Showing posts with label Catherine Payton Phillips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catherine Payton Phillips. Show all posts
Monday, April 05, 2021

Resurrecting My Blog

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Still life with books and primroses by the Finnish artist Marga Toppelius-Kiseleff. 1886       Easter seems like a good time to try to put s...
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Friday, April 19, 2019

Recorded ministry - some thoughts

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Meeting by John Perkin I have been following the conversation about recorded ministry on social media with interest. Sam Barnett-Cormack...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Lydia Waring Hawksworth

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Lydia Waring was the daughter of two Quaker ministers. Her father, Samuel Waring, born in 1691, was a mercer from Witney in Oxfordshire wher...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Turning Inside Out again?

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For the second time a course on 18th century Quakers which I had hoped to run for Woodbrooke has been cancelled because of a lack of booki...
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Thursday, March 02, 2017

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015-2017 - V for Verses

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As I said in a much earlier post , Friends in the past have felt ambivalent about both reading and writing poetry. Some, like Mary Southw...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2014 - Z for Zzzzz (Sleeping in Meeting)

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The possibility of falling asleep during meeting for worship has been seen as something to be guarded against from the early days of the Q...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Quaker Alphabet Blog Week 39 - T for Esther Maud Tuke

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Silhouette of Esther Maud Tuke Esther Maud was born in 1727 in Westscholes near Halifax, the eldest daughter of the five children of Tim...
Monday, September 02, 2013

Quaker Alphabet Blog Week 35 - R for Martha Winter Routh

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Silhouette of Martha Routh Martha Winter was born in 1743, the youngest of the numerous children of Henry and Jane Winter of Stourbridge...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Quaker Alphabet Blog Week 30 - O for Opportunity

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'Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor' says a character in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods but that has not always been tru...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Quaker Alphabet Blog Week 24 - L for letters

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I could have written about Quaker letters under E for epistles but that is the official side of Quaker communication. As a historian (and, l...