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George Fox
George Fox (September 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs.
Fox married Margaret Fell, the widow of one of his wealthier supporters; she was a leading Friend. His ministry expanded and he undertook tours of North America and the Low Countries. Between these tours, he was imprisoned for more than a year. He spent the final decade of his life working in London to organize the expanding Quaker movement.
While his movement attracted disdain from some, others such as William Penn and Oliver Cromwell viewed Fox with respect.
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George Fox (priest)
Benjamin George Burton Fox, MC (28 July 1912 – 6 November 1978) was Archdeacon of Wisbech from 1964 until his death.
Fox was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich and the University of London; and was ordained in 1936. He served curacies in Guildford and Bath. After this he was a Chaplain to the Forces during World War Two. When peace returned he held incumbencies in Potten End, Bedford, Montego Bay (where he was also the Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1950 to 1955), Fulham and Haddenham.
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George Fox (singer)
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George Fox (born March 23, 1960 in Calgary, Alberta) is a country/western music singer/songwriter raised in Cochrane, Alberta, the son of cattle ranchers Bert and Gert Fox.
His debut single "Angelina" reached No. 8 on Canadian country music charts. In subsequent years, "Goldmine", "No Trespassing", "Mustang Heart", "I Give You My Word", "What's Holding Me" and "Breakfast Alone" would also become top 10 singles and signature songs. He has also written a book of short stories depicting ranch life entitled "My First Cow".
Awards include the Canadian Country Music Awards 'Male Vocalist Of The Year' (3 times) and the Juno Awards 'Country Male Vocalist Of The Year' (three times). George acted as host of the CCMA Awards television show from 1991 to 1994. In 1995, his home town of Cochrane named a new street "George Fox Trail" in his honour.
George and his wife Monica live near Ancaster in southern Ontario with their two daughters.
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Time of My Life (George Fox album)
Time of My Life is the fifth studio album by Canadian country music artist George Fox. It was released by Warner Music Canada in 1995. The album peaked at number 4 on the RPM Country Albums chart and was certified gold by the CRIA.
Track listing
Chart performance
References
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The Time of My Life
The Time of My Life may refer to:
Music
- "Time of My Life" (George Fox song), the title track
Others
See also
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Lupercalia (album)
Lupercalia is the fifth studio album by English-Irish singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, released on 20 June 2011 by Hideout, a subsidiary of Mercury Records.
Album information
Formerly The Conqueror – originally the second part of a double album entitled Battle – the album's title and concept was changed by Wolf in August 2010.
On 4 November 2010, Wolf announced that the first single from the album was to be 'Time of My Life' and the song was posted on YouTube. The second single, entitled "The City", was released 14 March 2011.
On 23 December 2010, Wolf announced via Twitter that, while he had considered multiple album titles, such as 'The Native' and 'Tahina Spectabilis' with fan support he decided on Lupercalia, reflecting the "festival of love" theme of the album.
Speaking to Digital Spy in March 2011, of the album Wolf says:
On why the album is entitled Lupercalia, Wolf says,
A 7-track bonus disc titled ‘Lemuralia’ was released alongside the album online, containing album tracks in demo stages – it acts as an EP companion to Lupercalia.
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The Time of My Life (David Cook song)
"The Time of My Life" is the coronation song and the debut single for the winner of the seventh season of American Idol, David Cook.
Background
The song is the winner out of thousands of entries for the 2008 American Idol Songwriter's Competition, and was written by Regie Hamm. It was released as Cook's first single exclusively on iTunes on May 22, 2008. The next day, it was made available at all digital retailers. The song was sent to the radio stations following the end of the airing of American Idol finale in Hawaii.
On the 2008 ESPY's the song was used. The song was also used at the end of 2008 Summer Olympics Games opening ceremony on August 8, 2008 by NBC to recap the events that took place during the opening ceremonies. It has also been used throughout the Olympics to recap the days victories for the United States. This song was also used for a Viennese Waltz on So You Think You Can Dance season 4, performed by Courtney G. and Mark.
In June 2009, in the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, the Llanview school chorus sang the song.
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George Fox and the history of the early Quakers - English
This 13 minute film tells the story of George Fox and the early beginnings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the mid 17th century. Using the embroidered panels of the Quaker Tapestry, interspersed with location filming in the old English county of ‘Westmorland’, the scene is set to give us a taste of the prevailing political and social climate at that time and an introduction to the origins of the basic Quaker values and beliefs. After the Civil War and the previous periods of constant religious change England was a nation in turmoil. George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of Quakers, was an enquiring young man who, like many others at the time, was searching for a more accessible way to God. George Fox was born in Drayton-in-the-Clay, now known as Fenny Drayton, in Leicesters...
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How Quakerism Began
Quaker Speak: Max Carter shares the story of George Fox, a Quaker who went seeking for spiritual answers and found them not in a church, but within. Max is a professor at Guilford College. http://quakerspeak.com/subscribe Filmed and edited by Jon Watts: http://jonwatts.com Music from this episode: http://jonwattsmusic.com Discussion Questions: http://www.quakerspeak.com/quakerism-began More Resources Find a Quaker Meeting Near You: http://www.friendsjournal.org/meeting-listings/ http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/quaker-finder Opportunities for personal transformation through community and service work: http://www.quakervoluntaryservice.org/ Friends Center at Guilford College http://www.guilford.edu/about/quaker-heritage/friends-center/index.aspx Transcript Quakerism started as par...
published: 06 Mar 2014 -
George Fox and the Quaker Church
by Gabriela Nord
published: 30 Oct 2023 -
Introducing: George Fox
Slash prints from Jan De Hartog's series on the "History of Quakerism".
published: 14 Jun 2008 -
4 George Fox
The Diggers were concerned with land rights, the Levellers sought equality. The authority of the church was challenged by many dissenting religious groups such as the Quakers. John Lilburne, the Leveller, became a Quaker, and had a Quaker funeral. The Quakers did away with priests, creeds and sacraments, and claimed all men and women were equal and had a direct relationship with God. They refused to pay church taxes and would not take oaths of allegiance. George Fox was one of the founders of Quakerism.
published: 15 Jun 2018 -
Bruce Shelton and Robert Krajenke - The Story of George Fox and the Quakers (2019)
George Fox was a 17th century saint who was repeatedly imprisoned for teaching the world about the "Inner Light" of God's Presence within. He founded the Quaker religion where Friends continue to meet in the silence to experience the joy and love of God.
published: 13 Nov 2019 -
The History of George Fox
QuakerSpeak is a weekly video series. New video every other THURSDAY! SUPPORT QuakerSpeak! https://quakerspeak.com/donate/ SUBSCRIBE for a new video every other week! http://fdsj.nl/QS-Subscribe WATCH all our videos: http://fdsj.nl/qs-all-videos ___ Become a Friends Journal subscriber for only $28 http://fdsj.nl/FJ-Subscribe Filming and Editing by Christopher Cuthrell ___ Transcript: Being born in 1624, George Fox is coming of age at a time when England is involved in a civil war that pits the forces of Parliament on one side against the king on the other. One of the results of this is a breakdown in the control that the Church of England had over religious life. So you have dozens of new religious groups manifesting themselves. The one thing all of these competing religious gro...
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9 Fox Contending with Priests - Friendly Friday George Fox Journal group Reading + Discussion Ch6
Priests Confounded in their Error by the Spirit's Wisdom Moving Thru George Fox Friendly Friday; George Fox Journal Reading +Discussion, Mar 31. 2023 a service of Canadian Friends Historical Association -- ALL WELCOME! every other Friday at 1:20pm (ET) zoom link: is.gd/friendlyfriday facebook group: is.gd/georgeFox
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GEORGE FOX LECTURE
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George Fox, Margaret Fell and Swarthmoor Hall
This film explores the early Quakers at Swarthmoor Hall and what it still means today. With thanks to Staff at Swarthmoor Hall Swarthmoor Meeting Members BrainBlink Productions: www.brainblinkproductions.co.uk __________________________________________________________ Margaret Fell illustration by Lisa Maltby Design by Simon Leach Design and David Sudlow Designers For The Quiet Company and Swarthmoor Hall
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George Fox and the history of the early Quakers - English
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This 13 minute film tells the story of George Fox and the early beginnings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the mid 17th century. Using the embr...
This 13 minute film tells the story of George Fox and the early beginnings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the mid 17th century. Using the embroidered panels of the Quaker Tapestry, interspersed with location filming in the old English county of ‘Westmorland’, the scene is set to give us a taste of the prevailing political and social climate at that time and an introduction to the origins of the basic Quaker values and beliefs.
After the Civil War and the previous periods of constant religious change England was a nation in turmoil. George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of Quakers, was an enquiring young man who, like many others at the time, was searching for a more accessible way to God. George Fox was born in Drayton-in-the-Clay, now known as Fenny Drayton, in Leicestershire. Already spiritually troubled, at the age of 19 he wandered the country seeking advice from both priest and dissenter. But these conversations brought him little comfort. He slipped through towns as a stranger and sought out solitude. Answers to his questions would eventually come not from the lips of others, but from within himself. George had the conviction, determination and opportunity to put forward a radical approach to religion.
You can see this film within the Quaker Tapestry Museum at Kendal.
https://wn.com/George_Fox_And_The_History_Of_The_Early_Quakers_English
This 13 minute film tells the story of George Fox and the early beginnings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the mid 17th century. Using the embroidered panels of the Quaker Tapestry, interspersed with location filming in the old English county of ‘Westmorland’, the scene is set to give us a taste of the prevailing political and social climate at that time and an introduction to the origins of the basic Quaker values and beliefs.
After the Civil War and the previous periods of constant religious change England was a nation in turmoil. George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of Quakers, was an enquiring young man who, like many others at the time, was searching for a more accessible way to God. George Fox was born in Drayton-in-the-Clay, now known as Fenny Drayton, in Leicestershire. Already spiritually troubled, at the age of 19 he wandered the country seeking advice from both priest and dissenter. But these conversations brought him little comfort. He slipped through towns as a stranger and sought out solitude. Answers to his questions would eventually come not from the lips of others, but from within himself. George had the conviction, determination and opportunity to put forward a radical approach to religion.
You can see this film within the Quaker Tapestry Museum at Kendal.
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How Quakerism Began
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Quaker Speak: Max Carter shares the story of George Fox, a Quaker who went seeking for spiritual answers and found them not in a church, but within. Max is a p...
Quaker Speak: Max Carter shares the story of George Fox, a Quaker who went seeking for spiritual answers and found them not in a church, but within. Max is a professor at Guilford College.
http://quakerspeak.com/subscribe
Filmed and edited by Jon Watts: http://jonwatts.com
Music from this episode: http://jonwattsmusic.com
Discussion Questions:
http://www.quakerspeak.com/quakerism-began
More Resources
Find a Quaker Meeting Near You:
http://www.friendsjournal.org/meeting-listings/
http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/quaker-finder
Opportunities for personal transformation through community and service work:
http://www.quakervoluntaryservice.org/
Friends Center at Guilford College
http://www.guilford.edu/about/quaker-heritage/friends-center/index.aspx
Transcript
Quakerism started as part of the English Civil war period, 1640s. There were a variety of movements during the civil war period that were seeking address some of the disparities in English Societies: ecclesiastical, political, economic. Some of those groups were Diggers, Levellers, Muggletonians, 5th Monarchists, Seekers groups.
Some that were trying to seek reform within the church (the Puritans), some who had given up on the Church as a dead corpse and left and started their own chapels or conventicles, and Quakerism emerged out of that chaotic social, political, religious time.
George Fox was one of the leaders of that movement but he wasn't alone in that. He has become a major figure in understanding the origins of Quakerism.
He became tired of what he saw as hypocrisy in the church of his youth and about the age of 19 he left the church and started wandering about seeking a direct spiritual experience that spoke to his condition and he didn't find it in any of the outward forms, didn't find it in any of the the clergy of the time, didn't find it in other authorities.
In 1647 he had an experience in which he heard a voice telling him, "there is One, even Christ Jesus who can speak to thy condition."
"And when I heard it my heart did leap for joy."
Which, in contemporary expressions would probably be: what he was seeking outside of himself as authority, he found available to himself within.
He then started sharing that message: that what you're seeking outside of yourself is available inside of yourself, and you can turn to that inward teacher, that prophet, priest, redeemer, lord within and be led into salvation and truth.
Quakerism spread from the initial insights of Fox and others who came out of this gumbo of seeking reform in the church of England in the 1640s and 50s initially by word of mouth. They would share their experience. Fox, for example, would go about the countryside sharing his understanding of the fact that Christ had come to teach the people directly, to direct them inwardly to God, to Christ their teacher and priest.
Sometimes he would speak to larger gatherings, but it wasn't until about 1652 that there were larger numbers of people who came to hear his message. Those folk then shared the message with others. Pretty soon they started going out two by two, sharing the gospel message and people came into convincement.
By the time Fox died in 1691 there were some 50,000 Quakers so in 40 or 50 years it spread, much of that coming out of that social milieu of protest and the seeking of reform and it really was one by one by one.
tags: Max Carter, Guilford College, Quakers, Quakerism, Friends Journal, Friends General Conference, Quaker Voluntary Service, Jon Watts, QuakerSpeak, George Fox
https://wn.com/How_Quakerism_Began
Quaker Speak: Max Carter shares the story of George Fox, a Quaker who went seeking for spiritual answers and found them not in a church, but within. Max is a professor at Guilford College.
http://quakerspeak.com/subscribe
Filmed and edited by Jon Watts: http://jonwatts.com
Music from this episode: http://jonwattsmusic.com
Discussion Questions:
http://www.quakerspeak.com/quakerism-began
More Resources
Find a Quaker Meeting Near You:
http://www.friendsjournal.org/meeting-listings/
http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/quaker-finder
Opportunities for personal transformation through community and service work:
http://www.quakervoluntaryservice.org/
Friends Center at Guilford College
http://www.guilford.edu/about/quaker-heritage/friends-center/index.aspx
Transcript
Quakerism started as part of the English Civil war period, 1640s. There were a variety of movements during the civil war period that were seeking address some of the disparities in English Societies: ecclesiastical, political, economic. Some of those groups were Diggers, Levellers, Muggletonians, 5th Monarchists, Seekers groups.
Some that were trying to seek reform within the church (the Puritans), some who had given up on the Church as a dead corpse and left and started their own chapels or conventicles, and Quakerism emerged out of that chaotic social, political, religious time.
George Fox was one of the leaders of that movement but he wasn't alone in that. He has become a major figure in understanding the origins of Quakerism.
He became tired of what he saw as hypocrisy in the church of his youth and about the age of 19 he left the church and started wandering about seeking a direct spiritual experience that spoke to his condition and he didn't find it in any of the outward forms, didn't find it in any of the the clergy of the time, didn't find it in other authorities.
In 1647 he had an experience in which he heard a voice telling him, "there is One, even Christ Jesus who can speak to thy condition."
"And when I heard it my heart did leap for joy."
Which, in contemporary expressions would probably be: what he was seeking outside of himself as authority, he found available to himself within.
He then started sharing that message: that what you're seeking outside of yourself is available inside of yourself, and you can turn to that inward teacher, that prophet, priest, redeemer, lord within and be led into salvation and truth.
Quakerism spread from the initial insights of Fox and others who came out of this gumbo of seeking reform in the church of England in the 1640s and 50s initially by word of mouth. They would share their experience. Fox, for example, would go about the countryside sharing his understanding of the fact that Christ had come to teach the people directly, to direct them inwardly to God, to Christ their teacher and priest.
Sometimes he would speak to larger gatherings, but it wasn't until about 1652 that there were larger numbers of people who came to hear his message. Those folk then shared the message with others. Pretty soon they started going out two by two, sharing the gospel message and people came into convincement.
By the time Fox died in 1691 there were some 50,000 Quakers so in 40 or 50 years it spread, much of that coming out of that social milieu of protest and the seeking of reform and it really was one by one by one.
tags: Max Carter, Guilford College, Quakers, Quakerism, Friends Journal, Friends General Conference, Quaker Voluntary Service, Jon Watts, QuakerSpeak, George Fox
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George Fox and the Quaker Church
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by Gabriela Nord
by Gabriela Nord
https://wn.com/George_Fox_And_The_Quaker_Church
by Gabriela Nord
- published: 30 Oct 2023
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Introducing: George Fox
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Slash prints from Jan De Hartog's series on the "History of Quakerism".
Slash prints from Jan De Hartog's series on the "History of Quakerism".
https://wn.com/Introducing_George_Fox
Slash prints from Jan De Hartog's series on the "History of Quakerism".
- published: 14 Jun 2008
- views: 7540
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4 George Fox
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The Diggers were concerned with land rights, the Levellers sought equality. The authority of the church was challenged by many dissenting religious groups such...
The Diggers were concerned with land rights, the Levellers sought equality. The authority of the church was challenged by many dissenting religious groups such as the Quakers. John Lilburne, the Leveller, became a Quaker, and had a Quaker funeral. The Quakers did away with priests, creeds and sacraments, and claimed all men and women were equal and had a direct relationship with God. They refused to pay church taxes and would not take oaths of allegiance.
George Fox was one of the founders of Quakerism.
https://wn.com/4_George_Fox
The Diggers were concerned with land rights, the Levellers sought equality. The authority of the church was challenged by many dissenting religious groups such as the Quakers. John Lilburne, the Leveller, became a Quaker, and had a Quaker funeral. The Quakers did away with priests, creeds and sacraments, and claimed all men and women were equal and had a direct relationship with God. They refused to pay church taxes and would not take oaths of allegiance.
George Fox was one of the founders of Quakerism.
- published: 15 Jun 2018
- views: 408
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Bruce Shelton and Robert Krajenke - The Story of George Fox and the Quakers (2019)
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George Fox was a 17th century saint who was repeatedly imprisoned for teaching the world about the "Inner Light" of God's Presence within. He founded the Quaker...
George Fox was a 17th century saint who was repeatedly imprisoned for teaching the world about the "Inner Light" of God's Presence within. He founded the Quaker religion where Friends continue to meet in the silence to experience the joy and love of God.
https://wn.com/Bruce_Shelton_And_Robert_Krajenke_The_Story_Of_George_Fox_And_The_Quakers_(2019)
George Fox was a 17th century saint who was repeatedly imprisoned for teaching the world about the "Inner Light" of God's Presence within. He founded the Quaker religion where Friends continue to meet in the silence to experience the joy and love of God.
- published: 13 Nov 2019
- views: 185
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The History of George Fox
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QuakerSpeak is a weekly video series. New video every other THURSDAY!
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Transcript:
Being born in 1624, George Fox is coming of age at a time when England is involved in a civil war that pits the forces of Parliament on one side against the king on the other. One of the results of this is a breakdown in the control that the Church of England had over religious life. So you have dozens of new religious groups manifesting themselves. The one thing all of these competing religious groups had in common was that they insisted “We are the only true Christian church, and if you're not part of us, you're going to burn in everlasting hellfire after you die.” George Fox believes in the reality of hell and eternal damnation, and he desperately wants to escape that.
I am Thomas Hamm. I live in Richmond, Indiana, where I taught for many years at Earlham College. I use he/him pronouns and I am a member of West Richmond Friends meeting. George, in his journal, tells us that he grew up a pious young man. When other youths were dancing on the village green or bowling at nine pins, he would go into the village tavern and exhort the men drinking there to consider the evil of their ways. In short, he was a very serious person. very concerned about the state of his soul, Even as a teenager. When he was 19 years old, George Fox. set off on a kind of spiritual pilgrimage. First, he traveled around southern England seeking out people who had reputations for piety and godliness. But as he recorded it, “...there were none that could speak to my condition.”
In 1646, 1647, he wanders up into the north of England. And it was on the moors of Yorkshire here and Lancashire, places where even today there are often more sheep than people, that George Fox had a series of spiritual experiences. Today, I think we would probably call them revelations because they're experiences where he is convinced that God was speaking directly to him. and those would become the basis of the Quaker movement. Perhaps the most important of all of these to him was this realization, “There is one, even Christ Jesus, who can speak to thy condition. ”He saw an experience of Christ as the answer to all his problems. It was the response that would satisfy his soul. It's pretty clear that for the rest of his life, that realization is going to be central to how George Fox sees the world and his role in it.
That is the first of his openings, but he has several others that are going to be central to the Quaker movement as it develops in England in the 1650’s. One was his conviction that all people have within them a certain divine light; the light of Christ inwardly revealed. And this is true even if people have never heard of Christianity, where they've never seen a Bible. They still have that light within them. Which, if it is obeyed, if people are obedient to the light that is within them, then it will lead them to lead a good life that is acceptable in the eyes of God. Another one of Fox’s openings: Revelation. The same spirit that inspired the writers of the various books of the Bible still inspires human beings in the 1640s. That shapes Quaker worship. Quakers gather together without any one person appointed to be the leader or pastor. There is no set of rituals to be followed, no set prayers or creeds to be recited. Instead, friends gather together, confident that if God has a message for the assembled group God will inspire someone to speak. God can inspire anyone, literate or illiterate, young or old, both men and women. For Fox that is fundamental.
In 1652, George Fox was moved to climb Pendle Hill, which had a local reputation as a somewhat dubious place. Earlier in the century there had been accusations that witches held their meetings there. Fox seemed to a perceived it differently. He was led of the Lord to go there, and while he was on Pendle Hill, he described having a vision of a great people to be gathered. From the 1640s onward he will preach anywhere he can collect a group. Whether it's on a village green or in a private home or in a barn or a tavern. He felt he had a message to share. But after his experience on Pendle Hill, he really seems to have a vision of his message being the basis for a movement that would be primitive Christianity revived. Some people who hear Fox were deeply moved by him. We have a number of accounts by his hearers that talk about how profoundly he moved some of them. He seemed to have a sense of what their spiritual needs were and spoke to them...
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Being born in 1624, George Fox is coming of age at a time when England is involved in a civil war that pits the forces of Parliament on one side against the king on the other. One of the results of this is a breakdown in the control that the Church of England had over religious life. So you have dozens of new religious groups manifesting themselves. The one thing all of these competing religious groups had in common was that they insisted “We are the only true Christian church, and if you're not part of us, you're going to burn in everlasting hellfire after you die.” George Fox believes in the reality of hell and eternal damnation, and he desperately wants to escape that.
I am Thomas Hamm. I live in Richmond, Indiana, where I taught for many years at Earlham College. I use he/him pronouns and I am a member of West Richmond Friends meeting. George, in his journal, tells us that he grew up a pious young man. When other youths were dancing on the village green or bowling at nine pins, he would go into the village tavern and exhort the men drinking there to consider the evil of their ways. In short, he was a very serious person. very concerned about the state of his soul, Even as a teenager. When he was 19 years old, George Fox. set off on a kind of spiritual pilgrimage. First, he traveled around southern England seeking out people who had reputations for piety and godliness. But as he recorded it, “...there were none that could speak to my condition.”
In 1646, 1647, he wanders up into the north of England. And it was on the moors of Yorkshire here and Lancashire, places where even today there are often more sheep than people, that George Fox had a series of spiritual experiences. Today, I think we would probably call them revelations because they're experiences where he is convinced that God was speaking directly to him. and those would become the basis of the Quaker movement. Perhaps the most important of all of these to him was this realization, “There is one, even Christ Jesus, who can speak to thy condition. ”He saw an experience of Christ as the answer to all his problems. It was the response that would satisfy his soul. It's pretty clear that for the rest of his life, that realization is going to be central to how George Fox sees the world and his role in it.
That is the first of his openings, but he has several others that are going to be central to the Quaker movement as it develops in England in the 1650’s. One was his conviction that all people have within them a certain divine light; the light of Christ inwardly revealed. And this is true even if people have never heard of Christianity, where they've never seen a Bible. They still have that light within them. Which, if it is obeyed, if people are obedient to the light that is within them, then it will lead them to lead a good life that is acceptable in the eyes of God. Another one of Fox’s openings: Revelation. The same spirit that inspired the writers of the various books of the Bible still inspires human beings in the 1640s. That shapes Quaker worship. Quakers gather together without any one person appointed to be the leader or pastor. There is no set of rituals to be followed, no set prayers or creeds to be recited. Instead, friends gather together, confident that if God has a message for the assembled group God will inspire someone to speak. God can inspire anyone, literate or illiterate, young or old, both men and women. For Fox that is fundamental.
In 1652, George Fox was moved to climb Pendle Hill, which had a local reputation as a somewhat dubious place. Earlier in the century there had been accusations that witches held their meetings there. Fox seemed to a perceived it differently. He was led of the Lord to go there, and while he was on Pendle Hill, he described having a vision of a great people to be gathered. From the 1640s onward he will preach anywhere he can collect a group. Whether it's on a village green or in a private home or in a barn or a tavern. He felt he had a message to share. But after his experience on Pendle Hill, he really seems to have a vision of his message being the basis for a movement that would be primitive Christianity revived. Some people who hear Fox were deeply moved by him. We have a number of accounts by his hearers that talk about how profoundly he moved some of them. He seemed to have a sense of what their spiritual needs were and spoke to them...
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9 Fox Contending with Priests - Friendly Friday George Fox Journal group Reading + Discussion Ch6
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GEORGE FOX LECTURE
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George Fox, Margaret Fell and Swarthmoor Hall
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This film explores the early Quakers at Swarthmoor Hall and what it still means today.
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This film explores the early Quakers at Swarthmoor Hall and what it still means today.
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Staff at Swarthmoor Hall
Swarthmoor Meeting Members
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This film explores the early Quakers at Swarthmoor Hall and what it still means today.
With thanks to
Staff at Swarthmoor Hall
Swarthmoor Meeting Members
BrainBlink Productions: www.brainblinkproductions.co.uk
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Margaret Fell illustration by Lisa Maltby
Design by Simon Leach Design and David Sudlow Designers
For The Quiet Company and Swarthmoor Hall
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George Fox and the history of the early Quakers - English
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This 13 minute film tells the story of George Fox and the early beginnings of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the mid 17th century. Using the embroidered panels of the Quaker Tapestry, interspersed with location filming in the old English county of ‘Westmorland’, the scene is set to give us a taste of the prevailing political and social climate at that time and an introduction to the origins of the basic Quaker values and beliefs.
After the Civil War and the previous periods of constant religious change England was a nation in turmoil. George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of Quakers, was an enquiring young man who, like many others at the time, was searching for a more accessible way to God. George Fox was born in Drayton-in-the-Clay, now known as Fenny Drayton, in Leicestershire. Already spiritually troubled, at the age of 19 he wandered the country seeking advice from both priest and dissenter. But these conversations brought him little comfort. He slipped through towns as a stranger and sought out solitude. Answers to his questions would eventually come not from the lips of others, but from within himself. George had the conviction, determination and opportunity to put forward a radical approach to religion.
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How Quakerism Began
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Quaker Speak: Max Carter shares the story of George Fox, a Quaker who went seeking for spiritual answers and found them not in a church, but within. Max is a professor at Guilford College.
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Quakerism started as part of the English Civil war period, 1640s. There were a variety of movements during the civil war period that were seeking address some of the disparities in English Societies: ecclesiastical, political, economic. Some of those groups were Diggers, Levellers, Muggletonians, 5th Monarchists, Seekers groups.
Some that were trying to seek reform within the church (the Puritans), some who had given up on the Church as a dead corpse and left and started their own chapels or conventicles, and Quakerism emerged out of that chaotic social, political, religious time.
George Fox was one of the leaders of that movement but he wasn't alone in that. He has become a major figure in understanding the origins of Quakerism.
He became tired of what he saw as hypocrisy in the church of his youth and about the age of 19 he left the church and started wandering about seeking a direct spiritual experience that spoke to his condition and he didn't find it in any of the outward forms, didn't find it in any of the the clergy of the time, didn't find it in other authorities.
In 1647 he had an experience in which he heard a voice telling him, "there is One, even Christ Jesus who can speak to thy condition."
"And when I heard it my heart did leap for joy."
Which, in contemporary expressions would probably be: what he was seeking outside of himself as authority, he found available to himself within.
He then started sharing that message: that what you're seeking outside of yourself is available inside of yourself, and you can turn to that inward teacher, that prophet, priest, redeemer, lord within and be led into salvation and truth.
Quakerism spread from the initial insights of Fox and others who came out of this gumbo of seeking reform in the church of England in the 1640s and 50s initially by word of mouth. They would share their experience. Fox, for example, would go about the countryside sharing his understanding of the fact that Christ had come to teach the people directly, to direct them inwardly to God, to Christ their teacher and priest.
Sometimes he would speak to larger gatherings, but it wasn't until about 1652 that there were larger numbers of people who came to hear his message. Those folk then shared the message with others. Pretty soon they started going out two by two, sharing the gospel message and people came into convincement.
By the time Fox died in 1691 there were some 50,000 Quakers so in 40 or 50 years it spread, much of that coming out of that social milieu of protest and the seeking of reform and it really was one by one by one.
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George Fox and the Quaker Church
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George Fox and the Quaker Church
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Introducing: George Fox
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The Diggers were concerned with land rights, the Levellers sought equality. The authority of the church was challenged by many dissenting religious groups such as the Quakers. John Lilburne, the Leveller, became a Quaker, and had a Quaker funeral. The Quakers did away with priests, creeds and sacraments, and claimed all men and women were equal and had a direct relationship with God. They refused to pay church taxes and would not take oaths of allegiance.
George Fox was one of the founders of Quakerism.
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Bruce Shelton and Robert Krajenke - The Story of George Fox and the Quakers (2019)
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George Fox was a 17th century saint who was repeatedly imprisoned for teaching the world about the "Inner Light" of God's Presence within. He founded the Quaker religion where Friends continue to meet in the silence to experience the joy and love of God.
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The History of George Fox
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Being born in 1624, George Fox is coming of age at a time when England is involved in a civil war that pits the forces of Parliament on one side against the king on the other. One of the results of this is a breakdown in the control that the Church of England had over religious life. So you have dozens of new religious groups manifesting themselves. The one thing all of these competing religious groups had in common was that they insisted “We are the only true Christian church, and if you're not part of us, you're going to burn in everlasting hellfire after you die.” George Fox believes in the reality of hell and eternal damnation, and he desperately wants to escape that.
I am Thomas Hamm. I live in Richmond, Indiana, where I taught for many years at Earlham College. I use he/him pronouns and I am a member of West Richmond Friends meeting. George, in his journal, tells us that he grew up a pious young man. When other youths were dancing on the village green or bowling at nine pins, he would go into the village tavern and exhort the men drinking there to consider the evil of their ways. In short, he was a very serious person. very concerned about the state of his soul, Even as a teenager. When he was 19 years old, George Fox. set off on a kind of spiritual pilgrimage. First, he traveled around southern England seeking out people who had reputations for piety and godliness. But as he recorded it, “...there were none that could speak to my condition.”
In 1646, 1647, he wanders up into the north of England. And it was on the moors of Yorkshire here and Lancashire, places where even today there are often more sheep than people, that George Fox had a series of spiritual experiences. Today, I think we would probably call them revelations because they're experiences where he is convinced that God was speaking directly to him. and those would become the basis of the Quaker movement. Perhaps the most important of all of these to him was this realization, “There is one, even Christ Jesus, who can speak to thy condition. ”He saw an experience of Christ as the answer to all his problems. It was the response that would satisfy his soul. It's pretty clear that for the rest of his life, that realization is going to be central to how George Fox sees the world and his role in it.
That is the first of his openings, but he has several others that are going to be central to the Quaker movement as it develops in England in the 1650’s. One was his conviction that all people have within them a certain divine light; the light of Christ inwardly revealed. And this is true even if people have never heard of Christianity, where they've never seen a Bible. They still have that light within them. Which, if it is obeyed, if people are obedient to the light that is within them, then it will lead them to lead a good life that is acceptable in the eyes of God. Another one of Fox’s openings: Revelation. The same spirit that inspired the writers of the various books of the Bible still inspires human beings in the 1640s. That shapes Quaker worship. Quakers gather together without any one person appointed to be the leader or pastor. There is no set of rituals to be followed, no set prayers or creeds to be recited. Instead, friends gather together, confident that if God has a message for the assembled group God will inspire someone to speak. God can inspire anyone, literate or illiterate, young or old, both men and women. For Fox that is fundamental.
In 1652, George Fox was moved to climb Pendle Hill, which had a local reputation as a somewhat dubious place. Earlier in the century there had been accusations that witches held their meetings there. Fox seemed to a perceived it differently. He was led of the Lord to go there, and while he was on Pendle Hill, he described having a vision of a great people to be gathered. From the 1640s onward he will preach anywhere he can collect a group. Whether it's on a village green or in a private home or in a barn or a tavern. He felt he had a message to share. But after his experience on Pendle Hill, he really seems to have a vision of his message being the basis for a movement that would be primitive Christianity revived. Some people who hear Fox were deeply moved by him. We have a number of accounts by his hearers that talk about how profoundly he moved some of them. He seemed to have a sense of what their spiritual needs were and spoke to them...
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9 Fox Contending with Priests - Friendly Friday George Fox Journal group Reading + Discussion Ch6
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George Fox, Margaret Fell and Swarthmoor Hall
This film explores the early Quakers at Swarthmoor Hall and what it still means today.
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For The Quiet Company and Swarthmoor Hall
George Fox
George Fox (September 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs.
Fox married Margaret Fell, the widow of one of his wealthier supporters; she was a leading Friend. His ministry expanded and he undertook tours of North America and the Low Countries. Between these tours, he was imprisoned for more than a year. He spent the final decade of his life working in London to organize the expanding Quaker movement.
While his movement attracted disdain from some, others such as William Penn and Oliver Cromwell viewed Fox with respect.
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