Author: David Sunderland

Publisher: Intermundia Libri

Available on Amazon worldwide as paperback and Kindle

ISBN 978-1-0676960-0-9 (paperback) and 978-1-0676960-1-6 (e-pub)

More information: https://www.intermundia.org/punctuation-of-loss

A guide to giving clear answers This is a handbook for Quakers. A guide to giving clear answers. Geoffrey Durham has been talking about Quakers and Quakerism with enquirers and newcomers for twenty-five years.

by Geoffrey Durham

Publisher: Discovering Quakers
ISBN: 9781068748226

This book is a Quaker’s commentary on the heretical, long lost, but recently rediscovered Gospel of Thomas, which is an authentic early form of Christianity. It enhances  Jesus’ assertions in all 4 canonical gospels that little children belong to the Kingdom of Heaven: they belong because we are spiritual beings, animated by individual shares of the light of life. In Quaker parlance, this is the “inner light.” Thomas’ gospel reinterprets the myth of the Garden of Eden: ejection did not happen to humanity; instead it happens to us individually when as willful, school-age children we dissociate from the inner light and develop multiple personality alters that psychology calls “egos.” As Jesus puts it, “when you are one, you become two, but when you are two, what will you do?”

    Hoping to catch the attention of “universalist” Quakers, and spiritually persuaded members of the general public, the front cover informs prospective readers that the introduction and commentary are consistent with  a spiritual interpretation of the Quantum Theory of EM Neurodynamics. Don’t be alarmed; aspects of this and other modern ideas are only discussed where they are clearly relevant!

Translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer

Author: Devon M Kurtz
Publisher: Producciones de La Hamaca
Hardcover: 104 pages
ISBN-10: 9768273453
ISBN-13: 978-9768273451

Thread of Life is a portrait of the twentieth century – its times of war and peace – seen through the lives of three generations of Jewish women. At its heart are Dora, a romantic and tragic figure, a concert pianist born in Riga, who lived in St Petersburg and was killed in the Riga Holocaust; her daughter, Genia, born in 1915 in St Petersburg, who lived in many places around the world before dying in England at the age of 102; and, in their different threads and versions of the truth, their legacy to author Jennifer Kavanagh, who shares her moments of discovery while addressing themes of Russia, Jewishness, motherhood, music, home, and language, as well as the vagaries of memory.

Author: Jennifer Kavanagh
Publisher: Liberalis
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1803418001
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-180341800

“What Canst We Say?” includes the texts of the various iterations and modifications of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Book of Discipline as it evolved between 1715 and 1755. It also includes an examination of the processes by which these developments occurred, including the texts of some Yearly Meeting minutes and publications produced during this time.
The Yearly Meeting was very conscious that it was seeking a document with which the community could develop a deep unity, but also that the attainment of such unity was a process, rather than a declaration of truth. There was full expectation that the contents of the Book of Discipline would be changed, and that asking questions of the current text was a part of the responsibility of the Yearly Meeting community. The documents issued at the completion of several of the sections of the Discipline included statements on how the text was to be used, as well as explanations of how the principles described in the text could be questioned, challenged, and evolved.
Life within the Yearly Meeting during these times involved many aspects which were not dealt with extensively in the Book of Discipline, but which were important to the development of the community and to the identity of the Society of Friends in the world. Three of these issues (the rules on marriage between relatives, the evolution of the Yearly Meeting on the issue of slavery, and the role of women in the development of the Discipline) are discussed in the Appendices.

Author: David R. Haines
Pleasant Green Books. 2025
176 pages. $20.00 / paperback
ISBN (paperback) 978-0-9979848-4-2

These documents came at a time of political turmoil in Pennsylvania, and interpersonal challenges within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Much of the business minuted in the years immediately before 1704 centered on disciplinary procedures for those Quakers whose behavior was considered to be outside of the norms of the Society of Friends.

The collection of these rules into discrete documents appears to be an attempt to define what the Society of Friends was, and perhaps more importantly, what the Society of Friends was not.

While much of the focus in these documents was on discipline and what was considered to be appropriate personal behaviors, there was also a deep focus on defining structures and processes through which relationships within the meeting could be nurtured.

Author: David R. Haines
Pleasant Green Books. 2024
70 pages. $16.00 / paperback
ISBN (paperback) 978-0-9979848-3-5

This is a fascinating record of a small community living out its distinctive religious witness in the everyday, navigating internal and external pressures in a rapidly changing context. We enter the world of late-seventeenth-century London Quakers at ground level, and sit with them as they persistently seek divine guidance in the decisions that shape ordinary life. Judith Roads has made available a wonderful treasure-trove for anyone interested in Quaker history or in early modern English life.’ RACHEL MUERS, Professor of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

Author: Judith Roads
ISBN – 9781916570122