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Messages to Meetings by Brian Drayton is the twenty-second publication from Inner Light Books. Brian Drayton was led to write the letters, blog postings, and messages to contemporary Quakers in this collection "out of a sense of requirement in conjunction with service in gospel ministry." In these writings, he explores themes such as lo
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