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Messrs Smith Bros' first prize-winning and champion stallion at the Lake County A. and P. Show.

Plans to develop a casino near a 400-year-old Quaker burial site in Waterford city have been given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanala.

As the U.S. Senate begins debate on health care reform legislation, most of the focus is expected to be on ways to make the health care system generally more affordable.

Last week's 75 minutes of silence at the East Sandwich meeting of the Society of Friends and this week's visit, the fifth in the series, could not be further apart, more diametrically opposed, more yin/yang, salt and paper, or black and white than what I decided to do on Sunday morning.

A major study of public perceptions of Quakerism in Britain has produced mixed results, with large numbers of people having heard of Quakers but with some confusion over basic questions of identity.

Mary Dzieweczynski executive director of Bradley Angle, talks about the legacy of Bonnie Tinker, the founding director of the emergency women's shelter.

Whatever happened to Puritans, the 17th-century radicals and religious zealots who are credited with founding the country, giving us its work ethic and being the bulk of the Pilgrims who gave us the first Thanksgiving? Contemporary scholars say their keystone concept of religious community contributing to create a better society lives on in modern ...

Church Leaders in Liverpool have issued a joint statement condemning homophobia.

Members of the Fairview Elementary School Student Council recently raked leaves for elderly people in their neighborhood.

Text Archive > American Libraries > Some account of the life and religious services of Joseph Edgerton, a minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends, with extracts from his correspondence Some account of the life and religious services of Joseph Edgerton, a minister of the Gospel in the Society of Friends, with extracts from his ...

The public is invited a presentation sponsored by Redding Friends Meeting entitled Meet the Quakers 10 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Nov.

This morning I spoke at meeting to deliver a vocal ministry that, once it had fully formed in my consciousness, I knew would likely not be received with accolades.

Text Archive > American Libraries > Incidents illustrating the doctrines and history of the Society of Friends Incidents illustrating the doctrines and history of the Society of Friends This book has an editable web page on Open Library .

Text Archive > American Libraries > A journal of the life, travels, and religious labors of William Savery, a minister of the Gospel of Christ, of the Society of Friends, late of Philadelphia A journal of the life, travels, and religious labors of William Savery, a minister of the Gospel of Christ, of the Society of Friends, late of Philadelphia ...

Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye depicts the insidious nature of racism as it highlights the work for racial justice among Quakers, also known as Friends.

Montgomery County residents seem to love a good ghost story. Whether they believe them or not, few can resist haunted tales this time of year.

The Hamilton Religious Society of Friends will meet at Chapel House on the Colgate Campus at 10 a.m. from Oct.

This country once was filled with good, old-fashioned individualism. Lately many people seem to represent subservient sheep that call the conservative opposition to "anything this administration" plain stupidity and back-worldly. I posit that opposition in a democracy is a good thing.

Early American Quakers were once persecuted for their faith, with a history in their new North American home that included public executions on Boston Common and being accused of witchcraft by New England's 17th century Puritan populace.

The word "Puritan" conjures images of black cloaks and a bleak lifestyle, but according to award-winning author Diane Rapaport, 17th-century American colonists wore bright clothes and "even had sex." It wasn't just Hester Prynne who challenged tenets of the times, she said.