Imagination and Spirit : A Contemporary Quaker Reader

by Bill, J. Brent; Curtis, C. Michael

• ISBN13: 9780944350614
• ISBN10: 0944350615
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Friends United Pr

Summary

Chicken Soup for the Soul - Quaker style! Imagination and Spirit offers the "best of the best" by contemporary Quaker authors with a brief biography of each. Features work of Daisy Newman, Jessamyn West, Richard J. Foster, Douglas V. Steere, Thomas Mullen, D. Elton Trueblood, Elizabeth Gray Vining, Scott Russell Sanders, Irene Allen, Phil Gulley, James A. Michener, Thomas Kelly, Jan De Hartog, Elfrida Vipont Foulds, and David Yount.

Author Biography

J. Brent Bill is the associate director of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations. He is the director of the Earlham School of Religion Annual Writing Colloquium and assistant book review editor for Friends Journal

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Foreword	xv
C. Michael Curtis
Introduction	xix
``Holy Obedience'' from A Testament of Devotion	3	(18)
Thomas Kelly
``A Contemporary Christian Delusion'' from The Incendiary Fellowship	21	(26)
D. Elton Trueblood
``The Dialogue of Prayer and Action'' from Dimensions of Prayer	47	(16)
Douglas V. Steere
``Chapter IV'' from Virginia Exiles	63	(18)
Elizabeth Gray Vining
``A Ridiculous Idea'' From The Lark on the Wing	81	(16)
Elfrida Vipont Foulds
``Music on the Muscatatuck'' from The Friendly Persuasion	97	(22)
Jessamyn West
``Chapter 9'' from Indian Summer of the Heart	119	(14)
Daisy Newman
``Voyage Four: 1661'' from Chesapeake	133	(18)
James A. Michener
``New Mexico 1973'' from The Lamb's War	151	(14)
Jan de Hartog
``I Take Thee Nancy...'' from A Very Good Marriage	165	(14)
Thomas J. Mullen
``The Gift of Simplicity'' from Spiritual Simplicity: Simplify Your Life and Enrich Your Soul	179	(18)
David Yount
``The Spiritual Disciplines: Door to Liberation'' from Celebration of Discipline	197	(16)
Richard J. Foster
``Silence'' from Falling Toward Grace	213	(18)
Scott Russell Sanders
``Chapter One'' from Quaker Testimony	231	(16)
Irene Allen
``Tasting Tears'' from Front Porch Tales; ``A Time to Hate: When We Were Children'' from For Everything a Season	247
Philip Gulley