First Day Discussion Group
Sundays, 12:30 pm
in the Activity Building
(following meeting for worship, except for days when
it would conflict with monthly or quarterly business meetings -- please
contact us if you plan to
drop in; classes may not be held every Sunday -- Quakers tend to have lots
of things on their plates that conflict with one another!)
What we're reading
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Sorrows
of the Quaker Jesus:
James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit
by
Leo Damrosch
Previous Readings and Recommendations:
Right
Relationship:
Building a Whole Earth Economy
by Peter G. Brown
Earthcare
for Friends
A Study Guide for Individuals and Faith Comunities
Listening
to the Light
by Jim Pym
God
is Silence
by Pierre Lacout
Faith
and Practice 2002 edition
"Commerce,
Community, and the Regulations of Universal Love:
The contemporary Relevance of John Woolman's Essay 'A Plea for the
Poor' "
by Daniel A.
Seeger
(text of Woolman's essay, "A Plea for the Poor" available here)
Dying
to Be Men
Youth, Masculinity, and Social Exclusion
by Gary T. Barker
Rufus
Jones: Essential Writings
Selected
with an Introduction by Kerry Walters
A
Testament of Devotion
by Thomas R. Kelly
Beyond
Majority Rule:
Voteless decisions in the Religious Society of Friends
Michael J. Sheeran
Friends
for 350 Years
by Howard H. Brinton
(the retitled and revised version of his classic, "Friends for 300
Years")
Resources:
Downloadable pamplet archive at Pendle Hill