Douglas Gwyn

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  • Douglas Gwyn has served among Friends variously as a peace educator for the American Friends Service Committee, as a Friends pastoral minister, as a teacher at the Pendle Hill and Woodbrooke Quaker study centers, and as a writer. A student of Quaker history and thought for over forty years, he is drawn to the various streams of Friends and has sought to exercise a ministry of reconciliation among them.

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The fruit of our alienation

"Many of us feel a chronic discomfort in American society, much like what young George Fox felt in his time and place. It is a sense of alienation, born of living... Read more.

That of Odd in Everyone

There's that of odd in everyone / It goes with being God's daughter or son / It's there in saints, outliers, and outlaws / It's in what's perfect, it's in what's... Read more.