In The Love Of Nature

BY STEVE SMITH
In this pamphlet of Southeastern Yearly Meeting's 2008 Michener Lecture, Steve Smith explore environmentalism, a suffering earth, and the need for Quakers who think of themselves as activists to avoid insularity and reach out to the wider community. In poignant passages which read almost like poetry, Smith describes his own childhood memories of living with and in nature to remind readers of the compelling spiritual aspect of the natural world.

SEYM Publications 2008 31 PP. Paper

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Living In Virtue, Declaring Against War

The Spiritual Roots Of The Peace Testimony - Php 378

BY STEVE SMITH
Born in an era of profound spiritual awakening, the Quaker Peace Testimony remains a radical challenge today-to live Jesus' message of love, forgiveness and reconciliation. Neither religious dogma nor philosophical principle, it offers no easy answers, only a daunting question-how shall we live "in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars?"

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2005 40 PP Paper

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A Quaker In The Zendo

Php 370

BY STEVE SMITH
"At a time of my life when I had drifted far from my Quaker origins, I found the practice of Zen meditation to be clarifying, healing and liberating. Curiously this Asian spiritual practice led me back to the Society of Friends: the more I practice Zen, the more thoroughly Quaker I become. The spiritual insights of Christianity and Quakerism have regained for me fresh depth, power and charisma. Within the earliest records of Quakerism, in the writings of George Fox and other early Friends, I find - to my wonder and delight - remarkably explicit guidelines for spiritual practice that are often diluted or obscured in contemporary unprogrammed Friends' worship.".

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2004 38 PP Paper

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