New Haven Friends Meeting November 2020 Starter list of resources to find out more about Quakers and Quakerism The History of Friends: Most of the following resources are available through QuakerBooks of FGC or the Pendle Hill online bookstore. • Friends for 350 Years, Howard Brinton • Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye • Silence and Witness: The Quaker Tradition, Michael Birkel • Journal of George Fox • Journal of John Woolman • The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America, Margaret Hope Bacon • Portrait in Grey: A Short history of the Quakers, John Punshon • Quaker.org history section • How Quakerism Began, QuakerSpeak video Quaker Faith and Practice: • QuakerSpeak video on Testimonies: The Quaker Spices • New England Yearly Meeting (NEYM): Faith and Practice • A Testament of Devotion, Thomas R. Kelly • A Procession of Friends: Quakers in America, Daisy Newman • Friends Journal • 2014 Swarthmore Lecture (video), University of Bath, Ben Pink Dandelion • Pendle Hill Pamphlets in general, and specifically The Nature of Quakerism, by Howard H. Brinton Witness into Action: • Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (film) • The Vote, PBS series that mentions Alice Paul • A Journey Toward Eliminating Racism in the Religious Society of Friends, Vanessa Julye • QuakerSpeak video: Holding the Peace: Quaker Nonviolence in the Time of Black Lives Matter • New England Yearly Meeting’s Priorities for 2020-2021 o 2016 Minutes on Climate Change o A Letter of Apology to Indigenous Peoples (under revision) and a Call for Us to Act: https://neym.org/working-group-right-relationship-indigenous-peoples o A Call to Urgent Loving Action for the Earth and Her Inhabitants, which names the interconnected nature of “systemic problems of racism, social injustice, violence, greed, and failure to act on the climate crisis.” o The Outgoing Epistle of the 2020 Virtual Pre-Gathering of Friends of Color and their Families, Friends General Conference (FGC) .