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They Changed Their Minds about Slavery and Left a Bible Record

Two businessmen’s unusual conversion in 1700s South Carolina led them to liberate the people they put in bondage.

Review

An Attack on Faith-Based Exemptions Is an Attack on the Founders’ Vision

A historian’s “intentionally provocative” account of religious liberty in America leaves too little room for claims of conscientious dissent.

The Apostle of the Golden Age

Classics scholar Sarah Ruden says extraordinary things happen when you read Paul alongside other ancient literature.

The Beautiful Biography of John Woolman

Thomas Slaughter draws a sensitive portrait of the gentle Quaker who battled slavery, materialism, and other social evils.

George Fox

First friend

John Woolman

Quaker mystic and abolitionist

When Pacifists Attack

350 years ago, George Fox launched a powerful, peace-loving movement with an assault on established Christianity.

Wire Story

Are the Quakers Going Pagan?

The liberal end of the Society of Friends has long had members who denied God’s existence or Jesus’ divinity. Now hundreds of pagans call Quakerism home.

Sweet Charity

The Quakers behind Cadbury chocolate.

News

Kidnapped Quaker Activist Tortured, Killed in Iraq

Plus: Who pushed Boston’s Catholic Charities out of adoptions? NYTMag on “wrongful birth” and conditional love, and other stories from online sources around the world.

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