Living the Quaker Way
Discover the Hidden Happiness in the Simple Life
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4.4 • 5 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
A Publishers Weekly “Top 10 in Religion” selection.
“This is nothing less than the gospel itself…a much-needed book.”
—FR. RICHARD ROHR, OFM,
Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Living the Quaker Way is a treasure trove of practical wisdom about what it means to bear witness to our hope for a better world.”
—Parker J. Palmer, author of Let Your Life Speak
Philip Gulley invites us into a bracing encounter with the rich truths of Quakerism—a centuries-old spiritual tradition that provides not only a foundation of faith but also vision for making the world more just, loving, and peaceable by our presence.
In Living the Quaker Way, Gulley shows how Quaker values provide real solutions to many of our most pressing contemporary challenges. We not only come to a deeper appreciation of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, and equality, we see how embracing these virtues will radically transform us and our world.
Living the Quaker Way includes a 30-day spiritual practice that applies the Quaker tradition of Queries.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Quakerism has many admirers but considerably fewer adherents. Gulley, a Quaker pastor and much-published author (The Evolution of Faith), hopes to reach new members with his newest work, part of the inaugural list of a new imprint aimed at the spiritually curious. He explains central Quaker values and practices simplicity, peace, integrity, community, and equality in clear and inviting ways, drawing on Quaker history to provide context and illustration of the distinctive ways of the Religious Society of Friends (another name for Quakers). He also draws on his own life, acknowledging shortcomings in ways that disarm and attest to the Quaker value of integrity of speech. The set of queries at the book's end is extremely helpful; queries are spiritual tools for self-examination and reflection that can give readers a small taste of the faith. The author goes light on his trademark charming humor, which is unfortunate; religion goes down easier when preached with a smile. Still, Gulley might make "nightstand Friends" people who flirt with Quakerism, reading about it before going to sleep.
