Beyond Consensus

Beyond Consensus
Author: Barry Morley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1993
Genre: Group decision-making
ISBN: 9780875743073

A Place Called Community

A Place Called Community
Author: Parker J. Palmer
Publisher: Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications
Total Pages: 30
Release: 1977
Genre: Communities.
ISBN: 9780875742120

Dark Night Journey

Dark Night Journey
Author: Sandra Lee Cronk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 179
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780875749143

A journey toward God may be marked by meaninglessness, loss, and pain. Sandra Cronk, a spiritual nurturer and teacher, brings a Quaker perspective to this powerful pathway, and offers sensitive guidance to dark night travelers.

The Gathered Meeting

The Gathered Meeting
Author: Steven Davison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2017-04
Genre: Quakers
ISBN: 9780875744445

"Davison lifts up the gathered meeting for worship as the essence of the Quaker way. He puts it in historical context within the Christian and Quaker traditions and considers the state of the gathered meeting in our own time." -- publisher

Our Life Is Love

Our Life Is Love
Author: Marcelle Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-02-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780997060409

Our Life is Love describes the transformational spiritual journey of the first Quakers, who turned to the Light of Christ within and allowed it to be their guide. Many Friends today use different language, but are still called to make the same journey. In our time people seeking deeper access to the profound teachings of Christianity want more than just beliefs, they want direct experience. Focusing on ten elements of the spiritual journey, this book is a guide to a Spirit-filled life that affects this world. Quakers in the seventeenth century and today provide examples of people and communities living in the midst of the world whose radical understanding of Christ's teachings led them to become powerful agents of social change. The book offers a simple, clear explanation of the spiritual journey that is suitable not only for Quakers, but for all Christians, and for seekers wanting to better understand our spiritual experience and the fullness of God's call to us. The book would make an excellent focus for study groups. Marcelle Martin has led workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings across the United States. She served for four years as the resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill and was a core teacher in the School of the Spirit program, The Way of Ministry. She is the author of the Pendle Hill pamphlets Invitation to a Deeper Communion and Holding One Another in the Light. In 2013 she was the Mullen Writing Fellow at Earlham School of Religion while working on this book.

Spiritual Gifts, the Beloved Community, and Covenant

Spiritual Gifts, the Beloved Community, and Covenant
Author: Emily Provance
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780875744612

God speaks to all people and gives us all spiritual gifts-and yet these gifts are not all the same. We are organizers, pray-ers, workers, carers, innovators, provocateurs, and healers. Why? Because we're made to fit together like puzzle pieces, as we name, affirm, and nurture spiritual gifts and ministries. In the author's view, this fitting together is at the heart of what it means to be a covenant people, a people given to the care of one another and charged with building the kingdom of God on Earth. It's easy to settle for less than covenant; it's scary to stretch for the wholeness of God's promise. We, collectively, face a choice of who to be. A version of this pamphlet was given as the 2019 Weed Lecture at Beacon Hill Friends House in Boston. Discussion questions included.

The Inner Guide Versus the Inner Critic

The Inner Guide Versus the Inner Critic
Author: Christine Wolff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2017-12
Genre: Spiritual life
ISBN: 9780875744483

Friends strive to heed the promptings of an ¿Inner Guide,¿ whose leadings enable us to serve the spirit while carrying us forward in our own spiritual growth. But another voice from within ¿ that of the ¿inner critic¿ ¿ may confuse and disrupt our discernment or may make us feel too small and unworthy to wholeheartedly follow the Guide. Christine Wolff, informed by her studies of psychology and spirituality and her practice of psychotherapy, offers insights into the difference between these two inner voices with suggestions about how readers may overcome limitations that come from a too-active inner critic. Personal examples, exercises, and a study guide are included.