Society of Friends News

Tinker, who was from Portland, Oregon, had been in Blacksburg all week for a conference for Quakers called the "Religious Society of Friends." On Friday, the more than 13 hundred Quakers attending the conference were trying to deal with her death during the last full day of their gathering.

Durham's First Presbyterian Church and Society of Friends are sponsoring a secular Service Week for high-school students.

"They must not make preachers the way they used to," a fellow airline passenger told Shane Claiborne recently.

The year was 1809. James Madison was president, and only 17 states made up the Union.

Nature was ravaging this town's historic Quaker meeting house; termites ate at the foundation and air seeped through cracks in the circa-1805 window frames.

"I hadn't realized...how severe the prohibition against music in Peshawar is today," says John Baily.

British Quakers have formally given their backing to calls for an Unarmed Forces Day.

A RELIGIOUS group based in Seaford is shunning a fundraising event in the town which is being held to honour all serving and ex-serving men and women.

With Parliament's public image at an all-time low, and the stench of scandal in the air, who'd choose a career as an MP? Simon Usborne meets the Westminster wannabes TheYoung Greens at their 2008 convention enlarge It's lunchtime on Saturday in Reading and the Oracle, one of the biggest shopping centres in the Home Counties, is so rammed with ...

Peace was top of the agenda at the June Meeting for Sufferings, as the body began to consider each of the priorities in A framework for action Looking inside and outside the Religious Society of Friends, Sufferings heard from organisations working for peace locally, nationally and internationally It marked the start of an eighteen-month process of ...

Hanne Sonquist, extraordinary wife, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother, friend, mentor, and active advocate for enhancing the lives of young children, died peacefully surrounded by her loving family on May 31, 2009, following a 10-year struggle with lymphoma.

9. What is a a oepoop sheeta ? 10. What is the sourceof cinnamon? Answers 1. Bottled and stored in bonded warehouses for the length of time mentioned.

A poster from the Allotments Group 1926-1946. Courtesy The Library of the Religious Society of Friends.

Christianity versus Violence by Stanley Windass, 1964, Sheed & Ward, second edition 1979.

Since 1959 QSA, - as it's been known since 1987 - has undertaken an impressive range of aid and development programs and projects around the world including in Australia.

As a recorded minister in the Society of Friends Church , I know well the history of strong women in leadership positions.

Ruth McFarlane describes the new art exhibition by Ron Waddams at New Jordans The work of Quaker artist Ron Waddams is increasingly well known in the publishing world The works are reflections on the Quaker faith and practice of caring and living without conflict and refer to the aims of the United Nations Charter; income from the sale of the works ...

'Tis a gift to be simple, as the Quaker hymn goes. That simplicity for the Quaker group in the valley has helped keep it going for 275 years.

Quakerism's dark side: Slave ownership. Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh will open for the season with a program titled "Quakers and Slavery". May 09, 2009 The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends, is often seen as shunning the wages of sin, war and human exploitation.

University honours "Apostle for Peace" Monday 4 May 2009 The University will confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity on the Reverend Canon Paul Oestreicher, a distinguished Otago graduate who has fostered peace and reconciliation across many parts of the world.