Religious Faith - period ended 9.1.2006

Religious Faith/Silence///When life keeps getting louder/Financial Times/London/England/UK/18-Aug-06//... Yet how normal is the noise we put up with in a city? In the middle of a postwar council estate just west of the City is a simple brick building. This is the Bunhill Meeting House, built on the spot where Quakers have met for regular silent worship since the 17th century. George Fox, one of the founders of Quakerism, is buried next door. It is 11am on a Sunday and five or six people are sitting quietly in a simply painted room waiting for the service to begin. Quakers have no clergy or services in the traditional sense. Instead, they meet and sit in silence for an hour. Anyone can speak if they feel the call to but there is no obligation and often the hour passes without anything being said at all……

Religious Faith/Silence/Jamaica Yearly Meeting/Quaker: quiet church?/Jamaica Gleaner/Kingston/Jamaica/Carirbbean/28-Aug-06//My understanding of a Quaker worship was that it was a quiet affair with much quiet reflection. ... The Quaker worship service is not quiet at all. ...

Religious Faith/Jamaica Yearly Meeting/Friends United Meeting/Greaves, Silvia/Jamaica Yearly Meeting of Friends/Jamaica Gleaner/Kingston/Jamaica/Carirbbean/31-Aug-06//... The 65th annual session of the Jamaica Yearly Meeting of Friends, that is, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) was held from August 17-20, at the ...

Religious Faith/Death and Dying/Family//Relationship between doctor, patient is vital/The News-Press/Fort Myers/FL/USA/1-Sep-06//... One of them was Robert, a Quaker preacher from Iowa, the gentlest of gentlemen, beloved by his attentive family.

He came in with an infection on his leg, which cleared, and then a few years later he had lymphoma, a form of cancer.

One day, toward the end, he smiled and said he knew I was coming to see him because he could hear "that hearty laugh" in the hall.

Dying isn't quite so scary, I hope, if someone you know and love is at your bedside, doing his best for you....

Religious Faith/Conflict Resolution/First Friends Church/Bridges, Cheryl/Faith Matters: Real peace isn't 'I'm right, you're wrong'/Greensboro News Record/Greensboro/NC/USA/26-Aug-06//... be born. Cheryl Snider Bridges is a Quaker minister who holds a master's in divinity degree from Wake Forest University. A vocational ...

Religious Faith///LA MUJER DEL CUADRO/ABC Cataluña/Barcelona/Spain/E.U./21-Aug-06//…..Teresa and Josep lived in Switzerland and the United States and embraced the cuáquera religion. ......Si Teresa abjuró de su clase social, Josep Pijoan fue el «desarrelat» que despreció el presunto «oasis catalán» donde chapoteaba su enemigo Puig i Cadafalch, el mismo enemigo que tendrá d´Ors. Teresa y Josep vivieron en Suiza y Estados Unidos y abrazaron la religión cuáquera. La mujer del cuadro es el link de una época; el disco duro de una Cataluña que algunos, todavía, siguen sin descubrir.…...

Religious Diversity/Keane, Noel///Bishop Burrows enthroned at Christ Church/Waterford News/Waterford/Ireland/E.U./31-Aug-06//... Bishop Lee the Roman Catholic bishop of Waterford, Dr. John Parkin the Methodist-Presbyterian minister and Mr. Noel Keane from the Society of Friends. ...

Religious Diversity/International Conflict/Listening/Martinson, John/Crisis adds tension to talks about faith/Minneapolis Star Tribune/Minneapolis/MN/USA/18-Aug-06//... John Martinson of Shoreview, a Quaker who attended the interreligious council meeting, said he's witnessed conversations about the conflict where "people tend to be swiftly reactive and ask questions that challenge rather than clarify, which leads to a sort of intellectual battering."

But conversations between religious people with intense opposing views need not end in anger and impasse, he said.

"When these differences arise, people would do well to listen from deep within themselves and ask questions about how the other person sees the broader conflict rather than just react to the most recent headline," Martinson said.

"I don't mean for this to sound like a therapy session, but if people listen with their inner ear and ask respectful questions about what underlies the other's feelings, that's good," he said. "A lot of argument simply comes from fear." ...