Religious Faith / Diversity - period ended 11.1.2006

Religious Faith/Religious Diversity/Integrity/War/Want to teach in the West? Take off the veil/Concord Monitor/Concord/NH/USA/25-Oct-06/Washington Post/... open only on Saturdays. A Quaker cannot join the Army and then state that his religion prohibits him from fighting. By the same ...

Hartford Courant/Hartford/CT/USA
The Union Leader/Concord/NH/USA
Jackson Clarion Ledger/Jackson/MS/USA

Religious Faith/Religious Diversity/War/Brooklyn Friends Meeting/It will take more than prayers to combat the hate/New York Daily News/New York/NY/USA/24-Oct-06//... Five years ago, a few days after terrorists murdered thousands and destroyed the World Trade Center, I went to pray at the most peaceful, anti-violent place I could think of, the downtown Brooklyn meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers.

In addition to the still, soul-cleansing religious service, the Quakers asked for volunteers to escort Muslim women and girls to and from school in Brooklyn, explaining that many had already gone into hiding after being threatened with violence on the street. ...We need more - a lot more - of the neighborly civility instinctively summoned by the Quakers even as the World Trade Center was smoldering.......

Religious Faith/Raised-a-Quaker/Atheism//Atheist Evangelist/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/26-Oct-06//... (For the record, his mother is Jewish and his father, now deceased, was a Quaker.) Harris asked that all but the most basic biographical details be omitted ...

Religious Faith/Inner Light///Kevin Eigelbach: Not feeling the call to evangelize/Cincinnati Post/Cincinnati/OH/USA/26-Oct-06//... Now, I try to appreciate people as people, just as they are, rather than as potential converts.

I think I'm some kind of closet Quaker, because I keep looking for the divine light in everyone, even those who seem most in the dark.. ...

Religious Faith/Bible///¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (II)/Diario Siglo XXI/Castellón de la Plana/Spain/E.U./25-Oct-06//... Es al libro que vuelvo sin cansancio y con renovada admiración, como un cuáquero lo hará con La Biblia, libro del que me duele su casi lejanía porque era ... …“In all these readings, the second great finding was Marcel Proust, with his In search of the lost time, read first in stages, because the Spanish version did not appear complete but in 1944, in Buenos Aires. Sometimes I suppose that it is this work in which the one has anchored that was my untiring thirst of readings. It is to the book that I return without fatigue and with renewed admiration, as a Quaker does it with the Bible, book of which it hurts his distance almost to me because he was prohibited in a catholic house like in which I lived, and I could not approach it in time.….

Religious Faith///Q is for Quakers/Henderson Gleaner/Henderson/KY/USA/21-Oct-06//The Religious Society of Friends - the official name for the Quaker movement - began in 17th-century England. Believers, who call ...

Religious Diversity/Social Activism/Center for Interfaith Relations/Arnow, Jan/Longtime peace activist named director of interfaith center/Louisville Courier-Journal/Louisville/KY/USA/31-Oct-06//... a reality.". Arnow, 59, a Quaker, has run programs and written books on multicultural education and preventing violence. She has ...

Religious Diversity/Social Activism//Ecosse: The woman who sued God/The Sunday Times/London/England/UK/29-Oct-06//...Such hostility hurt, but she was able to escape a possible repetition of the pain by working for three years in South Africa as a Quaker peace and social worker in the Northern Cape Province. ...

Religious Diversity/Coalition for Multi-Faith Democracy/Spagnoletti, Joan/New Voorhees mosque breaks down barriers/Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/27-Oct-06//... The Rahmans, who led the effort, chose to handle the opposition through love and understanding, said Joan Spagnoletti, a Quaker and member of the Coalition for ...

Religious Diversity///Faithful celebrate anniversary at mass/Trenton Times/Trenton/NJ/USA/29-Oct-06//... Berchtold, 53, actually left the Catholic Church when she was 25, and after "wondering a bit" joined the Quakers. She was a Quaker for 20 years before "the church called me back."

"Five years later the honeymoon isn't over," she said. . ...