The Mind of Christ Bill Taber on Meeting for Business edited by Michael Birkel
The late Bill Taber addressed the rewards and challenges of Quaker business process in a number of presentation to Friends groups. Quaker scholar Michael Birkel has edited Bill’s notes into an inspiring and helpful essay.
Living from the Center Mindfulness, Meditation and Centering for Friends by Valerie Brown
Practices from Christian and Buddhist traditions are applied in an exploration of what helps us to “center down.”
Who Do You Say I Am? by Lloyd Lee Wilson
Jesus asked his disciples: Who do you say that I am? Drawing on years of study and contemplation, Wilson offers his own answer, as a Quaker, to this deceptively simple question.
Confident Quakerism by Ben Pink Dandelion
After a personal crisis shook his confidence in himself, Ben Pink Dandelion considered seriously the spiritual meaning of “confi- dence” (literally, to live and act “with faith”). His reflections led him to delve more deeply into early Friends’ understandings about spiritual growth and religious development, and to apply those principles to the community of Friends as we practice our faith today.
Plow Up the Fallow Ground A Meditation in the Company of Early Friends by Lu Harper
Reading the Bible in company with early Friends, Harper explores the metaphors of field and vineyard in our spiritual lives, and demonstrates a creative approach to reading scripture.
Answering the Violence Encounters with Perpetrators by John Lampen
As a people committed to peace, Friends have nonetheless, from time to time, sought to build close relationships with perpetrators of violence, with groups and individuals who may be labeled “oppres- sors” or “terrorists.” Why? What part do such relationships play in efforts to end differences and build peace in troubled situations?
James Nayler Speaking by Brian Drayton
“To read James Nayler is to connect with Quakerism’s initial eruption of insight and obedience,” writes Brian Drayton, who has found, in the writings of this influential and controversial Friend, messages that speak to the turmoil of our times, as they spoke to the turmoil of 1650s England.
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