encourage every Friend to engage the Bible, “not passively accept- ing someone else’s interpretation; not looking for ‘the good parts’ and skipping the rest; not contorting scripture to support pre-deter- mined ideas—but entering into a dialog with this ancient book, exploring your own assumptions about God, and deepening your relationship with the divine.” — Marty Paxson Grundy. Contributors include John Punshon, Howard Macy, Beckey Phipps, Esther Mombo, Anthony Prete, and Deborah Shaw.
Earlham School of Religion, 2006, 310 pp., paperback $19.95
Listening for the Voice of Truth Bible Lessons from the 2009 Gathering by Patty Levering
In this Bible study, Patty Levering invites us into a deep reading of scripture that “lets readers listen for the voice of the capital ‘T’ Truth known by George Fox and early Friends.” Five lessons—“Opening to the Light,” “Listening under the Words,” “The Bible and Spiritual Discernment,” “Living in the Life and Power,” and “I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life”—offer insights on how to approach difficult passages in the text and to find the “Life” within the words.
QuakerPress of FGC, 2009, 36 pp., paperback $8.00
Living out the Kingdom while Living in the Empire Bible Lessons from the 2007 FGC Gathering
by Christopher Sammond
Christopher Sammond draws on the book of Esther to contrast relationships and intrigue in the Empire with Jesus’s New Testament teachings about life in the Kingdom. He shows how easy it is to name the “other” and also to become “other” within the hierarchy of the “empires,” large and small, which we create today; and, he calls us to live into the Kingdom, the blessed community where justice and love are intertwined. Christopher Sammond’s honesty, biblical scholarship, spiritual witness, and sense of humor bring life to this study.
Quaker Press of FGC, 2009, 40 pp., paperback $8.00 Inspirational
A Testament of Devotion by Thomas Kelly
Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Devotion has been universally embraced as a truly enduring spiritual classic. Deeply inspirational, it includes five passionate and beautifully written essays about what it means to center our lives on God’s presence, to find quiet and stillness within modern life, and to discover the deeply satisfying and lasting peace of the inner spiritual journey.
HarperCollins, 1996, 130 pp., paperback $13.95
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