Publications
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| Title | Summary | Main topic | Sub-topic | Keywords | Link |
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| Conversations from the Heartland | Friends Journal article: Midwestern "liberal-type" Friend who home schools her children describes her communication with other home-schooling mothers who are fundamentalist Christians, and efforts to find common spiritual ground. | Faith, Witness | Peace, Spiritual Journey | Children, Family, Peace, Spiritual Journey | Download (PDF) View |
| The Mother of the Sons of Zebedee | One of the author's series of stories about women who knew Jesus; this one fantasizes that the mother of the disciples James and John became a faithful Christian along with her sons. | Faith | Beliefs | Bible, Spirituality | Download (PDF) View |
| Tribute to a Peacemaker/WaitingintheLight.blogspot.com: Selected entries from Tom Fox’s Blog | Selections from the web log of Tom Fox, who was killed in Iraq while serving with Christian Peacemaker Teams. Introduced by Florence Fullerton. | Faith, Witness | Peace, Spiritual Journey | Peace, Spiritual Journey | Download (PDF) View |
| How I survived my Halo | A Friend tells how she drew on both religious and psychological resources after major surgery and a lengthy hospital stay. | Faith | Spiritual Journey | Family, Prayer, Psychology | Download (PDF) View |
| God’s Presence in Trauma | Article from Quaker Life. Friends pastor from Indiana YM who works with prisoners describes when her home was invaded by an escaped prisoner and how she stayed spiritually centered. | Faith, Witness | Peace, Spiritual Journey | Faith, Peace, Prison, Spiritual Journey, Witness | Download (PDF) View |
| 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. | Faith | Spiritual Journey | Bible, Faith, Race, Spiritual Journey, youth | Download (PDF) View |
| William Penn and the Poetry of Sorrow | An essay on grief as expressed by Penn. Written by a Friend who was chosen to become the tutor of the crown prince of Japan, the now-emperor Akihito. | Faith | Beliefs | death, dying, Early Friends, Poetry, William Penn | Download (PDF) View |
| Learning to Learn: The Journey of a Cross-Cultural Public Friend | Chapter from book "Walk Worthy of Your Calling." Friend from Northwest Y.M. describes her missionary work in Bolivia, with vivid descriptions of initial culture shock and slowly getting to feel at home. | Faith | Spiritual Journey | Faith, Latin America, Spiritual Journey, World Family of Friends | Download (PDF) View |
| Teach Me Your Way, Oh Lord | Bible study presented at Sunday morning worship at the 21st Triennial of FWCC in New Zealand; looking for lessons in the Bible on how to be faithful witnesses to our faith in the 21st century. | Faith | Prayer | Faithfulness, Scripture | Download (PDF) View |
| Instruments of Peace and Love in the Hands of God | Chapter from book "Walk Worthy of Your Calling." Cuban pastor's short history of what life was like in Cuba YM in the 1960s and 70s and how he came to the ministry. | Faith | Spiritual Journey | History, Latin America, Spiritual Journey | Download (PDF) View |
