Quaker Web Resources

 

Resources and Links

* * * Links to Quaker Organizations and other Resources* * *
Quakerism today spans a wide theological spectrum. Among the several branches of Quakerism there are different forms of church organization and worship. The organizations below reflect some of the diversity among Friends today.

Quaker Information Center
A gateway to Quakerism

Quaker Electronic Archive
Founded in early 1994 as the first general-purpose Quaker site on the Internet, this site contains Quaker writings as well as documents such as minutes and resource guides and basic information about Quakerism. The archive offers a keyword search function, and links to other sites of interest to Friends are also provided.

Quaker Resources on the Web
Compiled by Bill Samuel

The Quaker Writings Home Page
Dedicated to presenting and renewing the Christian testimony of the Society of Friends.
Maintained by Peter Sippel

Quaker Roots
The Quaker Corner is the official repository for the QUAKER-ROOTS discussion group, a very active mailing list with over 1,200 subscribers. Many of them are helpful authorities on doing Quaker research and the Society of Friends, past and present.

Quaker Finder
Use this site to locate Friends Meetings across the US & Canada. Includes pastoral meetings but appears to have much more complete listings of unprogrammed meetings, especially those affiliated with FGC (which hosts the site).

Friends World Committee for Consultation
FWCC is the umbrella organization for the 400,000+ Friends (Quakers) around the world. Their purpose is to encourage fellowship among all the branches of the Religious Society of Friends.

American Friends Service Committee
The AFSC is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action, nurturing the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social relations and systems.

Friends General Conference
FGC provides services and resources for individual Friends, meetings, and people interested in the Quaker way. FGC is an association of regional Quaker communities in the U.S. and Canada working together to nurture a vital Quaker faith. These Friends are liberal and their meetings for worship are unprogrammed.

Friends United Meeting
An international association of Friends (Quakers) with 30 regional Friends’ bodies around the world. FUM yearly meetings work together in Christian evangelism, global partnership, leadership development, and communications. Their meetings for worship are programmed or semi-programmed and they employ pastors.

Earlham School of Religion
ESR is a Christian seminary in the Quaker tradition located in Richmond, Indiana. It places high emphasis upon the value of listening for and discerning God’s call into ministry, grounded in distinctives such as integrity, equality, and peace. In addition to both residential and distance degree programs, ESR offers annual gatherings: a Writer’s Colloquium, a Spirituality Gathering, and a Leadership Conference.

Pendle Hill
Pendle Hill is a Quaker center welcoming all for Spirit-led learning, retreat, and community. Its vision is to create peace with justice in the world by transforming lives. Come for a private retreat, a weekend workshop, or for its residential program for one, two, or three ten-week terms.

A Ministry of Prayer and Learning devoted to the School of the Spirit:
http://schoolofthespirit.org/
This ministry serves the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and is dedicated to helping all those who wish to be more faithful listeners and responders to the inward work of Christ, the Inward Teacher. They offer silent retreats and a two-year program on Being a Spiritual Nurturer.

QuakerQuaker.Org
Dedicated to “Primitive Christianity Revived Again”, this site highlights some of the best blogs and other writings by contemporary Quakers.

Inward Light
Letting God lead: our worship, lives, faith communities & world. Peter-Blood Patterson’s website has many useful resources and links related to Quaker faith and practice today.


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Earlham School of Religion’s digital Quaker collection
DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries. The proprietary software developed for Earlham School of Religion provides multiple search functions and an interface for viewing pages.

Quaker Heritage Press online documents:
QHP aims to make available various historical Quaker writings that have been allowed to go out of print, including a valuable collection of documents from the beginning of the Quaker movement.

[,] Friends Library
Early Quaker writings available for free download.

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