Answering That Of God In Our Children

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 315

BY HARRIET HEATH
"Seeing my child as a wonderer with the potential of growing into goodness expands my understanding of that child and defines my role as a parent or caregiver. I can be a loving guide rather than only a strict authority figure or only a loving companion. The stories in this pamphlet, drawn from life, illustrate the wondering that our children do and the role it opens for us who live and work with them." - Harriet Heath.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1994 39 PP. Paper

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Answering The Call To Heal The World

Php 383

BY PATIENCE SCHENCK
There is a role for each of us to play in healing the wounds of the world and bringing into being the wholeness that is possible in God's creation. But where do we begin? This pamphlet invites us to explore our unique gifts and the hungers of our hearts, to discover our own calling in this sacred work. In a wise and intimate conversation with her readers, Patience Schenck walks us through the life of a leading: hearing a call, testing our discernment, overcoming the obstacles to faithfulness, finding the support we need, and finally recognizing when our work is done.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 34 PP. Paper

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Answering The Violence

Encounters With Perpetrators

BY JOHN LAMPEN
As a People committed to peace, Friends have nonetheless, from time to time, sought to build close relationships with perpetrators of violence, groups and individuals who may be thought to be "beyond the pale" - dictators and terrorists . Why? What part do such relationships play in efforts to end differences and build peace in troubled situations? John Lampen, who has served as a Quaker peace worker in N Ireland and elsewhere, draws on his own experiences and the accounts of other peace workers to explore the controversies, risks, rewards, and possible benefits of reaching out in friendship to perpetrators of violence.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 32 PP. Paper

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Apocalyptic Witness

A Radical Calling For Our Own Times Pendle Hill Pamphlet 279

BY WILLIAM DURLAND
William Durland was born in 1931. He was raised Catholic and attended Loyola and Georgetown colleges, remaining in the church until a mystical experience led him to Christian pacifism and later Quakerism. He has written extensively on peace issues. Since 1970, he and his wife Genie have coordinated nonviolent protest in the form of tax resistance and active peacemaking. He argued four different cases involving war tax resistance before the Supreme Court during the 1980s. Living with God and living as if the Kingdom of God has already come is the witness the author discusses in this pamphlet.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 34 PP. Paper

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An Art Of Small Resurrections

Surviving The Texas Death Chamber - Php 408

BY WALTER LONG
Jesus taught his followers to love their enemies and to forgive. How can these messages of compassion be reconciled with a policy of putting to death those whom we have judged to be wrongdoers against society? Walter Long, a defense attorney for Texas death row inmates, says that they cannot. He wrestles with the apparent contradiction between the teachings of Jesus and widespread tolerance for government violence in a state where most citizens identify themselves as Christian. He explores the impact of a particular execution of great renown - the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth - and looks for his own understanding of that event and of the man and his message.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2010 36 PP. Paper

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The Authority Of Our Meetings Is The Power Of God

Php 365

BY PAUL LACEY
The author holds in creative tension the individual and corporate responsibilities in our monthly meetings to witness to the power and authority of God.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2003 40 PP. Paper

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Bearing Witness

Quaker Process And A Culture Of Peace - Php 262

BY GRAY COX
Peace is portrayed as something we do, an activity of resolving differences based on a five-stage Quaker ethic.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 36 PP. Paper

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Beyond Consensus

Salvaging Sense Of The Meeting - Php 307

BY BARRY MORLEY
"In seeking the sense of the meeting we open ourselves to being guided to perfect resolution in the Light, to a place where we sit in unity in the collective inward Presence. Through consensus we decide it; through sense of the meeting we turn it over, allowing it to be decided. `Reaching consensus is a secular process,' says a Friend. `In sense of the meeting God gets a voice.'" (the Author) Morley describes three essential components in discovering sense of the meeting: release, long focus, and transition to Light, all of which are nurtured by worship.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1996 32 PP. Paper

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Beyond The Bars

A Quaker Primer For Prison Visitors - Php 342

BY KEITH MADDOCK
"I simply hope these reflections on my experience as a prison visitor will encourage others to consider serving in this difficult but very enriching ministry." Guidelines, both spiritual and practical, for the Quaker prison visitor.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1999 33 PP. Paper

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Bringing God Home

Exploring Family Spirituality - Php 362

BY MARY KAY REHARD
The L'Arche and Taize communities have influenced Quaker Mary Kay Rehard in her vocation as mother and religious educator. In this pamphlet, she writes of those influences and the insights and practices that help create healthy family environments and nurture the spirituality of children and their parents.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2002 39 PP. Paper

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The Burning One-ness Binding Everything

A Spiritual Journey - Php 332

BY BRUCE BIRCHARD
"This essay recounts my spiritual journey: experiences of the Spirit through beauty, love, and worship, as well as reflections on how I understand the nature of the Spirit. I am especially concerned about the transcendent and immanent qualities of the Spirit, the relation of the Spirit to suffering and evil, and the significance of the creation as an incarnation of the Spirit."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1997 38 PP. Paper

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Christianity And The Inner Life

Twenty-first Century Reflections On The Words Of Early Friends-php 402

BY MARGERY POST ABBOTT
In her explorations of the writings of early Friends, Marge Abbott has discovered her own approach to Christian perspectives that speaks to her experiences of the Divine Light. She finds inspiration and fellowship with early and modern Friends for whom Christ is central, without excluding the wisdom and inspiration of other religious traditions. Engagement with evangelical Friends and social justice work have expanded her sense of compassion.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2009 36 PP. Paper

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Communion For A Quaker

Php 331

BY NANCY BIEBER
This story of a journey in search of the sacrament of communion invites the reader to travel with the author, in her quest to live sacramentally.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1997 31 PP. Paper

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Confident Quakerism

BY BEN PINK DANDELION
After a personal crisis shook his confidence in himself, Ben Pink Dandelion considered seriously the spiritual meaning of "confidence" (literally, to live and act "with faith"). His reflections led him to delve more deeply into early Friends' understandings about spiritual growth and religious development, and to apply those principles to the community of Friends as we practice our faith today. His insights are especially meaningful for liberal Friends, individually and as a society, as we look toward the future. This essay is based on Ben's 2009 FGC Gathering address and a subsequent presentation at Pendle Hill. Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2010 31 PP. Paper

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Creeds And Quakers

What's Belief Got To Do With It? - Php 377

BY ROBERT GRISWOLD
Quaker spiritual authority lies not in creeds - but in the direct communion between individual Friends and the Divine Spirit. The pamphlet asserts that Friends too often hold Quaker testimonies as ideals, as ends in themselves, rather than as fruits of the Spirit. Without spiritual grounding, testimonies become creeds. In the absence of the profound authority of a faith that defies verbal comprehension and words, the historic Quaker witness to the world is in danger.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2005 35 PP. Paper

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Dancing With God Through The Storm

Mysticism And Mental Illness - Php 344

BY JENNIFER ELAM
Elam explores the connection of mysticism to mental illness in this moving essay. Included are the stories of many Friends describing their experience of mysticism, as well as reproductions of the authors' paintings. NOTE She also has a book with exactly the same title published in 2002-see separate listing.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1999 48 PP. Paper

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Envisioning A Moral Economy - Php 405

BY TOM HEAD
What is the place of moral values in the way we structure our economy? Should the teachings of Jesus and other faith traditions be considered when we address such questions as: How is work fashioned? Where do we live? What do we own? Quaker economist Tom Head explores how we might think about our economy-and its purposes-in new ways by including religious sources of wisdom and morality in our vision of a just and humane economic future.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2010 35 PP. Paper

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The Existential Theology Of Nikos Kazantkakis

Php 359

BY HOWARD DOSSOR
A lively exposition of what kind of theology can come of a belief that we are not immortal, and therefore must value and live our lives as if we are heading into an abyss at death. What kind of force can illumine our way, if this life is all we have of existence? Dossor's discussion of what Kazantkakis' theology gives us insight on how to live fully, joyfully and faithfully.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2002 40 PP. Paper

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Expectant Listening

Finding God's Thread Of Guidance - Php 388

BY MICHAEL WAJDA
Out of a great hunger for God's love and guidance, Michael Wajda has spent his adult life seeking to experience the presence of God. In small ways and large, his search has been answered. In this pamphlet, he offers readers his personal story and tells what he has learned about the practice of "Expectant Listening." He encourages individuals to notice the variety of ways in which God comes to them in their lives, revealing God's "deep, long thread of guidance."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2007 32 PP. Paper

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An Experiment In Faith

Quaker Women Transcending Differences - Php 323

BY MARGERY POST-ABBOTT
This essay describes the interactions among a worship group of evangelical and liberal women Friends who have taken seriously the work to understand and to uphold forms of faith which move beyond misconceptions of one another.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1995 30 PP. Paper

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Finding The Taproot Of Simplicity

A Movement Between Inner Knowledge And Outer Action - Php 400

BY FRANCES IRENE TABER
Subtitled " a movement between inner knowledge and outer action". This pamphlet explores the spiritual basis of Friends' testimony of simplicity. It looks at how it evolved from early Friends efforts to live in away that fostered spiritual richness in their lives and how it continues to speak today in the lives of those who seek to find not merely balance but wholeness to their inward and outward lives. A rich and fascinating essay to mark the pamphlet series reaching Four hundred!

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2009 28 PP. Paper

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Findings

Poets And The Crisis Of Faith - Php 310

BY JOHN LAMPEN
Poems can help express mystical experience.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1993 40 PP. Paper

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Fire Of The Heart

Norman Morrison's Legacy In Vietnam And At Home - Php 381

BY ANNE MORRISON-WELSH
Anne Morrison Welsh tells the moving story of her husband's self-sacrifice at the Pentagon in November 1965 in a desperate effort to help end a war he abhorred. Quaker Norman Morrison felt led to make this extreme statement in the manner of Vietnamese Buddhist monks. In telling her husband's story, the author also shares her own spiritual journey of forgiveness, acceptance and gradual recovery from life's wounds. A 1999 visit to Vietnam was healing for Anne Morrison Welsh as she and her daughters met with many Vietnamese who shared with her the extraordinary impact that Norman Morrison's act had on their hearts and minds.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 39 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

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Friends And Alcohol

Recovering A Forgotten Testimony - Php 313

BY ROBERT LEVERING
The history of Friends and temperance and a look at the future.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1994 40 PP. Paper

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From West Point To Quakerism

Php 389

BY MIKE HELLER
As a young man at West Point, Mike Heller found himself in a hostile environment, struggling to fit in where he was learning that he did not belong, searching for something to hold onto that was true and that nurtured his spirit. Now, from the wisdom and experience of greater years, he reflects on his painful and sometimes lonely passage and on how way opened for him to discover himself and his place in the world. In the best Friends' tradition of sharing our spiritual journeys, Mike Heller offers his own story, told with insight and compassion for the variety of people who crossed his path.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2007 36 PP. Paper

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Getting Rooted

Living In The Cross, A Path To Joy And Liberation - Php 391

BY BRIAN DRAYTON
What does it really mean to absorb the learning that comes from our "roots" in Quakerism? Are there ways of approaching our roots that have a greater likelihood of bearing spiritual fruits? Brian Drayton explores the idea of "rootedness" at multiple levels - as metaphor, discipline and goal in order to reveal the ways in which we may derive the most nourishment from the roots that we seek to rediscover, and more importantly, so that God's spirit may flourish within and through us. Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2007 35 PP. Paper

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Gift Of Days

Report On An Illness - Php 364

BY MARY MORRISON
In her seventh pamphlet for Pendle Hill, at age 92, the author relates the gift of her extraordinary experience of 100 days of illness, near-death and slow recovery. Mary has since died, but has left us with this one last gift on how to see the grace of life.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2003 40 PP. Paper

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God Raising Us

Parenting As A Spiritual Practice-php 396

BY EILEEN FLANAGAN
When Eileen Flanagan became a mother, her spiritual world was dramatically discomposed. Bringing children into her life required her to find new ways to discern God's leadings; her ways of experiencing connection to the Divine were transformed; and her personal spiritual practices were tried, tested, and ultimately reinvented. In telling her own story - the challenges faced, the lessons learned - she calls on Friends to recognize parenthood as a phase of spiritual development with special gifts and needs, and suggest ways that we may begin to support the faith lives of parents and help our meetings be more fully multigenerational. Discussion questions are included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2008 31 PP. Paper

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God's Healing Grace

Reflections On A Journey With Mental And Spiritual Illness - Php 394

BY MARIELLEN GILPIN
Most of us go about our daily lives assuming that we all participate in one shared reality....'Reality' is not as shared as we may think. Research indicates that 40-80% of people have out-of-the-ordinary experiences at some times in their lives, although talking about it is rare. I commend Mariellen Gilpin for her courage to describe her own unique experiences. We may not all need to name our intense feelings as demons or deal with our demons as the author does, but she does deal with them. The voices of persons labeled with mental illnesses are voices in our communities that need to be heard.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2008 35 PP. Paper

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