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Rufus Jones And Quaker Unity, Hugh Barbour

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

The Society of Friends, for Rufus Jones as for Arthur Roberts, remains a single movement, called by God to a special role in American Christianity and world history. Both men have also been realistically aware of human limitations and diversity. Yet they have seen God's power, shared in meetings for worship as well as in the religious experience of individuals, able to change human society and transcend human ideas and institutions.

Some Reflections On Quakers And The Evangelical Spirit, John Punshon

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

I suppose that Arthur Roberts was the first evangelical Friend I ever met. On what was probably the third day of my very first visit to the United States, I flew out to Oregon to meet him and visit George Fox College. I had been teaching at Woodbrooke, the English Quaker study center, for a couple of years, and I was beginning to get an inkling that there were many Friends in the world who were not like us. I wanted to get as far away from London Yearly Meeting as I possibly could, and Northwest Yearly Meeting seemed to …

The Indians' Friends, James D. Le Shana

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

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Thy Obedience Is Perfect Freedom, T. Canby Jones

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

"In this talk I plan to examine freedom and obedience in Scripture, in George Fox, Thomas R. Kelly, William Penn; interpreting each with my own leadings and attempts to understand the relationship between freedom and obedience."

Resistance In A 'Culture Of Permission:' Sociological Readings Of The Correspondence With Persian Authorities In Ezra 1-7, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

The first six chapters of the book of Ezra center around an alleged correspondence between the Persian Emporer's court and the local authorities of Palestine under Persian rule. Without question, these letters were crucial to the editors of Ezra-Nehemiah. But why? What does the reproduction of this alleged official correspondence mean to the final editors of Ezra-Nehemiah?

Anthony Benezet, The True Champion Of The Slave, Irv A. Brendlinger

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Anthony Benezet was the greatest eighteenth century influence on the ending of British slavery and the slave trade. While names such as Wilberforce, Sharp and Clarkson ring with familiarity as champions of the slave, it is Benezet who occupies the position of foundational influence on these men and the entire cause. To substantiate this claim I shall briefly introduce his life and examine his antislavery activities and influences. However, it is most fitting to begin with his death and the public response to it.

The Nature Of Mysticism, Gayle Beebe

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

As a definitive work of the Society of Friends, the Journal of George Fox has set the tone and tenor for the Society's understanding of one's experience of God or the ultimately Real. Various interpretations of Fox have been offered, but a consistent theme in all interpretations has been Fox's emphasis on the necessity of an experimental or experiential understanding of one's encounter with God. A result of this consistent emphasis has been a trend Fox started himself: since one's experience of God is the touchstone of religious faith, the role or importance of religious texts, religious communities and religious …

Herbert Hoover As An Enduring Model For American Leaders, Mark O. Hatfield

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Senator Mark O. Hatfield writes a personal reflection on Herbert Hoover's influence.

Poems, Nancy Thomas

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Poems include:

A Psalm for High Places
I Love Tangents
God at "The Penguin"
Metaphors for Transformation
An Ecumenical Quaker Draws the Line

Poems, Michael P. Graves

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Poems include:

Pie in the Sky
The Iconoclast Has His Day

The Mother Tongue: Acquiring Language And Being Human, Rebecca Ankeny

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

One of my favorite Far Sides shows a spider on an analyst's couch, saying, "It's the same dream night after night...I walk out on my web, and suddenly a foot sticks-and then another foot sticks, and another, and another, and another...." Gary Larsen's spider expresses the impression that people who are fascinated by language have: language is like a web. I spin it out thinking that I have it under control, and suddenly it seems I am caught in the system of words. I open my mouth to speak, and suddenly words appear or disappear, the wrong words come, or …

Arthur O. Roberts: A Select Bibliography, Arthur O. Roberts

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

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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 …

The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice And The Quakers, Michael P. Graves

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Today's Quakers are considerably less "hard-shelled" and "mole-eyed" and there are signs on both sides of the Atlantic that the Society of Friends has made progress toward making peace with the theatre. Indeed, one could argue that the situation has changed radically in the last three hundred fifty years, but there remains an ambiguity at best, an antipathy at worst, between Quaker thought and the theatre. This topic is too broad to be encompassed within the limits of this essay, which can merely open doors slightly to a subject that should be treated in more depth at another time and …

Poems, Ed Higgins

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Poems include:

Astrobiography
Of Light
Galaxies
For the children of Dunblane, Scotland
Eve's Body
Silent Prayer

Darkness At Noonday, Ralph Beebe

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

No abstract provided.

Abigail V. Harvey, Lee Nash

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Sibling Rivalry in the Oregon Campaign for Woman Suffrage.

Evangelical Quakers And Public Policy, Lon Fendall

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

In Arthur Roberts' excellent volume reflecting on his life, Drawn By The Light, he briefly describes his involvement in state and local politics. He ran unsuccessfully for a position in the Oregon Legislature and later served a four-year term on the Yachats, Oregon, City Council. It was not easy for Arthur to bridge the gulf between the intellectual depth and erudite vocabulary of the scholar and the rough and tumble of state and local politics. But he felt that these political involvements had "quickened my appreciation for ordinary activity as the true vocation for the church." Arthur took his city …

A Basis For Civility, Phil D. Smith

Truth's Bright Embrace: Essays and Poems in Honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Give attention, if you will, to the virtue of civility. In this essay I want to define civility, then give a bit of its history, continue by predicting something of its future, and conclude by explaining civility's true ground, at least as I understand it.

We are not here interested in politeness or courtesy, though those meanings of "civility" may be ancillary to our topic. We are thinking instead about the political realm, and we are aware that many voices have been raised to decry the mean-spirited and vicious nature of politics, both in attaining and using public office. \Vise …

1996 Minutes Of The Kings Mountain Baptist Association, Kings Mountain Baptist Association

Kings Mountain Baptist Association Minute Books

The 1996 meeting of the Kings Mountain Baptist Association met at Ross Grove Baptist Church and Elizabeth Baptist Church in Shelby, NC. The minutes are dedicated to the memory of Rev. Amos M. Kiser, Sr., Rev. Rufus James Sanders, Jr., and Rev. Ernest M. Smith. Gardner-Webb is noted to be the only Baptist school in the state with programs for blind and deaf students. The Association announced their partnership with the Western Province Baptist Association in Cape Town, South Africa. The Executive Board and Missions Committee established the Kings Mountain Baptist Association Missions Foundation to assist individuals in participating in …

1996 Perihelion - Oru Yearbook, Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

Perihelion: ORU Yearbooks

The Oral Roberts University Student Yearbook, the Perihelion, is produced by ORU Media and Communications department.

The images and files are copyrighted to Oral Roberts University and cannot be reproduced in any form without permission from ORU administration.

Wesleyan Holiness Studies Center Bulletin 4:2 (Summer 1996), Wesleyan Holiness Studies Center

Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Journal In Entirety

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Things That Matter: A Guide To Christian Faith – Slovakian Translation, Institute For Christian Studies, Austin, Texas

Stone-Campbell Books

This is the Slovakian translation of Things That Matter: A Guide to the Christian Faith.

The original version of this book was written in 1991 for a Russian audience to reintroduce the Bible and the Christian faith to a group of very eager readers. Since then, over 50,000 copies have been distributed in Russia, many in response to national radio broadcasts.

This title was originally published by the Institute for Christian Studies, Austin, Texas (later known as Austin Graduate School of Theology).

Things That Matter: A Guide To Christian Faith – Telugu Translation, Institute For Christian Studies, Austin, Texas

Stone-Campbell Books

This is the Telugu translation of Things That Matter: A Guide to the Christian Faith.

The original version of this book was written in 1991 for a Russian audience to reintroduce the Bible and the Christian faith to a group of very eager readers. Since then, over 50,000 copies have been distributed in Russia, many in response to national radio broadcasts.

This title was originally published in English by Institute for Christian Studies, Austin, Texas (later known as Austin Graduate School of Theology).

Atheistic Methods In Theology, Adolf Schlatter, David R. Bauer

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

The Inspiration And Counter - Inspiration Of Astronomical Phenomena, Stanley L. Jaki

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

A Missionary Case Study, Mark Royster

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Between The Réveil And Pentecostalism: The American Wesleyan/ Holiness Traditions In Belgium And The Netherlands, David Bundy

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 45, No. 2, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., Robert Troy Boyer, Amos Long Jr., Christine M. Mueseler, Catherine Anne Jacobs, Hugo A. Freund

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Occupational Folklife
• A Fine-Tooth Comb: Atlee Crouse Carries on a Family Tradition
• "Lime and Manure": Agricultural Practices Among the Pennsylvania Germans
• Alcoa, New Kensington: "It was More Than a Job - It was a Way of Life"
• Women's Work: Textile Manufacturing in the Lackawanna Valley
• Working the Seams: African American Professional Performers Moving Between White Public Culture and African American Private Culture