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Author Paul Buckley reads “Why Quakers Stopped Voting”

FJ Podcast: In 1762, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting approved a minute stating: “Liberty of conscience being . . . essential to the well-being of religious societies, we . . . therefore advise and exhort all in profession with us, to decline the acceptance of any office or station in civil government, the duties of which are inconsistent with our religious principles.”

Paul Buckley

Primitive Christianity Revived and Primitive Quakerism Revived

Primitive Christianity Revived. By William Penn, translated into modern English by Paul Buckley. Inner Light Books, 2018. 115 pages. $25/hardcover;…

Reviewed by Max L. Carter

Books: April 2014

This month's reviews include The Essential Elias Hicks, The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, and A Guidebook to Prayer.

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Mary Fisher: Maidservant Turned Prophet

When Friends in Moscow recently designed a postcard to share the message of Quakerism, the 17th-century Quaker they chose to…

Marcelle Martin

Gathering Prayer

A prayer from the FGC Gathering

Paul Buckley

Inward Light and Outward Light

When people get together for a business meeting in a non-Quaker setting, they analyze each problem, share the best solutions…

Paul Buckley

Genesis 1.0

In the beginning, it was a two-day job, three at the outside; but you know how it is with construction.…

Paul Buckley

The Prophecy of Mary Peisley Neale

Mary Peisley was born into a Quaker family in Ballymore, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1717. At age 27, she was…

Paul Buckley

Owning the Lord’s Prayer

In 1997, my wife and I decided on a radical midlife career change. Over the next year, we quit our…

Paul Buckley

The Second Ohio Separation

Author’s note: Throughout this article, the terms "Gurneyite" and "Wilburite" will be used to refer to two groups of Friends,…

Paul Buckley