Religious Faith - period ended 5.1.2006

Religious Faith/Dench, Judi/Fry, Elizabeth/Kingsley, Ben/QUAKERS: The friends who gather in silence/Peterborough Evening Telegraph/Peterborough/England/UK/26-Apr-06/... minutes of silence. Formally, Quakers are the Religious Society of Friends and often refer to each other as "Friends". It was set ...

Religious Faith/International Conflict/Penn, William//International Connections: 'Mending the World: Global Citizenship .../CSU e-comment/Denver/CO/USA/28-Apr-06/The title of this talk comes from a claim by the early Quaker William Penn, in which he said, "True godliness doesn't take us out of the world, but excites our ...

Religious Faith/Spiritual Journey///Spiritual Perspectives Listening to the 'Inner Light'/Gallup Independent/Gallup/NM/USA/15-Apr-06/... that complicate our lives. The Religious Society of Friends has the meeting at the center of our spiritual journey. It is the time ...

Religious Faith/Simplicity/Plain//ORTHODOX CELEBRATE EASTER/New Brunswick Home News Tribune/New Brunswick/NJ/USA/23-Apr-06/... "The first time, it freaks them out," said Garretson. "An Orthodox service can make a Catholic Mass look like a Quaker meeting.". ...

Religious Faith/Prayer///Spiritual Perspectives Listening to the 'Inner Light'/Gallup Independent,/Gallup/NM/USA/15-Apr-06/... One of my favorite parts of the Quaker meeting is the time when people feel convicted to speak and hold various world situations "to the light" for prayer. ...

Religious Faith/Intercession/Foster, Richard//Scientific studies don't have a prayer/Evansville Courier & Press /Evansville/IN/USA/27-Apr-06/... "Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul," wrote Gandhi, a Hindu. "Intercession is a way of loving others," wrote Richard Foster, a Quaker. ...

Religious Faith/Easter/Foster, Richard//LLOYD GRAY: Easter transforms the little valleys, too/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal/Jackson/MI/USA/16-Apr-06/... It is in the everydayness where we spend the great portion of our lives anyway. "In the realm of the spirit," writes the Quaker author Richard Foster, "we soon find that the real issues are found in the tiny, insignificant corners of life. Our infatuation with the big deal' has blinded us to this fact.". ...

Religious Faith/Christianity/Christ /Silence/Religion A to Z: Q is for Quaker/Dallas Morning News/Dallas/TX/USA/28-Apr-06/ Members of the Religious Society of Friends are also known as Quakers. The Christian movement was founded in the 1650s by preacher and mystic George Fox in rebellion against the Church of England's authority. Critics named the group Quakers, mocking how members trembled at the power of the Holy Spirit.

In general, Quakers believe humans have the inner light of Christ and don't need church structure to gain access to God. They refuse to bear arms, and they shun oaths and sacraments. In the U.S., there are three branches of Quakerism; their worship styles differ. Some meet in silence, speaking only when moved by the spirit. Others have adopted a more programmed style, similar to American Protestant church services.

Tyra Damm

SOURCES: The New York Public Library Desk Reference; A Living Faith by Wilmer A. Cooper; The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. ...

Religious Faith////Cool dot com/Indianapolis Star/Indianapolis/IN/USA/28-Apr-06/... Faith on the map
The Internet is rife with maps displaying interesting data, such as these that show the distribution of different faiths -- from Quaker to Muslim to Mennonite to Jewish -- across the United States. See www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html. ... http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/quaker.gif