In To Be Tender and Broken, Margery Abbott weaves together a brave and beautiful personal narrative with Quaker history and theological reflection in response to questions and struggles about belief, language, social issues and other deeply-felt concerns that unsettle and divide our meetings and the wider Religious Society of Friends. Research underpins each chapter with a rich and wide range of classic and contemporary Quaker writers; her analysis is both original and evocative. She asks how, for example, do Friends answer that of God in light of the heinous acts that daily erupt in our world? What strength might a liberal Friend draw from the experience and meaning of the cross to make sense of our lives? Abbott shows us what is possible when we are willing to enter conversation without expectations about where our conversations might lead. Our willingness to listen, to risk being tender and broken, allows the Light within to move us to places we could not have imagined. This is a book Friends of all persuasions have been waiting for. -Barbarajene Williams, elder for the Way of Ministry program

To Be Broken and Tender: A Quaker Theology for Today

Abbott, Margery Post

Religion & Spirituality

Friends Bulletin Corporation

"The Society of Friends has never had many members, scarcely more than 200,000 in the entire world.... But it is not the number that matters. What counts more is their inner strength and their deeds." -Gunnar Jahn, chairman of the Nobel Committee in 1947, upon awarding the Religious Society of Friends with the Nobel Peace Prize What is this inner strength? How does it help shape such effective leaders and organizations? This collection of essays from contemporary American Quaker leaders is a wealth of personal reflections on these questions. For study groups and newcomers to Quakerism, each section includes an introduction and queries for deeper exploration of listening, discernment, and action as led by the Spirit. Contributors include: Shan Cretin, Executive Secretary of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) C. Wess Daniels, pastor of Camas Friends Church Robin Mohr, Executive Secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas (FWCC) Joe Volk, former Executive Secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)

An Inner Strength: Quakers and Leadership

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

For over twenty years, Gene Hoffman engaged in efforts to seek out the deep, psychological causes of violence and to help bring about healing and reconciliation through a process she named "Compassionate Listening." This carefully edited collection of her writings sheds light on Gene's approach to peacemaking and conflict resolution, and invites readers along on a spiritual journey that she aptly calls "a peace pilgrim's progress to inner healing." This 2nd edition features a new forward by Leah Green, founder of The Compassionate Listening Project.

Compassionate Listening

Hoffman, Gene Knudsen

"To discover what one already knows is the most intimate form of knowledge,"writes author Steve Smith, as he invites the reader to observe his path through myriad secular and religious explorations.

Eastern Light, Awakening to Presence in Zen, Quakerism, and Christianity

Self-Help

Smith, Senior Lecturer in International Relations Steve

Personal Transformation

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To Be Broken and Tender: A Quaker Theology for Today

An Inner Strength: Quakers and Leadership

Compassionate Listening

Eastern Light, Awakening to Presence in Zen, Quakerism, and Christianity