(51) Free Quakers have once, in Philadelphia in 1784, chosen to build an edifice which constituted a physical center of their corporate witness to their legitimacy and viability as members of the
Religious Society of Friends with strong adherents to the notion of the exercise of freedom and liberality of conscience in matters of faith and practice.
With a belief in revelation as a continuing process, a reliance on experience rather than doctrine, an early recognition of women as spiritual equals to men, and a history of activism for women's and others' civil rights, it is small wonder that the
Religious Society of Friends appeals to feminists.
The AFSC, which is affiliated with the
Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers), began displaying a much larger exhibit with boots representing dead soldiers from all around the country.
The tiny hamlet of High Flatts with its ancient buildings and cobbled streets was once exclusively occupied by members of the Quakers, the
Religious Society of Friends.
Members of the
Religious Society of Friends see themselves as offering a spiritual path for the 21st century.
"The week sees a radical departure from the traditional modesty associated with the
Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers as they are more commonly known.
And I joined the
Religious Society of Friends, with its testimonies of peace, simplicity and equality, and the worship that offers silence for my excitable personality.
Others named recently to the executive committee were: chair, Paul Hansen, Canadian Religious Conference; vice chair, Joe Gunn, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops; treasurer, Richard Chambers, United Church of Canada; member-at-large, Anne O'Brien, Canadian Religious Conference; past chair, Jane Orion Smith,
Religious Society of Friends.
Direct funding of congregations involves risks to the church and the government, said Thomas Jeavons, general secretary of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the
Religious Society of Friends. "We have a real possibility of money going directly to a congregation in large amounts and then at some point some appropriately zealous federal official" will decide to audit the books.
Sir, - As members belonging to the
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Selly Oak, Birmingham, we have sent letters written with a parallel text to Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair and George W Bush.
Within a decade, nearly 100 percent of those in the area had converted to some form of Christianity, the predominant form being the
Religious Society of Friends. Several factors contributed to this, not the least of which was timing.
The
Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers as they were dubbed by non-members, originated in the north-west of England during the mid-17th century.