CPT (they have a website CPT.org) is the Christian group that the Quaker guy who was kidnapped and killed worked with. They go all over the place.
The Quaker Meeting in Brooklyn had a vigil every week for something like nine years to abolish the death penalty in NYS, and would send lobbyists to Albany to do the same. There is even a Quaker envoy to the UN and Quakers were a nice chunk of the underground railroad...Susan B Anthony was raised Quaker. Elizabeth Fox worked hard for prison reform ages ago. They are active with helping out soldiers who want to be conscientious objectors and are active with letting parents know their kid's information is being given to recruiters unless you opt out, and letting people know about CO status before it becomes an issue (in case there is ever a draft).
I am only speaking so much about this because it is what I know about. But I also know the UCC had trouble running its commercials on major networks, but had some success, 30 second spots about how their church welcomes EVERYONE and they simply hinted at letting homosexuals in. There was a pretty big uproar last year when they put it out.
And is it the Anglicans or Episcopalians that may wind up splitting because of homosexual clergy? That gets in the news now and then.
Dorothy Day was an anarchist and a devout Catholic. She founded the Catholic Worker Movement, which still is active here, I think we have a Catholic Worker House here (I forget what it is called) or at least have a presence here in Dubuque (and other places). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Worker_Movement explains it better, I'm not very well versed in what they do, but I hear about the more than I used to in NYC which is mostly Italian and Irish Catholic and more conservative.
I don't think these groups are quiet as much as the conservatives are so damn loud. And I know that in the case of the Liberal Quakers (there are other kinds) they don't believe in evangelizing, so they are loathe to talk about themselves for fear of being what they hate. And yes I have (and others have) debated and discussed how it is not only killing our religion slowly but we aren't doing the good we can do by keeping silent in this manner. Ahhh, religious infighting. Gotta love it! :D
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The Quaker Meeting in Brooklyn had a vigil every week for something like nine years to abolish the death penalty in NYS, and would send lobbyists to Albany to do the same. There is even a Quaker envoy to the UN and Quakers were a nice chunk of the underground railroad...Susan B Anthony was raised Quaker. Elizabeth Fox worked hard for prison reform ages ago. They are active with helping out soldiers who want to be conscientious objectors and are active with letting parents know their kid's information is being given to recruiters unless you opt out, and letting people know about CO status before it becomes an issue (in case there is ever a draft).
I am only speaking so much about this because it is what I know about. But I also know the UCC had trouble running its commercials on major networks, but had some success, 30 second spots about how their church welcomes EVERYONE and they simply hinted at letting homosexuals in. There was a pretty big uproar last year when they put it out.
And is it the Anglicans or Episcopalians that may wind up splitting because of homosexual clergy? That gets in the news now and then.
Dorothy Day was an anarchist and a devout Catholic. She founded the Catholic Worker Movement, which still is active here, I think we have a Catholic Worker House here (I forget what it is called) or at least have a presence here in Dubuque (and other places). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Worker_Movement explains it better, I'm not very well versed in what they do, but I hear about the more than I used to in NYC which is mostly Italian and Irish Catholic and more conservative.
I don't think these groups are quiet as much as the conservatives are so damn loud. And I know that in the case of the Liberal Quakers (there are other kinds) they don't believe in evangelizing, so they are loathe to talk about themselves for fear of being what they hate. And yes I have (and others have) debated and discussed how it is not only killing our religion slowly but we aren't doing the good we can do by keeping silent in this manner. Ahhh, religious infighting. Gotta love it! :D