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Closing time

This blog has been dormant for nine months, and it’s now time to close it down.
I just finishing writing about how the Quaker issues I was dealing with here have resolved themselves, in my letter of transfer from North Shore Friends Meeting to Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Mass.), and you should read that as […]

Lessons on outreach from British Friends


The post-religious destiny of Quakerism


Business, Quaker chocolate and dried peas


Carrying the Society as long as you can


Mutual aid and Olympia Friends


La espiritualidad post-religiosa


Report on the Nontheist Friends interest group at New England Yearly Meeting


Nontheist Friends interest group on Tuesday


Early report on NEYM and FUM





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  • It seems to me to be a major issue for the Society of Friends today whether on the whole its emphasis is to be, once more, as in the beginning, for this type of open, expectant religion, or whether it is to seek for comfortable formulations that seem to ensure its safety, and that will be hostages against new and dangerous enterprises in the realm of truth.

    Rufus Jones, Rethinking Quaker Principles p. 12


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