Sentences with phrase «quakers in»

And a book about young Quakers in love.

Quakers in an array of color mutations are becoming widely available to bird owners through specialized breeding programs.

Marple is a beautiful and historic city in Pennsylvania, originally settled by Quakers in the late 1600's.

Students explore how the Middle Colonies were founded for financial and religious motives, with a focus on the Dutch in New York and the Quakers in Pennsylvania.

Lester Russell Brown was born in March 1934 in Bridgeton, a rural town in southern New Jersey founded by Quakers in the 17th century.

Quakers in Britain, along with many others, oppose nuclear weapons in general and the UK's nuclear missiles mounted on Trident submarines in particular.

Peter Linebaugh, a historian currently residing in the region of the American Great Lakes, grew up amid the hopes and rubble of post-war London, was schooled by (among others) Anglicans in Karachi, Quakers in Swarthmore, and Cold Warriors in New York.

Quakers in Britain said in a statement: «We wish to stand with all nonviolent protesters seeking a peaceful and just end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Quakers in Britain said it's astounded that the UK government has failed to condemn the killings or try to end the conflict.

«Quakers in Britain ask the UK Government to take a lead on this by halting arms exports to Israel.»

Quakers in Britain is calling for an immediate end to the violence and for the UK government to impose an arms embargo on all sides.

Quakers in Britain told Premier it believes the arms trade has a devastating impact on peace, security and human rights.

Quakers in Britain are founding members of Stop the Arms Fair which is a coalition of groups opposing DSEi in East London.

As it was said of the Quakers in Pennsylvania, they came to do good and did well.

Today, though a Christian be as thoroughgoing as the Quakers in discarding ritual, he must none the less appreciate the often superior quality of inward spiritual life and outward social service on the part of those who in the sacrifice of the Mass see Christ verily present.

After a visit from George Fox, 1672, the Quakers in America began to expand their work already under way in New England, in New York, and in the South.

According to Quakers in Britain, the hearing at Stratford Magistrates Court this week was told that their rights must be upheld under the European Convention of Human Rights.

I think there were a couple of Quakers in the presidential bin a long time ago -LRB-?).

The letter was also signed by Paul Barker from Quakers in Britain and Ali Johnson, an associate pastor at Swan Bank Methodist Church near Southampton.

Not exact matches

It started with «negative screening»; he gives the example of Quakers, centuries ago, vetoing the use of their funds to finance ships involved in the slave trade.

The poor Quakers were flying from persecution in England.

As truckloads of equipment arrived at the fair organised by the Defence and Security Equipment International in East London in September 2017, Quakers were among faith groups protesting against arms trade and profiting from war.

He witness Quakers being hung in Massachusetts by other Christians:

They are Lutherans, Catholics, Methodists, Mennonites, Presbyterians, Quakers, and Pentecostals, and I have benefitted from their insights and shepherding in ways too numerous to name.

The Quakers are heirs of the early impulse in this direction.

Other Quakers interrupted meetings and shocked the congregations which could see no symbol of the openness of sin in the lack of clothing.

Williams violently disagreed with the Quakers, charging them with replacing God's revelation in Scripture with their own fancy spun out of the «light within.»

Having been barred from the professions and academic life due to discrimination, a whole generation of Quakers built successful businesses in Cadbury's day.

In 1659 two men were hanged according to the new laws against the Quakers.

Finally, in 1658, the death penalty was decreed for all Quakers who returned after banishment.

Mary Fisher and Ann Austin were promptly put in jail and deported, but soon more Quakers poured in from the safe base of Rhode Island.

While the Puritans were busily engaged in fighting off all open attacks on the holy experiment — by England, by Roger Williams, by Anne Hutchinson, by dissatisfied planters, by Presbyterians, and by Quakers and Baptists — a more subtle enemy was striking telling blows against it.

Englishmen, Quakers, Baptists, and Anglicans settled in and around Philadelphia.

This affiliation is not exclusive, however — our meeting actually has a double affiliation: in addition to the conservative yearly meeting, we also associate with the liberal Quakers through Piedmont Friends Fellowship.

Quakers (like Nixon) don't consider themselves to be Protestant, and Agnew was raised Greek Orthodox and later converted to the Episcopalian Church, a church that dropped «Protestant» from its name starting in 1964 due to the church members» opposition to identifying themselves as Protestant.

So it seems like anyone who is a Christian should be doing exactly those things, and I am utterly at a loss for why Quakers are peculiar in enacting this strong Christian witness in the world.

Quakers don't worry about doctrines, but instead welcome anyone who wishes to engage in the practices of worship and community with us.

The best apology for liberal Quakers that I know of is found in Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, and I will refer you there for more information.

We may be seeking deeper truths, we may be seeking more integrity in our expression of ourselves, or we may simply be seeking clarity in your leading, but all Quakers are eternally seeking.

In the outside world, the unity of Quakers is cultural: a shared set of practices and a shared approach to life.

, these earliest Quakers recognized the Inner Light in all the people they so examined.

The Quakers found freedom in Pennsylvania.

David Barclay's ancestors were Quakers, who had deep moral convictions and were involved in setting up Barclays Bank.

The seeds of this logos reside in humans as the power of reason — something of the divine, cosmic order in everyone, akin, perhaps, to the Quakers» inward light.

In the midst of all this stand the historic peace churches — Mennonites, Quakers and Brethren.

Religion was also behind slavery (based on Genesis 9) and repression of women (most religions do) also early in many states» history was the prohibition of Jews, Catholics, and Quakers to hold office; almost certainly a decision based on religion wouldn't you say?

I live in a community that has amish and quaker.

This kind of mysticism abounds in all ages, in churches and in sects, and outside of any formal religious body — from medieval mystics to modern Quakers to contemporary college sophomores who talk about their personal «spirituality.»

In the U.S.A. the Episcopalians, also the Quakers and Unitarians, were similarly free from Dark Age or Medieval beliefs.

Mainline Protestants, known for their earnest activity, are finding God in silence as if they were seasoned monastics or practiced Quakers.