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Pauli Murray – A Saint For Our Time (And My Neighborhood)

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January 11, 2017: Great news for Pauli Murray fans: in the last days of the Obama administration, the Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell,  signed the declaration making Pauli Murray’s home in Durham NC a national historic landmark. The Pauli Murray website is here.

Why is this good news? The post below, from late 2015, begins to sketch out Pauli Murray’s story.:

Yesterday I was reminded that November 20 is Pauli Murray’s birthday — her 105th, to be precise.

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And who is Pauli Murray, a few of you may ask? Continue reading Pauli Murray – A Saint For Our Time (And My Neighborhood) →

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Breaking: Shattered! Big Idaho Friends Church Quits Northwest YM

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Breaking: Shattered! Big Idaho Friends Church Quits Northwest YM

Anthem Friends Church, in Hayden Lake, Idaho, has just notified pastors  in Northwest Yearly Meeting that it’s leaving the yearly meeting. The church has 13 staff and 800-plus members.

Here’s the email that was just passed on to us. Anthem staff confirmed the email’s authenticity.

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Cross-Generational Conversation: YAFS & OFFs, Hard-Core Quaker, LGBTQ & Gender

“Shattering” Quakerism In the Northwest – Continued

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“Shattering” Quakerism In the Northwest – Continued

Interview with Steve Angell  – PART TWO
[Part One of this conversation is here.]

Stephen Angell, Associate Editor of Quaker Theology, and  Professor of Quaker Studies at Earlham School of Religion, continues a conversation on his extensive report about the ongoing controversies over LGBT issues at George Fox University and in Northwest Yearly Meeting. [Hereafter GFU & NWYM] This struggle has resulted in the abrupt expulsion of one Meeting, loud protests from several others, and by many individual Friends there.  In Part One, Steve discussed issues at George Fox University. [CEF are the initials of Editor/blogger Chuck Fager.]

CEF: Now let’s turn to Northwest Yearly Meeting and the events that led to the expulsion of an LGBT welcoming meeting there.

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Steve Angell with his newest book.

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Re-Re-Re-Inventing The Wheel: 170 Years of “Convergent” Quakerism

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Re-Re-Re-Inventing The Wheel: 170 Years of “Convergent” Quakerism

With a few exceptions, many of the most important pieces of American Quaker history since before the Civil War have not yet been well-studied or written up.

One of the biggest pieces that’s missing, in my view, is a close look at the long, occasionally successful, but very often tortured record of intra-Quaker ecumenical efforts.Hicks-Leopard-Youthquake-CLR Continue reading Re-Re-Re-Inventing The Wheel: 170 Years of “Convergent” Quakerism →