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Quakers take a stance on ICE
ICE detainees being held in the Broome County Jail has been a recent point of controversy. A local religious group came out ...
Salem’s head football coach, Ron Johnson, is entering his 14th season at the helm. “They’ve all been there, and we are a pull-up program,” said coach Johnson. “We don’t beat guys down.” The 2025 ...
Altrincham became Darlington’s latest scalp as Quakers made it five wins from five in what’s been an encouraging pre-season.
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants.
A significant chapter in Indiana’s pre-statehood history has received national recognition with the listing of the Blue River ...
John Hepburn, a Quaker from Middletown, New Jersey, was one of the first Quakers to protest against slavery. In 1714, he published “The American Defence of the Christian Golden Rule,” which ...
Quakers became active in moral reform during the 1750s, moving first to free their own slaves and then seeking to persuade other Americans of the need for abolition.
Some Quakers, such as the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, pointed out early on that this experiment was a failure and an abomination, but by then it was too late.
Once again, the Quakers were out in front of history. Quakers, I have learned, value community and equality over religious creeds, dogma or ritual.
It may seem strange that pagans would join the Quakers, which began in the 1600s with strong anti-pagan sentiment. Founder George Fox even altered the days of the week because of their pagan roots.