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		By: Dale		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey, I would like to hear about  what Quaker freinds believe I am a christian and have had a few stints on the revivals of the quakers]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, I would like to hear about  what Quaker freinds believe I am a christian and have had a few stints on the revivals of the quakers</p>
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		By: Martin Kelley		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Kelley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those wanting to know more about Virginia&#039;s Rockingham Friends are invited to contact Faye Chapman at fmchapman (at) hotmail.com or to check out their website at &lt;a href=&quot;http://members.tripod.com/rockinghamfriends/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://members.tripod.com/rockinghamfriends/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://members.tripod.com/rockinghamfriends/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Faye assures me that the Meeting is not entirely virtual though she also told me their next business meeting session will be held in London--yes London, England!--where they will meet with affiliate members associated with Friends House. I was fortunately enough to be hosted by these dear folks a few years ago when I attended Britain Yearly Meeting sessions and am glad to hear Rockingham is giving special attention to its far-off members.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those wanting to know more about Virginia’s Rockingham Friends are invited to contact Faye Chapman at fmchapman (at) hotmail.com or to check out their website at <a href="http://members.tripod.com/rockinghamfriends/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://members.tripod.com/rockinghamfriends/" rel="nofollow">http://members.tripod.com/rockinghamfriends/</a>. Faye assures me that the Meeting is not entirely virtual though she also told me their next business meeting session will be held in London–yes London, England!–where they will meet with affiliate members associated with Friends House. I was fortunately enough to be hosted by these dear folks a few years ago when I attended Britain Yearly Meeting sessions and am glad to hear Rockingham is giving special attention to its far-off members.</p>
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		By: Martin Kelley		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Kelley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I see the next conference is tentatively set for Saturday September 25th, 2004 at the Adelphi Maryland Friends meetinghouse. See the webpage of it&#039;s cosponsor, Friends in Christ (http://www.friendsinchrist.net/) for details.
Martin
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see the next conference is tentatively set for Saturday September 25th, 2004 at the Adelphi Maryland Friends meetinghouse. See the webpage of it’s cosponsor, Friends in Christ (<a href="http://www.friendsinchrist.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.friendsinchrist.net/</a>) for details.<br>
Martin</p>
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		By: Martin Kelley		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Kelley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2004 14:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I responded privately by email to these past two comments when they came in but Julie says it &quot;left me hanging&quot; not to see any response from me. So here are the emails I sent:

&lt;strong&gt;Hello Conrad,&lt;/strong&gt; Nice to see you google in, welcome. I&#039;m glad you liked the CFC piece. The &quot;Quaker Ranter&quot; name is meant to grate actually; &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quakerranter.org/were_all_ranters_now_on_libera/&quot; rel=&quot;ugc&quot;&gt;We&#039;re all Ranters Now&lt;/a&gt;&quot; explains the title. I don&#039;t think someone from Ohio would necessarily debate the premise, once put in a bit of context. (I have a link to the post on every page and on the intro page). So come on back, take your shoes off, look around a bit. Welcome.

&lt;strong&gt;Dear Andy,&lt;/strong&gt; I am not Evangelical by your definition (and maybe not a Christian either). I&#039;m fine with that and have no interest in a debate about correct Christianity. This is a personal webpage about my experiences searching for God and I&#039;m not going to compose any statements of faith. I describe Quakerfinder.org as a utility to find unprogrammed Quaker meetings, which are all over the map when it comes to Christianity. If there&#039;s an unprogrammed Christian meeting in Salem that&#039;s missing from Quakerfinder, you should report it to the folks that maintain the database.

Interesting observation: both visitors came in off of Google links (&quot;Christian Friends&quot; and &quot;friends indiana quaker&quot;) but neither responded to my reply or has visited the site since posting (no one has visited from their ISPs since then). Conrad is clerk of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative&#039;s &quot;Electronic Evangelism Oversight Committee&quot; and has an interesting personal &lt;a href=&quot;https://members.tripod.com/quaker_witness/Anna_memories/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow ugc&quot;&gt;Quaker Witness&lt;/a&gt; website (heads up: turn off the sound if you&#039;re at work, there&#039;s a very cheesy midi song there). I&#039;ve talked a little more about visitor patterns in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quakerranter.org/how_insiders_and_seekers_use_t/&quot; rel=&quot;ugc&quot;&gt;How Insiders and Seekers Use the Quaker Net&lt;/a&gt;.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I responded privately by email to these past two comments when they came in but Julie says it “left me hanging” not to see any response from me. So here are the emails I sent:</p>
<p><strong>Hello Conrad,</strong> Nice to see you google in, welcome. I’m glad you liked the CFC piece. The “Quaker Ranter” name is meant to grate actually; “<a href="https://www.quakerranter.org/were_all_ranters_now_on_libera/" rel="ugc">We’re all Ranters Now</a>” explains the title. I don’t think someone from Ohio would necessarily debate the premise, once put in a bit of context. (I have a link to the post on every page and on the intro page). So come on back, take your shoes off, look around a bit. Welcome.</p>
<p><strong>Dear Andy,</strong> I am not Evangelical by your definition (and maybe not a Christian either). I’m fine with that and have no interest in a debate about correct Christianity. This is a personal webpage about my experiences searching for God and I’m not going to compose any statements of faith. I describe Quakerfinder.org as a utility to find unprogrammed Quaker meetings, which are all over the map when it comes to Christianity. If there’s an unprogrammed Christian meeting in Salem that’s missing from Quakerfinder, you should report it to the folks that maintain the database.</p>
<p>Interesting observation: both visitors came in off of Google links (“Christian Friends” and “friends indiana quaker”) but neither responded to my reply or has visited the site since posting (no one has visited from their ISPs since then). Conrad is clerk of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative’s “Electronic Evangelism Oversight Committee” and has an interesting personal <a href="https://members.tripod.com/quaker_witness/Anna_memories/index.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Quaker Witness</a> website (heads up: turn off the sound if you’re at work, there’s a very cheesy midi song there). I’ve talked a little more about visitor patterns in <a href="https://www.quakerranter.org/how_insiders_and_seekers_use_t/" rel="ugc">How Insiders and Seekers Use the Quaker Net</a>.</p>
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		By: Andy Hughes		</title>
		<link>https://www.quakerranter.org/visit_with_christian_friends_c/#comment-117</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy Hughes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2004 01:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m confused. I can not determine whether you are an evengilical (Christian) friend or a non-evangelical (do not believe Christ to be your Lord and Savior) friend. This page seems to indicate you are a Christian, however when I searched the list of meetings using the quaker finder you recommend I find only non-Christian meetings (in Salem Oregon).
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m confused. I can not determine whether you are an evengilical (Christian) friend or a non-evangelical (do not believe Christ to be your Lord and Savior) friend. This page seems to indicate you are a Christian, however when I searched the list of meetings using the quaker finder you recommend I find only non-Christian meetings (in Salem Oregon).</p>
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		By: Conrad Lindes		</title>
		<link>https://www.quakerranter.org/visit_with_christian_friends_c/#comment-116</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conrad Lindes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed what you wrotte, but I am troubled by your page header, &quot;Quaker Ranter.&quot;  In 17th century England, there was a group which was called the Ranters.  They claimed that Christ was in every one and that, since He was in them, anything they did was really Christ&#039;s doing, so they could do whatever they wanted.  Needless to say, especially in that puritanical era, this philosophy was not only rejected but persecuted.  Unfortunately, those who wanted to persecute Freinds accused them as being the same as the Ranters.  It was with great difficulty, sometimes, that Friends overcame this false accusation, and the persecution that came with it.  It is therefore grating for me to read the terms Quaker and Ranter together as you have put them.
Your Friend in Christ,
Conrad Lindes
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I enjoyed what you wrotte, but I am troubled by your page header, “Quaker Ranter.”  In 17th century England, there was a group which was called the Ranters.  They claimed that Christ was in every one and that, since He was in them, anything they did was really Christ’s doing, so they could do whatever they wanted.  Needless to say, especially in that puritanical era, this philosophy was not only rejected but persecuted.  Unfortunately, those who wanted to persecute Freinds accused them as being the same as the Ranters.  It was with great difficulty, sometimes, that Friends overcame this false accusation, and the persecution that came with it.  It is therefore grating for me to read the terms Quaker and Ranter together as you have put them.<br>
Your Friend in Christ,<br>
Conrad Lindes</p>
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		By: Christine Greenland		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Greenland]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Martin --
I regretted not being at the NFF/Christian Friends Gathering, but had other obligations that weekend. I think you&#039;re quite right, there are far more Christian Friends around (even at FGC). :-) Thanks for the observations
There are affiliate members of other meetings associated with Ohio YM. This opportunity allows me to stay focused and spiritually fed.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Martin –<br>
I regretted not being at the NFF/Christian Friends Gathering, but had other obligations that weekend. I think you’re quite right, there are far more Christian Friends around (even at FGC). 🙂 Thanks for the observations<br>
There are affiliate members of other meetings associated with Ohio YM. This opportunity allows me to stay focused and spiritually fed.</p>
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		By: Debbie Sutton		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Debbie Sutton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am very impressed by your website.  It was good to hear your account of the weekend gathering and even a better to meet and have fellowship with you.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am very impressed by your website.  It was good to hear your account of the weekend gathering and even a better to meet and have fellowship with you.</p>
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