Authors/Sources

• ACLU - "Soldiers of Misfortune"
• Jonathan Acuff - "Room Cleaning Christianity"
• Francisco X. Alarcón - "Prayer"
• Anonymous - "Toleration"
• Karen Armstrong - The Battle for God
• Karen Armstrong - The Great Transformation
  • On Hosea (7th century B.C.E.)
  • On Aeschylus's The Persians (472 B.C.E.)
• Reza Aslan
  • "Islam's Long War Within"
  • "Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith."
• Tarak Barkawi - "Breaking Bread with Terrorists"
• Zygmunt Bauman - Globalization: The Human Consequences
  • "For good consumers it is not the satisfaction of the needs one is tormented by, but the torments of desires never yet sensed or suspected that makes the promise so tempting."
  • "Morally mature persons are such as grow to need the unknown..."
• Wendell Berry, "The Silence"
• Howard H. Brinton - Friends for 300 Years
  • "In his first state he would be a coward if he did not fight; in his second state he would be a coward if he did fight."
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Ethics
• Frederick Buechner - Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
• Jame. P. Carse
  • "The ego is the dualist in us"
  • "Mystical vision is the way the soul sees. It has no object."
• Tracy Chapman - "Heaven's Here on Earth"
• Pema Chödrön
  • "When anger rises, remember to pause"
  • "There is no promise"
• The Christian Alliance for Progress - "The Jacksonville Declaration"
• Fred Clark - "A surge of 'more'"
• Gray Cox - "Meeting God Halfway"
• John Dominic Crossan
  • The Birth of Christianity
    • "[There are] two very different types of society. One type is a universal or functional society."
    • "[Psalm 82 is] the single most important text in the entire Christian Bible."
    • "...the biblical Jewish prophets demanded social justice as covenantal responsibility."
  • God and Empire
    • "My proposal is that justice and love are a dialectic...."
• Daily Word - "Divine Order"
• Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu - Image by Cary Linde
• Ram Dass & Paul Gorman - How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service
  • It was a simple raid on a village: "Suspected Viet Cong."
  • "I'm nobody! I'm nobody!"
  • I catch myself in self-importance ten times a day
• "Fatima" - "Militarism Makes Racism Ok: A Young, Queer Muslim Women Speaks Out" (AFSC: Youth & Militarism Program publication)
• Richard Q. Ford - Quoting Ngugi wa Thiong'o in The Parables of Jesus
• Richard Q. Ford - Reinterpretation of the Parable of the Vineyard
• Phil H. Gulley - "The Meaning of Universalism"
• Douglas Gwyn - Apocalypse of the Word: the Life & Message of George Fox
• Douglas Gwyn - The Covenant Crucified: Quakers and the Rise of Capitalism
• Peter Gomes - The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart
• Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz
  • "The Christ's Breath"
  • "In a Tree House"
  • "Why All This Talk?"
  • "An Infant in Your Arms"
  • "Someone Should Start Laughing"
• Václav Havel - "The Power of the Powerless"
• Chris Hedges - War Is a Force That Give Us Meaning
• Bob Herbert - "Lowering the Volume"
• Frank Herbert - "Religion always leads to rhetorical despotism"
• John Hick - "Surely salvation must be thought of more concretely"
• H. Larry Ingle - First Among Friends
• Jeremiah - "I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts"
• Kabir - "It Stops Working"
• Kids of the World Unite - image by carf on flickr
• Coretta Scott King - "Our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination"
• Bill Kriedler - quoting Madeleine L'Engle on Heron Dance
• Alex Kronemer - "White Hats and Black Hats"
• Marilyn Krysl - "Summer Solstice, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka"
• George Lakey - "The Value of Conflict"
• Michael Lerner
• "When the Right Breaks the Barrier, How Should a Spiritual Left Respond?"
• "Out of Touch"
• Robert Wordsworth Lowery, Doris Plenn - "How Can I Keep from Singing?"
• St. Luke - "The Magnificat"
• George MacDonald
  • "Diversity of Souls"
  • "A Hard Saying"
• Tony Mannaseh - "Middle East Yearly Meeting Cancelled"
• St. Mark - "The rich young man"
• Carolyne Mathlin - "Silent meditation has to be...practiced over and over again. It is like learning to swim."
• St. Matthew - "The Beatitudes"
• Dave Matthews Band - "Mercy"
• Charles Marsh - "A Call for Quiet"
• Thomas Merton
  • New Seeds of Contemplation
  • The Asian Journal
  • Thoughts on Solitude
• Joni Mitchell
  • "Shine"
  • "Hana"
• Robin Mohr - "Quaker history as a uniting force?"
• Thomas Moore - Meditations: On the Monk Who Dwells in Daily Life
• Mother Teresa - "God just listens, too."
• Esther Greenleaf Mürer - "Brief Reflections on Quaker Practice" in Friends Journal
• Henri J. M. Nouwen - Peacework: Prayer + Resistance + Community
• Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope
• St. Paul
  • "Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him"
• Sydney Pollack - The Interpreter
• Psalm 85 - "Mercy and truth...."
• QuakerInfo.com - "Friends' Christmas Experiences"
• The Quaker Testimonies
• Kim Stanley Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt
• Kim Stanley Robinson - Sixty Days and Counting
• Pattann Rogers - "The Creation of the Inaudible"
• Bayard Rustin - Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement, by James Haskins
• Uri Savir - "Virtual Bridge Allows Strangers in Mideast to Seem Less Strange"
• Mike Shell Photography
  • All life is one
• Elizabeth J. A. Siwo-Okundi - "Listening to the Small Voice"
• Peter Steinfels - "Beliefs: Roberts Nomination Raises the Issue of the Role of Religious Faith in Public Life"
• Cardinal Suhard - "To be a witness...."
• Gore Vidal - Cyrus Spirtama, quoting Confucius
• Rabbi David Volpe - "When we place stones on the grave and inscribe the motto above on the stone...."
• Jim Wallis - God's Politics: Why the Right Ges It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
• Paul Woodruff - Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
  • "Religious wars are endemic in our time, which is a time with little care for reverence."
  • "Remember that you are human: this is the central message of ancient Greek reverence."
• Zen precept - On Renunciation
• Howard Zinn - Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
• Marcus Zusak - I Am the Messenger