Faithful Security: a Faithful Response to the Complex 2030 Proposal The administration’s plan to develop new nuclear weapons must be stopped. Under the “Complex 2030” plan, up to 125 new plutonium pits would be produced every year, posing a threat to public health and creation. In addition, the renovation of the nuclear weapons complex is…
Author: Nimda
Response to Wallace Article in Friends Journal
Terry Wallace, in his article, “Misunderstanding Quaker Faith and Practice ” in Friends Journal, tried to correct what he sees as limitations of the unprogrammed Friends tradition, but I think he instead displayed a misunderstanding of the unprogrammed tradition, its opposition to creeds, its use of the Bible, and many other things.
Columbia Meeting for Worship Each First Day
Meetings are now at the new meeting house at 120 Pisgah Church Road. From I-20 on the north side of Columbia; go north on Farrow Road (the exit just west of 277 exit); turn left on Pisgah Church Rd. The meeting house is on the right. Map at http://g.co/maps/s3v77 This is the building you…
Hurl Rock Park
John and William Bertram were early travelers in the Southeast and in South Carolina. They named Hurl Rock, where Hurl Rock Park is now located on 21st Avenue South at Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach. This is an unusual outcropping of black rock in an otherwise sandy county. A plaque commemorating the Bartrams stands in…
Wateree Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
This meeting was laid down (disbanded) many years ago, but is of historic significance. Camden, South Carolina was the sight of the Wateree Meeting and has a Quaker cemetery. A marker in the cemetery shows the location of the meeting house. There are a number of Quaker graves, nameless in the early tradition of Friends.…
A Brief History of Columbia Friends Meeting
Quakers were a significant group in the population of the Carolinas from the late 1600s through the 1700s, and an early governor of the Carolinas was a Quaker. A number of meetings were established in North Carolina, while in South Carolina there were sizeable meetings in Charleston, Camden, and Newberry.