Publications
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| Title | Summary | Main topic | Sub-topic | Keywords | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You Are Your Brother’s Keeper—The Divine Imperative | Keynote talk given at FUM Triennial sometime in the early 1980s. Pastor from Kenya urges us to live with integrity and peace, rather than becoming enmeshed in materialistic things. | Witness | Integrity | Africa, Integrity, Race, Social Concern, Witness | Download (PDF) View |
| Alone on My Island | A Friend who was born in Greece and lived for many years in the USA later moved back to the town where he was born and describes here living among Greek Orthodox Christians. | Faith | Spiritual Journey | Faith, isolated Friend, Spiritual Journey | Download (PDF) View |
| The Shape of Quakerism in North America | Friend from Iowa Conservative and Pacific Y.M.s traces the history of North American Friends in the 19th and 20th centuries, stressing splits and reunifications, and the founding of several Quaker organizations. | Faith | Beliefs | Beliefs, Faith, North America, World Family of Friends | Download (PDF) View |
| In Prison–Yet Free | A German Friend who was imprisoned by the Nazis for not cooperating with their hateful laws describes how the women in her prison tried to encourage each other and be kind. | Faith | Spiritual Journey | Faith, Prison, Spiritual Journey | Download (PDF) View |
| What Jesus Means to Me: Jesus the Liberator | Backhouse Lecture to Australia YM in 1981. British Friend describes how the life and message of Jesus has influenced his work for peace and justice, mainly through work with the UN. | Witness | Peace | Bible, Faith, Peace, Spirituality | Download (PDF) View |
| On Confirming the Deepest Thing in Another | Friend from Philadelphia YM offers thoughts on how Quaker schools can be spiritually centered, and what such centering is, with examples from Christianity and other religions. | Faith | Beliefs | Education, Faith, Spiritual Journey | Download (PDF) View |
| Quest (Five): Personal Religious Thought | Observations on staying spiritually centered; she ends with nine prayers of varying lengths. | Faith | Prayer | Spiritual Journey | Download (PDF) View |
| A Prophetic Vision of the Peaceable Kingdom | "[This] prophetic vision of the Peaceable Kingdom came out of the 1980 New England Y.M. 'Peaceable Kingdom Workshop'…" | Witness | Peace | Faith, Peace, Spirituality, Witness | Download (PDF) View |
| The Power of Words: Some Reflections on the Personal Use of the Psalms | A British Friend, instructor at Woodbrooke, offers thoughts on the Psalms. | Faith | Prayer | Faith, Prayer | Download (PDF) View |
| John Woolman, Quaker Saint | Talk given to a class on Quakerism in 1980; short biography of John Woolman with emphasis on his work for social justice and peaceful relations between white Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans/Indians. | Early Friends | History, John Woolman, Race, testimony | Download (PDF) View |
