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23. Social responsibility

Chapter 23 contents

Social justice

23.14 23.15 23.16 23.17 23.18 23.19 23.20 23.21 23.22 23.23 23.24 23.25 23.26 23.27 23.28 23.29 23.30 23.31 23.32 23.33 23.34 23.35 23.36 23.37 23.38 23.39 23.40 23.41 23.42 23.43 23.44 23.45 23.46

Discrimination and disadvantage

23.43

As male and female are made one in Jesus Christ, so women receive an office in the Truth as well as men, and they have a stewardship and must give an account of their stewardship as well as the men...

Elizabeth Bathurst, 1685

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Introduction
1. Advices and Queries
2. Approaches to God - worship and prayer
3. General counsel on church affairs
4. Area meetings and local meetings
5. General meetings and other gatherings
6. Yearly Meeting
7. Meeting for Sufferings
8. The centrally managed work
9. Beyond Britain Yearly Meeting
10. Belonging to a Quaker meeting
11. Membership
12. Caring for one another
13. Varieties of religious service
14. Finance
15. Property and trusteeship
16. Quaker marriage procedure
17. Quaker funerals and memorial meetings
18. Faithful lives
19. Openings
20. Living faithfully today
21. Personal journey
22. Close relationships
23. Social responsibility
24. Our peace testimony
25. Unity of creation
26. Reflections
27. Unity and diversity
28. Sharing the Quaker experience
29. Leadings
Historical notes
Sources and references
Indexes
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