Doug Gwyn on QuakerSpeak: What Does Quakerism Teach About Connecting to Nature?

September 6, 2018

A new video from Quak­er his­to­ri­an Gwyn:

Con­nect­ing with nature is about more than just exer­cise or tran­quil­i­ty. As Quak­er author Doug Gwyn shares, even in the 17th cen­tu­ry, Quak­ers were con­cerned about our dis­con­nec­tion with the nat­ur­al world and what it would mean for the future.

What Does Quak­erism Teach About Con­nect­ing to Nature?

Photons Don’t Phail

May 10, 2018

A few weeks ago I wrote about a New Eng­land Friends meet­ing that was work­ing to share the elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­at­ed by its solar pan­els with its neigh­bors. In response, one of our long­time blog­ging Friends Doug Ben­nett, now of Maine’s Durham Meet­ing and for­mer­ly pres­i­dent of some col­lege some­where, wrote me about lyrics that its for­mer pas­tor Doug Gwyn (this guy) wrote. I love both of these Dougs so of course I’ll share the link with you all, includ­ing this first stan­za of “Pho­tons Don’t Fail Us Now”:

it would be fool­ish to vote on the nature of a photon
as Quak­ers we sim­ply approve
you can argue to the grave it’s a par­ti­cle or wave
we just want to let it hit our roof

“Pho­tons Don’t Fail Us Now,” Song Lyrics by Doug Gwyn

Quakers & Anabaptists

January 14, 2004

Tough ques­tion in the book­store today: a cus­tomer called ask­ing for books about the con­nec­tion between Friends and Anabap­tists. Remark­ably, we could­n’t come up with much of a list. But let’s be inter­ac­tive here, read­ers! What books did I for­get about? And what’s this phe­nom­e­na of deny­ing Quaker/Anabaptist com­mon roots and cross-pollination?

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