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Reimagining a True Social Order

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    • What, who, when, where, why? – some basics
    • Patterns and examples: more visibility and new expectations
    • Contemporary Quaker Perspectives
    • New meanings of simplicity
    • Builders of the Kingdom: Quaker corporate activism
    • “Whose text is this anyway?” – corporate ownership
    • Thinking Experimentally: Quaker processes and the Foundations
    • Role of discernment
    • Questions of class – inside and outside the Society
    • ‘An Unfortunate Association with Socialism’?
    • Doing Christianity differently? – new theologies, renewing Quakerism
    • Education: at the heart of Quaker concern for the social order?
    • Revolution or reform, big picture or small steps?
    • Sustainability: an interconnected commitment
    • Ready to Speak Out: forming the public presence of Quakers today
    • Working Out The Details: from vision to policy
    • Inter-war controversies: “Go-aheads” and “Quietists”
    • Revisiting: an ongoing cycle of using the Foundations
  • Glossary
    • Authors of this website
    • Book of Discipline
    • Draft of the Revised Eight Points
    • How to use this website
    • Industrial and Social Order Council
    • London Yearly Meeting
    • Names for Quakers
    • Peace Testimony
    • Russian Revolution
    • Socialism and Quakers
    • Statement of Social Testimony
    • Tags
    • Testimonies
    • War and Social Order Committee
    • Woodbrooke
  • Historical Figures
    • Conscientious Objection and the people behind ‘Foundations’
    • Alfred Barratt Brown
    • C. Leonard Leese
    • Edith Wilson
    • J. Edward Hodgkin
    • Francis E Pollard
    • Hubert Peet
    • Joan Mary Fry
    • John Pease Fry
    • John Woolman
    • Joseph Stephenson Rowntree
    • Lucy Morland
    • Mabel Tothill
    • Malcolm Sparkes
    • Marian Ellis
    • Mary O’Brien Harris
    • Maurice Rowntree
    • Robert Davis
    • Robert Mennell
    • Rosa Hobhouse
    • J. Theodore Harris
    • J. Walton Newbold
    • William Loftus Hare
  • Study materials
    • Study Session 1: A True Social Order
    • Study Session 2: The Opportunity of Full Development
    • Study Session 3: Superfluous Demands
    • Study Session 4: No Restriction of Race, Sex or Social Class
    • Study Session 5: Unfortunate Association with Socialism?
  • About this project

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  • Revolution or reform, big picture or small steps?
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