This book tells the story of how I grew up in a Wilburite Quaker family in Ohio and attended Scattergood Friends School in Iowa.
Every day brings new public debate over issues Quakers have always addressed: war and peace, social justice, education, health care, poverty, business ethics, public service, the use of world resources (Smith, xii-xiii)..
He states, It is my ever-Growing conviction that the compassionate Quaker message badly needs to be heard in today\'s complex, materialistic, often unjust, and discriminatory society.
An inspiration for this book is A Quaker Book of Wisdom - Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense by Robert Lawrence Smith.
I present my personal faith.
I tell about Scattergood Friends School in Iowa.
I tell how the Blackburn Family lived out Quaker beliefs.
Their practices are close to early English Friends.
I tell about Wilburite Friends, which are much different from most Quakers.
I give an overview of Quakers who originated as the The Religious Society of Friends in seventeenth-century England.
This book tells the story of how I grew up in a Wilburite Quaker family in Ohio and attended Scattergood Friends School in Iowa
