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Raemon's advice (below) guided me to click upon a small, gray "\vdots" icon at upper right; this allowed me to edit the markup and complete the essay (however, no way to include newlines in BibTeX reference-entries ever was evident to me; also the text-sizing options were not orthogonal to the other formatting options, and hence worked inconsistently).
For which help, thank you Raemon! :)
Some LW readers will be familiar with historian Sanford L. Segal's Mathematicians under the Nazis (2014).
Segal is himself a Quaker, and his essay "Why I am not a Christian" (Friends Journal, 2010, see reference below) addresses several of the concerns raised by the OP. E.g.
Christianity is focused on a presumed life after death. One can be a good person in the usual concept of treating fellow human beings with respect and honesty, and not prejudging them.
But in Christianity the focus is on the individual’s future salvation, whereas in Judaism
Within Quaker communities, the "social organization" that encourages Friends to "digest and use" their principles is grounded in a tradition of equibalance between "faith and practice".
This tradition of equibalanced faith and practice is so strong that many Quaker congregations (re)write an explicit statement of their own community's faith and practice at 10-to-20-year intervals; a web-search for "Quaker Faith and Practice" will find dozens of examples.
At the individual level, the consequences of the tradition of faith and practice equibalance are, broadly, as follows.
Suppose that an individual Friend's faithful views and practices are broadly consonant with the traditional values that are associated to the Friendly mnemonic "SPICES"
S - Simplicity
P