Quakers category: 82 books
by Keith Robert Maddock
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Keith R. Maddock, a member of Toronto Monthly Meeting, has many years of experience in prison visitation and has been involved in several justice organizations. Here he gives us the benefit of that experience, expanding on his earlier pamphlet, Beyond the Bars: a Quaker Primer for Prison Visitors....
by Peggy Senger Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Quaker minister and spiritual adventurer, Peggy Senger Morrison writes about finding God in unexpected places. The book starts by proposing 12 spiritual disciplines for the 21st century. These include: adventure, courage, surrender, compassion and failure. The idea is to develop and hold an unmediated...
by Philip Gulley
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
A Year of Laughter and Grace in harmony
Master storyteller Philip Gulley returns to the winsome ways of Harmony, Indiana, in the third installment of the beloved Harmony series.
If the Church Were Christian
Rediscovering the Values of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“[Philip Gulley’s] vision of Christianity is grounded, gripping, and filled with uncommon sense. He is building bridges instead of boundaries, and such wisdom is surely needed now.” —Richard Rohr, O.F.M, author of Everything Belongs
Quaker minister Philip Gulley, author of If Grace...
by Philip Gulley
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Philip Gulley takes us to Harmony, Indiana, at Christmastime as inspiration strikes the inimitable Dale Hinshaw. Always looking for a way to increase the church's profit margins, Hinshaw brainstorms a progressive nativity scene that will involve the whole town, complete with a map like those for the...
Life Goes On
A Harmony Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Squarely in the crosshairs of the Church's heresy hunters, can Pastor Sam survive?
It's a madcap year in Harmony, Indiana, as Sam Gardner struggles through his fourth year as pastor of the Harmony Friends Meeting. Join the thousands of readers who have fallen in love with the charming small...
If God Is Love
Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
If God is love, why are so many Christians fearful, and why do so many church leaders sound hateful? Two controversial pastors address issues the church won't face, calling us to restore grace as the center of the Christian life.
o In If Grace Is True, Pastors Philip Gulley and James Mulholland...
Being Quaker . . . Where You Are
A Journey Among Isolated Friends in the Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
A record of visits with “all isolated Friends listed” in North Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, this book reveals a wide variety of spiritual practices among them and gives witness to the many ways that service, simplicity, seeking, and wonder can result in a successful...
by Northern Yearly Meeting F & P Committee, Kathy White, Richard VanDellen
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
This First Edition of Northern Yearly Meeting’s Faith and Practice supplies our statement of faith and descriptions of Quaker practice as we aspire to live our faith in the upper Midwest of the United States. The faith section includes perspectives on the Religious Society of Friends' historically...
John Woolman and the Government of Christ
A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come for Friends to reject the practice of slavery. That man was John Woolman, and that moment was a significant step, among many, toward the abolition of slavery in the...
The Anti-War
Peace Finds the Purpose of a Peculiar People; Militant Peacemaking in the Manner of Friends
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book advocates a renewal of the traditional Quaker peace testimony, to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Today's darkening human prospect forces Friends to reclaim their identity as a people of God that resists the dominant culture and wages an "anti-war," a militant inversion of empire's militarist imperatives.
My Conversation with Sophia
Reflections on Wisdom’S Contemplative Path
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
In the Bible, a mysterious Lady Wisdom appears in many guises and dominates in the Wisdom Books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha. But just what is this spirit that is so central to all of creation? In My Conversation with Sophia, author William Z. Shetter shares an imagined conversation with Sophia,...
by Brenda L. Burkett
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
In 1822, Gov. Lewis Cass defined the boundaries of six counties, including Lenawee. The Pottawattamies inhabited Lenawee County before settlers, many of Quaker descent, migrated from eastern states, predominantly New York. Abundant forests, prairies, hills, lakes, and streams surrounded by uncultivated...
He is our cousin, Cousin
A Quaker Family’s History from 1660 to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
"This book is a treasure trove of family and wider Quaker social history...we should be very grateful for Antony Barlow's work and the affirmation it brings of a Quaker way of life and a Quaker set of values that continue to offer so many of us strength and hope" Ben Dandelion. " This...