Publications
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| Title | Summary | Main topic | Sub-topic | Keywords | Link |
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| 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. | Witness | Peace | Faith, Peace, Spirituality, Witness | Download (PDF) View |
| Shalom, Much More Than Peace | Analysis of the Biblical concept of "shalom" and how it includes not just peace (absence of violence) but also other concepts such as justice and the equality of all people. | Witness | Peace | Faith, Peace, Spirituality | Download (PDF) View |
| Nourishing the Spiritual Life: Finding Companionship | Friend from Ohio Valley YM offers insights into the meaning of community, including respecting difference while we look for commonalities between people. | Witness | Community | Community, Faith, Spirituality, Witness | Download (PDF) View |
| Friends’ Peace Witness in a Time of Crisis: A Report from the FWCC Conference… | Summary of the final panel discussion from the Friends World Committee for Consultation Peace Conference of 2003. | Witness | Peace | Faith, Peace, Spirituality, Witness | Download (PDF) View |
| Islam from a Quaker Perspective | Friend from Pacific YM describes how he reached out a hand of peace to Muslims in his community after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. | Faith, Witness | Relationships, Spiritual Journey | Faith, Interfaith, Islam, Relationships, Spirituality, Witness | Download (PDF) View |
| Friends’ Struggles Through the Years | Part of panel at 2003 Friends World Committee for Consultation Peace Conference, about the spiritual basis of the Friends' peace testimony. | Witness | Peace | Faith, Peace, Spirituality | Download (PDF) View |
| Can Love Really Overcome Violence and Hate? | Speech given at the Annual Meeting of FWCC, Section of the Americas, Philadelphia, 2002. As the USA entered a new period of warmaking, a Friend from Baltimore YM offered a vision of how we could… | Witness | Peace | Faith, Peace, Spirituality, Witness | 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 |
| 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 |
| Practicing the Gospel of Hope in the Nuclear Age | A Friend from New York YM sees the film "Gandhi" and makes observations about efforts to transform the world using violent and nonviolent means; he includes examples from the Bible, Quaker history, and other sources. | Witness | Peace | activism, Peace, Spirituality, Witness | Download (PDF) View |
