Authors/Sources

• 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"
• Zygmunt Bauman - Globalization: The Human Consequences
• 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
• Tracy Chapman - "Heaven's Here on Earth"
• 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."
• 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
• 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"
• Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz - "In a Tree House"
• 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"
• H. Larry Ingle - First Among Friends
• Jeremiah - "I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts"
• Coretta Scott King - "Our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination"
• Alex Kronemer - "White Hats and Black Hats"
• Michael Lerner - "When the Right Breaks the Barrier, How Should a Spiritual Left Respond?"
• Robert Wordsworth Lowery, Doris Plenn - "How Can I Keep from Singing?"
• St. Luke - "The Magnificat"
• Tony Mannaseh - "Middle East Yearly Meeting Cancelled"
• St. Matthew - "The Beatitudes"
• Charles Marsh - "A Call for Quiet"
• Joni Mitchell - "Shine"
• Robin Mohr - "Quaker history as a uniting force?"
• Esther Greenleaf Mürer - "Brief Reflections on Quaker Practice" in Friends Journal
• Sydney Pollack - The Interpreter
• Kim Stanley Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt
• Kim Stanley Robinson - Sixty Days and Counting
• Bayard Rustin - Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement, by James Haskins
• Peter Steinfels - "Beliefs: Roberts Nomination Raises the Issue of the Role of Religious Faith in Public Life"
• 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