Quaker Books

Quaker communities are often best understood in the stories they share. Stories aren't about theories or ideas but about experience.

A pamphlet introducing and exploring the Quaker concept of worship and ministry in Meeting.

Rachel Brett's 2012 Swarthmore Lecture details the work of the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva.

Quaker Eldership. Spiritual reviews. Reviewing the spiritual life of the meetings and its expression in caring. Volume 3 of the Eldership and Oversight handbook series.

Christopher Holdsworth's 1985 Swarthmore lecture draws on his own experience to present aspects of the monastic tradition which mjay be useful for Quakers.

This book, part of Doug Gwyn's trilogy on early Quaker history, is critical to our understanding of early Friends and how the movement changed in the first decades.

George Fox through his leadership and writingsis regarded as the seminal figure of Society of Friends. The son of a leicestershire weaver, he left home at the age of nineteen in search of men and women who were on a like spiritual pilgrimage.

Jane Pearn draws on her interest in language and her 30 years as a Quaker to consider the meaning of concern in her own life and in the lives of others.