Primitive Christianity Revived, Again
Started this discussion. Last reply by Cris Fugate 4th month 23, 2017. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Years ago I ran across a curious book in a university library. It was entitled "Instructions for Right Spelling" and was purportedly authored by George Fox and Ellis Hook. I recently ran across a…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by James C Schultz 2nd month 21, 2017. 3 Replies 0 Likes
I have picked up a new (to me) book — or rather I have downloaded it onto my e-reader.It is…Continue
Tags: Books, Philosophy, Quakerism
Started 2nd month 15, 2017 0 Replies 1 Like
The Divine action continues to write in the hearts of men the work begun by the holy Scriptures, but the characters made use of in this writing will not be visible till the day of…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by James C Schultz 2nd month 14, 2017. 19 Replies 0 Likes
As many as resist not this Light, but receive the same, it becomes in them a holy, pure, and spiritual birth, bringing forth holiness, righteousness, purity, and all those other blessed fruits, which…Continue
Tags: Soteriology, Barclay, Robert, Quakers, Early
Posted on 10th mo. 22, 2017 at 9:30pm 4 Comments 2 Likes
2 Timothy 3:5
Jeremiah 31:33
Acts 26:18
2 Corinthians 4:6
Romans 2:29
Romans 10:8
Colossians 1:27
Romans 1:19
Romans 1:16
2 Corinthians 3:6
Ephesians 6:12
Ephesians 4:13
1 Corinthians 15:47
Deuteronomy 30:14
2 Corinthians 13:5
2 Corinthians 4:4
1 Thessalonians 5:19
2 Timothy 1:10
Romans 8:2
Colossians 3:10
2 Corinthians 10:4
Joel 2:28
Galatians 1:16
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Posted on 10th mo. 22, 2017 at 9:22pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
This afternoon we watched a rerun of a retrospective — Oprah Winfrey's Where Are They Now? Oprah interviewed the widowed husband of a young woman who decided to move to Oregon so she could take advantage of the assisted dying legislation there. She was living with inoperable brain tumors.
This evening we watched a documentary on CBC about a young man with cystic fibrosis. He and his friends run a weekly podcast at of Halifax where they discuss the granular minutia of living in this…
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I am working with a document purporting to list the 100 most frequently cited Bible verses in the writings of early Quakers compiled from the Quaker Bible Index. The text below is third on the list. I have provided the AV-1611 (commonly called the KJV) as that would likely be how Fox and the first Friends heard this passage, and a more modern one (in this case the NRSV). …
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SO I turned to this book because I’m one of those peculiar people who read early Quaker tracts and I was looking for theological and historical context in which to understand what I was reading. This book delivers. I now have a better appreciation of how what is going on in the texts I am reading may be quite different depending on whether they were written in the interregnum or the restoration.…
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