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To Seek Peace and Ensue It

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At the 06/05 meeting for worship, the passage shared was from the beginning of the 1660 letter to King Charles II, which is widely considered the seminal text of Friends' Peace Testimony:

https://quaker.org/legacy/minnfm/peace

Context for the letter is offered in a 2008 Friends Journal article by Paul Buckley:

https://www.friendsjournal.org/2008066/

The query from 06/05 encouraged Friends to sit with this letter in the light of today's political climate.

 

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