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Cleveland Friends Library BULLETIN WINTER 2017 #2 Meeting at the Center: Living Love and Recent Additions to Reconciling One With Another the Library By Bruce Birchard (Pendle Hill #442) When asked to give the plenary address at the Friends General Conference Gathering in 2011 on the subject of From Peace to Freedom: Quaker reconciliation, Bruce Birchard had to reexamine his Rhetoric and the Birth of thinking about the roles of activist and reconciler and about God as a noun and a verb. This pamphlet is an American Antislavery, 1657-1761 expanded version of the talk in which he examines the By Brycchan Carey work of reconciliation on three levels: between his gay brother and traditional father, among three branches of In the first book to investigate in detail the origins of the Religious Society of Friends, and in two African antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of nations torn apart by genocidal conflict. Bruce Birchard Friends, Brycchan Carey has written a previous Pendle Hill Pamphlet, The Burning shows how the One-ness Binding Everything: A Spiritual Journey (PHP #332). turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and became the first OTHER LIBRARY organization to take a stand against the slave trade. RESOURCES Through meticulous Besides a collection of over 1,500 books, mostly devoted examination of the earliest to Quaker history, biography, theology, spirituality, peace writings of Friends, including and social activism, the Library also holds a number of journals and letters, Carey Quaker periodicals and pamphlets, among which are: reveals the society’s gradual transition from expressing Pendle Hill Pamphlets - The Quaker retreat at Pendle Hill doubt to adamant opposition. has published a series of short pamphlets (32 pp) each He shows that while year since 1934 on various topics of interest and concern progression toward this to Friends. Six pamphlets are published each year. stance was ongoing, it was slow and uneven and that Cleveland Friends Library has a (nearly) complete vigorous internal debate and discussion were the catalysts collection of Pendle Hill pamphlets. There are currently that ultimately led to a call for abolition. The book over 440 individual titles. highlights the central role of Friends’ in Quaker Religious Thought (QRT) - Published by the the development of Friends’ attitude toward slavery. Quaker Theological Discussion Group since 1959. The Includes references to , in journal describes its purpose to “explore the meaning and Barbados, , the Germantown Protest, implications of our Quaker faith and religious experience London , and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. through discussion and publication. The search for unity Brycchan Carey is Professor of English Literature at Kingston in the claim of truth upon us concerns both the content University in London. He is the author of British Abolitionism and and application of our faith.” Quaker Religious Thought has the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760– published articles, commentary and reviews by major 1807 (Palgrave, 2005). He has published numerous essays and journal figures in the different branches of the Religious Society articles on the literature and cultural history of slavery and abolition, of Friends, including , Lewis Benson, as well as editing three essay collections including Quakers and Henry Cadbury, Wilmer Cooper, Douglas Steere, T. Abolition, coedited with Geoffrey Plank (University of Illinois Press, Canby Jones, Arthur O. Robert, Paul A. Lacey, Hugh 2014). Barbour, Sandra Cronk, Thomas Hamm, Paul Anderson, Ben Pink Dandelion, among many others. Quaker Religious Thought publishes two issues per year. Cleveland Friends - is published by Library has a complete collection of the journal. (FUM) based in Richmond, Indiana. Much of its content Foundation Papers - Published by the New Foundations deals with Quakers in and South America. The Fellowship, is an eight page newsletter, published bi- Library keeps the two most recent years worth of issues. monthly. It features essays and poetry by contemporary Other Pamphlets - The Library has a wide assortment of Friends who share early Friends’ understanding of Christ, pamphlets, published by various Quaker organizations present and active among us, as well as their mission to such as the Friends World Committee for Consultation present the gospel, the power of God, to all people. New (FWCC), Friends General Conference (FGC), Friends Home Foundations Fellowship describes itself as: “Friends and Service Committee, Tract Association of Friends, American Attenders in a number of Yearly Meetings of the Religious Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the Friends Society of Friends (Quakers), and outside of the Society, National Committee on Legislation (FCNL). In addition, who agree with Lewis Benson (1906-86) that a real need there are pamphlets published by individual Quaker exists today for the insights of George Fox into the true meetings or Yearly Meetings on a wide range of subjects. meaning of the Gospel. We have been brought into a These pamphlets have not yet been fully catalogued, fellowship as we work together to proclaim that.” however, you may find many of them grouped by subject Cleveland Friends Library has a complete collection of matter, such as Quaker Process, Quakerism - Introductory Foundation Papers. Material, Quaker Testimonies, Quaker Faith, Peace/Non- Friends Journal: Quaker Thought and Life Today - is an violence, Marriage and Family, Bible, Dying & Death, independent Quaker publication founded as a result of the Prayer, Religious Education, etc. Some of these pamphlets combination of the former The Friend (1827-1955) and are contemporary to various social and world issues such Friends Intelligencer (1844-1955), former publications of the as the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Military Conscription, “orthodox” and “Hicksite” branches of the Religious Civil Rights, etc. Pamphlets are mainly found in the lower Society of Friends. Friends Journal is published 11 times a part of the 5th bookcase. year. Each issue focuses on a theme, the most recent ones A number of pamphlet series are found on the mantle piece. being: “Giving and Philanthropy” (December 2016 issue) These include New Foundation publication series and and “Quakers and Social Media” (November 2016 issue). Beacon Hill Friends House pamphlet series. Friends Journal also regularly publishes reviews of new Faith & Practice and Advices and Queries - Cleveland books touching on Friends. Long-time Cleveland Friend Friends Library also has a collection of Faith & Practice Marty Grundy frequently is asked to write a review. There from various Yearly meetings such as Britain Yearly is also an active Forum for Friends to respond to articles. Meeting (formerly London Yearly Meeting), Philadelphia Poetry by Cleveland Friend Jo Steigerwald was published Yearly Meeting, New England Yearly Meeting, Baltimore in the September 2016 issue. Cleveland Friends Library has Yearly Meeting, Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Five back issues to 2000. Year Meeting. These date mainly from the 20th Century.

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