Issue #26 — Preview
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Quaker Thunder In Carolina: A Report by Chuck Fager
Ninth Month (September) 29, 2014: Years of tensions in North Carolina Yearly Meeting-FUM (NCYM-FUM), exacerbated by a steady loss of members and funds, broke into the open in the summer of 2014, and took over the agenda at the annual sessions at the beginning of September. Calls for a purge surfaced, and have already produced…
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Thunder In Carolina: North Carolina Yearly Meeting – FUM
The article explores the internal conflict within North Carolina Yearly Meeting-FUM (NCYM-FUM), focusing on a potential schism driven by disputes over mission, morality, marriage, and money. It details the conservative evangelical push led by Poplar Ridge Meeting to enforce doctrinal unity and exclude liberal/quasi-universalist meetings, contrasted with the resistance from targeted meetings such as New…