The Quakers of New Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quakers of New Garden write by Claire A. Sanders. This book was released on 2012. The Quakers of New Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follows the stories of four Quaker women as they struggle with affairs of the heart.
How the Quakers Invented America
How the Quakers Invented America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How the Quakers Invented America write by David Yount. This book was released on 2007. How the Quakers Invented America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shows how the Quakers shaped the basic distinctive features of American life from the days of the founders and the colonies through the Revolution and up to the civil rights movement; also points out how Quaker values like freedom, equality, straightforwardness, and spirituality can be seen in modern day peace advocates.--From publisher description.
First among Friends
First among Friends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First among Friends write by H. Larry Ingle. This book was released on 1996-01-04. First among Friends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In First Among Friends, the first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), H. Larry Ingle examines the fascinating life of the reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends, more popularly known today as the Quakers. Ingle places Fox within the upheavals of the English Civil Wars, Revolution, and Restoration, showing him and his band of "rude" disciples challenging the status quo, particularly during the Cromwellian Interregnum. Unlike leaders of similar groups, Fox responded to the conservatism of the Stuart restoration by facing down challenges from internal dissidents, and leading his followers to persevere until the 1689 Act of Toleration. It was this same sense of perseverance that helped the Quakers to survive and remain the only religious sect of the era still existing today. This insightful study uses broad research in contemporary manuscripts and pamphlets, many never examined systematically before. Firmly grounded in primary sources and enriched with gripping detail, this well-written and original study reveals unknown sides of one who was clearly "First Among Friends."
A Quaker Book Of Wisdom
A Quaker Book Of Wisdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Quaker Book Of Wisdom write by Robert Lawrence Smith. This book was released on 2013-05-21. A Quaker Book Of Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The most valuable aspect of religion," writes Robert Lawrence Smith, "is that it provides us with a framework for living. I have always felt that the beauty and power of Quakerism is that it exhorts us to live more simply, more truthfully, more charitably." Taking his inspiration from the teaching of the first Quaker, George Fox, and from his own nine generations of Quaker forebears, Smith speaks to all of us who are seeking a way to make our lives simpler, more meaningful, and more useful. Beginning with the Quaker belief that "There is that of God in every person," Smith explores the ways in which we can harness the inner light of God that dwells in each of us to guide the personal choices and challenges we face every day. How to live and speak truthfully. How to listen for, trust, and act on our conscience. How to make our work an expression of the best that is in us. Using vivid examples from his own life, Smith writes eloquently of Quaker Meeting, his decision to fight in World War II, and later to oppose the Vietnam War. From his work as an educator and headmaster to his role as a husband and father, Smith quietly convinces that the lofty ideals of Quakerism offer all of us practical tools for leading a more meaningful life. His book culminates with a moving letter to his grandchildren which imparts ten lessons for "letting your life speak."
Open for Transformation
Open for Transformation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Open for Transformation write by Pink Dandelion. This book was released on 2014. Open for Transformation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "If we as Quakers want our Quaker approach to faith to be vibrant, cohesive, coherent and socially useful, we need to be clear about what we are and what we are not." In the last 150 years the backdrop to our Quaker experience has changed. Have we as Quakers been prey to inroads of secularism and individualism? Have these inroads left Quakers in Britain a diffuse and diluted faith community? Ben Pink Dandelion asks rigorous and difficult questions about what it means to be Quaker today within this context. In this important and exciting book we are challenged to consider how we retain an authentic encounter with the Divine, how we become a transformed and transforming community.
