Vote To Put A Friendly Woman On The $20!
Put A Friendly Woman on the $20 I like this. An online campaign has taken off to bounce old Andy Jackson off the $20 bill and replace him with a woman. “Women on 20s”
Category Archives: Hard-Core Quaker
The Bible Is Dangerous. Too Dangerous To Ignore.
The Bible Is Dangerous. Too Dangerous To Ignore. I did a dangerous thing yesterday: I introduced a young adult to the Bible.
Look! Piedmont Yearly Meeting Is Born!
Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting is Born It looks calm enough, but there’s a background of controversy for the Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting (PFYM), which was born today (Saturday March 14, 2015), after several years of preparatory work.
New Report: “Quaker Thunder In Carolina”
A Preview of the forthcoming issue of “Quaker Theology is now onlineIt features “Thunder In Carolina,” a major report on the situation in NCYM-FUM, in which an evangelical faction is attempting to force a purge of “liberal/universalist” meetings, and a showdown is imminent. The report was written by Chuck Fager, Editor of the journal “Quaker … Continue reading New Report: “Quaker Thunder In Carolina”
Quakers & the Underground Railroad: Humility Time
. . . a great many whites exaggerated or invented their Underground Railroad support after the Civil War, and actual white URR activists were often valiant, but relatively few in number and were marginalized & vilified by both respectable folk & dangerous mobs.
Further, contrary to common Quaker legend, this marginalization was especially strong among Friends: the Quaker Establishment in all the branches was dead-set against it, visible supporters were often disowned or sidelined, and only after slavery was safely outlawed did a URR “pedigree” suddenly become widely fashionable among Quakers.
Yes, there were Quaker heroes of the URR. But . . .