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- Location:
- Sandy Spring, MD, 20860
- Phone:
- 301-774-7663
Events
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- BYM Annual Session (338th)
Frostburg State University
Monday, August 3 at 7:00pm
In his latest work, Rediscovering Values – On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street – A Moral Compass for the New Economy (Howard Books, 2010), one of the country’s most prolific writers on religion and public life argues that as a society we’ve been asking the wrong questions about the recent ...
We've been getting compliments on the color photo accompanying our year-end appeal The candle labyrinth was created on the campus of Frostburg State U. during BYM Annual Session in August 2009...
Baltimore Yearly Meeting - QuakeBook "... the East Village offers yet another church alternative, the Fifteenth Street Meeting House at Rutherford Place, a Quaker place of worship and the soul of quietude. Its interior is as plain as a Donald Judd wood box: clean lines, dove-gray walls, no altar, seats on four sides. It looks like a Minimalist conversatio...n pit, which in a sense it is. Worshipers gather; speak when they are moved to. Often their words are poetry that doesn’t use the name."
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Churches remain a special category of real estate in New York, set-aside zones dedicated to the proposition that all of us need quiet places to be alone in public.
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NPR religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty investigates the intersection of science and faith in her new book, Fingerprints of God. She researched everything from the brain functions of Buddhist monks, to the effectiveness of prayer to heal the sick.
"Life is just a bowl of queries" !
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Can you believe in Jesus and in astrology? The answer is a resounding yes, according to a study that shows Americans' beliefs to be more complex than might be expected.
John Woolman is one of those prophetic figures who keep reappearing with startling relevance at certain junctures in history. In 1948, Reginald Reynolds first published _The Wisdom of John Woolman_, an intimate review of Woolman's life, his principles, and his writings...
Fun Friendly Facts! Rush D. Holt, Jr. (D-NJ) "is currently the only Quaker in the [U.S.] Congress and one of only a few dozen Members of Congress who have a PhD... Holt was also a 5-time winner on the version of Jeopardy! hosted by Art Fleming." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_D._Holt,_Jr...
Clerk Training and Quaker Leadership Development with Arthur Larrabee, clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Saturday, February 20...
Baltimore Yearly Meeting - QuakeBook Of timely interest to Friends...
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A Message from the Board and the Publisher Is It Time to Lay Down FRIENDS JOURNAL? An Open Letter from Janet Ross, Clerk of the Board of Trustees, Friends Publishing Corporation and Susan Corson-Finnerty, Publisher and Executive Editor Dear Friends, Is
