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Liberal Quakerism, and uses his music to speak about the Liberal Quaker experience and ideals. He currently travels and performs his music, and speaks about his life in the Society of Friends. He is also the director of “QuakerSpeak,” a YouTube channel which focuses
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Quakerism, with one branch wanting to return to some of the ways of Protestant churches, with a programmed service including hymns, and the other wishing to retain the traditional service of silent worship punctuated by spontaneous ministry. Although
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composed of songs about the beginnings of the Quaker movement. This work inspired him to pursue a career creating “Spirit-led music.” His most popular, and most controversial, song to date is "Friend Speaks My Mind," for which he created a YouTube video entitled "Dance Party Erupts During Quaker
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Susan Stark is a Quaker singer and songwriter with a number of songs on YouTube. Her cassette Child of The
Nuclear Age contained track "Live Up to the Light", setting to music the words of Caroline Fox describing a moment of profound spiritual experience in 1841.
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Meetings for Worship remained silent, for the most part, with music rarely used, the attitudes towards music began to shift towards a more relaxed view in the mid-nineteenth century. In particular, many of the poems of
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