So, although they called themselves Friends the irreverent... They held to the belief of their founder George Fox (1624-91), that no one could know Christ without "quaking and trembling." ...

On visits to the cities for Yearly Meeting, country Friends began to feel uncomfortable. The center of the religious crisis was the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. In this surcharged situation a ...

Quaker groups, including the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, filed the lawsuit last month challenging the change, saying that “the very threat of that ...

She was a devout Quaker — she worked as a Peace Field secretary for the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends — and believed that participating in war was contrary to ...

The IRS has sued the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends for refusing to garnish the wages of one of its employees, a tax resister who says she has religious objections to ...