Imagination and Spirit: A Contemporary Quaker Reader

Imagination and Spirit: A Contemporary Quaker ReaderFrom essays about the Quaker Christian experience and the 'mystery at the core of all being' to a murder mystery by Irene Allen, this collection presents some of the best of contemporary Quaker non fiction and fiction writing, with a brief biography of each author. Among these popular 20th and 21st century writers are names familiar to readers of mainstream Christianity, including Thomas Kelly, Jessamyn West, James Michener, Daisy Newman, Jan de

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Its pages chronicle not only Fox's spiritual travail and subsequent consolation when he heard a voice that said

Jean Vanier reflects on who we are and how we build our communities

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An anthology of Howard Thurman's most important and eloquent writings

This method is greatly respectful of the innate spirituality of children and encourages them to use their curiosity and imagination to experience the mystery and joy of God

opening its meaning for him

by the renowned Quaker teacher Thomas Kelly

Yet living a life of faith is not as simple as it may look

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bring us nearer to one another and to God

and nonviolence—and builds a case for the role these distinctives can play in the growth of the Friends Church in the twenty-first century's postmodern culture