Topical Impressions: PH pamphlet summaries

Pendle Hill

Pamphlet Summaries

IMPRESSIONS

Spirituality: General; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-general.html

173. Evolution & Inward Light (by Howard Haines Brinton; 1970) Spirituality: human spiritual evolution; Logos philosophy: mystical; George Fox beliefs: Inward Light; Divine Seed. Evolution by increasing diversification. Religion makes for peace not conflict; spiritual power produces understanding. 3 Queries.

214. Jacob Boehme: Insights into Challenge of Evil (Ann Liem; 1977) Jacob Boehme's (1575-1624) Spirituality. Insights: God’s nature & creation. Fall’s meaning: salvation; good & evil inter-relationship. Soul: combination of good & evil; precious core of evolution. Our role: surpassing nobility; soul evolves throughout sojourn here. Soul obstacles: physical pain & deprivation; Participating in world of multiplicity. 2 Queries.

213. Triple way: purgation, illumination, union (by George Terhune Peck; 1977) Spirituality; progress, 3 stages: purging, illumination, & union. Illumination merges into union with God. Not Children of God by own merits. Carry sense of God’s presence with us always. Set aside time during day for God. 2 Queries.

462. Culture of Faithfulness (Marcelle Martin; 2020) Spirituality; nurturing; Community Formed for Faithfulness & support; nurturing awareness of divine reality. Religious education; mind's openness, heart & soul; Growing in discernment; groups & committees supporting individual calls, leadings, & ministry 13 Queries.

32. Our Hearts are Restless (Gilbert Kilpack; 1946) Spirituality, critique of current practice; desire without commitment;           Testimonies, setting aside of; George Fox's imagined view of contemporary religious attitudes; Recommended              practice: mystical prayer; preparation for; Cross principle; willingness to suffer. 7 Queries.

466. Cultivating Sanctuary: Hallowed Places & Inner States (Gunilla Norris; 2020) Spirituality; sanctuary as spiritual            meeting place. Description of sanctuary; Sacred places; there-ness; meetinghouse components as metaphor.                  Waiting; Breath; Listening; Limitation; Discernment; Questioning; Afterthoughts. 12 Queries

459. Workings of Spirit of God Within: Offices of Christ (by David Johnson; 2019) Spirituality; spiritual interpretation            Christ's (the Light's) relationship to us as shepherd; bishop; prophet; king; priest; Savior; the function & fruits of           each; to live more fully in God's presence, & exercise Christ's offices. 10 Queries.

Inner Light; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-inner-light-children-family.html

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384. The Mystery of Quaker Light (by Peter Bien; 2006) Spirituality; Inner Light. Light metaphor’s evolution: Genesis;               John’s Gospel prologue; Jewish & Greek logos sources. Taoist creation, of pure light: from chaos; Light unifies                  feelings for: George Fox; Robert Barclay; William Penn; Dante. 1 Query.

209. PHILOSOPHY of INNER LIGHT (by Michael Marsh; 1976) Spirituality; Inner Light. Light Sources concept: John the           Evangelist; Augustine (4th-5th century); Aquinas; Dante; Meister Eckhart; (Middle Ages), Jakob Boehme (17th               century), G. Fox, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Leibniz. We only know part. 14 Queries.

295. Inward Light, New Creation: Theological meditation upon Center & Circumference of Quakerism (by R. Melvin Keiser; 1991) Spirituality, inner Light. Quakerism's center: Inward Light; It & New Creation part of early Friends spirituality; Light's language: depth, love, fullness of being in world.

255. Tending Light (by Mary E. B. Feagins; 1984) Inner Light, Mysticism. Light, Word, or Act is Alpha, Omega, what flows between. Committed & Uncommitted acts bear equal fruit. Light: unifying force for religions; I must seek, or Light seeks me. New words, concepts throw new light on old views. 4 Queries.

101. THE REFRESHING OF CHILDREN OF LIGHT (by Geoffrey F. Nuttall; 1959) Spirituality, Light; "children of the light": title often used by early Quakers; used in NT scripture; sums up tradition's essentials; experience of the Spirit; continuing revelation; obedience to God's voice. constant dedication required. 2 Queries.

471. Living Fellowship Needs Fresh Forms (by Daphne Clement; 2021) Spirituality, Light's

continuing revelation-tradition COVID-19 Zoom waiting worship. New Bedford's New Light Movement

controversy. Striking a balance between. continuing revelation & tradition 25 Query

See also 278. Education & Inward Teacher (by Paul A. Lacey; 1988); Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-education.html

Children & Family; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-inner-light-children-family.html
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315. Answering that of God in Children (by Harriet Heath; 1994) Spirituality; Inner Light; children. Children's Inner                 Light shows: asleep; in creativity; dancing. Searching for truth, parents guide to children into goodness. Seeking to          find way while marveling is Inner Light visible within us all. 20 Queries.

419. Nurturing Children's Spiritual Well-Being (by Margaret Compton; 2012) Spirituality; children. Spiritual nurture:               offering protected attention; fundamental Quaker faith & practice; children spiritually equal; trustworthy adult;                  Simplicity; Truth; Peace/ Child of Spirit; Child Protection. 2 Queries.

362. Bringing God Home: Exploring Family Spirituality (by Mary Kay Rehard; 2002) Spirituality; family Friends lack               clarity about child 's spiritual nurture. God reveals essential lessons through children. Hear children with Christ’s               eyes & ears; prayer life “even desire for God pleases God." 20 Queries.

396. God Raising us: Parenting as Spiritual Practice (by Eileen Flanagan; 2008) Spirituality; journey through               parenting. “... through this kid, God raised us.” Sometimes stand up for ourselves; sometimes surrender.                           Opportunities to deepen Parents’ spiritual lives. Finding God everyday lives; praying. 9 Queries.

222. Family as way to future (by Elise Boulding; 1978) Community; family is good practice; Tao of family” family as directioned movement. Truth lies between [“families, all devotion” & “families, all pain]. Mature in handling conflict, let each conflict element take own shape; see it as creation's embodiment. 3 Queries.

Meditation/ Contemplation; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-meditation-contemplation.html

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193. Available Mind (by Carol R. Murphy; 1974) Spirituality; meditation; undisciplined mind: can't be think if its unready. Living step by step life with commitment; becomes outward expression of meditation life. Discern & be open to meditators' vision; self-correction; rebirth; build life as work of art. 7 Queries.

304. Mind What Stirs in Heart (by Teresina R. Havens; 1992) Spirituality; meditation in breathing & movement; touch deep-flowing source. 2 Breathing Exercises; Walk Exercise: in Truth. Penington’s Waiting Way. Everything affects everything else; Forward Part” outruns; “Keeper” (is “within holy bounds). 8 Queries.

See also Quakers & Buddhism;

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-and-other-religions-general.html

276. Meditations on D Major scale (by Bertha May Nicholson; 1987) Spirituality; meditation as musical analogy. Learning violin music: harmonize, help support. Friends 18th century interest in arts; understanding through sorrow: God with us every step. Love is next scale's name. scale given to be explored. 5 Queries.

199. Contemplation & Leisure (by Douglas V. Steere; 1975) Contemplation (ctpln); philosopher, contemplator within. Western vs. East Indian Time: Nature requires stillness; life flow through us; China's Taoist lives unplanned life. Ctpln purifies mind fountain ctpln, greater soul pierces technology's temptations. 1 Query.

251. Nurturing Contemplation (by Carol R. Murphy; 1983) Contemplatives; sustaining life of. Contemplative community: holy persons with creative work. Discipline includes all; Spirit's living presence here, now; Contemplative life: leisure & inner adventure, “rest most busy,” life of solitude, compassion. 5 Queries.

434. Quietness Within: Quiet Way as Faith & Spirituality (By Elaine Pryce; 2015) Spirituality; contemplation; Thomas à Kempis: quiet or quietude; transformation at being’s deepest level; spiritual knowledge for all; Mystery: Sacred; Early Quakers & Quiet Way’s Signposts; return to spiritual source; 7 Queries.

Worship/ Group Process; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-worship-group-process.html
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195. Quaker Worship, Techniques of Meditation (by Scott Crom; 1974) Spirituality; Quaker Worship; Meditation techniques; meditation vs. "waiting on the Lord." Objections to meditation; focusing; awareness; closing off. Body posture: Train faculties, listen, make meditation easier; learn from movements. 4 Queries.

366. Invitation to Deeper Communion (by Marcelle Martin; 2003) Spirituality: meeting’s Divine invitation to worship in communion with eternal Wisdom, Power; silent wait; go to deep place inside Self. Mystical experiences: golden light; vibrating; singing. Strong energy; air became thick; tangible Spirit-cloud. 6 Queries.

280. An Attender at the Altar: A Sacramental Christian Responds to Silence (by Jay C. Rochelle; 1988) Spirituality; communion through worship & Silence; journey. Moment fills with Presence, & I totally sense Presence. Know place we stand is holy ground; Christ meets us in community. We are reconciled. 8 Queries.

338. Touched by God (by Kenneth Carroll; 1998) Spirituality; meeting for worship, stories over 50 year period; his own experience & others. 26 [Excerpts from Kenneth Carroll's List of Publications] 4 Queries.

469. Reflections from a Solitary Meeting for Worship (By John Andrew Gallery; 2021) Spirituality; worship/group process. Solitary worship. 13 of 22 reflections written while in self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic: "Entering the Stream"; "Easter Sunday"; "Time and the River"; "Sitting with Jesus"; "There is a Crack in ;

Everything"; "Siddhartha"; "Marcus Aurelius"; "Eid al-Adha"; "The Certainty of Faith"; "Holding in the Light [1 & 2]"; "Alone with God"; "Healing Begins". 29 Queries.

373. Group Spiritual Nurture (GSN): Wisdom of Spiritual Listening (by Daphne Clement; 2004) Spirituality; Group Spiritual Nurture (GSN) Spiritual Nurture Group (SNG). Understanding of life as sacred; relationship & communion. Silence & waiting encourages depth of listening; constant prayer. 2 Queries.

Spirituality: Journey I; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-journey-i.html

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113. Opening Way (by Dan Wilson; 1961) Spirituality; journey; poor, evangelical, revivalist upbringing; left revival ministry; left K.C. for rural area; taught in 1-room schoolhouse; discomfort with church; wanted proof of God's existence; Pendle Hill, 1950; opening way demands vigilance, obedience, openness. 1 Query.

410. Confident Quakerism (by Ben Pink Dandelion; 2010) Spirituality; journey; early Quaker journey; understanding Quaker tradition, history & wider Quaker family. “Behavioral creed”; moments of intimate encounter. Quakerism: sensual aesthetic faith that feels right in heart. Go forward authentically. 29 Queries.

116. The Candle, Lantern, Daylight (by Mildred Binns Young; 1961) spiritual journey; candle: tradition; lantern: vision              of human need; daylight: everything in relationship, beyond smaller circles of light. Don't limit God; Lord's Prayer;           prayer where God is fully & simply met. Take in God's Presence & Love. 1 Query.

200. Born Remembering (by Elise Boulding; 1975) Spirituality; spiritual journey; otherness beyond external                             experiences. Childhood; Mary's statue; The Baroness; married Kenneth Boulding. Felt Presence in eucharist,                   communion anchoring me in Christ. Weaving solitude's golden threads into family & community. 4 Queries.

324. Traveling In (by Douglas V. Steere; 1995) Spirituality; journey; prayer; ministry. Early religious experience; ordinary           contemplation open to all. Inner Guide lays on inward tendering; Prayer & Worship, 1937; Dimensions of Prayer,           1962. Meditation practices; we were prayed in effortless sense of Presence. 4 Queries.

329. There is a Fountain: Quaker Life in Process (by Helen Steere Horn; 1996) Spirituality; journey; Poems written:              [At 16]: Summer Dusk; [At 28]: With Heart Opened; [At 30]: What Then?; [At 55]: Seed Corn; [At 57]: Interlocked;           [At  62]: Agape. "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might." 23 Queries.

332. Burning One-ness Binding Everything: Spiritual Journey (by Bruce Birchard;1997) Spirituality; journey; intellectual, experiential; Creation-based theology. Religious background; not western God images. Experience Spirit’s "oneness"; live in Spirit, work to relieve suffering; seek "spiritual Friend." 8 Queries.

Spirituality: Journey II; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-journey-ii.html
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414. Seeking Inner Peace; Presence, Pain and Wholeness (by Elizabeth De Sa; 2011) Spirituality; journey; Loss/               Seeking; Quakerism; Buddhism; Pain; Forgiveness; Faith in Practice/ Integrity; Equality/ Peace/ Community;                   Simplicity; in Divine communion, we have infinite opportunities to meet Godde.

457. Natural Unfolding (Donna Eder; 2019) Spirituality; journey; seeking wholeness through: parent’s end of life; Zen;               retreat; dreams. Mom as Teacher; Holy’s Human Edge; Natural Unfolding; being around love in Mom's life;                     Seeking Wholeness; Rapidly Flowing Stream; unite Spirit with Forms of Wholeness. 9 Queries.

349. Radiance & Risks of Mythmaking (by Gilbert H. Kilpack; 2000) Spirituality; journey; create durable myth; take               part in it. Spiritual court called conscience; Almighty created man as story-teller, woman as counterpoint to man to            listen to ongoing conversations; myths on edge between fact & imagination. 4 Queries.

390. Special Education as Spiritual Journey (by Michael Resman; 2007) Spirituality; journey through special                         education & poetry. Drawn to children with severe disabilities; abused as child; children were my teachers.                       Focusing on him in a quiet, calm manner; be fully engaged in what God wants us to do. 18 Queries.

283. Sink Down to Seed (by Charlotte Fardelmann; 1989) Spirituality; journey; meditation through art. Writer’s block;              couldn’t find God. Told God, group about condition; led to work on book until finished; live my life in recognition of               love, life, truth, power that’s God. Safety lies in following Inward Guide.

437. Metaphors of Meaning (by Linda Wilson; 2016). Spirituality; journey; spiritual metaphors. Native New Zealand                  spirituality & metaphors; PH experience; spiritual journey vs. Tending One's Spiritual Home; connectedness;                       Different Spiritualities & Metaphors; spirit between, among, within us all. 22 Queries.

346. Treasure in Clay Jars (by Elizabeth Ostrander Sutton; 1999) Spirituality; journey; creating-with-clay metaphor.               Clay work opens me up to God. "Break up your fallow ground," preparing ground of my heart. In working clay, I                   break up fallow ground. I open creation’s door; I am a new creation in Christ. 1 Query.

389. From West Point to Quakerism (by Mike Heller; 2007) Spirituality; journey. West Point, 1967: forced to choose              between institution’s honor system & barracks’ loyalty code. Gained understanding of: cowardice & courage,                 artistic life; spiritual life journey; resign my commission. I wanted to teach art. 4 Queries.

Experience; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-experience-silence.html
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73. Inner Islands (by Winifred Rawlins; 1953) Spirituality; experience; protective essence; prayers & meditation 1st path; intentional response to experience 2nd path; clinging to vs. letting go of childish illusion, being clear about vs. rigid application of life-path; rechanneling passion; tenderness & compassion. 5 Queries.

192. Dialogue with Other: Martin Buber & Quaker Experience (by Janet E. Schroeder; 1973) Spirituality; experience; divine Dialog; Martin Buber: God speaks to me in everyday experiences. Worship: movement toward what one is called to be, to reality; establishes dwelling for Divine Presence. 7 Queries.

267. Encounters with Transcendence: Confessions of Religious Philosopher (by Scott Crom; 1986) Spirituality; 3 transcendent experiences. Powerful meeting for worship; strong, living silence; loss of self; “I” disappeared. "True transcendence seeing reality, being real, radical immanence. We are most at home. 6 Queries.

430. The Door in (by Renee Crauder; 2014) Spirituality; experience. Life-changing God-experiences, late 1970's-mid 1990's. Jesuit spirituality, Quaker spirituality; Retreats: boring plateau; retreat places; Ignatius; prayer looking for, answering that of God. Door In; indivisibly connected with what’s created. 19 Queries.

Silence; Listening; Stillness; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-experience-silence.html

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318. Silence: Our Eye on Eternity (by Daniel A. Seeger; 1994) 1 Spirituality; Inner Silence; human nature. Peaceful silence: expectant listening for [Divine Wisdom]. Becoming poor in spirit brings us closer to "Kingdom"; Lives pour out teaching, preparing place worthy of all. Enact Truth; be visible Truth. 1 Query.

303. Words, Wordlessness & Word: Silence Reconsidered from Literary Point (by Peter Bien; 1992) Spirituality; silence. Silent worship leaves out will's & idolatry's intervention. God’s name: Hebrew verb; inward logos includes ratio; oratio; silent worshipers in Friends’ meeting take part in Godhead. 2 Query.

83. The Use of Silence (by Geoffrey Hoyland; 1955) Spirituality; Silence; self-awareness; inner experience;                           communion with God in Living Silence; freedom and humility; silent prayer vs. Living Silence. 6 Queries.

201. Psychology and Silence (by Stanislaw A. Zielinski; 1975) 1 Spirituality, Silence (psy), & Psychology; Zielinski               (1909-74): Biography. ones emotions can be liberated, made energy source in spiritual development.                                Psychoanalysis (psyan) straightens path. “Inner Light” introduced 13th century. 1 Query.

335. Come Aside, Rest Awhile (by Frances I. Taber; 1997) Spirituality; Silence; Solitude; Retreat. Brinton: "Retirement            is Christian duty; acquire direction & strength. Salvage retreat out of illness; when one is contemplative, one can't               help be ministerial. Hold people prayerfully; have new enthusiasm for life. 7 Queries.

388. Expectant Listening: Finding God’s Thread of Guidance (by Michael Wajda; 2007) Spirituality; Silence;                       expectant listening (el): seeking to hear God’s messages. God continually calling us to faithfulness, gifts &                        ministry. nurture & strengthen corporate faithfulness; Called to greater faithfulness; 14 Queries.

299. Vistas from Inner Stillness (by Richard L. Walker; 1991) Spirituality; Silence; shared spiritual experience in collective-, nature-, celestial-consciousness. More to universe sensed with senses; “Be still and know I am God. Gap between thoughts: gate through which universe's good flows through us. 5 Queries.

Spirituality: Different Focuses; Web Address
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/spirituality-different-focuses.html

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421. Heartfulness: Renewing Heart, Mind, Spirit on Retreat & Beyond (by Valerie Brown; 2013) Spirituality; retreat. Regain life-balance; ask life direction questions, seek clarity; leave out preoccupations. Sabbath; Type of Retreat; continuing revelation; stages of retreat: "growing edge"; Mindfulness; 23 Queries.

336. God’s Spirit in Nature (by Judith Brown; 1998) Spirituality; in Nature; stewardship; environmentalism: motivated by anger. Nature catastrophe difficult to communicate; Practice stewardship of earth; plant exchange. God, bestow faith that accepts destruction & order, ugliness & beauty, dark & Light. 13 Queries.

151. Being Present Where you are (by Douglas V. Steere; 1967) Spirituality; Present in Now; presence not dependent            on physical presence. What Quakers need to be & do; Real Friend: answers "that of God” in needy friend; meets             across lines of division; stop ignoring marginal people; be present where you are. 8 Queries.

361. Journey through Skepticism (by Roland I. Warren; 2002) Spirituality; Skepticism; Christianity. Christian scripture            not literal, but poem, mythology. Basic religious experience: awe; wonder; transcendence; Spirit in all seeks                   transcendence & emerging spirit realm; we all have access; life bathed in eternal. 6 Queries.

36. Martha & Mary: Woman’s Relationship to Home (by Josephine Moffett Benton; 1947) Spirituality; practical vs.              spiritual. Mary & Martha together complete whole person. Wife: "good growing ground" for husband; Mary living             present moment, Martha doing daily tasks; negative work attitude. 4 Queries.

61. Guilt (by Gerhard Ockel; 1951) Spirituality; guilt's function; guilt & soul's health; parable: escape into dreamland;              overwork means no spiritual growth; princess is spiritual adolescent; toad: ugly truth providing salvation; creative              spirit works through growth; collective assumption of guilt is cure. 2 Queries.

124. Saints for this Age (by A. J. Muste; 1962) Spirituality; universal sainthood; spiritually sensitive; suffering agonies; seeking relief from guilt; True Religious life: deep examination of self and reality; do not seek security and satisfaction; life must be experimental; convinced of profound possibilities. 3 Queries.

374. Practice of Love of God (by Kenneth Boulding; 2004 [original lecture given in 1942]) Spirituality; practicing               God’s Love in Life. God's love expressed in devotion & obedience; agonizing love & blessed suffering [brings                   creation]. Couple with love for God discovers more splendid worldly love. 7 Queries.

Mysticism; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/mysticism.html
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463. Mind Oneness: Mystic Quaker Way (Rex Ambler; 2020) Mysticism; early church, Quaker, George Fox's                           withdrawal from worldliness. Spiritual wisdom: reality, unity, eternity; Quaker & Other Mysticism. Mysticism                       definitions; ethical mysticism; Distinctive elements. Bible on light & communal life. 18 Queries.

375. Quaker Views on Mysticism (by Margery Post Abbott; 2004) Mysticism: liberal perspective; definitions;                      transformation; discernment of Spirit's actions. Friends as mystics & peace church. Mysticism: awareness of                 God's presence sets me on spiritual ministry path. Mystical experiences aid life’s right-ordering. 7 Queries.

240. 2 Moral Essays: Draft for Statement of Human Obligations; Human Personality (by Simone Weil; 1981) Mysticism, Secular. Simone Weil (SW: 1909-1943): biography SW Embraces ancient sources: attention needs to be paid equally to needs of all. Beauty points to truth & justice. 1 Query.

132. Obstacles to Mystical Experience (by Scott Crom 1963) Spirituality: mysticism; religion directly experienced; intellectual vs. mystic. Mystic religion: illumination from experience; denying self. God's spirit purifies & unites with us; self, at highest stage of consciousness, has outlived usefulness. 17 Queries.

137. Revelation & Experience (by Carol R. Murphy; 1964) Mysticism: experience & revelation; "speaking to one's condition"; mystics united in Reality. Spiritual dangers to seeking experience, taking it as it comes; human condition's ambiguity demands faith, trusting revelatory image; balance piety & humor. 7 Queries.

115. Mysticism & experience of love (by Howard Thurman; 1961) Mysticism & love; inner life deals with human experience & its demands; be at home with God within; find God's meeting place within; mysticism: response to personal God-encounter within one’s spirit; redefining, reshaping into new self. 4 Queries.

21. Reality and the Spiritual World (by Thomas R. Kelly; 1942) writing, Thomas Kelly; God's existence; mystical experience; spiritual world; prayer, types of; "meeting place"; fellowship. 8 Queries.

59. Quaker Stongholds (Caroline Stephens; abridged by Mary Gould Ogilvie; 1951) Mysticism & Quietism; Quaker           beliefs; universal inner light; Conscience; Worship; Silence; Prayer; praying in submission to God; ministry;                   immediate, universal divine communication; power of light and truth. 1 Query.

249. Speaking as one Friend to Another: On Mystical Way Forward (by John R. Yungblut; 1983) Mysticism;                      universalism; ethical mysticism's future. Perfectionism: making full use of light's measure in one's Self; putting                  Self in touch with life's sources. "Truth spreads universally; sets everything ablaze.” 2 Queries.

156. Ethical mysticism in Society of Friends (by Howard Haines Brinton; 1967) Quaker Mysticism; ethical mysticism:           1st withdraws from world to inward Divine Light, Truth, & Power; returns to world with strength renewed; Divine               Life comes from beyond personal self-consciousness out of being's depths.

216. O Inward Traveller (by Carol R. Murphy; 1977) Mysticism, meditation, mind. Life in world of existential threats; Oriental spiritual disciplines & mysticism. Mystical, alternate way of knowing. By dying to self, mind-stilling, can help bring eternal gift to others by making God’s presence known. 1 Query.

See also 211. Seeking Light in the Darkness of the Unconscious (by John Yungblut; 1977); Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/mental-health-ministry-ii.html

Suffering, End-of-Life, Death I; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/suffering-end-of-life-death-i.html

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416. Grief, Forgiveness, Redemption as a Way of Transformation (by Elaine Pryce; 2011) Death; grieving; forgiveness; transformation. Grief tears away falsity of being; Forgiveness/ Reality & Acceptance; Traversing Void; Hero’s Journey; Homecoming; Stillness; Silence; Healing; Simplicity & Surrender. 12 Queries.

49. Christ in Catastrophe: inward record (Emil Fuchs who found serenity through suffering; 1949) Serenity through suffering; questions of future, conscience, doubt, foreboding, judgment; early church suffering; post-war suffering & despair; love for grandson; standing alone; not hearing message. 17 Queries.

340. Song of Death, Spiritual Birth: Quaker Way of Dying (by Lucy Screechfield McIver; 1998) End-of-Life. Listen to dying's words & feelings. Birth or dying: expectant waiting. Not seeking other side of birth & death limit perceptions of life's power & fullness. Let go, join flow of life towards Eternal Love. 10 Queries.

292. Hallowing One’s Diminishments (by John R. Yungblut; 1990) End-of-Life; diminishments. Several "old age"                 illnesses; make do with remainder. Treatment of one aggravates another; full grieving cycle. hallow diminishments            even suicide, “making holy,” then let go of diminishment; nothing lost, all is well. 6 Queries.

432. Death Chosen, Life Given (by Hannah Russell; 2015) End-of-Life; suicide; assisted suicide. Husband died by                 suicide after lymphoma diagnosis; Redemption/ Search for Meaning; Betrayal & Forgiveness; Love & Life; saw                 necessity, right & harmony; Violence Paradox; suicide as crime; Hallowing Suicide. 33 Queries.

364. Gift of Days: Report on Illness (Mary Chase Morrison; 2003) End-of-Life; serious illness is gift. Live at naked                 experience level. God says: "There's more"; I didn't want it. Eager to die, angry with God who didn’t help. TIME                 became abstract; far away from human time. Be ready to receive Death as old friend. 4 Queries.

239. Growing old: View from Within (by Norma Jacob; 1981) End-of-Life; finding out about growing old, liberation from:            responsibilities; "behaving one's self." Fear of loneliness. Mothers, Grandmothers when children gone;                             friendship is outside time; mortal time isn't to be feared. I will be content. 10 Queries.

Suffering, End-of-Life, Death II; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/suffering-end-of-life-death-ii.html

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157. Facing & fulfilling later years (by Elsie Marion Andrews; 1968) Quaker end-of-life: old age's meaningful use; have environment for using later-year potential; When talent crippled; new tools found; provide intellectual, emotional, spiritual understanding. “In my beginning, my end—In my end, beginning.” 1 Query.

368. On Retiring to Kendal—& Beyond (by Peter Bien; 2003) End-of-Life; retirement community & beyond. Retirement community final home; death enhances life; finitude as paradoxical blessing. Learn to say Yes when day arrives; divinity's creative purpose; it’s realized as much by death as by life. 10 Queries.

142. Dear Gift of Life (by Bradford Smith (born 1909, died 1964); 1965) End-of-life; journal; discovering cancer is discovering dying. Matter in unified design of magnitude & beauty; poems; "A Roll of Film." I fall with snow, time’s visible, fragmented, unified motion; setting myself in nature's midst. 14 Queries.

454. The Healing Power of Stories (by Michael Bischoff; 2018) End-of-Life; healing stories; brain cancer. Looking outside medical system; breaking comfort, self-understandings opens us to sacred healing stories; praying with Martin Luther King, Moses; Health Story Collaborative; healing river for all of us. 18 Queries.

287. Milestone 70 (by Carol R. Murphy; 1989) End of Life; journal; 71st year. ego-awareness; discount it when possible; fall in love with pursuits. Sublimation in directing energy toward hallowing lives. Don’t forget value of Myths. Life is still interesting. Message to Angel of Death: Don’t interrupt me! 8 Queries.

418. Some thoughts on Becoming 85 (by William Z. Shetter; 2012) End-of-Life; dawning of maturity I've grown toward; slowing outward vitality; growing stillness within, more mature self can sense real, living person behind Bible words, Heart-Wisdom: growing, thoroughly leavening mind’s wisdom. 30 Queries.

316. For Solitary Individual: Octogenarian’s Counsel on Living & Dying (John R. Yungblut; 1994) End-of-Life. Life lived in great mystery, deep questions. Divine's transparency at universe's heart on fire. evolution values: differentiation, interiority, communion, higher consciousness. Learn how to die into God. 7 Queries.

107. Death & Christian Answer (by Mary Ely Lyman; 1960) End-of-life; death: inevitable; knowing limits brings careful choosing of what needs completion; death's gifts to experience; no proof of afterlife; human destiny not completely realized here; Christ's & beloved dead's continued spiritual presence. 3 Queries.

Witness & Ministry of Suffering, End-of-Life, Death; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/witness-ministry-of-suffering-end-of.html

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311. Without Nightfall Upon Spirit (by Mary Chase Morrison; 1993) End-of-Life; observe old age. Bring together "too bright & cheery" & "too dark & gloomy." Alone-ness: gift to turn to reliving, finding riches of our life & being. Witnessing death; may day go by joyously, without nightfall upon the spirit. 20 Queries.

385. In God we Die (by Warren Ostrom; 2006) End-of-Life; wisdom of prolonging life. Quakers give high quality care for people at all stages of life; no unity on assisted suicide. Prolonging life: some are grateful; some curse it for postponing death. Family more harmonious, if decisions made ahead of time. 8 Queries.

184. Valley of Shadow (by Carol R. Murphy; 1972) End-of-life; witnessing; how to deal with death. Dying patients resent           coddling, false reassurance; go from denial to acceptance. Symbolic continuity: descendants, lasting                                 achievement; mythology; mystical merging. Life's meaning in higher plane of reality? 8 Queries.

281. Quaker Theology of Pastoral Care: Art of Everyday (by Zoe White; 1988) End-of-Life; Pastoral Care: Art of               Everyday. hope for healing & problem’s solution; deepening & sharing God’s vision & Love in community. Pray,                encourage one to let go; look death in face, knowing it does not have the last word. 3 Queries.

355. In Beauty: Quaker Approach to End-of-Life Care (by Kirsten Backstrom; 2001) End-of-Life; hospice. Care of 2           dying women; You’re not important; you’re precious. People found ways to complete lives up to moment of death.           That of God, one’s stripped-down presence still with us after one died. 7 Queries.

QUAKER BELIEFS;

Faith I; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-beliefs-faith-i.html
Content:

277. What's Quakerism: Primer (by George T. Peck; 1988) Quaker beliefs. Quakers are Friends; truths simple, not easy. Worship with, not preach to. Listen for truth, discern God’s will; Divine opening, message, comes prayers & reading. Many different Quakers; glad to share voyage of discovery. 19 Queries.

377. Creed and Quakers: What’s Belief got to do with it? (by Robert Griswold; 2005) Quaker beliefs; witness against creeds. Inward Light experience eclipses all tendencies toward creeds. Seeking “that of God in everyone”; need to be open to be being filled by what’s real; what’s needed already inside one. 3 Queries.

161. Religion of George Fox (by Howard H. Brinton; 1968) Quaker Beliefs; George Fox's religion & philosophy; Christ Within everyone in every religion. New Covenant: man & woman equal; Inward Light's "seed" grows if it's sown in fertile ground. Divine dialogue with personal God person-to-person, like prophets.

447 Living in Dark Times (By Rex Ambler; 2017) Quaker beliefs; reviving early beliefs & hopes. “Dark times": hardship; frustration; anxiety; puzzlement; Insight, Wisdom; Back to Reality (acceptance); Mind Oneness; Trust Light; Witness to Reality & Leadership; "Love is hardest lesson in Christianity” 16 Queries.

425. The Light Within: Then and Now (by Rex Ambler; 2013) Quaker beliefs: Inward Light. Fundamental vague concept; no longer know what it could mean. Light something you see by. Barclay: Light Within took 2nd place to Text. Light: Capacity for Awareness; what enables us to "see ourselves": spiritual light. 11 Queries.

268. In God We Live (by Warren Ostrom; 1986) Beliefs & experience. “If you don’t listen, voice inside gets softer, harder to hear, over time." Sin blocks union with divine; everyone composed of divine. War: slaughter of Spirit’s incarnation. Spirit limitless; in Christ’s hand, we are Christ when true to deepest natures. 1 Query.

194. Quakerism of Future: Mystical, Prophetic & Evangelical (by John Yungblut; 1974) Quaker beliefs, future.                     Quakerism will be mystical, prophetic, evangelical. Be true to Fox's spirit by adapting myth to meet [currently]                   revealed truths' demands. Born mystics; prophetic mysticism makes us evangelical Christians.

Quaker Beliefs; Faith II; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-beliefs-faith-ii.html
       Contents:
248. Candle of Lord (by Elfrida Vipont Foulds; 1983) [QBFP, #145] Faith, Individual; Re-awakening; history; Kingdom               of God [KOG]. Man's Spirit: Lord's candle. Live like KOG had come & Man's Spirit is Lord's Candle. Be channels               for Divine Life's coming & gathered in deepest sense in Spirit's Presence. 4 Queries.

8. Rethinking Quaker Principles (Rufus M. Jones; 1940) Quaker beliefs & Puritanism; structure-less, creed-less,               sincerity, spiritual nurture and communion; salvation through experience and experiment. 5 Queries.

245. Alternative Christianity (by John Punshon; 1982) Quaker Beliefs; Quakerism: alternative Christianity. Quakers               have inward authority; Bible's primary use: what says about NT community & actions of God’s people. Bible's                   revelation to humble spirit recognizing God's things illuminated by Light Within. 4 Queries.

40. Quaker Message (extracts of Quaker belief & practice; present significance (Sidney Lucas; 1948) Quaker beliefs; inward Light; corporate sense of divine; true ministry; God concepts; faith definition; peace testimony, Scriptural support; call to service; personal witness to, publishing Truth in daily practice; 2 Queries.

138. An Apology for Perfection (by Cecil E. Hinshaw; 1964) Quaker perfection; 17th century: materialism pre-valent; hopeless view of human nature; Fox's perfection: faith gives help & victory over sin, purify hearts & consciences, brings you to mystical union with God. You please God & have access to God. 1 Query.

112. 2 trends in modern Quaker thought, belief statement (by Albert Vann Fowler; 1961) Quaker belief. Universal: (1 religion among many). Particular (Christianity reproduces inwardly Jesus Christ's character); positive orthodox & conservative. Seek great truth behind religions; "one true faith" imperialism. 1 query.

Quaker Beliefs; Faith III; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-beliefs-faith.html

Content:

181. The Quaker Message: Personal Affirmation (by L. Hugh Doncaster; 1972) Quaker beliefs & practices; Quaker               affirmation: inner experience: walking with God, not "talking about” God reveals self; Bible: very important; not                   final authority; "Loudly clang men's ways; silently grows God’s way.” 5 Queries.

331. Communion for a Quaker (by Nancy Bieber (1997) Communion; outward & inner sacrament. Eucharist of joy &               gratitude; bread, wine divorced from spiritual reality. Life graced with God's presence; source of inner,                                spiritual sacramental gifts. Live willingness for communion to happen daily in our midst. 11 Queries.

152. Quakerism & Christianity (by Edwin B. Bronner; 1967) Quaker beliefs: Interpretations; live life like Jesus’ life;                 some Quakers reject Christian label; Inward Christ: center & source of action; can't change world by ourselves;            need love & those around us; hold firm to Christian Faith, our center. 3 Queries.

402. Christianity & Inner Life (by Margery Post Abbott; 2009) Quaker beliefs; early Quaker view of Christ: present &               alive; true Guide. Jesus is man. Fox: experiencing Christ Jesus, speaking to thy condition. Fell: "obedience to                   cross, Christ’s light, is God's power.” Guidance arises from gentle motion in soul. 16 Queries.

426. Who do you say that I Am: Quakers & Christ Today (by Doug Gwyn; 2014) Quaker beliefs; Christ. Light: Christ's            presence in each person; author’s call to ministry. Views of Conservative Friends; Ecumenical Friends; Interfaith              Friends; Universalist, Non-theist Friends views; Jesus: radical hospitality. 20 Queries.

250. Jesus, Jefferson, & Task of Friends (by Newton Garver; 1983) Hope, optimism, Kingdom of Heaven (KOH).               Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence & government. Religious witness builds on hope; it & light                         shines in darkness. KOH built in spaces free from politics; manifested through work. 6 Queries.

Quaker Elements & Other Religions General; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-and-other-religions-general.html

Content of General:

150. Many Religions, 1 God: Toward Deeper Dialogue (by Carol R. Murphy; 1966) Quakers & World Religion; religious concern very important; Polarities: Form-formless; Ought-Is; History-Eternity; Nondualism-dualism. Be true center; be open to every religion's faith; worship together in Eternal. 9 Queries.

285. Letter to Universalist (by John Punshon; 1989) Quaker beliefs; Universalism & Christianity, dialogue between; collective identity crisis for unprogrammed Quakerism. Universalist minister seeks Bible's “deeper meaning.” Discuss differences openly without judgment or desires in place of quest for truth. 3 Queries.

309. Universalism & Spirituality (by Ralph Hetherington; 1993) Quaker beliefs; history of Universalism vs. Spirituality in Quakerism. Spirituality: inherent in individual; Religious experience: spiritual experience in religious context. Universalism provides necessary theology & discipline. Scripture's role. 4 Queries.

175. Mutual irradiation: Quaker view of ecumenism (by Douglas V. Steere; 1971) Religion; worldwide ecumenism; New relations: within Christianity; between Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, & Muslims; Ecumenism = “world- embracing.” Open climate: acknowledges & shares differences & truth embracing both. 6 Queries.

93. Quakerism & Other Religions (by Howard H. Brinton; 1957) Quakerism & Other Religions; Christianity (Cty): exclusive truth; world religions' equal; or truest, no monopoly on truth. Quakers in agreement with practice & philosophy of Islam & Native Americans; Zen Buddhism, other mystical sects similar.

Quaker & Other Religions Buddhist; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-and-other-religions-general.html

Content of Buddhist:

407. Living from Center: Mindfulness Meditation & Centering for Friends (by Valerie Brown; 2010) Spirituality; Comparing Buddhist mindfulness & Quaker centering. Buddhist mindfulness complements centering & spiritual experience. Mindfulness aids silence, reflection, attention, awareness, & unity. 8 Queries.

386. Mindful Quaker (by Valerie Brown; 2006) Quakers & Buddhism. Steindl-Rast: “ religion’s heart is heart’s religion.” experienced meeting Muslim, Hindu, & Buddhist, womanhood’s God. Buddhism’s insight; Inner Light veiled: remove it with meditation. You’re perfect. Welcome Buddhahood. Be in the Light.

370. Quaker in Zendo (by Steve Smith; 2004) Quaker & Zen Buddhism. Buddhist meditation: clarified, steadied, softening life’s edges. Treasures in Quaker literature. Zen journey led me deeply into my nature, surrender to Light. Now appreciate more Quaker spiritual practice. Be no more than God made thee. 3 Queries.

302. Zen Buddhist Encounters Quakerism (By Teruyasu Tamura; 1992) Quakers & Zen Buddhism. Seek to understand Quakerism as Zen follower. Deeper we go, wider group layers of unconscious represent. Zen relieves little suffering. Need religion going beyond world of opposites, to existence's deep reality. 1 Query.

163. Hardest Journey (by Douglas V. Steere; 1969) World Religions; Protestants, Roman Catholics seek Quaker's silent worship. Zen Buddhists, Christ scholars, & 5 Quakers met. Hardest journey means ending self-absorption. Anyone who makes use of soul even clumsily, participates in universe's life. 12 Queries.

Quaker & Other Religions: Other; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-other-religions-other.html

    Content of Other:
207. Quaker looks at Yoga (by Dorothy Ackerman; 1976) Quakers & Yoga; Contacting Still Small Voice should be as               easy as [being in meaningful] phone call. Yoga Philosophy: meditation shifts gears to slower brain waves;                       Worship Preparation; tune to Presence, Christ, Consciousness, or Inner Light. 9 Queries.

220. 5th Yoga: Way of Relationships (by Joseph Havens; 1978) Quaker & Yoga. 4 disciplines, (Yogas): knowledge;               god-devotion; work, ritual duty; psycho-physical exercises. 5th Yoga: human relations. Try to experience other’s                world. With attention to many, we come upon One; written in one another’s hearts. 3 Queries.

289. Meet at Source: Hindus & Quakers (by Martha Dart; 1989) Quakers & Hindu-Christian dialogue. Speakers: founder of monastery & ashram; Swami; Indian Catholic sister; Catholic mother; Hindu father. Upanishads & Bible: similar insights. “Fellow wayfarers engaged in common search” & simplicity. 2 Queries.

205. Sound of Silence: Moving with T’ai Chi (by Carol R. Murphy; 1976) Quakers & Tai Chi Chuan; spiritual, moving               meditation, disciplines restless body. [Description of stance, breathing, movements], shaped to body’s proper use.            Goal: complete way of being in God’s world; facing Life’s next T’ai Chi form. 4 Queries.

135. Spiritual Legacy of American Indian (by Joseph Epes Brown; 1964) Religion; Spirituality: Native American:                 combative, stoical heroism, & priestly bearing. Black Elk: spoke (1948), absorbed in realities spoken of; words had            no meaning. Sacred Pipe description & meaning. Hanblecheyapi; Wiwanyag Wachipi; "Sweat Lodges"; Wakan-                 tanka; Ate; Tunkashila (English translations). Purification, Perfection, & Union.

106. Way of Man: According to Hasidism's Teaching (by Martin Buber; 1960) Self; Martin Buber; Hasidim. Mysticism            hallows community & everyday life; unify soul before starting unusual work. Perform, with holy intent daily task;           divine spark in shell, broken open by humans; let God into inner [holy] true life. 10 Queries.

134. From convincement to conversion (by Martin Cobin; 1964) Convincement/ conversion; Jewish to Quaker. As a              man” Jesus died on cross; glamorizing prophets; too much convincement without conversion; too much "thinking"              in worship. Human potential: find people demonstrating capacity for Godliness. 4 Queries.

350. Wanted to be Jewish; now, thanks to Religious Society of Friends, I am (by Claire Gorfinkel; 2000) Quaker &               Jewish. Found Judaism through being with Friends. Jewish Great-great-grandfather; Estrangement; Temple Sinai,            Friday; Orange Grove MM, Sunday. Discovered spiritual life; cherish rituals. 5 Queries.

QUAKER PRACTICES
General Practice; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-practice-general.html
       Content:

145. What doth the Lord require of thee (by Mildred Binns Young; 1966) Quaker practice; early vs. current: People don't know holy; being divinely met & claimed is rare; personal success & concerned Quakerism; thirst for greater being can save world; unlimited responsibility of soul for other souls. 23 Queries.

387. Turnaround: Growing 21st Century Religious Society of Friends (by Benjamin Lloyd; 2006) Quaker Practice;              promoting in 21st century; announcing presence. Move Quakerism into public consciousness; nurture special               relationship in membership. Sense of awe at God’s work brought to life through us. 13 Queries.

320. Leadership Among Friends (by Ron McDonald; 1995) Quaker Practices; leadership training & crisis; sending out            persons of uncommon vision & courage. Clear vision comes from conflict; avoided, it goes underground. No longer            know what good we are for; admitting we're without vision is place to start. 9 Queries.

365. Authority of Meeting is Power of God (by Paul A. Lacey; 2003) Quaker practice; development, organization’s               continuity. Individual discernment became individual & community discernment. Gospel Order definition. Struggle              for balance of individual autonomy & group authority in seeking leading. 4 Queries.

7. A Quaker Mutation (Gerald Heard; 1940) Friends' effectiveness; Fox's methods; historic Jesus within Christ of                        experience, Spirit, Light; quietism vs. evangelism; Western education problems: neotechnic education method;           neo-educational system & technique worked out at Pendle Hill. 5 Queries.

103. Character of Quaker (by Henry Joel Cadbury; 1959) Quaker practice, character; Quaker opponents' critical description. Christian evangelical & "inner light" part of heritage; how & where to be different; answering "what makes a good Quaker" is a personal responsibility; advices & queries. 2 Queries.

Quaker Practice: Way of Cross/ Witnessing; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-practice-way-of-cross-witnessing.html

Content:

260. Way of Cross: Gospel Record (by Mary C. Morrison; 1985) Quaker practice; Way of Cross; Bible; Jesus; crucifixion: suffering; helplessness; defeat; sorrow; death. Jesus lived out fully what was in him & fully accepted consequences; God did the rest; God can save when one feels completely lost. 4 Queries.

63. Ninth Hour (by Gilbert Kilpack; 1951) Quaker practice; Way of Cross; answering call to bear witness in dark times; over-abundance of humility in face of famous witnesses; suffering cross, world's bad opinion; results of Peter's dark 9th hour; early church's dark 9th hour; world as a sick, dying old man. 4 Queries.

391. Getting Rooted: Living in Cross; Path to Joy & Liberation (by Brian Dayton; 2007) Quaker practice; Way of Cross. Find Quaker Root zone: dynamic area of growth; "convinced" Friends lack immersion in Quakerism; Make space for daily retirement. In obedience to One we are getting back to Roots. 3 Queries.

See Also 30. William Penn (1644-1718): No Cross, No Crown (Abridged by Anna Brinton; 1945); Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-writing-17th-century.html
435. You Are My Witnesses: Witness & Testimony in Biblical & Quaker Traditions (By Thomas Gates; 2015) Quaker Practice; witnessing; Witness: against Idolatry (money; power; career); being witnesses now; Within as Testimony, Stories of Witness; Shadow of Empire; 4 steps of active hope. 15 Queries.

397. Quaker Witness as Sacrament (by Daniel O. Snyder; 2008) Quaker practice; bearing witness to Christ in sufferers as sacrament. Prayer life: walking fully in life of prayer & meditation. Witness grounded in hope our lives will quicken Life in others. Inward Teacher, Guide hints of world not yet visible but here. 11 Queries.

262. Bearing Witness: Quaker Process Culture of Peace (by Gray Cox; 1985) Quaker practice; centering; consensus; clearness; culture of peace. Clearness involves openness, wholeness, unanimity, & presence. Participatory method of social science. Activity more like art than mechanical procedure. 6 Queries.

Quaker Practice: Concerns, leadings, discernment; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-practice-concerns-leadings.html

Content:

404. Kindling Life of Concern: Spirit-led Quaker Action (by Jack Kirk; 2009) Quaker practice; Spirit-led concerns. Pray hearts come to radiant force of God’s infinite care; Test leadings: pray for clearness; check Scripture. Friends movement restored to whole, vital spirituality, cutting-edge social witness. 19 Queries.

383. Answering Call to Heal World (by Patience A. Schenck; 2006) Leadings of Spirit; discernment; answering God's call. Faithful when we use gifts; reach clearness, connect with deepest caring. Signs of genuine leadings; signs we've been released from call; Non-discipleship costs peace, love, hopefulness. 23 Queries.

89. Scruples (Gilbert Kilpack; 1956) Quaker Leadings, undecided about right decision; vain, unreasonable fear of sin; Woolman: sensitivity to new spiritual leading; ending old accepted ways; slave of details; scruples limit Christ-like freedom to see & act: attention to God, Christ, not endless self-judging. 1 Query.

264. Leading & Being Led (by Paul A. Lacey; 1985) Spiritual leadings, signs of. Leading: receiving direction from living Spirit; can be ambiguous & risky; let go of results. 4 tests for leadings: moral purity; patience; self-consistency of spirit; & bringing unity. Tension of seeking clarity & acting effectively, in time. 9 Queries.

448. Inner Guide vs. Inner Critic: Journey from Judgment to Love (by Christine Wolff; 2017) Leading; inner guide vs. inner critic. Guide: "Be my voice”; inner critic: authority; judge. Critic, conscience, Guide influences how we live; Follow Leadings; Life without Critic: Doing from upwelling of Divine Will. 8 Queries.

443. Individual Spiritual Discernment: Receiving, Testing, Implementing Leadings from Higher Power (by Jerry Knutson; 2017) Spiritual discernment; guidance always waiting; comes from Agape; Unsolicited, Solicited Guidance: Holistic Method; Agape in Dreams; Implementing Guidance; Simplifying. 28 Queries.

305. Spiritual Discernment: Context & Goal of Clearness Committee (by Patricia Loring; 1992) Spirituality & Practice; discernment; effect of clearness committee. Spiritual discernment: Quaker spirituality's heart; Peace: fruit of Spirit, sign of authenticity. E.g. of God's leadings; being led through true self. 4 Queries.

446. Coming to Light: Cultivating Spiritual Discernment through Quaker Clearness Committee (Valerie Brown; 2017) Clearness committees (CC) aid in spiritual discernment. CC: My Experience; (Reflections); History (discernment is a gift from God); Key Words; Key Elements; Sample Format; Timeline; 18 Queries.

Quaker Practice: eldering/ traveling; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-practice-concerns-leadings.html

Content:

392. Spirit-led Eldering (by Margery Mears Larrabee; 2007) Quaker practice; eldering; spirit-led. Spirit-led eldering in              nominating committee, care & oversight committee, meeting for worship, clearness committee; mature,                           spiritually-grounded persons emerge as guides. Desire to elder taken to committee. 33 Queries.

436. Spreading Fire: Challenging, Encouraging Friends through Travel in Ministry (By Debbie Humphries; 2015)               Quaker Practice; traveling ministry. Quaker spiritual path; encouragement, challenging others; meeting clarity for             travel in ministry; clerk writes travel minute. Personal traveling history; 24 Queries.

428. Spiritual Accompaniment: Experience of 2 Friends Traveling Ministry (Cathy Walling & Elaine Emily; 2014)               Quaker practice; eldering, traveling. Def.: "spiritual leadership; support, encourage Spirit-life; companion                          traveling ministers. Preparation, Action (Dec. ‘07-Jan. ‘08), Recovery Phases; Reflections: 16 Queries

347. Tall Poppies: Supporting Gifts of Ministry & Eldering in Monthly Meeting (by Martha Paxson Grundy; 1999)              Quaker Practice: Recorded Ministry & Eldering. Elders' gifts: insight into character, alert spiritual discernment,               dedicated to spiritual growth. One needs to hear support & criticism. 22 Queries.

Quaker Prayer; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-prayer.html
Content:

58. 10 Questions on Prayer (Gerald Heard; 1951) Prayer; validity of prayer for others; prayer produces peace; approach God for peace: prayer's effect on indifferent; gaining will to pray for others; is love needed to pray for another; effectiveness of: prolonged vs. short prayers; anonymous vs. known prayer source; 40 queries.

339. Prayer: Beginning Again (by Sheila Keane; 1998) Quaker prayer; Prayers of: petition; intercession; worship; giving thanks; praise; confession; listening; meditation; mystery. Prayer Menu: doing prayer; being prayer; gifting prayer. That of God, erupts out of us glows new Freedom into world. Be patterns. 16 Queries.

382. Holding one another in Light (by Marcelle R. Martin; 2006) Quaker Prayer; Holding in Light. Praying with, for 1 another engenders spiritual vitality; makes manifest God’s healing. Prayer of Inward Carrying; Meetings for Healing.Being prayed for helps people perceive inner spiritual healing capacities. 1 Query.

174. Friends, Let Us Pray (by Elsie H. Landstrom; 1970) Prayer; meeting for worship: can be gathered, or scattered individuals; meeting for worship or merely [vocal]. In silence, we have known Christ's Spirit being very present; grace dispels faithlessness, refusal, fears; sets hearts aflame with joy of adoration. 12 Queries.

123. Prayer: Cornerstone (Helen G. Hole; 1962) Quaker belief & practices; prayer; fellowship essential; spiritual contact with Jesus; prayer is communities' cornerstone. Attention to God; surrender to Jesus' spirit; prayer group; Prayer & Family; daily prayer; obstacles prayer; transformed into God to know God. 6 Queries.

291. Prayer in Contemporary World (by Douglas V. Steere; 1990) Spirituality & prayer. True prayer isn’t auto-                      suggestion & self-centering. Open inward ears; bring me out of over-activity. Corporate worship & prayer, Christ                  gathers worshiping community into household of faith. There is God who cares. 8 Queries.

42. Discipline of Prayer (Fredrick J. Tritton; 1948) Quaker prayer; retreat; types of prayer; pay attention to God when           discouraged; prayer of God's presence; intercessory prayer; daily prayer discipline; Lord's Prayer meditation; that           greater than Self can be cultivated, & bring knowledge, love of Father & Christ. 8 Queries.

66. World in Tune (Elizabeth Gray Vining; 1952) Quaker prayer; set vs. spontaneous; Purity Collect; thoughts on               prayer: Meister Eckhart; Robert Louis Stevenson; Rabindranath Tagore; Rufus Ellis; Book of Common Prayer,                50th day before Easter; prayer for enemies; aspirations: Fenelon; Madame Guyon; Gandhi. 2 Queries.

423. Queries as Prayers (by Ron B. Rembert; 2013) Prayer; process of writing using queries. Prayers vs. Poems; written prayer vs. silent prayer; Renee Crauder's Awareness Exercise; Ignatian Examen Prayer; Reversed Lectio Divina; Limitations in query prayer; helped me recover call to vocal ministry. 33 Queries.

369. Meditation on Prayer of St. Francis (by Ann Curo; 2003) Spirituality; Prayer of St. Francis as meditation. Each phrase holds depth of meaning; "Where there’s hatred, let me sow love,” Unable to forgive childhood injury; mother was forgiven, by God. Best use St. Francis’ prayer as pointer to God. 4 Queries.

Quaker Meetings for Worship; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-meeting-for-worship.html

Content:

306. 4 Doors to Meeting for Worship (by William P. Taber; 1992) Meeting for Worship; prep. & process; feel gathered into living Presence. 4 doors to worship: Door Before; Door Inward; Door Within; Door Beyond. Inward motion can lead to God-called activities beyond speaking. 4 Queries.

444. Gathered Meeting (GM) (by Steven Davison; 2017) Quaker meeting; gathered. essence of the Quaker way; Past GM; Current GM; move into unity and love. Qualities; Faith in; Seeking; Individual, Meeting Actions; GM in Business; We will have brought others to God, within true & holy communion. 16 Queries.

26. Quaker Meeting: Personal Experience & Method Described & Analysed (Howard E. Collier; 1945) Quaker                 meeting; mystical experience; meditation, "inward stillness"; contemplation, seeking; corporate worship; inner                   communion; worship preparation. "Speaking pure to pure in others commends one to God."

449. Ecology of Quaker Meeting (by James W. Hood; 2018) Quaker meeting for worship; Ecology spiritual eco-system;           return nature, ecological balance to worship. Individual actors integrated into over-all motion; natural world points           toward non-earthly, ideal spirit; Spirit resides in nature; exist by spiritual instinct. 8 Queries.

288. Improvisation & Spiritual Disciplines: Continuing Divine-Human Duet (by Carol Conti-Etin; 1989) Practices;              Meeting for worship; music metaphor; improvised duet. Sabbath; Bible; Tithing; Praying. Worship like improvised             duet; more 1 improvises & composes, thinner wall between us & Inner Guide. 8 Queries.

140. Joint & Visible Fellowship (by Beatrice Saxon Snell; 1965) Quaker; worship meeting: make God partner in life;               meeting should end with Peace of God … remaining as holy canopy; Offer what you have to God; let it go. God's             spiritual newborn; growth in worship, response to God's Spirit; see Spirit's fruit. 4 Queries.

Quaker Meeting: for ... Business; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-meeting-for-business-membership.html

Content for Meeting for ... Business
20. Guide to Quaker Practice (by Howard H. Brinton; 1943) Quaker structure: monthly meeting; yearly meeting; worship meeting; meeting for worship with attention to business: clerk, minutes, sense of meeting; standing committee; nominating committee; marriage; community, harmony, equality, simplicity; 12 Queries.

453. Practical Mysticism: Quaker Process Opens Us to Divine’s Promptings (by Elizabeth Meyer; 2018) Meeting for business; clerk; divine leadings. Worshipful business meetings; 12 Friendly practices: electronic devices blessing or distraction; Unity not Unanimity; Advice for Clerks; trust discernment, love. 13 Queries.

307. Beyond Consensus: Salvaging Sense of Meeting (by Barry Morley; 1993) Meeting for Business; Sense of                     meeting (som), not consensus. Som: commitment to continuing revelation. Led, gathered by Light & Love;                     acknowledging Presence. World longs for som not knowing what it is; recover gift. 2 Queries.

406. Mind of Christ: Bill Taber on Meeting for Business (by Michael Birkel; 2010) Meeting for Business; Mind of                 Christ. Experience God's power in midst while considering church's affairs & seek decisions; altered state of                 consciousness. Trust Divine Process, eternal stream owning us. Prayer important. 11 Queries.

47. Nature of Quakerism (Howard H. Brinton; 1949) Quaker doctrine: Divine spirit in people; Meeting for worship               (mfw); mfw w/ attention to business; social doctrine: community; harmony; equality; simplicity Each individual must            answer problem of consistency according to their own light and leading. 1 Query

65. Reaching Decisions (Howard Brinton; 1952) Quaker meeting for business: general; monthly; quarterly; yearly; Book of Discipline; rights, responsibilities of individuals & groups; clerk: sense of meeting; recording minute; clerk presiding; unexpected synthesis of individuality & unity; differences valued. 2 Queries

472. The Atheist's Guide to Quaker Process: Spirit-Led Decisions for the Secular (By Selden W. Smith; 2021) meeting... attention to business; use of Quaker process by non-theist & non-Quakers; apply Quaker attitudes to business meting; focus on mind's and human's deepest potential. 5 Queries

Quaker Meeting: Membership; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-meeting-for-business-membership.html

Content of Membership:

48. Society of Friends (Howard Brinton; 1949) Quakerism; membership; history; organizations AFSC. Quakerism: means for obtaining inward peace & order, so it can propagate itself in the outer world.

371. Members One of Another: Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting (by Thomas Gates; 2004) Quaker meetings; membership. Challenge: lift up corporate vision of spiritual community, "members one of another. God’s Spirit in each other to guide us; these things will "lead us into all things.” 12 queries.

439. Marking Quaker Path: 7 Key Words Plus One (by Robert Griswold; 2016) Quaker Meeting; membership; deeper meaning of. Condition keeping us from moving forward; experience of Divine Reality; convincement; covenant; discipline; not Sunday worshipers. Discernment; submission to divine grace; 26 Queries.

Quaker Testimonies, Ethics & Truth; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-ethics-truth-testimonies.html

       Content of Ethics & Truth:
169. Holy Morality: Religious Approach to Modern Ethics (by Carol Murphy; 1970) Ethics; present moment;                         compromise: sacrifice which good; love restores mystical unity. Poverty: non-attachment to any "possessions";                Obedience: answering holy simplicity's leadings; Chasity: loving persons for Self; 5 Queries.

186. Words & Testimonies: Carey Memorial Lecture (by Thomas H. Silcock; 1972) Special ethic; testimonies (tst);               action & words; addictions & peace tsts. Special ethic needs internal & external structure. Use discipline in                        following moral insights; keep violence out of heart & actions; keep love alive. 1 Query.

455. Trying to be Truthful (by Chel Avery; 2019) Truth; my starting place is truth; use "testimony" as single concept.                 When I fail to use words honorably, I fail in self-relationship. Truth not Automatic hard-wired for some deception;               reliable reporting; question ourselves; Truth & Love: eternal instantaneous. 38 Queries.

53. Power of Truth (Herrymon Maurer; 1950) Truth; time of violence, torment of men: unifying power of Truth; outward          human plans & inward condition; humankind's divine connection with God & Light; Truth as antithesis of worldly                solutions; inward weapon; utility of truth; Truth and Cold War; obstacles. 1 Query.

81. Personal Relevance of Truth (Thomas S. Brown; 1955) Truth; Samuel Johnson prayer; experiencing Truth for ones           self; Truth & Reality; detecting truth vs. noise & motion; finding clarity; missing signals. Suffering in the Light of    `        Truth is recurring crisis out of which new life can spring. 4 queries.

440. Enlarging Circle of Love (by Margaret Fisher; 2016) Truth; facing unpleasant truth of animal consumption. Animal rights; conditions for chickens; plant-based diet; be less self-indulgent; Thought to Action; humanity not superior. Integrity not same as consistency; Ministry; love God in all God's forms. 24 Queries.

Quaker Testimony: General; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-ethics-truth-testimonies.html
Content of General Testimonies:

109. Another Will Gird You: Message to Society of Friends (Mildred Binns Young; 1960) Quaker testimony; flawed; compromised, bound to system based on war & poverty. Make life [consistent] act of belief; more need to act on testimonies contrary to this times' currents; heed conscience; relying on too few. 14 Queries.

143. Unless one is born anew—William Penn Lecture, Sun., Mar. 28 1965 (Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson; 1965)                   Quaker beliefs & practice; renew testimonies; Current Condition: complacent, basking in past glories. Recognize,            grasp new opportunities; be more fearless & loving in world as radical non-conformist. 9 Query.

360. Quaker Social Testimony in Personal & Corporate Life (by Jonathan Dale; 2002) Quaker testimonies; Liberal               Quakerism undermines testimony: Everything is spiritual question; politics, lifestyle part of testimony. More                   corporate lifestyle process; be loving, truthful, peaceful, centered on God, & others. 11 Queries.

403. Integrity, Ecology, & Community: Motion of Love (Jennie M. Ratcliffe; 2009) Testimony: simplicity; integrity &               reciprocity; community; ecology. Universe reflects on & celebrates itself through us. Integrate science, economics,              politics, technology with spiritual awareness, wisdom, & understanding. 16 Queries.

       Community Testimony I; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-community-testimony-i.html

Content:

37. Are Meetings Held in Life (Margaret M. Cary; 1946 (?)) Community; spirituality: individual worship contributions; meeting providing spiritual nurture. how shall one apportion time among home, meeting, & other activities? There might be joy, & holy exuberance, if we had daily contacts with Christ. 5 Queries.

See also 399. Matthew 18: Wisdom for Living in Community (by Martha P. Grundy & Connie M. Green; 2008); Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/bible-general-gospel.html

212. Place called community (by Parker J. Palmer; 1977) Quaker community (cmnty); popular image of cmnty; Attributes of False & True Cmnties: 2-column comparison; cmnty: breaks egos open to God. Commit to God, find Self drawn to cmnty; speak truth to power. Creation of cmnty both human & divine. 2 Queries.

297. Gospel Order: Quaker Understanding of Faithful Church Community (Sandra Lee Cronk; 1991) Church Community, early Quakers & gospel order; need for eldering now. Elders ministry developed to oversee gospel order & meeting's worship & spiritual life. What forms will ministry take today. 9 Queries.

328. Servant Church (by Ricardo Elford & Jim Corbett; 1996) Community, covenant; Church; Bible. Isaiah's "Servant passages"; use in Luke & Matthew; excerpts from these 3. Covenant people's concern: How to daily live faithfully under prophetic law. Jesus calls for revolution: voluntary service to needy. 11 Queries.

314. Spiritual Hospitality: Quaker Understanding of Outreach (Harvey Gillman; 1994) Community's hospitality for spiritual seekers. Spirituality: Self's relationship to other people; world; & beyond world. Nurturing, healing; rejoicing in cultural & language diversity; unfamiliar expressions of God's voice. 11 Queries.

427. Radical Hospitality (Lloyd Lee Wilson; 2014) Community; radical hospitality. Living in God’s Kingdom NOW; bring Kingdom’s fullness. Perfect Harmony; Consequentialist, Deontological, Virtue Ethics. Inclusiveness; Kenosis; Non-violence, Non-coercion; radical hospitality: everyone’s part of community. 6 queries

Community Testimony II: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-community-testimony-ii.html

Content:

261. Interconnections (by Elaine M. Prevallet; 1985) Community; others & God as good enablers. Technology: distancing from nature, loss of organic relatedness. White Americans: violence & ignorance in us. See networks, recognize Christ’s wounded, risen Body. Know God transforms wounds to wholeness. 3 Queries.

188. Hunger for Community: Experiential Education for Interpersonal Living (by J. Diedrick Snoek; ‘73) Quaker               community; wish to know & be known; body/ mind created, to function in small local community; speak directly,                   confront other with what aroused hostility, Honesty, directness best in invitations. 2 Queries.

461. Spiritual Gifts, Beloved Community, & Covenant (by Emily Provance; 2020) Community testimony; spiritual                 journal; Community Stewardship of Spiritual Gifts; spiritual journey began at 10 years old; God tells different                   people different things. I bring normalcy, continuity We are "angels" at God's feet. 25 queries.

10. Community & Worship (Douglas V. Steere; 1940) Worship communities; ministries in worship communities;                     working with God; letting God work. Meeting for worship: made open for planting of seed. 6 Queries.

149. Experiments in community: Ephrata (1732-1934); Amish (1727- ); Doukhobor (1899- ); Shakers (England, 1747; US, 1774- ); Bruderhof (Germany, 1920- ; US, 1954- ); Monteverde (1950- ) (Norman J. Whitney; 1966) Quaker Testimonies; Community, Intentional: examples of; history, statistics. 3 Queries.

218. ANOTHER WAY TO LIVE: experiencing intentional community (James S. Best; 1978) Quaker community (cmnty); intentional. Faith cmnty: sharing all things. American/ Canadian cmnties "guestimates." Common elements; Another way of life. Caring for each other, "religious," "secular" mix; isolation. 4 Queries.

Peace Testimony: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-peace-testimony.html
Content:

44. Quaker Doctrine of Inward Peace (Howard H. Brinton; 1948) Inner peace vs outward conflict; attainability; absence of peace next stage of growth; self-surrender, willingness to move about in service; guidance test; return to inwardness. Inner conflict only healed by Divine Power descending from on high. 1 query.

420. Waging Peace: Discipline & Practice (Pamela Haines; 2012) Peace testimony. Use boot camp methods to learning to wage peace. discipline of hope grief Listening; Challenging Separation Evil; Welcoming Conflict; Reclaiming Truth; Risking Internal Disarmament; Cultivating Courage; we must practice. 26 Queries.

378. Living in Virtue, Declaring Against War: Spiritual Roots of Peace Testimony (Steve Smith; 2005) Peace Testimony; remains radical challenge today. History; elements: mind’s judgment; conforming action. ”It asks no more [of me] than I am able to do. Rededicate Self to “love’s royal law.” 1 Query.

See also 372. Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard & Anna Brinton; 2004; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-biography-20th-century.html

27. Sources of Quaker Peace Testimony (Howard H. Brinton; 1945) testimony, peace; origins in primitive Christianity, NT, divine Spirit; dynamic intuition; "side-effect" of faithfulness; "active pacifism"; spiritual weapons, non- participation; meeting for worship. Drawing upon inner sources of Truth & Life. 1 query.

153. Mayer/Boulding dialogue on peace research (by Kenneth Boulding; 1967) Quaker testimony: Peace. Unexpected results from well-intentioned actions; Truth is opposite of lies & error; peace research: measure effectiveness of action?; Beginning or ending of human history? God's call to make, not ours. 16 Queries.

110. Covenant of Peace: personal witness (by Maurice Friedman; 1960) Peace testimony; hatred of Nazis vs. hatred of war; consequences of war; St. Francis & Dostoevsky; OT God not God of war, but of covenant of peace; real communication necessary; shadow of hydrogen bomb vs. cover of eternal wings. 6 Queries.

412. Answering Violence: Encounters with Perpetrators (by John Lampen; 2011) Peace testimony; reconciliation;               Northern Ireland (1983-94). History of Quaker & English reconciliation. Long-term residence, ministry of presence.            Results up to God; need to change within, before one tries to change others.” 5 Queries.

358. Reflections from Prayer Vigil for Peace (by John Andrew Gallery; 2001) Peace testimony; prayer vigil. Began               April 1999 each Sunday. Prepared to be fool for God? April Fools, 2001: whole hour alone; we're under                            surveillance to prevent full scale outbreak of world peace. I'm doing what God asks of me. 7 Queries.

       Simplicity Testimony: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/simplicity-other-quaker-testimonies.html
Content:

400. Finding Taproot of Simplicity: Movement Between Inner Knowledge, Outer Action (Frances Irene Taber; 2009) Simplicity testimony; taproot of. Changes: challenging understanding & expression of simplicity. Simplicity can become window to reality, clarifier for murky places, opener of blind eyes. 7 Queries.

See also Poverty; Web address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/poverty-racism.html

3. Voluntary Simplicity's Value (Richard B. Gregg; 1936) Simplicity, mechanization; economics; personality, possessions; mental health. Simplicity must have more social purpose; need for it remains. 6 Queries.

189. Simplicity: Rich Quaker’s View (by George Terhune Peck; 1973) Quaker Testimony, Simplicity; conduct, conversation; using, possessing; integrity in living. Money: How we spend money important. In God's presence, one gradually outgrows worldly regard & considerations. Honest, plain direct speech. 23 Queries.

244. Reflections on Simplicity (by Elaine M. Prevalet; 1982) Testimony: simplicity; eludes our grasp; life complicated; we can never be secure. Society is home to greedy, restless spirit. Take matter to Center where God’s direction is available. We will be guided in process of letting ourselves be made simple. 9 Queries.

231. Quaker testimonies, economic alternatives (by Severyn Ten Haut Bruyn; 1980) Quaker Testimonies: Simplicity; Stewardship; Non-Violent Economy. business life consistent with beliefs; examples of employees in management. Apply eternal principles to world; live lives independent of corporate state. 4 Queries.

Other Testimonies: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/simplicity-other-quaker-testimonies.html
Content:

259. Stewardship of Wealth (Kingdon W Swayne; 1985) Testimonies; Stewardship, personal, thoughtful. SHAKERTOWN PLEDGE; 4 Quaker life-styles: Considerations guiding purchases? annual income? career choices limiting income? Conflicts between family needs & the larger society resolved how? 16 Queries.

94. Loyalty Oath: extorting love essay (Hallock B. Hoffman; 1957) Quaker testimony; loyalty oaths: swearing: makes men liars; "special time" for truth; guilt presumed in refusing; endorses totalitarianism; doesn't satisfy those wanting them; denial of 1st & 5th Amendments; silences advocates of change. 1 Query.

296. Testimony of Integrity in Religious Society of Friends (by Wilmer A. Cooper; 1991) Other Testimonies, Integrity. George Fox & integrity; committed to “acting truth” in daily lives: careful with time, honest, truthful, unadorned. Recover Integrity Testimony: responsibility, accountable to one another. 3 Queries.

95. Inner liberty: stubborn grit in machine (Peter Vierck; 1957) Integrity; non-conformity of artists, writers; unadjusted imagination: innovator; unriddling inner universe: being unadjusted to outer mechanization; over-adjusted pretends to be unadjusted; over-adjusted society eliminates diversity & creativity. 2 Queries.

313. Friends & Alcohol: Recovering Forgotten testimony (by Robert Levering; 1994) Other Testimonies; Alcohol;                 history, current. Strong concern for more than 300 years, some don't read "alcohol abstinence" queries." If                         accused of being Quaker, enough evidence to convict you? Be tender to addicts. 7 Queries.

Ministry I: Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-ministry-i.html
       Content:
271. Practicing Compassion for Strangers (by Nancy C. Alexander; 1987) Ministry; compassion; strangers. Practicing            compassion: overcoming fear, separateness; willing to give, receive from stranger. Community enables us to                 deal  with individual, collective strangers. Deepened faith empowers us to know God. 11 Query

87. A shelter from compassion (by Ruth E. Durr; 1956) Ministry; compassion; showing it in difficult situation; compassion for mad woman on Chestnut St.; cruelty through ignorance; arms-length compassion; suffering as natural consequence of transgression; joining with God's concern for others. 1 Query.

458. Building Bridges: 4 Stories from Bible (Elizabeth O'Sullivan; 2019) Ministry; bridges to: spiritual home; God & Spirit; our “enemies”; social outcast. Israelites crossing into Promised Land; God building: transforming bridges; love & mercy bridge; bridges to people who need it most; Go Out, Build. 17 Queries.

182. Speaking out of silence: vocal ministry in unprogrammed meeting for worship (by Douglas V. Steere; 1972) Quaker Beliefs & Practices; Meeting for Worship; vocal ministry; faith: silent waiting: yearning communication, continually operative; God yearns to be. wait for Guide permission to give message. 2 Queries.

460. Vocal Ministry: Nurturing Community through Listening & Faithfulness (Barry Crossno & J. Brent Bill; 2019) Ministry; Vocal; worship used for politics; lecture; announcements; not vocal ministry; quieting mind to hear Holy Spirit, find clarity; vocal ministry references principles; Harmful speaking. 37 Queries.

II; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-ministry-ii.html

Content:

54. Prophetic Ministry (Dudleian Lecture at Harvard; April 26, 1949; Howard Brinton; 1950) Quaker prophetic ministry; early Quaker prophecy; 1700s shift: prophecy to "priest" (conservator); 3 Friends bodies: prophecy &: secularism; Christianity; inward inspiration & outward authority. 2 queries.

256. Prophetic Stream (William Taber; 1984) Quakers; ministry. Early Friends' believed in living stream of prophets from Abraham & Moses, Jesus & apostles; evolution of prophets. Being 1 can be caught, maybe taught; prophecy is with God, maker of prophets. God’s wisdom; truth; door; light's covenant. 14 Queries.

279. The Apocalyptic Witness: A Radical Calling for our own Times (by William R. Durland; 1988) Ministry;                     Prophetic, Apocalyptic; history; Lamb's War. Spirit's & truth's Message; dynamic, power; radical call to faith,                      witness. Divine message of imminent end; God called us to be apocalyptic witnesses. 3 Queries.

342. Beyond Bars: Quaker Primer for Prison Visitors (by Keith R. Maddock; 1999) Ministry; prison ministry. Early                 Quakers imprisoned inhumanely. Meeting for Sufferings tended to needs. Alternatives to Violence Project; Violent               acts are from violent history. Grace from 2 people’s empathy reciprocal. 4 Queries.

408. Art of Small Resurrections: Surviving Texas Death Chamber (Walter Long; 2010) Ministry; Prison; Death row.              Church’s following pragmatic advice & violent sacred story blurred Jesus’ message. Compassion speaks to                     violence in all on dignity’s behalf. Jesus’ “perfect love” “drives out” fear in violence. 12 Queries.

470. Friending Rosie on Death Row (by Judith Favor with Rosie Alfaro; 2021) Ministry; Prison; Death row. 20-year friendship between Rosie and Judith, Judith's spiritual journey; Rosie's testimony and questions; weeping; en Chisto; listening ; waiting. Coronavirus Behind Bars; Rosie's Serenity Prayer. 36 Queries

See also 322. Nonviolence & Community: Reflections on Alternatives to Violence Project (Newton Garver & Eric Reitan; 1995)
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/nonviolence.html Summary 9/11

345. More than Equals: Spiritual Friendships (by Trish Roberts; 1999) Ministry: Spiritual nurture; friendship. Spiritual friendships: talking about one's faith life, insights, & discoveries. Friend's presence can be God’s face. Sharing equal access to God's love, Presence; opens us up to radical change. 22 Queries.

363. Profession & Practice: Quaker Perspectives on Healing as Ministry (Maureen Flannery; 2002) Ministry; faith healing, preaching. Early Friends considered healing & preaching ministry. Spiritual gift, not job. Types of Recorded healings; Midwife profession: authority, empathy & service; wisdom, sharing. 27 Queries.

Mental Health Ministry I: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/mental-health-ministry-i.html

       Content:
344. Dancing with God through Storm: Mysticism & Mental Illness (by Jennifer Elam; 1999) Mental illness &                   mysticism; accompanying someone in illness. 9 personal examples of being called to God’s presence Mysticism &           mental illness made of many similar experiences. Prayer is the basic dance step. 9 Queries.

82. Religion & Mental Illness (Carol R. Murphy; 1955) Religion & Mental Illness; "normal" vs. psychotic; schizophrenic          response to relationships; "feedback" of reality & perceptions; religion's role: remedial love; healing relationship:              reflective listening therapist sees own sickness, ignorance; self-alienation. 7 Queries.

67. Counseling Ministry (Carol R. Murphy; 1952) counseling ministry; religion & psychotherapy; religious                               transformation; psychotherapy's contribution: inner personality; non-directive therapy; internal frame of reference;            trusting; reorganizing self-perception; agape guiding perception; accept limitations. 10 Queries.

104. Psychoanalysis & Religious Mysticism (by David C. McClelland; 1959) mental health; mysticism &                                psychoanalysis (psyan); psyan is social movement, & like a religious movement; Freudian psyan & Jewish                        Hasidic mysticism: anti-orthodoxy; inner self healed by forces beyond ones knowledge. 10 Queries.

111. Psychotherapy Based on Human Longing (Robert C. Murphy; 1960) Mental health; psychotherapy (psythy);               longing to relate, comprehend, love "beyond"; longing for health; listening essential; therapist focuses on patient's             longing; patient offers old beliefs; therapist waits for patient's self-revelation. 2 Queries.

394. God’s Healing Grace: Reflections on Journey with Mental & Spiritual Illness (Mariellen Gilpin; 2008) Mental               health; spiritual illness; struggle to distinguish God voice from self-interest. Demons: spiritual reality; prayer                   sometimes caused hallucination; honor negative spirits for showing growing points. 4 Queries.

II.: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/mental-health-ministry-ii.html

Content:

327. Depression & Spiritual Growth (by Dimitri Mihalas; 1996) Mental health ministry; deep depression to spiritual growth. Suicide: tragedy only if successful. Broken places: places where Grace, & Light, & Life can penetrate souls. Learned a lot; happier, with more to offer; touched by Grace. 7 Queries.

211. Seeking Light in Darkness of Unconscious (John Yungblut; 1977) Quakers; mysticism; Psychology; Jung; Bible’s darkness: ignorance, sin, unformed void. Burghölzli dealt with man, his anima, woman, her animus. Response to unformed void: quest for light in darkness; light one seeks is brighter. 3 Queries.

230. Life of spirit in women: Jungian approach (Helen M. Luke; 1980) Psychology & Spirit; Women. Fire image related to spirit; mind's spark of fire. Woman must recognize, value dominant feminine nature; can't bear fruit if unconsciously imitating men. Self-knowledge needs courage, honesty, perseverance. 2 Queries.

210. Psychology of fairy tale (by David L. Hart; 1977) Quakers & Science; psychology; symbols of Self in fairy tale. “Ferdinand the Faithful & Ferdinand the Unfaithful”; Cast & Objects of Fairy Tale; what they symbolize. Transformation to equality & freedom, where evil & distortion have been overcome. 1 Query.

24. We are Accountable: A View of Mental Institutions (by Leonard Edelstein; 1945) mental institution: evils & roots; staff; commitment process: legal & non-legal; evaluation, release of healthy patients; society: influence and assumptions; Civilian Public Service (CPS), service in mental institutions. 6 Queries.

102. From one to another (by Norma Jacob; 1959) mental illness ministry; early Quaker treatment; condition illness, not possession; York Retreat & Friends' Asylum: National Association for Mental Health; Academy of Religion & Mental Health; offering activities to patients; returning to society: foster homes. 3 Queries.

Reconciliation: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/reconciliation.html

Content:

323. Experiment in Faith: Quaker Women Transcending Differences (Margery Post Abbott; 1995) Building Community, Reconciliation. Group of Evangelical & Liberal women. Centrality of prayer, stillness in worship; prayer brings awareness of God's presence. Speaking to each other before God, essential. 17 Queries.

198. Re-conciliation: hidden hyphen (Mary Chase Morrison; 1974) Reconciliation; Re-Conciliation, conciliation again, during relationship disaster; listen to one's insides; speak it forth; live with many selves until they become 1. Be reconciled: to selves, toward life; to other individuals, groups, races, & earth. 11 Queries.

442. Meeting at the Center: Living Love and Reconciling One with Another (by Bruce Birchard; 2016) Reconciliation; Social activism;. Bearing witness, confronting evil, assisting victims, bringing change [e.g.]; Lessons Learned; within the Quaker Family; Forgiveness Burundi; Meeting at the Center 14 Queries.

131. Dilemmas of Reconciler: Serving East-West Conflict (Richard K. Ullmann; 1963) Quaker reconciliation; social & international relationships. Individuals: exponents of groups & power systems; no one "impartial." Reconciler must remain "God's partisan," surrounded by worldliness, sustained by faith. 3 Queries.

228. With thine adversary in way: Quaker witness for reconciliation (Margarethe Lachmund; 1979) Quaker reconciliation; Germany; Margarethe Lachmund (1896-1985). Reach out in spirit of trust, holding fast to truth; approach honestly, naturally, without aggression or fear. Quiet non-aggressive persistence. 2 Queries.

321. No Royal Road to Reconciliation (by Gene Knudsen-Hoffman; 1995) Reconciliation; violated & violators healed; 10 Thich Nhat Hahn Sayings. Americans asked forgiveness "There is nothing to forgive. We were part of war." Israelis & West Bank. Way we respond to suffering determines world's future. 18 Queries.

Quaker Education: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-education.html
Content:

278. Education & Inward Teacher (by Paul A. Lacey; 1988) Mysticism; Inward Teacher; schools &. If truth makes us free, liberators are teachers; see God as Teacher. Triple communion: maker & needer within; maker & needer without; human & divine; reaching communion, with Self, other people, God within. 15 Queries.

9. Quaker Education: Theory & Practice (Howard H. Brinton; 1940 ['67 reprint]) Educational Aims; doctrine: Inward light; Community, sex, race equality, simplicity; history; elementary, academy, secondary; college/adult; religious; teachers; levels vary in method; non-violence; rightness; practical subjects. 10 Queries.

168. MODERN PROMETHEAN: dialogue with today’s youth (by Maurice S. Friedman; 1969) Education & Youth; dialog; drug-cult; finding own ground; nonviolence, no dialog, love; recognizing God-dependence; standing firm in ones created freedom; gropings & contradictions may produce new image of man. 1 Query.

126. Readiness for religion (by Harold Loukes; 1963) Religious education; child grasps reality own way; don't share adult view of truth. Lessons taught; balance authority & freedom; religious awareness; waiting childhood spirit; learn by observing; parents show God's love: loving children & 1 another; 16 Queries.

225. Peculiar Mission of Quaker School (Douglas H. Heath; 1979) Quaker School; mission. Empower to live fully in Truth; educate for goodness; live lives revealing Truth to Self & others. Teachers' model to students; assist students to listen more carefully, reduce fear of learning from each other; nurture strengths. 19 Query.

164. Why a Friends School (Douglas H. Heath; 1969) Quaker Friends Schools; secularizing; values homogenized; preoccupied with "worldly" values. Quaker presence, is less in Friends school; deeply reflective experience, Self & values, to develop vision of what needs doing & what living can be like. 18 Queries.

55. Pendle Hill Idea (Howard Haines Brinton; 1950) Pendle Hill (PH); community as teaching instrument; 3 arts: divine; liberal; & useful; 4th art: spiritual inspiration; PH: small, family-like, integrated community; Curriculum of 4 arts; characteristics; integrating idea: Community; harmony; equality; simplicity.

223. Roots of Pendle Hill (by Carol R. Murphy; 1979) History; Pendle Hill (PH), roots of. PH setting: place & people. Pre-history: Woolman School 1915; PH founding September (1930); 1st PH Director: Henry Hodgkin (1877-1933). offered to others working together to serve world; enrichment of life; 1 Query.

464. Pendle Hill (PH), Place to Be & Become: Reflections on 1st 90 Years (Doug Gwyn; 2020) Quaker education; Pendle Hill; building & grounds, beech & elm trees; Main House; Barn; Upmeads; Waysmeet; Firbank; Chace; Cadbury Court; Brinton House; Perimeter Path; Owen's Garden; New House; PH Timeline.

190. Memories, Meditations of Workcamper (by David S. Richie; 1973) Youth education (edu); social activism; author's social activism edu. Workcamp origins: Pierre Ceresole, Europe, 1921. 1st American summer workcamp, AFSC, PA, 1934; being exposed to God’s love; share in building City. 3 Queries.

141. Journal of College Student (Joseph Havens; 1965) College students; Writing; composite Journal; focus on Gospel's existential core; cosmic, frame for "crucifying" certain urges; results in "freeing." Sowing seeds parable: media, "social obligations" will be parable's greedy birds, shallow topsoil, & thorns. 11 Queries.

Quaker History: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-history.html

Content:
41. Studies in Christian Enthusiasm: Illustrated from Early Quakerism (Geoffrey F. Nuttall; 1948) Quaker enthusiasm, 1652-56: imprisoned for; excess; Quakers' vs. Ranters'; didactic; emotional; spiritual. 1st 70 missionaries; Margaret Fell: correspondence & hospitality; opposition to enthusiasm; testimonies. 2 Queries.

114. How They Became Friends (by Howard Haines Brinton; 1961) Quaker history; small, silent meetings, with only 3 or 4 attenders, totally silent; The 1st Publishers of Truth; George Fox devised church government; follow inner leading; bring harmony to Life-springs deep within & affairs of outward life. 4 Queries.

71. Let Lives Speak (Elfrida Vipont Foulds; 1953) Quaker history; origins; accepting 1652 Challenges of: Obedience; Vision/Recognition; Swarthmoor Hall; Outgoing Spirit/Friendship; Strength; Steadfastness/Sowing; Joy; George Fox's Pendle Hill vision; Firbank Fell; Margaret & Thomas Fell; Robert Widders. 3 Queries.

34. Quakers' Contributions (Elizabeth Janet Gray; 1947 (Great Britain Copyright 1939)) History; American contributions: migration; Quaker testimonies; to democracy; Penn's treatment & later treatment of Indians; freeing slaves; prison reform; women's rights; care of insane; education; arts; US peace testimony. 2 Queries.

196. Women and Quakerism (by Hope Elizabeth Luder; 1974) History; Quaker women; George Fox conscious of women's potential. [Eve’s status is that existing before Fall]; women praying, prophesying, helping. Quaker organization: people as individuals, not in [gender] roles. Every position open to women. 2 Queries.

227. Woman Ministers: Quaker Contribution (Robert J. Leach; 1979) Quaker ministry; women; history. Margaret Fell (1614-1702); Elizabeth Hooton (1600-72); Mary Fisher (1623-98); Anna Brinton (1887-1969); Jane Palen Rushmore (1864-1958); Elise Boulding (1920-2010); Ermine Huntress Lantero.

185. Meeting House & Farm House (by Howard H. Brinton; 1972) History; Quaker practices, rural; Country Friends: more individualistic & unconventional than city Friends; examined others' conduct more closely; Designating ministers & elders declined by 20th century; early rural Quakers: following Jesus’ teachings.

Quaker Biography 17th-19th century: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-biography-17th-19th-century.html

Content:

166. Atonement of George Fox (by Emilia Fogelklou; 1969) Biography; George Fox; Quakerism's social & spiritual development; I contact with greater self, then Thou of community; Fox & Nayler traveled together in ministry; estranged after Nayler's procession into Bristol; reconciled before Nayler's death. 1 Query..

206. Margaret Fell speaking (by Hugh Barbour; 1976) Biography; Margaret Fell (1614-1702); brief biography. Auto- biography: birth; marriage to, family & life with Judge Thomas Fell. “what thou speakest, is it inwardly from God?” Epistle against Uniform Quaker Costume (written at 86 year old) 4 Queries.

96. John Woolman & 20th century (Reginald Reynolds; 1958) John Woolman, relevance of; piety by example; inner peace; Woolman, slavery; weak arguments supported unreasonable cause; advocates worked "almost alone". Woolman inspired reading of writing; seek Woolman's sources, answer hatred & fear. 4 Queries.

187. Divine Witness of John Woolman (Phillips P. Moulton; 1973) John Woolman; beliefs & ethics; love neighbors as ourselves, guarantee “all liberties” for all. Kept clear from "war things"; one’s insight into moral, spiritual reality linked to ethical life's quality; considered self steward of capacities he had. 2 Queries.

177. Woolman & Blake: Prophets for Today (Mildred Binns Young; 1971) Quaker; 16th century prophet; John Woolman & William Blake: Lives overlapped 15 years; likely never met; bring same human reflections; spoke to own time, which didn’t listen; they ennobled poverty by their conversation. 4 Queries.

294. Women of Power & Presence: Spiritual Formation of 4 Quaker Women Ministers (Maureen Graham; 1990) Biography: Rebecca Jones 1739-1817; Rachel Hicks 1789-1878; Elizabeth Gurney Fry 1780-1845; Lucretia Mott 1793-1880. Find Truth in experience, act with power, walk humbly with God. 4 Query.

170. Edward Hicks: Primitive Quaker (His Religion in Relation to his Art) (Eleanore P. Mather; 1970) Biography, Quaker artist; Edward Hicks (1780-1849): preacher, minister, committee member; custodian; commercial & Biblical artist. Painted 62 "Peaceable Kingdom," 1820-49; highly symbolic. 1 Query.

238. Lawrie Tatum (1822-1900), Indian Agent: Quaker Values & Hard Choices (Robert Hixson; 1981) Quaker Biography; Indian Agent, 47 year-old Iowa farmer. Kiowas & Comanches history. Sincere, deeply religious, practical man had 1 answer. "I thought it was right—& therefore the thing to do." 5 Queries.

20th Century: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-biography-20th-century.html

Content:

146. Wit & wisdom of William Bacon Evans [1875-1964] (Anna Cox Brinton; 1966) Biography; William Bacon Evans; wrote Dictionary of Quaker Biography at Haverford College Library; in 1960's dressed, spoke as 18th century Quaker. He could pass through barriers others couldn't; & take others with him.

229. Henry Hodgkin, road to Pendle Hill (John Ormerod Greenwood; 1980) Quaker biography; Henry Hodgkin (1877- 1933). 1914, founded & chaired Fellowship of Reconciliation. Missionary work in China; Pendle Hill's 1st director: "One must find truth, examine actions, deduce what one's religion is; find religion by which we ought to live. "Gave us: Monday night Lectures; 3 classes per term; planted seed. 3 Queries.

467. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944): Scientific Genius, Philosopher, & Quaker Mystic (Donald Vesey; 2021) Quaker Biography; 20th Century. Scientist & a man of spirit international collaborating among scientists; lifelong friendship with Albert Einstein. Consciousness: more real than the "seemingly" concrete.

376. Henry Cadbury: Scholar, Activist, Disciple (Margaret Hope Bacon; 2005) Quaker biography; Henry Cadbury (1883-1974). Gospel message translated to action; expressing religious impulse. “be more earnest, content about things we do, even what seems irrelevant”; see divine in life’s ordinary challenges. 2 Queries.

176. Anna Brinton: A Study in Quaker Character (by Eleanore Price Mather; 1971) Biography; Quaker; Anna Brinton (1887-1969) Youth & Aunt Kate: childhood in San Jose; college: Leland Standford Univ.; Aunt Kate's influence; relief work in Silesia. Pendle Hill (PH), 1936-1952: Director of Administration; Tokyo: relief centers; AFSC Commissioner for Asia, & Director of International Relations.

372. Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard & Anna Brinton (by Anthony Manousos; 2004) Quaker biography; Howard [H] (1884-1973) & Anna [A] Brinton (1887-1969); living Peace Testimony; AFSC work; peace education work at PH 1936-1952; ecumenical work in Asia. Quaker Peace Testimony: key element in their lives; meeting challenges of nationalism, totalitarianism, global war. 1 Query.

243. Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker (by Rose Adede; 1982) Quaker biography: Joel Litu (1890-1977); Africa. Translating New Testament into Luragoli. Prominent in establishing East Africa Yearly Meeting; 1st presiding clerk, 1946. Court Tribunal of village elders; toward establishment & growth of Quakers in Kenya.

284. Thomas Kelly as I Remember Him (T. Canby Jones; 1988) Quaker biography; Thomas Kelly (1893-1941). Tom Kelly: fully radiant Child of Light; sought 2nd Ph. D. degree. 1934 nervous breakdown. 1937, life-changing spiritual event. Is Eternal Life, Love breaking through into our lives? 12 Queries.

401. 3 Ravens & 2 Widows: Perspective on Controversy among Friends (Richard Macy Kelly; 2009) Quaker Biography; Lael Macy Kelly, Thomas Kelly; extended family; Controversy. Brief history of colonial Quakers & author’s ancestors. 2 widows: author's grandmother Madora Kersey & mother, Lael Macy Kelly. 6 Queries.

393. Rebecca J. Timbres Clark: Turned in God’s Hand (Lyndon S. Back; 2007) Quaker biography; Rebecca J. Timbres Clark (1896-2000). As nurse, wife, & widow in Russia, lived creative tension between Utopia & daily [reality], earnest devotion & joyful abandon, adventure & longing for normal life. 7 Queries.

Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) See Religion & Art; Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-religion-art.html

232. Life journey of Quaker artist (Dorothea Johnson Blom; 1980) Quaker; Autobiography; Artist; Dorothea Blom (1911-1991). 3 life periods; closed inner little girl out; healed & became a growing point. Infant soul: incorruptible innocence always present in life journey; Art at best: continuing revelation. 2 Queries.

417. John Yungblut: Passing the Mystical Torch (by Charles C. Finn; 2012) Quaker biography; John Yungblut (1913- 1995). Gospel of evolutionary Christianity; wonder of being link in great chain of mystical succession in universe’s evolution of consciousness. 8 Queries.

Quaker Writing 17th century: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-writing-17th-century.html

Content:

398. Messenger that Goes Before: Reading Margaret Fell for Spiritual Nurture (Michael Birkel; 2008) Quaker writing; Margaret Fell (1614-1702); letters; background & interpretation. Bible thou must read within; discernment, clearness as to what’s of God. Pay attention to God’s work, God within. 9 Queries.

29. Inward Journey: Isaac Penington (Robert Leach, ed.; 1944) Writing (excerpts), Issac Penington (1616-69); "spring of life": God's acts & attributes; faith: Seed; doctrine; Yoke; worship; testimonies 18 Queries.

413. James Nayler Speaking (Brian Drayton; 2011) Quaker writing; James Nayler (1618-60); current applications; biography. Quotes. Key Ideas: seed originates from God; total commitment. Soul’s Progress; Lamb’s War; Knowledge of Christ. “If Christ [not] nearer [than] Jerusalem, [I’ll] have no benefit.” 16 Queries.

167. William Penn: mystic as reflected in writing (Elizabeth Gray Vining; 1969) Quaker writing; William Penn (1644- 1718); mystic; mystical, experimental knowledge of God, Christ; thinking about lawful things unseasonably, carelessly, or excessively; Love: hardest lesson in Christianity; important we learn it. 3 Queries.

30. William Penn (1644-1718): No Cross, No Crown (Abridged by Anna Brinton; 1945) Writing [summary of                       summary]: defection of Christendom; Remedy: hearken to God's Light; Cross; self-denial; unlawful self;                          Worship: preparation; God's thorough assessment; baptism; faith; encouraging a neighbor's folly. 9 Queries.

204. William Penn, 17th century founding father: selections from political writings (ed. Edwin Bronner; 1975)                 William Penn (1644-1718); writing; political; Penn’s concern for justice, treaty fairness, education; Essay toward               Peace of Europe: PA’s 1st Frame of Government; Union of Colonies plan (1696). 5 Queries.

28. Barclay in Brief (Eleanore Price Mather, editor; 1945) Writing [summary of summary]: Robert Barclay (1648-90)             Quaker theology: immediate revelation; scripture; Fall; mental faculties; group worship; ministry; prayer/song;                sacraments; testimonies [against]: customs, past times; war; liberty of conscience. 3 Queries.

18th-19th century writing: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-writing-18th-20th-century.html

Content:

51. Worship (John Woolman; edited 1950) Worship; John Woolman's (1720-72) writing; outward distress; human               wants bounded by Wisdom; God: removes obstacles; replaces worldly wisdom; Woolman vision; Holy Spirit              directing prayer; speak no more than Spirit of Truth provides; "deep answers to deep"; 5 Queries.

312. Motion of Love: Woolman as Mystic & Activist (Sterling Olmsted; 1993) John Woolman (1720-72); Writings of;               queries on, dialogue with. He offers detailed, continuing record: inner motions, outer actions which connects with              experience; his mysticism like ours. Appendix [examples of journaling]. 15 Queries.

357. Plea for Poor by John Woolman (PH publications committee; 2001) Quaker writing: Woolman (1720-72); poor.               Woolman’s concerns: too successful business; striving for social justice. Selfish men’s large possessions: too few               people employed in useful things. Rich men must cease craving. A heavy account lies against us as a civil                     society  for oppressions against a people who didn't injure us. 10 Queries.

234. Lucretia Mott Speaking: (compiled by Mary Hope Bacon; 1980) Quaker writings; Lucretia Mott (1793-1880). Spoke only as spirit moved, never wrote speech or sermon; Wrote on: Slavery; Women; Native Americans; Justice; Peace, Non-Violence; Inward Teacher; Religious Liberty; Prayer. 5 Queries.

122. Civil War Diary of Cyrus Pringle (Foreword by Henry Cadbury; 1962) Quaker writing; journal, Cyrus Pringle (1838-1911); conscientious objector (CO), Civil War; Lincoln's reaction; drafted 7/13/1863; Brattleboro, VT 8/26: apprehensions of difficulties. 11/5 President ordered release of CO's. 4 Queries.

20th-century: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-writing-18th-20th-century.html

Content:

33. Quaker Anecdotes (Irvin C. Poley, Ruth V. Poley; 1947) Writings: Quaker anecdotes; cautious statements; following light [inspite of opposition]; early Quaker wit & retorts; minor testimonies; education. 3 Queries.

242. Journal & Journey (Mary C. Morrison; 1982) Writing: Journal excerpts; Mary C. Morrison (1910-2003). Journals: inward search, growth; make good on promises made to life, & Self. "Unexamined life not worth living." Journal, journey, shapes life, creates world. Our task: life work we were sent to do. Dreams. Paradox teaches us that opposing truths shouldn’t destroy each other, but supplement & fulfill. 10 Queries.

127. Thou dost open up my life; selections from Rufus Jones. (Ed. Mary H. Jones; 1963) Writings, Rufus Jones (1936-1990) inspirations from Scripture; 1,000 selves, which one expressed; self as soil, God: farmer, rain & dew. Mary, Martha fused complete life; confidence in things' eternal nature & goodness. 11 Queries.

18. Anthology & Comments (Elizabeth Gray Vining (1902-99); 1942) Anthology; inspirational writing.

About Writing: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-writing-about-writing-poetry.html

Content:

79. A Sense of Living (Mildred Tonge; 1954) Writing (method); Spirituality; experience; writing group; writing can lead to world vision; restraining critic, accepting own work leads to maturity; exercise one's seeing a new way; don't do stereotypical subjects; writing is divine act of creation. 1 Query.

354. Live Questions: Write into Answers (Mary C. Morrison & Barbara E. Parsons; 2001) Teaching Writing; Journal- writing. Early seekers' journal: Julian of Norwich; Teresa of Avila; George Fox; John Woolman; Howard Brinton; Burghild Holzer. Journals work through experience; explore questions confronting us daily. [For sake of inner life, needs to write down happenings; sort through] for what to keep. 36 Queries.

Poetry: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-writing-about-writing-poetry.html
Content:

202. Quakers poets: past & present (by Mary Hoxie Jones; 1975) Poetry; history; Quakers: poetry is tool, not valuable in itself. Poetic & worship experience both from Kingdom of Eternity. Values of Art & Religion can’t be separated without loss; rejecting beauty, one of God’s true gifts, did no good. Poet list. 4 Queries.

77. Poets Walk in (Anna Pettit Broomell; 1954) Quakerism & art; poetry group; 1st reading others, then own poetry. Poem e.g.: In July; Fields at Day-break; 3 poems on sleep; A Night of Rain; [The Group]; " We Walked in Winter"; Old Wounds; "Proud Singing of Dark"; Road to Where; Seed & Thorn; No Galetea.

130. Poetry among Friends (Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert; 1963) Quaker poetry; worship & poetry; experiencing perfection;              poem no better than best reader. Writing Poetry: way of life, sounding joy; poet sees own though revealed in                     nature; brings bowls of beauty & quiet; intimation of cosmic bliss in [humans] & stars. 3 Query.

246. Quest there is (Elizabeth Gray Vining; 1982) Spiritual seeking, journey, seeking; poetry. A quest ... end is single               secret spoken; search & purpose. That is all you need to know. Thomas Traherne; Kanjiro Kawai; St. Benno;                   Rabindranath Tagore; Chesterton; Young widows; Anonymous monk; George Herbert. 1 Query.

337. There is a Spirit: The Nayler Sonnets (by Kenneth Boulding; 1998) Quaker writing; Poetry; Kenneth Boulding;               sonnets inspired by Nayler passage spoken by him about 2 hours before his death. The burning one-ness                        binding everything. Sonnets II-VIII.; sonnets IX-XXVI. 35 Queries.

See also 310. Findings: Poets & Crisis of Faith (John Lampen; 1993); Web Address:
https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/alternative-theology.html

Quaker Religion and Art I: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-religion-art-i.html
Content:

468. God's Invitation to Creative Play (by Jesse White; 2021) Religion & Art; Creativity. Life-experiences in creative play; childlike approach to God & art. Adult learning obstacle to creativity. Listen to children Common Creative Fears—Essential Ingredients for Creativity. Return. Create. Play. 16 Queries.

217. Wholesight: Spirit Quest (Frederick Parker-Rhodes; 1978) Religion & Art: Truth in Myth; Wholesight: Truth, coherence found in religion, science, art, & politics combined. Truths of: Phoenix & Egg; Stairs of Bethel; Sky & Tree; Feast & Empty Palace; Thesus; Prometheus; Holy Grail/ Wholeness. 4 Queries.

452. Art: Soul's Sanctuary: Meditations on Arts & Spirituality among Quakers & Beyond (Jennifer Elam; 2018) Religion & Art. Anyone can practice Art & Spirituality; that is prayer. Art &: making leading; Facilitating others’ openings; ministry; justice; universe making love, new life; you are invited to [create] 6 Queries.

215. Art, Imagery, & Mythic Process (Dorothea Blom; 1977) Quaker religion, art, growth; Myth, has reality; fusion of history, parable, event. Art & Myth around world; ideal mandala suggests many selves Visual artists: myth- makers discover life lines between inner & outer world; help us take part in continuing creation.

128. Encounters with Art (Dorothea Johnson Blom; 1963) Religion, Art: same world; transforming, spirit-language,                 healing, leavening community. Great Art: visual, fresh, unique life-encounter; Artists: spiritual relatives. Modern Art:           repels, disturbs; needs 4-D image of man. Neglected, uneducated Self rebels. 10 Queries.

148. Prophetic Element in Modern Art (Dorothea Blom; 1966) Quakerism & Art; art indicates change in relation to                 reality; harder to recognize; language of art, fact; & truth; Goya; Blake; Manet; Cézanne; Van Gogh; Dadaism;                   Surrealism; Expressionism; Einstein; humankind lashes out in painful adolescence. 1 Query.

197. Art responds to Bible (Dorothea Johnson Blom; 1974) Quaker & Art; Bible & Art: Quakers found nothing in most               art to equal deep inner experience. Art offers new relation to & views of Bible. Cross: Plains Indians; Egyptian;                   Celtic. Artists share experience; each viewer of art refinishes it. 1 Query.

183. Art & changing world: uncommonsense in 20th century (Dorothea Blom; 1972) Quakers Science & Art; outer world affects inner, which affects outer. Science, art, & religion forming 1 fabric. History of Science's & Art's development; participate in world being born, whether or not it arrives safely. 1 Query.

II.; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-religion-art.html

Content:
68. Art & Faith (by Fritz Eichenberg; 1952) Quakerism & art; origin & decline of the arts; patrons of arts: State; Church; Industry; Art &: worship; mystery; art as reflection of life; artist's role in society. 4 queries

257. Artist on witness stand (Fritz Eichenberg; 1984) Art; autobiography; influential figures. Creativity: dormant in every mind; needs nourishment & care. Gifts will at least reach those closest to us. may be most valuable asset. Academy of Graphic Arts; Influence of Lao-Tsu, Zen, Edward Hicks' Peaceable Kingdoms. Each blessed with different gifts, witnesses ready to be counted; listening to immortal voice. 3 Queries.

353. Letting That Go, Keeping This: Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg (Philip Harnden; 2000) Art & Religion: Fritz Eichenberg (1901-90); biography. Description of 1st Illustration: Riddle of Peaceable Kingdom, 1977. Germany to US, 1933. From spiritual directors, drew inspiration, nourishment. 3 Queries.

162. Black City Stage (by Jack Shepherd; 1968) 2 Quaker & Arts; Theater; North Central Philadelphia; 20 young black high school students & 1 strange Englishman. Everyman play; Time to Go Joe; Street Scene by Night; killing a character; victim chosen by chance; Family Tree: "Who am I?" Acceptance. 2 Queries.

180. Apocalypso: revelations in theater (Jack Shepherd; 1971) Theater; Apocalypso Repertory, 1970; found [musical] entertainment, story, improvisation, & revelation; did 3 Greek plays in contemporary setting; audience participated: The Gods Out at Elbow; Help & Holy Physic; Fire & Fleet & Candlelight: 6 Queries.

Quakers Worldwide
General/ Europe: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quakers-worldwide-general-europe.html
Content:

38. Wide Horizon (Anna Cox Brinton; 1947) Relationships at distance; US viewed from distance; view from distance reveals inadequacies; imagining horizon; developing gifts; visits between Friends 12 queries

84. From Where They Sit (Dorothy H. Hutchinson; 1955) Quakers worldwide; friendship journey; inter-racial team; foreign interest in US problems; some modernization in poor countries causes unrest; Communism appeals to dissatisfied poor; much more for arms than economic aid; world community. 6 Queries.

75. Puerto Rican Neighbor (by Roy Schuckman; 1954) Quakers Worldwide; life in a barrio village; work; father; children; "Americans are coming; hospitality; community education program; sell 1,000 bananas for $2.50; sold at market for $50; hope for future. 2 queries

See also 333. Walk With Me: Nonviolent Accompaniment in Guatemala (By Peg Morton; 1997); Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/nonviolence.html

52. Search: Personal Journey Through Chaos (Ruth Tassoni; 1950) Nazi Germany, life in; ineffective Christian State Church; WWI: God & "mad patriotism"; actually fed by Quakers; vocally anti-Hitler in Austria; exiled to Paris, France. Quaker hostel in Marseille; exile in US; teaching German to relief workers. 4 Queries.

265. Thoughts are Free: Quaker Youth Group in Nazi Germany (Anna Sabine Halle; 1985) Quakers worldwide; Germany, Youth. Youth demanded order, cleanliness, punctuality. Excursions broke Nazi Law of Assembly & “racial dishonor.” permitted to see effect of work so we may not be discouraged. 8 Queries.

62. Toward Undiscovered Ends [Friends & Russia for 300 years] (by Anna Cox Brinton; 1951) Quakers worldwide; Russia; witnessing to principle; spiritual Truth reveals right action; 3 Czar visits; Daniel Wheeler, Quaker agriculturalist; religious visitors with social concerns; relief, reconstruction post-WWI; 3 queries.

301. Spiritual Linkage with Russians: Story of Leading (Anthony Manousos; 1992) Quakers Worldwide; Russian-US       reconciliation; amateur citizen diplomacy. Book of poetry & fiction by Soviet & American writers The Human               Experience; Place for inspired amateurs, those who listen & labor in love. 1 Query.

334. Bosnian Student Project: Response to Genocide (Douglas Hostetter; 1997) Quakers worldwide. Fellowship of              Reconciliation (FOR); safety & education for Bosnian student's. Serbs, Croats, & Muslims directly involved with               Bosnian Student Project (BSP), love & inclusion rebuild human community.

348. Journey to Bosnia, Return to Self (Suzanne Hubbard O'Hatnick; 2000) Quakers Worldwide; Bosnia &                       Herzegovina (BiH); being present & reconstruction in Jalce, Bosnia; important part of spiritual journey. "Go have               coffee with neighbors. " "We touch one another, weave a tapestry of life together.” 11 Queries.

       Asia / Africa: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quakers-peace-worldwide-asia-africa.html

Content:

272. Going Back: poet who was once Marine returns to Vietnam (W.D. Ehrhart; 1987) History; Vietnam Veteran;                 W.D. Ehrhart. Nguyen Thi Na, 67 years old: “gave all 5 sons to Revolution…you did this to me.” she wanted little               else than for me to stop killing children & go home. war my children are ordered to fight.

367. Quaker in Vietnam: Rick Thompson (Beth Taylor; 2003) Quakers history; Vietnam; family history of deep                         commitment to Quaker values. Rick: war protest; Vietnamese (AFSC) rehab center in Quang Ngai. Nan: I now                   write him into my room, so I can enjoy his energy, humor, & intense care again. 1 Query.

381. Fire of Heart: Norman Morrison’s Legacy in Viet Nam & at home (by Ann Morrison Welsh; 2005) Peace                      Testimony; Viet Nam War protest by suicide (Buddhist self-immolation by fire), Nov. 2, 1965. Vietnamese still                   love Norman; theme in Norman’s life: denial of the “friends vs. enemies” dichotomy. 1 Query.

31. Quakerism and India (by Horace G. Alexander; 1945) Quakers, India; 19th century; Christian Missions in 20th century; Yearly Meeting, 20th century; emergency relief 1942-45: Friends Ambulance Unit; Calcutta relief; Indian volunteers; AFSC; social settlement 1st under Quaker, then Indian management. 3 queries.

72. Indian Testimony (Amiya Chandra Chakravarty; 1953) Peace testimony, Indian; 20th century, pre-war poverty condition; Indian movement's leaders; Hindu, Buddhist peace principles: ahimsa, para shanti; dharma. Divine reality: shantam; shivram; admaitam; love law; caste system; Rabindranath Tagore, Gandhi.

319. Stories from Kenya (Tom & Liz Gates; 1995) Quakers worldwide; 2 ½ years in Kenya; showing Christ in me to Christ in them. People’s daily struggles have joy & meaning; people kept capacity for joy & meaningful life. American sense of self-sufficiency couldn't long survive here. Africa not joyless place. 1 Query.

341. Sickness, Suffering, & Healing: More Stories from another Place (Tom Gates; 1998 ) Quakers world-wide; Kenya. Attitudes toward life & death: Elizabeth; Maximilla; Janis; "4 increasingly unlikely events led to death; Peter; Nurse Priscilla in nursing & in dying. Sufferers need someone to be with them. 3 Queries.

See also 243. Joel Litu, Pioneer African Quaker (by Rose Adede; 1982) Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-biography-20th-century.html

Human Nature, Love, Sexuality; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/human-love-sexuality.html

Content:
451. Humanity in face of Inhumanity (Sue Williams; 2018) Human Nature; worldwide; human perseverance stories. Humanity = compassion; bravery; clear-sightedness, generosity. Having: commitment to values; priorities; perspective; giving to others; Light in chaotic Fog; world with resilient background people. 14 Queries.

158. Man: Broken Image (Carol R. Murphy; 1968) Human nature: God's image; not naked ape, clothed in texture of thoughts. Nature includes ability to fall away from God's nature, sinner & God's child. Being fully human is accomplishment; we can be guided if we listen & respond to indwelling Spirit. 11 Queries.

98. Pursuit of Moby Dick: Melville’s Image of Man (Gerhard Friedrich; 1958) Human nature, Moby Dick; Nantucket whalers & Quakers. Descriptions of character's personalities: Captain Ahab, lord of Leviathan; Quaker Captains Peleg & Bildad; Starbuck: Quaker with conscience; Ishmael: observer, not participant; 9 Queries.

121. Patterns of Renewal (Laurens Van der Post; 1962) Human nature; reclaiming "natural man," (broader self- awareness). Bushmen in Kalahari's myths: "Ostrich & Honey"; "Kabu, Praying Mantis"; "Mantis & El-and"; "Young Man, Lion"; "Mantis, Great-Devourer"; stories symbolize stages in spirit's evolution. 1 Query.

456. On Spirituality of Lightheartedness (Helen Steere Horn; 2019) Human nature; lightheartedness; moving with flexible spirit through changes; care, yet be carefree; "going with grain"; innate responsiveness; accept limits, love deep Self; seek clearness & reflect; trust life; “have life; have it abundantly” 5 queries

100. Gifts of the True Love: Based on the Old [1780] Carol 12 Days of Christmas (by Elizabeth Yates; 1958) True Love; "12 Days of Christmas" as metaphor for gifts of true love; 1.) Quiet, Solitude; 2.) Love for own sake; 3.) Style. Look back over year's gifts: giving was half the gift; using & enjoying them was the other. 5 Queries.

203. SEX & HUMAN PSYCHE: Toward Contemporary Ethic (John Yungblut; 1975) Sexuality; Testimonies; Psyche; Friends: bi-sexual relationships; different views shared. Contemporary sex ethic, sex testimony needed. Sexual union nourishes, purifies, enhances; is part of procreation. What sacrifices to make? 18 Queries.

226. Homosexuality & Bible: Interpretation (Walter Barnett; 1979) Bible; Homosexuality (hmsxl(ty)). Theologians, gay Christians: Bible doesn't exclude hmsxls. Hmsxlty distinct from hmsxl behavior; "hmsxl" overemphasizes sexual. Gender no barrier for Jesus. Church's stand causes evil & suffering. 5 Queries.

308. Marriage: Spiritual Leading for Lesbian, & Straight Couples (by Leslie Hill; 1993) Sexuality; Marriage; history; clearness; straight & LGBTQ; Quaker spiritual discernment established long ago to respond to ongoing revelation. Friends: revising definition; marriage includes same-sex couples. 17 Marriage Queries.

Mind; Self-Awareness: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/mind-self-awareness.html

Content:

See 467. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington: Scientific Genius, Philosopher, & Quaker Mystic (Donald Vesey; 2021); Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-biography-20th-century.html

325. Unconscious (Robert C. Murphy; 1996) Unconscious (uncon) mind; creativity; God &. What can forgetting a suitcase mean? Con...ness & uncon...ness: dynamic opposition; uncon waits for its deeper experience to be recognized. Move material from deep uncon; Seed of body/spirit health wants to be found. 3 Queries.

221. Harnessing Pegasus: Inspiration & Meditation (Elizabeth Gray Vining; 1978) Mind; operations of; Inspiration for art; Imagination: characters emerge of own volition. Unstructured meditation: stay with subject, own feelings about it. Any real contact with deep Self refreshes, strengthens, blesses. 5 Queries.

258. When Silence Becomes Singing: study in perception & parable (Helen Kylin; 1984) Mind; creative thinking (both sides of brain work in together); metaphor; parable. Jesus can be part of one's metaphors & parables. We are met by transforming truths if we don't make up things what parable wasn't meant to teach.

155. On Being Real: Quest for Personal & Religious Wholeness (Scot Crom; 1967) Self-Awareness; wholeness in East & West Religions; If unfulfilled, are we asking right questions?; must fully let go; let God's will (guidance) & consciousness shine through us; our mindful consciousness present to Presentness. 13 Queries.

125. Children & Solitude (Elise Boulding; 1962) Self-Awareness; need for developing private self; experiencing outer world & inner imagery development; Creativity: fundamental characteristic; new synthesis of knowledge & experience; children embracing feeling of vocal ministry without understanding. 10 Queries.

85. Examined Life (Carol Murphy; 1955) Self-awareness; religion &; negativism in conscience-ridden religion; love & war; replace moralism with impartial compassion; self-compassion; focus on distractions 1st, gain knowledge before moving on to meditation; religion is a way of seeing all experience. 9 Queries.

35. The Self to the Self (by Dora Willson; 1947) Self-awareness; relating to the self; right-relatedness to self; true creative love of self: self-knowledge. We aren't creators of a relationship with our Self. Whenever we do our part in preparing, then comes the reward, the "full grown grain." 7 Queries.

108. Therapist’s View of Personal Goals (Carl R. Rogers; 1960) Self; life goals; 5 core values in guiding choices for Self; fear of exposure, coming-out from behind facade; stop being what one "ought" to be; understanding feelings' complexity; respect individual dignity & worth. Be a changing, fluid process. 4 Queries.

50. Self-deceit: [Comedy on Lies, Frederick W. Faber (1858)]; Overcoming Lies (Gilbert Kilpack, ed.; 1949) Spiritual life; self-deceit; human presumption; 4 self-deception fountains. Ignorance & worldliness; self-deception & vanity; deceived by others. Meditate on God; avoid a lot of self-examination. 11 Queries.

117. Conscience (Wilhelm Mensching; 1961) Self; conscience (cnce): inner ear for guiding voice; not dependent on religious community or belief in God. It leads to different decisions in different men, at different times of life. Cnce's hearing: selective or deaf. Socrates, Jesus & Gandhi results of conscience. 14 Queries.

Alternative Theology: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/alternative-theology.html

       Content:
92. An inward Legacy: Selections from Letters to his Friends (by Forbes Robinson; 1956) Theology; best men                 possessed by faith, love; all things & people are God's thoughts; life: copy of God's Life; life as sacrament; go deep          into life; forgetting self leads to becoming truest self. God's inheritance: sainthood. 3 Queries.

99. Deeper Faith: Thought of Paul Tillich (Carol R. Murphy; 1958) Theology; theology vs. philosophy: naive certainty;          to have faith, including & overcoming doubt. Separation from & reunion with God necessary; freedom from                         mechanistic theology; living with Holy Spirit vs. "what must I do to be saved." 9 Queries.

154. Reality of God; thoughts on “death of God” controversy (Alexander C. Purdy; 1967) Theology; God's Death;               imperfectly understanding universe; still can have definite, blessed meanings in relationship; important to rethink               "God"; Bible & God. God: moving power, inspires us to seek abundant life for all. 11 Queries.

326. Liberation Theology for Quakers (Alice & Staughton Lynd; 1996) Theology, Liberation; religious activism. Quaker            beliefs: inner light in everyone; no mediation; equality, nonviolence, speak truth to power. Liberation theology: God           doesn't want anyone poor; changing injustice; standing on the poor's side. 1 Queries.

422. Reclaiming Transcendent: God in Process (by Thomas Gates; 2013) Alternative Theology; process theology                 (p.t.) can reclaim Transcendent; changing Views; Theism]/ In P.T., God's preferred possibility: initial aim.                         Spiritual Implications; practical Quaker spirituality lacking in p.t. abstractions. 11 Queries.

409. Who Do You Say I Am? (Lloyd Wilson; 2010) Alternative Theology; Christology; Jesus’ titles. Who do you say I am;            many “right” answers. Need to face Jesus' question squarely, answer honestly & personally. If I’m faithful, Jesus’           killers may make me suffer or kill me. Evil won’t have last word. 15 Queries.

60. Promise of Deliverance (Dan Wilson; 1951) Theology; salvation; Deliverance from: present Christianity; evil;               humankind. Promise is: new man, loyalty, community. Spiritual & material inseparable. 3 Queries.

310. Findings: Poets & Crisis of Faith (John Lampen; 1993) Theology of suffering: poets' & Quaker's answer. Bigotry &            violence; Light discovers emptiness ... nakedness ... barrenness, unfruitfulness. Poets testify, offer help, support.              Trust vision; struggles of faith give way to new priorities & revelations. 4 Queries.

317. Kingdom & Way: Meditations on Kingdom (Carol R. Urner; 1994) Theology: Kingdom of heaven; Bible                           meditation; [King James Version, New Revised Standard Version, & Jerusalem Bible used]; 46 passages cited.                 We test Truth out in life; test selves against Jesus teachings, & early Friends' experiences. 23 Queries.

191. Feminine aspects of divinity (Erminie Huntress Lantero; 1973) Theology; Mother Ann Lee (1736-1784) & Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910): promoted feminine Divine symbolism. God graciously expresses God's self in whatever aspects are necessary to enable us to apprehend Him; No contradiction, paradox. 4 Queries.

359. Existential Theology of Nikos Kazantzakis (by Howard F. Dosser 2001) Alternative Theology; Existential; Kazantzakis [KAZ]. Creatures has flame of life traveling through them. Person reaches highest summit of endeavor, ripens fully, indestructibly, eternally, with entire universe; merges with Abyss... 7 Queries.

Non-Quaker Friends Biography: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/non-quaker-biography-writing.html

Content:

351. Jacob Boehme: Insights into Challenge of Evil (Ann Liem; reprint 2000) Biography: Non-Quaker friends; Jacob Boehme (1575-1624); Boehme influenced: Newton; Hegel; Goethe; Novalis; Milton; Blake; Howard Brinton; Rufus Jones. Boehme inspiring link with spiritual currents bubbling to surface throughout world, offering nourishment, refreshment & straight way to Lord. 2 Queries.

273. Abraham Lincoln & Quakers (Daniel Bassuk; 1987) History; Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) & Quakers. Lincoln: no membership in denomination”; never accepted definite creed. Written to by London Friends. Visited by: “Progressive Friends”; Eliza P. Gurney; Rachel Grellet & Elizabeth Comstock; Iowa Quakers. He pardoned conscientious objectors Cyrus Pringle, Henry D. Swift & others. “I'm not bound to win; I'm bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed; I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

236. 4 Women, 4 Windows on Light (Carol R. Murphy; 1981) Biography; 4 women (3 non-Quakers); Mary Baker Eddy, 1821-1910; Evelyn Underhill, 1875-1941; Simone Weil, 1909-43; Flannery O’Connor, 1925-64 Can't disregard human response. Approaches to Center; mind & body, God & man, will, reconciled. 3 Queries.

165. Gandhi Remembered (Horace G. Alexander; 1969) Biography; Non-Quaker friend; Mohandas Gandhi (1869-              1948); Education; General Smuts. (1914): workers' grievances; using satyagraha (soul- or truth- force); Indian               National Congress: Round Table Conferences (1931); Salt Law protest; independence.

48b. Kasturba: Wife of Gandhi (Sushila Nayyar; 1948) Non-Quaker, Life of; Kasturba (1869-1944; Gandhi's wife);                 Nayyar's 1st meeting & visit with Kasturba ("Ba"); author's shyness, Ba's mothering; 2nd visit, imprisonment; Ba's            health worsens, final days; final day 2/22/44; funeral & release of others. 13 Queries.

379. Living Truth: Spiritual Portrait of Pierre Ceresole (1879-1945) (by Keith Maddock; 2005) Non-Quaker                       Biography; Pierre Ceresole. Speak to condition of many people; offer poetics that celebrates beauty & exposes               folly of historical events. “Pray the Eternal keeps your weathervane in good trim so that it responds to spirit's               true winds & doesn’t get jammed by rust of tradition in positions unrelated to Truth…”

235. A.J. Muste, pacifist & prophet: his relation to Society of Friends (Jo Ann Robinson; 1981) Biography; non- Quaker friend. A.J. Muste (1885-1967). Muste: religious man; his political comrades weren't. Executive Secretary of FOR. Also Director of Presbyterian Labor Temple. infused strategy with spiritual insight.

Non-Quaker Writings: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/non-quaker-biography-writing.html

Content:

120. William Law: Selections on the Interior Life (ed. Mary Morrison; 1962) Writings: William Law (1686- 1761); imaginations and desires; "testimonies" & truth; divine life of souls; roots of New Life; power of Christ; living sense of God within; transforming the soul; will to universal goodness. 1 query.

86. Blake’s 4-fold Vision (Harold Goddard; 1956) Non-Quaker friend; William Blake; definitive moments; Reason: Great Divider; Marriage of Heaven & Hell, (conscious & subconscious). Accepting, reconciling Satan, Prometheus; 5 states: imagination uncreates 7 deadly sins; "love others like yourself." 5 Queries.

(See also 177. Woolman & Blake: Prophets for Today (Mildred Binns Young; 1971) in Quaker Biography, 17th-19th Century Section). Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/02/quaker-biography-17th-19th-century.html

395. Walt Whitman’s Spiritual Epic (Michael Robertson; 2008) Non-Quaker Friends writing; Walt Whitman; Leaves of               Grass; “Song of Myself”; explores beauty & immortality. Quakerism fits Whitman's liberal spirituality; Whitman's                  democratic gospel & spirituality reveals deep wisdom for spiritual seekers. 28 Queries.

91. Illiad (Poem of Force; Simone Weil; 1956) Poetry, interpretation of; Illiad (Poem of Force); killing objectifying-              demeaning force; creating "invisible" men; aspiration to be [person] is death strung out over lifetime; no exemption           from misery, common human lot; this is resorting to illusion, exaltation, fanaticism. 3 Queries.

224. In Belly of Paradox: Celebration of Contradictions in Thought of Thomas Merton (Parker J. Palmer; 1979)               Non-Quaker friend; writings; Thomas Merton (1915-68). Description of Merton's thought; Marxism's &                               Christianity's common assumptions. Only through hope are we able to live life’s contradictions. 3 Queries.

Bible, Jesus:
       General/ New Testament (10): Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/bible-general-gospel.html
Content:

411. Plow up Fallow Ground: Meditation in Company of Early Friends (Lu Harper; 2011) Bible; Early Quakers use of biblical metaphor. I was challenged to give Bible same weight as other sacred traditions. Plowing up fallow ground opens our hearts. Spirit confronts, heals, opens us to transformation. 49 Queries.

74b. A Quaker Approach to the Bible (by Henry Cadbury; 1953) Quakerism & Bible; words of scripture vs. actual                 spiritual experience; "the Spirit which gave scripture forth; how God reveals or Jesus thought vs. what God                       reveals and what Jesus thought; complacent orthodoxy as villain. 1 query.

282. Batter My Heart (Gracia Fay Ellwood; 1988) Bible; divine oppression & violence. Bible is a source of hierarchy’s               evils, oppression & violence; also source of inspiration to oppose them. Outraged divine patriarch image                         encourages husbands'/fathers' violence. God as Friend, Love, Beloved, or Thou. 3 Queries.

160. Behind Gospels (Henry J. Cadbury; 1968) Bible; form criticism; historical Jesus; Gospel contents: loose,                         uncollected bits; editors' choices; writers: not following historic sequence; early Christians modified memories of               Jesus even as remembrance of Jesus determined their thoughts & interests. 3 Queries.

4. Totalitarian Claim of Gospels (Dora Willson; 1939) Jesus' teachings; Way; Self-denial, transcendence; actions,              ethical conduct; commitment of all my Self to Whole—known, unknown, unknowable. 3 queries.

219. Approaching Gospels (by Mary Morrison; 1978) Bible; Gospels; myth & story; myth triggers questions; answers depend on mind set. Great sin against spirit of truth, hypocrisy. Parables move minds to new dimension. Group study procedures: talk to point; limit preconceptions; talk briefly, be open-minded. 7 Queries.

330. Searching for Real Jesus (Roland Leslie Warren; 1997) Bible; Matthew’s, Luke’s, Thomas’ Gospels; Q material described; real Jesus. Jesus Seminar: viewed Jesus through historical reason & research; conclusions. Criticism of findings. Many traditional & critical thoughts of biblical criticism respectable. 17 Queries.

179. Light & Life in 4th Gospel (Howard H. Brinton; 1971) Bible; Quaker's & John's gospel; 3 prominent Quakers base theology on John's Gospel; Quakers: Inward Light is Inward Life; Eternal Christ is Eternal Life. Any spiritual rising in future, will occur in Far East & will preserve part of Western world. 5 Queries.

352. Navigating Living Waters of John’s Gospel: Wading with Children, Swimming with Elephants (Paul Anderson; 2000) Bible; John’s Gospel & theology. John's Gospel: primer for newcomers to faith; discussion source. Marturia (witness); Semeia (signs). Become wader, swimmer in stream of Truth. 12 Queries.

See also 260. Way of Cross: Gospel Record (by Mary C. Morrison; 1985)

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/03/quaker-practice-way-of-cross-witnessing.html

399. Matthew 18: Wisdom for Living in Community (Martha P. Grundy & Connie M. Green; 2008) Bible; Gospels; Community, description of. In community we can more fully experience God’s presence. Ask God to remove or transform offensive Self. Peace testimony through Inward Teacher’s guidance. 18 Queries.

II. Old Testament/ Jesus (6): Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/bible-old-testament-jesus.html

Content:

298. The Psalms Speak (by George Terhune Peck; 1991) Bible; Psalms: 2; 19; 22; 23; 24; 42; 91; 100; 104; 130; 139. Not possible to give out love or joy & have less, gifts that feed upon themselves. Psalm 23 ends as we are gathered in cosmic home, place of refuge; "I will dwell in Lord’s house forever. 10 Queries.

438. Seal upon Heart: Quaker Readings in Song of Songs (by Michael Birkel; 2016) Bible; Song of Song [SoS]; how early & current Friends read SoS; playful celebration of love; symbolic message; SoS: Love Poem or Scripture: Early Friends & SoS; desire in SoS beckoned lovers of God to silent wonder; 11 Queries.

133. Eclipse of Historical Jesus: Haverford College Lectures, April 1963 (Henry J. Cadbury; 1964) Bible; historical Jesus; Albert Schweitzer's Quest for Historical Jesus; embodiment of intervening in human history; early Christian interpretation differs from Jesus' self-image; Jesus self-awareness is obscure. 5 Queries.

441. Making Portrait of Jesus (by John Lampen; 2016) Jesus; historical. Author's "history of Jesus." moral teaching: identified oppressive authority; Politics: rejected Saducees & Pharisaic; quest for purity. Reflects on Message; Spiritual Life; Material & Tampering; dream's origin lies with life, words of Jesus. 16 Queries.

144. Bethlehem Revisited (Sermon in Germantown Unitarian Church 12/20/64; by Douglas V. Steere; 1965) Bible; revisiting Biblical scene; present-day Bethlehem: Jesus' birth site shared by 3 churches; Love & salvation: universal & in community; dialogue with Hinduism will teach us about Holy Ghost. 1 Query.

253. Tempted by Happiness: Post-Christian Christ (Peter Bien; 1984) Jesus, Kazantzakis' (Kzks) view. Kzks' 4-fold scheme; use of unconscious (Governing Structures): Son of the Carpenter, Son of Man (meek), Son of David (fierce) Son of God (beyond death), (Christ). Believe in spirit’s abiding power. 2 Queries.

Religion & Science: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/religion-science.html

Content:

69. Experiment with life (Howard E. Collier; 1952) Religion & Science. Science: evolving experimental model vs. religion's static authority model. Reconciling science & religion data; unity of life & Self; Ego; Shadow Ego (Sambo); truth is trustworthy; Cross: ingrained in Reality's structure; life in fellowship. 4 Queries.

343. Quakerism & Science (Calvin Schwabe; 1999) Quakerism & Science; complementary relationship; continuing revelation; no conflict should exist. Friends worship basic to understanding Quakerism's relationship to science. Biblical words as sole sources of revealed religion thwart continuing spiritual growth. 4 Queries.

233. Friends & World of Nature (Theodor Benfy; 1980) Quakers & Science; world view; history. Science: mechanistic doctrine, fragmented, fractured world view. Spiritual laws are material laws; universe's law; new view of natural world to forge link between science's insights & human spirit's deeper promptings. 1 Query.

433. Recovering Sacred Presence in Disenchanted World (by Mary Conrow Coelho; 2015) Religion & Science; universe’s formation; quantum physics; plenum: “space” within atoms; Jungian psychology; Theological Reflections; Inhabiting Ourselves; radical change in worldview; earth’s unfolding adventure; 9 queries.

70. Science & business of living (James G. Vail; 1953) science & life, integration of; science & population; disintegration: genesis from challenge; growth from creativity; creative minority's failure; crises; universal state; fortitude needed for peace formation; building, creating from inside out; living at peace. 13 queries.

208. Rhythms of Ecosystem (Janette Shetter; 1976) Quakers & Science; ecology; Shiva moves with stately grace, gay abandon; dances worlds out, then in again; new life & age]. Shiva’s 4 hands; Need balance. With less ego, one is enabled to watch the dance of integration & disintegration with joy & fear. 1 Query.

237. Reaching Toward God (Michael Marsh; 1981) Religion & Science; personal God & universe. Scientific view. Universe has ultimate explanation; biological explanation, evolution; increasing understanding of universe. God’s will is within universe's laws. I am loved imperishably, part of God’s own whole. 9 Queries.

136. Evolutionary Potential of Quakerism (Kenneth E. Boulding; 1964) Quakerism & Science; spiritual evolution; random changes (mutations) move system to new equilibrium. Quaker: mutation from Christian phylum. Quaker selections; knowledge “sanctified” by love [& spirit] working for human good. 2 Queries.

Religion & Economics, Culture: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/religion-economics-culture.html

Content:
356. Testimony: John Woolman on Today's Global Economy (David Morse; 2001) Economics, global; John Woolman. He was against unnecessary wealth, oppression & exploitation. John Woolman: allow for spiritual discovery. Actions follow. Let silence be full. When it is time to act, act like John Woolman did. 23 Queries.

290. Quaker Money (S. Francis Nicholson; 1990) Quaker economics; Testimonies; Stewardship with integrity. Money value dependent on people’s lives, activities; money created excessively, creates inflation, injustices. Waste, too much borrowing, speculation, inflation, & coercion more serious evils than most know. 14 Queries.

405. Envisioning Moral Economy (Thomas Head; 2010) Economics: moral; peacemaking; environmental. I am:               economist, analytical, scholar; I am mystic-economist in creative tension; universal ethics is possible. True use of           things: moral economy. People matter; life matters. Moral economy will begin there. 32 Queries.

252. Holistic Economics Social Protest (John P. Powelson; 1983) Social Activism; Economics. Protest becoming                 positive action; treating symptoms, not causes? Each economists has different answers. Social reformers must              look at [difficult] questions. Solutions have moral dilemma; make moral decisions. 26 Queries.

450. Money & Soul (by Pamela Haines; 2018) Religion & economics; individual involvement. Need life-theory beyond               economics; money hard on souls; entitlement to possessions; economists' flawed assumptions; stories;                       testimonies; reclaiming economy's divine vocation with hope, courage & connection. 38 queries.

39. Christianity & Civilization (Burge Memorial Lecture, 1940, at Oxford;by Arnold J. Toynbee; 1947) Decline of Civilization; spiritual understanding of decline; Christianity: transition between civilizations; Christian Church and Kingdom of Heaven; Church preserving revelation of God's nature. 5 Queries.

43. Standards of Success (Teresina R. Havens; 1948) God's vs. human success standards; China & Palestine; Buddha's & death's challenging success; holy poverty; Japanese "success": appreciating beauty, transience; earnestness in work; American Standards: size/quantity; believe in life's intangible quality. 9 Queries.

46. The Faith of Ex-agnostic (by Carol R. Murphy; 1948) Western Culture; characteristics; failure of science, morality as savior; moral struggle and love; devotion to divine reality; creative attitude (love); freedom of self; God's nature; Evil's redemption; trust to the eternally patient strength of redemptive Love. 22 Queries.

Religion & Politics: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/religion-politics-social-activism.html

Content:

266. Mending World: Quaker Insights on Social Order (Kenneth E. Boulding; 1986) Religion, Politics, Economics.               Quaker beginnings in: Reformation; English Civil War; persecution. Message of perfectionism; change slows                    down. Friends: employ human, financial resources towards human betterment. 6 Queries.

14. Religion and Politics (by Wilhelm Sollmann; 1941) international relations, politics; oppression; security and                    freedom; democracy criticism: slow moral growth; relative inexperience; dictatorship's mental impoverishment;                leadership; Religion and democracy (Christian). 12 Queries.

241. Quakers, Use of Power (Paul A. Lacey; 1982) Religion & Politics; faithful practice, leadership's use of power.                 Institutions having greatest power alienate people. Friends’ leadership: ambivalence in exercising power. Types of              conflict. Build humanity, charity into institution’s life; government exercising love. 6 Queries.

80. Toward Political Responsibility (Cecil Eugene Hinshaw; 1954) Religion & Politics; sensitive people withdraw from          politics; moral ambiguities; William Penn's "Holy Experiment" (1700-1756); practical, moral, pacifist, political                     program. no to military policy; God's principle in every soul. 2 Queries.

76. McCarthyism: The Seed is in us (by James E. Bristol; 1954) History; American repressive trend; McCarthyism's & England; totalitarianism in CA; conformity to community pressure; English/ Western European view of Communists; abolishing democracy by suppressing Communism. 6 Queries.

119. Stand fast in liberty (James E. Bristol; 1961) McCarthyism, guilt, repression, resistance of; House of Representatives voted to continue Un-American Activities Committee; Supreme Court upholds anti-Communist sentiment; erosion of freedom. Procrastination in resistance ensures enslavement. 2 Queries.

Social Activism: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/religion-politics-social-activism.html

       Content:
431. Revelation and Revolution: Answering the Call to Radical Faithfulness (by Steve Chase; 2014) Social Activism;            radical faithfulness. nonviolent revolutionary [e.g. Martin Luther King], Kenya, Louisiana]; early Quakers:                           "spiritual revolution with social, political consequences.” “see what love can do”; 13 Queries.

1. Cooperation & Coercion as Methods of Social Change (Vincent D. Nicholson; 1934) Social change/ progress               [methods]. Inevitable] futility in attempting to produce goodwill through ill-will. 4 Queries.

2. Religious Solution to Social Problem (Howard H. Brinton; 1934) Social change/progress & Religion; individual &           community needs. Reaching out for support, Communion; earliest & last human search. 2 Queries.

78. Can Quakerism Speak to Times (John Henry Hobart; 1954) Quakerism, relevance; balancing spiritual life & social       activism; Christ within: personal responsibility & freedom of conscience; mystical & prophetic call & message;                     essential are: prophetic; meeting for worship; Inward Christ; faith affirmation. 8 Queries.

270. Sanctuary Church (by Jim Corbett; 1986) Social activism; sanctuary church; universal church. Providing                         sanctuary: gathering [faiths into more catholic church. “Sanctuary”: community for people whose government                   violated human rights. Can't serve justice if hypnotized by state’s "Ultimate power." 4 Queries.

445. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS): Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights (by Steve Chase; 2017)               Social Activism; BDS action. Middle East BDS movement; Zionist, dissident Israelis & Jews; Israel's                               oppressing Palestinians; "Territorial," Spiritual Zionism"; Breaking Impasse; Friends & BDS 13 Queries.

See also 286. War Taxes: Experiences of Philadelphia YM Quakers through American Revolution (Elaine J. Crauderueff; 1989); Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/pacificism-5-civil-disobedience.html

Poverty: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/poverty-racism.html

Content:
6. Functional Poverty [Training in Relatedness; Capable of Peace] (Mildred Binns Young; 1939) functional, voluntary poverty; training children in real life; relatedness; cooperatives, unions; pacifism; cells, seeds, germ groups. Live like having only one life; live toward future of humankind, as God's image. 11 Queries.

12. Standard of Living (Mildred B. Young; 1941) Woolman & poverty (pvty); pvty & simplicity; isolated pacifists; American Standard; pvty relief work; participation in groups modern systems abuse & beat. 3 Queries.

19. Participation in Rural Life (Mildred B. Young; 1942) poverty (pvty), rural; social responsibility, participation; pvty & pacifism; small-scale vs. mass-production; simplicity & leisure; "labor saving" devices; education, tenant-farmer; poor young people; way open for those with conviction, endurance, & patience. 6 Queries.

90. Insured by Hope (Mildred B. Young; 1956) poverty. fear of; cared more for neighbor's self-respect than proper diet: Poverty without simplicity; sacrifice high American standards for others' bare necessities; going far as we can with gifts. Jesus took on hope's whole burden; laid on us … hope for humanity's burden.

Race: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/poverty-racism.html

Content:
465. Race, Systemic Violence, Retrospective Justice: African-American Quaker Scholar-Activist Challenges Conventional Narratives (Harold D. Weaver; 2020) Race; Friends: slave-owners & slavery supporters; continued impact. Defining race, racism, institutional racism; US Chattel Slavery & Quakers; structural Violence; education & retrospective justice; justice testimony; all faithful people taking action. 11 Queries.

415. Living our Testimony on Equality: A White Friend’s Experience (by Patience A. Schenck; 2011) Race; equality testimony; personal prejudice; institutional racism; cultural racism; live equality testimony; Racial Messages in Early Life; Making Sense of Race as Adult; create beloved community in meetings. 18 Queries.

172. Friends & Racial Crisis (Richard Taylor; 1970) Quakers & racism; Richard Stenhouse: “Friends & white Americans, by dishonesty & deceit, forced distrust upon black Americans. Need to radically restructure religious, social institutions; be more open to God’s voice after ambiguous history in racial matters; [unambiguous future action], sustained nonviolent movements against injustice; risk suffering. 12 Queries.

159. America in Travail (Edgar H. Brookes; 1968) Racial activism; Black Power; campus unrest; revolt of youth: creative impatience with America as is. Without faith which results in action, you can't have quiet strength to sustain action. Meet Black Power with positive achievement & genuine caring. 7 Queries.

254. To Martin Luther King, with love: southern Quaker’s tribute (David W. Pitre; 1984) Quakers, Racism; Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK), author's (DWP) reaction to. MLK questioned all DWP's assumptions. Violence can be in attitude & language. MLK speaks my mind, lifts up spirit of social justice & fellowship.

139. 3 letters from Africa (by Edgar H. Brookes; 1965) Race; Quakers world wide; South Africa; "letters" to Afrikaner, English-speaker, African. Gave Afrikaner, English, African view and hopes for each. 12 Queries.

293. Ministry of Presence: No Agenda in South Africa (Avis Crowe; Dyckman Vermilye; 1990) Race; Quakers Worldwide; South Africa; serving without pre-conceived notions; nurturers there for 1½ years. Peace Work Committee, Ministry & Oversight. Blessing in South Africa, for host country & sojourner. 1 Queries.

War, Militarism, Nuclear Policy: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/war-militarism-nuclear-policy.html

       Content:
247. Study of War as Contribution to Peace (Wolf Mendl; 1983) War; Study of. Learn to know, understand those who               disagreed; move world toward no wars. False assumption: war-study can't be value-free; anyone studying war                must favor it. cooperation more effective than competition; wars aren't inevitable. 1 Query.

25. Militarism for America (Grover L. Hartman; 1945) militarism; conscription, democracy &; young men's health &;               national security; labor & agriculture opposition; religion's & education's opposition; economics; constitutionality;           conscription foreign to American tradition & potential threat to democracy. 6 queries.

263. Replacing the Warrior: Cultural Ideals and Militarism (by William A. Myers; 1985) Militarism; cultural ideals;                 John Woolman; new hero. Plato & Achilles: sulking in tent, independence & prayer. Greeks keep losing; too                     human unsuitable for warrior ideal. Good of the whole community. 2 Queries.

147. Walls (by Robert E. Reuman; 1966) Militarism: Communism, non-Communists; Walls dividing: Germany, Korea, Vietnam; Wall between main land China & Taiwan: American ships. Korea & Vietnam: Large, difficult mountains can only be ascended by team effort; approach itself is real achievement. 2 Queries.

17. New Nations for Old (Kenneth Boulding; 1942) war; hope for change; war unprofitable, immoral; war's causes;               conscientious folk's dilemma; nationalism; League of Nations; coercion. 1 Query.

74. Everyman’s Struggle for Peace (Horace G. Alexander; 1953) war, abolishing of; disarmament; nationalism; world           loyalty; seeds of war; Humans at war with Self; peace within; cooperative social order vs. mechanized; self-                     defense's illusion; "wicked aggressor"; non-violence; belief in needing violence. 11 Queries.

429. What We Stand On (by Paul Christiansen; 2014) War; changes necessary to end it. War addicting, seductive;                  simplifies; fear-based. Most terrible of humanity's ills; Morass: American riches, consuming cause of war. Be 1               peaceful voice in growing nonviolent choir. Be brave, seek the Truth, love the Light. 22 Queries.

22. Relief & Reconstruction: Principles Involved in Quaker Relief (Roger C. Wilson; 1943) war, relief &                            reconstruction; religious basis for relief; politics, business, sociology; divinely ordinary people; discipline; short-                  & long-term relief organizations. God's will is fact & not just fancy or compromise. 12 Queries.

See also 286. War Tax Experience of Philadelphia YM Quakers through American Revolution (Elaine J.                              Crauderueff; 1989); Web Address

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/pacificism-5-civil-disobedience.html

Nuclear Policy; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/war-militarism-nuclear-policy.html

Content:

300. Therefore Choose Life: Spiritual Challenge of Nuclear Age (John Tallmadge; 1991) Nuclear Policy; spiritual               nature. Denial shown in: glorifying American Way; scapegoating; living irresponsible, self-centered, hedonistic life             styles. Believe in living solution; lack of imagination is problem. 1 Query.

57. Atomic Peace: Reaction of Good (Harold C. Goddard; 1950) Nuclear war; Harold C. Goddard; biography; atom              bomb: diabolic device; force for good; imagination's attributes: ringing or unrung bell; setting up chain reactions;               not leaders but leaveners in conspiracy of goodness; Palladium by Matt Arnold. 7 queries.

97. Human Way Out (Lewis Mumford; 1958) nuclear policy; "superior" science is fantasy; Russia & US immoral.                    Abandon cold war; end secrecy, suppression; abandon atomic armament. See what's necessary; act. Overcome                Russia: stop "arms race." Life & death decisions made humbly; focus on planet. 15 Queries.

105. Private Testimony & Public Policy (by Phillips Ruopp; 1959) Nuclear policy; Nuclear weapons emphasize war's               immorality; international relations: non-violent methods; lawful force replaced by love-force; peace. West trying                 to buy what must be given freely; short-range policy that leads to cooperation. 5 Queries.

Pacifism; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/pacificism-5-civil-disobedience.html

       Content:
13. World Task of Pacifism (Abraham J. Muste; 1941) pacifism, world condition of disintegration; opponents of war,               alternatives to war; Gandhi Movement; Pacifist Strategy; alternative service problems. 4 Queries.

5. Pacifist Program: Time of War; Threatened War; Fascism (Richard B. Gregg; 1939) pacifism; program; new                 civilization; pledge to non-violence and non-cooperation with war effort; relief aid to civilian needs; civic obligation;           war protest: before during & after war; imprisonment; live-out principles. 15 Queries.

16. Peacemakers’ Dilemma: Plea for Modus Vivendi in Peace Movement (Bertram Pickard; 1942) integral, geo-               pacifism (pacs); "collective law system" (cls); cls police action; collective coercion vs. violent oppression; framework;       pacs & politics; geo-pacs; pacs & socialists; psycho-pacs; accommodation. 8 Queries.

15. War is Enemy (A. J. Muste; 1942) pacifist: faithful witness; practical help; non-violence; wartime strategy;                            reconciliation; non-pacifist methods: regimentation; focusing energies on war; reconciliation: viable peace                      proposal  & way of life; even in seeming futility ... in cooperative groups ... we shall hold to Way. 6 Queries.

56. Toward Pacifism: [ Young European's Convincement & Commitment] (Gunnar Sundberg; 1950) pacifism; dark, violent instincts; workcamp; reconstruction; changing war's nature; defense of nuclear [bombs]; neutrality; Self's full- time commitment; God's image; Old Man Sawing Wood (Par Lagerkvist). 20 Queries.

Civil Disobedience, Conscientious Objector & War Resistance; Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/pacificism-5-civil-disobedience.html

      Content:
118. Visible Witness: Testimony for Radical Peace Action (Wilmer J. Young; 1961) Civil disobedience, imprisonment;            public unaware of peace writing & lecturing. Reaching general public; visible, audible witness; risking anger part                of education; finding way to act. Direct Action for Peace. 7 Queries.

380. Very good week behind bars (Janeal Ravndal; 2005) Social activism; civil disobedience, arrest, jail. There by               choice & without guilt. Prison un-prepares people for democracy & life. During week in prison I was better at                   reading eternities. Choosing legal response likely to further society’s welfare. 3 Queries.

64. Holy Disobedience (A. J. Muste; 1952) social activism; alternative conscription (a.c.); holy disobedience; is State              doing evil with a.c.; cooperation with State in a.c.; alternative service (a.s.) for teenage conscientious objectors                 (CO); conscription's nature; imperative disobedience; resistance and reconciliation. 13 Queries.

23. Clash by Night (Wallace F. Hamilton; 1944) war alternatives; Civilian Public Service; Conscientious Objectors                  (CO);"opposition": Sympathizers; Citizenry; Janissaries; CO self-understanding, response; centrifugal &                     centripetal force. Reformation fulfilled, all will know [peace like never before]. 11 queries.

171. War Resistance in Historical Perspective (Larry Gara; 1970) Social activism; war resistance, history: importance of wars emphasized; pacifism & war resistance ignored. John Woolman didn't pay war taxes; most of his meeting did. Deeper understanding of war resistance needed to balance emphasizing war.

286. War Taxes: Experiences of Philadelphia YM Quakers through American Revolution (Elaine J. Crauderueff; 1989) Social Activism; war tax resistance; history. Meeting’s response war tax issue; diversity of opinion; willing to lose property or be jailed; Spirit of Christ’s part in issues of conscience. 17 Queries.

Non-violence: Web Address:

https://topicalquakerquickread.blogspot.com/2021/01/nonviolence.html

Content:
424. Nonviolent Direct Action as Spiritual Path (by Richard K. Taylor; 2013) Nonviolence; direct action. Using bodies against injustice or oppression without violence; active, method of social change Montgomery: church worship preceded nearly every action. Gandhi nonviolence; Quaker Peacekeepers. 11 Queries.

129. Nonviolent action: How it works (by George Lakey; 1963) Social Activism; Non-violence, power of; History; Quaker Non-Violent Action, 17th century Boston. 8 non-violent policy implications. Quality of participants more important than quantity; not just act, must be non-violent; staying power? 3 Queries.

178. Violence-or Aggressive Nonviolent Resistance (Phillips P. Moulton; 1971) Non-violence; US violence:                         revolution; civil war; world wars; woven into society's fabric. Nonviolent action involves careful, disciplined                         preparation, planning & organization. Constructive solutions to social problems; [respond to conflict] with                         aggressive nonviolent resistance. Nonviolent resistance depends on ethical power.

11. Discipline for Non-violence (Richard Bartlett Gregg; 1941) Non-violence discipline, training; military training               method; manual work; courage, equanimity, moral strength; patience and humility. 4 Queries.

88. Nonviolent resistance: nation’s way to peace (Cecil E. Hinshaw; 1956) Non-violence; 2 tyranny- types: pure evil,            defeated violently; good & evil mix good will win; nuclear war indefensible. Dispossessed revolutionaries; selfless           minority can be effective; passive resistance gives no excuse for brutality. 4 Queries.

269. SEED & TREE: Reflection on Non-violence (Daniel A. Seeger; 1986) Nonviolence; moral revolution; oppressed only defend themselves.” True prophets don't take credit for "their" wisdom. Nonviolent sensibility: commitment to make of free gift to Spirit which awaits discovery of power & beauty. 4 Queries.

274. Nonviolence on Trial (Robert W. Hillegass; 1987) Nonviolence: small-scale, low-risk actions. Simple living, reconciliation efforts, self-empowering economics, improving race relations, legislative initiatives. We are on trial; only with active witness that we can hope to keep this Court alive and in session. 6 Queries.

275. Needle’s Eye: (Carol Reilley Urner; 1987) Nonviolent resistance in Philippines, support of. Each honed & purified [by God] to take nonviolent steps for social change. Argument for nonviolence made sense to some. Lives only of use if we dwell in Christ Jesus' Spirit, stay in Light, walk firmly in Way shown us. 3 Queries.

322. Nonviolence & Community: Reflections on Alternatives to Violence Project (Newton Garver & Eric Reitan; 1995) Nonviolence; Alternatives to Violence Project in prisons. “Transforming Power"; “Respect for Self” & “Caring for Others"; “Expect Best,”; “Think Before Reacting”; & “Seek Nonviolent solution. Uses affirmation, cooperation, self-exploration, trust-building; confronting, facing differences. 2 Query.

333. Walk With Me: Nonviolent Accompaniment in Guatemala (Peg Morton; 1997) Nonviolence; accompaniment, Guatemalan witness. Spiritual Source's "water" came with call. Guatemalan peace effort history. Healing Water, cleanses clutter & poison. Open up to Spirit, release Spirit's air; we are touched. 18 Queries.

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