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Authors/Sources
Karen Armstrong
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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
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Globalization: The Human Consequences
Howard H. Brinton
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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
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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
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Apocalypse of the Word: the Life & Message of George Fox
Douglas Gwyn
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The Covenant Crucified: Quakers and the Rise of Capitalism
Peter Gomes
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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
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War Is a Force That Give Us Meaning
Bob Herbert
- "Lowering the Volume"
Frank Herbert
- "Religion always leads to rhetorical despotism"
H. Larry Ingle
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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
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The Interpreter
Kim Stanley Robinson
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The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
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Sixty Days and Counting
Bayard Rustin
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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
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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
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Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
Marcus Zusak
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I Am the Messenger
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