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    Swarthmore Lecture is one of a series of lectures, started in 1908, addressed to Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)...
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  • Swarthmore may refer to: Swarthmore Lecture, an annual lecture given during the Britain Yearly Meeting Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, a borough in Pennsylvania...
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    well as a philosopher. He is the only person to have delivered two Swarthmore Lectures. Jones was born into an old Quaker family in South China, Maine where...
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    belongs to the Religious Society of Friends. The annual Swarthmore Lecture is one of a series of lectures, started in 1908, addressed to the Britain Yearly...
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    neurologist known for Brain's reflex; became a Quaker in 1931 and gave the Swarthmore Lecture in 1944, "Man, Society and Religion", in which he stressed the importance...
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    publications include: Burnell, S. Jocelyn (1989). Broken for Life. Swarthmore Lecture. London: Quaker Home Service. ISBN 978-0-85245-222-6. Riordan, Maurice;...
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    Eddington, new suburb of North West Cambridge, opened in 2017 Gave the Swarthmore Lecture in 1929 Chairman of the National Peace Council 1941–1943 President...
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    patent." Thompson was committed to truth in all aspects and his 1915 Swarthmore Lecture delivered to the Society of Friends was The Quest for Truth, indicating...
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  • decision making. Among several lectures over the gathering, one of the highlights is known as the Swarthmore Lecture, relating to issues concerning Quakers...
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  • "selfless love"; further consideration arose from Harvey Gillman's Swarthmore Lecture, in 1988. Before the legalisation of same-sex marriage, some Friends...
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    historian, and college professor; the only person to have delivered two Swarthmore Lectures Mary Mayhew, 2018 Republican candidate for governor who currently...
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  • in June 1998. He was also a well-known, active Quaker. He gave the Swarthmore Lecture at London Yearly Meeting 1991, published as Patterns and Examples...
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  • first secretary of the Churches' Council of Healing and delivered a Swarthmore Lecture. Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972): Russian–American aviation pioneer in both...
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  • similar in themes and structure to the Swarthmore Lecture series in Britain. Also known as the James Backhouse Lecture, as it is named for James Backhouse...
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  • Committee to the present name in 1993. In 1998, YFGM gave the annual Swarthmore Lecture to Friends gathered at Yearly Meeting in London, with the title Who...
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  • ISBN 978-07453-3027-3 (hardback). Faith, Power and Peace: The 2015 Swarthmore Lecture, Quaker Books, 2015. List of peace activists Francis, Diana, Respect...
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    Violet Hodgkin, later Holdsworth, was a writer and gave the 1919 Swarthmore Lecture under the title Silent Worship: The way of wonder. She assembled her...
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  • internationally throughout his adult life and was invited to give the 2009 Swarthmore Lecture, which was published as The presence in the midst: reflections on...
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  • Incendiary Fellowship, The Trustworthiness of Religious Experience (1939 Swarthmore Lecture), A Place to Stand, Your Other Vocation and The Humor of Christ. Trueblood's...
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  • Place in the Society of Friends was the title of the controversial Swarthmore Lecture given by Joshua Rowntree, a Liberal politician, in 1913. The principal...
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    Yearly Meeting of the British Quakers, she delivered the keynote Swarthmore Lecture, under the title Removing the Causes of War. A self-identified Christian...
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  • Liverpool University Press. 1961. Search for Reality in Religion: The Swarthmore Lecture 1965. London: George Allen & Unwin. 1965. Ian Dishart Suttie McIntosh...
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  • at the Home Office Work Centre in Wakefield. In 1934 he gave the Swarthmore Lecture to the Yearly Meeting of Quakers, under the title Christ, Yesterday...
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    Britain Yearly Meeting's anthology Quaker Faith and Practice. The Swarthmore Lecture has the title Ground and Spring, taken from Nayler's "There is a spirit...
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  • talking terms" like the Arabs and Israelis. Bailey delivered the 1993 Swarthmore Lecture, titled "Peace is a Process". For his pacifist advocacy, Bailey was...
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  • Hospital, London, is named after him. In 1983 he gave the annual Swarthmore Lecture to a large gathering of British Quakers, attending their Yearly Meeting...
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  • possession (Swarthmore Lecture). Friends Home Service Committee. p. 13. Damaris Parker-Rhodes (1977). Truth: A path and not a possession (Swarthmore Lecture). Friends...
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  • Lowell Institute lectures, 1953. London: A. & C. Black. 1955. OCLC 759775493. Quakerism and Early Christianity. Swarthmore lecture, 1957. London: George...
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  • Birmingham. He was editor of The Friend from 1872 to 1875. He gave the Swarthmore Lecture in 1913 under the title Social Service – Its Place in the Society...
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  • fortunes of the Quaker movement". In 1909, Braithwaite gave the second Swarthmore Lecture, entitled "Spiritual Guidance in the experience of the Society of...
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