Duke, Elizabeth, The Experience of
Worship,
Quaker Home Service, London,
1995
To help Friends
explore the experience of worship over 7 sessions. Accompanied by Readings in
Worship and an audio tape.
FGC Ministry & Nurture Committee, The Wounded Meeting:
Dealing with Difficult Behaviour in Meeting for Worship,
Friends
General Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
ISBN#0-9260912-7-8, 1993
Meeting the
Needs of the Many While Responding to the Needs of the Few. Explores loving
solutions to disruptive behaviour in Friends Meetings.
MEETING FOR
LEARNING
FGC RE Committee, Opening Doors to Quaker
Worship,
Friends General Conference, Philadelphia,
PA,
ISBN#0-9620912-6-X, 1994
Material for exploring and teaching about
worship in the manner of Friends for all ages. Useful for intergenerational
First Day School, adult study groups and independent study.
Gorman, George H., The Amazing Fact of Quaker
Worship,
Quaker Home Service, London,
ISBN#0-85245-100-8,
1979
Profound and comprehensive look at Quaker worship today.
Hadley, Abbey A., We're Going to Meeting for
Worship,
Friends General Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
1996
A
book to share with a young Friend. Helps children understand Meeting for
Worship. MEETING FOR LEARNING
Hoare, Edward, Deepening the Spiritual Life of the
Meeting,
Friends General Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
1995
"How
do we deepen the spiritual life of the Meeting?" and "Since there were no
birthright Friends in the 1650's, what made them Quakers?". Hoare addresses
these questions and proceeds to answer them based on the 3 C's: conviction,
conversion and committment.
Miller, Larry, The Practice of Quaker
Worship,
Friends General Conference, Philadelphia,
PA,
1997
Includes sections on the gathered Meetiing, settling in and vocal
ministry. Useful tract for new Attenders or discussion groups.
Murer, Esther Greenleaf,
Reflections on Quaker Worship,
Central Philadelphia MM, Philadelphia, PA
2002
Tart and useful reflections on latecomers, on prepared messages
and the like. 30 pp.
Punshon, John, Encounter with Silence,
Friends
United Meeting, Richmond, IN,
ISBN#0-0913408-96, 1987
Provides guidance
for the first-time visitor and the seasoned Friend. A Quakerism 101
resource.
Shaw Judson, Syliva, The Quiet Eye,
Regnery
Gateway, Chicago, IL,
ISBN#0-89526-638-5, 1982
A way of looking at
pictures, quotes and artwork to be used as a way into meditation, a testimony to
the importance of small and quiet things.
Steere, Douglas V., Friends and Worship,
Friends
General Conference, Philadelphia, PA,
Gives a very personal interpretation of
Quaker worship and offers the opportunity for Friends to share their own
experience of worship. MEETING FOR LEARNING
Taber, William, Four Doors to Meeting for
Worship,
Pendle Hill Publications, Wallingford,
PA,
ISBN#0-87574-306-4, 1992
Describes four doors as thresholds into the
heart of worship as communion with the invisible but eternal stream of reality
in which is the living and Eternal Christ.
MEETING FOR LEARNING