Friend from Ohio Valley YM offers insights into the meaning of community, including respecting difference while we look for commonalities between people.
Leading and Being Led
The first third of a Pendle Hill pamphlet with the same name. An exploration of how we can know when the Holy Spirit is leading us to do something. Contains examples from Quaker history.
The Top Ten Reasons I’m Quaker
A pastor from Northwest YM tells what he particularly loves about Quakerism— things like lack of hierarchy and the listening directly to what Jesus tells us in our daily lives.
Worship
Talk given at FWCC Triennial; a South African Friend offers thoughts on the meaning of worship and prayer and how these may lead us to work to help others in our communities.
No Doubt
A Friend from Philadelphia YM whose daughter is disabled offers thoughts on seeing her daughter as a gift from God.
The Simplification of Life
Chapter from “A Testament of Devotion,” about the busyness of modern life in North America and Europe, with suggestions for how to simplify our lives and be more centered spiritually.
The Quaker Discovery; Room for the Infinite
Chapter from Kelly’s book “The Eternal Promise,” about early Friends, particularly George Fox, and the vision they had about spiritual insights coming directly from God.
The New Holy Family
Reprint of 1943 article from “The American Friend.” Quoting Jesus who said that his followers were his new “family,” Jones suggests we look at the whole spiritual family of Christians and work on healing the differences in this large “family.”
Connected to the Vine
Talk given at World Gathering of Young Friends in Britain in 2005; African-American Friend describes her spiritual journey through several different types of Christianity to end up as a Friend in Philadelphia YM.
Learning to Go in Peace
Keynote talk at sessions of Philadelphia YM in 2008, by pastor from Northwest YM, exploring the peace testimony and its Biblical basis and how we can live it in the 21st century.
