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		<title>Chanticleer&#8217;s Call: Religion as a Naturalist Views It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from Godless for God’s Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism, David Boulton ed., Dent UK: Dales Historical Monographs, 2006, pp. 43-48; available at quakerbooks.org) We move. Sometimes we are moved and sometimes it results from our earlier movements. Some movements are private, only noticeable to the person moving. Some barely feel like motion. Talking and remembering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry Joel Cadbury: No Assurance of God or Immortality, With Added Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is a biographical essay about Henry Cadbury plus notes that are mainly excerpts from his writings. The essay, without notes, is in &#8220;Godless for God’s Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism&#8221; edited by David Boulton, published in 2006 by Dales Historical Monographs (ISBN 0-9511578-6-8). That book is available from the publisher (Hobsons Farm, Dent, Cumbria LA10 5RF, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minute from FGC workshop, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINUTE of the workshop on “Quaker Identity and the Heart of our Faith” at the FGC Gathering, Blacksburg VA, July 2009 28 Friends (26 from USA and one each from Britain and Canada) have participated in this workshop. We have met together on six successive mornings from June 28 to July 3 2009 to tackle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Quaker Unity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unity during meeting for worship for attention to business is familiar to Quakers. It is a commitment to move forward together and, significantly, it does not mean we have to hold the same views. This method of doing business has long been characteristic of Quakers.]]></description>
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		<title>The NTF dove</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Os Cresson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be nice to know who else uses our dove logo. Happily, it appears on a page about a peace fair at Buckingham Friends School (http://home.comcast.net/~buckinghamfriends/peacefair.htm). The dove was found in the public domain in 2004 by Crystal Hashmet when she created the first NTF website at www.quaker.org. Let&#8217;s see where else this little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roots and Flowers of Quaker Nontheism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Os Cresson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This essay is dedicated to people who struggle to find their views, and to hold views that are different from those of others. I am especially indebted to those who have given workshops and attended them, and who have written and spoken and read and listened. As it is impossible to thank you personally, let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes for &#8220;Henry Joel Cadbury: No Assurance of God or Immortality&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Os Cresson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Notes for &#8220;David Duncan and the Free Friends of Manchester&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Gods Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism. The original text will be posted on this website in March 2007, but not before [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These notes are keyed to the paragraphs in my chapter, Chanticleers Call: Religion As A Naturalist Views It, in Godless for Gods 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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quakers, from the Viewpoint of a Naturalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Friends Journal, March 2006, pp. 18-20) &#8211; with added notes The text of the Friends Journal article follows, and then notes expanding on several cryptic statements in the article. At the end is a brief reading list. I grew up loving nature and feeling part of itdirt, bugs, people, and everything. It was, and still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Sagan&#8217;s Great Demotions and his religion for the future</title>
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		<comments>http://www.nontheistfriends.org/article/carl-sagans-great-demotions-and-his-religion-for-the-future-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Os Cresson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carl Sagan saw that humans of undergone a series of demotions during the last five centuries and are still struggling with them. He also called our attention to a religion for the future. Quaker nontheists have a place in this process. During the last five centuries we have been repeatedly challenged to release ancient views [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stages in a Journey</title>
		<link>http://www.nontheistfriends.org/article/stages-in-a-journey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Os Cresson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Os, at Radnor Meeting we accept atheists!&#8221; This was during an interview when, at 18 years of age, I was asked me to confirm my Quaker membership. God had no place in my personal religion but honesty did and I was fumbling with the questions that touched on Quaker doctrine. The kind Friend&#8217;s comment sustained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking a Religion of Daily Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Os Cresson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some Quakers, religion is primarily about daily lives and living as well as possible in ones meeting community and in the wider world. This is Quakerism with an emphasis on our lives rather than an emphasis on talk about these lives. Standing on a rock in Firbank Fell in 1652, George Fox called out, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Children&#8217;s Story of People and the Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Os Cresson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago in a place not far from here, there were many people living together but they went into different little buildings to worship. These buildings were quite close together and each one had its own door to go in by. In each of the houses of worship there was a wonderful light mounted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctrinally Open Membership in the Religious Society of Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Os Cresson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctrinally open membership is becoming more accepted by Friends. What is this method of arriving at membership decisions? How does it affect other areas of Quaker life and what does this imply for the future of the Religious Society of Friends? THE METHOD Consider a typical Friends meeting. Members gather in silent worship. They cooperate [...]]]></description>
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