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How The Quakers Invented America
BY DAVID YOUNT
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David Yount is mysteriously little known to most Friends, but his newspaper column "Amazing Grace" and weekly cable TV program are very widely seen and read. Here he looks at how the Quaker ideals helped shape America in its earliest days and have continued to do so till now. In doing so he also explains and illustrates those Quaker ideals, ideas and history. So this is both a thought provoking commentary on American history and an introduction to Quakerism.
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Until the start of the eighteenth century, the only organized religion in North Carolina was the Religious Society of Friends…or, The Quakers. Their founding principles of peace, freedom and equality influenced not just the state’s earliest communities, but also our modern nation. Frank Stasio learns about the Quakers from David Yount, author of “How the Quakers Invented America” (Rowman & Littlefield/2007), Max Carter, director of the Guilford College Friends Center and Bill Leonard, dean and professor of church history at Wake Forest University Divinity School.
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Listen to the NPR interview with author, David Yount, here.
http://www.wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0904a.mp3/view
When we look closely at the founding of America we don't come away with the impression that secular ideals were at work in the hearts and minds of the founders, we are left with the unquestionable realization that it was Quaker ideals which laid the groundwork of everything great we would become as a fledgling and then a mighty nation.
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This is not only a CHRISTIAN nation, but a Quaker
invented nation!