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Social Programs and More Music-icon-small

From Quaker Thought, Posted by Val Schorre on Jan 07, 2008
Social Programs and More written by Rufus Jones read by Martha Churchyard

The deepest cleavage in our modern society is the cleavage between the rich and the poor -- a wide...

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Approx 2 minutes

Quakerism and Social Service Music-icon-small

From Quaker Thought, Posted by Val Schorre on Jan 07, 2008
Our message was written by Joe Volk, Executive Secretary of the Quaker Friends Committee on National Legislation.

Whereas to me and many other Friends, engaging Congress and the President on the...

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Approx 2 minutes

On Prayer and Love Music-icon-small

Posted by Val Schorre on Jan 07, 2008
On Prayer and Love

The following is a slightly paraphrased excerpt from the pamphlet "On the Reality of the Spiritual World" written in 1944 by Friend Thomas Kelley.

The springs and sources...

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Approx 2 minutes

Prayer For Peace Music-icon-small

From Quaker Thought, Posted by Val Schorre on Jan 07, 2008
Prayer For Peace

A statement of the New Zealand Quaker Yearly Meeting:

Wars will stop only when each of us is convinced that war is never the way.

The places to begin acquiring...

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Approx 2 minutes

Thanksgiving Day--More than a Feast Day

Thanksgiving day is being celebrated this week and so our message today deals with the importance of thanks.

Thanksgiving Day is all too frequently...

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Suffering and the Power of God written by Thomas Brown read by Martha Churchyard

It is just possible that a frantic effort to remove suffering may not be the most loving...

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Selfless Love--Not Material Gain

Unfortunately, the United States all too frequently has let the world think that its chief accomplishments are material. We must correct this misunderstanding by realizing that...

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Christmas Me No Christmas Music-icon-small

From Quaker Thought, Posted by Val Schorre on Jan 07, 2008
A poem by John and Trudie Seybold:

Christmas Me No Christmas Until my heart’s at peace, ‘Til the murders and the bombings And napalmings cease; While the vegetation’s dying, And the...

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Approx 2 minutes

As this New Year dawns, it can be the happiest of New Years for you if you realize that time of itself has little to do with the unfolding of...
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Approx 3 minutes

The Good Samaritan

Posted by David Chandler on Dec 29, 2007
Reflections on "The Good Samaritan" by David Chandler

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with...