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The first protest by a colonial church body against the keeping of slaves took place at Germantown (Philadelphia) in 1688. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1688_Germantown_Quaker_Petition_Against_Slavery Note that this Quaker group consisted of ex-Krefeld Mennonites who had joined the Quaker church in ...

Temporal wrote: "at that time (most?) were coming from Puritan roots? with Anabaptist influences? .. Puritans, Anabaptists, Protestants..." I don't think the first Friends had any demonstrated contact with "Anabaptists", as we would think of them, in the British Isles. They did h...

Josh wrote: "But the only Conservative Quaker meeting in Salem, Ohio, near me, is a tiny group of less than a hundred people. The last time my mother went to visit, there was no meeting, and she and my sister showed up, waited, and left disappointed. They weren't able to reach anyone to find ou...

Hello, Josh! Asking a counter-question is a clever way of not answering my question! But, in the final analysis, I was not trying to work you into a corner! I don't think there is one and only one answer to your question. The Society of Friends is fragmented into vastly different traditions, and the...

Concerning whether Friends are Anabaptists, much depends upon whether these terms are construed loosely or very narrowly. Friends have not on a widespread basis practiced the ordinances, so a narrow interpretation would exclude them from the Anabaptist category. Also, many Friends would not approach...

Hello, Temporal1! In *The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy *, Rodney Stark and Roger Finke claim (as I recall) that at one time one in four people in the American colonies were affiliated with the Society of Friends. So lots of Americans of British descent...

Josh wrote: "Quakers never recognised (sic) the principle of headship at all."

Josh, can you document this assertion? I doubt it!