Letters to a Fellow Seeker: A Short

Introduction to the Quaker Way

Chase, Steve
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Letter 5 - Quaker Faith and Social Action

Friends are advised to minister to those in need, but also to 48

seek to know the facts and the causes of social and economic
ills and to work for the removal of those

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core values of simplicity, integrity, nonviolence, equality, 49

ecological stewardship, and community service that
undergird our daily practices and social witness in the world
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This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed 51

nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of
annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and
selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence
before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving
of our world from pending doom will come, not through the
complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but
through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming
minority.

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Letter 6 - The Struggle to Be Faithful

toward greater wholeness and integrity over time with the 62

help of both the Spirit and our spiritual community. It is not
about judging ourselves, or each other in our very real
struggles to be faithful. It is not even about having the same
idea of what choices are “faithful

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