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If we cannot change what is happening on our street, why should anyone belive we can change the would? Politics starts with the local. There is inequality in all of our communities, so we must begin there, with practical action where is matters.

Swarthmore Lecture 2015. To say 'yes' to peace we must say a final 'no' to war and join together, heart and soul, in the task of creating peace by peaceful means, speaking with one authentic and passionate voice.

Tim Newell's 2000 Swarthmore lecture, revised for this 2007 edition, looks at possible Quaker approaches to criminal justice. The book includes insights from Circles of Support and Accountability as well as ideas for study and action.

Volume 2 of the Eldership and Oversight handbook series.

Though Fox's own Journal tells his life-story fully and vividly, some readers find it so detailed, and so quick to assume his reader's familiarity with situations, events and outlooks of his time that it is difficult to read or grasp it as a whole.

In a world in which efficiency is a first tenet of good business, Quakers aspire to do theirs in a worshipful way. In arriving at a decision, the priority is to achieve a sense of rightness...to ground the process of decision-making...