The Amazing Fact Of Quaker Worship

Swarthmore Lecture 1973

BY GEORGE GORMAN
The meeting for worship is the fundamental shared experience in Quaker faith and practice, but it can be hard to explain. George Gorman looks at how Quaker worship will be seen by a newcomer, and approaches religion as human experience, seeking within it signals of transcendence that point beyond and bring a new dimension to life. Quaker worship is spontaneous and flexible in its freedom from credal structure and liturgy. This classic book aims to assist regular Quaker worshippers as well as newcomers to make the most effective use of silent worship.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2008 158 PP. Paper

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Dealing With Difficult Behavior In Meeting For Worship

Meeting The Needs Of The Many While Responding To The Needs Of The Few

BY THE MINISTRY AND NURTURE COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE
We've changed the size and the title but otherwise this is the same pamphlet as 'The Wounded Meeting.' The new title, formerly the sub-title, more clearly reflects the contents. When someone disrupts meeting for worship, what can the meeting community do? Explore your options and find caring solutions.

Quaker Press of FGC 2002 27 PP. Paper

$8.00 (in stock)

Description Of The Qualifications Necessary

To A Gospel Minister; Advice To Ministers And Elders Among The People Called Quakers

BY SAMUEL BOWNAS
Friends seeking to nurture and deepen ministry in their meetings will find remarkably clear, specific and relevant guidance in this classic work. "Qualification, as this eighteenth century Friend uses the word, implies that one has gone through a process of personal transformation which reorients the ego, the will, and the attention so that one can be trusted purely to receive and purely to give forth an inspired message." (William Taber, from the Introduction) Bownas offers advice on 'qualifying' vocal ministry and other forms of ministry. A careful reading of the book can help Friends learn to discern the difference between the ego and Divine will.

Pendle Hill/Tract Association 1989 104 PP. Cloth

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The Dynamics Of An Unprogrammed Meeting For Worship

BY MARY HOPKINS
Have you ever wondered how to prepare for meeting for worship or what other people experience during worship? These issues are addressed in this insightful pamphlet-useful for the individual seeker, clerks, committee members and potential workshop leaders. Find creative solutions and procedures to deepen the mysterious process known to Quakers as unprogrammed meeting for worship.

Quaker Press of FGC 1999 32 PP. Paper

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Encounter With Silence

Reflections From The Quaker Tradition

BY JOHN PUNSHON
"John Punshon has written a small and excellent essay on Quaker tradition. He presents the uniqueness of Quaker faith and practice while also relating it to the tradition of Christian spirituality. (His section on silence and the cross, for example, is superb.) The grace of Punshon's message is matched by the grace of his writing style. I hope this book will find its way into many hands, and minds, and hearts."-Parker J. Palmer, author of To Know As We Are Known

Friends United Press 1987 131 PP. Paper

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Four Doors To Meeting For Worship

Php 306

BY WILLIAM TABER
"Some people `find it' almost instantly when they attend their first Friends meeting for worship; as they settle into the silence they feel themselves gathered into a living Presence and they know they have come home at last. Others may experience their first Quaker worship as difficult and strange, but something keeps drawing them back until they gradually grown into a richer and richer experience of worship." -from the introduction. William Taber offers four doors, or ways to access, worship so as to experience the living Presence.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1992 31 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Ground And Spring

Foundations Of Quaker Discipleship - 2007 Swarthmore Lecture

BY BETH ALLEN
Beth Allen offers her understanding of faithful discipleship, starting with how we experience and think about God. She explores how we can think and worship today in integrity to our inner selves and to our knowledge of the world, and takes a practical approach to theological and philosophical concepts, from her Quaker and Anglican experience. The author contends that we need a solid foundation to ground us as we reach for the ideals, the actions which will make peace and justice real today. The cool stillness of the Spirit is the source of enormous, exuberant life.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2007 128 PP. Paper

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Images And Silence

The Future Of Quaker Ministry, Swarthmore Lecture 1992

BY BRENDA CLIFFT HEALES AND CHRIS COOK
What is the Quaker understanding of "ministry"? The 1992 Swarthmore Lecturers believe that Meeting for Worship is the soul of Quakerism, that the soul's health determines quality of life, and that from the life flows ministry. Images and Silence reflects the two main approaches to God which appear in traditional theology. Brenda has written about the relationship between images, religious experience and worship, and Chris about the imageless aspect of God described by mystics. These are two sides of the same coin, or two views of the same mountain. A choice between them is impossible, as both operate in different ways at different times in our lives.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2008 130 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)

Invitation To A Deeper Communion

Php 366

BY MARCELLE MARTIN
Early Friends experienced an extraordinary sense of divine power and presence in their meetings for worship that transformed them inwardly and outwardly, making them agents for significant change. The author examines what it was about their beliefs and practice that invited direct experience of the Spirit. She also describes explorations by contemporary Friends to seek a deeper communion with God in worship, suggesting that a renewal of worship will help Friends today become powerful witnesses to another way of life.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2003 39 PP. Paper

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The Liturgies Of Quakerism

BY BEN PINK-DANDELION
In The Liturgies of Quakerism Pink-Dandelion explores the nature of liturgy within a form of worship based in silence. Tracing the original seventeenth-century Quakers' understanding of the `liturgy of silence,' and what for them replaced outward forms used in other parts of Christianity, this book explains how early Quaker understandings of `time,' `history,' and `apocalyptic' led to an inward liturgical form. The practices and understanding of twenty-first century liberal Quakers are explored, showing that these contemporary Quakers maintain the same kind of liturgical form as their ancestors but understand it in a different way.

Ashgate 2005 150 PP. Paper

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Practice Of Quaker Worship

BY LARRY MILLER
Sections on gathered meeting, settling in, and vocal ministry. Useful tract for new attenders or discussion groups. $1.50 each (fewer than 10). $1.25 each (10-49). $.85 each (50 or more).

Quaker Press of FGC 1992 12 PP. Tract

0-10 $1.50, 10-50 $1.25, 50 or more $0.85 (in stock)

Quaking Meeting

Transforming Our Selves, Our Meetings And The More Than Human World

BY HELEN GOULD
The James Backhouse lecture from 2009. In early Quaker Meetings the expectation was you would really have to literally quake under the "Power of the Lord" to know there was a message that you HAD to deliver from the silence. Helen Gould believes modern friends can still open themselves to this immensely powerful and loving divine energy, and that from it transformation can flow through us to others, in an ever widening spiral.

Australia Yearly Meeting 2009 69 PP. Paper

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Quality And Depth Of Worship And Ministry

BY THE COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
Friends would say that meeting for worship is central to their spiritual lives - but what is worship? What does `ministry' mean? How can we talk to each other, sharing our understandings of listening or waiting on God? Meetings can feel shallow, unsatisfying, or deep and transforming. Dare we assess quality and depth? This booklet is a distillation of experience and reflection collected from meetings and offered back in the form of queries. This booklet is an essential guide for every worship and ministry committee.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2001 44 PP. Paper

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Reflections On Quaker Worship

BY ESTHER GREENLEAF-MURER
An expanded collection of short essays intended to guide members and attenders in entering into corporate worship. Includes thoughts on tardiness, space between messages and vocal ministry for children. Formerly titled "From Worship & Minstry."

Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 2003 30 PP. Paper

$5.00 (in stock)

Shaped By The Light

The Quaker Experience Of Worship, Community And Transformation

BY MICHAEL WAJDA AND ALISON LEVIE
The 2001 Walton Lecture. An exploration of being altered and grounded by worship and the Quaker faith community.

SEYM 2001 23 PP. Blank

$4.00 (in stock)

Silence

The Mystery Of Wholeness

BY ROBERT SARDELLO
A useful and well written meditation on silence and the depths which you can reach by attending to the silence. The authors come at it from a rather "new age" direction and examples are mostly taken from anthroposophy, depth psychology, and phenomenology. An abridged more popular version of his earlier book "Silence".

North Atlantic Books 2008 123 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Touched By God In Quaker Meeting

Php 338

BY KENNETH CARROLL
A seasoned Friend shares moving and well-written accounts of meaningful experiences in meeting for worship. The essay will help Friends to appreciate and express what they, too, have experienced maybe only occasionally in worship.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1998 31 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Twelve Quakers And Worship

BY QUAKER QUEST
The worship of Quakers is waiting on God in the silence and stillness. Seeking after God in this way is not to escape from the world, but to find the spiritual power that heals it. Twelve British Friends write of their experience of worship. These contributions are not religious essays but rather recordings that have the authentic voice of personal experience based within the worshipping community. The Meeting for Worship is at the heart of the Quaker way and all else is an outcome of that experience. Those wondering about the Quaker way, and what motivates its followers, should find these twelve honest accounts helpful.

Quaker Quest 2004 32 PP Paper

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Voices From The Silence

BY STANFORD SEARL
A personal meditation on silent worship based on the authors academic study "The meaning of Silence in Quaker Worship". The book is unusually written entirely in the third person.

Authorhouse 2005 216 PP. Paper

$21.49 (in stock)

Worship

The Gathered Meeting Revisited

BY TOM GATES
The first in the Arch Street Series of PYM Annual Sessions lectures, this 2006 talk by Tom Gates poses the questions as to why the experience of the gathered meeting is so rare and if Friends know it experientially or feel it is no longer relevant. Gates encourages Friends to develop the Covenant Community out of which the gathered meeting is generated and outlines the conditions necessary to achieve it.AS OF JULY 09 THIS PAMPHLET NOT AVAILABLE PENDING REPRINT>

Phililadelphia Yearly Meeting 2008 33 PP. Paper

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