1 | [Ctrl] F / [Command] F to search | [Ctrl] F / [Command] F to search | [Ctrl] F / [Command] F to search | [Ctrl] F / [Command] F to search | ||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | PHP | Title | Author | Date | Description | Subjects | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | 435 | "Are you my Witnessess" Witness and Testimony in the Biblical and Quaker Traditions | Gates, Thomas | 2015 | What does it mean to be a witness to Truth? Thomas Gates draws from the experiences of the captive Hebrews as told in the Book of Isaiah, as well as the discoveries and practices of early Friends, to offer perspective and insights for twenty-first century Quakers who are trying to live in faithful witness to the Light. What is our testimony today, and how can we best express it in the context of a modern world filled with “false idols,” such as the lure of wealth and comfort, side-by-side with overwhelming powers that wreak havoc on peace and environmental sustainability? Poised between the temptations of complacency and despair, how do we live our witness? | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | 434 | A Quietness Within: The Quiet Way as Faith and Spirituality | Pryce, Elaine | 2015 | Drawing on the wisdom of Christian mystics, early Quakers, and other spiritual explorers, Elaine Pryce contemplates the tradition of silent inward attentiveness to Mystery and Presence as a way to spiritual renewal, healing, and discovery. In compelling, poetic language, she calls readers to the quietness within. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | 438 | A Seal Upon the Heart: Quaker Readings in the Song of Songs | Birkel, Michael | 2016 | The Song of Songs stands as unique among the books of the Bible. This collection of love lyrics, candid in their sensuality and profoundly poetic in their imagery, has attracted lovers of God across the centuries.” Michael Birkel celebrates the poetry of love and the allegory of spiritual intimacy found in this anomalous book. He explores early Friends’ use of its imagery to express their longing for union with the Divine Spirit, their joy in communal worship, and a tenderness to all people in language that remains vivid and moving today. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | 235 | A.J. Muste, Pacifist & Prophet: His Relation to the Society of Friends | Robinson, Jo Ann | 1981 | Discusses the development of a pacifist influenced by the Dutch Reformed Church, Marxism, and Christian ethics. | Pacifism, Biography, United States, Friends, Fellowship, Marxism, Peace | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | 273 | Abraham Lincoln and the Quakers | Bassuk, Daniel Eliot | 1987 | A record of all the known stories of Lincoln and the Society of Friends, with some reflective comments by a Quaker professor of religious studies. | Abraham Lincoln | ||||||||||||||||||
8 | 245 | Alternative Christianity | Punshon, John | 1982 | The writer characterizes the essence of Quakerism as radical, charismatic, and prophetic. | Doctrine, Prophecy | ||||||||||||||||||
9 | 159 | America in Travail | Brookes, Edgar Harry | 1968 | A South African visitor to America sees campus unrest and the Black Power Movement as the greatest challenges here in 1968. | Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
10 | 138 | An Apology for Perfection | Hinshaw, Cecil Eugene | 1964 | The author believes the Society of Friends owes more to ethical perfectionism than to mysticism. | Christian life | ||||||||||||||||||
11 | 408 | An Art of Small Resurrections: Surviving the Texas Death Chamber | Long, Walter | 2010 | Walter Long, a defense attorney for Texas death row inmates, wrestles with the apparent contradiction between the teachings of Jesus and widespread tolerance for government violence in a state where most citizens identify themselves as Christian. | Jesus, Justice, Prison, Christianity | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | 280 | An Attender at the Altar: A Sacramental Christian Responds to Silence | Rochelle, Jay C. | 1988 | The author shows the interplay between sacrament and silence. | Sacraments, Silence | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | 323 | An Experiment in Faith: Quaker Women Transcending Differences | Abbott, Margery Post | 1995 | Tells of the author’s journey of discovering Evangelical Friends. In the process she comes to terms with a fuller understanding of Quakerism as experienced by others and experiences God’s presence, opening her to unexpected depths in her own faith. | Evangelical Quakerism, Ecumenism, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
14 | 92 | An Inward Legacy: Selections from Letters to his Friend Edited with an introduction by Gilbert Kilpack | Robinson, Forbes | 1956 | These excerpts have a common theme: the force of grace, Christian prayer, love, and revelation. | Robinson, Forbes, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | 113 | An Opening Way | Wilson, Dan | 1961 | Using Barclay’s statement on an enabling way, the author reflects on growing up and being opened to truth. | Doctrine, Truth | ||||||||||||||||||
16 | 176 | Anna Brinton: a Study in Quaker Character | Mather, Eleanor Price | 1971 | The life of a leading Quaker derived from her reminiscences and those of her sister and her husband, supplemented by other material. | Brinton, Anna, Christian Biography | ||||||||||||||||||
17 | 218 | Another Way to Live: Experiencing Intentional Community | Best, James S. | 1978 | A community is both a means and a goal; living in one is a sharing, a vision, an experiment, and a fulfillment. | Communal Living, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||
18 | 109 | Another Will Gird You: A Message to the Society of Friends | Young, Mildred Binns | 1960 | Explores questions about living a Quaker life in the modern world. | Quakerism, Religious Life | ||||||||||||||||||
19 | 315 | Answering That of God in Our Children | Heath, Harriet | 1994 | The stories in this pamphlet, drawn from life, illustrate the wondering that children do and the need for guidance it opens for any who live and work with them. | Children, Religious Education | ||||||||||||||||||
20 | 383 | Answering the Call to Heal the World | Schenck, Patience A. | 2006 | In a wise and intimate conversation with her readers, Patience Schenck walks us through the life of a leading: hearing a call, testing our discernment, overcoming the obstacles to faithfulness, finding the support we need, and, finally, recognizing when our work is done. | Healing, Gifts, Discernment | ||||||||||||||||||
21 | 412 | Answering the Violence | Lampen, John | 2011 | John Lampen, who has served as a Quaker peace worker in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, draws on his own experiences and the accounts of other peace workers to explore the controversies, risks, rewards, and possible benefits of reaching out in friendship to perpetrators of violence. | Peace, Nonviolence, Witness, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||
22 | 18 | Anthology with Comments | Janet, Elizabeth Gray | 1942 | The author offers excerpts from the writings of W. H. Davies, George Herbert, James Stephens, Francis of Assisi, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Ellwood and William Blake, among others, with her interpretations. | W.H. Davies, George Herbert, James Stephens, St. Francis, Gerand Hopkins, Thomas Ellwood, William Blate | ||||||||||||||||||
23 | 180 | Apocalypso: Revelations in Theater | Shepherd, Jack | 1971 | Spontaneous drama is described with lists of players and fellow-creators. | Theater, Improvisation | ||||||||||||||||||
24 | 279 | Apocalyptic Witness: A Radical Calling for Our Own Times | Durland, William R. | 1988 | The author discusses living with God and living as if the Kingdom of God has already come. | Prophecy, Christianity | ||||||||||||||||||
25 | 219 | Approaching the Gospels | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1978 | Intended for use in studying the life of Jesus, this is an excerpt from her leader’s guide to group study of the gospels. | Bible, Gospels, Jesus | ||||||||||||||||||
26 | 37 | Are Your Meetings Held in the Life | Cary, Margaret Morris | 1946 | The nature of Quaker meetings as related to daily living. | Christian Living, Family Life, Meetings | ||||||||||||||||||
27 | 68 | Art and Faith | Eichenberg, Fritz | 1952 | Art has become an international movement, a means of communication, and a means of experiencing the thrill of finding God. | Art and Religion, Spirtuality | ||||||||||||||||||
28 | 183 | Art and the Changing World: Uncommon Sense in the 20th Century | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1972 | A discussion of the reality of myth, the art of Africa, India, China, and Japan, and growth processes in our changing world. | Art and Religion, 20th Century | ||||||||||||||||||
29 | 197 | Art Responds to the Bible | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1974 | The author-artist uses myths, art as a language of spirit, images of transformation from the Gospels, and 20th century experiential religious art as generative ways of seeing and of relating to life. | Bible, Illustrations, Art and Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
30 | 215 | Art, Imagery, and the Mythic Process | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1977 | Using mythologies of various cultures, the artist reveals processes of creativity. | Art and Religion, Mythology, Psychology, Creativity | ||||||||||||||||||
31 | 257 | Artist on the Witness Stand | Eichenberg, Fritz | 1984 | This Quaker artist, who works mostly in wood engravings, surveys his own education and creative process. | Creativity | ||||||||||||||||||
32 | 57 | Atomic Peace: With a Memoir by Margaret Goddard Holt | Goddard, Harold Clarke | 1950 | A Shakespearean authority explores the role of imagination and creative force, likening them to an atomic chain reaction. | Imagination, Creativity | ||||||||||||||||||
33 | 166 | Atonement of George Fox | Fogelklou, Emilia | 1969 | The relationship between the individual and the group in Quaker context. | Authority | ||||||||||||||||||
34 | 365 | Authority of Our Meetings is the Power of God | Lacey, Paul A. | 2003 | The author sees Quakers at a crossroads in dealing with issues of authority and power in church governance and offers some assessment of the costs of traveling one way or another. He challenges Friends to find their balance between tolerance of diversity and corporate unity. | Religious Society of Friends, Authority, Faith and Practice | ||||||||||||||||||
35 | 193 | Available Mind | Murphy, Carol R. | 1974 | The author shows that meditation, inner quiet, the way of non-violence, expectancy, and humility increase available mind and life. | Meditation | ||||||||||||||||||
36 | 28 | Barclay in Brief: a Condensation of Robert Barclay’s Apology for the True Christian Divinity. Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers. First Published in 1676 | Mather, Eleanore Price | 1948 | For more than 200 years, Barclay’s Apology was considered the most authoritative exposition of Quaker belief and practice, a synthesis of personal religious experience and the historical context of the religion. | Barclay, Robert, Beliefs and Testimonies | ||||||||||||||||||
37 | 282 | Batter my Heart | Ellwood, Gracia Fay | 1988 | Using ideas from biblical criticism, from psychoanalysis, and from feminist and liberation theology, the author reflects on naming a God free of caste and gender. | God, Class, Abused Wives, Gender Relations | ||||||||||||||||||
38 | 262 | Bearing Witness: Quaker Process and a Culture of Peace | Cox, Gray | 1985 | Peace is portrayed as something we do, an activity of resolving differences based on a five-stage Quaker ethic. | Peace | ||||||||||||||||||
39 | 160 | Behind the Gospels | Cadbury, Henry Joel | 1968 | A study of the origin of the Gospels covering historical sequence, order of origin, relative historical value, authorship, and other insights. | Bible, New Testament, Gospels, Criticism | ||||||||||||||||||
40 | 144 | Bethlehem Revisited | Steere, Douglas Van | 1965 | The writer, known for his concern for the inner life, here reflects on the Vatican and ecumenism. | Ecumenism | ||||||||||||||||||
41 | 307 | Beyond Consensus: Salvaging Sense of the Meeting | Morley, Barry | 1993 | The author discusses three essential components in discovering the sense of the meeting: release, long focus, and transition to light, all of which are nurtured by worship. Rich stories of life experiences, especially with adolescents, illustrate the process. | Meeting for Business, Right Order, Unity, Clear | ||||||||||||||||||
42 | 342 | Beyond the Bars: A Quaker Primer for Prison Visitors | Maddock, Keith R. | 1999 | Written with sensitivity and grace, this essay depicts Friends Testimonies in prison service work. By example of listening and respect, more than by preaching, the author has much to say about being present in prison and receiving gifts from people who are incarcerated. | Prison | ||||||||||||||||||
43 | 162 | Black City Stage | Shepherd, Jack | 1968 | A theater, film, and TV producer explores spontaneous theater. | Theater, Race Relations | ||||||||||||||||||
44 | 200 | Born Remembering | Boulding, Elise | 1975 | One can weave the golden threads of solitude into the warp and woof of family and community living. | Solitude | ||||||||||||||||||
45 | 334 | Bosnian Student Project: A Response to Genocide | Hostetter, C. Douglas | 1997 | The author tells, poignantly and lovingly, the story of more than 150 Bosnian students who were helped to continue their education in the U.S. through this project of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. | Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
46 | 445 | Boycott, Divestment, and Sactions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights | Chase, Steve | 2017 | A longtime Quaker Zionist, Steve Chase wonders if a just and peaceful future for Palestinians depends on nonviolent international pressure directed at the State of Israel through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions seeking full compliance with international law and universal human rights. This pamphlet briefly describes Palestinian and Zionist/Israeli history since the late nineteenth century, the development of the BDS movement and Quaker response to it, and what led Steve Chase’s perspective to shift over time. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
47 | 362 | Bringing God Home: Exploring Family Spirituality | Rehard, Mary Kay | 2002 | The communities of L’Arche and Taizé have influenced the author’s insights and practices. Both encourage healthy family environments and the nurture of children’s spirituality. “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them: for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” - Matthew 19:14. | Family Life, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
48 | 332 | Burning One-ness Binding Everything: A Spiritual Journey | Birchard, Bruce | 1997 | The author recounts his spiritual journey: experiences of the Spirit through beauty, love, and worship, as well as reflections on how he understands the nature of the Spirit. He is especially concerned about the transcendent and immanent qualities of the Spirit, the relation of the Spirit to suffering and evil, and the significance of the creation as the incarnation of the Spirit. | Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
49 | 426 | But Who Do You Say That I Am? Quakers and Christ Today | Gwyn, Douglas | 2014 | The author explores the different stances Quakers have assumed in relation to Christianity, from the unique “primitive Christianity revived” of early Friends, through the foundationist, Conservative, ecumenical, interfaith, universalist, and nontheist positions of different Quakers today. | Quakerism, Christianity, Jesus | ||||||||||||||||||
50 | 78 | Can Quakerism Speak to the Times? | Hobart, John Henry | 1954 | “What is the best way to interpret Quakerism in the modern world?” the author asks. | Doctrine | ||||||||||||||||||
51 | 248 | Candle of the Lord | Foulds, Elfrida Vipont | 1983 | Gives the reader glimpses of historic Quaker country in the north of England and discusses the Quaker character. | Christian Life | ||||||||||||||||||
52 | 116 | Candle, the Lantern, the Daylight | Young, Mildred Binns | 1961 | How the teachings of Jesus inspired the writer’s life. | Christianity, Rural Life | ||||||||||||||||||
53 | 103 | Character of a Quaker | Cadbury, Henry Joel | 1959 | The successive criteria for describing a Quaker that have emerged throughout the Society of Friends’ history. | Doctrine, History | ||||||||||||||||||
54 | 125 | Children and Solitude | Boulding, Elise | 1964 | Is it possible to drown children in a constant flow of stimuli, allowing no time for inward growth? | Solitude, Family Life, Children | ||||||||||||||||||
55 | 49 | Christ in Catastrophe: An Inward Record | Fuchs, Emil | 1949 | A German teacher discusses living during Hitler’s regime, and out of that suffering discovers God. | Biography, Germany, World War II, Conversion, Imprisonment | ||||||||||||||||||
56 | 39 | Christianity and Civilisation | Toynbee, Arnold Joseph | 1947 | The essay argues that human progress is interrelated with spiritual development. (Reprinted elsewhere, but this edition includes an introduction by the author.) | Christianity, Civilization, Western Civilization | ||||||||||||||||||
57 | 402 | Christianity and the Inner Life | Abbott, Margery Post | 2009 | In her explorations of the writings of early Friends, Marge Abbott has discovered her own approach to Christian perspectives, one that speaks specifically to her experiences of the Divine Light. She finds inspiration and fellowship with early and modern Friends for whom Christ is central, without excluding the inspiration of other religious traditions. | Christianity, Inward Light, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
58 | 122 | Civil War Diary of Cyrus Pringle, with a foreword by Henry Cadbury | Pringle, Cyrus Guernsey | 1962 | The devotional classic of a Quaker who battled with his conscience at the time of the Civil War. | Conscientious Objection, Civil War, United States | ||||||||||||||||||
59 | 23 | Clash by Night | Hamilton, Wallace Field | 1945 | Pacifists and militarists are portrayed as rivals in the post-war citizenry. | Pacifism, World War II | ||||||||||||||||||
60 | 335 | Come Aside and Rest Awhile | Taber, Frances | 1997 | Out of her own rich experience, Fran Taber expands William Penn’s vision for retreats. She describes the retreat movement as a significant thread weaving together the ecumenical religious community. | Religion, Psychology, Renewal | ||||||||||||||||||
61 | 331 | Communion for a Quaker | Bieber, Nancy | 1997 | In the words of the author, “This is the story of a journey in search of the sacrament of communion... as I ask my questions, and find, not only answers, but also a challenge for all of us, the challenge of daily sacramental living.” | Faith and Practice, Liturgy, Sacrament | ||||||||||||||||||
62 | 10 | Community and Worship | Steere, Douglas Van | 1940 | The author discusses therapeutic groups, monastic communities, the Ashram movement, and the Society of Friends. For Quakers, the meeting for worship is the culmination of the experiences of religious community. | Communities, Monasticism, Meeting for Worship | ||||||||||||||||||
63 | 410 | Confident Quakerism | Dandelion, Pink | 2010 | After a personal crisis shook his confidence in himself, Ben Pink Dandelion considered seriously the spiritual meaning of “confidence” (literally, to live and act “with faith”). His insights are especially meaningful for liberal Friends, individually and as a society, as we look toward the future. | Spirituality, Religious Life, Community | ||||||||||||||||||
64 | 117 | Conscience | Mensching, Wilhelm | 1961 | The author is a German pastor best known for his consistent opposition to Nazism in Germany. | Conscience | ||||||||||||||||||
65 | 199 | Contemplation and Leisure | Steere, Douglas Van | 1975 | A fresh and intimate look at work and contemplation and the deep maturity they share. | Contemplation, Leisure | ||||||||||||||||||
66 | 34 | Contributions of the Quakers | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1947 | Sections on the arrival of Quakers in America and on what they have given to the U.S., especially in the fields of peace, prison reform, care of the insane, education, the arts, and respect for civil rights. | Friends, Religious Society of Friends, History, United States | ||||||||||||||||||
67 | 1 | Cooperation and Coercion as Methods of Social Change | Nicholson, Vincent De Witt | 1934 | The author asks if the consequences of differences and conflicts can be creative instead of devastating. | Cooperation, Conflict Resolution | ||||||||||||||||||
68 | 110 | Covenant of Peace: A Personal Witness | Friedman, Maurice S. | 1965 | The author traces his life and thought from the Biblical covenant to the covenant of peace. | |||||||||||||||||||
69 | 377 | Creeds and Quakers: What’s Belief Got To Do With It? | Griswold, Robert | 2005 | Quaker spiritual authority lies not in belief systems and in creeds, but in the direct communion between individuals and the Divine Spirit. The pamphlet’s author asserts that Friends too often hold Quaker testimonies as ideals, as ends in themselves, rather than as fruits of the Spirit. Without spiritual grounding, testimonies become creeds. | Quakerism, Theology, Belief, History | ||||||||||||||||||
70 | 344 | Dancing with God Through the Storm: Mysticism and Mental Illness | Elam, Jennifer | 1999 | A Quaker psychologist challenges any absolute distinction between experience of God and mental illness, describes the stages of growth possible in discerning them, and asks Friends to provide safe communities in which people are not mislabeled. | Psychology, Mental Disorders, School of the Spirit | ||||||||||||||||||
71 | 142 | Dear Gift of Life: A Man’s Encounter with Death | Smith, Bradford | 1965 | The author wrote this while dying of cancer, facing his own mortality. | Death, Poetry | ||||||||||||||||||
72 | 107 | Death and the Christian Answer | Lyman, Mary Ely | 1960 | A professor of religion and ordained minister believes the Christian faith helps us to accept and not be crushed by life’s ultimate denial. | Death, Religious Life | ||||||||||||||||||
73 | 99 | Deeper Faith: the Thought of Paul Tillich | Murphy, Carol R. | 1958 | Tillich has illuminated the situation of man in his search for faith. | Theology | ||||||||||||||||||
74 | 327 | Depression and Spiritual Growth | Mihalas, Dimitri | 1996 | The author writes, “In 1986 I passed through a year of major depression, the worst experience of my life, yet I have reaped incalculable benefits from it. My world view has changed radically for the better. My life now opens out on peaceful paths and breathtaking vistas I never knew existed.” | Psychology, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
75 | 192 | Dialogue with the Other: Martin Buber and the Quaker Experience | Schroeder, Janet E. | 1973 | From a class on interreligious studies the writer develops conversations between man and man and between God and man. | Buber, Martin, Judaism | ||||||||||||||||||
76 | 131 | Dilemmas of a Reconciler: Serving the East-West Conflict | Ullmann, Richard Karl | 1963 | The experience of reconciliation through the Christian Peace Conference of 1958 and the first all-Christian Peace Assembly of 1961. | Peace, Reconciliation, Mediation | ||||||||||||||||||
77 | 11 | Discipline for Non-Violence | Gregg, Richard Bartlett | 1941 | Nonviolent resistance requires the physical element of manual labor and the direct social use of its products. | Discipline, Religious Society of Friends, Doctrine, Pacifism | ||||||||||||||||||
78 | 42 | Discipline of Prayer | Tritton, Frederick John | 1948 | Practical guidance to preliminary discipline, aspects of prayer, contemplation, intercession, and prayer in everyday life. | Prayer, Worship, Holy Spirit | ||||||||||||||||||
79 | 133 | Eclipse of the Historical Jesus | Cadbury, Henry Joel | 1964 | A Quaker religious philosopher summarizes scholarly thinking about the identity of Jesus Christ. | Jesus, Historicity | ||||||||||||||||||
80 | 278 | Education and the Inward Teacher | Lacey, Paul A. | 1988 | The Inner Light, the Inward Teacher, can be a metaphor for interpreting issues in education. | Christian Life, Inward Light | ||||||||||||||||||
81 | 170 | Edward Hicks, Primitive Quaker: His Religion in Relation to His Art | Mather, Eleanor Price | 1970 | The cultural and social evidences of Quakerism in Hicks’ painting, with special emphasis on the inward aspect of his religion. | Hicks, Edward, Art and Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
82 | 128 | Encounters with Art | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1963 | What is great art? What can art do for us? How do we communicate with art? An expression of the author’s interest in art, as well as the Jungian concept of growth and spiritual life. | Art and Religion, Jung | ||||||||||||||||||
83 | 267 | Encounters with Transcendence: Confessions of a Religious Philosopher | Crom, Scott | 1986 | Reconciling the experience of transcendence with the disciplines of logic and mathematics. | Religion, Experience | ||||||||||||||||||
84 | 440 | Enlarging our Circle of Love | Fisher, Margaret | 2016 | In this compelling exploration of how a first step on a path of faithfulness can begin a lifelong journey, we see how way opens in one Quaker’s life. A disturbing college science experiment leads Margaret Fisher to re-examine her relationship with animal life and to eliminate meat from her diet. Her understanding deepens as she explores the practical and spiritual challenges of living her convictions – in her personal, professional, and family life, and in her spiritual community. Her leading matures into a ministry in which she invites us to widen our circle of love to include all the living world. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
85 | 405 | Envisioning a Moral Economy | Head, Tom | 2010 | Quaker economist Tom Head explores how we might think about our economy, and its purposes, in new ways by including religious sources of wisdom and morality in our vision of a just and humane economic future. | Economics, Morality | ||||||||||||||||||
86 | 156 | Ethical Mysticism in the Society of Friends | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1967 | The author sees ethical mysticism as a process of withdrawing from the world and returning to it. | Mysticism, Ethics, Devotion | ||||||||||||||||||
87 | 74 | Everyman’s Struggle for Peace | Alexander, Horace Gundry | 1953 | A very brief survey of Gandhi’s involvement in the drive for Indian independence based on his religious principles of soul-force and self-rule. The author lived in India for 10 years and knew Gandhi. | Gandhi, Peace, Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
88 | 173 | Evolution and the Inward Light | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1970 | The author reflects on the teachings of Rufus Jones and Josiah Royce, as well as the philosophies of idealism, pragmatism, and existentialism. | Doctrine, Logos, Evolution | ||||||||||||||||||
89 | 136 | Evolutionary Potential of Quakerism | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1964 | An economist sees Quakerism as an evolutionary mutation from the main line of Christian development. He suggests that the next stage in its development is intellectual. | History, Intellectualism | ||||||||||||||||||
90 | 85 | Examined Life | Murphy, Carol R. | 1955 | A dialogue between the Critic on the Hearth and the author on spiritual maturity and morality. | Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
91 | 359 | Existential Theology of Nikos Kazantkakis | Dossor, Howard F. | 2001 | The author finds that Kazantkakis’s theology gives us insight on how to live fully, joyfully, and faithfully. | Existentialism, Atheism, Theology, God | ||||||||||||||||||
92 | 388 | Expectant Listening: Finding God’s Thread of Guidance | Wajda, Michael | 2007 | Out of a great hunger for God’s love and guidance, Michael Wajda has spent his adult life seeking to experience the presence of God. In small ways and large, his search has been answered. In this pamphlet, he offers readers his personal story and tells what he has learned about the practice of Expectant Listening. | Listening, Worship, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
93 | 69 | Experiment with a Life | Collier, Howard Ebenezer | 1953 | Reflecting on his own experience, the author/physician concludes that religion integrates wholeness with all forms of healing. | Health, Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
94 | 149 | Experiments in Community: Ephrata, the Amish, the Doukhobors, the Shakers, the Bruderhof [and] Monteverde | Whitney, Norman Jehiel | 1966 | Essays describing intentional communities and defining the causes of their success. | Intentional Communities | ||||||||||||||||||
95 | 157 | Facing and Fulfilling the Later Years | Andrews, Elsie Marion | 1968 | Creativity, travel, the interests of the mind in the world at large, and the fluid expression of personality are positive aspects of aging today. | Aging, Creativity | ||||||||||||||||||
96 | 46 | Faith of an Ex-Agnostic | Murphy, Carol R. | 1949 | The results of a search for a meaningful philosophy of religion involve the failure of science, the nature of God, commitment, and redemption. | Science, Religion, Agnosticism | ||||||||||||||||||
97 | 222 | Family as a Way into the Future | Boulding, Elise | 1978 | What discoveries lie before us about the family, the oldest and longest continuing human experience? | Family Life | ||||||||||||||||||
98 | 191 | Feminine Aspects of Divinity | Lantero, Erminie Huntress | 1973 | The writer suggests that God expresses Herself/Himself in whatever aspects, female or male, enable us to apprehend Her/Him. | Women, Femininity | ||||||||||||||||||
99 | 220 | Fifth Yoga: The Way of Relationships | Havens, Joseph | 1978 | Suggests adding the way of human relations to the four broad disciplines of Yoga. | Human Relations, International Relations, Inspiration, Yoga | ||||||||||||||||||
100 | 400 | Finding the Taproot of Simplicity: A Movement Between Inner Knowledge and Outer Action | Taber, Frances Irene | 2009 | This essay explores the spiritual basis of Friends’ testimony of simplicity: how it evolved from the efforts of early Friends to live in a way that fostered the spiritual richness of their lives, and how it continues to speak today in the lives of those who seek to find not merely balance, but an unseamed wholeness of their inward and outward journeys. | Simplicity, Harmony | ||||||||||||||||||
101 | 310 | Findings: Poets and the Crisis of Faith | Lampen, John | 1993 | The author claims poets offer confirmation to religious seekers that their glimpses of divine presence and intention are valid. Poets give them a language in which to describe such glimpses without demanding adherence to a belief system they cannot accept. | Poetry, Spirituality, Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
102 | 381 | Fire of the Heart: Norman Morrison’s Legacy in Viet Nam and at Home | Welsh, Anne Morrison | 2005 | Anne Morrison Welsh tells the moving story of her husband’s self-sacrifice at the Pentagon in November 1965 in a desperate effort to help end a war he abhorred. In telling her husband’s story, the author also shares her own spiritual journey of forgiveness, acceptance, and gradual recovery from life’s wounds. | Viet Nam, Death, Forgiveness, Peace, Pacifism | ||||||||||||||||||
103 | 316 | For That Solitary Individual: an Octogenarian’s Counsel on Living and Dying | Yungblut, John R. | 1994 | The author defines three activities of evolution: differentiation, interiority, and communion. He counsels each person to seek a contemplative life to nurture these activities. | Contemplation | ||||||||||||||||||
104 | 306 | Four Doors to Meeting for Worship | Taber, William P. | 1992 | This essay describes four doors as thresholds into the heart of worship, understood as communion with the invisible but eternal stream of reality in which lives the eternal Christ. | Worship | ||||||||||||||||||
105 | 236 | Four Women, Four Windows on Light | Murphy, Carol R. | 1981 | The women discussed are: Mary Baker Eddy, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, and Flannery O’Connor. | Christian Biography, Mary Baker Eddy, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Flannery O'Connor | ||||||||||||||||||
106 | 172 | Friends & The Racial Crisis | Taylor, Richard K. | 1970 | A social worker addresses the Society of Friends and its struggle against racism and poverty in America. | Race Relations | ||||||||||||||||||
107 | 313 | Friends and Alcohol: Recovering a Forgotten Testimony | Levering, Robert | 1994 | After examining the history of Friends’ corporate witness on use of alcoholic beverages, which for the most part produced a call for total abstinence, the author argues that Friends should reexamine and reclaim this testimony. | Alcohol | ||||||||||||||||||
108 | 233 | Friends and the World of Nature | Benfey, Otto Theodor | 1980 | Can we forge a new link between the insights of science and the deeper prompting of the human spirit through a rebirth of love for matter? A meditation on our manifold relations with nature. | Nature, Christianity, History | ||||||||||||||||||
109 | 174 | Friends, Let Us Pray | Landstrom, Elsie H. | 1970 | The author meant not to write about prayer, but found during writing and meditation that she must explore it. | Prayer | ||||||||||||||||||
110 | 134 | From Convincement to Conversion | Cobin, Martin T. | 1964 | The author tells of his conversion from Judaism to Quakerism. | Friends, Convincement, Conversion | ||||||||||||||||||
111 | 102 | From One to Another | Jacob, Norma | 1959 | Discusses the Society of Friends’ long-standing interest in mental illness. | Mental Disorders, History, Social Action | ||||||||||||||||||
112 | 389 | From West Point to Quakerism | Heller, Mike | 2007 | The author reflects on his painful and sometimes lonely passage and on how way opened for him to discover himself and his place in the world. In the best Friends’ tradition of sharing our spiritual journeys, Mike Heller offers his own story, told with insight and compassion for the variety of people who crossed his path. | Reflection, Religious Life, Harmony, Autobiography | ||||||||||||||||||
113 | 84 | From Where They Sit | Hutchinson, Dorothy Hewitt | 1955 | A Quaker housewife takes a round-the-world journey of friendship with an African-American friend, visiting 16 families of widely varying cultures, nationalities, and religions. | Peace, International Relations, World Politics, Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
114 | 6 | Functional Poverty | Young, Mildred Binns | 1939 | Three papers derived from the author’s experiences suggest a paradoxical discipline of liberating one’s life by limiting one’s material possessions and processes, thus realizing one’s responsibilities and the oneness of humanity. | Conduct of Life, Poverty | ||||||||||||||||||
115 | 165 | Gandhi Remembered | Alexander, Horace Gundry | 1969 | A very brief survey of Gandhi’s involvement in the drive for Indian independence based on his religious principles of soul-force and self-rule. The author lived in India for 10 years and knew Gandhi. | Gandhi, Nonviolence, Liberation | ||||||||||||||||||
116 | 444 | Gathered Meeting | Davison, Steven | 2017 | Steven Davison lifts up the gathered meeting for worship as the essence of the Quaker way. He puts it in historical context within the Christian and Quaker traditions and considers the state of the gathered meeting in our own time. While describing the gathering in detail from his own experience, he also quotes Thomas Kelly, William Taber, and Patricia Loring. He explores the “faith” of the gathered meeting and how it fulfills the promises of the Quaker way. Most important, he describes what fosters the gathered meeting. In the holy communion of the gathered meeting lie the soul of the Quaker faith and the hope for a Quakerism that remains vibrant and relevant into the future. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
117 | 391 | Getting Rooted: Living in the Cross | Drayton, Brian | 2007 | Brian Drayton explores the idea of rootedness at multiple levels in order to reveal the ways in which we may derive the most nourishment from the roots that we seek to rediscover so that God’s Spirit may flourish within us and through us. | Theology, Quakerism, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
118 | 364 | Gift of Days | Morrison, Mary C. | 2003 | In this moving pamphlet the author writes: “Maybe this is the death I was desiring so intensely during my illness – this death of the separate spinning mind as it merges into the intense life of the present moment. If so, then Yes, there’s more. Much more. ... My work is to be ready to receive it when it comes as I would a visit from an old friend.” | Death | ||||||||||||||||||
119 | 100 | Gifts of the True Love: Based on the Old Carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” | Yates, Elizabeth | 1958 | Among the gifts cited are creativity, serene rest, skill in the ways of work, a sacramental approach to the daily round, faith, and courage. | Christmas | ||||||||||||||||||
120 | 396 | God Raising Us: Parenting As A Spiritual Practice | Flanagan, Eileen | 2008 | In telling her own story—the challenges faced, the lessons learned—Eileen Flanagan calls on Friends to recognize parenthood as a phase of spiritual development with special gifts and needs, and suggests ways that we may begin to support the faith lives of parents and help our meetings be more fully multigenerational. | Family Life, Faith and Practice | ||||||||||||||||||
121 | 394 | God’s Healing Grace: Reflections on a Journey with Mental and Spiritual Illness | Gilpin, Mariellen | 2008 | Mariellen Gilpin’s story provides a model of someone whose experienced reality is not commonly shared, but who has grown as a person and as a Quaker in close relationship with her Friends meeting. The voices of persons labeled with mental illnesses are voices in our communities that need to be heard. | Reflection, Mental Disorders, Spirituality, Healing | ||||||||||||||||||
122 | 336 | God’s Spirit in Nature | Brown, Judith Reynolds | 1998 | The author gives us moving meditation on the metaphysical sense of the Earth as the body of God. The writing was inspired by her experiences in a 1995 Pendle Hill course, Global Spirituality and Earth Ethics. | Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
123 | 272 | Going Back: A Poet Who Was Once a Marine Returns to Vietnam | Ehrhart, William Daniel | 1987 | In search of personal healing, the author talks with many former adversaries in their austere country. He includes four poems with his reflections. | Viet Nam, Poetry, War, Violence | ||||||||||||||||||
124 | 297 | Gospel Order: A Quaker Understanding of Faithful Church Community | Cronk, Sandra Lee | 1991 | This essay concentrates on the communal and societal aspects of gospel order as the foundation of community life. Gospel refers to the actual relationship with God. Order refers to the patterns of daily living that flow from God. | Communities, Discipline | ||||||||||||||||||
125 | 416 | Grief, Forgiveness, and Redemption as a Way of Transformation | Pryce, Elaine | 2012 | The traumatic loss of a loved one is among the most devastating hurdles that life can throw in a person’s path. Drawing from her own experience, as well as from art, literature, and traditional wisdom, Elaine Pryce explores the spiritual aspects of grief, recovery from grief, forgiveness, and the blessings of acceptance. | Spirituality, Grief, Forgiveness | ||||||||||||||||||
126 | 373 | Group Spiritual Nurture: The Wisdom of Spiritual Listening | Clement, Daphne | 2004 | This essay by Daphne Clement, an experienced facilitator of Spiritual Nurture Groups, is both an introduction to spiritual nurture and a guide for those interested in creating a Spiritual Nurture Group. | Listening, Worship | ||||||||||||||||||
127 | 239 | Growing Old, a View from Within | Jacob, Norma | 1981 | A retired social worker reflects on various aspects of aging, including its liberation, its losses, its fear, and its openings. | Aging, Psychology, Retirement | ||||||||||||||||||
128 | 20 | Guide to Quaker Practice | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1943 | The author interprets the practices of the Society of Friends in his time. Revised editions released in 1950, 1993, 2006 | Friends, Government, Community, Doctrine | ||||||||||||||||||
129 | 61 | Guilt | Ockel, Gerhard | 1951 | Can guilt be an aid to the progress of the spirit? An examination of personal and collective guilt in the light of Christian truth and modern psychology. | Good and Evil, Sin, Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||
130 | 163 | Hardest Journey | Steere, Douglas Van | 1969 | Addresses the cost of spiritual renewal and the linkage of outward with inward journeys. | Inward Light, Holy Spirit, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
131 | 221 | Harnessing Pegasus: Inspiration and Meditation | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1978 | The author explains how she has developed her writing style, using the inner self, over 40 years. | Authorship, Creativity, Inspiration, Meditation | ||||||||||||||||||
132 | 421 | Heartfulness: Renewing Heart, Mind, and Spirit on Retreat and Beyond | Brown, Valerie | 2013 | The author guides readers toward renewal of mind, heart, and spirit by encouraging them to take time away from the busyness of their lives through retreat. | Spiritualitt, Retreats | ||||||||||||||||||
133 | 229 | Henry Hodgkin: the Road to Pendle Hill | Greenwood, Ormerod | 1980 | An exploration of the personality of the first director of Pendle Hill, written for its 50th anniversary in 1980. | Hodgkin, Henry, Missionaries, Doctor, Biography | ||||||||||||||||||
134 | 376 | Henry J Cadbury: Scholar, Activist, Disciple | Bacon, Margaret Hope | 2005 | Henry Joel Cadbury was widely acknowledged as an author and as a biblical scholar and translator of the highest order; a professor who challenged students’ thinking in the halls of Harvard Divinity School, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr Colleges, as well as Pendle Hill; and the consummate Quaker activist. | Cadbury, Henry Joel, Biography | ||||||||||||||||||
135 | 382 | Holding One Another in the Light | Martin, Marcelle | 2006 | Marcelle Martin offers a personal account of her discovery of and experiences with intercessory prayer. She describes the many forms it takes among Friends today, from interpersonal prayer support, to meetings for healing, to a prayerful witness for peace on earth. | Prayer, Healing, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
136 | 252 | Holistic Economics and Social Protest | Powelson, John P. | 1983 | Social protesters may not have taken into account the complexity of economics, and this author offers explanations. | International Relations, Economics, Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
137 | 169 | Holy Morality: A Religious Approach to Modern Ethics | Murphy, Carol R. | 1970 | A survey of modern moral dilemmas and ethical decisions. | Ethics | ||||||||||||||||||
138 | 226 | Homosexuality and the Bible: An Interpretation | Barnett, Walter | 1979 | Old and New Testament citations pertaining to homosexuality and an insightful interpretation of them by a Quaker lawyer. | Homosexuality, Bible | ||||||||||||||||||
139 | 114 | How They Became Friends | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1961 | The nature and development of early Quakerism, with some reflections on the Society of Friends in America. | Membership, Convincement | ||||||||||||||||||
140 | 97 | Human Way Out | Mumford, Lewis | 1958 | The hour is late for saving the human race from the possibility of wanton extermination or biological degradation; we must plan with a human purpose springing from divine inspiration. | World Politics, Cold War, Nuclear War, United States, Foreign Policy | ||||||||||||||||||
141 | 188 | Hunger for Community: An Essay on Experiential Education for Interpersonal Living | Snoek, Jaap Diedrick | 1973 | The author explores increased sharing of our lives and deeper involvement with other persons through intentional communities, organized groups, and support groups. | International Relations, Community | ||||||||||||||||||
142 | 350 | I Have Always Wanted to be Jewish: And Now, Thanks to the Religious Society of Friends, I Am | Gorfinkel, Claire | 2000 | The author, a Quaker and a Jew, shares how the intersection of these two spiritual traditions has strengthened her identity as a Jew, deepened her faith, and intensified her witness with Quakers. | Religious Life, Judaism, Community, Politics | ||||||||||||||||||
143 | 91 | Iliad: Or, The Poem of Force | Weil, Simone | 1956 | Originally written in 1940 after the fall of France, this essay may be read as an indirect commentary on that event, which symbolized extreme modern force. | Violence, Force, Western Civilization | ||||||||||||||||||
144 | 288 | Improvisation & Spiritual Disciplines: Continuing the Divine Human Duet | Conti-Entin, Carol | 1989 | The author uses musical improvisation to understand Sabbath observance, Bible reading, journal keeping, tithing, and praying. | Discipline | ||||||||||||||||||
145 | 355 | In Beauty: A Quaker Approach to End-of-Life Care | Backstrom, Kirsten | 2001 | This author shares the story of experiences in her monthly meeting to illustrate how our dying can be as fully centered in God as our living. | Death, Hospice Care, Cancer, Beauty, Harmony, Simplicity, Integrity, Listening, Wholeness | ||||||||||||||||||
146 | 385 | In God We Die | Ostrom, Warren | 2006 | Author Warren Ostrom, who has worked closely with the aging and dying for over two decades, offers his deeply-considered insights on the end of life, as well as his reflections on the role of spirituality in how we face death, and guidance for finding clarity in our choices about our own final path. | Death, Aging, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
147 | 268 | In God We Live | Ostrom, Warren | 1986 | The author’s journey as he finds a personal religion, culminating in joining the Society of Friends. | Personal Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
148 | 98 | In Pursuit of Moby Dick: Melville’s Image of Man | Friedrich, Gerhard | 1958 | The paradoxical characters in this novel illustrate an age-old faith and acts of confirmation. | Melville, Herman, Literature | ||||||||||||||||||
149 | 224 | In the Belly of a Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Thought of Thomas Merton | Palmer, Parker J. | 1979 | A study of contemplation in a life of action. | Contemplation, Paradox | ||||||||||||||||||
150 | 72 | Indian Testimony | Chakravarty, Amiya Chandra | 1953 | India’s philosophy of peace and the freedom movement led by Gandhi can be the testimony of all nations. With a foreword by Aldous Huxley. | Peace, Evil, Nonresistance | ||||||||||||||||||
151 | 443 | Individual Spiritual Discernment: Receiving, Testing and Implementing Leadings from a Higher Power | Knutson, Jerry | 2017 | This pamphlet presents – in a kind of how-to format – methods for receiving individual spiritual guidance; testing the guidance using methods that give both reliable and ambiguous results; and implementing the guidance. The pamphlet concludes with suggestions on using spiritual disciplines to build a better relationship with a Higher Power. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
152 | 73 | Inner Islands | Rawlins, Winifred | 1953 | An exploration, through letters, of the challenges and problems of living. | Poetry, Life | ||||||||||||||||||
153 | 95 | Inner Liberty: The Stubborn Grit in the Machine | Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin | 1957 | Selfless sacrifice, holy pain, and the fight for the private life are involved in the struggle of the inner imagination against outer mechanization. | Creativity, Private Life, Liberty | ||||||||||||||||||
154 | 90 | Insured by Hope | Young, Mildred Binns | 1956 | What are the practical means by which we can know our single lives are bound to a greater Life and that we are secured in hope? The author finds answers from her own experience of poverty. | Hope, Poverty, Simplicity | ||||||||||||||||||
155 | 403 | Integrity, Ecology, and Community: The Motion of Love | Ratcliffe, Jennie M. | 2009 | Jennie Ratcliffe, drawing on her years of experience and reflection as a scientist and active participant in peace and ecological concerns, believes that a deeper transformation is needed. A spiritual awareness of our oneness reminds us that we live in intimate relationship and kinship with each other, the earth, and the Divine. | Integrity, Ecology, Spirituality, Nonviolence | ||||||||||||||||||
156 | 261 | Interconnections | Prevallet, Elaine M. | 1985 | Reflections on deep relationships, the networks that God uses to transform wounds into wholeness. | Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
157 | 366 | Invitation to a Deeper Communion | Martin, Marcelle | 2003 | This pamphlet examines what it was about the belief and practice of early Friends that invited direct experience of the Spirit. It also describes explorations by contemporary Friends to seek a deeper communion with God in worship, suggesting that a renewal of worship will help Friends today become powerful witnesses to another way of life. | Worship | ||||||||||||||||||
158 | 29 | Inward Journey of Isaac Penington: An Abbreviation of Penington’s Works | Penington, Isaac | 1943 | A condensation of the 1400-page, 1761 edition of Isaac Penington’s work, with a discussion of God, free will, and justification. | Penington, Isaac, Beliefs and Testimonies | ||||||||||||||||||
159 | 295 | Inward Light and the New Creation: A Theological Meditation on the Center and Circumference of Quakerism | Keiser, R. Melvin | 1991 | A theological meditation on the spirituality of George Fox’s visionary journey back into Paradise and Margaret Fell’s argument for women’s equality in church leadership. | Theology, Feminism, Women | ||||||||||||||||||
160 | 214 | Jacob Boehme: Insights into the Challenge of Evil | Liem, Ann | 1977 | A spiritual resident of both East and West, the author sees Jacob Boehme as a Christian esoteric (like George Fox) and perhaps the most illustrious forerunner of Quakerism. | Good, Evil, Mysticism | ||||||||||||||||||
161 | 351 | Jacob Boehme: Insights into the Challenge of Evil | Liem, Ann | 2000 | A Quaker examines what constitutes evil in our modern era, drawing on the theological work of the 16th century German mystic, Jacob Boehme. | Free Will, Salvation, Regeneration, Christ, Spiritual Reformer, Eighteenth Centry Reformation, Good, Evil | ||||||||||||||||||
162 | 413 | James Nayler Speaking | Drayton, Brian | 2011 | Brian Drayton found in the writings of this influential and controversial Friend messages that speak to the turmoil of our times, just as they spoke to the turmoil of 1650s England. Some central themes in the ministry of James Nayler are explored, with attention to how they address the most basic challenges of faithfulness in what early Friends called “the Lamb’s War.” | Nayler, James, History, Theology, Spirituality, Early Friends, Religious Society of Friends | ||||||||||||||||||
163 | 250 | Jesus, Jefferson, and the Tasks of Friends | Garver, Newton | 1983 | The work of the Society of Friends in the world as understood by a Christian pacifist and philosopher. | Friends, Christianity, Ethics | ||||||||||||||||||
164 | 243 | Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker | Adede, Rose | 1982 | A biographical study of her grandfather from interviews, letters, speeches, and sermons. | Biography, Joel Litu, Quakerism, Africa | ||||||||||||||||||
165 | 96 | John Woolman and the 20th Century | Reynolds, Reginald | 1958 | The author reflects on the thoughts of Woolman and their applications in contemporary society. | John Woolman, Testimonies, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
166 | 417 | John Yungblut: Passing the Mystical Torch | Finn, Charlie | 2012 | In this pamphlet Charlie Finn unveils the faith and vision of John Yungblut. At the heart of this story, readers will discover a spiritual “genealogy”: Rufus Jones, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Carl Jung, who influenced John Yungblut who became a spiritual guide and friend to Charlie Finn. | Biography, Theology | ||||||||||||||||||
167 | 140 | Joint and Visible Fellowship | Snell, Beatrice Saxon | 1965 | Addresses Friends Meeting for Worship and the significance of preparation for worship. | Worship, Practice | ||||||||||||||||||
168 | 242 | Journal and the Journey | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1982 | The writer’s interior journey of 71 years. | Spirituality, Diary, Journal, Journaling | ||||||||||||||||||
169 | 141 | Journal of a College Student | Havens, Joseph | 1965 | The imagined writer reflects on contemporary student experience and religious conflict. | Religious Life, Skepticism | ||||||||||||||||||
170 | 361 | Journey Through Skepticism | Warren, Roland L. | 2002 | In this pamphlet, the author describes how he has come to live in the certainty of a spirit that unites him to something beyond himself. | Belief, Christianity, Agnosticism, Atheism | ||||||||||||||||||
171 | 348 | Journey to Bosnia, Return to Self | O’Hatnick, Suzanne Hubbard | 2000 | The author describes her call to serve as peace activist in Bosnia and then chronicles the work she undertook, illuminating the transformative power of her experience. | Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Ecumenism, Catholics, Apathy, War, Reconstruction, | ||||||||||||||||||
172 | 48 (b) | Kasturba: Wife of Gandhi | Nayyar, Sushila | 1948 | A reflection upon Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi. | Gandhi, Nonviolence, Liberation | ||||||||||||||||||
173 | 404 | Kindling a Life of Concern: Spirit-Led Quaker Action | Kirk, Jack | 2009 | Jack Kirk discusses how concerns arise and are opened to us, how we may test them, and how we may find in them a center of spiritual gravity for our lives. How do we discover our callings as individuals, and what is our calling as a community of Friends? | Ecology, Discernment, Community | ||||||||||||||||||
174 | 317 | Kingdom and the Way: Meditations on the Kingdom | Urner, Carol Reilley | 1994 | The author shares specific biblical texts and her meditations, connecting the inward holy place where she meets God with Buddhist teachings and the fundamental truths of Christian experience. | Religion, Bible, Gospels, Meditation | ||||||||||||||||||
175 | 238 | Lawrie Tatum, Indian Agent: Quaker Values and Hard Choices | Hixson, Robert | 1981 | In 1869 a Quaker named Lawrie Tatum left Iowa to become an agent for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians and participate in a holy experiment. His journey is here described. | Native Americans, Government, Missionaries | ||||||||||||||||||
176 | 320 | Leadership Among Friends | McDonald, Ron | 1995 | Looks at the ambivalence toward authority among Quaker youth, the need for common experiences of depth, and ways of encouraging more inspired ministry. | Authority, Discernment | ||||||||||||||||||
177 | 264 | Leading and Being Led | Lacey, Paul A. | 1985 | A discussion of the nature of religious leadings and where we should be looking for them in the modern world. | Christian Life | ||||||||||||||||||
178 | 71 | Let Your Lives Speak | Foulds, Elfrida Vipont | 1953 | In a speech at the Tercentenary Conference of the Religious Society of Friends an English Quaker recreates the summer of 1652. | Conferences | ||||||||||||||||||
179 | 285 | Letter to a Universalist | Punshon, John | 1989 | Written by a Christian Quaker, this pamphlet explores Universalism, Christianity, and Quaker faith and reflects the author’s conviction that to establish mutual respect and tolerance among faiths is to establish world peace. | Universalism | ||||||||||||||||||
180 | 353 | Letting That Go, Keeping This: The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg | Harnden, Philip | 2001 | Fritz Eichenberg, internationally known woodcut artist, has inspired a generation of Quakers and Catholics in their social witness. This author eloquently elucidates five important inspirations for the artist: animals, Lao-Tzu, Russian novelists, Quakers, and the Catholic Worker. | Dostoyevsky, Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, China, Dorothy Day, Catholicism, Wood Engravings, Convincement, Skepticism, Faith, Art and Religion, Quakerism, Russia, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||
181 | 326 | Liberation Theology for Quakers | Lynd, Alice | 1996 | A record of the author’s effort to live out the convictions of liberation theology nonviolently. Friends are invited to become a group that serves the poor directly, seeking passionately to create a new society. | Psychology, Religious, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
182 | 232 | Life Journey of a Quaker Artist | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1980 | Teacher, writer, artist – the author sees art as a link between inner and outer worlds. | Art and Religion, Biography | ||||||||||||||||||
183 | 230 | Life of the Spirit in Women: A Jungian Approach | Luke, Helen M. | 1980 | The writer believes modern women need to regain an understanding of the feminine nature. | Women, Psychology, Jung | ||||||||||||||||||
184 | 179 | Light and Life in the Fourth Gospel | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1971 | The philosophy and psychology of early Quakerism as derived by John’s Gospel. | Gospel of John, Bible, New Testament, Criticism, Doctrine, Controversy | ||||||||||||||||||
185 | 425 | Light Within: Then and Now | Ambler, Rex | 2013 | The author explores how early Friends thought about and engaged with the Light in ways that have mostly been lost to Friends today. | Inward Light, Early Friends | ||||||||||||||||||
186 | 354 | Live the Questions: Write into the Answers | Parsons, Barbara E. and Mary Morrison | 2001 | Two consummate journal writers describe the writing process and give exercises for keeping a journal. | Journaling, Reflection, Writing | ||||||||||||||||||
187 | 407 | Living from the Center: Mindfulness Meditation and Centering for Friends | Brown, Valerie | 2010 | Valerie Brown is a teacher of centering practices, a Buddhist, and an active Friend. Drawing upon her own experiences and wide studies, Valerie Brown describes for Friends how these various traditions can offer us a better understanding and preparedness for our precious, elusive, mysterious, and simple practice of centering into worship. | Buddhism, Meditation, Worship | ||||||||||||||||||
188 | 378 | Living in Virtue, Declaring Against War | Smith, Steve | 2005 | Born in an era of profound spiritual awakening, the Quaker Peace Testimony remains a radical challenge today–to live Jesus’s message of love, forgiveness and reconciliation. This is the story of the author’s discovery and conviction in the Light. | Violence, Peace, Convincement, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
189 | 415 | Living Our Testimony on Equality: A White Friend’s Experience | Schenck, Patience A. | 2011 | The principle of human equality is a testimony that Friends are both proud of and challenged by. Proclaiming the importance of equality among peoples is far easier than living equality, day to day and interpersonally. Pat Schenck has dedicated years of study, self-examination, and experimentation to living racial equality in a society that still supports inequality in its institutions. | Social Concerns, Equality, Race Relations | ||||||||||||||||||
190 | 372 | Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton | Manousos, Anthony | 2004 | Born of Quaker families, Howard Brinton and Anna Cox Brinton met doing Friends relief work in Germany after World War I in Europe and devoted their lives together to nurturing Quakerism, social activism, peacemaking, and peacemakers from coast to coast in the United States and, in their last years, in Asia. | Brinton, Howard H., Peace, Biography | ||||||||||||||||||
191 | 379 | Living Truth: A Spiritual Portrait of Pierre Ceresole | Maddock, Keith R. | 2005 | Author Keith Maddock goes beyond Ceresole’s actions to paint a portrait of the spiritual growth of a passionate, poetic, solitary seeker of Truth who urges us to set aside our theories and our fears and instead take up the tools that are needed to create a more humane, just, and peaceful world. | Biography, Civilian Public Service | ||||||||||||||||||
192 | 187 | Living Witness of John Woolman | Moulton, Phillips P. | 1973 | The editor of Woolman’s journal and essays examines the significance of this influential Quaker for modern man. | Woolman, John | ||||||||||||||||||
193 | 94 | Loyalty by Oath: An Essay on the Extortion of Love | Hoffman, Hallock B. | 1957 | The loyalty oath depends on fear for its power. The author contends that people should be possessed by love, not fear. | Love, Oaths, Loyalty, Trust, Testimonies | ||||||||||||||||||
194 | 234 | Lucretia Mott Speaking: Excerpts from the Sermons | Mott, Lucretia | 1980 | The great Quaker was a leader in women’s struggle for equality and a strong influence for social action in the Society of Friends. | Mott, Lucretia, Women, Abolitionism, Universalism | ||||||||||||||||||
195 | 441 | Making a Portrait of Jesus | Lampen, John | 2016 | What was Jesus really like? The portrayals John Lampen got in childhood lacked vitality, so he returned to the records to discover Jesus for himself and found “an extraordinary man who was very different from what I expected.” In addition to offering a vivid description of “a man who was intensely alive,” John Lampen discusses how he created this portrait by sifting through varied and sometimes contradictory evidence to determine what is most likely to be true. Readers who are interested in Jesus as a historical figure, as well as those who seek to follow his teachings, will find much to think about in this portrayal. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
196 | 158 | Man: The Broken Image | Murphy, Carol R. | 1968 | What can man think of man? Is he a naked ape, a thinking reed, a candle of the Lord? Murphy explores the human side of the divine-human encounter. | Women, Humanity | ||||||||||||||||||
197 | 150 | Many Religions, One God: Toward a Deeper Dialogue | Murphy, Carol R. | 1966 | The relation of Christian revelation to that of God in all the great religions. | Religion, Christianity, Ecumenism | ||||||||||||||||||
198 | 206 | Margaret Fell Speaking | Barbour, Hugh | 1976 | Excerpts from the writings of the Mother of Quakerism, later the wife of George Fox. | Women, Religious Society of Friends, 17th Century, History | ||||||||||||||||||
199 | 439 | Marking the Quaker Path: Seven Key Words Plus One | Griswold, Robert | 2016 | The life of a fully committed Quaker can be described as a series of passages, beginning with a truthful understanding of one’s spiritual condition and deepening through attention to inward experience, spiritual covenant, discipline, and the practice of discernment, culminating ultimately in the maturation of spiritual authority in a beloved community. Robert Griswold explains these passages for modern Friends, drawing from the writings of early Quakers, and offers us a glimpse of the profound growth that can flourish when we turn ourselves over to a life dedicated to the Spirit. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
200 | 308 | Marriage: A Spiritual Leading for Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Couples | Hill, Leslie | 1993 | After a summary examination of Quaker marriage practices and procedures, this essay traces the evolution of a minute on same-sex marriage in Putney, Vermont Meeting, and the marriage of two men under the meeting’s care. | Marriage, Homosexuality | ||||||||||||||||||
201 | 36 | Martha and Mary: a Woman’s Relationship to her Home | Benton, Josephine Moffett | 1947 | Using the Biblical story, the author finds family life, marriage, and work make a home the right and natural place in which to begin to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. | Home, Marriage, Family Life, Bible | ||||||||||||||||||
202 | 399 | Matthew 18: Wisdom for Living in Community | Green, Connie McPeak and Marty Paxson Grundy | 2008 | The authors have spent years exploring the eighteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, which contains Jesus’s advice to his disciples about how to get along with one another. In this essay, they describe what they have learned from their efforts to be faithful. | Bible, Faith and Practice, Conflict Resolution | ||||||||||||||||||
203 | 153 | Mayer/Boulding Dialogue on Peace Research | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart and Milton Mayer | 1967 | An economist and an educator, both Quakers, debate the value of studying psychology, sociology, political science, economics, and international law as ways to peace. | Peace | ||||||||||||||||||
204 | 76 | McCarthyism: The Seed is in Us | Bristol, James E | 1954 | Deals not only with McCarthyism, but the whole repressive trend characterizing American life, and urges resisting every outreach of tyranny as the early Quakers did. | Communism, McCarthy, Joseph, Red Scare, Repression, Un-American Activities | ||||||||||||||||||
205 | 276 | Meditations on a D Major Scale | Nicholson, Bertha May | 1987 | The author uses the theme of a D scale to explore a moment of truth from several perspectives: teaching and learning, music and Quakerism, and the inward journey. | Spirituality, Music | ||||||||||||||||||
206 | 369 | Meditations on the Prayer of St. Francis | Curo, Anne | 2003 | Starting with the metaphor of the self as a musical instrument on which God performs, the author reflects on the beloved prayer of St. Francis as instructions for a life of Christian peacemaking. She uses examples from her experiences in homeless activism and her study of various faith traditions to explore the wisdom in the prayer line by line. | Peace, Prayer, Social Action | ||||||||||||||||||
207 | 442 | Meeting at the Center: Living Love and Reconciling One with Another | Birchard, Bruce | 2016 | Expanding on his plenary address at the 2011 Friends General Conference Gathering, Bruce Birchard describes the work of reconciliation on three levels: between his gay brother and traditional father, among three branches of the Religious Society of Friends, and in two African nations torn apart by genocidal conflict. He shares how he reexamined his thinking about the roles of activist and reconciler and about God as a noun and a verb. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
208 | 185 | Meeting House & Farm House | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1972 | Daily life during the first 100 years of Pennsylvania Quakers, with many quotations from monthly meeting minute books of that time. | Meeting Houses | ||||||||||||||||||
209 | 371 | Members One of Another: The Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting | Gates, Thomas | 2004 | In Quaker faith and practice, the individual and the meeting are in a dynamic, mutually supportive, and reciprocal relation. In this essay Tom Gates examines many of the factors affecting the relationship between the Seeker and the Meeting, before and during membership. | Membership, Quakerism | ||||||||||||||||||
210 | 190 | Memories and Meditations of a Workcamper | Richie, David S. | 1973 | Reflections on years as a participant in the first American work camp, started in 1934. | American Friends Service Committee | ||||||||||||||||||
211 | 266 | Mending the World: Quaker Insights on the Social Order | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1986 | Learning is the key to mending the world, but it must rest on the development of a more conscious process towards human betterment: a new discipline. | World Politics | ||||||||||||||||||
212 | 398 | Messenger That Goes Before: Reading Margaret Fell for Spiritual Nurture | Birkel, Michael | 2008 | Michael Birkel has discovered in the letters of Margaret Fell, one of the founding members of the Religious Society of Friends, a treasure trove of wise and loving counsel for those on the spiritual journey. | Biography, History | ||||||||||||||||||
213 | 437 | Methaphors of Meaning | Wilson, Linda | 2016 | The spiritual life defies description through words. To understand our own spiritual experiences and talk about them with others, we often rely on images or metaphors to convey our meaning. Linda Wilson explores metaphors that are commonly used for expressing life in the spirit, noting that their meaning can vary from person to person, framed by one’s geographical roots, culture, and gender. Wilson recognizes her own spirituality in the image of “tending one’s spiritual home,” a metaphor she develops with insight and care, as she offers an example to readers for finding and working with one’s own metaphors. | |||||||||||||||||||
214 | 287 | Milestone 70 | Murphy, Carol R. | 1989 | In this her 17th Pendle Hill pamphlet, the author explores her daily life in her seventieth year. | Christian Life | ||||||||||||||||||
215 | 25 | Militarism for America | Hartman, Grover Lowell. | 1945 | A discussion of the pros and cons of military service, with the author concluding there are more effective ways to create a better society. | Conscription, Peace | ||||||||||||||||||
216 | 406 | Mind of Christ: Bill Taber on Meeting for Business | Birkel, Michael | 2010 | Bill Taber addressed the rewards and challenges of Quaker business process in a number of presentations to Friends groups. Michael Birkel has edited Bill’s notes for these talks into an essay on how Friends can carry into business meeting the practices and attitudes that open the way to Spirit-led decisions in our communities. | Meeting for Business, Right Order, Unity, Clearness | ||||||||||||||||||
217 | 304 | Mind What Stirs in your Heart | Havens, Teresina Rowell | 1992 | The author, inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s walking and breathing meditations, combines seed-verses from Quaker and biblical writings with exercises for meditative walking. | Meditation | ||||||||||||||||||
218 | 386 | Mindful Quaker | Brown, Valerie | 2006 | Valerie Brown, who is both a Quaker and a Buddhist, explores the gifts that Buddhism has to offer Friends in our search for unity with the Divine Ground, for clarity in our worship, and for equanimity in our lives. | Buddhism, Quakerism | ||||||||||||||||||
219 | 67 | Ministry of Counseling | Murphy, Carol R. | 1952 | An essay on bringing together Holy Spirit and modern therapeutic counseling. | Counseling, Pastoral Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||
220 | 293 | Ministry of Presence: Without Agenda in South Africa | Crowe, Avis and Dyckman W. Vermilye | 1990 | The authors share how way opened for them to become engaged in the life of a community and Quaker meeting in one of the world’s troubled places. | Social Concerns, Race Relations, South Africa, Apartheid | ||||||||||||||||||
221 | 168 | Modern Promethean: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth | Friedman, Maurice S. | 1969 | The author, a teacher and conscientious objector, celebrates the Modern Job, the Problematic Rebel he sees in today’s young people, and the possibilities for a new image of man. | Youth | ||||||||||||||||||
222 | 345 | More than Equals: Spiritual Friendships | Roberts, Trish | 1999 | The author advocates for this growing form of spiritual nurture among Friends and gives good guidelines for seeking and sustaining a spiritual friendship. | Spiritual Friendship, Practice, Prayer, Leadership, Eldering, Overseer, Oversight, Community | ||||||||||||||||||
223 | 312 | Motions of Love: Woolman as Mystic and Activist | Olmsted, Sterling | 1993 | A study of the interrelationship between mysticism and activism in the life and ministry of John Woolman, as reflected in his writings. | Mysticism, Social Concerns, John Woolman | ||||||||||||||||||
224 | 175 | Mutual Irradiation: A Quaker View of Ecumenism | Steere, Douglas Van | 1971 | The author considers potential hesitations and roadblocks which affect Friends’ relationships with Christian and non-Christian religious groups. | Christian Union, Ecumenism, Christianity and Other Religions | ||||||||||||||||||
225 | 384 | Mystery of Quaker Light | Bien, Peter | 2006 | What has Light meant to different people throughout the ages? How did various ideas about Light influence the prologue to John’s Gospel? What did early Friends understand Light to mean? In this pamphlet, Peter Bien explores the theology and poetry of Friends’ favorite religious symbol. | Bible, Inward Light, History, Theology | ||||||||||||||||||
226 | 115 | Mysticism and the Experience of Love | Thurman, Howard | 1965 | The religion of the inner life, or mysticism, is life affirming and reaches its highest goal in love. | Inward Light, Love, Mysticism | ||||||||||||||||||
227 | 47 | Nature of Quakerism | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1949 | Discusses primary, secondary, and tertiary Quaker doctrines. A revised edition of the second chapter of pamphlet number nine. | Quakerism, Doctrine, Practice, Belief, Education | ||||||||||||||||||
228 | 352 | Navigating the Living Waters of the Gospel of John: On Wading with Children and Swimming with Elephants | Anderson, Paul N. | 2000 | A Quaker theologian introduces major themes in the gospel of John for newcomers to the Bible as well as for serious biblical scholars. | Gospel of John, New Testament, Bible, Jesus, Witness, Signs, Beliefs, Salvation | ||||||||||||||||||
229 | 275 | Needle’s Eye: A Philippine Experience | Urner, Carol Reilley | 1987 | Reflections on her involvement with Filipino tribal peoples and war, with references to John Woolman. | Nonviolence, Philippines, First Peoples, Native Races | ||||||||||||||||||
230 | 17 | New Nations for Old | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1942 | These plans for the abolition of war were written by an economist-pacifist during World War II. The author looks toward the necessary process of the redemption of nationalism. | War, Peace | ||||||||||||||||||
231 | 63 | Ninth Hour | Kilpack, Gilbert | 1951 | With wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg, the author compares the ninth hour Christ spent on the cross to the twentieth century. | Christianity, 20th Century | ||||||||||||||||||
232 | 321 | No Royal Road to Reconciliation | Knudsen-Hoffman, Gene | 1995 | The author sees wounds in the perpetrator as the source of violence. This essay describes the nature and healing of trauma and offers a view of health that can move us to listening, forgiveness, compassion, and reconciliation. | Health, Reconciliation, Violence | ||||||||||||||||||
233 | 322 | Nonviolence and Community: Reflections on the Alternatives to Violence Project | Garver, Newton | 1995 | Nonviolence requires a spirit that comes from within which no curriculum can create or implant. The authors describe how the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) organizes experiences to draw forth that spirit and how doing so builds supportive community. | Nonviolence, Prison, Reconciliation, Justice, Correction, Social Action | ||||||||||||||||||
234 | 274 | Nonviolence on Trial | Hillegass, Robert W. | 1987 | Nonviolent action takes place only when the principle of love is seen as a reality grounded in Being itself, as the author has publicly witnessed. | Nonviolence, Peace | ||||||||||||||||||
235 | 129 | Nonviolent Action: How It Works | Lakey, George | 1963 | Evidently, nonviolent action has some kind of power, even when the action is not very spectacular. The question then arises, what is this power? The task of this pamphlet is to discover the how of nonviolent action. | Passive Resistance, Conscientious Objection, Peace | ||||||||||||||||||
236 | 424 | Nonviolent Direct Action as a Spiritual Path | Taylor, Richard K. | 2013 | The author explores the relationship between spirituality and nonviolent direct action. | Nonviolence, Social Action, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
237 | 88 | Nonviolent Resistance: A Nation’s Way to Peace | Hinshaw, Cecil Eugene | 1956 | Addresses the problem of meeting evil on the national level. | Passive Resistance, Civil Disobedience | ||||||||||||||||||
238 | 419 | Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Well-being | Crompton, Margaret | 2012 | The author focuses on communication between children and adults in Quaker families and Meetings. She includes practical advice along with stories that reveal children’s innate spirituality. | Children, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
239 | 251 | Nurturing Contemplation | Murphy, Carol R. | 1983 | Quoting people who emphasize being rather than doing, the author reflects on the fullness of the contemplative life. | Contemplation | ||||||||||||||||||
240 | 216 | O Inward Traveler | Murphy, Carol R. | 1977 | A spiritual journey includes approach, alternative visions, absorption, awareness, and meditation. | Meditation | ||||||||||||||||||
241 | 132 | Obstacles to Mystical Experience | Crom, Scott | 1963 | A mathematician/philosopher discusses Western and Eastern approaches to mysticism. | Mysticism, Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, Vedanta, Hinduism, Buddhism | ||||||||||||||||||
242 | 64 | Of Holy Disobedience | Muste, Abraham John | 1952 | The individual must be committed to Holy Disobedience against war-making and conscription. | Conscientious Objection, United States, Pacifism, Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
243 | 151 | On Being Present Where You Are | Steere, Douglas Van | 1967 | What does it mean to be present at any given place or time, and what does genuine presence imply? | Religion, Experience | ||||||||||||||||||
244 | 155 | On Being Real: A Quest for Personal and Religious Wholeness | Crom, Scott | 1967 | A conception of truth as the fidelity of consciousness to a reality that is neither fixed nor final. | Christian Life, Truth, Discovery, Authenticity | ||||||||||||||||||
245 | 292 | On Hallowing One’s Diminishments | Yungblut, John R. | 1990 | A lifelong student of mysticism shares the experience of contemplative prayer in facing many forms of diminishment: birth defects, natural disasters, aging, and death itself. | Religion, Death, Disabilities, Suffering | ||||||||||||||||||
246 | 368 | On Retiring to Kendal (and Beyond): A Literary Excursion | Bien, Peter | 2003 | The author employs poetry and literature to reflect on the meaning of retirement and whether death is an unmitigated calamity. He concludes it is not better to live forever, and that strangely, death enhances life, rather than negating it. | Retirement, Literature, Poetry | ||||||||||||||||||
247 | 182 | On Speaking Out of the Silence: Vocal Ministry in the Unprogrammed Meeting for Worship | Steere, Douglas Van | 1972 | The nature, functioning, sense of expectancy, and frame of interpretation embodied in Friends’ way of worship. | Pastoral Theology, Worship | ||||||||||||||||||
248 | 32 | Our Hearts are Restless | Kilpack, Gilbert | 1946 | The author believes that all human life and thought depend on the first three chapters of the book of Genesis. Friends testify to these passages and address separation from the Creator. | Bible, Genesis, Doctrine | ||||||||||||||||||
249 | 5 | Pacifist Program in Time of War, Threatened War, or Fascism | Gregg, Richard Bartlett | 1939 | A proposal to alter our social environment based on pacifism and nonviolence. | Conscientious Objection, Pacifism, Religious Society of Friends | ||||||||||||||||||
250 | 19 | Participation in Rural Life | Young, Mildred Binns | 1942 | To share in the love of God, one must enter into social responsibility for mankind. | Participation, Conduct of Life, Rural Life, Community | ||||||||||||||||||
251 | 121 | Patterns of Renewal | Van der Post, Laurens | 1962 | The earliest human pattern is still alive and accessible to us, but modern man is cut off from experiencing this dynamic renewal deep in himself. | Ethno, psychology, Anthropology | ||||||||||||||||||
252 | 16 | Peacemakers’ Dilemma: a Plea for a Modus Vivendi in the Peace Movement | Pickard, Bertram | 1942 | The author discusses the possibility of a compromise among different elements in the peace movement and points out two kinds of pacifism: integral and spurious. | Peace, International Relations, Pacifism | ||||||||||||||||||
253 | 225 | Peculiar Mission of a Quaker School | Heath, Douglas H. | 1979 | Friends schools exist to empower students, faculty, and staff to live more fully in the Truth, to educate for goodness, and to bring each person to the teacher within. | Education, Christian Education, Truth | ||||||||||||||||||
254 | 55 | Pendle Hill Idea: A Quaker Experiment in Work, Worship, and Study | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1950 | By fusing of the divine, the liberal, the useful, and the spiritual, the community of Pendle Hill was founded in 1930. | Community, Pendle Hill | ||||||||||||||||||
255 | 81 | Personal Relevance of Truth | Brown, Thomas Shipley | 1955 | Truth is a life-giving relationship to Reality, and the search for Truth is the search for life itself, asserts this Quaker educator. | Truth, Integrity | ||||||||||||||||||
256 | 209 | Philosophy of the Inner Light | Marsh, Michael | 1976 | As economic researcher, foreign correspondent, lobbyist, and seeker, the author has found that the way out of a dogmatic disbelief in spiritual reality lies in using and understanding the inner light. | Inward Light, Holy Spirit | ||||||||||||||||||
257 | 212 | Place Called Community | Palmer, Parker J. | 1977 | The possibility of community in homes, neighborhoods, schools, places of work, or wherever people live. | Community | ||||||||||||||||||
258 | 357 | Plea for the Poor | Woolman, John | 2001 | This early Quaker minister’s essay relates poverty to wasteful consumption, brings the rich and powerful to account, and calls for simplicity as a style of life. | Wealth, Poverty, Morality, Ethics, Reparations | ||||||||||||||||||
259 | 411 | Plow up the Fallow Ground | Harper, Lu | 2011 | Through this extended exploration, and by offering rich queries for personal meditation, the author invites readers to rediscover a Quaker way of deriving powerful, personal meaning from the Bible. | Bible, Early Friends, Parables | ||||||||||||||||||
260 | 130 | Poetry Among Friends | Thorne, Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert | 1963 | Though few Friends have been poets in the past, a growing number are being nurtured in the Quaker tradition. | Poetry, History | ||||||||||||||||||
261 | 77 | Poets Walk In | Broomell, Anna Frances Thompson Pettit | 1954 | Through poetry a group of people share experience, delight, sorrow, searching, and understanding, thus reaching a truer sense of poetry itself and of community. | Poetry, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||
262 | 53 | Power of Truth | Maurer, Herrymon | 1950 | The author contends that truth is in all persons, offends no one either in action or thought, loves everyone, and results in a selfless mind. | Truth | ||||||||||||||||||
263 | 374 | Practice of the Love of God | Boulding, Kenneth | 2004 | The author urges us to explore love unlimited by time or place – love in our families, with our neighbors, and in our meetings and churches, all possible through our love for God. He concludes with his vision for the world and his assurance that there is no room for despair, that God is always redeeming the world. | Love, God, Family Life | ||||||||||||||||||
264 | 271 | Practicing Compassion for the Stranger | Alexander, Nancy C. | 1987 | Steps in practicing compassion toward those we do not know well are described and encouraged. | Sympathy, Compassion | ||||||||||||||||||
265 | 291 | Prayer in the Contemporary World | Steere, Douglas Van | 1980 | This deep thinker and ecumenist shares a meditation and prayer for each day of the month. | Prayer | ||||||||||||||||||
266 | 123 | Prayer, the Cornerstone | Hole, Helen Griscom Bell | 1962 | The fellowship of the first Christians had prayer as their primary experience; the author discusses prayer and its benefits. | Prayer | ||||||||||||||||||
267 | 339 | Prayer: Beginning Again | Keane, Sheila | 1998 | What is prayer? Petition, intercession, worship, confession, listening, meditation, a way of being, desire for God, faithful actions, gifts of grace, mystery…. In an expanded definition of prayer, we must go beyond the mere saying of prayer and include these ways of being, yearning, acting, or receiving prayer. Prayer is the expression of our individual relationships with the incomprehensible and mysterious Divine Being. | Prayer, Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||
268 | 105 | Private Testimony and Public Policy: An Individual View of an International Predicament | Ruopp, Phillips | 1959 | Reflections on world order and religious concerns. | World Politics, Private Life, Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
269 | 363 | Profession and Practice: Quaker Perspectives on Healing as Ministry | Flannery, Maureen A. | 2002 | This pamphlet invites Quaker professionals, healers, and nurturers to a way of practicing professionalism that both reclaims the wisdom in our Quaker tradition and affirms what is of value in alternative secular models. | Quakerism, Healing, Leadings | ||||||||||||||||||
270 | 60 | Promise of Deliverance: The Assurance That There Is a Power by Which Disaster Can Be Abolished Forever | Wilson, Dan | 1951 | A person must be regenerated by the power of God to overcome the human condition. | Worldliness, Regeneration, God | ||||||||||||||||||
271 | 148 | Prophetic Element in Modern Art | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1966 | The author finds accelerating promise for the future in the visual language of prophetic art in the last 150 years. | Art and Religion, Psychology, Society | ||||||||||||||||||
272 | 54 | Prophetic Ministry | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1950 | The basis of Quaker ministry is the prophetic insight arising out of silence and delivered in brevity. | Prophecy, Christianity | ||||||||||||||||||
273 | 256 | Prophetic Stream | Taber, William P. | 1984 | A call to revive the prophetic message in Quaker worship and ministry and in Christianity. | Prophecy, Christianity | ||||||||||||||||||
274 | 298 | Psalms Speak | Peck, George Terhune | 1991 | Thoughtful presentations on these ancient biblical texts bring the wisdom of the ages into our present-day experiences. | Bible, Psalms | ||||||||||||||||||
275 | 104 | Psychoanalysis and Religious Mysticism | McClelland, David Clarence | 1959 | The religious roots of psychoanalysis and its new ways of interpreting human relationships have profound meaning for Christian churches. | Mysticism, Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||
276 | 201 | Psychology & Silence | Zielinski, Stanislaw | 1975 | The role of psychology in religious mysticism and unprogrammed Quaker meetings for worship. | Silence, Psychology, Mysticism | ||||||||||||||||||
277 | 210 | Psychology of a Fairy Tale | Hart, David L. | 1977 | The author is a Jungian analyst with a special interest in the spiritual and psychological meaning of fairy tales. | Jung, Fairy Tales, Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||
278 | 111 | Psychotherapy Based on Human Longing | Murphy, Robert Cushman | 1965 | The author’s subjective and intuitive experiences in psychotherapy. | Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||
279 | 75 | Puerto Rican Neighbor | Schuckman, Roy | 1954 | The life of a typical libaro (countryman) in a barrio (village). | Rural Development, Puerto Rico | ||||||||||||||||||
280 | 33 | Quaker Anecdotes | Poley, Irvin C. and Ruth Verlenden Poley | 1946 | Stories that combine humor with an illustration of Quaker testimonies. | Religious Society of Friends, Humor, Proselytization, Ecumenism | ||||||||||||||||||
281 | 44 | Quaker Doctrine of Inward Peace | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1948 | Outside pressures can be met by increasing inner dimensions, inner resources, inner strength, and stability. | Peace of Mind, Centering | ||||||||||||||||||
282 | 9 | Quaker Education in Theory and Practice (Chapter two reprinted as The Nature of Quakerism) | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1940 | The author outlines the aims of education, the nature of Quakerism, and Quaker education, giving references for further study. | Education | ||||||||||||||||||
283 | 370 | Quaker in the Zendo | Smith, Steve | 2004 | In this pamphlet the author tells the story of his journey through Zen to a rediscovery of directions for spiritual formation practiced by the earliest Quakers. | Buddhism, Christianity, Quakerism | ||||||||||||||||||
284 | 367 | Quaker in Vietnam: Rick Thompson | Taylor, Beth | 2003 | This pamphlet is a personal history of Rick Thompson, who worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Vietnam during the war, and who is one of the few Quakers to have died there. The author uncovers his journey of conscience as it led to pacifism and then compelled him to help in relief efforts in Vietnam during the war. | Peace, Viet Nam, American Friends Service Committee, Pacifism | ||||||||||||||||||
285 | 207 | Quaker Looks at Yoga | Ackerman, Dorothy | 1976 | Combining Quaker beliefs and experience with Yogic wisdom, the author shares centering devices, adaptations for spiritual practice, and special techniques for concentration, spiritual and artistic resources as ways to enrichment. | Yoga | ||||||||||||||||||
286 | 26 | Quaker Meeting: a Personal Experience and Method Described and Analyzed | Collier, Howard Ebenezer | 1944 | This is a revised edition of a 1944 essay on the heart and soul of Quaker practice. | Faith and Practice, Meetings, Religious Life | ||||||||||||||||||
287 | 181 | Quaker Message: a Personal Affirmation | Doncaster, Leonard Hugh | 1972 | The tenets of the Religious Society of Friends are described and commented on. | Doctrine | ||||||||||||||||||
288 | 40 | Quaker Message: Extracts from Quaker Writings Showing the Beliefs and Practices and Present Importance Underlying Quaker Principles | Lucas, Sidney | 1948 | The message of Quakerism in the words of representative Quakers over 300 years, showing the vitality of the Society in the present and future. Includes a bibliography and a detailed index to Quaker principles. | Doctrine, Faith and Practice, Testimonies, Peace, Social Concerns, Integrity, Truth, Education, Ministry, Inward Light, God, Bible, Sacraments | ||||||||||||||||||
289 | 290 | Quaker Money | Nicholson, S. Francis | 1990 | The manager of funds for Quaker organizations and individuals reflects on Friends and the tension between money and ethics. | Ethics, Money | ||||||||||||||||||
290 | 7 | Quaker Mutation | Heard, Gerald | 1940 | The author sees current educational trends as unable to satisfy individual needs. The Quaker center, Pendle Hill, can become a model for fundamental changes in education and training of the whole individual. | Pendle Hill, Education | ||||||||||||||||||
291 | 202 | Quaker Poets, Past & Present | Jones, Mary Hoxie | 1975 | The author/poet suggests that worship and the experience of poetry can complement each other. | Poetry, Worship, Mysticism, History, Literature | ||||||||||||||||||
292 | 360 | Quaker Social Testimony in our Personal and Corporate Life | Dale, Jonathan | 2002 | Lifestyle and politics are integral expressions of what human beings are meant to be: loving, truthful, peaceful, and centered on God. | Social Concerns, Honesty, Integrity, Simplicity, Fair Trade, Economics, Organic, Organizing, Community | ||||||||||||||||||
293 | 59 | Quaker Strongholds | Stephen, Caroline Emelia | 1951 | A friend by convincement considers the basic doctrines of Quakerism. Selections from the author’s classic book on the subject, which was first published in 1890. | Doctrine, Quaker, Liturgy, Practice | ||||||||||||||||||
294 | 231 | Quaker Testimonies & Economic Alternatives | Bruyn, Severyn T. | 1980 | The Society of Friends seek a third way toward economic choices compatible with religious principles. | Economics, Religion, Third Way, Capitalism, Socialism | ||||||||||||||||||
295 | 281 | Quaker Theology of Pastoral Care: The Art of the Everyday | White, Zoe | 1988 | By being faithful artists of the Spirit, and by creating a theology of playfulness, color, spontaneity, and surprise, one may be informed and transformed. | Pastoral Care, Theology | ||||||||||||||||||
296 | 375 | Quaker Views on Mysticism | Abbott, Margery Post | 2004 | This pamphlet considers how Friends today recognize and respond to the guidance of the Inward Light of Christ. It describes varying Quaker views on mysticism and the mystical, touching upon the need to continually test leadings in the silence of Quaker worship and in the arms of Quaker community. | Mysticism, Worship, Leadings | ||||||||||||||||||
297 | 397 | Quaker Witness as Sacrament | Snyder, Daniel O. | 2008 | Dan Snyder has spent his adult years wrestling with the apparent dichotomy between the pull of an inward call to a spiritual life of contemplation and an outward call to respond to the problems of the world. He has concluded that rather than competing with each other, these two calls are parts of a single whole that must be joined if he is to be faithful to either. | Prayer, Spirituality, Witness | ||||||||||||||||||
298 | 195 | Quaker Worship and Techniques of Meditation | Crom, Scott | 1974 | By combining Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and Quakerism, a deeper understanding of the inner life is achieved. | Meditation, Yoga, Worship | ||||||||||||||||||
299 | 152 | Quakerism and Christianity | Bronner, Edwin B. | 1967 | The author addresses the question of what it means to be a Quaker today and considers Quakerism to be the third strand of Christianity (the other two being Catholicism and Protestantism). | Doctrine | ||||||||||||||||||
300 | 31 | Quakerism and India | Alexander, Horace Gundry | 1945 | An appraisal of the work of the Friends Foreign Mission Association and the Friends Ambulance Unit in India over 80 years. | India, Foreign Missions, Service Work | ||||||||||||||||||
301 | 93 | Quakerism and Other Religions | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1957 | Meeting points and differences between Quakerism and the major religions of China, India, and Japan. | Eastern Spirituality, India, China, Japan, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto | ||||||||||||||||||
302 | 343 | Quakerism and Science | Schwabe, Calvin W. | 1999 | A Quaker scientist affirms that science and Quakerism have more in common than science has with other avenues of religious expression. The wider recognition of the commonalities could encourage both inner and outer peace. | Science, Research, Inspiration, Leadings, Continuing Revelation | ||||||||||||||||||
303 | 194 | Quakerism of the Future: Mystical, Prophetic, & Evangelical | Yungblut, John R. | 1974 | The best elements in Friends’ tradition are taproots providing vital energy and sustained motivation for the survival of faith. | Doctrine | ||||||||||||||||||
304 | 241 | Quakers and the Use of Power | Lacey, Paul A. | 1982 | A reexamination of the Society of Friends at the time of Pendle Hill’s 50th Anniversary. | Power, Christian Theology, Authority, Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
305 | 423 | Queries as Prayers | Rembert, Ron B. | 2013 | The author finds new ways of using queries and explores the significance of writing our prayers. | Prayer | ||||||||||||||||||
306 | 246 | Quest There is | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1982 | A collection of quotations from some of the author’s favorite mystics with interpretive comments. | Meditation | ||||||||||||||||||
307 | 349 | Radiance and Risks of Mythmaking | Kilpack, Gilbert | 2000 | A longtime friend of Pendle Hill offers vignettes that shine with the Presence and challenge the conventional boundaries among literature, theology, and personal narrative. | Autobiography, Theology, Education, Bildungsroman, World War II, Civilian, Public, Conversion | ||||||||||||||||||
308 | 427 | Radical Hospitality | Wilson, Lloyd Lee | 2014 | The author finds in the events of Jesus's life and in his parables lessons in how to be part of the Kingdom—through inclusiveness toward all people, through letting go of personal cravings for possessions and power, and through noncoercion. | Christianity, Community | ||||||||||||||||||
309 | 198 | Re-conciliation: The Hidden Hyphen | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1974 | Can we learn to move along the sharp and cutting hyphen of separation, making it a bridge for reconciliation – finding joy in meeting people, especially other groups or other races? | Reconciliation, Religious Life | ||||||||||||||||||
310 | 65 | Reaching Decisions: The Quaker Method | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1952 | Explains how the Society of Friends answers the question, “How can a free fellowship based on Divine guidance from within set up any form of church government providing direction from without?” | Government, Sense of the Meeting | ||||||||||||||||||
311 | 237 | Reaching Toward God | Marsh, Michael | 1981 | Exploring the nature of spiritual divinity and other experiences brought the author to a belief in a truly personal God. | God | ||||||||||||||||||
312 | 126 | Readiness for Religion | Loukes, Harold | 1964 | Advice for those who seek to bring up their children to recognize their calling as children of God. | Religious Education, Children | ||||||||||||||||||
313 | 154 | Reality of God: Thoughts on the Death of God Controversy | Purdy, Alexander Converse | 1967 | A Quaker professor of religion writes from neither a theological nor a philosophical approach, but from his study of the New Testament. | God, Christianity, Skepticism, Agnosticism | ||||||||||||||||||
314 | 21 | Reality of the Spiritual World | Kelly, Thomas Raymond | 1942 | Experience a hypothetical God as if he exists, proposed Kelly in this series of four lessons: access to spiritual reality through the Holy Spirit in prayer, fellowship, God, and the spiritual world. | Mysticism, Spirituality, Holy Spirit, Prayer | ||||||||||||||||||
315 | 422 | Reclaiming the Transcendent: God in Process | Gates, Thomas | 2013 | The author finds the understanding of "God in process" to be deeply congruent with Quaker spirituality. | Theology | ||||||||||||||||||
316 | 433 | Recovering Sacred Presence in a Disenchanted World | Coelho, Mary Conrow | 2015 | Contemporary Westerners are caught between contradictory ways of understanding the world: science and faith are seemingly incompatible. And when we experience spiritual openings, when the Presence breaks through into our lives, what do we make of it? | |||||||||||||||||||
317 | 358 | Reflections from a Prayer Vigil for Peace | Gallery, John Andrew | 2001 | The author shares reflections born of his participation in an extended prayer vigil for peace. It includes thoughts on sowing peace, faithfulness, and prayer. | Social Action, Social Concerns, Peace, Vigil, Demonstration, Reflection | ||||||||||||||||||
318 | 244 | Reflections on Simplicity | Prevallet, Elaine M. | 1982 | The author shares her lifelong concern with the process of simplicity, a gift that eludes one’s grasp. | Simplicity | ||||||||||||||||||
319 | 22 | Relief and Reconstruction: Notes on Principles Involved in Quaker Relief Service | Wilson, Roger | 1943 | Four aspects of Quaker relief work are elucidated: its religious basis, the role of the worker, relationships between official and voluntary organizations, and politics and sociology. | World War II, Relief Work, Service, American Friends Service Committee | ||||||||||||||||||
320 | 82 | Religion and Mental Illness | Murphy, Carol R. | 1955 | Learning how to meet the needs of the mentally ill helps us to become binding and healing agents. This work is basically religious. | Mental Disorders | ||||||||||||||||||
321 | 14 | Religion and Politics | Sollmann, Wilhelm | 1941 | A program for modern Christian democracy and a call for action, with a fifteen-point outline for solutions to the problems of the Western world. | Christianity and Politics, Democracy | ||||||||||||||||||
322 | 161 | Religion of George Fox | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1968 | The author is concerned with George Fox’s inner sources for outward action as revealed by his Epistles rather than his advice to early Friends on dress, speech, and behavior. | Fox, George, Spirituality, Epistles, Spirituality, Holy Spirit | ||||||||||||||||||
323 | 2 | Religious Solution to the Social Problem | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1934 | A solution to the social problem of excessive individualism will be a religious one which still respects the rights of the individual. | Simplicity | ||||||||||||||||||
324 | 263 | Replacing the Warrior: Cultural Ideals and Militarism | Myers, William A. | 1985 | Examines the need for a new cultural ideal, replacing militarism by the values shown in the life of John Woolman. | Militarism, Morality, War and Society, Christianity and Culture | ||||||||||||||||||
325 | 8 | Rethinking Quaker Principles | Jones, Rufus | 1940 | The author believes the Society of Friends is a mutation that emerged from the Reformation movement of the 17th century. If there had been no Puritan movement there would have been no Society of Friends. | English Civil War, Valiant Sixty, Quakerism | ||||||||||||||||||
326 | 137 | Revelation and Experience | Murphy, Carol R. | 1964 | This prolific Pendle Hill author explores faith and revelation as opposed to modern scientific positivistic philosophy. | Revelation, Religious Life | ||||||||||||||||||
327 | 432 | Revelation and Revolution: Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness | Chase, Steve | 2015 | For Steve Chase, being a faithful friend and follower of Jesus has always meant being engaged in nonviolent revolutionary work to bring about a beloved community which embodies spiritual wisdom, social justice, and ecological sustainability. His understanding of this call is informed by the Jewish prophets, Jesus, early Quakers, the life example of Martin Luther King, Jr., and by decades of reflection on his own and other people’s stories of working to help heal and repair the world. In this pamphlet, written in part as a response to the Kabarak Call for Peace and Ecojustice, Steve distills the core features of the spiritual call to faithful activism and urges us to rise above the understandable, but debilitating, sins of denial, despair, and distraction. Discussion questions included. | |||||||||||||||||||
328 | 208 | Rhythms of the Ecosystem | Shetter, Janette Knott | 1976 | Developed from a course in ecology at Pendle Hill, the teacher uses the Dancing Shiva as a focus for her concerns. | Cosmology, Ecology, Earthcare, Nature, Ecosystem | ||||||||||||||||||
329 | 223 | Roots of Pendle Hill | Murphy, Carol R. | 1979 | Chapters in a history of Pendle Hill up to 1920, based on the recollections of Douglas Steere, Anna and Howard Brinton, Anna Broomell, and others. | Pendle Hill, Woolman School | ||||||||||||||||||
330 | 124 | Saints for this Age | Muste, Abraham John | 1962 | Speaking from religious faith and a lifetime of action, the author believes mankind must find the way into a radically new world, a new humanity, or perish. | Christian life | ||||||||||||||||||
331 | 270 | Sanctuary Church | Corbett, Jim | 1986 | A prime mover in the network bringing Central American refugees to the U.S. writes of sanctuary as a perennial task for any people that covenants to serve the Peaceable Kingdom. | Sanctuary, Refugees, Politics, Foreign Policy, Central America | ||||||||||||||||||
332 | 70 | Science and the Business of Living | Vail, James Garrett | 1953 | The author shows that combining the tradition of science – looking at obstacles as problems to be solved – and the religious concept of moral law as the basis of our life together could make a peaceful world. | Science | ||||||||||||||||||
333 | 89 | Scruples | Kilpack, Gilbert | 1956 | A scruple was originally an ancient Roman weight; then it developed into a word meaning difficulty in deciding what is right. This essay explores what it means to have scruples or be scrupulous. | Morality | ||||||||||||||||||
334 | 52 | Search: A Personal Journey Through Chaos | Domino, Ruth | 1950 | Reminiscences of Pendle Hill teacher who was helped by Quaker relief workers and then trained others to serve abroad under the American Friends Service Committee. | World War II, France, Germany, Exile, Refugees, American Friends Service Committee | ||||||||||||||||||
335 | 330 | Searching for the Real Jesus | Warren, Roland Leslie | 1997 | The early Friends, as Publishers of Truth, proclaimed to have experienced the Truth of God’s presence. The author, a Quaker with reverence for scripture, explicates the learned thinking of prominent contemporary scholars who debate the historical veracity of Jesus. | Bible, Criticism, History, Literature | ||||||||||||||||||
336 | 269 | Seed and the Tree: A Reflection on Nonviolence | Seeger, Daniel A. | 1986 | The nonviolent sensibility understands that there is no truly beneficial, liberating, or healing politics which is not spiritual in quality, that religion and politics are one, that vision and action are one. | Nonviolence, Pacifism, Revolution | ||||||||||||||||||
337 | 414 | Seeking Inner Peace: Presence, Pain, and Wholeness | De Sa, Elizabeth | 2011 | Elizabeth De Sa describes her own quest for a life of spiritual authenticity and inner peace in an essay that probes deeply into the lessons learned and the rewards reaped in a search for union with the Divine. In meditation practice she peels back the layers of pain arising from unhealed wounds and false expectations of herself, obstacles that stand in the way of full acceptance of self, others, and the Divine. | Spirituality, Healing, Peace, Meditation | ||||||||||||||||||
338 | 211 | Seeking Light in the Darkness of the Unconscious | Yungblut, John R. | 1977 | A synthesis of psychology and mysticism using Jungian approaches. | Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||
339 | 120 | Selections on the Interior Life | Law, William | 1962 | Selections from an 18th century mystical writer who has influenced many Friends. | Mysticism, 18th Century, Prayer, Devotion | ||||||||||||||||||
340 | 50 | Self-deceit: A Comedy on Lies; a Way of Overcoming Them | Faber, Frederick William | 1949 | These excerpts from Faber’s Spiritual Conferences explain self-deceit, its varieties, characteristics, and remedies – the highest corrective being to serve God out of personal love. | Self-Deceit, Worldliness, Vanity, Service | ||||||||||||||||||
341 | 35 | Self, to the Self | Willson, Dora | 1946 | A group of women converse about self-relationships, referring to symbols, and listening to each other as ways to right-relatedness. | Self, Women, Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||
342 | 79 | Sense of Living | Tonge, Mildred | 1954 | The practices of art and writing lead to a creative center in each person. | Art and Religion, Writing | ||||||||||||||||||
343 | 328 | Servant Church | Elford, Ricardo and Jim Corbett | 1996 | The authors write as a Catholic priest and a Quaker pagan whose separate paths have converged in a Jewish view of religion. For the prophetic faith, religion is about faithful service that is grounded in a covenant community’s allegiance to the Peaceable Kingdom. | Sanctuary Movement, Social Concerns, Religious Life | ||||||||||||||||||
344 | 203 | Sex and the Human Psyche: Toward a Contemporary Ethic | Yungblut, John R. | 1975 | This essay proposes criteria for a contemporary sex ethic, hoping to stimulate thinking and ultimately, perhaps, a distinctive Friends’ testimony on sex. | Sexuality, Ethics | ||||||||||||||||||
345 | 87 | Shelter from Compassion | Durr, Ruth E. | 1956 | A refuge from mankind may also be a fortification that dooms us to weep alone. The God within us is compassion. | Compassion | ||||||||||||||||||
346 | 341 | Sickness, Suffering, and Healing: More Stories from Another Place | Gates, Tom | 1998 | More stories from this American doctor’s compassionate encounter with Africans in their country. The stories describe the challenges of suffering and the response of African faith. | Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
347 | 318 | Silence: Our Eye on Eternity | Seeger, Daniel A. | 1994 | This essay is a reflection on the practice of inner silence in everyday life. | Religion, Silence, Contemplation | ||||||||||||||||||
348 | 189 | Simplicity: A Rich Quaker’s View | Peck, George Terhune | 1973 | The Light is the source of Friends’ view of simplicity, says this historian-businessman, as he explores the implications of that testimony in his life. | Simplicity | ||||||||||||||||||
349 | 283 | Sink Down to the Seed | Fardelmann, Charlotte Lyman | 1989 | A four-year journey to explore the author’s inward landscape results in inner peace. | Spirituality, Pendle Hill | ||||||||||||||||||
350 | 48 | Society of Friends | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1949 | Explains the distinguishing principles of Quakerism. Reprinted from Religion in the 20th Century, edited by Vergilius Fern. | Quakerism, Doctrine | ||||||||||||||||||
351 | 418 | Some Thoughts on Becoming Eighty-five | Shetter, William Z. | 2012 | The experience of long life and spiritual fruits of aging are the focus of this meditative walk through eighty-five years of William Shetter’s life experience: among Friends, in relationship, as an ongoing seeker and keen observer of the world. | Aging, Autobiography, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
352 | 340 | Song of Death, Our Spiritual Birth: A Quaker Way of Dying | McIver, Lucy Screechfield | 1998 | As a Cadbury scholar at Pendle Hill, the author researched seventeenth century and modern experiences of death and dying among Friends. She offers guidance for pastoral care in our meeting communities. | Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
353 | 205 | Sound of Silence: Moving with T’ai Chi | Murphy, Carol R. | 1976 | Practicing the Chinese art of meditation in movement may make a person more real and compassionate, more completely in God’s world, and enable us to relate to it with serene sensitivity. | Tai Chi | ||||||||||||||||||
354 | 27 | Sources of the Quaker Peace Testimony | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1942 | Friends’ social testimonies form a unit derived from a common source: the direct insight of the soul into the nature of Truth and Goodness, interpreted through Divine Light. | Peace, Pacifism | ||||||||||||||||||
355 | 249 | Speaking as one Friend to Another: On the Mystical Way Forward | Yungblut, John R. | 1983 | Do Quakers require a radical mutation in their consciousness? | Mysticism, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
356 | 390 | Special Education as a Spiritual Journey | Resman, Michael | 2007 | Michael Resman, who works in special education as an occupational therapist, has had much occasion to grapple with difficult questions. The answers he found for himself come not from church teachings, nor from his own reasonings, but from mystical insight, or as early Friends would say, from spiritual openings. | Education, Disabilities, Suffering, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
357 | 392 | Spirit-Led Eldering: Integral to Our Faith and Practice | Larrabee, Margery Mears | 2007 | Margery Mears Larrabee, author of this essay, and other Friends are urging us to rediscover eldering as a valuable practice that can nurture the spiritual lives of individual Friends and of Friends’ meetings. Decades of experience, wisdom, and deep reflection are contained in these pages. | Eldering, Faith and Practice | ||||||||||||||||||
358 | 428 | Spiritual Accompaniment: An Experience of Two Friends Traveling in the Ministry | Walling, Cathy and Elaine Emily | 2014 | The authors give us an account of eldering from the viewpoint of the companion and the minister she traveled with. | Eldering | ||||||||||||||||||
359 | 305 | Spiritual Discernment: The Context and Goal of Clearness Committees Among Friends | Loring, Patricia | 1992 | This essay is grounded in the central Quaker conviction of the availability of the experience and guidance of God to every person. It addresses the challenge of distinguishing the true movement of the Spirit from the wholly human. | Discernment, Clearness, Leadings | ||||||||||||||||||
360 | 314 | Spiritual Hospitality: A Quaker’s Understanding of Hospitality | Gillman, Harvey | 1994 | The author elevates three fundamental principles for outreach: 1) There is something sacred in each person; 2) how we relate to people is what we actually believe about them; and 3) how we treat others is our personal statement about God. | Spirituality, Membership | ||||||||||||||||||
361 | 135 | Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian | Brown, Joseph Epes | 1964 | Written to encourage Native Americans to honor their own religious and traditional values. Selected bibliography included. | Native Americans, Mythology | ||||||||||||||||||
362 | 301 | Spiritual Linkage with Russians: The Story of a Leading | Manousos, Anthony | 1992 | This essay explores the spiritual dimension of a unique Quaker peacemaking project called The Human Experience, an anthology of contemporary poetry and fiction of Russia and the U.S., that was jointly edited and published in both countries. | International Relations, Cold War, Glasnost, Perestroika | ||||||||||||||||||
363 | 436 | Spreading the Fire: Challenging and Encouraging Friends through Travel in Ministry | Humphries, Debbie | 2015 | In earlier times, far-flung Quaker meetings looked for spiritual deepening in the visits of traveling ministers. Debbie Humphries is one present-day Friend who has responded to a call to travel in ministry. In this new pamphlet she describes her preparation to serve this call faithfully and shares what she has learned from her experiences. One of her discoveries is that contemporary Friends derive much enrichment from the real-time, face-to-face worshipful encounters that take place through visiting ministry. | |||||||||||||||||||
364 | 119 | Stand Fast in Liberty | Bristol, James E. | 1961 | Post-McCarthyism, the fear of Communism and hysteria must be met by a program based on what we believe in, a positive approach to the totalitarian threats of the times. | Communism, Free Thought, Liberty, Conscience, Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
365 | 12 | Standard of Living | Young, Mildred Binns | 1941 | The concept of functional poverty suggests that our standard of living causes distress and violence in our world. | Standard of Living, Poverty, Simplicity, Cost | ||||||||||||||||||
366 | 43 | Standards of Success | Havens, Teresina Rowell | 1948 | Some people try to alter conventional patterns of living; the author suggests a new criterion for success and poses questions for discussion. | Success, Values, Wealth, Poverty, Eastern Spirtuality, Judaism, China, Hinduism, Japan, United States, Protestantism, Theology | ||||||||||||||||||
367 | 259 | Stewardship of Wealth | Swayne, Kingdon W. | 1985 | Reflections on the responsibilities of being rich, with a guide to self-assessment. | Wealth, Friends, Ethics | ||||||||||||||||||
368 | 319 | Stories from Kenya | Gates, Tom and Liz | 1995 | Relates stories which arose out of the authors’ experiences of living and working at a Quaker mission hospital in rural western Kenya. | Autobiography, Missionaries, Faith and Practice, Hospital, Doctor | ||||||||||||||||||
369 | 41 | Studies in Christian Enthusiasm: Illustrated from Early Quakerism | Nuttall, Geoffrey Fillingham | 1948 | Enthusiasm meant possession by deity, resulting in prophetic or poetic force. Essays are on moral, didactic, emotional, and spiritual enthusiasm. | Holy Spirit, Quakerism, History, 17th Century | ||||||||||||||||||
370 | 247 | Study of War as a Contribution to Peace | Mendl, Wolf | 1983 | Pacifists should learn to know and understand those with whom they disagree, so that they may be bridge-builders, nudging the world toward abandoning war. | War, Religious Life, Peace | ||||||||||||||||||
371 | 347 | Tall Poppies: Supporting Gifts of Ministry and Eldering in the Monthly Meeting | Grundy, Martha Paxson | 1999 | The pamphlet provides a description of the traditional Quaker understanding of power and spiritual authority, and God’s gifts in relation to them. The author suggests ways that monthly meetings can support and nurture ministry and the individual Friends through whom it comes. | Ministry, Eldering, Gifts, Practice, Gospel Order, Oversight, Discipline, Traveling | ||||||||||||||||||
372 | 253 | Tempted by Happiness: Kazantkakis’ Post-Christian Christ | Bien, Peter | 1984 | The author analyzes Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ using a four-fold scheme devised by the novel’s author, a non-Christian, to explain evolution toward dematerialization. | Nikos Kazantzakis, Bible | ||||||||||||||||||
373 | 58 | Ten Questions on Prayer | Heard, Gerald | 1951 | The whole problem of prayer involves our unavoidable praying for others. | Prayer | ||||||||||||||||||
374 | 255 | Tending the Light | Feagins, Mary E. B. | 1984 | The Inner Light never shines in a vacuum; it cannot function independent of the Word and the Act. | Inward Light, Holy Spirit | ||||||||||||||||||
375 | 296 | Testimony of Integrity in the Religious Society of Friends | Cooper, Wilmer Albert | 1991 | A cogent insightful description of the central testimony among Friends from which all other testimonies evolve. | Testimony, Honesty, Truth | ||||||||||||||||||
376 | 356 | Testimony: John Woolman on Today’s Global Economy | Morse, David E. | 2001 | What would John Woolman do in the face of the current injustices brought on by globalization? This pamphlet provides a creative and provocative response. | Globalization, Economics, John Woolman, World Politics, Testimonies, Slavery, Truth | ||||||||||||||||||
377 | 108 | Therapist’s View of Personal Goals | Rogers, Carl Ransom | 1960 | The questions of life’s goals and purposes viewed by a humanist psychotherapist. | Psychology | ||||||||||||||||||
378 | 329 | There is a Fountain: A Quaker Life in Process | Horn, Helen Steere | 1996 | A life story about renewal, commitment, faith, doubt, success, defeat, and a balance of activism and contemplation. | Autobiography, Horn, Helen Steere, Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
379 | 337 | There is a Spirit: The Nayler Sonnets | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1998 | These sonnets by Kenneth Boulding were first published nearly 50 years ago. Based on the famous last words of James Nayler, one of the early Quakers, the author says these poems were written to express the hope that lies beyond despair. | Literature, Poetry | ||||||||||||||||||
380 | 300 | Therefore Choose Life: The Spiritual Challenge of the Nuclear Age | Tallmadge, John | 1991 | This essay renews the debate about the futility of deterrence in a post-Cold War era by introducing, as a spiritual problem, the idea of nuclear addiction and how to get out of it. | Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
381 | 284 | Thomas R. Kelly as I remember Him | Jones, Thomas Canby | 1988 | The author was influenced in college by Kelly, a philosophy professor transformed into a radiant Christian. | Thomas R. Kelly, Spirituality, Devotion | ||||||||||||||||||
382 | 127 | Thou Dost Open Up My Life: Selections from the Rufus Jones Collection | Jones, Rufus Matthew | 1963 | Readings chosen from this well-known Quaker’s writings by his daughter, Mary Hoxie Jones. The Rufus Jones collection is housed in the Haverford College Library. | Jones, T. Canby, Jones, Rufus, Religious Society of Friends, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
383 | 265 | Thoughts are Free: A Quaker Youth Group in Nazi Germany | Halle, Anna Sabine | 1985 | The Quaker tradition is bound up with religious belief and political action, and the author shows how these were expressed in the Nazi regime. | History, Germany, Church and State | ||||||||||||||||||
384 | 139 | Three Letters from Africa | Brookes, Edgar Harry | 1965 | These deeply Christian letters discuss racial and social injustices and conflicts in South Africa. This is introduced by Douglas Steere with a forward by Alan Paton. | Segregation, South Africa, Race Relations | ||||||||||||||||||
385 | 401 | Three Ravens and Two Widows | Kelly, Richard Macy | 2009 | Using the metaphor of the ancient ballad, The Three Ravens, Richard Kelly invites us to explore how history and family traditions may limit our understanding of Truth or give us the strength and vision to see new possibilities in times when disagreements trouble our communities. | Biography, Family Life, Conflict Resolution, History | ||||||||||||||||||
386 | 254 | To Martin Luther King with Love: A Southern Quaker’s Tribute | Pitre, David Wayne | 1984 | Reflects the author’s years of appreciation of the writing and faith of a Christian practicing nonviolent change and unconditional love. | Martin Luther King, Nonviolence | ||||||||||||||||||
387 | 289 | To Meet at the Source: Hindus & Quakers | Dart, Martha | 1989 | Similarities may be found in Hindu and Quaker thought in many areas that transcend language, such as pure principle, the light, unity, silence, simplicity, and guidance. | Doctrine, Hinduism | ||||||||||||||||||
388 | 101 | To the Refreshing of the Children of Light | Nuttall, Geoffrey Fillingham | 1959 | An English Congregational minister sends an Open Letter to Friends. | Friends, Doctrine | ||||||||||||||||||
389 | 4 | Totalitarian Claim of the Gospels | Willson, Dora | 1939 | When reading Jesus’s teachings, one should clear the mind of preconceptions and the interpretations of modern psychologies, then concentrate on the Gospels’ application to practical living. | Bible, Gospels, Criticism | ||||||||||||||||||
390 | 338 | Touched by God in Quaker Meeting | Carroll, Kenneth Lane | 1998 | The author maintains that it is part of the spiritual experience of Friends that we, both individually and collectively, have found inspiration and guidance coming to us through our meetings for worship. Drawing upon his experience and discovery, he shares accounts of some of the meetings for worship where Friends were truly touched by God. | Faith and Practice | ||||||||||||||||||
391 | 56 | Toward Pacifism: The Convincement and Commitment of a Young European | Sundberg, Gunnar | 1950 | “Is pacifism on the way out?” queries a Swede who saw some military service, took part in international work camps, lived in Germany for a while, then became a dedicated pacifist. His answer is no, it isn’t. | Pacifism, Peace, War | ||||||||||||||||||
392 | 80 | Toward Political Responsibility | Hinshaw, Cecil Eugene | 1954 | How does man relate to the political structure of the world? | Politics | ||||||||||||||||||
393 | 62 | Toward Undiscovered Ends | Brinton, Anna Cox | 1951 | An exploration of why Russia has aroused the interest of Friends for three centuries. | Russia, Quakerism, Peace, Convincement | ||||||||||||||||||
394 | 324 | Traveling In | Steere, Douglas Van | 1995 | “I am going to speak about ‘traveling in’ and about my own personal journey. I haven’t done that on any other occasion in quite so full a way as I’m going to do here this morning.” So begins this essay, a treasure from one of Quakerism’s most thoughtful writers. | Autobiography, Religion, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
395 | 346 | Treasure in Clay Jars | Sutton, Elizabeth Ostrander | 1999 | The author rediscovered a powerful sense of God calling her to a more real spiritual life through her artistic work with clay in the Pendle Hill studio. Photographs and devotions record that experience. | Clay, Ceramics, Scholarships, Spirituality, Earthen Vessels | ||||||||||||||||||
396 | 213 | Triple Way: Purgation, Illumination, Union | Peck, George Terhune | 1977 | The nature of mysticism is here explored through a three-level process. | Mysticism | ||||||||||||||||||
397 | 387 | Turnaround: Growing a Twenty-First Century Religious Society of Friends | Lloyd, Benjamin | 2006 | In this essay the author presents his own creative ideas and encouragement for a reinvigoration of our meeting communities. Which of our traditions and practices should we renew? And where are the places where continuing revelation calls us to be open to the winds of change that will come with the next generation of Quaker leaders? | Faith and Practice, Religious Life, Leadership, Meetings, Religious Society of Friends, Communities | ||||||||||||||||||
398 | 393 | Turned in the Hand of God | Back, Lyndon S. | 2007 | Rebecca Janney Timbres Clark led a remarkable life that spanned all of the twentieth century. This pamphlet explores one year in that life, the year when a young, sheltered Quaker from Baltimore took the first steps toward a career of service that would take her around the world. | Biography, American Friends Service Committee | ||||||||||||||||||
399 | 240 | Two Moral Essays: Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations, and Human Personality | Weil, Simone | 1981 | Positive morality rests on a foundation of faith. What is the nature of that faith, and what are its logical consequences? | Morality, Simone Weil | ||||||||||||||||||
400 | 112 | Two Trends in Modern Quaker Thought: A Statement | Fowler, Albert Vann | 1961 | A discussion of universalism and particularism in Quakerism. | Universalism, Christianity | ||||||||||||||||||
401 | 325 | Unconscious | Murphy, Robert Cushman | 1996 | A doctor shares his career as physician/psychiatrist and his wisdom on how the unconscious works to fulfill longings leading to greater health for those who are able to trust the Guide. | Psychology, Religion, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
402 | 309 | Universalism and Spirituality | Hetherington, Ralph | 1993 | Bringing together material from a number of previous articles, this essay explores the nature of spirituality and its relation to universalism, with particular attention to the question of commitment to a particular religious tradition. | Spirituality, Universalism | ||||||||||||||||||
403 | 143 | Unless One is Born Anew | Hutchinson, Dorothy Hewitt | 1965 | The greatest challenges to face mankind are securing peace, freedom, and bread. Individual renewal through the Seed and the Spirit will help us address them. | Religious Society of Friends | ||||||||||||||||||
404 | 83 | Use of Silence | Hoyland, Geoffrey | 1955 | The author believes that the gateway to the Sanctuary of Silence lies open to every man and woman. | Silence | ||||||||||||||||||
405 | 184 | Valley of the Shadow | Murphy, Carol R. | 1972 | Reflections on the ultimate problem of death and its meaning. | Death | ||||||||||||||||||
406 | 3 | Value of Voluntary Simplicity | Gregg, Richard Bartlett | 1936 | Voluntary simplicity involves inner and outer conditions, such as intentional organization of life for a purpose. | Simplicity | ||||||||||||||||||
407 | 380 | Very Good Week Behind Bars | Ravndal, Janeal Turnbull | 2005 | In this essay, Janeal Ravndal writes of her week in Philadelphia’s Federal Detention Center after she chose to ignore orders not to block entry to a courthouse as the U.S. began to attack Iraq early in 2003. | Civil Disobedience, Prayer, Prison | ||||||||||||||||||
408 | 178 | Violence or Aggressive Nonviolent Resistance? | Moulton, Phillips P. | 1971 | Urgently needed is a large scale program of research and planning for genuine alternatives to military defense. This would bring new insight and energy to nonviolent resistance. | Violence, Passive Resistance | ||||||||||||||||||
409 | 118 | Visible Witness: A Testimony for Radical Peace Action | Young, Wilmer J. | 1961 | Jailed as a protester against war, the author reflects on his 70 years outside prison. | Pacifism, Conscientious Objection | ||||||||||||||||||
410 | 299 | Vistas from Inner Stillness | Walker, Richard L. | 1991 | A naturalist and astronomer writes of a knowing of God that comes from his mystical experiences of nature. | Mysticism | ||||||||||||||||||
411 | 420 | Waging Peace: Discipline and Practice | Haines, Pamela | 2012 | The author offers readers ways to become “nonviolent warriors” through practices that show us how to hope, grieve, listen, welcome conflict, mend, speak truth, and cultivate courage. | Peacemaking, Nonviolence, Social Action | ||||||||||||||||||
412 | 333 | Walk With Me: Nonviolent Accompaniment in Guatemala | Morton, Peg | 1997 | The author learned about the destruction in Central America being caused with the support, training, and participation of the U.S. government-- she learned of the holocaust which had taken place in Guatemala. After that Central America unveiling, way opened for her to give up her counseling career and to return to fulltime volunteer activism. | Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
413 | 147 | Walls | Reuman, Robert Everett | 1966 | The author considers the nature of the barriers that separate people everywhere. | Communication | ||||||||||||||||||
414 | 395 | Walt Whitman’s Spiritual Epic | Robertson, Michael | 2008 | With particular attention to the perspectives of Friends, Michael Robertson walks the reader through Song of Myself, noting its beauties, its challenges, and its deep inspiration. | Poetry, Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
415 | 15 | War is the Enemy | Muste, Abraham Johannes | 1942 | Nonviolence, pacifism, and non-pacifism are discussed as in a search for the truth rather than as philosophical adversaries. | Pacifism | ||||||||||||||||||
416 | 171 | War Resistance in Historical Perspective | Gara, Larry | 1970 | A professor of history who was a draft resister in World War II reviews religious objection to war, war resistance as a phase of reform, and conscription since 1757 in America. | Conscientious Objection | ||||||||||||||||||
417 | 286 | War Taxes: Experiences of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Quakers through the American Revolution | Crauderueff, Elaine J. | 1989 | A historical view of Friends testimony on paying war taxes. | War, Taxation, Government | ||||||||||||||||||
418 | 106 | Way of Man According to the Teachings of Hasidism | Buber, Martin | The world famous philosopher of I and Thou writes on Hasidism, a popular Jewish mystical movement. | Hasidism, Judaism | |||||||||||||||||||
419 | 260 | Way of the Cross: The Gospel Record | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1985 | A long-time teacher of the Gospels sees the heart of their message as a center that is everywhere – inclusive, yet highly individual. | Bible, Gospels | ||||||||||||||||||
420 | 24 | We Are Accountable: a View of Mental Institutions | Edelstein, Leonard Gerald | 1945 | A member of a Civilian Public Service unit in a mental hospital during World War II describes the neglect, mistreatment, and brutality accorded patients, with a brief appeal to religious groups to change these conditions. | Mental Institutions, Reform, Civilian Public Service | ||||||||||||||||||
421 | 145 | What Doth the Lord Require of Thee? | Young, Mildred Binns | 1966 | What does the Biblical injunction to do justly and to love mercy require of modern man? | Inward Light | ||||||||||||||||||
422 | 277 | What is Quakerism? A Primer | Peck, George Terhune | 1988 | A book for beginners on understanding the tenets of the Society of Friends. | Friends | ||||||||||||||||||
423 | 429 | What We Stand On | Christiansen, Paul | 2014 | The author calls Quakers to account for how well we face the seeds of war within our own live, and why we should have hope and courage as a people who can light the way to peace in our world. | War, Testimony | ||||||||||||||||||
424 | 258 | When Silence Becomes Singing: A Study in Perception | Kylin, Helen | 1984 | Metaphors and parables can become truths with the power to transform everyday lives, connecting events to a deep place within us and also to God. | Philosophy, Perception, Parables | ||||||||||||||||||
425 | 409 | Who Do You Say I Am? | Wilson, Lloyd Lee | 2010 | This pamphlet invites readers to meet Jesus as Lloyd Lee has come to know Him and to further explore for themselves, “Who do you say I am?” | Jesus | ||||||||||||||||||
426 | 217 | Wholesight: The Spirit Quest | Parker-Rhodes, Arthur Frederick | 1978 | Wholesight here means finding coherence among religion, science, art, and politics. | Spirituality, Science, Religion, Politics, Art and Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
427 | 164 | Why a Friends School? | Heath, Douglas H. | 1969 | Youth and society need the insights and vision of Quakerism and similar traditions in order to witness forcefully and creatively about how to live as a full human being. | Education, Youth, Tradition | ||||||||||||||||||
428 | 38 | Wide Horizon | Brinton, Anna Cox | 1947 | Fourth in a series on relationships; a view of the world as unified, with each person taking a responsibility. | Relationships, Community, Responsibility | ||||||||||||||||||
429 | 204 | William Penn, 17th Century Founding Father: Selections from His Political Writings | Bronner, Edwin B. | 1975 | Selections from Penn’s writings on liberty of conscience, the nature of government, peace in Europe, titles, imperial states, and a plan for the union of the American colonies. | Penn, William, Politics, Holy Experiment, Freedom, Liberty, Philadelphia, History | ||||||||||||||||||
430 | 167 | William Penn: Mystic, as Reflected in his Writings | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1969 | Well-known aspects of this famous Quaker, such as his championship of religious liberty and city planning, are contrasted with his deep mystical faith. | Penn, William, Mysticism | ||||||||||||||||||
431 | 30 | William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown, abridged by Anna Brinton | Penn, William | 1944 | Penn’s view of conducting one’s life in obedience to God. A companion to Barclay in Brief and Penington’s The Inward Journey. | Penn, William, Beliefs and Testimonies | ||||||||||||||||||
432 | 146 | Wit and Wisdom of William Bacon Evans | Brinton, Anna Cox | 1966 | Stories, anecdotes, letters, bird songs, and sonnets are linked with a thread of biographical narrative about this distinctive Philadelphia Friend. | William Bacon Evans, Humor, Biography | ||||||||||||||||||
433 | 228 | With Thine Adversary in the Way: A Quaker Witness | Lachmund, Margarethe | 1979 | A German Quaker writes simply of her life under Hitler’s regime and during the Russian occupation of East Germany, a life full of meaning and peacemaking. | Nonviolence, Morality, Religious | ||||||||||||||||||
434 | 311 | Without Nightfall upon the Spirit | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1993 | Reflections on aging, including its physical, spiritual, and religious effects, by an 83-year-old author. | Aging | ||||||||||||||||||
435 | 196 | Women and Quakerism | Luder, Hope Elizabeth | 1974 | The lives and achievements of some remarkable women provide striking examples of the importance of environment in encouraging or discouraging individual achievement. | Women, Religion | ||||||||||||||||||
436 | 227 | Women Ministers: A Quaker Contribution | Leach, Robert J. | 1979 | The work and influence of more than a dozen women, beginning with Margaret Fell, in the unprogrammed tradition of Quakerism. | Women, Clergy | ||||||||||||||||||
437 | 294 | Women of Power and Presence: The Spiritual Formation of Four Quaker Women Ministers | Graham, Maureen | 1990 | A feminist studies the lives of Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Fry, Rachel Hicks, and Rebecca Jones to discover how God moved in their lives. | Women, Feminism, Elizabeth Fry, Rachel Hicks, Rebecca Jones, Lucretia Mott | ||||||||||||||||||
438 | 177 | Woolman and Blake: Prophets for Today | Young, Mildred Binns | 1971 | An imaginary encounter between two men who share insights and mercy. | Woolman, John, Blake, William, Mysticism, Quietism, Faith, Social Concerns | ||||||||||||||||||
439 | 186 | Words & Testimonies: The Carey Memorial Lecture, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 1971 | Silcock, Thomas Henry | 1972 | A review of the principles and special ethics of the Society of Friends. | Ethics | ||||||||||||||||||
440 | 303 | Words, Wordlessness, and the Word: Silence Reconsidered from a Literary Point of View | Bien, Peter | 1992 | A literary scholar considers the paradoxical relationship of silence and words in Quaker worship, drawing on the work of E. M. Forster, Samuel Beckett, and classical Greek writers for insight. | Bible, Literature, Logos | ||||||||||||||||||
441 | 66 | World in Tune | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1952 | Various prayers as interpreted by this Quaker witness. | Prayer | ||||||||||||||||||
442 | 13 | World Task of Pacifism | Muste, Abraham John | 1941 | Religious pacifism as it affects social change is addressed in relation to nonviolence, pacifist relief work, pacifist strategies, and alternative service. | Pacifism, Nonviolence, Conscientious Objection | ||||||||||||||||||
443 | 51 | Worship | Woolman, John | 1950 | Excerpts from this influential Quaker’s writings, edited by Herrymon Maurer. | Worship, Ministry, Quietism, Truth | ||||||||||||||||||
444 | 302 | Zen Buddhist Encounters Quakerism | Tamura, Teruyasu | 1992 | A Zen Buddhist professor contrasts meditation with Quaker worship. | Buddhism, Religion, Eastern Spirituality | ||||||||||||||||||
445 | 45 | Zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Fragen zur Verständigung und Versöhnung | Sollmann, Wilhelm | 1948 | This essay offers a contribution to a democratic way of living (in German). | Democracy |
1 | [Ctrl] F / [Command] F to search | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | PHP | Title | Author | Date | Description | Subjects |
3 | 323 | An Experiment in Faith: Quaker Women Transcending Differences | Abbott, Margery Post | 1995 | Tells of the author’s journey of discovering Evangelical Friends. In the process she comes to terms with a fuller understanding of Quakerism as experienced by others and experiences God’s presence, opening her to unexpected depths in her own faith. | Evangelical Quakerism, Ecumenism, Spirituality |
4 | 375 | Quaker Views on Mysticism | Abbott, Margery Post | 2004 | This pamphlet considers how Friends today recognize and respond to the guidance of the Inward Light of Christ. It describes varying Quaker views on mysticism and the mystical, touching upon the need to continually test leadings in the silence of Quaker worship and in the arms of Quaker community. | Mysticism, Worship, Leadings |
5 | 402 | Christianity and the Inner Life | Abbott, Margery Post | 2009 | In her explorations of the writings of early Friends, Marge Abbott has discovered her own approach to Christian perspectives, one that speaks specifically to her experiences of the Divine Light. She finds inspiration and fellowship with early and modern Friends for whom Christ is central, without excluding the inspiration of other religious traditions. | Christianity, Inward Light, Spirituality |
6 | 207 | Quaker Looks at Yoga | Ackerman, Dorothy | 1976 | Combining Quaker beliefs and experience with Yogic wisdom, the author shares centering devices, adaptations for spiritual practice, and special techniques for concentration, spiritual and artistic resources as ways to enrichment. | Yoga |
7 | 243 | Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker | Adede, Rose | 1982 | A biographical study of her grandfather from interviews, letters, speeches, and sermons. | Biography, Joel Litu, Quakerism, Africa |
8 | 31 | Quakerism and India | Alexander, Horace Gundry | 1945 | An appraisal of the work of the Friends Foreign Mission Association and the Friends Ambulance Unit in India over 80 years. | India, Foreign Missions, Service Work |
9 | 74 | Everyman’s Struggle for Peace | Alexander, Horace Gundry | 1953 | A very brief survey of Gandhi’s involvement in the drive for Indian independence based on his religious principles of soul-force and self-rule. The author lived in India for 10 years and knew Gandhi. | Gandhi, Peace, Social Concerns |
10 | 165 | Gandhi Remembered | Alexander, Horace Gundry | 1969 | A very brief survey of Gandhi’s involvement in the drive for Indian independence based on his religious principles of soul-force and self-rule. The author lived in India for 10 years and knew Gandhi. | Gandhi, Nonviolence, Liberation |
11 | 271 | Practicing Compassion for the Stranger | Alexander, Nancy C. | 1987 | Steps in practicing compassion toward those we do not know well are described and encouraged. | Sympathy, Compassion |
12 | 425 | Light Within: Then and Now | Ambler, Rex | 2013 | The author explores how early Friends thought about and engaged with the Light in ways that have mostly been lost to Friends today. | Inward Light, Early Friends |
13 | 352 | Navigating the Living Waters of the Gospel of John: On Wading with Children and Swimming with Elephants | Anderson, Paul N. | 2000 | A Quaker theologian introduces major themes in the gospel of John for newcomers to the Bible as well as for serious biblical scholars. | Gospel of John, New Testament, Bible, Jesus, Witness, Signs, Beliefs, Salvation |
14 | 157 | Facing and Fulfilling the Later Years | Andrews, Elsie Marion | 1968 | Creativity, travel, the interests of the mind in the world at large, and the fluid expression of personality are positive aspects of aging today. | Aging, Creativity |
15 | 393 | Turned in the Hand of God | Back, Lyndon S. | 2007 | Rebecca Janney Timbres Clark led a remarkable life that spanned all of the twentieth century. This pamphlet explores one year in that life, the year when a young, sheltered Quaker from Baltimore took the first steps toward a career of service that would take her around the world. | Biography, American Friends Service Committee |
16 | 355 | In Beauty: A Quaker Approach to End-of-Life Care | Backstrom, Kirsten | 2001 | This author shares the story of experiences in her monthly meeting to illustrate how our dying can be as fully centered in God as our living. | Death, Hospice Care, Cancer, Beauty, Harmony, Simplicity, Integrity, Listening, Wholeness |
17 | 376 | Henry J Cadbury: Scholar, Activist, Disciple | Bacon, Margaret Hope | 2005 | Henry Joel Cadbury was widely acknowledged as an author and as a biblical scholar and translator of the highest order; a professor who challenged students’ thinking in the halls of Harvard Divinity School, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr Colleges, as well as Pendle Hill; and the consummate Quaker activist. | Cadbury, Henry Joel, Biography |
18 | 206 | Margaret Fell Speaking | Barbour, Hugh | 1976 | Excerpts from the writings of the Mother of Quakerism, later the wife of George Fox. | Women, Religious Society of Friends, 17th Century, History |
19 | 226 | Homosexuality and the Bible: An Interpretation | Barnett, Walter | 1979 | Old and New Testament citations pertaining to homosexuality and an insightful interpretation of them by a Quaker lawyer. | Homosexuality, Bible |
20 | 273 | Abraham Lincoln and the Quakers | Bassuk, Daniel Eliot | 1987 | A record of all the known stories of Lincoln and the Society of Friends, with some reflective comments by a Quaker professor of religious studies. | Abraham Lincoln |
21 | 233 | Friends and the World of Nature | Benfey, Otto Theodor | 1980 | Can we forge a new link between the insights of science and the deeper prompting of the human spirit through a rebirth of love for matter? A meditation on our manifold relations with nature. | Nature, Christianity, History |
22 | 36 | Martha and Mary: a Woman’s Relationship to her Home | Benton, Josephine Moffett | 1947 | Using the Biblical story, the author finds family life, marriage, and work make a home the right and natural place in which to begin to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. | Home, Marriage, Family Life, Bible |
23 | 218 | Another Way to Live: Experiencing Intentional Community | Best, James S. | 1978 | A community is both a means and a goal; living in one is a sharing, a vision, an experiment, and a fulfillment. | Communal Living, Pennsylvania |
24 | 331 | Communion for a Quaker | Bieber, Nancy | 1997 | In the words of the author, “This is the story of a journey in search of the sacrament of communion... as I ask my questions, and find, not only answers, but also a challenge for all of us, the challenge of daily sacramental living.” | Faith and Practice, Liturgy, Sacrament |
25 | 253 | Tempted by Happiness: Kazantkakis’ Post-Christian Christ | Bien, Peter | 1984 | The author analyzes Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ using a four-fold scheme devised by the novel’s author, a non-Christian, to explain evolution toward dematerialization. | Nikos Kazantzakis, Bible |
26 | 303 | Words, Wordlessness, and the Word: Silence Reconsidered from a Literary Point of View | Bien, Peter | 1992 | A literary scholar considers the paradoxical relationship of silence and words in Quaker worship, drawing on the work of E. M. Forster, Samuel Beckett, and classical Greek writers for insight. | Bible, Literature, Logos |
27 | 368 | On Retiring to Kendal (and Beyond): A Literary Excursion | Bien, Peter | 2003 | The author employs poetry and literature to reflect on the meaning of retirement and whether death is an unmitigated calamity. He concludes it is not better to live forever, and that strangely, death enhances life, rather than negating it. | Retirement, Literature, Poetry |
28 | 384 | Mystery of Quaker Light | Bien, Peter | 2006 | What has Light meant to different people throughout the ages? How did various ideas about Light influence the prologue to John’s Gospel? What did early Friends understand Light to mean? In this pamphlet, Peter Bien explores the theology and poetry of Friends’ favorite religious symbol. | Bible, Inward Light, History, Theology |
29 | 332 | Burning One-ness Binding Everything: A Spiritual Journey | Birchard, Bruce | 1997 | The author recounts his spiritual journey: experiences of the Spirit through beauty, love, and worship, as well as reflections on how he understands the nature of the Spirit. He is especially concerned about the transcendent and immanent qualities of the Spirit, the relation of the Spirit to suffering and evil, and the significance of the creation as the incarnation of the Spirit. | Religion |
30 | 442 | Meeting at the Center: Living Love and Reconciling One with Another | Birchard, Bruce | 2016 | Expanding on his plenary address at the 2011 Friends General Conference Gathering, Bruce Birchard describes the work of reconciliation on three levels: between his gay brother and traditional father, among three branches of the Religious Society of Friends, and in two African nations torn apart by genocidal conflict. He shares how he reexamined his thinking about the roles of activist and reconciler and about God as a noun and a verb. Discussion questions included. | |
31 | 398 | Messenger That Goes Before: Reading Margaret Fell for Spiritual Nurture | Birkel, Michael | 2008 | Michael Birkel has discovered in the letters of Margaret Fell, one of the founding members of the Religious Society of Friends, a treasure trove of wise and loving counsel for those on the spiritual journey. | Biography, History |
32 | 438 | A Seal Upon the Heart: Quaker Readings in the Song of Songs | Birkel, Michael | 2016 | The Song of Songs stands as unique among the books of the Bible. This collection of love lyrics, candid in their sensuality and profoundly poetic in their imagery, has attracted lovers of God across the centuries.” Michael Birkel celebrates the poetry of love and the allegory of spiritual intimacy found in this anomalous book. He explores early Friends’ use of its imagery to express their longing for union with the Divine Spirit, their joy in communal worship, and a tenderness to all people in language that remains vivid and moving today. Discussion questions included. | |
33 | 406 | Mind of Christ: Bill Taber on Meeting for Business | Birkel, Michael | 2010 | Bill Taber addressed the rewards and challenges of Quaker business process in a number of presentations to Friends groups. Michael Birkel has edited Bill’s notes for these talks into an essay on how Friends can carry into business meeting the practices and attitudes that open the way to Spirit-led decisions in our communities. | Meeting for Business, Right Order, Unity, Clearness |
34 | 128 | Encounters with Art | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1963 | What is great art? What can art do for us? How do we communicate with art? An expression of the author’s interest in art, as well as the Jungian concept of growth and spiritual life. | Art and Religion, Jung |
35 | 148 | Prophetic Element in Modern Art | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1966 | The author finds accelerating promise for the future in the visual language of prophetic art in the last 150 years. | Art and Religion, Psychology, Society |
36 | 183 | Art and the Changing World: Uncommon Sense in the 20th Century | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1972 | A discussion of the reality of myth, the art of Africa, India, China, and Japan, and growth processes in our changing world. | Art and Religion, 20th Century |
37 | 197 | Art Responds to the Bible | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1974 | The author-artist uses myths, art as a language of spirit, images of transformation from the Gospels, and 20th century experiential religious art as generative ways of seeing and of relating to life. | Bible, Illustrations, Art and Religion |
38 | 215 | Art, Imagery, and the Mythic Process | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1977 | Using mythologies of various cultures, the artist reveals processes of creativity. | Art and Religion, Mythology, Psychology, Creativity |
39 | 232 | Life Journey of a Quaker Artist | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1980 | Teacher, writer, artist – the author sees art as a link between inner and outer worlds. | Art and Religion, Biography |
40 | 125 | Children and Solitude | Boulding, Elise | 1964 | Is it possible to drown children in a constant flow of stimuli, allowing no time for inward growth? | Solitude, Family Life, Children |
41 | 200 | Born Remembering | Boulding, Elise | 1975 | One can weave the golden threads of solitude into the warp and woof of family and community living. | Solitude |
42 | 222 | Family as a Way into the Future | Boulding, Elise | 1978 | What discoveries lie before us about the family, the oldest and longest continuing human experience? | Family Life |
43 | 374 | Practice of the Love of God | Boulding, Kenneth | 2004 | The author urges us to explore love unlimited by time or place – love in our families, with our neighbors, and in our meetings and churches, all possible through our love for God. He concludes with his vision for the world and his assurance that there is no room for despair, that God is always redeeming the world. | Love, God, Family Life |
44 | 17 | New Nations for Old | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1942 | These plans for the abolition of war were written by an economist-pacifist during World War II. The author looks toward the necessary process of the redemption of nationalism. | War, Peace |
45 | 136 | Evolutionary Potential of Quakerism | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1964 | An economist sees Quakerism as an evolutionary mutation from the main line of Christian development. He suggests that the next stage in its development is intellectual. | History, Intellectualism |
46 | 266 | Mending the World: Quaker Insights on the Social Order | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1986 | Learning is the key to mending the world, but it must rest on the development of a more conscious process towards human betterment: a new discipline. | World Politics |
47 | 337 | There is a Spirit: The Nayler Sonnets | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1998 | These sonnets by Kenneth Boulding were first published nearly 50 years ago. Based on the famous last words of James Nayler, one of the early Quakers, the author says these poems were written to express the hope that lies beyond despair. | Literature, Poetry |
48 | 153 | Mayer/Boulding Dialogue on Peace Research | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart and Milton Mayer | 1967 | An economist and an educator, both Quakers, debate the value of studying psychology, sociology, political science, economics, and international law as ways to peace. | Peace |
49 | 38 | Wide Horizon | Brinton, Anna Cox | 1947 | Fourth in a series on relationships; a view of the world as unified, with each person taking a responsibility. | Relationships, Community, Responsibility |
50 | 62 | Toward Undiscovered Ends | Brinton, Anna Cox | 1951 | An exploration of why Russia has aroused the interest of Friends for three centuries. | Russia, Quakerism, Peace, Convincement |
51 | 146 | Wit and Wisdom of William Bacon Evans | Brinton, Anna Cox | 1966 | Stories, anecdotes, letters, bird songs, and sonnets are linked with a thread of biographical narrative about this distinctive Philadelphia Friend. | William Bacon Evans, Humor, Biography |
52 | 2 | Religious Solution to the Social Problem | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1934 | A solution to the social problem of excessive individualism will be a religious one which still respects the rights of the individual. | Simplicity |
53 | 9 | Quaker Education in Theory and Practice (Chapter two reprinted as The Nature of Quakerism) | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1940 | The author outlines the aims of education, the nature of Quakerism, and Quaker education, giving references for further study. | Education |
54 | 20 | Guide to Quaker Practice | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1943 | The author interprets the practices of the Society of Friends in his time. Revised editions released in 1950, 1993, 2006 | Friends, Government, Community, Doctrine |
55 | 27 | Sources of the Quaker Peace Testimony | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1942 | Friends’ social testimonies form a unit derived from a common source: the direct insight of the soul into the nature of Truth and Goodness, interpreted through Divine Light. | Peace, Pacifism |
56 | 44 | Quaker Doctrine of Inward Peace | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1948 | Outside pressures can be met by increasing inner dimensions, inner resources, inner strength, and stability. | Peace of Mind, Centering |
57 | 47 | Nature of Quakerism | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1949 | Discusses primary, secondary, and tertiary Quaker doctrines. A revised edition of the second chapter of pamphlet number nine. | Quakerism, Doctrine, Practice, Belief, Education |
58 | 48 | Society of Friends | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1949 | Explains the distinguishing principles of Quakerism. Reprinted from Religion in the 20th Century, edited by Vergilius Fern. | Quakerism, Doctrine |
59 | 54 | Prophetic Ministry | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1950 | The basis of Quaker ministry is the prophetic insight arising out of silence and delivered in brevity. | Prophecy, Christianity |
60 | 55 | Pendle Hill Idea: A Quaker Experiment in Work, Worship, and Study | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1950 | By fusing of the divine, the liberal, the useful, and the spiritual, the community of Pendle Hill was founded in 1930. | Community, Pendle Hill |
61 | 65 | Reaching Decisions: The Quaker Method | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1952 | Explains how the Society of Friends answers the question, “How can a free fellowship based on Divine guidance from within set up any form of church government providing direction from without?” | Government, Sense of the Meeting |
62 | 93 | Quakerism and Other Religions | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1957 | Meeting points and differences between Quakerism and the major religions of China, India, and Japan. | Eastern Spirituality, India, China, Japan, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto |
63 | 114 | How They Became Friends | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1961 | The nature and development of early Quakerism, with some reflections on the Society of Friends in America. | Membership, Convincement |
64 | 156 | Ethical Mysticism in the Society of Friends | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1967 | The author sees ethical mysticism as a process of withdrawing from the world and returning to it. | Mysticism, Ethics, Devotion |
65 | 161 | Religion of George Fox | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1968 | The author is concerned with George Fox’s inner sources for outward action as revealed by his Epistles rather than his advice to early Friends on dress, speech, and behavior. | Fox, George, Spirituality, Epistles, Spirituality, Holy Spirit |
66 | 173 | Evolution and the Inward Light | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1970 | The author reflects on the teachings of Rufus Jones and Josiah Royce, as well as the philosophies of idealism, pragmatism, and existentialism. | Doctrine, Logos, Evolution |
67 | 179 | Light and Life in the Fourth Gospel | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1971 | The philosophy and psychology of early Quakerism as derived by John’s Gospel. | Gospel of John, Bible, New Testament, Criticism, Doctrine, Controversy |
68 | 185 | Meeting House & Farm House | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1972 | Daily life during the first 100 years of Pennsylvania Quakers, with many quotations from monthly meeting minute books of that time. | Meeting Houses |
69 | 76 | McCarthyism: The Seed is in Us | Bristol, James E | 1954 | Deals not only with McCarthyism, but the whole repressive trend characterizing American life, and urges resisting every outreach of tyranny as the early Quakers did. | Communism, McCarthy, Joseph, Red Scare, Repression, Un-American Activities |
70 | 119 | Stand Fast in Liberty | Bristol, James E. | 1961 | Post-McCarthyism, the fear of Communism and hysteria must be met by a program based on what we believe in, a positive approach to the totalitarian threats of the times. | Communism, Free Thought, Liberty, Conscience, Social Concerns |
71 | 152 | Quakerism and Christianity | Bronner, Edwin B. | 1967 | The author addresses the question of what it means to be a Quaker today and considers Quakerism to be the third strand of Christianity (the other two being Catholicism and Protestantism). | Doctrine |
72 | 204 | William Penn, 17th Century Founding Father: Selections from His Political Writings | Bronner, Edwin B. | 1975 | Selections from Penn’s writings on liberty of conscience, the nature of government, peace in Europe, titles, imperial states, and a plan for the union of the American colonies. | Penn, William, Politics, Holy Experiment, Freedom, Liberty, Philadelphia, History |
73 | 139 | Three Letters from Africa | Brookes, Edgar Harry | 1965 | These deeply Christian letters discuss racial and social injustices and conflicts in South Africa. This is introduced by Douglas Steere with a forward by Alan Paton. | Segregation, South Africa, Race Relations |
74 | 159 | America in Travail | Brookes, Edgar Harry | 1968 | A South African visitor to America sees campus unrest and the Black Power Movement as the greatest challenges here in 1968. | Social Concerns |
75 | 77 | Poets Walk In | Broomell, Anna Frances Thompson Pettit | 1954 | Through poetry a group of people share experience, delight, sorrow, searching, and understanding, thus reaching a truer sense of poetry itself and of community. | Poetry, Pennsylvania |
76 | 135 | Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian | Brown, Joseph Epes | 1964 | Written to encourage Native Americans to honor their own religious and traditional values. Selected bibliography included. | Native Americans, Mythology |
77 | 336 | God’s Spirit in Nature | Brown, Judith Reynolds | 1998 | The author gives us moving meditation on the metaphysical sense of the Earth as the body of God. The writing was inspired by her experiences in a 1995 Pendle Hill course, Global Spirituality and Earth Ethics. | Social Concerns |
78 | 81 | Personal Relevance of Truth | Brown, Thomas Shipley | 1955 | Truth is a life-giving relationship to Reality, and the search for Truth is the search for life itself, asserts this Quaker educator. | Truth, Integrity |
79 | 386 | Mindful Quaker | Brown, Valerie | 2006 | Valerie Brown, who is both a Quaker and a Buddhist, explores the gifts that Buddhism has to offer Friends in our search for unity with the Divine Ground, for clarity in our worship, and for equanimity in our lives. | Buddhism, Quakerism |
80 | 407 | Living from the Center: Mindfulness Meditation and Centering for Friends | Brown, Valerie | 2010 | Valerie Brown is a teacher of centering practices, a Buddhist, and an active Friend. Drawing upon her own experiences and wide studies, Valerie Brown describes for Friends how these various traditions can offer us a better understanding and preparedness for our precious, elusive, mysterious, and simple practice of centering into worship. | Buddhism, Meditation, Worship |
81 | 421 | Heartfulness: Renewing Heart, Mind, and Spirit on Retreat and Beyond | Brown, Valerie | 2013 | The author guides readers toward renewal of mind, heart, and spirit by encouraging them to take time away from the busyness of their lives through retreat. | Spiritualitt, Retreats |
82 | 231 | Quaker Testimonies & Economic Alternatives | Bruyn, Severyn T. | 1980 | The Society of Friends seek a third way toward economic choices compatible with religious principles. | Economics, Religion, Third Way, Capitalism, Socialism |
83 | 106 | Way of Man According to the Teachings of Hasidism | Buber, Martin | The world famous philosopher of I and Thou writes on Hasidism, a popular Jewish mystical movement. | Hasidism, Judaism | |
84 | 103 | Character of a Quaker | Cadbury, Henry Joel | 1959 | The successive criteria for describing a Quaker that have emerged throughout the Society of Friends’ history. | Doctrine, History |
85 | 133 | Eclipse of the Historical Jesus | Cadbury, Henry Joel | 1964 | A Quaker religious philosopher summarizes scholarly thinking about the identity of Jesus Christ. | Jesus, Historicity |
86 | 160 | Behind the Gospels | Cadbury, Henry Joel | 1968 | A study of the origin of the Gospels covering historical sequence, order of origin, relative historical value, authorship, and other insights. | Bible, New Testament, Gospels, Criticism |
87 | 338 | Touched by God in Quaker Meeting | Carroll, Kenneth Lane | 1998 | The author maintains that it is part of the spiritual experience of Friends that we, both individually and collectively, have found inspiration and guidance coming to us through our meetings for worship. Drawing upon his experience and discovery, he shares accounts of some of the meetings for worship where Friends were truly touched by God. | Faith and Practice |
88 | 37 | Are Your Meetings Held in the Life | Cary, Margaret Morris | 1946 | The nature of Quaker meetings as related to daily living. | Christian Living, Family Life, Meetings |
89 | 72 | Indian Testimony | Chakravarty, Amiya Chandra | 1953 | India’s philosophy of peace and the freedom movement led by Gandhi can be the testimony of all nations. With a foreword by Aldous Huxley. | Peace, Evil, Nonresistance |
90 | 445 | Boycott, Divestment, and Sactions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights | Chase, Steve | 2017 | A longtime Quaker Zionist, Steve Chase wonders if a just and peaceful future for Palestinians depends on nonviolent international pressure directed at the State of Israel through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions seeking full compliance with international law and universal human rights. This pamphlet briefly describes Palestinian and Zionist/Israeli history since the late nineteenth century, the development of the BDS movement and Quaker response to it, and what led Steve Chase’s perspective to shift over time. Discussion questions included. | |
91 | 432 | Revelation and Revolution: Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness | Chase, Steve | 2015 | For Steve Chase, being a faithful friend and follower of Jesus has always meant being engaged in nonviolent revolutionary work to bring about a beloved community which embodies spiritual wisdom, social justice, and ecological sustainability. His understanding of this call is informed by the Jewish prophets, Jesus, early Quakers, the life example of Martin Luther King, Jr., and by decades of reflection on his own and other people’s stories of working to help heal and repair the world. In this pamphlet, written in part as a response to the Kabarak Call for Peace and Ecojustice, Steve distills the core features of the spiritual call to faithful activism and urges us to rise above the understandable, but debilitating, sins of denial, despair, and distraction. Discussion questions included. | |
92 | 429 | What We Stand On | Christiansen, Paul | 2014 | The author calls Quakers to account for how well we face the seeds of war within our own live, and why we should have hope and courage as a people who can light the way to peace in our world. | War, Testimony |
93 | 373 | Group Spiritual Nurture: The Wisdom of Spiritual Listening | Clement, Daphne | 2004 | This essay by Daphne Clement, an experienced facilitator of Spiritual Nurture Groups, is both an introduction to spiritual nurture and a guide for those interested in creating a Spiritual Nurture Group. | Listening, Worship |
94 | 134 | From Convincement to Conversion | Cobin, Martin T. | 1964 | The author tells of his conversion from Judaism to Quakerism. | Friends, Convincement, Conversion |
95 | 433 | Recovering Sacred Presence in a Disenchanted World | Coelho, Mary Conrow | 2015 | Contemporary Westerners are caught between contradictory ways of understanding the world: science and faith are seemingly incompatible. And when we experience spiritual openings, when the Presence breaks through into our lives, what do we make of it? | |
96 | 26 | Quaker Meeting: a Personal Experience and Method Described and Analyzed | Collier, Howard Ebenezer | 1944 | This is a revised edition of a 1944 essay on the heart and soul of Quaker practice. | Faith and Practice, Meetings, Religious Life |
97 | 69 | Experiment with a Life | Collier, Howard Ebenezer | 1953 | Reflecting on his own experience, the author/physician concludes that religion integrates wholeness with all forms of healing. | Health, Religion |
98 | 288 | Improvisation & Spiritual Disciplines: Continuing the Divine Human Duet | Conti-Entin, Carol | 1989 | The author uses musical improvisation to understand Sabbath observance, Bible reading, journal keeping, tithing, and praying. | Discipline |
99 | 296 | Testimony of Integrity in the Religious Society of Friends | Cooper, Wilmer Albert | 1991 | A cogent insightful description of the central testimony among Friends from which all other testimonies evolve. | Testimony, Honesty, Truth |
100 | 270 | Sanctuary Church | Corbett, Jim | 1986 | A prime mover in the network bringing Central American refugees to the U.S. writes of sanctuary as a perennial task for any people that covenants to serve the Peaceable Kingdom. | Sanctuary, Refugees, Politics, Foreign Policy, Central America |
101 | 262 | Bearing Witness: Quaker Process and a Culture of Peace | Cox, Gray | 1985 | Peace is portrayed as something we do, an activity of resolving differences based on a five-stage Quaker ethic. | Peace |
102 | 286 | War Taxes: Experiences of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Quakers through the American Revolution | Crauderueff, Elaine J. | 1989 | A historical view of Friends testimony on paying war taxes. | War, Taxation, Government |
103 | 132 | Obstacles to Mystical Experience | Crom, Scott | 1963 | A mathematician/philosopher discusses Western and Eastern approaches to mysticism. | Mysticism, Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, Vedanta, Hinduism, Buddhism |
104 | 155 | On Being Real: A Quest for Personal and Religious Wholeness | Crom, Scott | 1967 | A conception of truth as the fidelity of consciousness to a reality that is neither fixed nor final. | Christian Life, Truth, Discovery, Authenticity |
105 | 195 | Quaker Worship and Techniques of Meditation | Crom, Scott | 1974 | By combining Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and Quakerism, a deeper understanding of the inner life is achieved. | Meditation, Yoga, Worship |
106 | 267 | Encounters with Transcendence: Confessions of a Religious Philosopher | Crom, Scott | 1986 | Reconciling the experience of transcendence with the disciplines of logic and mathematics. | Religion, Experience |
107 | 419 | Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Well-being | Crompton, Margaret | 2012 | The author focuses on communication between children and adults in Quaker families and Meetings. She includes practical advice along with stories that reveal children’s innate spirituality. | Children, Spirituality |
108 | 297 | Gospel Order: A Quaker Understanding of Faithful Church Community | Cronk, Sandra Lee | 1991 | This essay concentrates on the communal and societal aspects of gospel order as the foundation of community life. Gospel refers to the actual relationship with God. Order refers to the patterns of daily living that flow from God. | Communities, Discipline |
109 | 293 | Ministry of Presence: Without Agenda in South Africa | Crowe, Avis and Dyckman W. Vermilye | 1990 | The authors share how way opened for them to become engaged in the life of a community and Quaker meeting in one of the world’s troubled places. | Social Concerns, Race Relations, South Africa, Apartheid |
110 | 369 | Meditations on the Prayer of St. Francis | Curo, Anne | 2003 | Starting with the metaphor of the self as a musical instrument on which God performs, the author reflects on the beloved prayer of St. Francis as instructions for a life of Christian peacemaking. She uses examples from her experiences in homeless activism and her study of various faith traditions to explore the wisdom in the prayer line by line. | Peace, Prayer, Social Action |
111 | 360 | Quaker Social Testimony in our Personal and Corporate Life | Dale, Jonathan | 2002 | Lifestyle and politics are integral expressions of what human beings are meant to be: loving, truthful, peaceful, and centered on God. | Social Concerns, Honesty, Integrity, Simplicity, Fair Trade, Economics, Organic, Organizing, Community |
112 | 410 | Confident Quakerism | Dandelion, Pink | 2010 | After a personal crisis shook his confidence in himself, Ben Pink Dandelion considered seriously the spiritual meaning of “confidence” (literally, to live and act “with faith”). His insights are especially meaningful for liberal Friends, individually and as a society, as we look toward the future. | Spirituality, Religious Life, Community |
113 | 289 | To Meet at the Source: Hindus & Quakers | Dart, Martha | 1989 | Similarities may be found in Hindu and Quaker thought in many areas that transcend language, such as pure principle, the light, unity, silence, simplicity, and guidance. | Doctrine, Hinduism |
114 | 444 | Gathered Meeting | Davison, Steven | 2017 | Steven Davison lifts up the gathered meeting for worship as the essence of the Quaker way. He puts it in historical context within the Christian and Quaker traditions and considers the state of the gathered meeting in our own time. While describing the gathering in detail from his own experience, he also quotes Thomas Kelly, William Taber, and Patricia Loring. He explores the “faith” of the gathered meeting and how it fulfills the promises of the Quaker way. Most important, he describes what fosters the gathered meeting. In the holy communion of the gathered meeting lie the soul of the Quaker faith and the hope for a Quakerism that remains vibrant and relevant into the future. Discussion questions included. | |
115 | 414 | Seeking Inner Peace: Presence, Pain, and Wholeness | De Sa, Elizabeth | 2011 | Elizabeth De Sa describes her own quest for a life of spiritual authenticity and inner peace in an essay that probes deeply into the lessons learned and the rewards reaped in a search for union with the Divine. In meditation practice she peels back the layers of pain arising from unhealed wounds and false expectations of herself, obstacles that stand in the way of full acceptance of self, others, and the Divine. | Spirituality, Healing, Peace, Meditation |
116 | 52 | Search: A Personal Journey Through Chaos | Domino, Ruth | 1950 | Reminiscences of Pendle Hill teacher who was helped by Quaker relief workers and then trained others to serve abroad under the American Friends Service Committee. | World War II, France, Germany, Exile, Refugees, American Friends Service Committee |
117 | 181 | Quaker Message: a Personal Affirmation | Doncaster, Leonard Hugh | 1972 | The tenets of the Religious Society of Friends are described and commented on. | Doctrine |
118 | 359 | Existential Theology of Nikos Kazantkakis | Dossor, Howard F. | 2001 | The author finds that Kazantkakis’s theology gives us insight on how to live fully, joyfully, and faithfully. | Existentialism, Atheism, Theology, God |
119 | 391 | Getting Rooted: Living in the Cross | Drayton, Brian | 2007 | Brian Drayton explores the idea of rootedness at multiple levels in order to reveal the ways in which we may derive the most nourishment from the roots that we seek to rediscover so that God’s Spirit may flourish within us and through us. | Theology, Quakerism, Spirituality |
120 | 413 | James Nayler Speaking | Drayton, Brian | 2011 | Brian Drayton found in the writings of this influential and controversial Friend messages that speak to the turmoil of our times, just as they spoke to the turmoil of 1650s England. Some central themes in the ministry of James Nayler are explored, with attention to how they address the most basic challenges of faithfulness in what early Friends called “the Lamb’s War.” | Nayler, James, History, Theology, Spirituality, Early Friends, Religious Society of Friends |
121 | 279 | Apocalyptic Witness: A Radical Calling for Our Own Times | Durland, William R. | 1988 | The author discusses living with God and living as if the Kingdom of God has already come. | Prophecy, Christianity |
122 | 87 | Shelter from Compassion | Durr, Ruth E. | 1956 | A refuge from mankind may also be a fortification that dooms us to weep alone. The God within us is compassion. | Compassion |
123 | 24 | We Are Accountable: a View of Mental Institutions | Edelstein, Leonard Gerald | 1945 | A member of a Civilian Public Service unit in a mental hospital during World War II describes the neglect, mistreatment, and brutality accorded patients, with a brief appeal to religious groups to change these conditions. | Mental Institutions, Reform, Civilian Public Service |
124 | 272 | Going Back: A Poet Who Was Once a Marine Returns to Vietnam | Ehrhart, William Daniel | 1987 | In search of personal healing, the author talks with many former adversaries in their austere country. He includes four poems with his reflections. | Viet Nam, Poetry, War, Violence |
125 | 68 | Art and Faith | Eichenberg, Fritz | 1952 | Art has become an international movement, a means of communication, and a means of experiencing the thrill of finding God. | Art and Religion, Spirtuality |
126 | 257 | Artist on the Witness Stand | Eichenberg, Fritz | 1984 | This Quaker artist, who works mostly in wood engravings, surveys his own education and creative process. | Creativity |
127 | 344 | Dancing with God Through the Storm: Mysticism and Mental Illness | Elam, Jennifer | 1999 | A Quaker psychologist challenges any absolute distinction between experience of God and mental illness, describes the stages of growth possible in discerning them, and asks Friends to provide safe communities in which people are not mislabeled. | Psychology, Mental Disorders, School of the Spirit |
128 | 328 | Servant Church | Elford, Ricardo and Jim Corbett | 1996 | The authors write as a Catholic priest and a Quaker pagan whose separate paths have converged in a Jewish view of religion. For the prophetic faith, religion is about faithful service that is grounded in a covenant community’s allegiance to the Peaceable Kingdom. | Sanctuary Movement, Social Concerns, Religious Life |
129 | 282 | Batter my Heart | Ellwood, Gracia Fay | 1988 | Using ideas from biblical criticism, from psychoanalysis, and from feminist and liberation theology, the author reflects on naming a God free of caste and gender. | God, Class, Abused Wives, Gender Relations |
130 | 50 | Self-deceit: A Comedy on Lies; a Way of Overcoming Them | Faber, Frederick William | 1949 | These excerpts from Faber’s Spiritual Conferences explain self-deceit, its varieties, characteristics, and remedies – the highest corrective being to serve God out of personal love. | Self-Deceit, Worldliness, Vanity, Service |
131 | 283 | Sink Down to the Seed | Fardelmann, Charlotte Lyman | 1989 | A four-year journey to explore the author’s inward landscape results in inner peace. | Spirituality, Pendle Hill |
132 | 255 | Tending the Light | Feagins, Mary E. B. | 1984 | The Inner Light never shines in a vacuum; it cannot function independent of the Word and the Act. | Inward Light, Holy Spirit |
133 | 417 | John Yungblut: Passing the Mystical Torch | Finn, Charlie | 2012 | In this pamphlet Charlie Finn unveils the faith and vision of John Yungblut. At the heart of this story, readers will discover a spiritual “genealogy”: Rufus Jones, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Carl Jung, who influenced John Yungblut who became a spiritual guide and friend to Charlie Finn. | Biography, Theology |
134 | 440 | Enlarging our Circle of Love | Fisher, Margaret | 2016 | In this compelling exploration of how a first step on a path of faithfulness can begin a lifelong journey, we see how way opens in one Quaker’s life. A disturbing college science experiment leads Margaret Fisher to re-examine her relationship with animal life and to eliminate meat from her diet. Her understanding deepens as she explores the practical and spiritual challenges of living her convictions – in her personal, professional, and family life, and in her spiritual community. Her leading matures into a ministry in which she invites us to widen our circle of love to include all the living world. Discussion questions included. | |
135 | 396 | God Raising Us: Parenting As A Spiritual Practice | Flanagan, Eileen | 2008 | In telling her own story—the challenges faced, the lessons learned—Eileen Flanagan calls on Friends to recognize parenthood as a phase of spiritual development with special gifts and needs, and suggests ways that we may begin to support the faith lives of parents and help our meetings be more fully multigenerational. | Family Life, Faith and Practice |
136 | 363 | Profession and Practice: Quaker Perspectives on Healing as Ministry | Flannery, Maureen A. | 2002 | This pamphlet invites Quaker professionals, healers, and nurturers to a way of practicing professionalism that both reclaims the wisdom in our Quaker tradition and affirms what is of value in alternative secular models. | Quakerism, Healing, Leadings |
137 | 166 | Atonement of George Fox | Fogelklou, Emilia | 1969 | The relationship between the individual and the group in Quaker context. | Authority |
138 | 71 | Let Your Lives Speak | Foulds, Elfrida Vipont | 1953 | In a speech at the Tercentenary Conference of the Religious Society of Friends an English Quaker recreates the summer of 1652. | Conferences |
139 | 248 | Candle of the Lord | Foulds, Elfrida Vipont | 1983 | Gives the reader glimpses of historic Quaker country in the north of England and discusses the Quaker character. | Christian Life |
140 | 112 | Two Trends in Modern Quaker Thought: A Statement | Fowler, Albert Vann | 1961 | A discussion of universalism and particularism in Quakerism. | Universalism, Christianity |
141 | 110 | Covenant of Peace: A Personal Witness | Friedman, Maurice S. | 1965 | The author traces his life and thought from the Biblical covenant to the covenant of peace. | |
142 | 168 | Modern Promethean: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth | Friedman, Maurice S. | 1969 | The author, a teacher and conscientious objector, celebrates the Modern Job, the Problematic Rebel he sees in today’s young people, and the possibilities for a new image of man. | Youth |
143 | 98 | In Pursuit of Moby Dick: Melville’s Image of Man | Friedrich, Gerhard | 1958 | The paradoxical characters in this novel illustrate an age-old faith and acts of confirmation. | Melville, Herman, Literature |
144 | 49 | Christ in Catastrophe: An Inward Record | Fuchs, Emil | 1949 | A German teacher discusses living during Hitler’s regime, and out of that suffering discovers God. | Biography, Germany, World War II, Conversion, Imprisonment |
145 | 358 | Reflections from a Prayer Vigil for Peace | Gallery, John Andrew | 2001 | The author shares reflections born of his participation in an extended prayer vigil for peace. It includes thoughts on sowing peace, faithfulness, and prayer. | Social Action, Social Concerns, Peace, Vigil, Demonstration, Reflection |
146 | 171 | War Resistance in Historical Perspective | Gara, Larry | 1970 | A professor of history who was a draft resister in World War II reviews religious objection to war, war resistance as a phase of reform, and conscription since 1757 in America. | Conscientious Objection |
147 | 250 | Jesus, Jefferson, and the Tasks of Friends | Garver, Newton | 1983 | The work of the Society of Friends in the world as understood by a Christian pacifist and philosopher. | Friends, Christianity, Ethics |
148 | 322 | Nonviolence and Community: Reflections on the Alternatives to Violence Project | Garver, Newton | 1995 | Nonviolence requires a spirit that comes from within which no curriculum can create or implant. The authors describe how the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) organizes experiences to draw forth that spirit and how doing so builds supportive community. | Nonviolence, Prison, Reconciliation, Justice, Correction, Social Action |
149 | 371 | Members One of Another: The Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting | Gates, Thomas | 2004 | In Quaker faith and practice, the individual and the meeting are in a dynamic, mutually supportive, and reciprocal relation. In this essay Tom Gates examines many of the factors affecting the relationship between the Seeker and the Meeting, before and during membership. | Membership, Quakerism |
150 | 422 | Reclaiming the Transcendent: God in Process | Gates, Thomas | 2013 | The author finds the understanding of "God in process" to be deeply congruent with Quaker spirituality. | Theology |
151 | 435 | "Are you my Witnessess" Witness and Testimony in the Biblical and Quaker Traditions | Gates, Thomas | 2015 | What does it mean to be a witness to Truth? Thomas Gates draws from the experiences of the captive Hebrews as told in the Book of Isaiah, as well as the discoveries and practices of early Friends, to offer perspective and insights for twenty-first century Quakers who are trying to live in faithful witness to the Light. What is our testimony today, and how can we best express it in the context of a modern world filled with “false idols,” such as the lure of wealth and comfort, side-by-side with overwhelming powers that wreak havoc on peace and environmental sustainability? Poised between the temptations of complacency and despair, how do we live our witness? | |
152 | 341 | Sickness, Suffering, and Healing: More Stories from Another Place | Gates, Tom | 1998 | More stories from this American doctor’s compassionate encounter with Africans in their country. The stories describe the challenges of suffering and the response of African faith. | Religion |
153 | 319 | Stories from Kenya | Gates, Tom and Liz | 1995 | Relates stories which arose out of the authors’ experiences of living and working at a Quaker mission hospital in rural western Kenya. | Autobiography, Missionaries, Faith and Practice, Hospital, Doctor |
154 | 314 | Spiritual Hospitality: A Quaker’s Understanding of Hospitality | Gillman, Harvey | 1994 | The author elevates three fundamental principles for outreach: 1) There is something sacred in each person; 2) how we relate to people is what we actually believe about them; and 3) how we treat others is our personal statement about God. | Spirituality, Membership |
155 | 394 | God’s Healing Grace: Reflections on a Journey with Mental and Spiritual Illness | Gilpin, Mariellen | 2008 | Mariellen Gilpin’s story provides a model of someone whose experienced reality is not commonly shared, but who has grown as a person and as a Quaker in close relationship with her Friends meeting. The voices of persons labeled with mental illnesses are voices in our communities that need to be heard. | Reflection, Mental Disorders, Spirituality, Healing |
156 | 57 | Atomic Peace: With a Memoir by Margaret Goddard Holt | Goddard, Harold Clarke | 1950 | A Shakespearean authority explores the role of imagination and creative force, likening them to an atomic chain reaction. | Imagination, Creativity |
157 | 86 | Blake’s Four-Fold Vision | Goddard, Harold Clarke | 1956 | Innocence, experience, revolution, rebellion, and vision in William Blake’s life. | Blake, William |
158 | 350 | I Have Always Wanted to be Jewish: And Now, Thanks to the Religious Society of Friends, I Am | Gorfinkel, Claire | 2000 | The author, a Quaker and a Jew, shares how the intersection of these two spiritual traditions has strengthened her identity as a Jew, deepened her faith, and intensified her witness with Quakers. | Religious Life, Judaism, Community, Politics |
159 | 294 | Women of Power and Presence: The Spiritual Formation of Four Quaker Women Ministers | Graham, Maureen | 1990 | A feminist studies the lives of Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Fry, Rachel Hicks, and Rebecca Jones to discover how God moved in their lives. | Women, Feminism, Elizabeth Fry, Rachel Hicks, Rebecca Jones, Lucretia Mott |
160 | 399 | Matthew 18: Wisdom for Living in Community | Green, Connie McPeak and Marty Paxson Grundy | 2008 | The authors have spent years exploring the eighteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, which contains Jesus’s advice to his disciples about how to get along with one another. In this essay, they describe what they have learned from their efforts to be faithful. | Bible, Faith and Practice, Conflict Resolution |
161 | 229 | Henry Hodgkin: the Road to Pendle Hill | Greenwood, Ormerod | 1980 | An exploration of the personality of the first director of Pendle Hill, written for its 50th anniversary in 1980. | Hodgkin, Henry, Missionaries, Doctor, Biography |
162 | 3 | Value of Voluntary Simplicity | Gregg, Richard Bartlett | 1936 | Voluntary simplicity involves inner and outer conditions, such as intentional organization of life for a purpose. | Simplicity |
163 | 5 | Pacifist Program in Time of War, Threatened War, or Fascism | Gregg, Richard Bartlett | 1939 | A proposal to alter our social environment based on pacifism and nonviolence. | Conscientious Objection, Pacifism, Religious Society of Friends |
164 | 11 | Discipline for Non-Violence | Gregg, Richard Bartlett | 1941 | Nonviolent resistance requires the physical element of manual labor and the direct social use of its products. | Discipline, Religious Society of Friends, Doctrine, Pacifism |
165 | 377 | Creeds and Quakers: What’s Belief Got To Do With It? | Griswold, Robert | 2005 | Quaker spiritual authority lies not in belief systems and in creeds, but in the direct communion between individuals and the Divine Spirit. The pamphlet’s author asserts that Friends too often hold Quaker testimonies as ideals, as ends in themselves, rather than as fruits of the Spirit. Without spiritual grounding, testimonies become creeds. | Quakerism, Theology, Belief, History |
166 | 439 | Marking the Quaker Path: Seven Key Words Plus One | Griswold, Robert | 2016 | The life of a fully committed Quaker can be described as a series of passages, beginning with a truthful understanding of one’s spiritual condition and deepening through attention to inward experience, spiritual covenant, discipline, and the practice of discernment, culminating ultimately in the maturation of spiritual authority in a beloved community. Robert Griswold explains these passages for modern Friends, drawing from the writings of early Quakers, and offers us a glimpse of the profound growth that can flourish when we turn ourselves over to a life dedicated to the Spirit. Discussion questions included. | |
167 | 347 | Tall Poppies: Supporting Gifts of Ministry and Eldering in the Monthly Meeting | Grundy, Martha Paxson | 1999 | The pamphlet provides a description of the traditional Quaker understanding of power and spiritual authority, and God’s gifts in relation to them. The author suggests ways that monthly meetings can support and nurture ministry and the individual Friends through whom it comes. | Ministry, Eldering, Gifts, Practice, Gospel Order, Oversight, Discipline, Traveling |
168 | 426 | But Who Do You Say That I Am? Quakers and Christ Today | Gwyn, Douglas | 2014 | The author explores the different stances Quakers have assumed in relation to Christianity, from the unique “primitive Christianity revived” of early Friends, through the foundationist, Conservative, ecumenical, interfaith, universalist, and nontheist positions of different Quakers today. | Quakerism, Christianity, Jesus |
169 | 420 | Waging Peace: Discipline and Practice | Haines, Pamela | 2012 | The author offers readers ways to become “nonviolent warriors” through practices that show us how to hope, grieve, listen, welcome conflict, mend, speak truth, and cultivate courage. | Peacemaking, Nonviolence, Social Action |
170 | 265 | Thoughts are Free: A Quaker Youth Group in Nazi Germany | Halle, Anna Sabine | 1985 | The Quaker tradition is bound up with religious belief and political action, and the author shows how these were expressed in the Nazi regime. | History, Germany, Church and State |
171 | 23 | Clash by Night | Hamilton, Wallace Field | 1945 | Pacifists and militarists are portrayed as rivals in the post-war citizenry. | Pacifism, World War II |
172 | 353 | Letting That Go, Keeping This: The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg | Harnden, Philip | 2001 | Fritz Eichenberg, internationally known woodcut artist, has inspired a generation of Quakers and Catholics in their social witness. This author eloquently elucidates five important inspirations for the artist: animals, Lao-Tzu, Russian novelists, Quakers, and the Catholic Worker. | Dostoyevsky, Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, China, Dorothy Day, Catholicism, Wood Engravings, Convincement, Skepticism, Faith, Art and Religion, Quakerism, Russia, Germany |
173 | 411 | Plow up the Fallow Ground | Harper, Lu | 2011 | Through this extended exploration, and by offering rich queries for personal meditation, the author invites readers to rediscover a Quaker way of deriving powerful, personal meaning from the Bible. | Bible, Early Friends, Parables |
174 | 210 | Psychology of a Fairy Tale | Hart, David L. | 1977 | The author is a Jungian analyst with a special interest in the spiritual and psychological meaning of fairy tales. | Jung, Fairy Tales, Psychology |
175 | 25 | Militarism for America | Hartman, Grover Lowell. | 1945 | A discussion of the pros and cons of military service, with the author concluding there are more effective ways to create a better society. | Conscription, Peace |
176 | 141 | Journal of a College Student | Havens, Joseph | 1965 | The imagined writer reflects on contemporary student experience and religious conflict. | Religious Life, Skepticism |
177 | 220 | Fifth Yoga: The Way of Relationships | Havens, Joseph | 1978 | Suggests adding the way of human relations to the four broad disciplines of Yoga. | Human Relations, International Relations, Inspiration, Yoga |
178 | 43 | Standards of Success | Havens, Teresina Rowell | 1948 | Some people try to alter conventional patterns of living; the author suggests a new criterion for success and poses questions for discussion. | Success, Values, Wealth, Poverty, Eastern Spirtuality, Judaism, China, Hinduism, Japan, United States, Protestantism, Theology |
179 | 304 | Mind What Stirs in your Heart | Havens, Teresina Rowell | 1992 | The author, inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s walking and breathing meditations, combines seed-verses from Quaker and biblical writings with exercises for meditative walking. | Meditation |
180 | 405 | Envisioning a Moral Economy | Head, Tom | 2010 | Quaker economist Tom Head explores how we might think about our economy, and its purposes, in new ways by including religious sources of wisdom and morality in our vision of a just and humane economic future. | Economics, Morality |
181 | 7 | Quaker Mutation | Heard, Gerald | 1940 | The author sees current educational trends as unable to satisfy individual needs. The Quaker center, Pendle Hill, can become a model for fundamental changes in education and training of the whole individual. | Pendle Hill, Education |
182 | 58 | Ten Questions on Prayer | Heard, Gerald | 1951 | The whole problem of prayer involves our unavoidable praying for others. | Prayer |
183 | 164 | Why a Friends School? | Heath, Douglas H. | 1969 | Youth and society need the insights and vision of Quakerism and similar traditions in order to witness forcefully and creatively about how to live as a full human being. | Education, Youth, Tradition |
184 | 225 | Peculiar Mission of a Quaker School | Heath, Douglas H. | 1979 | Friends schools exist to empower students, faculty, and staff to live more fully in the Truth, to educate for goodness, and to bring each person to the teacher within. | Education, Christian Education, Truth |
185 | 315 | Answering That of God in Our Children | Heath, Harriet | 1994 | The stories in this pamphlet, drawn from life, illustrate the wondering that children do and the need for guidance it opens for any who live and work with them. | Children, Religious Education |
186 | 389 | From West Point to Quakerism | Heller, Mike | 2007 | The author reflects on his painful and sometimes lonely passage and on how way opened for him to discover himself and his place in the world. In the best Friends’ tradition of sharing our spiritual journeys, Mike Heller offers his own story, told with insight and compassion for the variety of people who crossed his path. | Reflection, Religious Life, Harmony, Autobiography |
187 | 309 | Universalism and Spirituality | Hetherington, Ralph | 1993 | Bringing together material from a number of previous articles, this essay explores the nature of spirituality and its relation to universalism, with particular attention to the question of commitment to a particular religious tradition. | Spirituality, Universalism |
188 | 308 | Marriage: A Spiritual Leading for Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Couples | Hill, Leslie | 1993 | After a summary examination of Quaker marriage practices and procedures, this essay traces the evolution of a minute on same-sex marriage in Putney, Vermont Meeting, and the marriage of two men under the meeting’s care. | Marriage, Homosexuality |
189 | 274 | Nonviolence on Trial | Hillegass, Robert W. | 1987 | Nonviolent action takes place only when the principle of love is seen as a reality grounded in Being itself, as the author has publicly witnessed. | Nonviolence, Peace |
190 | 80 | Toward Political Responsibility | Hinshaw, Cecil Eugene | 1954 | How does man relate to the political structure of the world? | Politics |
191 | 88 | Nonviolent Resistance: A Nation’s Way to Peace | Hinshaw, Cecil Eugene | 1956 | Addresses the problem of meeting evil on the national level. | Passive Resistance, Civil Disobedience |
192 | 138 | An Apology for Perfection | Hinshaw, Cecil Eugene | 1964 | The author believes the Society of Friends owes more to ethical perfectionism than to mysticism. | Christian life |
193 | 238 | Lawrie Tatum, Indian Agent: Quaker Values and Hard Choices | Hixson, Robert | 1981 | In 1869 a Quaker named Lawrie Tatum left Iowa to become an agent for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians and participate in a holy experiment. His journey is here described. | Native Americans, Government, Missionaries |
194 | 78 | Can Quakerism Speak to the Times? | Hobart, John Henry | 1954 | “What is the best way to interpret Quakerism in the modern world?” the author asks. | Doctrine |
195 | 94 | Loyalty by Oath: An Essay on the Extortion of Love | Hoffman, Hallock B. | 1957 | The loyalty oath depends on fear for its power. The author contends that people should be possessed by love, not fear. | Love, Oaths, Loyalty, Trust, Testimonies |
196 | 123 | Prayer, the Cornerstone | Hole, Helen Griscom Bell | 1962 | The fellowship of the first Christians had prayer as their primary experience; the author discusses prayer and its benefits. | Prayer |
197 | 329 | There is a Fountain: A Quaker Life in Process | Horn, Helen Steere | 1996 | A life story about renewal, commitment, faith, doubt, success, defeat, and a balance of activism and contemplation. | Autobiography, Horn, Helen Steere, Social Concerns |
198 | 334 | Bosnian Student Project: A Response to Genocide | Hostetter, C. Douglas | 1997 | The author tells, poignantly and lovingly, the story of more than 150 Bosnian students who were helped to continue their education in the U.S. through this project of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. | Social Concerns |
199 | 83 | Use of Silence | Hoyland, Geoffrey | 1955 | The author believes that the gateway to the Sanctuary of Silence lies open to every man and woman. | Silence |
200 | 436 | Spreading the Fire: Challenging and Encouraging Friends through Travel in Ministry | Humphries, Debbie | 2015 | In earlier times, far-flung Quaker meetings looked for spiritual deepening in the visits of traveling ministers. Debbie Humphries is one present-day Friend who has responded to a call to travel in ministry. In this new pamphlet she describes her preparation to serve this call faithfully and shares what she has learned from her experiences. One of her discoveries is that contemporary Friends derive much enrichment from the real-time, face-to-face worshipful encounters that take place through visiting ministry. | |
201 | 84 | From Where They Sit | Hutchinson, Dorothy Hewitt | 1955 | A Quaker housewife takes a round-the-world journey of friendship with an African-American friend, visiting 16 families of widely varying cultures, nationalities, and religions. | Peace, International Relations, World Politics, Social Concerns |
202 | 143 | Unless One is Born Anew | Hutchinson, Dorothy Hewitt | 1965 | The greatest challenges to face mankind are securing peace, freedom, and bread. Individual renewal through the Seed and the Spirit will help us address them. | Religious Society of Friends |
203 | 102 | From One to Another | Jacob, Norma | 1959 | Discusses the Society of Friends’ long-standing interest in mental illness. | Mental Disorders, History, Social Action |
204 | 239 | Growing Old, a View from Within | Jacob, Norma | 1981 | A retired social worker reflects on various aspects of aging, including its liberation, its losses, its fear, and its openings. | Aging, Psychology, Retirement |
205 | 18 | Anthology with Comments | Janet, Elizabeth Gray | 1942 | The author offers excerpts from the writings of W. H. Davies, George Herbert, James Stephens, Francis of Assisi, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Ellwood and William Blake, among others, with her interpretations. | W.H. Davies, George Herbert, James Stephens, St. Francis, Gerand Hopkins, Thomas Ellwood, William Blate |
206 | 202 | Quaker Poets, Past & Present | Jones, Mary Hoxie | 1975 | The author/poet suggests that worship and the experience of poetry can complement each other. | Poetry, Worship, Mysticism, History, Literature |
207 | 8 | Rethinking Quaker Principles | Jones, Rufus | 1940 | The author believes the Society of Friends is a mutation that emerged from the Reformation movement of the 17th century. If there had been no Puritan movement there would have been no Society of Friends. | English Civil War, Valiant Sixty, Quakerism |
208 | 127 | Thou Dost Open Up My Life: Selections from the Rufus Jones Collection | Jones, Rufus Matthew | 1963 | Readings chosen from this well-known Quaker’s writings by his daughter, Mary Hoxie Jones. The Rufus Jones collection is housed in the Haverford College Library. | Jones, T. Canby, Jones, Rufus, Religious Society of Friends, Spirituality |
209 | 284 | Thomas R. Kelly as I remember Him | Jones, Thomas Canby | 1988 | The author was influenced in college by Kelly, a philosophy professor transformed into a radiant Christian. | Thomas R. Kelly, Spirituality, Devotion |
210 | 339 | Prayer: Beginning Again | Keane, Sheila | 1998 | What is prayer? Petition, intercession, worship, confession, listening, meditation, a way of being, desire for God, faithful actions, gifts of grace, mystery…. In an expanded definition of prayer, we must go beyond the mere saying of prayer and include these ways of being, yearning, acting, or receiving prayer. Prayer is the expression of our individual relationships with the incomprehensible and mysterious Divine Being. | Prayer, Psychology |
211 | 295 | Inward Light and the New Creation: A Theological Meditation on the Center and Circumference of Quakerism | Keiser, R. Melvin | 1991 | A theological meditation on the spirituality of George Fox’s visionary journey back into Paradise and Margaret Fell’s argument for women’s equality in church leadership. | Theology, Feminism, Women |
212 | 401 | Three Ravens and Two Widows | Kelly, Richard Macy | 2009 | Using the metaphor of the ancient ballad, The Three Ravens, Richard Kelly invites us to explore how history and family traditions may limit our understanding of Truth or give us the strength and vision to see new possibilities in times when disagreements trouble our communities. | Biography, Family Life, Conflict Resolution, History |
213 | 21 | Reality of the Spiritual World | Kelly, Thomas Raymond | 1942 | Experience a hypothetical God as if he exists, proposed Kelly in this series of four lessons: access to spiritual reality through the Holy Spirit in prayer, fellowship, God, and the spiritual world. | Mysticism, Spirituality, Holy Spirit, Prayer |
214 | 32 | Our Hearts are Restless | Kilpack, Gilbert | 1946 | The author believes that all human life and thought depend on the first three chapters of the book of Genesis. Friends testify to these passages and address separation from the Creator. | Bible, Genesis, Doctrine |
215 | 63 | Ninth Hour | Kilpack, Gilbert | 1951 | With wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg, the author compares the ninth hour Christ spent on the cross to the twentieth century. | Christianity, 20th Century |
216 | 89 | Scruples | Kilpack, Gilbert | 1956 | A scruple was originally an ancient Roman weight; then it developed into a word meaning difficulty in deciding what is right. This essay explores what it means to have scruples or be scrupulous. | Morality |
217 | 349 | Radiance and Risks of Mythmaking | Kilpack, Gilbert | 2000 | A longtime friend of Pendle Hill offers vignettes that shine with the Presence and challenge the conventional boundaries among literature, theology, and personal narrative. | Autobiography, Theology, Education, Bildungsroman, World War II, Civilian, Public, Conversion |
218 | 404 | Kindling a Life of Concern: Spirit-Led Quaker Action | Kirk, Jack | 2009 | Jack Kirk discusses how concerns arise and are opened to us, how we may test them, and how we may find in them a center of spiritual gravity for our lives. How do we discover our callings as individuals, and what is our calling as a community of Friends? | Ecology, Discernment, Community |
219 | 321 | No Royal Road to Reconciliation | Knudsen-Hoffman, Gene | 1995 | The author sees wounds in the perpetrator as the source of violence. This essay describes the nature and healing of trauma and offers a view of health that can move us to listening, forgiveness, compassion, and reconciliation. | Health, Reconciliation, Violence |
220 | 443 | Individual Spiritual Discernment: Receiving, Testing and Implementing Leadings from a Higher Power | Knutson, Jerry | 2017 | This pamphlet presents – in a kind of how-to format – methods for receiving individual spiritual guidance; testing the guidance using methods that give both reliable and ambiguous results; and implementing the guidance. The pamphlet concludes with suggestions on using spiritual disciplines to build a better relationship with a Higher Power. Discussion questions included. | |
221 | 258 | When Silence Becomes Singing: A Study in Perception | Kylin, Helen | 1984 | Metaphors and parables can become truths with the power to transform everyday lives, connecting events to a deep place within us and also to God. | Philosophy, Perception, Parables |
222 | 241 | Quakers and the Use of Power | Lacey, Paul A. | 1982 | A reexamination of the Society of Friends at the time of Pendle Hill’s 50th Anniversary. | Power, Christian Theology, Authority, Religion |
223 | 264 | Leading and Being Led | Lacey, Paul A. | 1985 | A discussion of the nature of religious leadings and where we should be looking for them in the modern world. | Christian Life |
224 | 278 | Education and the Inward Teacher | Lacey, Paul A. | 1988 | The Inner Light, the Inward Teacher, can be a metaphor for interpreting issues in education. | Christian Life, Inward Light |
225 | 365 | Authority of Our Meetings is the Power of God | Lacey, Paul A. | 2003 | The author sees Quakers at a crossroads in dealing with issues of authority and power in church governance and offers some assessment of the costs of traveling one way or another. He challenges Friends to find their balance between tolerance of diversity and corporate unity. | Religious Society of Friends, Authority, Faith and Practice |
226 | 228 | With Thine Adversary in the Way: A Quaker Witness | Lachmund, Margarethe | 1979 | A German Quaker writes simply of her life under Hitler’s regime and during the Russian occupation of East Germany, a life full of meaning and peacemaking. | Nonviolence, Morality, Religious |
227 | 129 | Nonviolent Action: How It Works | Lakey, George | 1963 | Evidently, nonviolent action has some kind of power, even when the action is not very spectacular. The question then arises, what is this power? The task of this pamphlet is to discover the how of nonviolent action. | Passive Resistance, Conscientious Objection, Peace |
228 | 310 | Findings: Poets and the Crisis of Faith | Lampen, John | 1993 | The author claims poets offer confirmation to religious seekers that their glimpses of divine presence and intention are valid. Poets give them a language in which to describe such glimpses without demanding adherence to a belief system they cannot accept. | Poetry, Spirituality, Religion |
229 | 412 | Answering the Violence | Lampen, John | 2011 | John Lampen, who has served as a Quaker peace worker in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, draws on his own experiences and the accounts of other peace workers to explore the controversies, risks, rewards, and possible benefits of reaching out in friendship to perpetrators of violence. | Peace, Nonviolence, Witness, Northern Ireland |
230 | 441 | Making a Portrait of Jesus | Lampen, John | 2016 | What was Jesus really like? The portrayals John Lampen got in childhood lacked vitality, so he returned to the records to discover Jesus for himself and found “an extraordinary man who was very different from what I expected.” In addition to offering a vivid description of “a man who was intensely alive,” John Lampen discusses how he created this portrait by sifting through varied and sometimes contradictory evidence to determine what is most likely to be true. Readers who are interested in Jesus as a historical figure, as well as those who seek to follow his teachings, will find much to think about in this portrayal. Discussion questions included. | |
231 | 174 | Friends, Let Us Pray | Landstrom, Elsie H. | 1970 | The author meant not to write about prayer, but found during writing and meditation that she must explore it. | Prayer |
232 | 191 | Feminine Aspects of Divinity | Lantero, Erminie Huntress | 1973 | The writer suggests that God expresses Herself/Himself in whatever aspects, female or male, enable us to apprehend Her/Him. | Women, Femininity |
233 | 392 | Spirit-Led Eldering: Integral to Our Faith and Practice | Larrabee, Margery Mears | 2007 | Margery Mears Larrabee, author of this essay, and other Friends are urging us to rediscover eldering as a valuable practice that can nurture the spiritual lives of individual Friends and of Friends’ meetings. Decades of experience, wisdom, and deep reflection are contained in these pages. | Eldering, Faith and Practice |
234 | 120 | Selections on the Interior Life | Law, William | 1962 | Selections from an 18th century mystical writer who has influenced many Friends. | Mysticism, 18th Century, Prayer, Devotion |
235 | 227 | Women Ministers: A Quaker Contribution | Leach, Robert J. | 1979 | The work and influence of more than a dozen women, beginning with Margaret Fell, in the unprogrammed tradition of Quakerism. | Women, Clergy |
236 | 313 | Friends and Alcohol: Recovering a Forgotten Testimony | Levering, Robert | 1994 | After examining the history of Friends’ corporate witness on use of alcoholic beverages, which for the most part produced a call for total abstinence, the author argues that Friends should reexamine and reclaim this testimony. | Alcohol |
237 | 214 | Jacob Boehme: Insights into the Challenge of Evil | Liem, Ann | 1977 | A spiritual resident of both East and West, the author sees Jacob Boehme as a Christian esoteric (like George Fox) and perhaps the most illustrious forerunner of Quakerism. | Good, Evil, Mysticism |
238 | 351 | Jacob Boehme: Insights into the Challenge of Evil | Liem, Ann | 2000 | A Quaker examines what constitutes evil in our modern era, drawing on the theological work of the 16th century German mystic, Jacob Boehme. | Free Will, Salvation, Regeneration, Christ, Spiritual Reformer, Eighteenth Centry Reformation, Good, Evil |
239 | 387 | Turnaround: Growing a Twenty-First Century Religious Society of Friends | Lloyd, Benjamin | 2006 | In this essay the author presents his own creative ideas and encouragement for a reinvigoration of our meeting communities. Which of our traditions and practices should we renew? And where are the places where continuing revelation calls us to be open to the winds of change that will come with the next generation of Quaker leaders? | Faith and Practice, Religious Life, Leadership, Meetings, Religious Society of Friends, Communities |
240 | 408 | An Art of Small Resurrections: Surviving the Texas Death Chamber | Long, Walter | 2010 | Walter Long, a defense attorney for Texas death row inmates, wrestles with the apparent contradiction between the teachings of Jesus and widespread tolerance for government violence in a state where most citizens identify themselves as Christian. | Jesus, Justice, Prison, Christianity |
241 | 305 | Spiritual Discernment: The Context and Goal of Clearness Committees Among Friends | Loring, Patricia | 1992 | This essay is grounded in the central Quaker conviction of the availability of the experience and guidance of God to every person. It addresses the challenge of distinguishing the true movement of the Spirit from the wholly human. | Discernment, Clearness, Leadings |
242 | 126 | Readiness for Religion | Loukes, Harold | 1964 | Advice for those who seek to bring up their children to recognize their calling as children of God. | Religious Education, Children |
243 | 40 | Quaker Message: Extracts from Quaker Writings Showing the Beliefs and Practices and Present Importance Underlying Quaker Principles | Lucas, Sidney | 1948 | The message of Quakerism in the words of representative Quakers over 300 years, showing the vitality of the Society in the present and future. Includes a bibliography and a detailed index to Quaker principles. | Doctrine, Faith and Practice, Testimonies, Peace, Social Concerns, Integrity, Truth, Education, Ministry, Inward Light, God, Bible, Sacraments |
244 | 196 | Women and Quakerism | Luder, Hope Elizabeth | 1974 | The lives and achievements of some remarkable women provide striking examples of the importance of environment in encouraging or discouraging individual achievement. | Women, Religion |
245 | 230 | Life of the Spirit in Women: A Jungian Approach | Luke, Helen M. | 1980 | The writer believes modern women need to regain an understanding of the feminine nature. | Women, Psychology, Jung |
246 | 107 | Death and the Christian Answer | Lyman, Mary Ely | 1960 | A professor of religion and ordained minister believes the Christian faith helps us to accept and not be crushed by life’s ultimate denial. | Death, Religious Life |
247 | 326 | Liberation Theology for Quakers | Lynd, Alice | 1996 | A record of the author’s effort to live out the convictions of liberation theology nonviolently. Friends are invited to become a group that serves the poor directly, seeking passionately to create a new society. | Psychology, Religious, Spirituality |
248 | 342 | Beyond the Bars: A Quaker Primer for Prison Visitors | Maddock, Keith R. | 1999 | Written with sensitivity and grace, this essay depicts Friends Testimonies in prison service work. By example of listening and respect, more than by preaching, the author has much to say about being present in prison and receiving gifts from people who are incarcerated. | Prison |
249 | 379 | Living Truth: A Spiritual Portrait of Pierre Ceresole | Maddock, Keith R. | 2005 | Author Keith Maddock goes beyond Ceresole’s actions to paint a portrait of the spiritual growth of a passionate, poetic, solitary seeker of Truth who urges us to set aside our theories and our fears and instead take up the tools that are needed to create a more humane, just, and peaceful world. | Biography, Civilian Public Service |
250 | 301 | Spiritual Linkage with Russians: The Story of a Leading | Manousos, Anthony | 1992 | This essay explores the spiritual dimension of a unique Quaker peacemaking project called The Human Experience, an anthology of contemporary poetry and fiction of Russia and the U.S., that was jointly edited and published in both countries. | International Relations, Cold War, Glasnost, Perestroika |
251 | 372 | Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton | Manousos, Anthony | 2004 | Born of Quaker families, Howard Brinton and Anna Cox Brinton met doing Friends relief work in Germany after World War I in Europe and devoted their lives together to nurturing Quakerism, social activism, peacemaking, and peacemakers from coast to coast in the United States and, in their last years, in Asia. | Brinton, Howard H., Peace, Biography |
252 | 209 | Philosophy of the Inner Light | Marsh, Michael | 1976 | As economic researcher, foreign correspondent, lobbyist, and seeker, the author has found that the way out of a dogmatic disbelief in spiritual reality lies in using and understanding the inner light. | Inward Light, Holy Spirit |
253 | 237 | Reaching Toward God | Marsh, Michael | 1981 | Exploring the nature of spiritual divinity and other experiences brought the author to a belief in a truly personal God. | God |
254 | 366 | Invitation to a Deeper Communion | Martin, Marcelle | 2003 | This pamphlet examines what it was about the belief and practice of early Friends that invited direct experience of the Spirit. It also describes explorations by contemporary Friends to seek a deeper communion with God in worship, suggesting that a renewal of worship will help Friends today become powerful witnesses to another way of life. | Worship |
255 | 382 | Holding One Another in the Light | Martin, Marcelle | 2006 | Marcelle Martin offers a personal account of her discovery of and experiences with intercessory prayer. She describes the many forms it takes among Friends today, from interpersonal prayer support, to meetings for healing, to a prayerful witness for peace on earth. | Prayer, Healing, Spirituality |
256 | 170 | Edward Hicks, Primitive Quaker: His Religion in Relation to His Art | Mather, Eleanor Price | 1970 | The cultural and social evidences of Quakerism in Hicks’ painting, with special emphasis on the inward aspect of his religion. | Hicks, Edward, Art and Religion |
257 | 176 | Anna Brinton: a Study in Quaker Character | Mather, Eleanor Price | 1971 | The life of a leading Quaker derived from her reminiscences and those of her sister and her husband, supplemented by other material. | Brinton, Anna, Christian Biography |
258 | 28 | Barclay in Brief: a Condensation of Robert Barclay’s Apology for the True Christian Divinity. Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers. First Published in 1676 | Mather, Eleanore Price | 1948 | For more than 200 years, Barclay’s Apology was considered the most authoritative exposition of Quaker belief and practice, a synthesis of personal religious experience and the historical context of the religion. | Barclay, Robert, Beliefs and Testimonies |
259 | 53 | Power of Truth | Maurer, Herrymon | 1950 | The author contends that truth is in all persons, offends no one either in action or thought, loves everyone, and results in a selfless mind. | Truth |
260 | 104 | Psychoanalysis and Religious Mysticism | McClelland, David Clarence | 1959 | The religious roots of psychoanalysis and its new ways of interpreting human relationships have profound meaning for Christian churches. | Mysticism, Psychology |
261 | 320 | Leadership Among Friends | McDonald, Ron | 1995 | Looks at the ambivalence toward authority among Quaker youth, the need for common experiences of depth, and ways of encouraging more inspired ministry. | Authority, Discernment |
262 | 340 | Song of Death, Our Spiritual Birth: A Quaker Way of Dying | McIver, Lucy Screechfield | 1998 | As a Cadbury scholar at Pendle Hill, the author researched seventeenth century and modern experiences of death and dying among Friends. She offers guidance for pastoral care in our meeting communities. | Religion |
263 | 247 | Study of War as a Contribution to Peace | Mendl, Wolf | 1983 | Pacifists should learn to know and understand those with whom they disagree, so that they may be bridge-builders, nudging the world toward abandoning war. | War, Religious Life, Peace |
264 | 117 | Conscience | Mensching, Wilhelm | 1961 | The author is a German pastor best known for his consistent opposition to Nazism in Germany. | Conscience |
265 | 327 | Depression and Spiritual Growth | Mihalas, Dimitri | 1996 | The author writes, “In 1986 I passed through a year of major depression, the worst experience of my life, yet I have reaped incalculable benefits from it. My world view has changed radically for the better. My life now opens out on peaceful paths and breathtaking vistas I never knew existed.” | Psychology, Spirituality |
266 | 307 | Beyond Consensus: Salvaging Sense of the Meeting | Morley, Barry | 1993 | The author discusses three essential components in discovering the sense of the meeting: release, long focus, and transition to light, all of which are nurtured by worship. Rich stories of life experiences, especially with adolescents, illustrate the process. | Meeting for Business, Right Order, Unity, Clear |
267 | 364 | Gift of Days | Morrison, Mary C. | 2003 | In this moving pamphlet the author writes: “Maybe this is the death I was desiring so intensely during my illness – this death of the separate spinning mind as it merges into the intense life of the present moment. If so, then Yes, there’s more. Much more. ... My work is to be ready to receive it when it comes as I would a visit from an old friend.” | Death |
268 | 198 | Re-conciliation: The Hidden Hyphen | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1974 | Can we learn to move along the sharp and cutting hyphen of separation, making it a bridge for reconciliation – finding joy in meeting people, especially other groups or other races? | Reconciliation, Religious Life |
269 | 219 | Approaching the Gospels | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1978 | Intended for use in studying the life of Jesus, this is an excerpt from her leader’s guide to group study of the gospels. | Bible, Gospels, Jesus |
270 | 242 | Journal and the Journey | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1982 | The writer’s interior journey of 71 years. | Spirituality, Diary, Journal, Journaling |
271 | 260 | Way of the Cross: The Gospel Record | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1985 | A long-time teacher of the Gospels sees the heart of their message as a center that is everywhere – inclusive, yet highly individual. | Bible, Gospels |
272 | 311 | Without Nightfall upon the Spirit | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1993 | Reflections on aging, including its physical, spiritual, and religious effects, by an 83-year-old author. | Aging |
273 | 356 | Testimony: John Woolman on Today’s Global Economy | Morse, David E. | 2001 | What would John Woolman do in the face of the current injustices brought on by globalization? This pamphlet provides a creative and provocative response. | Globalization, Economics, John Woolman, World Politics, Testimonies, Slavery, Truth |
274 | 333 | Walk With Me: Nonviolent Accompaniment in Guatemala | Morton, Peg | 1997 | The author learned about the destruction in Central America being caused with the support, training, and participation of the U.S. government-- she learned of the holocaust which had taken place in Guatemala. After that Central America unveiling, way opened for her to give up her counseling career and to return to fulltime volunteer activism. | Social Concerns |
275 | 234 | Lucretia Mott Speaking: Excerpts from the Sermons | Mott, Lucretia | 1980 | The great Quaker was a leader in women’s struggle for equality and a strong influence for social action in the Society of Friends. | Mott, Lucretia, Women, Abolitionism, Universalism |
276 | 178 | Violence or Aggressive Nonviolent Resistance? | Moulton, Phillips P. | 1971 | Urgently needed is a large scale program of research and planning for genuine alternatives to military defense. This would bring new insight and energy to nonviolent resistance. | Violence, Passive Resistance |
277 | 187 | Living Witness of John Woolman | Moulton, Phillips P. | 1973 | The editor of Woolman’s journal and essays examines the significance of this influential Quaker for modern man. | Woolman, John |
278 | 97 | Human Way Out | Mumford, Lewis | 1958 | The hour is late for saving the human race from the possibility of wanton extermination or biological degradation; we must plan with a human purpose springing from divine inspiration. | World Politics, Cold War, Nuclear War, United States, Foreign Policy |
279 | 46 | Faith of an Ex-Agnostic | Murphy, Carol R. | 1949 | The results of a search for a meaningful philosophy of religion involve the failure of science, the nature of God, commitment, and redemption. | Science, Religion, Agnosticism |
280 | 67 | Ministry of Counseling | Murphy, Carol R. | 1952 | An essay on bringing together Holy Spirit and modern therapeutic counseling. | Counseling, Pastoral Psychology |
281 | 82 | Religion and Mental Illness | Murphy, Carol R. | 1955 | Learning how to meet the needs of the mentally ill helps us to become binding and healing agents. This work is basically religious. | Mental Disorders |
282 | 85 | Examined Life | Murphy, Carol R. | 1955 | A dialogue between the Critic on the Hearth and the author on spiritual maturity and morality. | Spirituality |
283 | 99 | Deeper Faith: the Thought of Paul Tillich | Murphy, Carol R. | 1958 | Tillich has illuminated the situation of man in his search for faith. | Theology |
284 | 137 | Revelation and Experience | Murphy, Carol R. | 1964 | This prolific Pendle Hill author explores faith and revelation as opposed to modern scientific positivistic philosophy. | Revelation, Religious Life |
285 | 150 | Many Religions, One God: Toward a Deeper Dialogue | Murphy, Carol R. | 1966 | The relation of Christian revelation to that of God in all the great religions. | Religion, Christianity, Ecumenism |
286 | 158 | Man: The Broken Image | Murphy, Carol R. | 1968 | What can man think of man? Is he a naked ape, a thinking reed, a candle of the Lord? Murphy explores the human side of the divine-human encounter. | Women, Humanity |
287 | 169 | Holy Morality: A Religious Approach to Modern Ethics | Murphy, Carol R. | 1970 | A survey of modern moral dilemmas and ethical decisions. | Ethics |
288 | 184 | Valley of the Shadow | Murphy, Carol R. | 1972 | Reflections on the ultimate problem of death and its meaning. | Death |
289 | 193 | Available Mind | Murphy, Carol R. | 1974 | The author shows that meditation, inner quiet, the way of non-violence, expectancy, and humility increase available mind and life. | Meditation |
290 | 205 | Sound of Silence: Moving with T’ai Chi | Murphy, Carol R. | 1976 | Practicing the Chinese art of meditation in movement may make a person more real and compassionate, more completely in God’s world, and enable us to relate to it with serene sensitivity. | Tai Chi |
291 | 216 | O Inward Traveler | Murphy, Carol R. | 1977 | A spiritual journey includes approach, alternative visions, absorption, awareness, and meditation. | Meditation |
292 | 223 | Roots of Pendle Hill | Murphy, Carol R. | 1979 | Chapters in a history of Pendle Hill up to 1920, based on the recollections of Douglas Steere, Anna and Howard Brinton, Anna Broomell, and others. | Pendle Hill, Woolman School |
293 | 236 | Four Women, Four Windows on Light | Murphy, Carol R. | 1981 | The women discussed are: Mary Baker Eddy, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, and Flannery O’Connor. | Christian Biography, Mary Baker Eddy, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Flannery O'Connor |
294 | 251 | Nurturing Contemplation | Murphy, Carol R. | 1983 | Quoting people who emphasize being rather than doing, the author reflects on the fullness of the contemplative life. | Contemplation |
295 | 287 | Milestone 70 | Murphy, Carol R. | 1989 | In this her 17th Pendle Hill pamphlet, the author explores her daily life in her seventieth year. | Christian Life |
296 | 111 | Psychotherapy Based on Human Longing | Murphy, Robert Cushman | 1965 | The author’s subjective and intuitive experiences in psychotherapy. | Psychology |
297 | 325 | Unconscious | Murphy, Robert Cushman | 1996 | A doctor shares his career as physician/psychiatrist and his wisdom on how the unconscious works to fulfill longings leading to greater health for those who are able to trust the Guide. | Psychology, Religion, Spirituality |
298 | 15 | War is the Enemy | Muste, Abraham Johannes | 1942 | Nonviolence, pacifism, and non-pacifism are discussed as in a search for the truth rather than as philosophical adversaries. | Pacifism |
299 | 13 | World Task of Pacifism | Muste, Abraham John | 1941 | Religious pacifism as it affects social change is addressed in relation to nonviolence, pacifist relief work, pacifist strategies, and alternative service. | Pacifism, Nonviolence, Conscientious Objection |
300 | 64 | Of Holy Disobedience | Muste, Abraham John | 1952 | The individual must be committed to Holy Disobedience against war-making and conscription. | Conscientious Objection, United States, Pacifism, Religion |
301 | 124 | Saints for this Age | Muste, Abraham John | 1962 | Speaking from religious faith and a lifetime of action, the author believes mankind must find the way into a radically new world, a new humanity, or perish. | Christian life |
302 | 263 | Replacing the Warrior: Cultural Ideals and Militarism | Myers, William A. | 1985 | Examines the need for a new cultural ideal, replacing militarism by the values shown in the life of John Woolman. | Militarism, Morality, War and Society, Christianity and Culture |
303 | 48 (b) | Kasturba: Wife of Gandhi | Nayyar, Sushila | 1948 | A reflection upon Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi. | Gandhi, Nonviolence, Liberation |
304 | 276 | Meditations on a D Major Scale | Nicholson, Bertha May | 1987 | The author uses the theme of a D scale to explore a moment of truth from several perspectives: teaching and learning, music and Quakerism, and the inward journey. | Spirituality, Music |
305 | 290 | Quaker Money | Nicholson, S. Francis | 1990 | The manager of funds for Quaker organizations and individuals reflects on Friends and the tension between money and ethics. | Ethics, Money |
306 | 1 | Cooperation and Coercion as Methods of Social Change | Nicholson, Vincent De Witt | 1934 | The author asks if the consequences of differences and conflicts can be creative instead of devastating. | Cooperation, Conflict Resolution |
307 | 41 | Studies in Christian Enthusiasm: Illustrated from Early Quakerism | Nuttall, Geoffrey Fillingham | 1948 | Enthusiasm meant possession by deity, resulting in prophetic or poetic force. Essays are on moral, didactic, emotional, and spiritual enthusiasm. | Holy Spirit, Quakerism, History, 17th Century |
308 | 101 | To the Refreshing of the Children of Light | Nuttall, Geoffrey Fillingham | 1959 | An English Congregational minister sends an Open Letter to Friends. | Friends, Doctrine |
309 | 348 | Journey to Bosnia, Return to Self | O’Hatnick, Suzanne Hubbard | 2000 | The author describes her call to serve as peace activist in Bosnia and then chronicles the work she undertook, illuminating the transformative power of her experience. | Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Ecumenism, Catholics, Apathy, War, Reconstruction, |
310 | 61 | Guilt | Ockel, Gerhard | 1951 | Can guilt be an aid to the progress of the spirit? An examination of personal and collective guilt in the light of Christian truth and modern psychology. | Good and Evil, Sin, Psychology |
311 | 312 | Motions of Love: Woolman as Mystic and Activist | Olmsted, Sterling | 1993 | A study of the interrelationship between mysticism and activism in the life and ministry of John Woolman, as reflected in his writings. | Mysticism, Social Concerns, John Woolman |
312 | 268 | In God We Live | Ostrom, Warren | 1986 | The author’s journey as he finds a personal religion, culminating in joining the Society of Friends. | Personal Religion |
313 | 385 | In God We Die | Ostrom, Warren | 2006 | Author Warren Ostrom, who has worked closely with the aging and dying for over two decades, offers his deeply-considered insights on the end of life, as well as his reflections on the role of spirituality in how we face death, and guidance for finding clarity in our choices about our own final path. | Death, Aging, Spirituality |
314 | 212 | Place Called Community | Palmer, Parker J. | 1977 | The possibility of community in homes, neighborhoods, schools, places of work, or wherever people live. | Community |
315 | 224 | In the Belly of a Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Thought of Thomas Merton | Palmer, Parker J. | 1979 | A study of contemplation in a life of action. | Contemplation, Paradox |
316 | 217 | Wholesight: The Spirit Quest | Parker-Rhodes, Arthur Frederick | 1978 | Wholesight here means finding coherence among religion, science, art, and politics. | Spirituality, Science, Religion, Politics, Art and Religion |
317 | 354 | Live the Questions: Write into the Answers | Parsons, Barbara E. and Mary Morrison | 2001 | Two consummate journal writers describe the writing process and give exercises for keeping a journal. | Journaling, Reflection, Writing |
318 | 189 | Simplicity: A Rich Quaker’s View | Peck, George Terhune | 1973 | The Light is the source of Friends’ view of simplicity, says this historian-businessman, as he explores the implications of that testimony in his life. | Simplicity |
319 | 213 | Triple Way: Purgation, Illumination, Union | Peck, George Terhune | 1977 | The nature of mysticism is here explored through a three-level process. | Mysticism |
320 | 277 | What is Quakerism? A Primer | Peck, George Terhune | 1988 | A book for beginners on understanding the tenets of the Society of Friends. | Friends |
321 | 298 | Psalms Speak | Peck, George Terhune | 1991 | Thoughtful presentations on these ancient biblical texts bring the wisdom of the ages into our present-day experiences. | Bible, Psalms |
322 | 29 | Inward Journey of Isaac Penington: An Abbreviation of Penington’s Works | Penington, Isaac | 1943 | A condensation of the 1400-page, 1761 edition of Isaac Penington’s work, with a discussion of God, free will, and justification. | Penington, Isaac, Beliefs and Testimonies |
323 | 30 | William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown, abridged by Anna Brinton | Penn, William | 1944 | Penn’s view of conducting one’s life in obedience to God. A companion to Barclay in Brief and Penington’s The Inward Journey. | Penn, William, Beliefs and Testimonies |
324 | 16 | Peacemakers’ Dilemma: a Plea for a Modus Vivendi in the Peace Movement | Pickard, Bertram | 1942 | The author discusses the possibility of a compromise among different elements in the peace movement and points out two kinds of pacifism: integral and spurious. | Peace, International Relations, Pacifism |
325 | 254 | To Martin Luther King with Love: A Southern Quaker’s Tribute | Pitre, David Wayne | 1984 | Reflects the author’s years of appreciation of the writing and faith of a Christian practicing nonviolent change and unconditional love. | Martin Luther King, Nonviolence |
326 | 33 | Quaker Anecdotes | Poley, Irvin C. and Ruth Verlenden Poley | 1946 | Stories that combine humor with an illustration of Quaker testimonies. | Religious Society of Friends, Humor, Proselytization, Ecumenism |
327 | 252 | Holistic Economics and Social Protest | Powelson, John P. | 1983 | Social protesters may not have taken into account the complexity of economics, and this author offers explanations. | International Relations, Economics, Social Concerns |
328 | 244 | Reflections on Simplicity | Prevallet, Elaine M. | 1982 | The author shares her lifelong concern with the process of simplicity, a gift that eludes one’s grasp. | Simplicity |
329 | 261 | Interconnections | Prevallet, Elaine M. | 1985 | Reflections on deep relationships, the networks that God uses to transform wounds into wholeness. | Spirituality |
330 | 122 | Civil War Diary of Cyrus Pringle, with a foreword by Henry Cadbury | Pringle, Cyrus Guernsey | 1962 | The devotional classic of a Quaker who battled with his conscience at the time of the Civil War. | Conscientious Objection, Civil War, United States |
331 | 416 | Grief, Forgiveness, and Redemption as a Way of Transformation | Pryce, Elaine | 2012 | The traumatic loss of a loved one is among the most devastating hurdles that life can throw in a person’s path. Drawing from her own experience, as well as from art, literature, and traditional wisdom, Elaine Pryce explores the spiritual aspects of grief, recovery from grief, forgiveness, and the blessings of acceptance. | Spirituality, Grief, Forgiveness |
332 | 434 | A Quietness Within: The Quiet Way as Faith and Spirituality | Pryce, Elaine | 2015 | Drawing on the wisdom of Christian mystics, early Quakers, and other spiritual explorers, Elaine Pryce contemplates the tradition of silent inward attentiveness to Mystery and Presence as a way to spiritual renewal, healing, and discovery. In compelling, poetic language, she calls readers to the quietness within. Discussion questions included. | |
333 | 245 | Alternative Christianity | Punshon, John | 1982 | The writer characterizes the essence of Quakerism as radical, charismatic, and prophetic. | Doctrine, Prophecy |
334 | 285 | Letter to a Universalist | Punshon, John | 1989 | Written by a Christian Quaker, this pamphlet explores Universalism, Christianity, and Quaker faith and reflects the author’s conviction that to establish mutual respect and tolerance among faiths is to establish world peace. | Universalism |
335 | 154 | Reality of God: Thoughts on the Death of God Controversy | Purdy, Alexander Converse | 1967 | A Quaker professor of religion writes from neither a theological nor a philosophical approach, but from his study of the New Testament. | God, Christianity, Skepticism, Agnosticism |
336 | 403 | Integrity, Ecology, and Community: The Motion of Love | Ratcliffe, Jennie M. | 2009 | Jennie Ratcliffe, drawing on her years of experience and reflection as a scientist and active participant in peace and ecological concerns, believes that a deeper transformation is needed. A spiritual awareness of our oneness reminds us that we live in intimate relationship and kinship with each other, the earth, and the Divine. | Integrity, Ecology, Spirituality, Nonviolence |
337 | 380 | Very Good Week Behind Bars | Ravndal, Janeal Turnbull | 2005 | In this essay, Janeal Ravndal writes of her week in Philadelphia’s Federal Detention Center after she chose to ignore orders not to block entry to a courthouse as the U.S. began to attack Iraq early in 2003. | Civil Disobedience, Prayer, Prison |
338 | 73 | Inner Islands | Rawlins, Winifred | 1953 | An exploration, through letters, of the challenges and problems of living. | Poetry, Life |
339 | 362 | Bringing God Home: Exploring Family Spirituality | Rehard, Mary Kay | 2002 | The communities of L’Arche and Taizé have influenced the author’s insights and practices. Both encourage healthy family environments and the nurture of children’s spirituality. “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them: for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” - Matthew 19:14. | Family Life, Spirituality |
340 | 423 | Queries as Prayers | Rembert, Ron B. | 2013 | The author finds new ways of using queries and explores the significance of writing our prayers. | Prayer |
341 | 390 | Special Education as a Spiritual Journey | Resman, Michael | 2007 | Michael Resman, who works in special education as an occupational therapist, has had much occasion to grapple with difficult questions. The answers he found for himself come not from church teachings, nor from his own reasonings, but from mystical insight, or as early Friends would say, from spiritual openings. | Education, Disabilities, Suffering, Spirituality |
342 | 147 | Walls | Reuman, Robert Everett | 1966 | The author considers the nature of the barriers that separate people everywhere. | Communication |
343 | 96 | John Woolman and the 20th Century | Reynolds, Reginald | 1958 | The author reflects on the thoughts of Woolman and their applications in contemporary society. | John Woolman, Testimonies, Spirituality |
344 | 190 | Memories and Meditations of a Workcamper | Richie, David S. | 1973 | Reflections on years as a participant in the first American work camp, started in 1934. | American Friends Service Committee |
345 | 345 | More than Equals: Spiritual Friendships | Roberts, Trish | 1999 | The author advocates for this growing form of spiritual nurture among Friends and gives good guidelines for seeking and sustaining a spiritual friendship. | Spiritual Friendship, Practice, Prayer, Leadership, Eldering, Overseer, Oversight, Community |
346 | 395 | Walt Whitman’s Spiritual Epic | Robertson, Michael | 2008 | With particular attention to the perspectives of Friends, Michael Robertson walks the reader through Song of Myself, noting its beauties, its challenges, and its deep inspiration. | Poetry, Spirituality |
347 | 92 | An Inward Legacy: Selections from Letters to his Friend Edited with an introduction by Gilbert Kilpack | Robinson, Forbes | 1956 | These excerpts have a common theme: the force of grace, Christian prayer, love, and revelation. | Robinson, Forbes, Spirituality |
348 | 235 | A.J. Muste, Pacifist & Prophet: His Relation to the Society of Friends | Robinson, Jo Ann | 1981 | Discusses the development of a pacifist influenced by the Dutch Reformed Church, Marxism, and Christian ethics. | Pacifism, Biography, United States, Friends, Fellowship, Marxism, Peace |
349 | 280 | An Attender at the Altar: A Sacramental Christian Responds to Silence | Rochelle, Jay C. | 1988 | The author shows the interplay between sacrament and silence. | Sacraments, Silence |
350 | 108 | Therapist’s View of Personal Goals | Rogers, Carl Ransom | 1960 | The questions of life’s goals and purposes viewed by a humanist psychotherapist. | Psychology |
351 | 105 | Private Testimony and Public Policy: An Individual View of an International Predicament | Ruopp, Phillips | 1959 | Reflections on world order and religious concerns. | World Politics, Private Life, Religion |
352 | 383 | Answering the Call to Heal the World | Schenck, Patience A. | 2006 | In a wise and intimate conversation with her readers, Patience Schenck walks us through the life of a leading: hearing a call, testing our discernment, overcoming the obstacles to faithfulness, finding the support we need, and, finally, recognizing when our work is done. | Healing, Gifts, Discernment |
353 | 415 | Living Our Testimony on Equality: A White Friend’s Experience | Schenck, Patience A. | 2011 | The principle of human equality is a testimony that Friends are both proud of and challenged by. Proclaiming the importance of equality among peoples is far easier than living equality, day to day and interpersonally. Pat Schenck has dedicated years of study, self-examination, and experimentation to living racial equality in a society that still supports inequality in its institutions. | Social Concerns, Equality, Race Relations |
354 | 192 | Dialogue with the Other: Martin Buber and the Quaker Experience | Schroeder, Janet E. | 1973 | From a class on interreligious studies the writer develops conversations between man and man and between God and man. | Buber, Martin, Judaism |
355 | 75 | Puerto Rican Neighbor | Schuckman, Roy | 1954 | The life of a typical libaro (countryman) in a barrio (village). | Rural Development, Puerto Rico |
356 | 343 | Quakerism and Science | Schwabe, Calvin W. | 1999 | A Quaker scientist affirms that science and Quakerism have more in common than science has with other avenues of religious expression. The wider recognition of the commonalities could encourage both inner and outer peace. | Science, Research, Inspiration, Leadings, Continuing Revelation |
357 | 269 | Seed and the Tree: A Reflection on Nonviolence | Seeger, Daniel A. | 1986 | The nonviolent sensibility understands that there is no truly beneficial, liberating, or healing politics which is not spiritual in quality, that religion and politics are one, that vision and action are one. | Nonviolence, Pacifism, Revolution |
358 | 318 | Silence: Our Eye on Eternity | Seeger, Daniel A. | 1994 | This essay is a reflection on the practice of inner silence in everyday life. | Religion, Silence, Contemplation |
359 | 162 | Black City Stage | Shepherd, Jack | 1968 | A theater, film, and TV producer explores spontaneous theater. | Theater, Race Relations |
360 | 180 | Apocalypso: Revelations in Theater | Shepherd, Jack | 1971 | Spontaneous drama is described with lists of players and fellow-creators. | Theater, Improvisation |
361 | 208 | Rhythms of the Ecosystem | Shetter, Janette Knott | 1976 | Developed from a course in ecology at Pendle Hill, the teacher uses the Dancing Shiva as a focus for her concerns. | Cosmology, Ecology, Earthcare, Nature, Ecosystem |
362 | 418 | Some Thoughts on Becoming Eighty-five | Shetter, William Z. | 2012 | The experience of long life and spiritual fruits of aging are the focus of this meditative walk through eighty-five years of William Shetter’s life experience: among Friends, in relationship, as an ongoing seeker and keen observer of the world. | Aging, Autobiography, Spirituality |
363 | 186 | Words & Testimonies: The Carey Memorial Lecture, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 1971 | Silcock, Thomas Henry | 1972 | A review of the principles and special ethics of the Society of Friends. | Ethics |
364 | 142 | Dear Gift of Life: A Man’s Encounter with Death | Smith, Bradford | 1965 | The author wrote this while dying of cancer, facing his own mortality. | Death, Poetry |
365 | 370 | Quaker in the Zendo | Smith, Steve | 2004 | In this pamphlet the author tells the story of his journey through Zen to a rediscovery of directions for spiritual formation practiced by the earliest Quakers. | Buddhism, Christianity, Quakerism |
366 | 378 | Living in Virtue, Declaring Against War | Smith, Steve | 2005 | Born in an era of profound spiritual awakening, the Quaker Peace Testimony remains a radical challenge today–to live Jesus’s message of love, forgiveness and reconciliation. This is the story of the author’s discovery and conviction in the Light. | Violence, Peace, Convincement, Spirituality |
367 | 140 | Joint and Visible Fellowship | Snell, Beatrice Saxon | 1965 | Addresses Friends Meeting for Worship and the significance of preparation for worship. | Worship, Practice |
368 | 188 | Hunger for Community: An Essay on Experiential Education for Interpersonal Living | Snoek, Jaap Diedrick | 1973 | The author explores increased sharing of our lives and deeper involvement with other persons through intentional communities, organized groups, and support groups. | International Relations, Community |
369 | 397 | Quaker Witness as Sacrament | Snyder, Daniel O. | 2008 | Dan Snyder has spent his adult years wrestling with the apparent dichotomy between the pull of an inward call to a spiritual life of contemplation and an outward call to respond to the problems of the world. He has concluded that rather than competing with each other, these two calls are parts of a single whole that must be joined if he is to be faithful to either. | Prayer, Spirituality, Witness |
370 | 14 | Religion and Politics | Sollmann, Wilhelm | 1941 | A program for modern Christian democracy and a call for action, with a fifteen-point outline for solutions to the problems of the Western world. | Christianity and Politics, Democracy |
371 | 45 | Zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Fragen zur Verständigung und Versöhnung | Sollmann, Wilhelm | 1948 | This essay offers a contribution to a democratic way of living (in German). | Democracy |
372 | 10 | Community and Worship | Steere, Douglas Van | 1940 | The author discusses therapeutic groups, monastic communities, the Ashram movement, and the Society of Friends. For Quakers, the meeting for worship is the culmination of the experiences of religious community. | Communities, Monasticism, Meeting for Worship |
373 | 144 | Bethlehem Revisited | Steere, Douglas Van | 1965 | The writer, known for his concern for the inner life, here reflects on the Vatican and ecumenism. | Ecumenism |
374 | 151 | On Being Present Where You Are | Steere, Douglas Van | 1967 | What does it mean to be present at any given place or time, and what does genuine presence imply? | Religion, Experience |
375 | 163 | Hardest Journey | Steere, Douglas Van | 1969 | Addresses the cost of spiritual renewal and the linkage of outward with inward journeys. | Inward Light, Holy Spirit, Spirituality |
376 | 175 | Mutual Irradiation: A Quaker View of Ecumenism | Steere, Douglas Van | 1971 | The author considers potential hesitations and roadblocks which affect Friends’ relationships with Christian and non-Christian religious groups. | Christian Union, Ecumenism, Christianity and Other Religions |
377 | 182 | On Speaking Out of the Silence: Vocal Ministry in the Unprogrammed Meeting for Worship | Steere, Douglas Van | 1972 | The nature, functioning, sense of expectancy, and frame of interpretation embodied in Friends’ way of worship. | Pastoral Theology, Worship |
378 | 199 | Contemplation and Leisure | Steere, Douglas Van | 1975 | A fresh and intimate look at work and contemplation and the deep maturity they share. | Contemplation, Leisure |
379 | 291 | Prayer in the Contemporary World | Steere, Douglas Van | 1980 | This deep thinker and ecumenist shares a meditation and prayer for each day of the month. | Prayer |
380 | 324 | Traveling In | Steere, Douglas Van | 1995 | “I am going to speak about ‘traveling in’ and about my own personal journey. I haven’t done that on any other occasion in quite so full a way as I’m going to do here this morning.” So begins this essay, a treasure from one of Quakerism’s most thoughtful writers. | Autobiography, Religion, Spirituality |
381 | 59 | Quaker Strongholds | Stephen, Caroline Emelia | 1951 | A friend by convincement considers the basic doctrines of Quakerism. Selections from the author’s classic book on the subject, which was first published in 1890. | Doctrine, Quaker, Liturgy, Practice |
382 | 56 | Toward Pacifism: The Convincement and Commitment of a Young European | Sundberg, Gunnar | 1950 | “Is pacifism on the way out?” queries a Swede who saw some military service, took part in international work camps, lived in Germany for a while, then became a dedicated pacifist. His answer is no, it isn’t. | Pacifism, Peace, War |
383 | 346 | Treasure in Clay Jars | Sutton, Elizabeth Ostrander | 1999 | The author rediscovered a powerful sense of God calling her to a more real spiritual life through her artistic work with clay in the Pendle Hill studio. Photographs and devotions record that experience. | Clay, Ceramics, Scholarships, Spirituality, Earthen Vessels |
384 | 259 | Stewardship of Wealth | Swayne, Kingdon W. | 1985 | Reflections on the responsibilities of being rich, with a guide to self-assessment. | Wealth, Friends, Ethics |
385 | 335 | Come Aside and Rest Awhile | Taber, Frances | 1997 | Out of her own rich experience, Fran Taber expands William Penn’s vision for retreats. She describes the retreat movement as a significant thread weaving together the ecumenical religious community. | Religion, Psychology, Renewal |
386 | 400 | Finding the Taproot of Simplicity: A Movement Between Inner Knowledge and Outer Action | Taber, Frances Irene | 2009 | This essay explores the spiritual basis of Friends’ testimony of simplicity: how it evolved from the efforts of early Friends to live in a way that fostered the spiritual richness of their lives, and how it continues to speak today in the lives of those who seek to find not merely balance, but an unseamed wholeness of their inward and outward journeys. | Simplicity, Harmony |
387 | 256 | Prophetic Stream | Taber, William P. | 1984 | A call to revive the prophetic message in Quaker worship and ministry and in Christianity. | Prophecy, Christianity |
388 | 306 | Four Doors to Meeting for Worship | Taber, William P. | 1992 | This essay describes four doors as thresholds into the heart of worship, understood as communion with the invisible but eternal stream of reality in which lives the eternal Christ. | Worship |
389 | 300 | Therefore Choose Life: The Spiritual Challenge of the Nuclear Age | Tallmadge, John | 1991 | This essay renews the debate about the futility of deterrence in a post-Cold War era by introducing, as a spiritual problem, the idea of nuclear addiction and how to get out of it. | Social Concerns |
390 | 302 | Zen Buddhist Encounters Quakerism | Tamura, Teruyasu | 1992 | A Zen Buddhist professor contrasts meditation with Quaker worship. | Buddhism, Religion, Eastern Spirituality |
391 | 367 | Quaker in Vietnam: Rick Thompson | Taylor, Beth | 2003 | This pamphlet is a personal history of Rick Thompson, who worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Vietnam during the war, and who is one of the few Quakers to have died there. The author uncovers his journey of conscience as it led to pacifism and then compelled him to help in relief efforts in Vietnam during the war. | Peace, Viet Nam, American Friends Service Committee, Pacifism |
392 | 172 | Friends & The Racial Crisis | Taylor, Richard K. | 1970 | A social worker addresses the Society of Friends and its struggle against racism and poverty in America. | Race Relations |
393 | 424 | Nonviolent Direct Action as a Spiritual Path | Taylor, Richard K. | 2013 | The author explores the relationship between spirituality and nonviolent direct action. | Nonviolence, Social Action, Spirituality |
394 | 130 | Poetry Among Friends | Thorne, Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert | 1963 | Though few Friends have been poets in the past, a growing number are being nurtured in the Quaker tradition. | Poetry, History |
395 | 115 | Mysticism and the Experience of Love | Thurman, Howard | 1965 | The religion of the inner life, or mysticism, is life affirming and reaches its highest goal in love. | Inward Light, Love, Mysticism |
396 | 79 | Sense of Living | Tonge, Mildred | 1954 | The practices of art and writing lead to a creative center in each person. | Art and Religion, Writing |
397 | 39 | Christianity and Civilisation | Toynbee, Arnold Joseph | 1947 | The essay argues that human progress is interrelated with spiritual development. (Reprinted elsewhere, but this edition includes an introduction by the author.) | Christianity, Civilization, Western Civilization |
398 | 42 | Discipline of Prayer | Tritton, Frederick John | 1948 | Practical guidance to preliminary discipline, aspects of prayer, contemplation, intercession, and prayer in everyday life. | Prayer, Worship, Holy Spirit |
399 | 131 | Dilemmas of a Reconciler: Serving the East-West Conflict | Ullmann, Richard Karl | 1963 | The experience of reconciliation through the Christian Peace Conference of 1958 and the first all-Christian Peace Assembly of 1961. | Peace, Reconciliation, Mediation |
400 | 275 | Needle’s Eye: A Philippine Experience | Urner, Carol Reilley | 1987 | Reflections on her involvement with Filipino tribal peoples and war, with references to John Woolman. | Nonviolence, Philippines, First Peoples, Native Races |
401 | 317 | Kingdom and the Way: Meditations on the Kingdom | Urner, Carol Reilley | 1994 | The author shares specific biblical texts and her meditations, connecting the inward holy place where she meets God with Buddhist teachings and the fundamental truths of Christian experience. | Religion, Bible, Gospels, Meditation |
402 | 70 | Science and the Business of Living | Vail, James Garrett | 1953 | The author shows that combining the tradition of science – looking at obstacles as problems to be solved – and the religious concept of moral law as the basis of our life together could make a peaceful world. | Science |
403 | 121 | Patterns of Renewal | Van der Post, Laurens | 1962 | The earliest human pattern is still alive and accessible to us, but modern man is cut off from experiencing this dynamic renewal deep in himself. | Ethno, psychology, Anthropology |
404 | 95 | Inner Liberty: The Stubborn Grit in the Machine | Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin | 1957 | Selfless sacrifice, holy pain, and the fight for the private life are involved in the struggle of the inner imagination against outer mechanization. | Creativity, Private Life, Liberty |
405 | 34 | Contributions of the Quakers | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1947 | Sections on the arrival of Quakers in America and on what they have given to the U.S., especially in the fields of peace, prison reform, care of the insane, education, the arts, and respect for civil rights. | Friends, Religious Society of Friends, History, United States |
406 | 66 | World in Tune | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1952 | Various prayers as interpreted by this Quaker witness. | Prayer |
407 | 167 | William Penn: Mystic, as Reflected in his Writings | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1969 | Well-known aspects of this famous Quaker, such as his championship of religious liberty and city planning, are contrasted with his deep mystical faith. | Penn, William, Mysticism |
408 | 221 | Harnessing Pegasus: Inspiration and Meditation | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1978 | The author explains how she has developed her writing style, using the inner self, over 40 years. | Authorship, Creativity, Inspiration, Meditation |
409 | 246 | Quest There is | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1982 | A collection of quotations from some of the author’s favorite mystics with interpretive comments. | Meditation |
410 | 388 | Expectant Listening: Finding God’s Thread of Guidance | Wajda, Michael | 2007 | Out of a great hunger for God’s love and guidance, Michael Wajda has spent his adult life seeking to experience the presence of God. In small ways and large, his search has been answered. In this pamphlet, he offers readers his personal story and tells what he has learned about the practice of Expectant Listening. | Listening, Worship, Spirituality |
411 | 299 | Vistas from Inner Stillness | Walker, Richard L. | 1991 | A naturalist and astronomer writes of a knowing of God that comes from his mystical experiences of nature. | Mysticism |
412 | 428 | Spiritual Accompaniment: An Experience of Two Friends Traveling in the Ministry | Walling, Cathy and Elaine Emily | 2014 | The authors give us an account of eldering from the viewpoint of the companion and the minister she traveled with. | Eldering |
413 | 361 | Journey Through Skepticism | Warren, Roland L. | 2002 | In this pamphlet, the author describes how he has come to live in the certainty of a spirit that unites him to something beyond himself. | Belief, Christianity, Agnosticism, Atheism |
414 | 330 | Searching for the Real Jesus | Warren, Roland Leslie | 1997 | The early Friends, as Publishers of Truth, proclaimed to have experienced the Truth of God’s presence. The author, a Quaker with reverence for scripture, explicates the learned thinking of prominent contemporary scholars who debate the historical veracity of Jesus. | Bible, Criticism, History, Literature |
415 | 91 | Iliad: Or, The Poem of Force | Weil, Simone | 1956 | Originally written in 1940 after the fall of France, this essay may be read as an indirect commentary on that event, which symbolized extreme modern force. | Violence, Force, Western Civilization |
416 | 240 | Two Moral Essays: Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations, and Human Personality | Weil, Simone | 1981 | Positive morality rests on a foundation of faith. What is the nature of that faith, and what are its logical consequences? | Morality, Simone Weil |
417 | 381 | Fire of the Heart: Norman Morrison’s Legacy in Viet Nam and at Home | Welsh, Anne Morrison | 2005 | Anne Morrison Welsh tells the moving story of her husband’s self-sacrifice at the Pentagon in November 1965 in a desperate effort to help end a war he abhorred. In telling her husband’s story, the author also shares her own spiritual journey of forgiveness, acceptance, and gradual recovery from life’s wounds. | Viet Nam, Death, Forgiveness, Peace, Pacifism |
418 | 281 | Quaker Theology of Pastoral Care: The Art of the Everyday | White, Zoe | 1988 | By being faithful artists of the Spirit, and by creating a theology of playfulness, color, spontaneity, and surprise, one may be informed and transformed. | Pastoral Care, Theology |
419 | 149 | Experiments in Community: Ephrata, the Amish, the Doukhobors, the Shakers, the Bruderhof [and] Monteverde | Whitney, Norman Jehiel | 1966 | Essays describing intentional communities and defining the causes of their success. | Intentional Communities |
420 | 4 | Totalitarian Claim of the Gospels | Willson, Dora | 1939 | When reading Jesus’s teachings, one should clear the mind of preconceptions and the interpretations of modern psychologies, then concentrate on the Gospels’ application to practical living. | Bible, Gospels, Criticism |
421 | 35 | Self, to the Self | Willson, Dora | 1946 | A group of women converse about self-relationships, referring to symbols, and listening to each other as ways to right-relatedness. | Self, Women, Psychology |
422 | 60 | Promise of Deliverance: The Assurance That There Is a Power by Which Disaster Can Be Abolished Forever | Wilson, Dan | 1951 | A person must be regenerated by the power of God to overcome the human condition. | Worldliness, Regeneration, God |
423 | 113 | An Opening Way | Wilson, Dan | 1961 | Using Barclay’s statement on an enabling way, the author reflects on growing up and being opened to truth. | Doctrine, Truth |
424 | 437 | Methaphors of Meaning | Wilson, Linda | 2016 | The spiritual life defies description through words. To understand our own spiritual experiences and talk about them with others, we often rely on images or metaphors to convey our meaning. Linda Wilson explores metaphors that are commonly used for expressing life in the spirit, noting that their meaning can vary from person to person, framed by one’s geographical roots, culture, and gender. Wilson recognizes her own spirituality in the image of “tending one’s spiritual home,” a metaphor she develops with insight and care, as she offers an example to readers for finding and working with one’s own metaphors. | |
425 | 409 | Who Do You Say I Am? | Wilson, Lloyd Lee | 2010 | This pamphlet invites readers to meet Jesus as Lloyd Lee has come to know Him and to further explore for themselves, “Who do you say I am?” | Jesus |
426 | 427 | Radical Hospitality | Wilson, Lloyd Lee | 2014 | The author finds in the events of Jesus's life and in his parables lessons in how to be part of the Kingdom—through inclusiveness toward all people, through letting go of personal cravings for possessions and power, and through noncoercion. | Christianity, Community |
427 | 22 | Relief and Reconstruction: Notes on Principles Involved in Quaker Relief Service | Wilson, Roger | 1943 | Four aspects of Quaker relief work are elucidated: its religious basis, the role of the worker, relationships between official and voluntary organizations, and politics and sociology. | World War II, Relief Work, Service, American Friends Service Committee |
428 | 51 | Worship | Woolman, John | 1950 | Excerpts from this influential Quaker’s writings, edited by Herrymon Maurer. | Worship, Ministry, Quietism, Truth |
429 | 357 | Plea for the Poor | Woolman, John | 2001 | This early Quaker minister’s essay relates poverty to wasteful consumption, brings the rich and powerful to account, and calls for simplicity as a style of life. | Wealth, Poverty, Morality, Ethics, Reparations |
430 | 100 | Gifts of the True Love: Based on the Old Carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” | Yates, Elizabeth | 1958 | Among the gifts cited are creativity, serene rest, skill in the ways of work, a sacramental approach to the daily round, faith, and courage. | Christmas |
431 | 6 | Functional Poverty | Young, Mildred Binns | 1939 | Three papers derived from the author’s experiences suggest a paradoxical discipline of liberating one’s life by limiting one’s material possessions and processes, thus realizing one’s responsibilities and the oneness of humanity. | Conduct of Life, Poverty |
432 | 12 | Standard of Living | Young, Mildred Binns | 1941 | The concept of functional poverty suggests that our standard of living causes distress and violence in our world. | Standard of Living, Poverty, Simplicity, Cost |
433 | 19 | Participation in Rural Life | Young, Mildred Binns | 1942 | To share in the love of God, one must enter into social responsibility for mankind. | Participation, Conduct of Life, Rural Life, Community |
434 | 90 | Insured by Hope | Young, Mildred Binns | 1956 | What are the practical means by which we can know our single lives are bound to a greater Life and that we are secured in hope? The author finds answers from her own experience of poverty. | Hope, Poverty, Simplicity |
435 | 109 | Another Will Gird You: A Message to the Society of Friends | Young, Mildred Binns | 1960 | Explores questions about living a Quaker life in the modern world. | Quakerism, Religious Life |
436 | 116 | Candle, the Lantern, the Daylight | Young, Mildred Binns | 1961 | How the teachings of Jesus inspired the writer’s life. | Christianity, Rural Life |
437 | 145 | What Doth the Lord Require of Thee? | Young, Mildred Binns | 1966 | What does the Biblical injunction to do justly and to love mercy require of modern man? | Inward Light |
438 | 177 | Woolman and Blake: Prophets for Today | Young, Mildred Binns | 1971 | An imaginary encounter between two men who share insights and mercy. | Woolman, John, Blake, William, Mysticism, Quietism, Faith, Social Concerns |
439 | 118 | Visible Witness: A Testimony for Radical Peace Action | Young, Wilmer J. | 1961 | Jailed as a protester against war, the author reflects on his 70 years outside prison. | Pacifism, Conscientious Objection |
440 | 194 | Quakerism of the Future: Mystical, Prophetic, & Evangelical | Yungblut, John R. | 1974 | The best elements in Friends’ tradition are taproots providing vital energy and sustained motivation for the survival of faith. | Doctrine |
441 | 203 | Sex and the Human Psyche: Toward a Contemporary Ethic | Yungblut, John R. | 1975 | This essay proposes criteria for a contemporary sex ethic, hoping to stimulate thinking and ultimately, perhaps, a distinctive Friends’ testimony on sex. | Sexuality, Ethics |
442 | 211 | Seeking Light in the Darkness of the Unconscious | Yungblut, John R. | 1977 | A synthesis of psychology and mysticism using Jungian approaches. | Psychology |
443 | 249 | Speaking as one Friend to Another: On the Mystical Way Forward | Yungblut, John R. | 1983 | Do Quakers require a radical mutation in their consciousness? | Mysticism, Spirituality |
444 | 292 | On Hallowing One’s Diminishments | Yungblut, John R. | 1990 | A lifelong student of mysticism shares the experience of contemplative prayer in facing many forms of diminishment: birth defects, natural disasters, aging, and death itself. | Religion, Death, Disabilities, Suffering |
445 | 316 | For That Solitary Individual: an Octogenarian’s Counsel on Living and Dying | Yungblut, John R. | 1994 | The author defines three activities of evolution: differentiation, interiority, and communion. He counsels each person to seek a contemplative life to nurture these activities. | Contemplation |
446 | 201 | Psychology & Silence | Zielinski, Stanislaw | 1975 | The role of psychology in religious mysticism and unprogrammed Quaker meetings for worship. | Silence, Psychology, Mysticism |
1 | [Ctrl] F / [Command] F to search | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | PHP | Title | Author | Date | Description | Subjects |
3 | 1 | Cooperation and Coercion as Methods of Social Change | Nicholson, Vincent De Witt | 1934 | The author asks if the consequences of differences and conflicts can be creative instead of devastating. | Cooperation, Conflict Resolution |
4 | 2 | Religious Solution to the Social Problem | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1934 | A solution to the social problem of excessive individualism will be a religious one which still respects the rights of the individual. | Simplicity |
5 | 3 | Value of Voluntary Simplicity | Gregg, Richard Bartlett | 1936 | Voluntary simplicity involves inner and outer conditions, such as intentional organization of life for a purpose. | Simplicity |
6 | 4 | Totalitarian Claim of the Gospels | Willson, Dora | 1939 | When reading Jesus’s teachings, one should clear the mind of preconceptions and the interpretations of modern psychologies, then concentrate on the Gospels’ application to practical living. | Bible, Gospels, Criticism |
7 | 5 | Pacifist Program in Time of War, Threatened War, or Fascism | Gregg, Richard Bartlett | 1939 | A proposal to alter our social environment based on pacifism and nonviolence. | Conscientious Objection, Pacifism, Religious Society of Friends |
8 | 6 | Functional Poverty | Young, Mildred Binns | 1939 | Three papers derived from the author’s experiences suggest a paradoxical discipline of liberating one’s life by limiting one’s material possessions and processes, thus realizing one’s responsibilities and the oneness of humanity. | Conduct of Life, Poverty |
9 | 7 | Quaker Mutation | Heard, Gerald | 1940 | The author sees current educational trends as unable to satisfy individual needs. The Quaker center, Pendle Hill, can become a model for fundamental changes in education and training of the whole individual. | Pendle Hill, Education |
10 | 8 | Rethinking Quaker Principles | Jones, Rufus | 1940 | The author believes the Society of Friends is a mutation that emerged from the Reformation movement of the 17th century. If there had been no Puritan movement there would have been no Society of Friends. | English Civil War, Valiant Sixty, Quakerism |
11 | 9 | Quaker Education in Theory and Practice (Chapter two reprinted as The Nature of Quakerism) | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1940 | The author outlines the aims of education, the nature of Quakerism, and Quaker education, giving references for further study. | Education |
12 | 10 | Community and Worship | Steere, Douglas Van | 1940 | The author discusses therapeutic groups, monastic communities, the Ashram movement, and the Society of Friends. For Quakers, the meeting for worship is the culmination of the experiences of religious community. | Communities, Monasticism, Meeting for Worship |
13 | 11 | Discipline for Non-Violence | Gregg, Richard Bartlett | 1941 | Nonviolent resistance requires the physical element of manual labor and the direct social use of its products. | Discipline, Religious Society of Friends, Doctrine, Pacifism |
14 | 12 | Standard of Living | Young, Mildred Binns | 1941 | The concept of functional poverty suggests that our standard of living causes distress and violence in our world. | Standard of Living, Poverty, Simplicity, Cost |
15 | 13 | World Task of Pacifism | Muste, Abraham John | 1941 | Religious pacifism as it affects social change is addressed in relation to nonviolence, pacifist relief work, pacifist strategies, and alternative service. | Pacifism, Nonviolence, Conscientious Objection |
16 | 14 | Religion and Politics | Sollmann, Wilhelm | 1941 | A program for modern Christian democracy and a call for action, with a fifteen-point outline for solutions to the problems of the Western world. | Christianity and Politics, Democracy |
17 | 15 | War is the Enemy | Muste, Abraham Johannes | 1942 | Nonviolence, pacifism, and non-pacifism are discussed as in a search for the truth rather than as philosophical adversaries. | Pacifism |
18 | 16 | Peacemakers’ Dilemma: a Plea for a Modus Vivendi in the Peace Movement | Pickard, Bertram | 1942 | The author discusses the possibility of a compromise among different elements in the peace movement and points out two kinds of pacifism: integral and spurious. | Peace, International Relations, Pacifism |
19 | 17 | New Nations for Old | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1942 | These plans for the abolition of war were written by an economist-pacifist during World War II. The author looks toward the necessary process of the redemption of nationalism. | War, Peace |
20 | 18 | Anthology with Comments | Janet, Elizabeth Gray | 1942 | The author offers excerpts from the writings of W. H. Davies, George Herbert, James Stephens, Francis of Assisi, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Ellwood and William Blake, among others, with her interpretations. | W.H. Davies, George Herbert, James Stephens, St. Francis, Gerand Hopkins, Thomas Ellwood, William Blate |
21 | 19 | Participation in Rural Life | Young, Mildred Binns | 1942 | To share in the love of God, one must enter into social responsibility for mankind. | Participation, Conduct of Life, Rural Life, Community |
22 | 20 | Guide to Quaker Practice | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1943 | The author interprets the practices of the Society of Friends in his time. Revised editions released in 1950, 1993, 2006 | Friends, Government, Community, Doctrine |
23 | 21 | Reality of the Spiritual World | Kelly, Thomas Raymond | 1942 | Experience a hypothetical God as if he exists, proposed Kelly in this series of four lessons: access to spiritual reality through the Holy Spirit in prayer, fellowship, God, and the spiritual world. | Mysticism, Spirituality, Holy Spirit, Prayer |
24 | 22 | Relief and Reconstruction: Notes on Principles Involved in Quaker Relief Service | Wilson, Roger | 1943 | Four aspects of Quaker relief work are elucidated: its religious basis, the role of the worker, relationships between official and voluntary organizations, and politics and sociology. | World War II, Relief Work, Service, American Friends Service Committee |
25 | 23 | Clash by Night | Hamilton, Wallace Field | 1945 | Pacifists and militarists are portrayed as rivals in the post-war citizenry. | Pacifism, World War II |
26 | 24 | We Are Accountable: a View of Mental Institutions | Edelstein, Leonard Gerald | 1945 | A member of a Civilian Public Service unit in a mental hospital during World War II describes the neglect, mistreatment, and brutality accorded patients, with a brief appeal to religious groups to change these conditions. | Mental Institutions, Reform, Civilian Public Service |
27 | 25 | Militarism for America | Hartman, Grover Lowell. | 1945 | A discussion of the pros and cons of military service, with the author concluding there are more effective ways to create a better society. | Conscription, Peace |
28 | 26 | Quaker Meeting: a Personal Experience and Method Described and Analyzed | Collier, Howard Ebenezer | 1944 | This is a revised edition of a 1944 essay on the heart and soul of Quaker practice. | Faith and Practice, Meetings, Religious Life |
29 | 27 | Sources of the Quaker Peace Testimony | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1942 | Friends’ social testimonies form a unit derived from a common source: the direct insight of the soul into the nature of Truth and Goodness, interpreted through Divine Light. | Peace, Pacifism |
30 | 28 | Barclay in Brief: a Condensation of Robert Barclay’s Apology for the True Christian Divinity. Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People Called Quakers. First Published in 1676 | Mather, Eleanore Price | 1948 | For more than 200 years, Barclay’s Apology was considered the most authoritative exposition of Quaker belief and practice, a synthesis of personal religious experience and the historical context of the religion. | Barclay, Robert, Beliefs and Testimonies |
31 | 29 | Inward Journey of Isaac Penington: An Abbreviation of Penington’s Works | Penington, Isaac | 1943 | A condensation of the 1400-page, 1761 edition of Isaac Penington’s work, with a discussion of God, free will, and justification. | Penington, Isaac, Beliefs and Testimonies |
32 | 30 | William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown, abridged by Anna Brinton | Penn, William | 1944 | Penn’s view of conducting one’s life in obedience to God. A companion to Barclay in Brief and Penington’s The Inward Journey. | Penn, William, Beliefs and Testimonies |
33 | 31 | Quakerism and India | Alexander, Horace Gundry | 1945 | An appraisal of the work of the Friends Foreign Mission Association and the Friends Ambulance Unit in India over 80 years. | India, Foreign Missions, Service Work |
34 | 32 | Our Hearts are Restless | Kilpack, Gilbert | 1946 | The author believes that all human life and thought depend on the first three chapters of the book of Genesis. Friends testify to these passages and address separation from the Creator. | Bible, Genesis, Doctrine |
35 | 33 | Quaker Anecdotes | Poley, Irvin C. and Ruth Verlenden Poley | 1946 | Stories that combine humor with an illustration of Quaker testimonies. | Religious Society of Friends, Humor, Proselytization, Ecumenism |
36 | 34 | Contributions of the Quakers | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1947 | Sections on the arrival of Quakers in America and on what they have given to the U.S., especially in the fields of peace, prison reform, care of the insane, education, the arts, and respect for civil rights. | Friends, Religious Society of Friends, History, United States |
37 | 35 | Self, to the Self | Willson, Dora | 1946 | A group of women converse about self-relationships, referring to symbols, and listening to each other as ways to right-relatedness. | Self, Women, Psychology |
38 | 36 | Martha and Mary: a Woman’s Relationship to her Home | Benton, Josephine Moffett | 1947 | Using the Biblical story, the author finds family life, marriage, and work make a home the right and natural place in which to begin to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. | Home, Marriage, Family Life, Bible |
39 | 37 | Are Your Meetings Held in the Life | Cary, Margaret Morris | 1946 | The nature of Quaker meetings as related to daily living. | Christian Living, Family Life, Meetings |
40 | 38 | Wide Horizon | Brinton, Anna Cox | 1947 | Fourth in a series on relationships; a view of the world as unified, with each person taking a responsibility. | Relationships, Community, Responsibility |
41 | 39 | Christianity and Civilisation | Toynbee, Arnold Joseph | 1947 | The essay argues that human progress is interrelated with spiritual development. (Reprinted elsewhere, but this edition includes an introduction by the author.) | Christianity, Civilization, Western Civilization |
42 | 40 | Quaker Message: Extracts from Quaker Writings Showing the Beliefs and Practices and Present Importance Underlying Quaker Principles | Lucas, Sidney | 1948 | The message of Quakerism in the words of representative Quakers over 300 years, showing the vitality of the Society in the present and future. Includes a bibliography and a detailed index to Quaker principles. | Doctrine, Faith and Practice, Testimonies, Peace, Social Concerns, Integrity, Truth, Education, Ministry, Inward Light, God, Bible, Sacraments |
43 | 41 | Studies in Christian Enthusiasm: Illustrated from Early Quakerism | Nuttall, Geoffrey Fillingham | 1948 | Enthusiasm meant possession by deity, resulting in prophetic or poetic force. Essays are on moral, didactic, emotional, and spiritual enthusiasm. | Holy Spirit, Quakerism, History, 17th Century |
44 | 42 | Discipline of Prayer | Tritton, Frederick John | 1948 | Practical guidance to preliminary discipline, aspects of prayer, contemplation, intercession, and prayer in everyday life. | Prayer, Worship, Holy Spirit |
45 | 43 | Standards of Success | Havens, Teresina Rowell | 1948 | Some people try to alter conventional patterns of living; the author suggests a new criterion for success and poses questions for discussion. | Success, Values, Wealth, Poverty, Eastern Spirtuality, Judaism, China, Hinduism, Japan, United States, Protestantism, Theology |
46 | 44 | Quaker Doctrine of Inward Peace | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1948 | Outside pressures can be met by increasing inner dimensions, inner resources, inner strength, and stability. | Peace of Mind, Centering |
47 | 45 | Zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Fragen zur Verständigung und Versöhnung | Sollmann, Wilhelm | 1948 | This essay offers a contribution to a democratic way of living (in German). | Democracy |
48 | 46 | Faith of an Ex-Agnostic | Murphy, Carol R. | 1949 | The results of a search for a meaningful philosophy of religion involve the failure of science, the nature of God, commitment, and redemption. | Science, Religion, Agnosticism |
49 | 47 | Nature of Quakerism | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1949 | Discusses primary, secondary, and tertiary Quaker doctrines. A revised edition of the second chapter of pamphlet number nine. | Quakerism, Doctrine, Practice, Belief, Education |
50 | 48 | Society of Friends | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1949 | Explains the distinguishing principles of Quakerism. Reprinted from Religion in the 20th Century, edited by Vergilius Fern. | Quakerism, Doctrine |
51 | 48 (b) | Kasturba: Wife of Gandhi | Nayyar, Sushila | 1948 | A reflection upon Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi. | Gandhi, Nonviolence, Liberation |
52 | 49 | Christ in Catastrophe: An Inward Record | Fuchs, Emil | 1949 | A German teacher discusses living during Hitler’s regime, and out of that suffering discovers God. | Biography, Germany, World War II, Conversion, Imprisonment |
53 | 50 | Self-deceit: A Comedy on Lies; a Way of Overcoming Them | Faber, Frederick William | 1949 | These excerpts from Faber’s Spiritual Conferences explain self-deceit, its varieties, characteristics, and remedies – the highest corrective being to serve God out of personal love. | Self-Deceit, Worldliness, Vanity, Service |
54 | 51 | Worship | Woolman, John | 1950 | Excerpts from this influential Quaker’s writings, edited by Herrymon Maurer. | Worship, Ministry, Quietism, Truth |
55 | 52 | Search: A Personal Journey Through Chaos | Domino, Ruth | 1950 | Reminiscences of Pendle Hill teacher who was helped by Quaker relief workers and then trained others to serve abroad under the American Friends Service Committee. | World War II, France, Germany, Exile, Refugees, American Friends Service Committee |
56 | 53 | Power of Truth | Maurer, Herrymon | 1950 | The author contends that truth is in all persons, offends no one either in action or thought, loves everyone, and results in a selfless mind. | Truth |
57 | 54 | Prophetic Ministry | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1950 | The basis of Quaker ministry is the prophetic insight arising out of silence and delivered in brevity. | Prophecy, Christianity |
58 | 55 | Pendle Hill Idea: A Quaker Experiment in Work, Worship, and Study | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1950 | By fusing of the divine, the liberal, the useful, and the spiritual, the community of Pendle Hill was founded in 1930. | Community, Pendle Hill |
59 | 56 | Toward Pacifism: The Convincement and Commitment of a Young European | Sundberg, Gunnar | 1950 | “Is pacifism on the way out?” queries a Swede who saw some military service, took part in international work camps, lived in Germany for a while, then became a dedicated pacifist. His answer is no, it isn’t. | Pacifism, Peace, War |
60 | 57 | Atomic Peace: With a Memoir by Margaret Goddard Holt | Goddard, Harold Clarke | 1950 | A Shakespearean authority explores the role of imagination and creative force, likening them to an atomic chain reaction. | Imagination, Creativity |
61 | 58 | Ten Questions on Prayer | Heard, Gerald | 1951 | The whole problem of prayer involves our unavoidable praying for others. | Prayer |
62 | 59 | Quaker Strongholds | Stephen, Caroline Emelia | 1951 | A friend by convincement considers the basic doctrines of Quakerism. Selections from the author’s classic book on the subject, which was first published in 1890. | Doctrine, Quaker, Liturgy, Practice |
63 | 60 | Promise of Deliverance: The Assurance That There Is a Power by Which Disaster Can Be Abolished Forever | Wilson, Dan | 1951 | A person must be regenerated by the power of God to overcome the human condition. | Worldliness, Regeneration, God |
64 | 61 | Guilt | Ockel, Gerhard | 1951 | Can guilt be an aid to the progress of the spirit? An examination of personal and collective guilt in the light of Christian truth and modern psychology. | Good and Evil, Sin, Psychology |
65 | 62 | Toward Undiscovered Ends | Brinton, Anna Cox | 1951 | An exploration of why Russia has aroused the interest of Friends for three centuries. | Russia, Quakerism, Peace, Convincement |
66 | 63 | Ninth Hour | Kilpack, Gilbert | 1951 | With wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg, the author compares the ninth hour Christ spent on the cross to the twentieth century. | Christianity, 20th Century |
67 | 64 | Of Holy Disobedience | Muste, Abraham John | 1952 | The individual must be committed to Holy Disobedience against war-making and conscription. | Conscientious Objection, United States, Pacifism, Religion |
68 | 65 | Reaching Decisions: The Quaker Method | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1952 | Explains how the Society of Friends answers the question, “How can a free fellowship based on Divine guidance from within set up any form of church government providing direction from without?” | Government, Sense of the Meeting |
69 | 66 | World in Tune | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1952 | Various prayers as interpreted by this Quaker witness. | Prayer |
70 | 67 | Ministry of Counseling | Murphy, Carol R. | 1952 | An essay on bringing together Holy Spirit and modern therapeutic counseling. | Counseling, Pastoral Psychology |
71 | 68 | Art and Faith | Eichenberg, Fritz | 1952 | Art has become an international movement, a means of communication, and a means of experiencing the thrill of finding God. | Art and Religion, Spirtuality |
72 | 69 | Experiment with a Life | Collier, Howard Ebenezer | 1953 | Reflecting on his own experience, the author/physician concludes that religion integrates wholeness with all forms of healing. | Health, Religion |
73 | 70 | Science and the Business of Living | Vail, James Garrett | 1953 | The author shows that combining the tradition of science – looking at obstacles as problems to be solved – and the religious concept of moral law as the basis of our life together could make a peaceful world. | Science |
74 | 71 | Let Your Lives Speak | Foulds, Elfrida Vipont | 1953 | In a speech at the Tercentenary Conference of the Religious Society of Friends an English Quaker recreates the summer of 1652. | Conferences |
75 | 72 | Indian Testimony | Chakravarty, Amiya Chandra | 1953 | India’s philosophy of peace and the freedom movement led by Gandhi can be the testimony of all nations. With a foreword by Aldous Huxley. | Peace, Evil, Nonresistance |
76 | 73 | Inner Islands | Rawlins, Winifred | 1953 | An exploration, through letters, of the challenges and problems of living. | Poetry, Life |
77 | 74 | Everyman’s Struggle for Peace | Alexander, Horace Gundry | 1953 | A very brief survey of Gandhi’s involvement in the drive for Indian independence based on his religious principles of soul-force and self-rule. The author lived in India for 10 years and knew Gandhi. | Gandhi, Peace, Social Concerns |
78 | 75 | Puerto Rican Neighbor | Schuckman, Roy | 1954 | The life of a typical libaro (countryman) in a barrio (village). | Rural Development, Puerto Rico |
79 | 76 | McCarthyism: The Seed is in Us | Bristol, James E | 1954 | Deals not only with McCarthyism, but the whole repressive trend characterizing American life, and urges resisting every outreach of tyranny as the early Quakers did. | Communism, McCarthy, Joseph, Red Scare, Repression, Un-American Activities |
80 | 77 | Poets Walk In | Broomell, Anna Frances Thompson Pettit | 1954 | Through poetry a group of people share experience, delight, sorrow, searching, and understanding, thus reaching a truer sense of poetry itself and of community. | Poetry, Pennsylvania |
81 | 78 | Can Quakerism Speak to the Times? | Hobart, John Henry | 1954 | “What is the best way to interpret Quakerism in the modern world?” the author asks. | Doctrine |
82 | 79 | Sense of Living | Tonge, Mildred | 1954 | The practices of art and writing lead to a creative center in each person. | Art and Religion, Writing |
83 | 80 | Toward Political Responsibility | Hinshaw, Cecil Eugene | 1954 | How does man relate to the political structure of the world? | Politics |
84 | 81 | Personal Relevance of Truth | Brown, Thomas Shipley | 1955 | Truth is a life-giving relationship to Reality, and the search for Truth is the search for life itself, asserts this Quaker educator. | Truth, Integrity |
85 | 82 | Religion and Mental Illness | Murphy, Carol R. | 1955 | Learning how to meet the needs of the mentally ill helps us to become binding and healing agents. This work is basically religious. | Mental Disorders |
86 | 83 | Use of Silence | Hoyland, Geoffrey | 1955 | The author believes that the gateway to the Sanctuary of Silence lies open to every man and woman. | Silence |
87 | 84 | From Where They Sit | Hutchinson, Dorothy Hewitt | 1955 | A Quaker housewife takes a round-the-world journey of friendship with an African-American friend, visiting 16 families of widely varying cultures, nationalities, and religions. | Peace, International Relations, World Politics, Social Concerns |
88 | 85 | Examined Life | Murphy, Carol R. | 1955 | A dialogue between the Critic on the Hearth and the author on spiritual maturity and morality. | Spirituality |
89 | 86 | Blake’s Four-Fold Vision | Goddard, Harold Clarke | 1956 | Innocence, experience, revolution, rebellion, and vision in William Blake’s life. | Blake, William |
90 | 87 | Shelter from Compassion | Durr, Ruth E. | 1956 | A refuge from mankind may also be a fortification that dooms us to weep alone. The God within us is compassion. | Compassion |
91 | 88 | Nonviolent Resistance: A Nation’s Way to Peace | Hinshaw, Cecil Eugene | 1956 | Addresses the problem of meeting evil on the national level. | Passive Resistance, Civil Disobedience |
92 | 89 | Scruples | Kilpack, Gilbert | 1956 | A scruple was originally an ancient Roman weight; then it developed into a word meaning difficulty in deciding what is right. This essay explores what it means to have scruples or be scrupulous. | Morality |
93 | 90 | Insured by Hope | Young, Mildred Binns | 1956 | What are the practical means by which we can know our single lives are bound to a greater Life and that we are secured in hope? The author finds answers from her own experience of poverty. | Hope, Poverty, Simplicity |
94 | 91 | Iliad: Or, The Poem of Force | Weil, Simone | 1956 | Originally written in 1940 after the fall of France, this essay may be read as an indirect commentary on that event, which symbolized extreme modern force. | Violence, Force, Western Civilization |
95 | 92 | An Inward Legacy: Selections from Letters to his Friend Edited with an introduction by Gilbert Kilpack | Robinson, Forbes | 1956 | These excerpts have a common theme: the force of grace, Christian prayer, love, and revelation. | Robinson, Forbes, Spirituality |
96 | 93 | Quakerism and Other Religions | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1957 | Meeting points and differences between Quakerism and the major religions of China, India, and Japan. | Eastern Spirituality, India, China, Japan, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto |
97 | 94 | Loyalty by Oath: An Essay on the Extortion of Love | Hoffman, Hallock B. | 1957 | The loyalty oath depends on fear for its power. The author contends that people should be possessed by love, not fear. | Love, Oaths, Loyalty, Trust, Testimonies |
98 | 95 | Inner Liberty: The Stubborn Grit in the Machine | Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin | 1957 | Selfless sacrifice, holy pain, and the fight for the private life are involved in the struggle of the inner imagination against outer mechanization. | Creativity, Private Life, Liberty |
99 | 96 | John Woolman and the 20th Century | Reynolds, Reginald | 1958 | The author reflects on the thoughts of Woolman and their applications in contemporary society. | John Woolman, Testimonies, Spirituality |
100 | 97 | Human Way Out | Mumford, Lewis | 1958 | The hour is late for saving the human race from the possibility of wanton extermination or biological degradation; we must plan with a human purpose springing from divine inspiration. | World Politics, Cold War, Nuclear War, United States, Foreign Policy |
101 | 98 | In Pursuit of Moby Dick: Melville’s Image of Man | Friedrich, Gerhard | 1958 | The paradoxical characters in this novel illustrate an age-old faith and acts of confirmation. | Melville, Herman, Literature |
102 | 99 | Deeper Faith: the Thought of Paul Tillich | Murphy, Carol R. | 1958 | Tillich has illuminated the situation of man in his search for faith. | Theology |
103 | 100 | Gifts of the True Love: Based on the Old Carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” | Yates, Elizabeth | 1958 | Among the gifts cited are creativity, serene rest, skill in the ways of work, a sacramental approach to the daily round, faith, and courage. | Christmas |
104 | 101 | To the Refreshing of the Children of Light | Nuttall, Geoffrey Fillingham | 1959 | An English Congregational minister sends an Open Letter to Friends. | Friends, Doctrine |
105 | 102 | From One to Another | Jacob, Norma | 1959 | Discusses the Society of Friends’ long-standing interest in mental illness. | Mental Disorders, History, Social Action |
106 | 103 | Character of a Quaker | Cadbury, Henry Joel | 1959 | The successive criteria for describing a Quaker that have emerged throughout the Society of Friends’ history. | Doctrine, History |
107 | 104 | Psychoanalysis and Religious Mysticism | McClelland, David Clarence | 1959 | The religious roots of psychoanalysis and its new ways of interpreting human relationships have profound meaning for Christian churches. | Mysticism, Psychology |
108 | 105 | Private Testimony and Public Policy: An Individual View of an International Predicament | Ruopp, Phillips | 1959 | Reflections on world order and religious concerns. | World Politics, Private Life, Religion |
109 | 106 | Way of Man According to the Teachings of Hasidism | Buber, Martin | The world famous philosopher of I and Thou writes on Hasidism, a popular Jewish mystical movement. | Hasidism, Judaism | |
110 | 107 | Death and the Christian Answer | Lyman, Mary Ely | 1960 | A professor of religion and ordained minister believes the Christian faith helps us to accept and not be crushed by life’s ultimate denial. | Death, Religious Life |
111 | 108 | Therapist’s View of Personal Goals | Rogers, Carl Ransom | 1960 | The questions of life’s goals and purposes viewed by a humanist psychotherapist. | Psychology |
112 | 109 | Another Will Gird You: A Message to the Society of Friends | Young, Mildred Binns | 1960 | Explores questions about living a Quaker life in the modern world. | Quakerism, Religious Life |
113 | 110 | Covenant of Peace: A Personal Witness | Friedman, Maurice S. | 1965 | The author traces his life and thought from the Biblical covenant to the covenant of peace. | |
114 | 111 | Psychotherapy Based on Human Longing | Murphy, Robert Cushman | 1965 | The author’s subjective and intuitive experiences in psychotherapy. | Psychology |
115 | 112 | Two Trends in Modern Quaker Thought: A Statement | Fowler, Albert Vann | 1961 | A discussion of universalism and particularism in Quakerism. | Universalism, Christianity |
116 | 113 | An Opening Way | Wilson, Dan | 1961 | Using Barclay’s statement on an enabling way, the author reflects on growing up and being opened to truth. | Doctrine, Truth |
117 | 114 | How They Became Friends | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1961 | The nature and development of early Quakerism, with some reflections on the Society of Friends in America. | Membership, Convincement |
118 | 115 | Mysticism and the Experience of Love | Thurman, Howard | 1965 | The religion of the inner life, or mysticism, is life affirming and reaches its highest goal in love. | Inward Light, Love, Mysticism |
119 | 116 | Candle, the Lantern, the Daylight | Young, Mildred Binns | 1961 | How the teachings of Jesus inspired the writer’s life. | Christianity, Rural Life |
120 | 117 | Conscience | Mensching, Wilhelm | 1961 | The author is a German pastor best known for his consistent opposition to Nazism in Germany. | Conscience |
121 | 118 | Visible Witness: A Testimony for Radical Peace Action | Young, Wilmer J. | 1961 | Jailed as a protester against war, the author reflects on his 70 years outside prison. | Pacifism, Conscientious Objection |
122 | 119 | Stand Fast in Liberty | Bristol, James E. | 1961 | Post-McCarthyism, the fear of Communism and hysteria must be met by a program based on what we believe in, a positive approach to the totalitarian threats of the times. | Communism, Free Thought, Liberty, Conscience, Social Concerns |
123 | 120 | Selections on the Interior Life | Law, William | 1962 | Selections from an 18th century mystical writer who has influenced many Friends. | Mysticism, 18th Century, Prayer, Devotion |
124 | 121 | Patterns of Renewal | Van der Post, Laurens | 1962 | The earliest human pattern is still alive and accessible to us, but modern man is cut off from experiencing this dynamic renewal deep in himself. | Ethno, psychology, Anthropology |
125 | 122 | Civil War Diary of Cyrus Pringle, with a foreword by Henry Cadbury | Pringle, Cyrus Guernsey | 1962 | The devotional classic of a Quaker who battled with his conscience at the time of the Civil War. | Conscientious Objection, Civil War, United States |
126 | 123 | Prayer, the Cornerstone | Hole, Helen Griscom Bell | 1962 | The fellowship of the first Christians had prayer as their primary experience; the author discusses prayer and its benefits. | Prayer |
127 | 124 | Saints for this Age | Muste, Abraham John | 1962 | Speaking from religious faith and a lifetime of action, the author believes mankind must find the way into a radically new world, a new humanity, or perish. | Christian life |
128 | 125 | Children and Solitude | Boulding, Elise | 1964 | Is it possible to drown children in a constant flow of stimuli, allowing no time for inward growth? | Solitude, Family Life, Children |
129 | 126 | Readiness for Religion | Loukes, Harold | 1964 | Advice for those who seek to bring up their children to recognize their calling as children of God. | Religious Education, Children |
130 | 127 | Thou Dost Open Up My Life: Selections from the Rufus Jones Collection | Jones, Rufus Matthew | 1963 | Readings chosen from this well-known Quaker’s writings by his daughter, Mary Hoxie Jones. The Rufus Jones collection is housed in the Haverford College Library. | Jones, T. Canby, Jones, Rufus, Religious Society of Friends, Spirituality |
131 | 128 | Encounters with Art | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1963 | What is great art? What can art do for us? How do we communicate with art? An expression of the author’s interest in art, as well as the Jungian concept of growth and spiritual life. | Art and Religion, Jung |
132 | 129 | Nonviolent Action: How It Works | Lakey, George | 1963 | Evidently, nonviolent action has some kind of power, even when the action is not very spectacular. The question then arises, what is this power? The task of this pamphlet is to discover the how of nonviolent action. | Passive Resistance, Conscientious Objection, Peace |
133 | 130 | Poetry Among Friends | Thorne, Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert | 1963 | Though few Friends have been poets in the past, a growing number are being nurtured in the Quaker tradition. | Poetry, History |
134 | 131 | Dilemmas of a Reconciler: Serving the East-West Conflict | Ullmann, Richard Karl | 1963 | The experience of reconciliation through the Christian Peace Conference of 1958 and the first all-Christian Peace Assembly of 1961. | Peace, Reconciliation, Mediation |
135 | 132 | Obstacles to Mystical Experience | Crom, Scott | 1963 | A mathematician/philosopher discusses Western and Eastern approaches to mysticism. | Mysticism, Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, Vedanta, Hinduism, Buddhism |
136 | 133 | Eclipse of the Historical Jesus | Cadbury, Henry Joel | 1964 | A Quaker religious philosopher summarizes scholarly thinking about the identity of Jesus Christ. | Jesus, Historicity |
137 | 134 | From Convincement to Conversion | Cobin, Martin T. | 1964 | The author tells of his conversion from Judaism to Quakerism. | Friends, Convincement, Conversion |
138 | 135 | Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian | Brown, Joseph Epes | 1964 | Written to encourage Native Americans to honor their own religious and traditional values. Selected bibliography included. | Native Americans, Mythology |
139 | 136 | Evolutionary Potential of Quakerism | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1964 | An economist sees Quakerism as an evolutionary mutation from the main line of Christian development. He suggests that the next stage in its development is intellectual. | History, Intellectualism |
140 | 137 | Revelation and Experience | Murphy, Carol R. | 1964 | This prolific Pendle Hill author explores faith and revelation as opposed to modern scientific positivistic philosophy. | Revelation, Religious Life |
141 | 138 | An Apology for Perfection | Hinshaw, Cecil Eugene | 1964 | The author believes the Society of Friends owes more to ethical perfectionism than to mysticism. | Christian life |
142 | 139 | Three Letters from Africa | Brookes, Edgar Harry | 1965 | These deeply Christian letters discuss racial and social injustices and conflicts in South Africa. This is introduced by Douglas Steere with a forward by Alan Paton. | Segregation, South Africa, Race Relations |
143 | 140 | Joint and Visible Fellowship | Snell, Beatrice Saxon | 1965 | Addresses Friends Meeting for Worship and the significance of preparation for worship. | Worship, Practice |
144 | 141 | Journal of a College Student | Havens, Joseph | 1965 | The imagined writer reflects on contemporary student experience and religious conflict. | Religious Life, Skepticism |
145 | 142 | Dear Gift of Life: A Man’s Encounter with Death | Smith, Bradford | 1965 | The author wrote this while dying of cancer, facing his own mortality. | Death, Poetry |
146 | 143 | Unless One is Born Anew | Hutchinson, Dorothy Hewitt | 1965 | The greatest challenges to face mankind are securing peace, freedom, and bread. Individual renewal through the Seed and the Spirit will help us address them. | Religious Society of Friends |
147 | 144 | Bethlehem Revisited | Steere, Douglas Van | 1965 | The writer, known for his concern for the inner life, here reflects on the Vatican and ecumenism. | Ecumenism |
148 | 145 | What Doth the Lord Require of Thee? | Young, Mildred Binns | 1966 | What does the Biblical injunction to do justly and to love mercy require of modern man? | Inward Light |
149 | 146 | Wit and Wisdom of William Bacon Evans | Brinton, Anna Cox | 1966 | Stories, anecdotes, letters, bird songs, and sonnets are linked with a thread of biographical narrative about this distinctive Philadelphia Friend. | William Bacon Evans, Humor, Biography |
150 | 147 | Walls | Reuman, Robert Everett | 1966 | The author considers the nature of the barriers that separate people everywhere. | Communication |
151 | 148 | Prophetic Element in Modern Art | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1966 | The author finds accelerating promise for the future in the visual language of prophetic art in the last 150 years. | Art and Religion, Psychology, Society |
152 | 149 | Experiments in Community: Ephrata, the Amish, the Doukhobors, the Shakers, the Bruderhof [and] Monteverde | Whitney, Norman Jehiel | 1966 | Essays describing intentional communities and defining the causes of their success. | Intentional Communities |
153 | 150 | Many Religions, One God: Toward a Deeper Dialogue | Murphy, Carol R. | 1966 | The relation of Christian revelation to that of God in all the great religions. | Religion, Christianity, Ecumenism |
154 | 151 | On Being Present Where You Are | Steere, Douglas Van | 1967 | What does it mean to be present at any given place or time, and what does genuine presence imply? | Religion, Experience |
155 | 152 | Quakerism and Christianity | Bronner, Edwin B. | 1967 | The author addresses the question of what it means to be a Quaker today and considers Quakerism to be the third strand of Christianity (the other two being Catholicism and Protestantism). | Doctrine |
156 | 153 | Mayer/Boulding Dialogue on Peace Research | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart and Milton Mayer | 1967 | An economist and an educator, both Quakers, debate the value of studying psychology, sociology, political science, economics, and international law as ways to peace. | Peace |
157 | 154 | Reality of God: Thoughts on the Death of God Controversy | Purdy, Alexander Converse | 1967 | A Quaker professor of religion writes from neither a theological nor a philosophical approach, but from his study of the New Testament. | God, Christianity, Skepticism, Agnosticism |
158 | 155 | On Being Real: A Quest for Personal and Religious Wholeness | Crom, Scott | 1967 | A conception of truth as the fidelity of consciousness to a reality that is neither fixed nor final. | Christian Life, Truth, Discovery, Authenticity |
159 | 156 | Ethical Mysticism in the Society of Friends | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1967 | The author sees ethical mysticism as a process of withdrawing from the world and returning to it. | Mysticism, Ethics, Devotion |
160 | 157 | Facing and Fulfilling the Later Years | Andrews, Elsie Marion | 1968 | Creativity, travel, the interests of the mind in the world at large, and the fluid expression of personality are positive aspects of aging today. | Aging, Creativity |
161 | 158 | Man: The Broken Image | Murphy, Carol R. | 1968 | What can man think of man? Is he a naked ape, a thinking reed, a candle of the Lord? Murphy explores the human side of the divine-human encounter. | Women, Humanity |
162 | 159 | America in Travail | Brookes, Edgar Harry | 1968 | A South African visitor to America sees campus unrest and the Black Power Movement as the greatest challenges here in 1968. | Social Concerns |
163 | 160 | Behind the Gospels | Cadbury, Henry Joel | 1968 | A study of the origin of the Gospels covering historical sequence, order of origin, relative historical value, authorship, and other insights. | Bible, New Testament, Gospels, Criticism |
164 | 161 | Religion of George Fox | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1968 | The author is concerned with George Fox’s inner sources for outward action as revealed by his Epistles rather than his advice to early Friends on dress, speech, and behavior. | Fox, George, Spirituality, Epistles, Spirituality, Holy Spirit |
165 | 162 | Black City Stage | Shepherd, Jack | 1968 | A theater, film, and TV producer explores spontaneous theater. | Theater, Race Relations |
166 | 163 | Hardest Journey | Steere, Douglas Van | 1969 | Addresses the cost of spiritual renewal and the linkage of outward with inward journeys. | Inward Light, Holy Spirit, Spirituality |
167 | 164 | Why a Friends School? | Heath, Douglas H. | 1969 | Youth and society need the insights and vision of Quakerism and similar traditions in order to witness forcefully and creatively about how to live as a full human being. | Education, Youth, Tradition |
168 | 165 | Gandhi Remembered | Alexander, Horace Gundry | 1969 | A very brief survey of Gandhi’s involvement in the drive for Indian independence based on his religious principles of soul-force and self-rule. The author lived in India for 10 years and knew Gandhi. | Gandhi, Nonviolence, Liberation |
169 | 166 | Atonement of George Fox | Fogelklou, Emilia | 1969 | The relationship between the individual and the group in Quaker context. | Authority |
170 | 167 | William Penn: Mystic, as Reflected in his Writings | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1969 | Well-known aspects of this famous Quaker, such as his championship of religious liberty and city planning, are contrasted with his deep mystical faith. | Penn, William, Mysticism |
171 | 168 | Modern Promethean: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth | Friedman, Maurice S. | 1969 | The author, a teacher and conscientious objector, celebrates the Modern Job, the Problematic Rebel he sees in today’s young people, and the possibilities for a new image of man. | Youth |
172 | 169 | Holy Morality: A Religious Approach to Modern Ethics | Murphy, Carol R. | 1970 | A survey of modern moral dilemmas and ethical decisions. | Ethics |
173 | 170 | Edward Hicks, Primitive Quaker: His Religion in Relation to His Art | Mather, Eleanor Price | 1970 | The cultural and social evidences of Quakerism in Hicks’ painting, with special emphasis on the inward aspect of his religion. | Hicks, Edward, Art and Religion |
174 | 171 | War Resistance in Historical Perspective | Gara, Larry | 1970 | A professor of history who was a draft resister in World War II reviews religious objection to war, war resistance as a phase of reform, and conscription since 1757 in America. | Conscientious Objection |
175 | 172 | Friends & The Racial Crisis | Taylor, Richard K. | 1970 | A social worker addresses the Society of Friends and its struggle against racism and poverty in America. | Race Relations |
176 | 173 | Evolution and the Inward Light | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1970 | The author reflects on the teachings of Rufus Jones and Josiah Royce, as well as the philosophies of idealism, pragmatism, and existentialism. | Doctrine, Logos, Evolution |
177 | 174 | Friends, Let Us Pray | Landstrom, Elsie H. | 1970 | The author meant not to write about prayer, but found during writing and meditation that she must explore it. | Prayer |
178 | 175 | Mutual Irradiation: A Quaker View of Ecumenism | Steere, Douglas Van | 1971 | The author considers potential hesitations and roadblocks which affect Friends’ relationships with Christian and non-Christian religious groups. | Christian Union, Ecumenism, Christianity and Other Religions |
179 | 176 | Anna Brinton: a Study in Quaker Character | Mather, Eleanor Price | 1971 | The life of a leading Quaker derived from her reminiscences and those of her sister and her husband, supplemented by other material. | Brinton, Anna, Christian Biography |
180 | 177 | Woolman and Blake: Prophets for Today | Young, Mildred Binns | 1971 | An imaginary encounter between two men who share insights and mercy. | Woolman, John, Blake, William, Mysticism, Quietism, Faith, Social Concerns |
181 | 178 | Violence or Aggressive Nonviolent Resistance? | Moulton, Phillips P. | 1971 | Urgently needed is a large scale program of research and planning for genuine alternatives to military defense. This would bring new insight and energy to nonviolent resistance. | Violence, Passive Resistance |
182 | 179 | Light and Life in the Fourth Gospel | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1971 | The philosophy and psychology of early Quakerism as derived by John’s Gospel. | Gospel of John, Bible, New Testament, Criticism, Doctrine, Controversy |
183 | 180 | Apocalypso: Revelations in Theater | Shepherd, Jack | 1971 | Spontaneous drama is described with lists of players and fellow-creators. | Theater, Improvisation |
184 | 181 | Quaker Message: a Personal Affirmation | Doncaster, Leonard Hugh | 1972 | The tenets of the Religious Society of Friends are described and commented on. | Doctrine |
185 | 182 | On Speaking Out of the Silence: Vocal Ministry in the Unprogrammed Meeting for Worship | Steere, Douglas Van | 1972 | The nature, functioning, sense of expectancy, and frame of interpretation embodied in Friends’ way of worship. | Pastoral Theology, Worship |
186 | 183 | Art and the Changing World: Uncommon Sense in the 20th Century | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1972 | A discussion of the reality of myth, the art of Africa, India, China, and Japan, and growth processes in our changing world. | Art and Religion, 20th Century |
187 | 184 | Valley of the Shadow | Murphy, Carol R. | 1972 | Reflections on the ultimate problem of death and its meaning. | Death |
188 | 185 | Meeting House & Farm House | Brinton, Howard Haines | 1972 | Daily life during the first 100 years of Pennsylvania Quakers, with many quotations from monthly meeting minute books of that time. | Meeting Houses |
189 | 186 | Words & Testimonies: The Carey Memorial Lecture, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 1971 | Silcock, Thomas Henry | 1972 | A review of the principles and special ethics of the Society of Friends. | Ethics |
190 | 187 | Living Witness of John Woolman | Moulton, Phillips P. | 1973 | The editor of Woolman’s journal and essays examines the significance of this influential Quaker for modern man. | Woolman, John |
191 | 188 | Hunger for Community: An Essay on Experiential Education for Interpersonal Living | Snoek, Jaap Diedrick | 1973 | The author explores increased sharing of our lives and deeper involvement with other persons through intentional communities, organized groups, and support groups. | International Relations, Community |
192 | 189 | Simplicity: A Rich Quaker’s View | Peck, George Terhune | 1973 | The Light is the source of Friends’ view of simplicity, says this historian-businessman, as he explores the implications of that testimony in his life. | Simplicity |
193 | 190 | Memories and Meditations of a Workcamper | Richie, David S. | 1973 | Reflections on years as a participant in the first American work camp, started in 1934. | American Friends Service Committee |
194 | 191 | Feminine Aspects of Divinity | Lantero, Erminie Huntress | 1973 | The writer suggests that God expresses Herself/Himself in whatever aspects, female or male, enable us to apprehend Her/Him. | Women, Femininity |
195 | 192 | Dialogue with the Other: Martin Buber and the Quaker Experience | Schroeder, Janet E. | 1973 | From a class on interreligious studies the writer develops conversations between man and man and between God and man. | Buber, Martin, Judaism |
196 | 193 | Available Mind | Murphy, Carol R. | 1974 | The author shows that meditation, inner quiet, the way of non-violence, expectancy, and humility increase available mind and life. | Meditation |
197 | 194 | Quakerism of the Future: Mystical, Prophetic, & Evangelical | Yungblut, John R. | 1974 | The best elements in Friends’ tradition are taproots providing vital energy and sustained motivation for the survival of faith. | Doctrine |
198 | 195 | Quaker Worship and Techniques of Meditation | Crom, Scott | 1974 | By combining Yoga, Transcendental Meditation, and Quakerism, a deeper understanding of the inner life is achieved. | Meditation, Yoga, Worship |
199 | 196 | Women and Quakerism | Luder, Hope Elizabeth | 1974 | The lives and achievements of some remarkable women provide striking examples of the importance of environment in encouraging or discouraging individual achievement. | Women, Religion |
200 | 197 | Art Responds to the Bible | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1974 | The author-artist uses myths, art as a language of spirit, images of transformation from the Gospels, and 20th century experiential religious art as generative ways of seeing and of relating to life. | Bible, Illustrations, Art and Religion |
201 | 198 | Re-conciliation: The Hidden Hyphen | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1974 | Can we learn to move along the sharp and cutting hyphen of separation, making it a bridge for reconciliation – finding joy in meeting people, especially other groups or other races? | Reconciliation, Religious Life |
202 | 199 | Contemplation and Leisure | Steere, Douglas Van | 1975 | A fresh and intimate look at work and contemplation and the deep maturity they share. | Contemplation, Leisure |
203 | 200 | Born Remembering | Boulding, Elise | 1975 | One can weave the golden threads of solitude into the warp and woof of family and community living. | Solitude |
204 | 201 | Psychology & Silence | Zielinski, Stanislaw | 1975 | The role of psychology in religious mysticism and unprogrammed Quaker meetings for worship. | Silence, Psychology, Mysticism |
205 | 202 | Quaker Poets, Past & Present | Jones, Mary Hoxie | 1975 | The author/poet suggests that worship and the experience of poetry can complement each other. | Poetry, Worship, Mysticism, History, Literature |
206 | 203 | Sex and the Human Psyche: Toward a Contemporary Ethic | Yungblut, John R. | 1975 | This essay proposes criteria for a contemporary sex ethic, hoping to stimulate thinking and ultimately, perhaps, a distinctive Friends’ testimony on sex. | Sexuality, Ethics |
207 | 204 | William Penn, 17th Century Founding Father: Selections from His Political Writings | Bronner, Edwin B. | 1975 | Selections from Penn’s writings on liberty of conscience, the nature of government, peace in Europe, titles, imperial states, and a plan for the union of the American colonies. | Penn, William, Politics, Holy Experiment, Freedom, Liberty, Philadelphia, History |
208 | 205 | Sound of Silence: Moving with T’ai Chi | Murphy, Carol R. | 1976 | Practicing the Chinese art of meditation in movement may make a person more real and compassionate, more completely in God’s world, and enable us to relate to it with serene sensitivity. | Tai Chi |
209 | 206 | Margaret Fell Speaking | Barbour, Hugh | 1976 | Excerpts from the writings of the Mother of Quakerism, later the wife of George Fox. | Women, Religious Society of Friends, 17th Century, History |
210 | 207 | Quaker Looks at Yoga | Ackerman, Dorothy | 1976 | Combining Quaker beliefs and experience with Yogic wisdom, the author shares centering devices, adaptations for spiritual practice, and special techniques for concentration, spiritual and artistic resources as ways to enrichment. | Yoga |
211 | 208 | Rhythms of the Ecosystem | Shetter, Janette Knott | 1976 | Developed from a course in ecology at Pendle Hill, the teacher uses the Dancing Shiva as a focus for her concerns. | Cosmology, Ecology, Earthcare, Nature, Ecosystem |
212 | 209 | Philosophy of the Inner Light | Marsh, Michael | 1976 | As economic researcher, foreign correspondent, lobbyist, and seeker, the author has found that the way out of a dogmatic disbelief in spiritual reality lies in using and understanding the inner light. | Inward Light, Holy Spirit |
213 | 210 | Psychology of a Fairy Tale | Hart, David L. | 1977 | The author is a Jungian analyst with a special interest in the spiritual and psychological meaning of fairy tales. | Jung, Fairy Tales, Psychology |
214 | 211 | Seeking Light in the Darkness of the Unconscious | Yungblut, John R. | 1977 | A synthesis of psychology and mysticism using Jungian approaches. | Psychology |
215 | 212 | Place Called Community | Palmer, Parker J. | 1977 | The possibility of community in homes, neighborhoods, schools, places of work, or wherever people live. | Community |
216 | 213 | Triple Way: Purgation, Illumination, Union | Peck, George Terhune | 1977 | The nature of mysticism is here explored through a three-level process. | Mysticism |
217 | 214 | Jacob Boehme: Insights into the Challenge of Evil | Liem, Ann | 1977 | A spiritual resident of both East and West, the author sees Jacob Boehme as a Christian esoteric (like George Fox) and perhaps the most illustrious forerunner of Quakerism. | Good, Evil, Mysticism |
218 | 215 | Art, Imagery, and the Mythic Process | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1977 | Using mythologies of various cultures, the artist reveals processes of creativity. | Art and Religion, Mythology, Psychology, Creativity |
219 | 216 | O Inward Traveler | Murphy, Carol R. | 1977 | A spiritual journey includes approach, alternative visions, absorption, awareness, and meditation. | Meditation |
220 | 217 | Wholesight: The Spirit Quest | Parker-Rhodes, Arthur Frederick | 1978 | Wholesight here means finding coherence among religion, science, art, and politics. | Spirituality, Science, Religion, Politics, Art and Religion |
221 | 218 | Another Way to Live: Experiencing Intentional Community | Best, James S. | 1978 | A community is both a means and a goal; living in one is a sharing, a vision, an experiment, and a fulfillment. | Communal Living, Pennsylvania |
222 | 219 | Approaching the Gospels | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1978 | Intended for use in studying the life of Jesus, this is an excerpt from her leader’s guide to group study of the gospels. | Bible, Gospels, Jesus |
223 | 220 | Fifth Yoga: The Way of Relationships | Havens, Joseph | 1978 | Suggests adding the way of human relations to the four broad disciplines of Yoga. | Human Relations, International Relations, Inspiration, Yoga |
224 | 221 | Harnessing Pegasus: Inspiration and Meditation | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1978 | The author explains how she has developed her writing style, using the inner self, over 40 years. | Authorship, Creativity, Inspiration, Meditation |
225 | 222 | Family as a Way into the Future | Boulding, Elise | 1978 | What discoveries lie before us about the family, the oldest and longest continuing human experience? | Family Life |
226 | 223 | Roots of Pendle Hill | Murphy, Carol R. | 1979 | Chapters in a history of Pendle Hill up to 1920, based on the recollections of Douglas Steere, Anna and Howard Brinton, Anna Broomell, and others. | Pendle Hill, Woolman School |
227 | 224 | In the Belly of a Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Thought of Thomas Merton | Palmer, Parker J. | 1979 | A study of contemplation in a life of action. | Contemplation, Paradox |
228 | 225 | Peculiar Mission of a Quaker School | Heath, Douglas H. | 1979 | Friends schools exist to empower students, faculty, and staff to live more fully in the Truth, to educate for goodness, and to bring each person to the teacher within. | Education, Christian Education, Truth |
229 | 226 | Homosexuality and the Bible: An Interpretation | Barnett, Walter | 1979 | Old and New Testament citations pertaining to homosexuality and an insightful interpretation of them by a Quaker lawyer. | Homosexuality, Bible |
230 | 227 | Women Ministers: A Quaker Contribution | Leach, Robert J. | 1979 | The work and influence of more than a dozen women, beginning with Margaret Fell, in the unprogrammed tradition of Quakerism. | Women, Clergy |
231 | 228 | With Thine Adversary in the Way: A Quaker Witness | Lachmund, Margarethe | 1979 | A German Quaker writes simply of her life under Hitler’s regime and during the Russian occupation of East Germany, a life full of meaning and peacemaking. | Nonviolence, Morality, Religious |
232 | 229 | Henry Hodgkin: the Road to Pendle Hill | Greenwood, Ormerod | 1980 | An exploration of the personality of the first director of Pendle Hill, written for its 50th anniversary in 1980. | Hodgkin, Henry, Missionaries, Doctor, Biography |
233 | 230 | Life of the Spirit in Women: A Jungian Approach | Luke, Helen M. | 1980 | The writer believes modern women need to regain an understanding of the feminine nature. | Women, Psychology, Jung |
234 | 231 | Quaker Testimonies & Economic Alternatives | Bruyn, Severyn T. | 1980 | The Society of Friends seek a third way toward economic choices compatible with religious principles. | Economics, Religion, Third Way, Capitalism, Socialism |
235 | 232 | Life Journey of a Quaker Artist | Blom, Dorothea Johnson | 1980 | Teacher, writer, artist – the author sees art as a link between inner and outer worlds. | Art and Religion, Biography |
236 | 233 | Friends and the World of Nature | Benfey, Otto Theodor | 1980 | Can we forge a new link between the insights of science and the deeper prompting of the human spirit through a rebirth of love for matter? A meditation on our manifold relations with nature. | Nature, Christianity, History |
237 | 234 | Lucretia Mott Speaking: Excerpts from the Sermons | Mott, Lucretia | 1980 | The great Quaker was a leader in women’s struggle for equality and a strong influence for social action in the Society of Friends. | Mott, Lucretia, Women, Abolitionism, Universalism |
238 | 235 | A.J. Muste, Pacifist & Prophet: His Relation to the Society of Friends | Robinson, Jo Ann | 1981 | Discusses the development of a pacifist influenced by the Dutch Reformed Church, Marxism, and Christian ethics. | Pacifism, Biography, United States, Friends, Fellowship, Marxism, Peace |
239 | 236 | Four Women, Four Windows on Light | Murphy, Carol R. | 1981 | The women discussed are: Mary Baker Eddy, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, and Flannery O’Connor. | Christian Biography, Mary Baker Eddy, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Flannery O'Connor |
240 | 237 | Reaching Toward God | Marsh, Michael | 1981 | Exploring the nature of spiritual divinity and other experiences brought the author to a belief in a truly personal God. | God |
241 | 238 | Lawrie Tatum, Indian Agent: Quaker Values and Hard Choices | Hixson, Robert | 1981 | In 1869 a Quaker named Lawrie Tatum left Iowa to become an agent for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians and participate in a holy experiment. His journey is here described. | Native Americans, Government, Missionaries |
242 | 239 | Growing Old, a View from Within | Jacob, Norma | 1981 | A retired social worker reflects on various aspects of aging, including its liberation, its losses, its fear, and its openings. | Aging, Psychology, Retirement |
243 | 240 | Two Moral Essays: Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations, and Human Personality | Weil, Simone | 1981 | Positive morality rests on a foundation of faith. What is the nature of that faith, and what are its logical consequences? | Morality, Simone Weil |
244 | 241 | Quakers and the Use of Power | Lacey, Paul A. | 1982 | A reexamination of the Society of Friends at the time of Pendle Hill’s 50th Anniversary. | Power, Christian Theology, Authority, Religion |
245 | 242 | Journal and the Journey | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1982 | The writer’s interior journey of 71 years. | Spirituality, Diary, Journal, Journaling |
246 | 243 | Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker | Adede, Rose | 1982 | A biographical study of her grandfather from interviews, letters, speeches, and sermons. | Biography, Joel Litu, Quakerism, Africa |
247 | 244 | Reflections on Simplicity | Prevallet, Elaine M. | 1982 | The author shares her lifelong concern with the process of simplicity, a gift that eludes one’s grasp. | Simplicity |
248 | 245 | Alternative Christianity | Punshon, John | 1982 | The writer characterizes the essence of Quakerism as radical, charismatic, and prophetic. | Doctrine, Prophecy |
249 | 246 | Quest There is | Vining, Elizabeth Gray | 1982 | A collection of quotations from some of the author’s favorite mystics with interpretive comments. | Meditation |
250 | 247 | Study of War as a Contribution to Peace | Mendl, Wolf | 1983 | Pacifists should learn to know and understand those with whom they disagree, so that they may be bridge-builders, nudging the world toward abandoning war. | War, Religious Life, Peace |
251 | 248 | Candle of the Lord | Foulds, Elfrida Vipont | 1983 | Gives the reader glimpses of historic Quaker country in the north of England and discusses the Quaker character. | Christian Life |
252 | 249 | Speaking as one Friend to Another: On the Mystical Way Forward | Yungblut, John R. | 1983 | Do Quakers require a radical mutation in their consciousness? | Mysticism, Spirituality |
253 | 250 | Jesus, Jefferson, and the Tasks of Friends | Garver, Newton | 1983 | The work of the Society of Friends in the world as understood by a Christian pacifist and philosopher. | Friends, Christianity, Ethics |
254 | 251 | Nurturing Contemplation | Murphy, Carol R. | 1983 | Quoting people who emphasize being rather than doing, the author reflects on the fullness of the contemplative life. | Contemplation |
255 | 252 | Holistic Economics and Social Protest | Powelson, John P. | 1983 | Social protesters may not have taken into account the complexity of economics, and this author offers explanations. | International Relations, Economics, Social Concerns |
256 | 253 | Tempted by Happiness: Kazantkakis’ Post-Christian Christ | Bien, Peter | 1984 | The author analyzes Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ using a four-fold scheme devised by the novel’s author, a non-Christian, to explain evolution toward dematerialization. | Nikos Kazantzakis, Bible |
257 | 254 | To Martin Luther King with Love: A Southern Quaker’s Tribute | Pitre, David Wayne | 1984 | Reflects the author’s years of appreciation of the writing and faith of a Christian practicing nonviolent change and unconditional love. | Martin Luther King, Nonviolence |
258 | 255 | Tending the Light | Feagins, Mary E. B. | 1984 | The Inner Light never shines in a vacuum; it cannot function independent of the Word and the Act. | Inward Light, Holy Spirit |
259 | 256 | Prophetic Stream | Taber, William P. | 1984 | A call to revive the prophetic message in Quaker worship and ministry and in Christianity. | Prophecy, Christianity |
260 | 257 | Artist on the Witness Stand | Eichenberg, Fritz | 1984 | This Quaker artist, who works mostly in wood engravings, surveys his own education and creative process. | Creativity |
261 | 258 | When Silence Becomes Singing: A Study in Perception | Kylin, Helen | 1984 | Metaphors and parables can become truths with the power to transform everyday lives, connecting events to a deep place within us and also to God. | Philosophy, Perception, Parables |
262 | 259 | Stewardship of Wealth | Swayne, Kingdon W. | 1985 | Reflections on the responsibilities of being rich, with a guide to self-assessment. | Wealth, Friends, Ethics |
263 | 260 | Way of the Cross: The Gospel Record | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1985 | A long-time teacher of the Gospels sees the heart of their message as a center that is everywhere – inclusive, yet highly individual. | Bible, Gospels |
264 | 261 | Interconnections | Prevallet, Elaine M. | 1985 | Reflections on deep relationships, the networks that God uses to transform wounds into wholeness. | Spirituality |
265 | 262 | Bearing Witness: Quaker Process and a Culture of Peace | Cox, Gray | 1985 | Peace is portrayed as something we do, an activity of resolving differences based on a five-stage Quaker ethic. | Peace |
266 | 263 | Replacing the Warrior: Cultural Ideals and Militarism | Myers, William A. | 1985 | Examines the need for a new cultural ideal, replacing militarism by the values shown in the life of John Woolman. | Militarism, Morality, War and Society, Christianity and Culture |
267 | 264 | Leading and Being Led | Lacey, Paul A. | 1985 | A discussion of the nature of religious leadings and where we should be looking for them in the modern world. | Christian Life |
268 | 265 | Thoughts are Free: A Quaker Youth Group in Nazi Germany | Halle, Anna Sabine | 1985 | The Quaker tradition is bound up with religious belief and political action, and the author shows how these were expressed in the Nazi regime. | History, Germany, Church and State |
269 | 266 | Mending the World: Quaker Insights on the Social Order | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1986 | Learning is the key to mending the world, but it must rest on the development of a more conscious process towards human betterment: a new discipline. | World Politics |
270 | 267 | Encounters with Transcendence: Confessions of a Religious Philosopher | Crom, Scott | 1986 | Reconciling the experience of transcendence with the disciplines of logic and mathematics. | Religion, Experience |
271 | 268 | In God We Live | Ostrom, Warren | 1986 | The author’s journey as he finds a personal religion, culminating in joining the Society of Friends. | Personal Religion |
272 | 269 | Seed and the Tree: A Reflection on Nonviolence | Seeger, Daniel A. | 1986 | The nonviolent sensibility understands that there is no truly beneficial, liberating, or healing politics which is not spiritual in quality, that religion and politics are one, that vision and action are one. | Nonviolence, Pacifism, Revolution |
273 | 270 | Sanctuary Church | Corbett, Jim | 1986 | A prime mover in the network bringing Central American refugees to the U.S. writes of sanctuary as a perennial task for any people that covenants to serve the Peaceable Kingdom. | Sanctuary, Refugees, Politics, Foreign Policy, Central America |
274 | 271 | Practicing Compassion for the Stranger | Alexander, Nancy C. | 1987 | Steps in practicing compassion toward those we do not know well are described and encouraged. | Sympathy, Compassion |
275 | 272 | Going Back: A Poet Who Was Once a Marine Returns to Vietnam | Ehrhart, William Daniel | 1987 | In search of personal healing, the author talks with many former adversaries in their austere country. He includes four poems with his reflections. | Viet Nam, Poetry, War, Violence |
276 | 273 | Abraham Lincoln and the Quakers | Bassuk, Daniel Eliot | 1987 | A record of all the known stories of Lincoln and the Society of Friends, with some reflective comments by a Quaker professor of religious studies. | Abraham Lincoln |
277 | 274 | Nonviolence on Trial | Hillegass, Robert W. | 1987 | Nonviolent action takes place only when the principle of love is seen as a reality grounded in Being itself, as the author has publicly witnessed. | Nonviolence, Peace |
278 | 275 | Needle’s Eye: A Philippine Experience | Urner, Carol Reilley | 1987 | Reflections on her involvement with Filipino tribal peoples and war, with references to John Woolman. | Nonviolence, Philippines, First Peoples, Native Races |
279 | 276 | Meditations on a D Major Scale | Nicholson, Bertha May | 1987 | The author uses the theme of a D scale to explore a moment of truth from several perspectives: teaching and learning, music and Quakerism, and the inward journey. | Spirituality, Music |
280 | 277 | What is Quakerism? A Primer | Peck, George Terhune | 1988 | A book for beginners on understanding the tenets of the Society of Friends. | Friends |
281 | 278 | Education and the Inward Teacher | Lacey, Paul A. | 1988 | The Inner Light, the Inward Teacher, can be a metaphor for interpreting issues in education. | Christian Life, Inward Light |
282 | 279 | Apocalyptic Witness: A Radical Calling for Our Own Times | Durland, William R. | 1988 | The author discusses living with God and living as if the Kingdom of God has already come. | Prophecy, Christianity |
283 | 280 | An Attender at the Altar: A Sacramental Christian Responds to Silence | Rochelle, Jay C. | 1988 | The author shows the interplay between sacrament and silence. | Sacraments, Silence |
284 | 281 | Quaker Theology of Pastoral Care: The Art of the Everyday | White, Zoe | 1988 | By being faithful artists of the Spirit, and by creating a theology of playfulness, color, spontaneity, and surprise, one may be informed and transformed. | Pastoral Care, Theology |
285 | 282 | Batter my Heart | Ellwood, Gracia Fay | 1988 | Using ideas from biblical criticism, from psychoanalysis, and from feminist and liberation theology, the author reflects on naming a God free of caste and gender. | God, Class, Abused Wives, Gender Relations |
286 | 283 | Sink Down to the Seed | Fardelmann, Charlotte Lyman | 1989 | A four-year journey to explore the author’s inward landscape results in inner peace. | Spirituality, Pendle Hill |
287 | 284 | Thomas R. Kelly as I remember Him | Jones, Thomas Canby | 1988 | The author was influenced in college by Kelly, a philosophy professor transformed into a radiant Christian. | Thomas R. Kelly, Spirituality, Devotion |
288 | 285 | Letter to a Universalist | Punshon, John | 1989 | Written by a Christian Quaker, this pamphlet explores Universalism, Christianity, and Quaker faith and reflects the author’s conviction that to establish mutual respect and tolerance among faiths is to establish world peace. | Universalism |
289 | 286 | War Taxes: Experiences of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Quakers through the American Revolution | Crauderueff, Elaine J. | 1989 | A historical view of Friends testimony on paying war taxes. | War, Taxation, Government |
290 | 287 | Milestone 70 | Murphy, Carol R. | 1989 | In this her 17th Pendle Hill pamphlet, the author explores her daily life in her seventieth year. | Christian Life |
291 | 288 | Improvisation & Spiritual Disciplines: Continuing the Divine Human Duet | Conti-Entin, Carol | 1989 | The author uses musical improvisation to understand Sabbath observance, Bible reading, journal keeping, tithing, and praying. | Discipline |
292 | 289 | To Meet at the Source: Hindus & Quakers | Dart, Martha | 1989 | Similarities may be found in Hindu and Quaker thought in many areas that transcend language, such as pure principle, the light, unity, silence, simplicity, and guidance. | Doctrine, Hinduism |
293 | 290 | Quaker Money | Nicholson, S. Francis | 1990 | The manager of funds for Quaker organizations and individuals reflects on Friends and the tension between money and ethics. | Ethics, Money |
294 | 291 | Prayer in the Contemporary World | Steere, Douglas Van | 1980 | This deep thinker and ecumenist shares a meditation and prayer for each day of the month. | Prayer |
295 | 292 | On Hallowing One’s Diminishments | Yungblut, John R. | 1990 | A lifelong student of mysticism shares the experience of contemplative prayer in facing many forms of diminishment: birth defects, natural disasters, aging, and death itself. | Religion, Death, Disabilities, Suffering |
296 | 293 | Ministry of Presence: Without Agenda in South Africa | Crowe, Avis and Dyckman W. Vermilye | 1990 | The authors share how way opened for them to become engaged in the life of a community and Quaker meeting in one of the world’s troubled places. | Social Concerns, Race Relations, South Africa, Apartheid |
297 | 294 | Women of Power and Presence: The Spiritual Formation of Four Quaker Women Ministers | Graham, Maureen | 1990 | A feminist studies the lives of Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Fry, Rachel Hicks, and Rebecca Jones to discover how God moved in their lives. | Women, Feminism, Elizabeth Fry, Rachel Hicks, Rebecca Jones, Lucretia Mott |
298 | 295 | Inward Light and the New Creation: A Theological Meditation on the Center and Circumference of Quakerism | Keiser, R. Melvin | 1991 | A theological meditation on the spirituality of George Fox’s visionary journey back into Paradise and Margaret Fell’s argument for women’s equality in church leadership. | Theology, Feminism, Women |
299 | 296 | Testimony of Integrity in the Religious Society of Friends | Cooper, Wilmer Albert | 1991 | A cogent insightful description of the central testimony among Friends from which all other testimonies evolve. | Testimony, Honesty, Truth |
300 | 297 | Gospel Order: A Quaker Understanding of Faithful Church Community | Cronk, Sandra Lee | 1991 | This essay concentrates on the communal and societal aspects of gospel order as the foundation of community life. Gospel refers to the actual relationship with God. Order refers to the patterns of daily living that flow from God. | Communities, Discipline |
301 | 298 | Psalms Speak | Peck, George Terhune | 1991 | Thoughtful presentations on these ancient biblical texts bring the wisdom of the ages into our present-day experiences. | Bible, Psalms |
302 | 299 | Vistas from Inner Stillness | Walker, Richard L. | 1991 | A naturalist and astronomer writes of a knowing of God that comes from his mystical experiences of nature. | Mysticism |
303 | 300 | Therefore Choose Life: The Spiritual Challenge of the Nuclear Age | Tallmadge, John | 1991 | This essay renews the debate about the futility of deterrence in a post-Cold War era by introducing, as a spiritual problem, the idea of nuclear addiction and how to get out of it. | Social Concerns |
304 | 301 | Spiritual Linkage with Russians: The Story of a Leading | Manousos, Anthony | 1992 | This essay explores the spiritual dimension of a unique Quaker peacemaking project called The Human Experience, an anthology of contemporary poetry and fiction of Russia and the U.S., that was jointly edited and published in both countries. | International Relations, Cold War, Glasnost, Perestroika |
305 | 302 | Zen Buddhist Encounters Quakerism | Tamura, Teruyasu | 1992 | A Zen Buddhist professor contrasts meditation with Quaker worship. | Buddhism, Religion, Eastern Spirituality |
306 | 303 | Words, Wordlessness, and the Word: Silence Reconsidered from a Literary Point of View | Bien, Peter | 1992 | A literary scholar considers the paradoxical relationship of silence and words in Quaker worship, drawing on the work of E. M. Forster, Samuel Beckett, and classical Greek writers for insight. | Bible, Literature, Logos |
307 | 304 | Mind What Stirs in your Heart | Havens, Teresina Rowell | 1992 | The author, inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s walking and breathing meditations, combines seed-verses from Quaker and biblical writings with exercises for meditative walking. | Meditation |
308 | 305 | Spiritual Discernment: The Context and Goal of Clearness Committees Among Friends | Loring, Patricia | 1992 | This essay is grounded in the central Quaker conviction of the availability of the experience and guidance of God to every person. It addresses the challenge of distinguishing the true movement of the Spirit from the wholly human. | Discernment, Clearness, Leadings |
309 | 306 | Four Doors to Meeting for Worship | Taber, William P. | 1992 | This essay describes four doors as thresholds into the heart of worship, understood as communion with the invisible but eternal stream of reality in which lives the eternal Christ. | Worship |
310 | 307 | Beyond Consensus: Salvaging Sense of the Meeting | Morley, Barry | 1993 | The author discusses three essential components in discovering the sense of the meeting: release, long focus, and transition to light, all of which are nurtured by worship. Rich stories of life experiences, especially with adolescents, illustrate the process. | Meeting for Business, Right Order, Unity, Clear |
311 | 308 | Marriage: A Spiritual Leading for Lesbian, Gay, and Straight Couples | Hill, Leslie | 1993 | After a summary examination of Quaker marriage practices and procedures, this essay traces the evolution of a minute on same-sex marriage in Putney, Vermont Meeting, and the marriage of two men under the meeting’s care. | Marriage, Homosexuality |
312 | 309 | Universalism and Spirituality | Hetherington, Ralph | 1993 | Bringing together material from a number of previous articles, this essay explores the nature of spirituality and its relation to universalism, with particular attention to the question of commitment to a particular religious tradition. | Spirituality, Universalism |
313 | 310 | Findings: Poets and the Crisis of Faith | Lampen, John | 1993 | The author claims poets offer confirmation to religious seekers that their glimpses of divine presence and intention are valid. Poets give them a language in which to describe such glimpses without demanding adherence to a belief system they cannot accept. | Poetry, Spirituality, Religion |
314 | 311 | Without Nightfall upon the Spirit | Morrison, Mary Chase | 1993 | Reflections on aging, including its physical, spiritual, and religious effects, by an 83-year-old author. | Aging |
315 | 312 | Motions of Love: Woolman as Mystic and Activist | Olmsted, Sterling | 1993 | A study of the interrelationship between mysticism and activism in the life and ministry of John Woolman, as reflected in his writings. | Mysticism, Social Concerns, John Woolman |
316 | 313 | Friends and Alcohol: Recovering a Forgotten Testimony | Levering, Robert | 1994 | After examining the history of Friends’ corporate witness on use of alcoholic beverages, which for the most part produced a call for total abstinence, the author argues that Friends should reexamine and reclaim this testimony. | Alcohol |
317 | 314 | Spiritual Hospitality: A Quaker’s Understanding of Hospitality | Gillman, Harvey | 1994 | The author elevates three fundamental principles for outreach: 1) There is something sacred in each person; 2) how we relate to people is what we actually believe about them; and 3) how we treat others is our personal statement about God. | Spirituality, Membership |
318 | 315 | Answering That of God in Our Children | Heath, Harriet | 1994 | The stories in this pamphlet, drawn from life, illustrate the wondering that children do and the need for guidance it opens for any who live and work with them. | Children, Religious Education |
319 | 316 | For That Solitary Individual: an Octogenarian’s Counsel on Living and Dying | Yungblut, John R. | 1994 | The author defines three activities of evolution: differentiation, interiority, and communion. He counsels each person to seek a contemplative life to nurture these activities. | Contemplation |
320 | 317 | Kingdom and the Way: Meditations on the Kingdom | Urner, Carol Reilley | 1994 | The author shares specific biblical texts and her meditations, connecting the inward holy place where she meets God with Buddhist teachings and the fundamental truths of Christian experience. | Religion, Bible, Gospels, Meditation |
321 | 318 | Silence: Our Eye on Eternity | Seeger, Daniel A. | 1994 | This essay is a reflection on the practice of inner silence in everyday life. | Religion, Silence, Contemplation |
322 | 319 | Stories from Kenya | Gates, Tom and Liz | 1995 | Relates stories which arose out of the authors’ experiences of living and working at a Quaker mission hospital in rural western Kenya. | Autobiography, Missionaries, Faith and Practice, Hospital, Doctor |
323 | 320 | Leadership Among Friends | McDonald, Ron | 1995 | Looks at the ambivalence toward authority among Quaker youth, the need for common experiences of depth, and ways of encouraging more inspired ministry. | Authority, Discernment |
324 | 321 | No Royal Road to Reconciliation | Knudsen-Hoffman, Gene | 1995 | The author sees wounds in the perpetrator as the source of violence. This essay describes the nature and healing of trauma and offers a view of health that can move us to listening, forgiveness, compassion, and reconciliation. | Health, Reconciliation, Violence |
325 | 322 | Nonviolence and Community: Reflections on the Alternatives to Violence Project | Garver, Newton | 1995 | Nonviolence requires a spirit that comes from within which no curriculum can create or implant. The authors describe how the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) organizes experiences to draw forth that spirit and how doing so builds supportive community. | Nonviolence, Prison, Reconciliation, Justice, Correction, Social Action |
326 | 323 | An Experiment in Faith: Quaker Women Transcending Differences | Abbott, Margery Post | 1995 | Tells of the author’s journey of discovering Evangelical Friends. In the process she comes to terms with a fuller understanding of Quakerism as experienced by others and experiences God’s presence, opening her to unexpected depths in her own faith. | Evangelical Quakerism, Ecumenism, Spirituality |
327 | 324 | Traveling In | Steere, Douglas Van | 1995 | “I am going to speak about ‘traveling in’ and about my own personal journey. I haven’t done that on any other occasion in quite so full a way as I’m going to do here this morning.” So begins this essay, a treasure from one of Quakerism’s most thoughtful writers. | Autobiography, Religion, Spirituality |
328 | 325 | Unconscious | Murphy, Robert Cushman | 1996 | A doctor shares his career as physician/psychiatrist and his wisdom on how the unconscious works to fulfill longings leading to greater health for those who are able to trust the Guide. | Psychology, Religion, Spirituality |
329 | 326 | Liberation Theology for Quakers | Lynd, Alice | 1996 | A record of the author’s effort to live out the convictions of liberation theology nonviolently. Friends are invited to become a group that serves the poor directly, seeking passionately to create a new society. | Psychology, Religious, Spirituality |
330 | 327 | Depression and Spiritual Growth | Mihalas, Dimitri | 1996 | The author writes, “In 1986 I passed through a year of major depression, the worst experience of my life, yet I have reaped incalculable benefits from it. My world view has changed radically for the better. My life now opens out on peaceful paths and breathtaking vistas I never knew existed.” | Psychology, Spirituality |
331 | 328 | Servant Church | Elford, Ricardo and Jim Corbett | 1996 | The authors write as a Catholic priest and a Quaker pagan whose separate paths have converged in a Jewish view of religion. For the prophetic faith, religion is about faithful service that is grounded in a covenant community’s allegiance to the Peaceable Kingdom. | Sanctuary Movement, Social Concerns, Religious Life |
332 | 329 | There is a Fountain: A Quaker Life in Process | Horn, Helen Steere | 1996 | A life story about renewal, commitment, faith, doubt, success, defeat, and a balance of activism and contemplation. | Autobiography, Horn, Helen Steere, Social Concerns |
333 | 330 | Searching for the Real Jesus | Warren, Roland Leslie | 1997 | The early Friends, as Publishers of Truth, proclaimed to have experienced the Truth of God’s presence. The author, a Quaker with reverence for scripture, explicates the learned thinking of prominent contemporary scholars who debate the historical veracity of Jesus. | Bible, Criticism, History, Literature |
334 | 331 | Communion for a Quaker | Bieber, Nancy | 1997 | In the words of the author, “This is the story of a journey in search of the sacrament of communion... as I ask my questions, and find, not only answers, but also a challenge for all of us, the challenge of daily sacramental living.” | Faith and Practice, Liturgy, Sacrament |
335 | 332 | Burning One-ness Binding Everything: A Spiritual Journey | Birchard, Bruce | 1997 | The author recounts his spiritual journey: experiences of the Spirit through beauty, love, and worship, as well as reflections on how he understands the nature of the Spirit. He is especially concerned about the transcendent and immanent qualities of the Spirit, the relation of the Spirit to suffering and evil, and the significance of the creation as the incarnation of the Spirit. | Religion |
336 | 333 | Walk With Me: Nonviolent Accompaniment in Guatemala | Morton, Peg | 1997 | The author learned about the destruction in Central America being caused with the support, training, and participation of the U.S. government-- she learned of the holocaust which had taken place in Guatemala. After that Central America unveiling, way opened for her to give up her counseling career and to return to fulltime volunteer activism. | Social Concerns |
337 | 334 | Bosnian Student Project: A Response to Genocide | Hostetter, C. Douglas | 1997 | The author tells, poignantly and lovingly, the story of more than 150 Bosnian students who were helped to continue their education in the U.S. through this project of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. | Social Concerns |
338 | 335 | Come Aside and Rest Awhile | Taber, Frances | 1997 | Out of her own rich experience, Fran Taber expands William Penn’s vision for retreats. She describes the retreat movement as a significant thread weaving together the ecumenical religious community. | Religion, Psychology, Renewal |
339 | 336 | God’s Spirit in Nature | Brown, Judith Reynolds | 1998 | The author gives us moving meditation on the metaphysical sense of the Earth as the body of God. The writing was inspired by her experiences in a 1995 Pendle Hill course, Global Spirituality and Earth Ethics. | Social Concerns |
340 | 337 | There is a Spirit: The Nayler Sonnets | Boulding, Kenneth Ewart | 1998 | These sonnets by Kenneth Boulding were first published nearly 50 years ago. Based on the famous last words of James Nayler, one of the early Quakers, the author says these poems were written to express the hope that lies beyond despair. | Literature, Poetry |
341 | 338 | Touched by God in Quaker Meeting | Carroll, Kenneth Lane | 1998 | The author maintains that it is part of the spiritual experience of Friends that we, both individually and collectively, have found inspiration and guidance coming to us through our meetings for worship. Drawing upon his experience and discovery, he shares accounts of some of the meetings for worship where Friends were truly touched by God. | Faith and Practice |
342 | 339 | Prayer: Beginning Again | Keane, Sheila | 1998 | What is prayer? Petition, intercession, worship, confession, listening, meditation, a way of being, desire for God, faithful actions, gifts of grace, mystery…. In an expanded definition of prayer, we must go beyond the mere saying of prayer and include these ways of being, yearning, acting, or receiving prayer. Prayer is the expression of our individual relationships with the incomprehensible and mysterious Divine Being. | Prayer, Psychology |
343 | 340 | Song of Death, Our Spiritual Birth: A Quaker Way of Dying | McIver, Lucy Screechfield | 1998 | As a Cadbury scholar at Pendle Hill, the author researched seventeenth century and modern experiences of death and dying among Friends. She offers guidance for pastoral care in our meeting communities. | Religion |
344 | 341 | Sickness, Suffering, and Healing: More Stories from Another Place | Gates, Tom | 1998 | More stories from this American doctor’s compassionate encounter with Africans in their country. The stories describe the challenges of suffering and the response of African faith. | Religion |
345 | 342 | Beyond the Bars: A Quaker Primer for Prison Visitors | Maddock, Keith R. | 1999 | Written with sensitivity and grace, this essay depicts Friends Testimonies in prison service work. By example of listening and respect, more than by preaching, the author has much to say about being present in prison and receiving gifts from people who are incarcerated. | Prison |
346 | 343 | Quakerism and Science | Schwabe, Calvin W. | 1999 | A Quaker scientist affirms that science and Quakerism have more in common than science has with other avenues of religious expression. The wider recognition of the commonalities could encourage both inner and outer peace. | Science, Research, Inspiration, Leadings, Continuing Revelation |
347 | 344 | Dancing with God Through the Storm: Mysticism and Mental Illness | Elam, Jennifer | 1999 | A Quaker psychologist challenges any absolute distinction between experience of God and mental illness, describes the stages of growth possible in discerning them, and asks Friends to provide safe communities in which people are not mislabeled. | Psychology, Mental Disorders, School of the Spirit |
348 | 345 | More than Equals: Spiritual Friendships | Roberts, Trish | 1999 | The author advocates for this growing form of spiritual nurture among Friends and gives good guidelines for seeking and sustaining a spiritual friendship. | Spiritual Friendship, Practice, Prayer, Leadership, Eldering, Overseer, Oversight, Community |
349 | 346 | Treasure in Clay Jars | Sutton, Elizabeth Ostrander | 1999 | The author rediscovered a powerful sense of God calling her to a more real spiritual life through her artistic work with clay in the Pendle Hill studio. Photographs and devotions record that experience. | Clay, Ceramics, Scholarships, Spirituality, Earthen Vessels |
350 | 347 | Tall Poppies: Supporting Gifts of Ministry and Eldering in the Monthly Meeting | Grundy, Martha Paxson | 1999 | The pamphlet provides a description of the traditional Quaker understanding of power and spiritual authority, and God’s gifts in relation to them. The author suggests ways that monthly meetings can support and nurture ministry and the individual Friends through whom it comes. | Ministry, Eldering, Gifts, Practice, Gospel Order, Oversight, Discipline, Traveling |
351 | 348 | Journey to Bosnia, Return to Self | O’Hatnick, Suzanne Hubbard | 2000 | The author describes her call to serve as peace activist in Bosnia and then chronicles the work she undertook, illuminating the transformative power of her experience. | Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Ecumenism, Catholics, Apathy, War, Reconstruction, |
352 | 349 | Radiance and Risks of Mythmaking | Kilpack, Gilbert | 2000 | A longtime friend of Pendle Hill offers vignettes that shine with the Presence and challenge the conventional boundaries among literature, theology, and personal narrative. | Autobiography, Theology, Education, Bildungsroman, World War II, Civilian, Public, Conversion |
353 | 350 | I Have Always Wanted to be Jewish: And Now, Thanks to the Religious Society of Friends, I Am | Gorfinkel, Claire | 2000 | The author, a Quaker and a Jew, shares how the intersection of these two spiritual traditions has strengthened her identity as a Jew, deepened her faith, and intensified her witness with Quakers. | Religious Life, Judaism, Community, Politics |
354 | 351 | Jacob Boehme: Insights into the Challenge of Evil | Liem, Ann | 2000 | A Quaker examines what constitutes evil in our modern era, drawing on the theological work of the 16th century German mystic, Jacob Boehme. | Free Will, Salvation, Regeneration, Christ, Spiritual Reformer, Eighteenth Centry Reformation, Good, Evil |
355 | 352 | Navigating the Living Waters of the Gospel of John: On Wading with Children and Swimming with Elephants | Anderson, Paul N. | 2000 | A Quaker theologian introduces major themes in the gospel of John for newcomers to the Bible as well as for serious biblical scholars. | Gospel of John, New Testament, Bible, Jesus, Witness, Signs, Beliefs, Salvation |
356 | 353 | Letting That Go, Keeping This: The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg | Harnden, Philip | 2001 | Fritz Eichenberg, internationally known woodcut artist, has inspired a generation of Quakers and Catholics in their social witness. This author eloquently elucidates five important inspirations for the artist: animals, Lao-Tzu, Russian novelists, Quakers, and the Catholic Worker. | Dostoyevsky, Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, China, Dorothy Day, Catholicism, Wood Engravings, Convincement, Skepticism, Faith, Art and Religion, Quakerism, Russia, Germany |
357 | 354 | Live the Questions: Write into the Answers | Parsons, Barbara E. and Mary Morrison | 2001 | Two consummate journal writers describe the writing process and give exercises for keeping a journal. | Journaling, Reflection, Writing |
358 | 355 | In Beauty: A Quaker Approach to End-of-Life Care | Backstrom, Kirsten | 2001 | This author shares the story of experiences in her monthly meeting to illustrate how our dying can be as fully centered in God as our living. | Death, Hospice Care, Cancer, Beauty, Harmony, Simplicity, Integrity, Listening, Wholeness |
359 | 356 | Testimony: John Woolman on Today’s Global Economy | Morse, David E. | 2001 | What would John Woolman do in the face of the current injustices brought on by globalization? This pamphlet provides a creative and provocative response. | Globalization, Economics, John Woolman, World Politics, Testimonies, Slavery, Truth |
360 | 357 | Plea for the Poor | Woolman, John | 2001 | This early Quaker minister’s essay relates poverty to wasteful consumption, brings the rich and powerful to account, and calls for simplicity as a style of life. | Wealth, Poverty, Morality, Ethics, Reparations |
361 | 358 | Reflections from a Prayer Vigil for Peace | Gallery, John Andrew | 2001 | The author shares reflections born of his participation in an extended prayer vigil for peace. It includes thoughts on sowing peace, faithfulness, and prayer. | Social Action, Social Concerns, Peace, Vigil, Demonstration, Reflection |
362 | 359 | Existential Theology of Nikos Kazantkakis | Dossor, Howard F. | 2001 | The author finds that Kazantkakis’s theology gives us insight on how to live fully, joyfully, and faithfully. | Existentialism, Atheism, Theology, God |
363 | 360 | Quaker Social Testimony in our Personal and Corporate Life | Dale, Jonathan | 2002 | Lifestyle and politics are integral expressions of what human beings are meant to be: loving, truthful, peaceful, and centered on God. | Social Concerns, Honesty, Integrity, Simplicity, Fair Trade, Economics, Organic, Organizing, Community |
364 | 361 | Journey Through Skepticism | Warren, Roland L. | 2002 | In this pamphlet, the author describes how he has come to live in the certainty of a spirit that unites him to something beyond himself. | Belief, Christianity, Agnosticism, Atheism |
365 | 362 | Bringing God Home: Exploring Family Spirituality | Rehard, Mary Kay | 2002 | The communities of L’Arche and Taizé have influenced the author’s insights and practices. Both encourage healthy family environments and the nurture of children’s spirituality. “Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them: for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” - Matthew 19:14. | Family Life, Spirituality |
366 | 363 | Profession and Practice: Quaker Perspectives on Healing as Ministry | Flannery, Maureen A. | 2002 | This pamphlet invites Quaker professionals, healers, and nurturers to a way of practicing professionalism that both reclaims the wisdom in our Quaker tradition and affirms what is of value in alternative secular models. | Quakerism, Healing, Leadings |
367 | 364 | Gift of Days | Morrison, Mary C. | 2003 | In this moving pamphlet the author writes: “Maybe this is the death I was desiring so intensely during my illness – this death of the separate spinning mind as it merges into the intense life of the present moment. If so, then Yes, there’s more. Much more. ... My work is to be ready to receive it when it comes as I would a visit from an old friend.” | Death |
368 | 365 | Authority of Our Meetings is the Power of God | Lacey, Paul A. | 2003 | The author sees Quakers at a crossroads in dealing with issues of authority and power in church governance and offers some assessment of the costs of traveling one way or another. He challenges Friends to find their balance between tolerance of diversity and corporate unity. | Religious Society of Friends, Authority, Faith and Practice |
369 | 366 | Invitation to a Deeper Communion | Martin, Marcelle | 2003 | This pamphlet examines what it was about the belief and practice of early Friends that invited direct experience of the Spirit. It also describes explorations by contemporary Friends to seek a deeper communion with God in worship, suggesting that a renewal of worship will help Friends today become powerful witnesses to another way of life. | Worship |
370 | 367 | Quaker in Vietnam: Rick Thompson | Taylor, Beth | 2003 | This pamphlet is a personal history of Rick Thompson, who worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Vietnam during the war, and who is one of the few Quakers to have died there. The author uncovers his journey of conscience as it led to pacifism and then compelled him to help in relief efforts in Vietnam during the war. | Peace, Viet Nam, American Friends Service Committee, Pacifism |
371 | 368 | On Retiring to Kendal (and Beyond): A Literary Excursion | Bien, Peter | 2003 | The author employs poetry and literature to reflect on the meaning of retirement and whether death is an unmitigated calamity. He concludes it is not better to live forever, and that strangely, death enhances life, rather than negating it. | Retirement, Literature, Poetry |
372 | 369 | Meditations on the Prayer of St. Francis | Curo, Anne | 2003 | Starting with the metaphor of the self as a musical instrument on which God performs, the author reflects on the beloved prayer of St. Francis as instructions for a life of Christian peacemaking. She uses examples from her experiences in homeless activism and her study of various faith traditions to explore the wisdom in the prayer line by line. | Peace, Prayer, Social Action |
373 | 370 | Quaker in the Zendo | Smith, Steve | 2004 | In this pamphlet the author tells the story of his journey through Zen to a rediscovery of directions for spiritual formation practiced by the earliest Quakers. | Buddhism, Christianity, Quakerism |
374 | 371 | Members One of Another: The Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting | Gates, Thomas | 2004 | In Quaker faith and practice, the individual and the meeting are in a dynamic, mutually supportive, and reciprocal relation. In this essay Tom Gates examines many of the factors affecting the relationship between the Seeker and the Meeting, before and during membership. | Membership, Quakerism |
375 | 372 | Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton | Manousos, Anthony | 2004 | Born of Quaker families, Howard Brinton and Anna Cox Brinton met doing Friends relief work in Germany after World War I in Europe and devoted their lives together to nurturing Quakerism, social activism, peacemaking, and peacemakers from coast to coast in the United States and, in their last years, in Asia. | Brinton, Howard H., Peace, Biography |
376 | 373 | Group Spiritual Nurture: The Wisdom of Spiritual Listening | Clement, Daphne | 2004 | This essay by Daphne Clement, an experienced facilitator of Spiritual Nurture Groups, is both an introduction to spiritual nurture and a guide for those interested in creating a Spiritual Nurture Group. | Listening, Worship |
377 | 374 | Practice of the Love of God | Boulding, Kenneth | 2004 | The author urges us to explore love unlimited by time or place – love in our families, with our neighbors, and in our meetings and churches, all possible through our love for God. He concludes with his vision for the world and his assurance that there is no room for despair, that God is always redeeming the world. | Love, God, Family Life |
378 | 375 | Quaker Views on Mysticism | Abbott, Margery Post | 2004 | This pamphlet considers how Friends today recognize and respond to the guidance of the Inward Light of Christ. It describes varying Quaker views on mysticism and the mystical, touching upon the need to continually test leadings in the silence of Quaker worship and in the arms of Quaker community. | Mysticism, Worship, Leadings |
379 | 376 | Henry J Cadbury: Scholar, Activist, Disciple | Bacon, Margaret Hope | 2005 | Henry Joel Cadbury was widely acknowledged as an author and as a biblical scholar and translator of the highest order; a professor who challenged students’ thinking in the halls of Harvard Divinity School, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr Colleges, as well as Pendle Hill; and the consummate Quaker activist. | Cadbury, Henry Joel, Biography |
380 | 377 | Creeds and Quakers: What’s Belief Got To Do With It? | Griswold, Robert | 2005 | Quaker spiritual authority lies not in belief systems and in creeds, but in the direct communion between individuals and the Divine Spirit. The pamphlet’s author asserts that Friends too often hold Quaker testimonies as ideals, as ends in themselves, rather than as fruits of the Spirit. Without spiritual grounding, testimonies become creeds. | Quakerism, Theology, Belief, History |
381 | 378 | Living in Virtue, Declaring Against War | Smith, Steve | 2005 | Born in an era of profound spiritual awakening, the Quaker Peace Testimony remains a radical challenge today–to live Jesus’s message of love, forgiveness and reconciliation. This is the story of the author’s discovery and conviction in the Light. | Violence, Peace, Convincement, Spirituality |
382 | 379 | Living Truth: A Spiritual Portrait of Pierre Ceresole | Maddock, Keith R. | 2005 | Author Keith Maddock goes beyond Ceresole’s actions to paint a portrait of the spiritual growth of a passionate, poetic, solitary seeker of Truth who urges us to set aside our theories and our fears and instead take up the tools that are needed to create a more humane, just, and peaceful world. | Biography, Civilian Public Service |
383 | 380 | Very Good Week Behind Bars | Ravndal, Janeal Turnbull | 2005 | In this essay, Janeal Ravndal writes of her week in Philadelphia’s Federal Detention Center after she chose to ignore orders not to block entry to a courthouse as the U.S. began to attack Iraq early in 2003. | Civil Disobedience, Prayer, Prison |
384 | 381 | Fire of the Heart: Norman Morrison’s Legacy in Viet Nam and at Home | Welsh, Anne Morrison | 2005 | Anne Morrison Welsh tells the moving story of her husband’s self-sacrifice at the Pentagon in November 1965 in a desperate effort to help end a war he abhorred. In telling her husband’s story, the author also shares her own spiritual journey of forgiveness, acceptance, and gradual recovery from life’s wounds. | Viet Nam, Death, Forgiveness, Peace, Pacifism |
385 | 382 | Holding One Another in the Light | Martin, Marcelle | 2006 | Marcelle Martin offers a personal account of her discovery of and experiences with intercessory prayer. She describes the many forms it takes among Friends today, from interpersonal prayer support, to meetings for healing, to a prayerful witness for peace on earth. | Prayer, Healing, Spirituality |
386 | 383 | Answering the Call to Heal the World | Schenck, Patience A. | 2006 | In a wise and intimate conversation with her readers, Patience Schenck walks us through the life of a leading: hearing a call, testing our discernment, overcoming the obstacles to faithfulness, finding the support we need, and, finally, recognizing when our work is done. | Healing, Gifts, Discernment |
387 | 384 | Mystery of Quaker Light | Bien, Peter | 2006 | What has Light meant to different people throughout the ages? How did various ideas about Light influence the prologue to John’s Gospel? What did early Friends understand Light to mean? In this pamphlet, Peter Bien explores the theology and poetry of Friends’ favorite religious symbol. | Bible, Inward Light, History, Theology |
388 | 385 | In God We Die | Ostrom, Warren | 2006 | Author Warren Ostrom, who has worked closely with the aging and dying for over two decades, offers his deeply-considered insights on the end of life, as well as his reflections on the role of spirituality in how we face death, and guidance for finding clarity in our choices about our own final path. | Death, Aging, Spirituality |
389 | 386 | Mindful Quaker | Brown, Valerie | 2006 | Valerie Brown, who is both a Quaker and a Buddhist, explores the gifts that Buddhism has to offer Friends in our search for unity with the Divine Ground, for clarity in our worship, and for equanimity in our lives. | Buddhism, Quakerism |
390 | 387 | Turnaround: Growing a Twenty-First Century Religious Society of Friends | Lloyd, Benjamin | 2006 | In this essay the author presents his own creative ideas and encouragement for a reinvigoration of our meeting communities. Which of our traditions and practices should we renew? And where are the places where continuing revelation calls us to be open to the winds of change that will come with the next generation of Quaker leaders? | Faith and Practice, Religious Life, Leadership, Meetings, Religious Society of Friends, Communities |
391 | 388 | Expectant Listening: Finding God’s Thread of Guidance | Wajda, Michael | 2007 | Out of a great hunger for God’s love and guidance, Michael Wajda has spent his adult life seeking to experience the presence of God. In small ways and large, his search has been answered. In this pamphlet, he offers readers his personal story and tells what he has learned about the practice of Expectant Listening. | Listening, Worship, Spirituality |
392 | 389 | From West Point to Quakerism | Heller, Mike | 2007 | The author reflects on his painful and sometimes lonely passage and on how way opened for him to discover himself and his place in the world. In the best Friends’ tradition of sharing our spiritual journeys, Mike Heller offers his own story, told with insight and compassion for the variety of people who crossed his path. | Reflection, Religious Life, Harmony, Autobiography |
393 | 390 | Special Education as a Spiritual Journey | Resman, Michael | 2007 | Michael Resman, who works in special education as an occupational therapist, has had much occasion to grapple with difficult questions. The answers he found for himself come not from church teachings, nor from his own reasonings, but from mystical insight, or as early Friends would say, from spiritual openings. | Education, Disabilities, Suffering, Spirituality |
394 | 391 | Getting Rooted: Living in the Cross | Drayton, Brian | 2007 | Brian Drayton explores the idea of rootedness at multiple levels in order to reveal the ways in which we may derive the most nourishment from the roots that we seek to rediscover so that God’s Spirit may flourish within us and through us. | Theology, Quakerism, Spirituality |
395 | 392 | Spirit-Led Eldering: Integral to Our Faith and Practice | Larrabee, Margery Mears | 2007 | Margery Mears Larrabee, author of this essay, and other Friends are urging us to rediscover eldering as a valuable practice that can nurture the spiritual lives of individual Friends and of Friends’ meetings. Decades of experience, wisdom, and deep reflection are contained in these pages. | Eldering, Faith and Practice |
396 | 393 | Turned in the Hand of God | Back, Lyndon S. | 2007 | Rebecca Janney Timbres Clark led a remarkable life that spanned all of the twentieth century. This pamphlet explores one year in that life, the year when a young, sheltered Quaker from Baltimore took the first steps toward a career of service that would take her around the world. | Biography, American Friends Service Committee |
397 | 394 | God’s Healing Grace: Reflections on a Journey with Mental and Spiritual Illness | Gilpin, Mariellen | 2008 | Mariellen Gilpin’s story provides a model of someone whose experienced reality is not commonly shared, but who has grown as a person and as a Quaker in close relationship with her Friends meeting. The voices of persons labeled with mental illnesses are voices in our communities that need to be heard. | Reflection, Mental Disorders, Spirituality, Healing |
398 | 395 | Walt Whitman’s Spiritual Epic | Robertson, Michael | 2008 | With particular attention to the perspectives of Friends, Michael Robertson walks the reader through Song of Myself, noting its beauties, its challenges, and its deep inspiration. | Poetry, Spirituality |
399 | 396 | God Raising Us: Parenting As A Spiritual Practice | Flanagan, Eileen | 2008 | In telling her own story—the challenges faced, the lessons learned—Eileen Flanagan calls on Friends to recognize parenthood as a phase of spiritual development with special gifts and needs, and suggests ways that we may begin to support the faith lives of parents and help our meetings be more fully multigenerational. | Family Life, Faith and Practice |
400 | 397 | Quaker Witness as Sacrament | Snyder, Daniel O. | 2008 | Dan Snyder has spent his adult years wrestling with the apparent dichotomy between the pull of an inward call to a spiritual life of contemplation and an outward call to respond to the problems of the world. He has concluded that rather than competing with each other, these two calls are parts of a single whole that must be joined if he is to be faithful to either. | Prayer, Spirituality, Witness |
401 | 398 | Messenger That Goes Before: Reading Margaret Fell for Spiritual Nurture | Birkel, Michael | 2008 | Michael Birkel has discovered in the letters of Margaret Fell, one of the founding members of the Religious Society of Friends, a treasure trove of wise and loving counsel for those on the spiritual journey. | Biography, History |
402 | 399 | Matthew 18: Wisdom for Living in Community | Green, Connie McPeak and Marty Paxson Grundy | 2008 | The authors have spent years exploring the eighteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, which contains Jesus’s advice to his disciples about how to get along with one another. In this essay, they describe what they have learned from their efforts to be faithful. | Bible, Faith and Practice, Conflict Resolution |
403 | 400 | Finding the Taproot of Simplicity: A Movement Between Inner Knowledge and Outer Action | Taber, Frances Irene | 2009 | This essay explores the spiritual basis of Friends’ testimony of simplicity: how it evolved from the efforts of early Friends to live in a way that fostered the spiritual richness of their lives, and how it continues to speak today in the lives of those who seek to find not merely balance, but an unseamed wholeness of their inward and outward journeys. | Simplicity, Harmony |
404 | 401 | Three Ravens and Two Widows | Kelly, Richard Macy | 2009 | Using the metaphor of the ancient ballad, The Three Ravens, Richard Kelly invites us to explore how history and family traditions may limit our understanding of Truth or give us the strength and vision to see new possibilities in times when disagreements trouble our communities. | Biography, Family Life, Conflict Resolution, History |
405 | 402 | Christianity and the Inner Life | Abbott, Margery Post | 2009 | In her explorations of the writings of early Friends, Marge Abbott has discovered her own approach to Christian perspectives, one that speaks specifically to her experiences of the Divine Light. She finds inspiration and fellowship with early and modern Friends for whom Christ is central, without excluding the inspiration of other religious traditions. | Christianity, Inward Light, Spirituality |
406 | 403 | Integrity, Ecology, and Community: The Motion of Love | Ratcliffe, Jennie M. | 2009 | Jennie Ratcliffe, drawing on her years of experience and reflection as a scientist and active participant in peace and ecological concerns, believes that a deeper transformation is needed. A spiritual awareness of our oneness reminds us that we live in intimate relationship and kinship with each other, the earth, and the Divine. | Integrity, Ecology, Spirituality, Nonviolence |
407 | 404 | Kindling a Life of Concern: Spirit-Led Quaker Action | Kirk, Jack | 2009 | Jack Kirk discusses how concerns arise and are opened to us, how we may test them, and how we may find in them a center of spiritual gravity for our lives. How do we discover our callings as individuals, and what is our calling as a community of Friends? | Ecology, Discernment, Community |
408 | 405 | Envisioning a Moral Economy | Head, Tom | 2010 | Quaker economist Tom Head explores how we might think about our economy, and its purposes, in new ways by including religious sources of wisdom and morality in our vision of a just and humane economic future. | Economics, Morality |
409 | 406 | Mind of Christ: Bill Taber on Meeting for Business | Birkel, Michael | 2010 | Bill Taber addressed the rewards and challenges of Quaker business process in a number of presentations to Friends groups. Michael Birkel has edited Bill’s notes for these talks into an essay on how Friends can carry into business meeting the practices and attitudes that open the way to Spirit-led decisions in our communities. | Meeting for Business, Right Order, Unity, Clearness |
410 | 407 | Living from the Center: Mindfulness Meditation and Centering for Friends | Brown, Valerie | 2010 | Valerie Brown is a teacher of centering practices, a Buddhist, and an active Friend. Drawing upon her own experiences and wide studies, Valerie Brown describes for Friends how these various traditions can offer us a better understanding and preparedness for our precious, elusive, mysterious, and simple practice of centering into worship. | Buddhism, Meditation, Worship |
411 | 408 | An Art of Small Resurrections: Surviving the Texas Death Chamber | Long, Walter | 2010 | Walter Long, a defense attorney for Texas death row inmates, wrestles with the apparent contradiction between the teachings of Jesus and widespread tolerance for government violence in a state where most citizens identify themselves as Christian. | Jesus, Justice, Prison, Christianity |
412 | 409 | Who Do You Say I Am? | Wilson, Lloyd Lee | 2010 | This pamphlet invites readers to meet Jesus as Lloyd Lee has come to know Him and to further explore for themselves, “Who do you say I am?” | Jesus |
413 | 410 | Confident Quakerism | Dandelion, Pink | 2010 | After a personal crisis shook his confidence in himself, Ben Pink Dandelion considered seriously the spiritual meaning of “confidence” (literally, to live and act “with faith”). His insights are especially meaningful for liberal Friends, individually and as a society, as we look toward the future. | Spirituality, Religious Life, Community |
414 | 411 | Plow up the Fallow Ground | Harper, Lu | 2011 | Through this extended exploration, and by offering rich queries for personal meditation, the author invites readers to rediscover a Quaker way of deriving powerful, personal meaning from the Bible. | Bible, Early Friends, Parables |
415 | 412 | Answering the Violence | Lampen, John | 2011 | John Lampen, who has served as a Quaker peace worker in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, draws on his own experiences and the accounts of other peace workers to explore the controversies, risks, rewards, and possible benefits of reaching out in friendship to perpetrators of violence. | Peace, Nonviolence, Witness, Northern Ireland |
416 | 413 | James Nayler Speaking | Drayton, Brian | 2011 | Brian Drayton found in the writings of this influential and controversial Friend messages that speak to the turmoil of our times, just as they spoke to the turmoil of 1650s England. Some central themes in the ministry of James Nayler are explored, with attention to how they address the most basic challenges of faithfulness in what early Friends called “the Lamb’s War.” | Nayler, James, History, Theology, Spirituality, Early Friends, Religious Society of Friends |
417 | 414 | Seeking Inner Peace: Presence, Pain, and Wholeness | De Sa, Elizabeth | 2011 | Elizabeth De Sa describes her own quest for a life of spiritual authenticity and inner peace in an essay that probes deeply into the lessons learned and the rewards reaped in a search for union with the Divine. In meditation practice she peels back the layers of pain arising from unhealed wounds and false expectations of herself, obstacles that stand in the way of full acceptance of self, others, and the Divine. | Spirituality, Healing, Peace, Meditation |
418 | 415 | Living Our Testimony on Equality: A White Friend’s Experience | Schenck, Patience A. | 2011 | The principle of human equality is a testimony that Friends are both proud of and challenged by. Proclaiming the importance of equality among peoples is far easier than living equality, day to day and interpersonally. Pat Schenck has dedicated years of study, self-examination, and experimentation to living racial equality in a society that still supports inequality in its institutions. | Social Concerns, Equality, Race Relations |
419 | 416 | Grief, Forgiveness, and Redemption as a Way of Transformation | Pryce, Elaine | 2012 | The traumatic loss of a loved one is among the most devastating hurdles that life can throw in a person’s path. Drawing from her own experience, as well as from art, literature, and traditional wisdom, Elaine Pryce explores the spiritual aspects of grief, recovery from grief, forgiveness, and the blessings of acceptance. | Spirituality, Grief, Forgiveness |
420 | 417 | John Yungblut: Passing the Mystical Torch | Finn, Charlie | 2012 | In this pamphlet Charlie Finn unveils the faith and vision of John Yungblut. At the heart of this story, readers will discover a spiritual “genealogy”: Rufus Jones, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Carl Jung, who influenced John Yungblut who became a spiritual guide and friend to Charlie Finn. | Biography, Theology |
421 | 418 | Some Thoughts on Becoming Eighty-five | Shetter, William Z. | 2012 | The experience of long life and spiritual fruits of aging are the focus of this meditative walk through eighty-five years of William Shetter’s life experience: among Friends, in relationship, as an ongoing seeker and keen observer of the world. | Aging, Autobiography, Spirituality |
422 | 419 | Nurturing Children’s Spiritual Well-being | Crompton, Margaret | 2012 | The author focuses on communication between children and adults in Quaker families and Meetings. She includes practical advice along with stories that reveal children’s innate spirituality. | Children, Spirituality |
423 | 420 | Waging Peace: Discipline and Practice | Haines, Pamela | 2012 | The author offers readers ways to become “nonviolent warriors” through practices that show us how to hope, grieve, listen, welcome conflict, mend, speak truth, and cultivate courage. | Peacemaking, Nonviolence, Social Action |
424 | 421 | Heartfulness: Renewing Heart, Mind, and Spirit on Retreat and Beyond | Brown, Valerie | 2013 | The author guides readers toward renewal of mind, heart, and spirit by encouraging them to take time away from the busyness of their lives through retreat. | Spiritualitt, Retreats |
425 | 422 | Reclaiming the Transcendent: God in Process | Gates, Thomas | 2013 | The author finds the understanding of "God in process" to be deeply congruent with Quaker spirituality. | Theology |
426 | 423 | Queries as Prayers | Rembert, Ron B. | 2013 | The author finds new ways of using queries and explores the significance of writing our prayers. | Prayer |
427 | 424 | Nonviolent Direct Action as a Spiritual Path | Taylor, Richard K. | 2013 | The author explores the relationship between spirituality and nonviolent direct action. | Nonviolence, Social Action, Spirituality |
428 | 425 | Light Within: Then and Now | Ambler, Rex | 2013 | The author explores how early Friends thought about and engaged with the Light in ways that have mostly been lost to Friends today. | Inward Light, Early Friends |
429 | 426 | But Who Do You Say That I Am? Quakers and Christ Today | Gwyn, Douglas | 2014 | The author explores the different stances Quakers have assumed in relation to Christianity, from the unique “primitive Christianity revived” of early Friends, through the foundationist, Conservative, ecumenical, interfaith, universalist, and nontheist positions of different Quakers today. | Quakerism, Christianity, Jesus |
430 | 427 | Radical Hospitality | Wilson, Lloyd Lee | 2014 | The author finds in the events of Jesus's life and in his parables lessons in how to be part of the Kingdom—through inclusiveness toward all people, through letting go of personal cravings for possessions and power, and through noncoercion. | Christianity, Community |
431 | 428 | Spiritual Accompaniment: An Experience of Two Friends Traveling in the Ministry | Walling, Cathy and Elaine Emily | 2014 | The authors give us an account of eldering from the viewpoint of the companion and the minister she traveled with. | Eldering |
432 | 429 | What We Stand On | Christiansen, Paul | 2014 | The author calls Quakers to account for how well we face the seeds of war within our own live, and why we should have hope and courage as a people who can light the way to peace in our world. | War, Testimony |
433 | 432 | Revelation and Revolution: Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness | Chase, Steve | 2015 | For Steve Chase, being a faithful friend and follower of Jesus has always meant being engaged in nonviolent revolutionary work to bring about a beloved community which embodies spiritual wisdom, social justice, and ecological sustainability. His understanding of this call is informed by the Jewish prophets, Jesus, early Quakers, the life example of Martin Luther King, Jr., and by decades of reflection on his own and other people’s stories of working to help heal and repair the world. In this pamphlet, written in part as a response to the Kabarak Call for Peace and Ecojustice, Steve distills the core features of the spiritual call to faithful activism and urges us to rise above the understandable, but debilitating, sins of denial, despair, and distraction. Discussion questions included. | |
434 | 433 | Recovering Sacred Presence in a Disenchanted World | Coelho, Mary Conrow | 2015 | Contemporary Westerners are caught between contradictory ways of understanding the world: science and faith are seemingly incompatible. And when we experience spiritual openings, when the Presence breaks through into our lives, what do we make of it? | |
435 | 434 | A Quietness Within: The Quiet Way as Faith and Spirituality | Pryce, Elaine | 2015 | Drawing on the wisdom of Christian mystics, early Quakers, and other spiritual explorers, Elaine Pryce contemplates the tradition of silent inward attentiveness to Mystery and Presence as a way to spiritual renewal, healing, and discovery. In compelling, poetic language, she calls readers to the quietness within. Discussion questions included. | |
436 | 435 | "Are you my Witnessess" Witness and Testimony in the Biblical and Quaker Traditions | Gates, Thomas | 2015 | What does it mean to be a witness to Truth? Thomas Gates draws from the experiences of the captive Hebrews as told in the Book of Isaiah, as well as the discoveries and practices of early Friends, to offer perspective and insights for twenty-first century Quakers who are trying to live in faithful witness to the Light. What is our testimony today, and how can we best express it in the context of a modern world filled with “false idols,” such as the lure of wealth and comfort, side-by-side with overwhelming powers that wreak havoc on peace and environmental sustainability? Poised between the temptations of complacency and despair, how do we live our witness? | |
437 | 436 | Spreading the Fire: Challenging and Encouraging Friends through Travel in Ministry | Humphries, Debbie | 2015 | In earlier times, far-flung Quaker meetings looked for spiritual deepening in the visits of traveling ministers. Debbie Humphries is one present-day Friend who has responded to a call to travel in ministry. In this new pamphlet she describes her preparation to serve this call faithfully and shares what she has learned from her experiences. One of her discoveries is that contemporary Friends derive much enrichment from the real-time, face-to-face worshipful encounters that take place through visiting ministry. | |
438 | 437 | Methaphors of Meaning | Wilson, Linda | 2016 | The spiritual life defies description through words. To understand our own spiritual experiences and talk about them with others, we often rely on images or metaphors to convey our meaning. Linda Wilson explores metaphors that are commonly used for expressing life in the spirit, noting that their meaning can vary from person to person, framed by one’s geographical roots, culture, and gender. Wilson recognizes her own spirituality in the image of “tending one’s spiritual home,” a metaphor she develops with insight and care, as she offers an example to readers for finding and working with one’s own metaphors. | |
439 | 438 | A Seal Upon the Heart: Quaker Readings in the Song of Songs | Birkel, Michael | 2016 | The Song of Songs stands as unique among the books of the Bible. This collection of love lyrics, candid in their sensuality and profoundly poetic in their imagery, has attracted lovers of God across the centuries.” Michael Birkel celebrates the poetry of love and the allegory of spiritual intimacy found in this anomalous book. He explores early Friends’ use of its imagery to express their longing for union with the Divine Spirit, their joy in communal worship, and a tenderness to all people in language that remains vivid and moving today. Discussion questions included. | |
440 | 439 | Marking the Quaker Path: Seven Key Words Plus One | Griswold, Robert | 2016 | The life of a fully committed Quaker can be described as a series of passages, beginning with a truthful understanding of one’s spiritual condition and deepening through attention to inward experience, spiritual covenant, discipline, and the practice of discernment, culminating ultimately in the maturation of spiritual authority in a beloved community. Robert Griswold explains these passages for modern Friends, drawing from the writings of early Quakers, and offers us a glimpse of the profound growth that can flourish when we turn ourselves over to a life dedicated to the Spirit. Discussion questions included. | |
441 | 440 | Enlarging our Circle of Love | Fisher, Margaret | 2016 | In this compelling exploration of how a first step on a path of faithfulness can begin a lifelong journey, we see how way opens in one Quaker’s life. A disturbing college science experiment leads Margaret Fisher to re-examine her relationship with animal life and to eliminate meat from her diet. Her understanding deepens as she explores the practical and spiritual challenges of living her convictions – in her personal, professional, and family life, and in her spiritual community. Her leading matures into a ministry in which she invites us to widen our circle of love to include all the living world. Discussion questions included. | |
442 | 441 | Making a Portrait of Jesus | Lampen, John | 2016 | What was Jesus really like? The portrayals John Lampen got in childhood lacked vitality, so he returned to the records to discover Jesus for himself and found “an extraordinary man who was very different from what I expected.” In addition to offering a vivid description of “a man who was intensely alive,” John Lampen discusses how he created this portrait by sifting through varied and sometimes contradictory evidence to determine what is most likely to be true. Readers who are interested in Jesus as a historical figure, as well as those who seek to follow his teachings, will find much to think about in this portrayal. Discussion questions included. | |
443 | 442 | Meeting at the Center: Living Love and Reconciling One with Another | Birchard, Bruce | 2016 | Expanding on his plenary address at the 2011 Friends General Conference Gathering, Bruce Birchard describes the work of reconciliation on three levels: between his gay brother and traditional father, among three branches of the Religious Society of Friends, and in two African nations torn apart by genocidal conflict. He shares how he reexamined his thinking about the roles of activist and reconciler and about God as a noun and a verb. Discussion questions included. | |
444 | 443 | Individual Spiritual Discernment: Receiving, Testing and Implementing Leadings from a Higher Power | Knutson, Jerry | 2017 | This pamphlet presents – in a kind of how-to format – methods for receiving individual spiritual guidance; testing the guidance using methods that give both reliable and ambiguous results; and implementing the guidance. The pamphlet concludes with suggestions on using spiritual disciplines to build a better relationship with a Higher Power. Discussion questions included. | |
445 | 444 | Gathered Meeting | Davison, Steven | 2017 | Steven Davison lifts up the gathered meeting for worship as the essence of the Quaker way. He puts it in historical context within the Christian and Quaker traditions and considers the state of the gathered meeting in our own time. While describing the gathering in detail from his own experience, he also quotes Thomas Kelly, William Taber, and Patricia Loring. He explores the “faith” of the gathered meeting and how it fulfills the promises of the Quaker way. Most important, he describes what fosters the gathered meeting. In the holy communion of the gathered meeting lie the soul of the Quaker faith and the hope for a Quakerism that remains vibrant and relevant into the future. Discussion questions included. | |
446 | 445 | Boycott, Divestment, and Sactions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights | Chase, Steve | 2017 | A longtime Quaker Zionist, Steve Chase wonders if a just and peaceful future for Palestinians depends on nonviolent international pressure directed at the State of Israel through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions seeking full compliance with international law and universal human rights. This pamphlet briefly describes Palestinian and Zionist/Israeli history since the late nineteenth century, the development of the BDS movement and Quaker response to it, and what led Steve Chase’s perspective to shift over time. Discussion questions included. |