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  • Quaker Quicks - Hearing the Light

    The Core Of Quaker Theology

    Quaker Quicks - Hearing the Light begins with the foundations of Quaker theology, which is based in the Quaker method of unprogrammed, silent worship. This act of gathering as a community to wait and listen to God is at the heart of Quakerism and essential to understanding Quaker theology, which is embedded in the practice as well as explained by it. Rhiannon Grant shows how Central Quaker ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Quaker Quicks - Quakers Do What! Why?

    Structured around questions which non-Quakers often ask, this book explores Quaker practices, explaining them in the context of Quaker theology and present-day diversity. It describes how Quakers make decisions and why they have preferred this method, as well as looking at the Quaker rejection of common Christian practices like baptism. Each short chapter gives an answer, considers why that is so, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Barn at the End of the World

    The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

    “About the subtlest, most sane-making book on contemporary spirituality that I’ve read in years. It’s also the funniest.”—Joanna Macy, author of Active HopeDeciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O’Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this decidedly down-to-earth, often-hilarious book, O’Reilley describes her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quaker Way

    A Rediscovery

    by Rex Ambler ...
    This book is an attempt 'to explain the Quaker way, as far as that is possible'. It is a distinctive way and, though perhaps no better than others, it has its own integrity and effectiveness. Although it is fairly well known, Quakerism is not well understood, so the purpose o... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman

    Edited by Phillips Moulton ...
    The secret of Woolman's purity of style is that his eye is single, and that conscience dictated his words. This Quaker preacher and tailor was a man of wisdom and true philosophy. These pages are filled with insight and messages for our time. A major classic of American spirituality. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. Emerging from the social unrest of the English civil war, the Quakers have gone on to have an influence way beyond their numbers: be it their continued stance against war or their pioneering work against slavery. At the same time, Quakers maintain a distinctive worship ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 7 Steps to Service

    An Encounter with Quaker Spirituality

    The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) are relatively few in number but have had a much greater impact in the world than those numbers might suggest thanks to their witness to peace and social reform. This very short volume describes a personal view of Quakerism in seven simple steps, with some of the essentials of this radical and contemporary approach to spiritual practice and how it ... Read more

    $2.22 USD

  • Why Peace, Quaker?

    by Colm McKeogh ...
    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 that is the title of this book, Colm McKeogh uses the four gospels to give expression to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Quaker Officer in the Civil War

    Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware

    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 families came forward to fight for the Union. Deeply patriotic and strongly opposed to slavery, they served ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quaker Quicks - Why I am a Pacifist

    A Call For A More Nonviolent World

    by Tim Gee ...
    Tim Gee tells the story of why he became a pacifist and what it means to him. Gee reflects on the lives of peacemakers past and present to provide responses to questions like “Don’t we have to hit back if we're hurt?”, “Don’t we need war to respond to evil?” and “Doesn’t religion justify wars?”. This is a critique of war, but more than that, it stakes a claim for pacifism's feminist and anti ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, A Quaker Kidnapped by Native Americans in 1725

    '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...'  Thus begins the story of the captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, 'taken in substance from her own mouth' by the ... Read more

    $3.21 USD

  • George Fox: An Autobiography

    George Fox (September 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Christian Soldier, or Heaven Taken by Storm

    by Thomas Watson ...
    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 position. Among his writings are All Things for Good (originally published as A Divine Cordial), ... Read more

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  • Quaker Quicks - The Guided Life

    Finding Purpose in Troubled Times

    by Craig Barnett ...
    Quakers have made the cultivation of the guided life the focus of their spirituality for over three centuries. Generations of Quakers have developed practices for nurturing their connection to an inward source of guidance, meaning and purpose. This Inward Guide is present in all people, cultures and traditions. It goes by many names and is understood in many ways, but it is equally available to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Jesus Today

    Jesus is a name we all recognise, but few people these days really know much about him, his personality or his teaching. For many he is as he appears in stained glass windows, or in hymns with words like “now above the sky he’s king, where the angels ever sing”, or nailed to a cross – dead. None of these present the lively radical teacher, poet, and healer that he was in his prime.A great deal of ... Read more

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  • Quaker Quicks - Money and Soul

    Quaker Faith And Practice And The Economy

    by Pamela Haines ...
    If money troubles your soul, try this down-to-earth Quaker perspective on economies large and small. The economy, as we usually encounter it, has nothing to do with values or faith. After all, the “invisible hand” caters to no religious belief. It is all a matter of science, we are assured: economists have mastered the mathematical formulas for growth and prosperity. Our role as individuals is ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Breakthrough to Unity: The Quaker Way Held within the Mystic Traditions

    The Quaker Way of worship has always been a mystic way.Seekers broke away from liturgy, dogma and creed to discover that worship may be centred on direct communion with the Divine Spirit. This power for direct communication with God lies at the heart of everyone.George Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement, proved to be a mystic who ranks with the great Catholic medieval mystics. Like them, he ... Read more

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  • Our Life Is Love

    The Quaker Spiritual Journey

    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. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Come All Ye Who Are Heavily Cumbered

    by Mark A. Burch ...
    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.... If you would live sustainably, live simply.... If you would live in such a way as to promote ... Read more

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  • Movings of Divine Love

    The Love of God in the Letters of John Woolman

    by Drew Lawson ...
    This book makes available many of the letters of John Woolman and offers Drew Lawson's reflections on themes arising from Woolman's letters in the light of Lawson's own experience of the spiritual journey. The book investigates the following themes: the love of God, brokenness, abandonment to God, being led through God's love, crucifixion (paying the price of faithfulness), and resurrection. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quakers

    by Peter Furtado ...
    Series Book 752 - Shire Library
    Though there have never been many Quakers, these small numbers belie the sect's tremendous impact, both historical and contemporary. Quakerism has produced an astonishing and disproportionate number of eminent thinkers, scientists, industrialists and businessmen, who are united not only by their success but by their commitment to philanthropy and social justice. Quakers also played an important ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Essential Works of Thomas Watson (Illustrated Edition)

    by Thomas Watson ...
    Includes the following titles: A Body of Divinity, The Christian Soldier, or Heaven Taken by Storm, The Godly Mans Picture, The Lords Prayer, and The Ten Commandments. 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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Light in Their Consciences

    Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666

    Series series The New History of Quakerism
    Hailed upon its publication as “history at its finest” by H. Larry Ingle and called “the essential foundation to explore early Quaker history” by Sixteenth Century Journal, Rosemary Moore’s The Light in Their Consciences is the most comprehensive, readable history of the first decades of the life and thought of The Society of Friends. This twentieth anniversary edition of Moore’s pathbreaking work ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • George Fox

    An Address Delivered to The Society of Friends

    When first it was in my heart to address you, I did not at all suppose that it would be in the form of a lecture. I thought it possible, if God so ordered it, that I might have spoken to you for about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, upon a spiritual subject which for two or three years has pressed very heavily upon my mind. It seemed to me that you, esteemed Friends, were a picked body of men ... Read more

    $1.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus