Quakers category: 82 books
by David Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
A Quaker prayer life arises from a life of continuing daily attentiveness. The first generation of Quakers followed a covenant with God, based on assidious obedience to the promptings of the Inward Light. This process did not require the established churches, priests or liturgies. Quaker prayer then...
Quakernomics
An Ethical Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book explores Quaker enterprises from 1700 to the twentieth century as examples of an ethical capitalism, and tests them against prominent economists and their concern for economic justice. King offers ‘Quakernomics’ as a model for corporate social responsibility in the modern world, exploring...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of text or minister. Convinced of the authenticity of this experience and its universal application, Fox...
by F.W. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The United Society of Believers in Christs Second Appearing (the Shakers), is a religious sect founded during the 18th century in England. The name Shakers arose because they were originally called the Shaking Quakers due to their characteristic style of worship. The Shakers Compendium contains a wealth...
Almost Friends
A Harmony Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
It's summer in Harmony, but not everything is as sunny as the weather. The good citizens of Harmony are back and stirring up trouble as usual, sometimes with disastrous results.
Pastor Sam Gardner must take a leave of absence from his post at Harmony Friends Meeting to take care of his ailing...
Open to New Light
Quaker Spirituality in Historical and Philosophical Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This book is about “the meaning of life” or “the spiritual quest”. It offers a selective and critical evaluation of some central strands of Western religious and philosophical thought over two and a half thousand years. It starts with Socrates’ philosophy of life, and the Greek tradition...
Our Life Is Love
The Quaker Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Our Life is Love describes the transformational spiritual journey of the first Quakers, who turned to the Light of Christ within and allowed it to be their guide. Many Friends today use different language, but are still called to make the same journey. Focusing on ten elements of the spiritual journey, this book is a guide to a Spirit-filled life that affects this world.
Moral Commerce
Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through...
A Quaker Officer in the Civil War
Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
His opposition to slavery outweighed his religion’s views of war: “One of the most unique and extensive views of a Delaware war veteran’s experience” (Main Line Times).
When the call went out in 1862 for volunteers for Delaware’s 4th Infantry Regiment, a number of men from prominent Quaker...
I Love You, Miss Huddleston
And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
In the vein of Bill Bryson’s The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, with a dash of some of the homegrown nostalgia of The Dangerous Book for Boys and A Prairie Home Companion, humorist Philip Gulley (Front Porch Tales, Home to Harmony) tells of his coming of age in small-town Indiana.
by Samuel Bownas, Simon Webb
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
'On the 27th of the sixth month, called August, 1725, my husband and all our men-servants being abroad, eleven Indians, armed with tomahawks and guns, who had some time before been skulking about the fields, and watching an opportunity of our men’s absence, came furiously into the house...' ...
Front Porch Tales
Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Wisdom and Humor from the Front Porch
Master storyteller Philip Gulley shares tender and hilarious real-life moments that capture the important truths of everyday life.
When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had...
Hometown Tales
Recollections of Kindness, Peace, and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Stories from a Place That Feels Like Home
Master storyteller Philip Gulley envelops readers in an almost forgotten world of plainspoken and honest small-town values, evoking a simpler time when people knew each other by name, folks looked out for their neighbors, and people were willing to...
Porch Talk
Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Evoking a time when life revolved around the front porch, where friends gathered, stories were told, and small moments took on larger meaning, in today’s hurry-up world, Philip Gulley’s essays remind us of the world we once shared—and can share again.
When Philip Gulley began...