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Religion And Ethics In The Thought Of John Bellers, T. Vail Palmer Jr.
Religion And Ethics In The Thought Of John Bellers, T. Vail Palmer Jr.
Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts
The lives and writings of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Friends have had an enormous impact on later generations of Quakers. They have also received due attention from church historians. George Fox's Journal has achieved a measure of fame as a Christian devotional classic. Beyond this, only two of these early Friends have received significant attention, after their time, in circles beyond the Quaker family. One of these Friends, William Penn, is well enough known to need no further comment. The other one is John Bellers. His writings have had their chief impact on Socialist and Communist thinkers. Robert Owen, early …
A Nature Nudge, Gary K. Fawver
A Nature Nudge, Gary K. Fawver
Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts
For a number of years now, I have believed that informal and formal outdoor experiences built on a biblical knowledge base can be beneficial and should be purposely pursued throughout one's life. My intentions for a vocational ministry in the outdoors have been to reconnect people with the natural realm, to assist them in rediscovering the outdoors. In support of that, I conducted an action research project to demonstrate the benefits of God's natural world, the outdoors, in the lives of a select group of people through a five-day "immersion" in that outdoor environment. The outdoor setting became the mechanism …