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57th Street Meeting
The 57th Street Meeting of Friends is a Chicago meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers). It has convened since at least 1916. It originated at the close of the Civil War with 40 members who "commenced regular meetings on first days at 11 o'clock" and "met in the Y.M.C.A. rooms in the First Methodist Church". In 1993, Michael Szenberg Michael Szenberg (born 1934) is a professor emeritus and a former chairman of the Finance and Economics department at Lubin School of Business in Pace University, New York. He is the author and editor of 22 books on economics, and was the edit ... commended the meeting as "very congenial". References Chicago Quaker meeting houses in Illinois {{Illinois-church-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestantism, Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to "quake before the authority of God". The Friends are generally united by a belief in each human's ability to be guided by the inward light to "make the witness of God" known to everyone. Quakers have traditionally professed a priesthood of all believers inspired by the First Epistle of Peter. They include those with Evangelical Friends Church International, evangelical, Holiness movement, holiness, liberal, and Conservative Friends, traditional Quaker understandings of Christianity, as well as Nontheist Quakers. To differing extents, the Friends avoid creeds and hierarchical structures. In 2017, there were an estimated 377,557 adult Quakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Szenberg
Michael Szenberg (born 1934) is a professor emeritus and a former chairman of the Finance and Economics department at Lubin School of Business in Pace University, New York. He is the author and editor of 22 books on economics, and was the editor of ''The American Economist'' published by Omicron Delta Epsilon. Life and career Michael Szenberg was born April 8, 1934, in Sosnowiec, Poland. He graduated from Long Island University in 1963 and received his PhD in economics from the City University of New York in 1970. He graduated from the Israeli Air Force Aeronautics School. He served as the editor-in-chief of Omicron Delta Epsilon's ''The American Economist'' from 1972 to 2011, was editor of ''Economics Categories'' and the ''Cambridge University Press Encyclopedia'', and from 1984 to 2011 was the coordinator and chairperson of meetings of the Editors of Economics Journals, the American Economic Association. Szenberg is the author and editor of 22 books on economics, is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
