Twelve Quakers and God
Twelve Quakers and God

Author: Quaker Quest

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2016-07-07

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 1783019808

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What is God? Who is God? Or maybe the question is: Who is God for you? What is the name you use? What is your experience, your understanding? Twelve Quakers write from their own experience, starting from their own insights, not from any agreed statement of belief. Twelve pieces, twelve different viewpoints, yet each has been life-changing for the person involved. This small book is part of an exploration for writers and readers alike, together growing in understanding. It has been published for people who are looking for a God in which in which they can believe, whatever name they give to the divine. Though few in number, Quakers have had a positive influence in society. Those wondering about the Quaker way, and what motivates its followers, should find these twelve honest accounts helpful.

Twelve Quakers and Prayer
Twelve Quakers and Prayer

Author: Quaker Quest

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2016-07-07

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 1783019794

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What is prayer? If it isn't pleading or wishing, what is it? What's the point if prayers are not answered? Is prayer expecting God to do what we should do? Can you pray if you don't believe in God? Twelve Quakers respond to these and many more questions about prayer from their own experience. Each responds differently. Some recognise that how they know or understand God shapes their prayer life. Some see praying as 'holding the light'. Some know that letting go of self to enter into a greater self is crucial for them. All see prayer as communication. Simply and clearly, they describe how they pray and tell of the changes it has made to their lives. They hope their attempts will inspire readers to engage again with prayer in a more experimental and radical way

Quaker Quicks - Quakers Do What! Why?
Quaker Quicks - Quakers Do What! Why?

Author: Rhiannon Grant

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 1789044065

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Structured around questions which non-Quakers often ask, this book explores Quaker practices, explaining them in the context of Quaker theology and present-day diversity. It describes how Quakers make decisions and why they have preferred this method, as well as looking at the Quaker rejection of common Christian practices like baptism. Each short chapter gives an answer, considers why that is so, describes some of the diversity within Quaker groups, and points to other resources which could be used to find out more.

Celebrating the Quaker Way
Celebrating the Quaker Way

Author: Ben Pink Dandelion

Publisher: Quaker Press

Published: 2019-10

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781907123139

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This pocket-sized book celebrates the Quaker way and affirms the wonderful riches of the Quaker tradition in Britain, and the Quaker 'Liberal tradition' more widely. It is a book for Quakers rather than about them. It talks of 'us' and 'we' and is for 'insiders'. It is a devotional book, for us.

Living Our Beliefs
Living Our Beliefs

Author: Graham Ralph (Deputy head)

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781999726942

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This book includes short, simple passages and thoughtful quotations introducing different aspects of Quakerism. Some chapters explore the words we use to express ourselves and our faith. Other chapters describe how and why we worship, make decisions and involve people in our communities. Living Our Beliefs also introduces the testimonies that we use to guide us and some Quaker roles and responsibilities, as well as key dates in Quaker history. This book may intrigue, challenge or comfort you; however it makes you feel, may it inspire you to go out into the world and breathe life into your beliefs. -- Publisher's description.

Our Life Is Love
Our Life Is Love

Author: Marcelle Martin

Publisher:

Published: 2016-02-19

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780997060409

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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.

Quaker Quicks - Practical Mystics
Quaker Quicks - Practical Mystics

Author: Jennifer Kavanagh

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2019-12-14

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1789042801

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Are Quakers mystics? What does that mean? How does it translate into how we are and what we do in the world? 'Jennifer Kavanagh has written a lovely book which I found to be to be compelling reading. In a very practical way she explains the meaning of mysticism for Quakers and how an experience, which some might regard as being esoteric, can be truly meaningful for many today.' Terry Waite Practical Mystics is Jennifer Kavanagh's first addition to the burgeoning series Quaker Quicks, which examines every aspect of what it means to be a Quaker, from John Hunt Publishing imprint Christian Alternative.