Early Friends wrote extensively about their movement, often in its defense. We offer a number of writings by William Penn to help modern Friends understand who we are and who we aren’t. We also offer more recent writings on Friends’ faith and practice.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Selected Quotations from William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown
William Penn (1644-1718) wrote No Cross, No Crown in 1669 about the importance of self-denial in the Christian life.
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Paz a Vosotros
Un estudio de las base espiritual del testimonio cuáquero de paz.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.