"In the old story, God was not in the fierce wind, nor the crushing earthquake, nor the fire. God was the gentle whisper, the ...

published “God in Us,’’ a brief book about “Quakerism,’’ in 1928. Gibbons worked as a journalist in New York and Philadelphia. In his youth, he attended Lampeter Quaker Meeting in Bird ...

“A diversity of worshippers is an essential component of the Quaker value of ‘experience[ing] God in a broader, more encompassing way,’ as ‘one’s life experience affects how one hears ...

In Quaker worship, people sit together in silence and wait to hear from God. Then, anyone attending ... and to make decisions with everyone in the room,” the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, one ...