I will be posting information about our Quaker History Reading Group in the blog.  We will be reading the first eight chapters of The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies.  I propose that we break the readings into three parts: Session 1:  Introduction, Chapter 1: Seventeenth-century Context and Quaker Beginnings, Chapter 2: Restoration Quakerism. This session will […]

This is the first installment of my notes on my Quaker history talk.  Please feel free to write a response if you want more information about anything below. The period starts with the beginning of George Fox’s ministry – in 1647, he convinced Elizabeth Hooton. This is the period when Quakerism was born -England during […]

Brooklyn Meeting asked me to make a presentation to newcomers about Quaker history.  I will upload the notes with some discussion questions in the next series of blog posts.  In my outline of Quaker history ( I am following the examples of Howard Brinton in Friends for 300 Years and Leonard Kenworthy in Quakerism) I delineate six […]