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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...

Our differences are our richness, but also our problem... We have often wondered whether there is anything Quakers today can say as one.

'God, words and us' has been produced to help Friends explore the ways we speak about our deepest religious and spiritual experiences. It offers material and ideas, as well as modelling a process for further exploration.

'God, words and us' has been produced to help Friends explore the ways we speak about our deepest religious and spiritual experiences. It offers material and ideas, as well as modelling a process for further exploration.

Beth Allen offers her understanding of faithful discipleship, starting with how we experience and think about God.

David Gee argues for a contemporary, practical faith that enlivens our humanity and stands with life’s dignity in the face of its violation.

Brenda Clifft Heales' and Chris Cook's 1992 Swarthmore lecture explores the Quaker understanding of 'ministry'.