Book Talk with Sabrina Darnowsky on Her Newest Book – Sowing the Seed of Truth: Orthodox Quaker Sermons of Murray Shipley (1873-1876)
Sunday, November 17 in the library after lunch.
During a turbulent period in their history, nineteenth-century members of the Religious Society of Friends were struggling with a challenging question: what exactly do Quakers believe?
Sowing the Seed of Truth: Orthodox Quaker Sermons of Murray Shipley (1873-1876), the latest book by our meeting historian Sabrina Darnowsky, provides an almost unique glimpse into the preaching of Gurneyite Friends, who made up the largest of the segments of American Quakerism after 1820. This book is a collection of thirty-five sermons by the well-respected Cincinnati minister Murray Shipley, along with an introduction to the central tenets of Quakerism and how they affected early Friends’ messages. Through vivid personal anecdotes, dramatic narratives, unusual allegories, and engaging details about life in the 1870s, Shipley invites others to experience a life transformed by the spirit of God. All are welcome to attend.