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They were initially known as "Shaking Quakers" because of their ecstatic behavior during worship services. Espousing egalitarian ideals, the Shakers practice a celibate and communal utopian lifestyle, pacifism , uniform charismatic worship , and their model of equality of the sexes , which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s.
Friends schools are institutions that provide an education based on the beliefs and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers.. Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to formal organizations that make up the Society of Friends.
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after John 15:14 in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to quake "before the authority of God ...
A Virtuous Education of Youth: William Penn and the Founding of Philadelphia's Schools (1997). Kashatus, William C. Conflict of Conviction: A Reappraisal of Quaker Involvement in the American Revolution (1990). Kashatus, William C. Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers and the Civil War: "A Trial of Faith and Principle" (2010).
Thomas Raymond Kelly was an American Quaker. He was known for his education efforts. His missionary work in Germany helped to found the Quaker community there. Isaac Mason and his wife Esther were Quakers who did missionary work in West China. Isaac Mason was the first to translate Quaker writings into Chinese. [16]
A collection of Quaker congregations have sued the Department of Homeland Security and its new leader, Kristi Noem, over President Donald Trump’s decision to allow ICE arrests in churches.
These Holiness Quakers formed Yearly Meetings such as the Central Yearly Meeting of Friends. [9] Around the same period, Hannah Whitall Smith, an English Quaker, experienced a profound personal conversion. Sometime in the 1860s, she found what she called the "secret" of the Christian life—devoting one's life wholly to God and God's ...
The American Academy of Pediatrics argues that “while abstinence is 100% effective in preventing pregnancy and STIs, research has conclusively shown that abstinence-only sex education programs ...