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• Exploring the Quaker Faith

  by Allyson Thiessen November 19, 2018
  I really like the idea of exploring the tenants of Quakerism through the SPICES ideology. The previous two blog entries are reference material as I prepare to spend 2019 looking at my own life through the lenses of  Simplicity: What does it mean to my life?  How can it improve my life, re...
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• SPICES

  by Allyson Thiessen November 19, 2018
  S‐P‐I‐C‐E‐S: The Quaker Testimonies by Connecticut Friends School on September 20, 2010 Connecticut Friends School Connecticut Friends School is built on these Six Quaker Values. For each testimony, below, we list several activities in italics, followed by the way we apply a...
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• Tenets of Quakerism

  by Allyson Thiessen November 19, 2018
  Tenets of Quakerism http://iws.collin.edu/mizell/2327/Quakerism.htm In 1647 George Fox founded the Society of Friends in England. Because the members trembled or quaked before the Lord, they received the name "Quakers" from scoffers.  Believing that each man had a source of divine inspiration...