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Patheos (blog)
February 14, 2018
But even in Sioux County, IA — home to both Dordt College and Northwestern College — there's a growing Latino population, now accounting for 1 in 10 residents. The only Sunday mass at Sioux Center's largest Catholic church is in Spanish. The Evangelical Free church in Orange City has SpanishÃâà...
The Atlantic
December 2, 2017
While conservative students defend the importance of inviting controversial speakers to campus and giving offense, many self-identified liberals are engaged in .... The early Quakers, for example, were known to interrupt Anglican services by shouting down the minister and to go naked in public “for a sign.”.
The Independent
November 27, 2017
Settled by English Quakers, The Midlands are a welcoming middle-class society that spawned the culture of the “American Heartland.” Political opinion is ... Within the Midlands are parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. ... The conservative west.
The Independent
November 27, 2017
Settled by English Quakers, The Midlands are a welcoming middle-class society that spawned the culture of the “American Heartland.” Political opinion is ... Within the Midlands are parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. ... The conservative west.
BuzzFeed News
October 29, 2017
Have you heard the one about the Methodist minister and the Quaker who broke into a secure military base to attack state-of-the-art military fighter jets and stop them being sold to Saudi Arabia? Posted on October 29, 2017, at 2:51 a.m.. Rose Troup Buchanan. BuzzFeed News Reporter. Share On facebook Share.
The New Yorker
October 16, 2017
Hoover was the son of devout Quakers who lived in the frontier village of West Branch, Iowa. ... Hoover was doomed to be remembered as the man who was too rigidly conservative to react adeptly to the Depression, as the hapless foil to the great Franklin Roosevelt, and as the politician who managed toÃâà...
Patheos (blog)
September 12, 2017
And historian Thomas Kidd rightly worries that being “inextricably tied to Republican politics” — even those of the current president — has made “evangelical” an “essentially divisive term among Bible-believing Christians, as many African Americans, Hispanics, and others cannot identify with the politicalÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
December 2, 2015
The four-hour drive from Des Moines to the northwest corner of Iowa—zigzagging between acre upon acre of cornfields—would seem to confirm ... The Midlands was founded in the 1680s by English Quakers, who believed in man's inherent goodness and thus welcomed people of many nations and creedsÃâà...
West Branch Times
June 11, 2015
The history of Scattergood reaches back to 1854, when orthodox “Wilburite” Quakers — a more conservative yet smaller group than the “Gurneyite” ... Conflicts in Europe began to reach the Quakers in Iowa, who discussed at a July 1938 conference how astonished they were by Nazism and anti-Semitism.
Press Herald
September 27, 2014
The school, which sits on 35 acres of farmland, is likely the only Religious Society of Friends, or Quaker, school in Iowa. It offers ... Iowa Yearly Meeting Conservative, a Quaker association, owns the not-for-profit school, and the school is governed by a school committee made up primarily of Quakers.
Iowa City Press Citizen
September 23, 2014
The school, which opened in 1890 and which sits on 35 acres of farm land, is likely the only Religious Society of Friends, or Quaker, school in Iowa. ... Conservative, a Quaker association, owns the not-for-profit school, and the school is governed by a school committee comprised primarily of Quakers.
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