God's Spirit In Nature

Php 336

BY JUDITH BROWN
Learning to move from anger and despair to sacredness and love, Judith presents her meditations as she practices being present in God's world.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1998 32 PP. Paper

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Gospel Order

A Quaker Understanding Of Faithful Church Community - Php 297

BY SANDRA CRONK
This essay concentrates on the communal aspects of gospel order as the foundation of meeting community life.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1991 48 PP. Paper

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Grief, Forgiveness & Redemption As A Way Of Transformation -

BY ELAINE PRYCE
The traumatic loss of a loved one is among the most devastating hurdles that life can throw in a person's path. Such grief, whatever its cause, alters existence forevermore and confronts the survivor, eventually, with a choice: to move through pain into a more authentic way of being, or to withdraw from full engagement with the spiritual meanings of life and mortality. Drawing from her own experience, as well as from art, literature, and traditional wisdom, Elaine Pryce explores the spiritual aspects of grief, recovery from grief, forgiveness, and the blessings of acceptance. Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2012 35 PP. Paper

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Group Spiritual Nurture

The Wisdom Of Spiritual Listening - Php 373

BY DAPHNE CLEMENT
Coming together to share and listen within a Spiritual Nurture Group, members connect on a deep level of the Spirit. The silence of Quaker worship is at the heart of the process. This essay by Daphne Clement, an experienced facilitator of such groups, is both an introduction to this kind of spiritual nurture and a guide for those interested in creating a group.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2004 32 PP. Paper

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Guide To Quaker Practice

Php 20

BY HOWARD BRINTON
This is an accessible, clear and concise description of Quaker distinctives, beliefs and practices. "For more than sixty years, Friends have used the Guide to Quaker Practice to demystify Friends' customary procedures. Howard Brinton wrote the Guide assuming that somebody would improve on his work as the Religious Society of Friends grew and changed in the second half of the twentieth century. His Guide proved more durable than he anticipated. He described Quaker pra ctice by reference to theology, applying historical precedent insofar as it did not interfere with the clear description of contemporary practice." - Jared Taber, from the new foreword

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1993 92 PP. Paper

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Henry J. Cadbury

Scholar, Activist, Disciple - Php 376

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Cadbury's accomplishments and commitments reached into many worlds. He was widely acknowledged as an author and as a biblical scholar and translator. He was a professor at Harvard Divinity School, Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges and Pendle Hill. A strong and steady voice for peace and racial justice, he lived his faith through social action. For Henry Cadbury, that activism was expressed principally through the AFSC, of which he was a founder and long-time board chair. Margaret Hope Bacon, the prominent Quaker Historian, who was his associate at AFSC for many years, draws upon her unique perspective to acquaint readers with his full and rich life.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2005 38 PP. Paper

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Holding One Another In The Light

Php 382

BY MARCELLE MARTIN
Praying for each other - intercessory prayer - can deepen our connection to the Divine Presence and help bring healing to individuals and our communities. Marcelle Martin offers a personal account of her discovery of and experiences with intercessory prayer and describes the many forms it takes among Friends today, from interpersonal prayer support to meetings for healing to a prayerful witness for peace on earth. Calling readers to "hold one another in the Light," she declares: "Intercessory prayer in all its variations supports those we love, helps our meetings to be spiritually vital, and contributes to making manifest God's healing and transforming presence on earth."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 32 PP Paper

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Homosexuality And The Bible

An Interpretation - Php 226

BY WALTER BARNETT
This pamphlet examines the evidence that casts doubt on the traditionally negative interpretations of biblical passages concerning homosexuality.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1979 32 PP. Paper

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I Have Always Wanted To Be Jewish

And Now, Thanks To The Religious Society Of Friends, I Am - Php 350

BY CLAIRE GORFINKEL
The author's story of her spiritual journey through Quakerism home to Judaism.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2000 32 PP. Paper

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The Iliad

Or, The Poem Of Force - Php 91

BY SIMONE WEIL
Originally written in 1940 after the fall of France, this essay may be read as an indirect commentary on that event, which symbolized extreme modern force.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet Paper

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Improvisations And Spiritual Disciplines

Php 288

BY CAROL CONTI-ENTIN
The author uses musical improvisation to understand Sabbath observance, Bible reading, journal keeping, tithing, and praying.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1989 30 PP. Paper

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In Beauty

A Quaker Approach To End-of-life Care - Php 355

BY KIRSTEN BACKSTROM
The author, a Friend and hospice worker, considers Quaker forms of faithfulness which are important to the process of caring for others at the end of life. She finds these forms to be important, too, in exploring and learning from death and facing one's own mortality. This is a moving essay written lovingly through stories.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 32 PP. Paper

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In God We Die

Php 385

BY WARREN OSTROM
The author looks at the prospect of our own death and dying, reminding us that we can trust the Spirit with our lives and deaths. Advances in technologies seem to take our lives out of God's hands. Opportunities or pressures to prolong our own survival and that of the people we care for sometimes lead us down paths contrary to our values and may deprive us of peaceful closure. Warren Ostrum has worked closely with the aging and dying for over two decades. He offers his deeply-considered insights on the end of life, as well as his reflections on the role of spirituality in how we face death, and guidance for finding clarity in our choices about our own final path.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 36 PP. Paper

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Integrity, Ecology, And Community

The Motion Of Love - Php 403

BY JENNIE RATCLIFFE
How can we change the direction of our impact on the earth and begin to undo the damage we have wrought on so many species, including our own? Can we depend on technological, political, and economic solutions alone? Jennie Ratcliffe, drawing on her years of experience and reflection as a scientist and active participant in peace and ecological concerns, believes that a deeper transformation is needed. A spiritual awareness of our oneness reminds us that we live in intimate relationship and kinship with each other, the earth, and the Divine.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2009 36 PP. Paper

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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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Jacob Boehme

Insights Into The Challenge Of Evil - Php 351

BY ANN LIEM
This author sees Boehme as a Christian esoteric (like George Fox) and as a forerunner of Quakerism. Jacob Boehme was born to Lutheran peasants in 1575 in Bohemia. Preface by historian Larry Ingle

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2000 34 PP. Paper

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James Nayler Speaking - Php 413

BY BRIAN DRAYTON
To read James Nayler is to connect with Quakerism's initial eruption of insight and obedience, writes Brian Drayton, who has found, in the writings of this influential and controversial Friend, messages that speak to the turmoil of our times, as they spoke to the turmoil of 1650s England. Through this exploration, Brian Drayton invites readers into a closer acquaintance and dialogue with the life and works of James Nayler. Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 36 PP. Blank

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Kindling A Life Of Concern

Spirit-led Quaker Action Php 404

BY JACK KIRK
Jack Kirk discusses how a concern, a need to act, help or respond to a situation arises, how it opens to us, how we may test them, and how we may find in them a center of spiritual gravity for our lives. How do we discover our callings as individuals, and what is our calling as a community of Friends? When we have a concern how do we know whether that yearning comes from our own feeling of urgency or obligation, or whether it is something more something that the Holy Spirit is asking of us? Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2009 32 PP. Paper

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Leadership Among Friends

Php 320

BY RON MACDONALD
Looks at the ambivalence toward authority among Quaker youth, the need for common experiences of depth.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1995 32 PP. Paper

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Leading And Being Led

Php 264

BY PAUL LACEY
A discussion of the nature of religious leadings and where we should be looking for them in the modern world.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet Paper

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Letting That Go, Keeping This

The Spiritual Pilgrimage Of Fritz Eichenberg - Php 353

BY PHILIP HARNDEN
Fritz Eichenberg, internationally known woodcut artist, has inspired a generation of Quakers and Catholics in their social witness. This author eloquently elucidates five important inspirations for the artist: animals, Lao-Tzu, Russian novelists, Quakers, and the Catholic Worker.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 38 PP. Paper

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Live The Questions

Write Into The Answers - Php 354

BY BARBARA PARSONS AND MARY MORRISON
"Through journal writing and other forms of personal writing we are able to take our own life story seriously, to work with our experiences and search through them as we explore the questions that confront us every day. We share here some of our experiences and ideas for [living the questions and writing into-someday-the answers]." - from the foreword

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 40 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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Living Our Testimony On Equality

A White Friends Experience. Php 415

BY PATIENCE SCHENCK
Proclaiming the importance of equality among peoples is far easier than living equality, day to day. Pat Schenck has dedicated years of study, self-examination, and experimentation to living racial equality in an unequal society. Writing openly and personally about her successes, failures, and discoveries, she shares her stories and offers wisdom to white Friends, in particular, who wish to create more diverse, welcoming, and fully supportive communities of all races in our meetings and in our lives. Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2011 36 PP. Paper

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Living The Peace Testimony

The Legacy Of Howard And Anna Brinton - Php 372

BY ANTHONY MANOUSOS
Born of Quaker families, Howard Brinton and Anna Cox Brinton were to meet doing Friends relief work in Germany after World War I in Europe and devote their lives together to nurturing Quakerism, social activism, peacemaking, and peacemakers from coast to coast in the United States and, in their last years, in Asia. Described by one Friend as "translucent teachers and ministers of life," the Brintons lived the Quaker Peace Testimony as educators, as writers, as activists (particularly with the American Friends Service Committee), and as directors of Pendle Hill during its earliest years. This pamphlet is an exploration of the way the Brintons witnessed to the peace testimony.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2004 48 PP. Paper

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Living Truth

A Spiritual Portrait Of Pierre Ceresole - Php 379

BY KEITH MADDOCK
Pierre Ceresole (1879-1945) was the founder of the international work camp movement and a Friend imprisoned for defying his own government to bring a message of truth and peace to Germans and Italians in the world wars. Ceresole protested the churches' silence during wartime, met with Mussolini to discuss peaceful collaboration and conceived of the healing and practical work of Service Civil International as a moral alternative to war. His actions show his spiritual growth as a passionate, poetic, solitary seeker of Truth who urges us "to set aside our theories and our fears, to take up the tools that are needed to create a more humane, just and peaceful world."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2005 35 PP. Paper

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Lucretia Mott Speaking

Excerpts From The Sermons - Php 234

EDITED BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
The great Quaker was a leader in women's struggle for equality and a strong influence for social action in the Society of Friends.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1980 31 PP. Paper

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Marriage

A Spiritual Leading For Lesbian, Gay And Straight Couples - Php 308

BY LESLIE HILL
This is a delightful account of how Putney Monthly Meeting evolved a minute on same-sex marriage and married John and Marshall.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1995 31 PP. Paper

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Matthew 18, Wisdom For Living In Community

Php 399

BY CONNIE MCPEAK GREEN AND MARTY PAXSON GRUNDY
Friends are called to live in community, but difficult interactions with others challenge us to wrestle with our personal strengths, weaknesses, & former experiences. The authors have spent years exploring the 18th chapter of the gospel of Matthew, which contains Jesus's advice to his disciples about how to get along with one another. Living in accordance with this guidance may be the most difficult thing they have ever tried to do, but they've found the instructions straightforward & suffused with love. In this essay, they describe what they've learned from their efforts to be faithful & demonstrate one way of studying & using the Bible. Discussion questions included.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2008 36 PP. Paper

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A Meditation On The Prayer Of St Francis

Php 369

BY ANNE CURO
Starting with the metaphor of the self as a musical instrument on which God performs, the author reflects on the beloved prayer of St. Francis as an instruction for a life of Christian peacemaking. She uses examples from her experiences in homeless activism and her study of various faith traditions to explore the wisdom in the prayer line by line.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2003 32 PP. Paper

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