Spiritual Readings
Texts
This is an incomplete and continually updated list of recent readings considered, in alphabetical order by author's last name.
If the text or other resource is available online, the link is provided. Otherwise, the text may be available from the Geneva Quaker library. You may also consider purchasing from Quaker book sellers.
- Book of James
- Cloud of Unknowing by Anonymous
- Truth of the Heart, an anthology of George Fox writings from 1624-1691 collated, edited and annotated by Rex Ambler (2001)
- Speak Truth to Power: A Quaker Study of International Conflict by the American Friends Service Committee (1955)
- Pendle Hill Pamphlet 386 "The Mindful Quaker: A Brief Introduction to Buddhist Wisdom for Friends" by Valerie Brown (2006)
- selected readings by Meister Eckhart
- Pendle Hill Pamphlet 420 "Waging Peace: Discipline and Practice" by Pamela Haines (2012)
- Quakers and the Lamb's War: A Hermeneutic for Confronting Evil, Non-Violent Resistance by Gene Hillman (paper presented 2001)
- Quaker Quicks "Practical Mystic: Quaker Faith in Action" by Jennifer Kavanagh (2020)
- Testimony of Devotion by Thomas Kelly (1941)
- God is Silence by Pierre Lacout (1923), translated from the French
- Pendle Hill Pamphlet 247 "The Study of War as a Contribution of Peace" by Wolf Mendl
- a consideration of Sermon on the Mount and Quakerism by Ulrich Middeke (1990)
- Swarthmore Lecture 2022 "Perceiving the Temperature of Water" by Helen Minnis
- "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver
- "Sounds of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel
- "A Plea for the Poor" by John Woolman
- Worshipping at the Edge of Words by Ann Wrightson from Quaker World edited by C. Wess Daniels and Rhiannon Grant (2022)
- Pendle Hill Pamphlet 194 "Quakerism of the future: mystical, prophetic, and evangelical" by John R. Youngblut