A lot of historians will read that simplistically as sober with piety without considering it may have been sober with sarcasm. But your point remains a very substantive one nevertheless.

Congrats on earning a "Top LGBTQ Christian Books" entry at Q Spirit!

Should be of interest to @petersontoscano.bsky.social and @friendsjournal.org - after all, this novel (among other things) portrays Lucretia Mott at the pioneering New York Women's Conference, if nothing else...

I hope I can disagree without coming across as a troll. How can a handy and insightful list of virtues be any more restrictive than guidance routinely laid out in Book of Discipline? I much favor the former

Hast thee read The Charioteer?

Apparently the author is actually one Francis Thompson

Elias Hicks "Sermon VII: Friends Meeting-house, Byberry, in Philadelphia County, on Fourth Day Morning, 8th of Twelfth Month, 1824." Sermon VII [Let Brotherly Love Continue] archive.org/details/seri...

I agree, but one thing hasn't changed: Friends who follow their truest calling will always exceed the bounds of corporate discernment. No matter which reformer you examine, the greatest Friends always became too good of a Quaker to be a Quaker.

Uh, tell me: when was our last truly authorized war, anyhow?

[1] Melivlle's readers knew Quaker pacificism did NOT generally extend to animal slaughter (exception: Elias Hicks and other advanced moralists). So what was Peleg and Bildad's "alien and heterogeneous modification?"