#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)

[dilutedh2so4]

Swarthmoor Hall

[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🔥😠😠😠."

[apilgrimsprogress]

Bring all into the worship of God. Plough up the fallow ground… And none are ploughed up but he who comes to the principle of God in him which he hath transgressed. Then he doth service to God; then the planting and the watering and the increase from God cometh. So the ministers of the Spirit must minister to the Spirit that is transgressed and in prison, which hath been in captivity in every one; whereby with the same Spirit people must be led out of captivity up to God, the Father of spirits, and do service to him and have unity with him, with the Scriptures and with one another. And this is the word of the Lord God to you all, and a charge to you all in the presence of the living God: be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come, that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one.

George Fox, 1656

[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,…

[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

[theinwardlight]

From George Fox's Epistle 43

[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.)

[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]

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