Category: Faith and Practice
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The Light Within and Selected Writings of Isaac Penington
A selection from the writings of Isaac Penington (1617-1679), who became a Friend in 1658
Isaac Peninngton
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The Transformation of Joseph Hoag
This selection from his journal relates Joseph’s early feeling of inadequacy and hie resistance to speak in ministry when required of him. It tells of his transformation in ministry in response to a sermon by a visiting Friend.
Joseph Hoag
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Traveling in the Ministry: Let Your Light Shine
Traveling in the ministry is to send Gospel light to the end of the world by letting our lives shine. Includes narratives by Marian Baker, of New England Yearly Meeting, and Priscilla Makhino, of Elgon East Yearly Meeting in Kenya.
Marian Baker and Priscilla Makhino
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Turning to Christ: The Issue of Repentance
Until we come face-to-face with our own sin, our spiritual practice is likely to remain shallow. Recognition of sin and repentance and looking to Christ to overcome gave early Friends strength and a deeply rooted faith.
Jnana Hodson
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Friends Calendar
Since 1885, the Tract Association has produced the Friends Calendar, which uses numbers for months and days of the week. This is consistent with Scripture and Friends tradition. We offer the calendar in wall and pocket sizes. The wall calendar is also available in digital format.
Tract Association of Friends
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A Briefer Barclay
A simplification and condensation of Robert Barclay’s Apology for the True Christian Divinity, an explanation of the principles of Friends, first published in 1676.
William Bacon Evans
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A Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement
Friends use special vocabulary to describe their inward experiences. This book discusses and explains these words for a contemporary audience.
Brian Drayton and William P. Taber
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A Revolutionary Gospel
The Friends vision is a revolutionary vison of a whole new righteousness based on obedience to the Living Christ and a new Christian community governed by Christ.
Lewis Benson
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Christ in Early Quakerism
The early Quaker teaching concerning “the universal and divine light of Christ” was a message concerning the action of God rather than the nature of man. It was saying, not simply there is innate in every man a private source of illumination, but rather, that what God showed himself to be in Jesus Christ he…
Maurice Creasey