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A Sacred Trust: A Quaker Family Since 1816
by Theodora (Dody) Elkinton Waring
This lively story chronicles nearly two centuries of remarkable commitments made by a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family, beginning with an invitation from Seneca Chief Cornplanter in 1816 and including the family's role with the Russian pacifist Doukhobors, Japanese Samurai and German Jews.
Spirit Rising: Young Quakers Speak
edited by Angelina Conti, Cara Curtis, C. Wess Daniels, Harriet Hart, Sarah Katreen Hoggatt, Evelyn Jadin, John Epur Lomuria, Emma Condori Mamani, Katrina McQuail, and Rachel Anne Miller
Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices celebrates, critiques, questions, and reflects on the Quaker faith experience. Writing and visual art by teenage and young adult Quakers from around the world and across the theological and cultural spectrum of the Religious Society of Friends give readers a window on the spiritual riches and witness these Friends offer.
Writing Cheerfully On The Web: A Quaker Blog Reader
edited by Liz Oppenheimer
This book brings to print the online conversation that has been mending our historical schisms and pointing to who we are as the Religious Society of Friends. If you're ready to have your stereotypes shattered about who the "real" Quakers are, then read what these 32 Friends from across the Quaker branches have discovered for themselves.
Hands At Work: Portraits And Profiles Of People Who Work With Their Hands
by Iris Graville, Photos by Summer Moon Scriver
HANDS AT WORK, a carefully crafted, 144-page hardcover, provides a rich tapestry of people passionate about laboring with their hands. The book's author and publisher, Iris Graville, is a Friend from Lopez Island, WA. Her vivid narratives, combined with Summer Moon Scriver's striking black-and-white photographs of hands, tools, and materials, provide a meditation on work that kindles readers' inspiration and insights.
A Quaker's Response to Christian Fundamentalism
by Sallie B. King
Many Friends are unprepared to meet the challenges of Christian fundamentalism. When acquaintances, co-workers or neighbors accost us, insisting upon certain conservative or fundamentalist theological views, many Friends find themselves tongue-tied and do not know what to think or say. Instruction in Friends’ beliefs, history and practices, instruction even in the Bible, while necessary, may not be enough. Some of us need to directly talk and think about the challenges we frequently receive from our Christian fundamentalist peers. It is to meet this challenge that Dr. King has written this pamphlet.
Rooted in Christianity, Open to new Light: Quaker spiritual diversity
By Timothy Ashworth & Alex Wildwood
Contemporary Quaker meetings encounter unprecedented diversity of belief and religious language. How do we better understand - and work creatively with - the tension between traditional Christian faith and emerging expressions of Quakerism?
The Lost Secret Of The Liberty Bell
by Sally Rickerman
Sally Rickerman looks at the evidence that the Liberty Bell, with its famous quotation was ordered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Penn's "Charter of liberties" (more correctly the Charter of privileges).
The Journal of Elias Hicks
edited by Paul Buckley
In this new edition, The Journal of Elias Hicks is published as it was written, telling the story of the faith and practice of this historic Quaker minister whose long life and faithful service in the traditional beliefs of the Religious Society of Friends shaped the Society’s history in ways he never suspected would happen.
Friends in deed:
by Heather Saville
Friends in deed is the inspiring and deeply human story of a small group of people who wanted to help change the world, one step at a time. With a passionate sense of commitment and a filing system in a couple of boxes, a few Australian Quakers began a fifty year journey to build a respected international aid organisation known today as Quaker Service Australia.
The London Friends' Meetings
by William Beck (1823-1907), Thomas Frederick Ball (1836-1894), Simon Neil Dixon, Peter John Daniels (1954- )
This 1869 history of London Quakers appeared as 19th-century Friends were awakening to the significance of their own past. Facsimile reprint with new introduction by Simon Dixon PhD, author of the thesis “Quaker Communities in London1667–c1714”, and Quaker writer and editor Peter Daniels; new maps; 60 illustrations of buildings etc described in the book; and comprehensive new index.
A Winter Solstice Singing Ritual: A Celebration of the Darkness and the Light
by Julie Forest Middleton & Stasa Morgan-Appel
A complete, deeply powerful, non-denominational Winter Solstice
ritual celebration to perform. The book/CD kit works as well for a
small circle (read the text, play the CD, and sing along),and as a
large community or church ritual that's a calming gift at a hectic
time of year. The 15 songs, rounds, and sing-alongs, the readings
and the narrator's script combine as a seamless celebration for the longest night of the year and the returning of the light.
Truths of Humanity from the World's Great Spiritual Traditons
edited by Sally Rickerman, a work based on the work of S. E. Frost, modernization by Rhoda Gilman
A topical compendium of sayings from the world religions including Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Jainism, Judaism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoraoasterianism.
Trust: My Experience of Quakerism’s Greatest Gift
By Sally Rickerman
A spiritual journey is the history of the experiences and insights gathered in the course of a life deeply engage with the quest for meaning. The fruit of such a journey is described as wisdom when the meaning of one’s life is understood in terms of its larger purpose and the significance of its values.
Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920: v. 8
by Edward H. Milligan
A dictionary style publication (606 pages) with 2,800 entries of British Quakers.
Working in the Silence
by Maurice Hopper
An analysis of a short period of human rights witness in the Palestinian West Bank. Based on the Palestinian Field Journal of Maurice Hopper, 8th November 2003 to 7th February 2004.
Seeing, Hearing, Knowing - Reflections on Experiment with Light
by Rex Ambler
Experiment with Light is a movement within the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) that aims at putting our lives under the guidance of the Light.
Nonsense On Stilts - A Quaker view of Human Rights
This collection of essays offers insights both into the nature of human rights and the radical thinking that informs them.
Quaker Quotes
A group of Quakers in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, have made a collection of pieces from Quaker Faith and Practice and Advices & Queries which help and inspire them.
Sufferings of the Early Quakers (10 volume set)
by Joseph Besse
This 10 volume set is a complete facsimile text of Joseph Besse's 2 volume leather bound 1723 edition of Early Quaker Sufferings.
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