Inner Light Books: 8 books

A Quaker prayer life arises from a life of continuing daily attentiveness. The first generation of Quakers followed a covenant with God, based on assidious obedience to the promptings of the Inward Light. This process did not require the established churches, priests or liturgies. Quaker prayer then...

Our Life is Love describes the transformational spiritual journey of the first ­Quakers, who turned to the Light of Christ within and allowed it to be their guide. Many Friends today use different language, but are still called to make the same journey. Focusing on ten elements of the spiritual journey, this book is a guide to a Spirit-filled life that affects this world.

Explores the genesis of the Quaker movement and its underlying foundation: its intimate vision of the Kingdom of God, in the midst of the turmoil of 17th century Britain.

William Penn outlines in only a few dozen pages the beliefs and behaviors that define the Friends' way of life. The simplicity and precision of Penn's description is unsurpassed in the three centuries since it was first published, but seventeenth-century English vocabulary and grammar have obscured...

Elias Hicks was a minister, a mystic, a farmer, an environmentalist, an abolitionist, a father and a husband. This book aims to reveal the real Elias Hicks and his understanding of what it means to be a Quaker. Elias Hicks has much to say to Friends today.

Primitive Quakerism Revived challenges contemporary Friends in each of the Society's branches to reexamine their fundamental beliefs and practices, to identify the changes and additions that have been made in the past three and a half centuries, and to acknowledge which of those are unacceptable compromises...

This book advocates a renewal of the traditional Quaker peace testimony, to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Today's darkening human prospect forces Friends to reclaim their identity as a people of God that resists the dominant culture and wages an "anti-war," a militant inversion of empire's militarist imperatives.

The Gospel According to John is a book of divinely inspired writing, a record by one who had direct experience with Jesus. John had the gifts of both a remarkably deep understanding and a mystical experience of Jesus' spirituality. The gospel tells what a committed following of these teachings did for John and can do for each of us.