Pendle Hill Publications

This essay explores the spiritual dimension of a unique Quaker peacemaking project called The Human Experience, an anthology of contemporary poetry and fiction of Russia and the United States that was jointly edited and published in both countries.

In earlier times, far-flung Quaker meetings looked for spiritual deepening in the visits of traveling ministers. Debbie Humphries is one present-day Friend who has responded to a call to travel in ministry.

Relates stories which arose out of the authors’ experiences of living and working at a Quaker mission hospital in rural western Kenya.

Supporting Gifts of Ministry and Eldering in the Monthly Meeting, Martha Paxson Grundy describes the traditional Quaker understanding of power and spiritual authority, and God’s gifts in relation to them.

Analysis of Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ using a four-fold scheme devised by the novel’s author, a non-Christian, to explain evolution toward dematerialization.

The author sees Quakers at a crossroads in dealing with issues of authority and power in church governance and offers some assessment of the costs of traveling one way or another.

Gives the reader glimpses of historic Quaker country in the north of England and discusses the Quaker character.

Renee Crauder, familiar to many Friends as a spiritual director and leader of workshops and retreats on the spiritual life, describes her own journey, a decades-long search for a deeper relationship with the Divine.