of those present. The Society of Friends has no formal creed. Over the years Friends have made many attempts to set down the nature of their faith. Some of these statements, like the letter of George Fox to the Governor of Barbados in the 17th century or the Richmond Declaration drawn up by one group of Friends in the late 19th, have been grounded in Christian orthodoxy. Others, like the writings of Isaac Penington in the 17th century or of Thomas Kelly in the 20th, have a close kinship with the insights of mystics of many ages and many religious traditions. None speaks for all Friends or for all times. We are a religious fellowship based on common religious ideals and experiences rather than on creed or liturgy.
Extractions: One of the things probably best known about Quakers is that we have a testimony against participation in war, which we call the peace testimony . As the Quaker movement was developing, Christian bodies did not generally take a pacifist stance. Friends themselves took a little while to become clear about it as a movement. In the very early years of the movement in the mid-seventeenth century in Britain, some Friends served in Cromwell's army. As late as 1659, prominent Friend Isaac Penington wrote a paper To the Parliament, the Army, and all the Well-affected in the Nation, who have been faithful to the Good Old Cause , in which he said the army had been "glorious Instruments in the hand of God." Although the peace testimony was not a clear testimony of the movement as a whole at first, it does seem to have been clear early on to George Fox, generally called the founder of Quakerism. In his
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Extractions: Originally published October 1, 1998 at Suite101.com From the early days of the Religious Society of Friends in the 17th century, the Quaker approach towards the Bible has confused many and been controversial. It doesn't neatly fit the usual theological categories. Some charged that Quakers denied the authority of scripture, but Friends vigorously defended against that charge. Most early Friends were not theologically trained. Robert Barclay was the notable exception. He wrote the premier theological work of early Friends, commonly known today simply as Barclay's Apology . As was the custom with theological works of that day, it was written in Latin and first published in 1676 as . In 1678, it was published in English as An Apology For the True Christian Divinity, As the same is held forth, and preached by the People, Called, in Scorn, Quakers
Friends (Quakers) And Women, By Bill Samuel - QuakerInfo.com The attitude of the religious society of friends (Quakers) towards the ministry of women. Also contains a listing of some Quaker women who have become well known for their ministry. http://www.quakerinfo.com/quakwomn.shtml
Extractions: Originally published August 1, 1998 at Suite101.com At the beginning of the Friends movement in the 17th century, Friends were controversial for a number of reasons. One of the major ones was the belief of Friends that ministry came through women as well as men. In the early years of the Friends movement, there were a number of Friends traveling in the ministry often called the "Valiant Sixty" (there were actually more than 60 of them). These Friends evangelized Great Britain, Jamaica, what is now the United States, and a number of other places. There were women as well as men in this work. Friends in those years were often beaten and jailed for their witness. In a few cases, they were even executed. Perhaps the most famous Quaker martyr was Mary Dyer . In Boston, a law was passed in 1658 banishing Quakers under "pain of death." When Mary Dyer learned that two of her friends were jailed in Boston, she went to visit them in 1659 and was thrown in jail. She and her friends were released, but assured they would be executed if they returned. Less than a month later, she returned to Boston. She was imprisoned, saw her two friends hanged, and was to be executed herself, but was reprieved at the last moment with the rope around her neck. Still not deterred, she returned yet again and was hung on June 1, 1660.
Society Of Friends News The religious society of friends will gather at 1 pm Sunday at Quaker Park, atFremont and Groveland streets, in observance of the 60th anniversary of the http://www.topix.net/religion/quakers
Extractions: Advanced Search Enter ZIP, City or News Search All Channels Front Page Autos Business ... XML Religion American Baptist Amish Anglican Assemblies of God ... more... Front Page Life News Religion Society of Friends Religious Rally To Be Held In Nashville, Broadcast Nationwide Justice Sunday II will be attracting some big names and sending a message, but not everyone agrees with what's being said. The Religious Society of Friends will gather at 1 p.m. Sunday at Quaker Park, at Fremont and Groveland streets, in observance of the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Living simply in a complicated world Being a Quaker in today's society is tough. Believing in simplicity, equality and nonviolence, those in the Society of Friends work hard to practice these principles in a complicated world. Quakers take a stand against torture Last week, Amnesty International called the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, where detainees have died amid allegations of abuse, ''the gulag of our times." Even supporters of a muscular antiterrorism ... Presbyterian Church members graduate with greater Bible literacy Latino musicians meet St. John writers honored New home for Quakers Baptist women to unite Eight members of Salt Lake City's Mount Olympus Presbyterian Church have graduated from an in-house program aimed at ...
Extractions: Originally published September 1, 2000 at Suite101.com Friends are not to meet [in meetings for business] like a company of people about town or parish business ... but to wait upon the Lord. (George Fox, Letters Friends (Quakers) do many things in a different manner than most do. One of these things is how Friends conduct their church business. In a study on this subject, Beyond Majority Rule (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1983), Michael J. Sheeran, S.J. states Friends "...may be the only modern Western community in which decision making achieves the group-centered decisions of traditional societies." Some people, even some Friends, look at the open and participatory aspects of a Friends meeting for business, and conclude it is designed to be democratic. In fact, its intention is not to find what the most people want to do, but to find the will of God for the body that is meeting. Friends decision making is fundamentally theocratic rather than democratic. Friends decision making is a matter of spiritual discernment. It is based on a belief that God's will can be perceived by human beings. Furthermore, it assumes that God speaks consistently to all and therefore that all who genuinely seek the will of God can find unity in what it is.
Extractions: EXTENT: 1 volume. ACCESS: Unrestricted REPRODUCTION: All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction. CITATION: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Rules of discipline, MSS 127, Archives and Manuscripts Dept., Pitts Theology Library, Emory University. Historical Note The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, was founded in England in 1652 by George Fox. Fox preached throughout England, emphasizing the need for complete and true obedience to Christ. The Quaker doctrine, which included pacifism and rejection of oaths, created conflict between Quakers and political and religious leaders in England and America. In 1656, barred from landing in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Quakers settled in Rhode Island. William Penn, a Quaker, founded the Pennsylvania Colony in1681 and provided refuge for English Quakers and other persecuted religous groups. Quakers in the United States held their first General Meeting in 1681 in Burlington, New Jersey. This group merged with the Philadelphia meeting in 1685 and became the General Yearly Meeting for Friends of Pennsylvania, East Jersey, and of the Adjacent Provinces. Now known as the Philadephia Yearly Meeting, it is the oldest Quaker group in the U.S.
Quaker Environmentalism - QuakerInfo.com Article by Marshall Massey on history and principles of environmental concerns in the religious society of friends. http://www.quakerinfo.com/quak_env.shtml
Extractions: Originally published April 1, 1999 at Suite101.com Marshall Massey proposed the creation of the North American Quaker environmental organization the Friends Committee on Unity with Nature in a 1985 plenary address to Friends in California. He helped set up the actual organization at the annual gathering of Friends General Conference two years later. He presently serves as staff for the Environmental Projects Center in Colorado, and leads workshops on witnessing skills for religious and environmental groups. Marshall attends Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Quaker environmentalism is different from most other kinds of religious environmentalism because Quakerism itself is different! And so, to understand the one, we need to start by looking at the other. Now, there are three things in our Quaker tradition that, in my opinion, explain nearly all the striking differences between our Religious Society and most other Christian bodies:
Handbook Of Texas Online: RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Few members of the religious society of friends, commonly known as Quakers, wereto be found in Texas until after the Civil War.qv Their early opposition to http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/RR/iqran.html
Extractions: format this article to print RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS . Few members of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, were to be found in Texas until after the Civil War. qv Their early opposition to slavery qv led the Friends to bypass the Gulf Coast states. Several monthly meetings (organizational units) of Friends made known their opposition to accepting slaveholding Texas into the Union, primarily because Texas reserved the right to divide into five slave states. Furthermore, a proslavery, antiabolitionist newspaper, the Austin Anti-Quaker qv appeared in March 1842. Several individual Quakers made their way to Texas before the 1870s, however, the most famous being Mifflin Kenedy. qv Early twentieth-century Quaker groups were in Lipscomb County (1910) and in View Point, Texas. Today there are two major Quaker organizations in the state, the Kansas Yearly Meeting, the earlier group, and the South Central Yearly Meeting. In 1964 the Kansas Yearly Meeting sponsored the Friends School in San Antonio. The school, located in the former Southern Christian College buildings, offered education, housing, and guidance to emotionally disturbed children who had been rejected by other child-care agencies. In 1970 approximately eighty students were being cared for. In 1963 the Kansas Meeting Friends joined an interdenominational group and established headquarters in Friendswood for CABCO (the Central African Broadcasting Company), known in Europe and Africa as CORDAC. The station, located in Bujumbura, Burundi, on the northeast shore of Lake Tanganyika, broadcasts daily missionary programs in five languages to a audience possibly as large as ten million.
Extractions: Originally published October 1, 1999 at Suite101.com [EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is taken, by permission, from an article, "A Quaker Understanding of Jesus Christ", by Arthur O. Roberts in Quaker Religious Thought , Vol. 29, No. 3, July 1999. Due to the length of that article, it is published online in four parts. The article was adapted from a paper read at the Quaker Theological Discussion Group, Orlando, Florida, November 21, 1998, and responses to it. Arthur Roberts is a past Editor of Quaker Religious Thought . He is the author of many journal articles, poems, devotional pieces, books, and other writings. He has served in the past as Professor of Religion and Philosophy and as Dean of Faculty at George Fox University , as well as a pastor in Friends' (Quaker) churches.
Wolverhampton City Council - Quakers (Religious Society Of Friends) Quakers (religious society of friends). The Quakers are a worshipping group withtheir roots in the Christian tradition. They also provide specifc support http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/community_living/ethnic/asylum/directory/quakers
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Richmond Declaration Of Faith Of 1887 - QuakerInfo.com The Richmond Declaration of Faith of 1887 is the classic statement of faith of the Orthodox branch of the religious society of friends (Quakers). http://www.quakerinfo.com/rdf.shtml
Extractions: var site="sm1QuakerInfo" Declaration of Faith Issued by the Richmond Conference in 1887 Section Links EXPLANATORY NOTE: A conference of 95 delegates appointed by 12 Friends (Quaker) yearly meetings representing the Orthodox branch of Friends across the world met in Richmond, Indiana in September 1887. This conference issued a Declaration of Faith , which has been widely used by Orthodox Friends ever since. This is one of the three major doctrinal documents for Orthodox Friends. The others are the Letter to the Governor of Barbadoes and Essential Truths (N.B. It should be understood that the quotations from Scripture are made from the Authorized Version unless stated to be from the Revised Version.) It is under a deep sense of what we owe to Him who has loved us that we feel called upon to offer a declaration of those fundamental doctrines of Christian truth that have always been professed by our branch of the Church of Christ. We believe in one holy, (Isa. 6:3, 58:15) almighty, (Gen. 17:1) all-wise, (Rom. 11:33, 16:27) and everlasting (Ps 90:1-2) God, the Father, (Matt 11:25-27) the Creator (Gen 1:1) and Preserver (Job 7:20) of all things; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, by whom all things were made, (John 1:30) and by whom all things consist; (Col 1:17) and in one Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father and the Son, (John 15:26, 16:7) the Reprover (John 16:8) of the world, the Witness for Christ, (John 15:26) and the Teacher, (John 14:26) Guide, (John 16:13) and Sanctifier (2 Thess 2:13) of the people of God; and that these three are one in the eternal Godhead; (Matt 28:19, John 10:30, 17:21) to whom be honor, praise, and thanksgiving, now and forever. Amen.
Extractions: var site="sm4wss" Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) had its beginnings in Great Britain in the middle of the 17th century. George Fox traveled far and wide talking to priests and other religious leaders, but was not satisfied with what he heard and what he saw of their practice. Finally he heard a voice which said, "There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition." When he heard that, his heart lept for joy. Having this revelation, he traveled far and wide sharing it, and he had another revelation of a great people to be gathered. He preached in the hope that "all come to know Christ to be their teacher to instruct them, their counsellor to direct them, their shepherd to oversee them; and might know their bodies to be prepared, sanctified, and made fit temples for God and Christ to dwell in." Many joined the fledgling movement. Some (men and
Barclay's Apology The premier classical doctrinal book of the religious society of friends (Quakers). http://www.qhpress.org/texts/barclay/apology/
Extractions: quakerpages@juno.com www.qhpress.org Contents Editor's Introduction [p. iii] Glossary [p. vii] Apology for the True Christian Divinity Unto Charles II, King of Great Britain [p. 1] Unto the Friendly Reader [p. 7] Theses Theologicae [p. 8] The First Proposition: Concerning the True Foundation of Knowledge [p. 19] The Second Proposition: Concerning Immediate Revelation [p. 21] The Third Proposition: Concerning the Scriptures [p. 62] The Fourth Proposition: Concerning the Condition of Man in the Fall [p. 84] The Fifth and Sixth Propositions: Concerning the Universal Redemption by Christ, and also the Saving and Spiritual Light wherewith every man is enlightened [p. 96] The Seventh Proposition: Concerning Justification [p. 167]
"QUAKERS" The Religious Society Of Friends: Home Page QUAKERS The religious society of friends As a religious society we havebeen around for around 350 years. This may be a surprise for those visitors http://beehive.thisishull.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=3342
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