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Friends
The Meeting School and the Quaker
Peacebuilder Camp
invite you to participate in a
Public
Lecture and Discussion:
“Revolutionary Quaker Witness:
Learning from the Lamb’s War of the 1650s”
Douglas Gwyn
Pastor, First Friends Meeting of Richmond, IN
with Brian Drayton facilitating the discussion
10:00 a.m., Saturday, October 6
at The Meeting School
120 Thomas Road in Rindge, NH
We invite you to join us for lunch afterward.
Suggested donation of $10 to support the Spiritual
Transformation Program.
Doug Gwyn has a wide experience of service among
Friends. He has worked with the American Friends Service Committee in
New York; he has also pastored Friends meetings in Noblesville, Indiana
and Berkeley, California. He has taught at the Pendle Hill Quaker Study
Center near Philadelphia, and most recently at Woodbrooke in
Birmingham, England. Doug has researched and written extensively on
early Quakers in 17th-century England, including the book The Covenant
Crucified: Quakers and the Rise of Capitalism. He also writes and sings
playful songs about Quakers, baldness, the global economy,
cheeseburgers, etc.
This lecture is presented as part of the opening
retreat for the new
Spiritual Formation Program of the Quaker Peacebuilder Camp.
[You may attend the presentation seperately or as part of the retreat.]
For more information and to RSVP, contact:
John Humphries – 860/236-5175; jhumphries AT igc DOT org
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