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There is a meeting of Christian Friends east of Perth. I believe that we could all use some more hallelujahs. I love the enthusiasm of the Kenyan Friends!

My sister Ruth represents CLP at some northeastern homeschool conventions. Have you read the study of conservative Anabaptist publishing enterprises in the *Journal of Anabaptist and Plain Anabaptist Studies*? http://amishamerica.com/journal-of-amis ... t-studies/ Anderson, Jennifer, and Cory Anderson. 2014. Conservative Mennonite storybooks and the construction of evangelical separatism. Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 2(2): 245–277.

"My" Ruth is not a CLP employee. She is a retired medical technologist. Representing CLP is something she does as a volunteer.

Interesting thread. George Fox would likely roll over in his grave if he knew what happened to the majority of the Quaker movement.

MichaelPA wrote:Interesting thread. George Fox would likely roll over in his grave if he knew what happened to the majority of the Quaker movement.

i believe similar could be said of most Christian groups.
but, yes. it’s a challenge to try to grasp where Quakers began, compared to the present majority.

i read your first forum post. i’m glad you found this thread.

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someone just asked me about this older movie based on a Quaker family in the U.S. Civil War time:

Friendly Persuasion / 1956


The book / 1945:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friendly_Persuasion

The author is Jessamyn West, a Quaker, with an interesting personal life.
She wrote several books.

i’m familiar with the movie, when i was a child, my mother loved it.
but i never expect anyone to know anything about it.

Bill Rushby might have some thoughts on the author, books, and movie.
the movie was not an attempt to be a documentary. historical fiction?

temporal1 wrote:

MichaelPA wrote:Interesting thread. George Fox would likely roll over in his grave if he knew what happened to the majority of the Quaker movement.

i believe similar could be said of most Christian groups.
but, yes. it’s a challenge to try to grasp where Quakers began, compared to the present majority.

i read your first forum post. i’m glad you found this thread.

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someone just asked me about this older movie based on a Quaker family in the U.S. Civil War time:

Friendly Persuasion / 1956


The book / 1945:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friendly_Persuasion

The author is Jessamyn West, a Quaker, with an interesting personal life.
She wrote several books.

i’m familiar with the movie, when i was a child, my mother loved it.
but i never expect anyone to know anything about it.

Bill Rushby might have some thoughts on the author, books, and movie.
the movie was not an attempt to be a documentary. historical fiction?

Thanks, temporal1. I'll have to check out that book.

MichaelPA wrote:

temporal1 wrote:

MichaelPA wrote:Interesting thread. George Fox would likely roll over in his grave if he knew what happened to the majority of the Quaker movement.

i believe similar could be said of most Christian groups.
but, yes. it’s a challenge to try to grasp where Quakers began, compared to the present majority.

i read your first forum post. i’m glad you found this thread.

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someone just asked me about this older movie based on a Quaker family in the U.S. Civil War time:

Friendly Persuasion / 1956


The book / 1945:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friendly_Persuasion

The author is Jessamyn West, a Quaker, with an interesting personal life.
She wrote several books.

i’m familiar with the movie, when i was a child, my mother loved it.
but i never expect anyone to know anything about it.

Bill Rushby might have some thoughts on the author, books, and movie.
the movie was not an attempt to be a documentary. historical fiction?

Thanks, temporal1. I'll have to check out that book.

ok. i’m thinking of making a list of her books then visiting the library to see what i can find. her real life, unexpectedly surviving TB, was “something.”

i tried to view the youtube video, the video-audio quality was not good, i believe it skipped some parts.
i viewed it again, in part, later, it seemed to be better.

it is “hollywood,” and, 1950’s.
it’s funny viewing it now, compared to viewing it as a young child (on black+white tv.)
i see much more in it, including that it’s a 1950’s hollywood production.

i hope Bill Rushby will post. surely he will know something about it/the authoress.

It's way past time for bed! I'll try to write something intelligible tomorrow! By the way, readers, watch out for those stray apostrophes; lots of them don't belong where you are placing them! "It's" is a contraction of "it is!"

Bill Rushby wrote:It's way past time for bed! I'll try to write something intelligible tomorrow! By the way, readers, watch out for those stray apostrophes; lots of them don't belong where you are placing them! "It's" is a contraction of "it is!"

So it's.

ohio jones wrote:

Bill Rushby wrote:It's way past time for bed! I'll try to write something intelligible tomorrow! By the way, readers, watch out for those stray apostrophes; lots of them don't belong where you are placing them! "It's" is a contraction of "it is!"

So it's.

‘Tis indeed.

Reaction to "Friendly Persuasion":

The scenery in the movie is exceptionally good. The plot, focused on "resistance or non-resistance,"reflects moral dilemmas Friends and other conscientious objectors actually faced during the Civil War and other wars. The portrayal of Quaker faith and practice seems rather stereotyped and lacking in substance. The carriage race was well done and probably reflects what sometimes happened.

Jessamyn West grew up among Gurneyite ("fast") Friends, in southern California I think. Her experience with traditional Quaker culture was, I would speculate, very limited and probably superficial. It would be like having someone steeped in General Conference Mennonitism attempt to portray Old Order life and culture in a novel or movie, probably accurate on the surface but lacking an "insider" feel.

Jessamyn West was one of Richard Nixon's cousins.