Book Review - period ended 11.15.2006

Book Review / Slavery / Abolition / Coffin, Levi / GHS lecturer to shine light on the Underground Railroad / Savannah Morning News / Savannah / GA / USA /6-Nov-06//... "Bound for Canaan" brings attention to heretofore little-known Underground Railroad figures like Isaac T. Hopper, one of the founders of the movement in Philadelphia, and Levi Coffin, a North Carolina Quaker who aided fugitive slaves for more than 40 years. ...

Book Review / Religious Faith / Atheism / Raised-a-Quaker / Nuevo libro advierte del peligro de la fe llevada a la política / Tendencias Científicas / Madrid / Spain / E.U. /3-Nov-06//…Hijo de una madre judía y un padre cuáquero, el autor afirma que la fe en Dios, en cualquier Dios, es irracional como mínimo y, en el peor de los casos, puede resultar devastadora para la sociedad humana.…..Son of a Jewish mother and a Quaker father, the author affirms that the faith in God, any God, is irrational like minimum and, in the worse one of the cases, can be devastating for the human society. ….

Arts / Literature / Raised-a-Quaker / Is everyone wrong except Sam? / Hamilton Spectator / Hamilton / Ontario / Canada /3-Nov-06//... Harris, 39, grew up in Los Angeles, in a home he describes as non-religious. For the record, his mother is Jewish and his father, now deceased, was a Quaker. At 19, he and a college friend tried MDMA, better known as ecstasy, and the experience altered his view of the role that love could play in the world. ("I realized that it was possible to be a human being who wished others well all the time, reflexively."). ...

Korea Herald / Seoul / South Korea / Asia /

Book Review / Religious Diversity / Quaker Schools / On common ground? / Orlando Sentinel / Orlando / FL / USA /5-Nov-06//... background. She had attended a Hebrew day school from which her father "abruptly pulled" her, sending her to a Quaker school. She ...

Book Review / Quaker Schools / Bryn Mawr // Oates probes moral ambiguity surrounding '70s death at college / Buffalo News / Buffalo / NY / USA /12-Nov-06//... Schuyler - a fictional version perhaps of Bryn Mawr, with its Quaker legacy - provides the perfect backdrop for the dire events to follow. ...

Book Review / Quaker History / Slavery // Cocoa's dark side / Toronto Star / Toronto / Ontario / Canada /12-Nov-06//... And while most American settlers took slavery for granted in colonial times, Quaker settlers were discussing their moral opposition to the trade as early as ...

Book Review / Politics and Economics / Religious Fraud / Seger, Linda / Another Fallen Evangelical / Huffington Post / New York / NY / USA /13-Nov-06//Since I'm a Quaker living in conservative Colorado Springs, I can't help but be amazed by the number of high-powered, celebrity evangelicals who rise big and fall hard. After hearing of the various moral transgressions of Pastor Ted Haggard, I began to assess the meaning of his Fall from Grace. Why does this bother me, as a Christian Quaker? ...

Book Review / Meetinghouse /// Secret story of union revealed / Scotsman / Edinburgh / Scotland / UK /2-Nov-06//The National Library of Scotland is organising the official unveiling of Michael Fry's work at the nearby Quaker Meeting House, on Victoria Terrace. ...