Religious Faith - period ended 5.15.2007

Religious Faith/Divine Intervention/Burbank, Beth//Curing vs. healing/Wednesday Journal/Oak Park/IL/USA/7-May-07/Beth Burbank, director of Clinical Pastoral Education and a Quaker, used the unique vocabulary of Friends when she said, "Many Friends believe in divine intervention. On the North Side of Chicago, we have a meeting for healing once a month in which we center down and hold friends in the light. Many people say they have been healed." ...

Religious Faith/Conscience/Politics and Economics/Following your God means losing job?/Mountain Mail Newspaper/Denver/CO/USA/14-May-07/The United States has a history of protecting claims of conscience - from the Quaker exemption from combat to the Amish exemption from compulsory school ...

Religious Faith/Conscience/Politics and Economics/Constitution protects religion/Statesman Journal/Salem/OR/USA/14-May-07/Mary Dyer was hung for proselytizing her Quaker beliefs in Massachusetts and Roger Williams founded Rhode Island as a refuge from Massachusetts. ...