Archive | March, 2006

Notes for “David Duncan and the Free Friends of Manchester”

Here, after a brief introduction, are excerpts from the writings of the Free Friends of Manchester, England. These are meant to accompany the chapter, “The Making of a Quaker Nontheist Tradition,” in Godless for God’s Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism. The original text will be posted on this website in March 2007, but not before [...]

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Notes for “Chanticleer’s Call: Religion as a Naturalist Views It”

These notes are keyed to the paragraphs in my chapter, �Chanticleer�s Call: Religion As A Naturalist Views It,� in Godless for God�s Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism. The original text will not be posted on this website until March 2007 so as not to interfere with book sales as we attempt to recover the costs. [...]

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A liberal Quaker rant against conservative-leaning liberal Quakerism

I’ve been bouncing around the world of Quaker blogs, as I sometimes do, and once again, I find that world filled with Friends who are disappointed with the liberalism of liberal Quakerism, who want it to become more conservative, which is mostly to say more narrowly defined and exclusive. Of course, they don’t want it [...]

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