Robert Earl Burton (1939-) is the founding minister of the Fellowship of Friends a new religious movement based in California. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, but the family soon moved to Berkeley, California. He graduated in 1963 from San Jose State University and became a fourth-grade public school teacher in Lafayette. He spent eighteen moths in the group of the Fourth Way teacher Alex Horn. In 1970 he founded the Fellowship of Friends. In 1991 his book, Self-Remembering was first published. Burton continues to lead the Fellowship of Friends, is not married and has no children.
Further reading
* Self-Remembering by Robert E. Burton, Weiser Books, 1995, ISBN 0-877-28844-5 * Ten Years of Daily Cards by Robert E. Burton, Ulysses Books, 2000, ISBN 0964578239 * Taking with the Left Hand: Enneagram Craze, People of the Bookmark, & the Mouravieff Phenomenon by William Patrick Patterson, Arete Communications, 1998, ISBN 1-879514-10-9
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