Quakers category: 82 books

According to Wikipedia: "Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469, Rotterdam July 12, 1536 Basel) was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian."

"Wars are often promoted from considerations of interest, as well as from passion. The love of gain adds its influence to our other motives to support them, and without other motives, we know that this love is sufficient to give great obliquity to the moral judgment, and to tempt us to many crimes....

Have you ever thought you completely knew a story, inside and out, only to see some new information that shatters what you had come to accept as unquestioned fact? Well, Richard Nixon is that story, and Nixon’s First Cover-up is that new information. With few exceptions, the religious ideologies...

The Quaker Family in Colonial America is a book by J. William Frost.

In To Be Broken and Tender, Friend and Quaker historian Margery Abbott weaves together a brave and beautiful personal narrative with Quaker history and theological reflection in response to questions and struggles about belief, language, social issues and other deeply-felt concerns that unsettle and...

In the Quaker Study Sessions for Canadian Yearly Meeting in August, 2014, Mark A. Burch listed the impacts of simple living:... If you would prevent war, live simply.... If you would live nonviolently, live simply.... If you want to participate in the democratic life of your community, live simply.......

An invitation to experience more fully the life-changing power of sacred silence For over a decade, J. Brent Bill's Holy Silence has been regarded as a contemporary classic on sacred silence. With warmth, wisdom, and gentle humor, Bill presents the Quaker practice of silence and expectant...

Quakerism is not the peace testimony and the peace testimony is not pacifism but peace has a special place in Quakerism and here a Quaker gives four reasons why. The reasons are not uniquely Quaker and they can motivate the search for peace and also inform the use of force. In answering the question...

Shaker handicrafts' dignified simplicity is perhaps our greatest example of form following function. An off-shoot of Quakerism, the Shakers sought to create a heaven on earth through both worship and diligent work. Practical yet attractive, the furniture, textiles, tools and machinery of the Shakers...

Around the Quaker world, there is a murmuring restlessness and growing hunger for a deeper and more vibrant spiritual experience . . . to know and be known by that which is truly Eternal; to establish authentic faith communities kindled and animated by the Power and Presence of the Holy Spirit; and...

Thomas Watson (circa 16201686) was an English Puritan who became a well renowned preacher and author during his time, and his writings are still widely read today. As vicar of St. Stephen's Walbrook, Watson became famous and popular as a preacher until the Restoration, which found him removed from his...

Thomas Watson (circa 16201686) was an English Puritan who became a well renowned preacher and author during his time, and his writings are still widely read today. As vicar of St. Stephen's Walbrook, Watson became famous and popular as a preacher until the Restoration, which found him removed from his...