#George Fox

[theinwardlight]

From Some Principles of the Elect People of God Who in Scorn Are Called Quakers, George Fox (1661)

[lieselsart]

My favorite trio from the fic Sparks Fly by onpurpose

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"The first step to peace is to stand still in the Light."

~ George Fox, Founder of 'The Society of Friends' (The Quakers)

[caedmonofwhitby]

Non-Conformists in England

The explosion of radical and dissenting groups after the Civil War is one of the great features of English seventeenth-century history. What contemporary directories of heresy had listed with loathing was now in the open: Quakers, Ranters, Independents, Millenaries, Sabbatarians, Seventh-Day Men, Brownists, Children of the New Birth, Sweet Singers of Israel and so on.

from The Story of England by Michael Wood

George Fox, the principal early leader of the Quakers

[sivavakkiyar]

in the Varieties of Religious Experience William James describes George Fox, founder of the Quakers—-‘which it is impossible to overpraise’—as a ‘psychopath or détraqué of the deepest dye.’ He then quotes a passage from his journal:

I like that he remembers to pay the shepherds for looking after his shoes

[chaotic-history]

"A NEW-ENGLAND-Fire-Brand 🔥🔥🔥 Quenched 💦😤😤, Being Something in ANSWER UNTO A Lying 😡, Slanderous Book📖, Entituled; George Fox 🦊Digged out of his Burrows,🕳️ &c. Printed at Boston in the year 1676. of one Roger Williams 🙄 of Providence in New-England. Which he Dedicateth to the KING🤴🇬🇧, with Desires, That, if the Most-High⬆️⬆️ please, Old 👴and New👶-England may Flourish 🌱, when the Pope ✝️✝️✝️ & Mahomet ☪️, Rome 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 and Constantinople are in their Ashes🔥😠😠😠."

[travsd]

Peace Out: On Some Quakers in Popular Culture

Quaker Founder George Fox (1624-1691) was born 400 years ago this year; William Penn (1644-1718) was born 20 years later, on this day. I am descended from Quakers on both sides of my family. Religious toleration in Rhode Island allowed Quakers (persecuted in both England and Puritan Massachusetts) to become the dominant political and cultural force there from the 1670s through the Revolution,…

[rsofshitposting]

hello Friends!!!

my name is daniela salazar and im a quaker in nyc.

i became a quaker at 57th Street Meeting, on the Southside of Chicago in winter of 2016.

in 2018 i moved to new york (harlem, then the bronx) and worked as a teacher before starting an MFA at Queens College (where I also worked as a professor). in this time i attended at 15th Street Meeting & Morningside Meeting. in 2019 I participated in Marissa Badgley's Young Adult Friend Spiritual Nurture Series, it was my most sincere wish to become a Friend.

This was ^The first Session, a long weekend retreat at QIVC a quaker intentional living community in NY state.

I attended all but one of these series. ^Above was the Quaker Vocations Workshop at 15th Street Meetinghouse by Union Square.

After I moved to Queens for my Masters, I started going regularly for more than a year to Flushing Friends Meeting in Flushing, Queens. Often known as the oldest continuously used house if (xtian) worship, since 1694. I gave a First Day lesson about Mexica theology to the children (3) from 2 families. Pics below, the Meetinghouse attic, hatching out for mother's Day in Jackson heights, also from Christmas carols singing.

And went as a first-timer to Summer Sessions in Silver Bay with New York Yearly Meeting in 2019. (This would be the last time It'd occurr in person at this location). pic of yaf orientation:

I served on the YAF Advisory Group (yafs the nyym could tap for opinions they HARDLY EVER HEEDED!!) zoom meets looked like:

Throughout 2021(?) I co-facilitated an anti-racist reading of NYYM's Faith & Practice with Beth Kelly for Morningside Meeting over Zoom. It was monthly for 3 hours for 1 year. (no pic lol)

And then in February 2022 I was hired as the replacement for Marissa Badgley (who had been the YAF Field Secretary for NYYM) but as a full-time position and serving 3x the population: Community Director for Children, Youth, Young Adults and Families.

I was in this position barely any time, because soon after I had a medical emergency in which I was bedridden basically until I was supposed to be married. 3 months later on May 1st 2022. Which is a couple days after I was FIRED from this position with no conversation.

This was the last communication i received where i did give permission for him to talk to my fiance (now husband, Chase). Which brings me to the headline of my Quaker Story:

Interracial Queer Couple Denied Marriage by New York City Quakers, while employed by the Yearly Meeting (Regional Organization).

Anyways, I'm tired. Looking up and looking at that last screenshot gave me literal PTSD symptoms so... More story to come... like and follow for part 2, if youd like (lol... literally.)

[theinwardlight]

Art by PsalmPrayers

For [George] Fox, Jesus' death on the cross was not just the death of a prophet, but the death of a prophet of the end time who was sent to end the succession of prophets and to be the living head of God's people in the new covenant. Fox's mission was to restore prophecy to the central place in the life of the church, and he saw that this would involve a head-on clash with the priestly establishment.

Lewis Benson, "George Fox's Teaching About Christ"

[tenth-sentence]

And, in 1659, in a petition composed by Mary Forster, more than 7,000 Quakers lobbied against paying tithes to the Church of England, and Margaret Fell would go on to petition Charles II for the release of 700 Quakers, including the founder George Fox after he had been imprisoned.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[yourcoffeeguru]

GEORGE FOX The Friends and The Early Baptists William Tallack 1868 Print Antique || SWtradepost

[ihearttseliot]

I started reading Mein Kampf in college. The Quaker university I attended happened to have a hard copy of it. To be honest, it was one of those, ”I wanna be educated enough to know what it was about to have an opinion", so I started reading it.

I couldn't finish it.

[couldvebeenus]

(inspo - screenshots)

[ndcgalitzine]

the way Nick's soft tummy is driving me insane 🥵

[spectaculardistractions]

Once and for all it must be remembered that programmes of ethical reform never were at the centre of interest for any of the religious reformers (among whom, for our purposes, we must include men like Menno, George Fox, and Wesley). They were not the founders of societies for ethical culture nor the proponents of humanitarian projects for social reform or cultural ideals. The salvation of the soul and that alone was the centre of their life and work. Their ethical ideals and the practical results of their doctrines were all based on that alone, and were the consequences of purely religious motives. We shall thus have to admit that the cultural consequences of the Reformation were to a great extent, perhaps in the particular aspects with which we are dealing predominantly, unforeseen and even unwished-for results of the labours of the reformers. They were often far removed from or even in contradiction to all that they themselves thought to attain.

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic