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Friends Journal is a monthly Quaker magazine that combines first-person narrative, reportage, poetry, and news. [1] Friends Journal began publishing in 1827 and 1844 with the founding of The Friend (Orthodox, 1827—1955) and The Friends Intelligencer (Hicksite, 1844—1955).
The Friend is a weekly Quaker magazine published in London, UK. It is the only Quaker weekly in the world, and has been published continuously since 1843. It began as a monthly and in January 1892 became a weekly. [1] It is one of the oldest continuously published publications in the world still in operation.
She opened her home, Swarthmoor Hall, to Quaker meetings. She later married Fox. Edward Burrough was an early preacher and apologist for the Friends who held a pamphlet debate with John Bunyan. Mary Fisher was a preacher and missionary who travelled to the New World and to Turkey to spread Friends beliefs.
Quaker missionaries in Sz-chwan, 1916. Quakers , or the Religious Society of Friends, have been making missionary efforts for centuries. Men and women have made efforts from home and gone abroad to preach their religious message.
Friends Journal; The Friend (Quaker magazine) Friends Association for Higher Education; Friends Foreign Mission Association (1868–1927) Friends General Conference; Friends Service Council (1927–1978) Friends' Ambulance Unit; Fund for Reconciliation and Development
Friends meeting houses are places of worship for the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. A "meeting" is the equivalent of a church congregation, and a "meeting house" is the equivalent of a church building. Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s.
A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...
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 ...