Adult Religious Education
Learning Quaker faith and practice is a lifelong pursuit. This collection has just a sampling of Quaker literature and educational resources to help Friends learn individually and collectively about our faith, go deeper into Quaker practice, and prepare to be a light in the world.
If you are planning programs for the adults people in your meeting, you you may appreciate these adult education curricula, videos, books and book lists.…
Curricula like…
Revolutionary Roots of Quakerism: a six-session journey with Early Friends
Mid-17th century England was swept by dramatic changes: sharp religious and political conflict, rising hopes, charismatic leaders and popular grassroots movements - in short, a world much like the one we live in today. Quakers were born as a faith community into this...
Deepening Meeting Life
This curriculum enables Friends to explore central tenets in the shared life of a Friends Meeting. Topics include: Quakerism as an adventure in direct, unmediated, ongoing guidance by Spirit. Exploring our faith with each other. Deepening worship — how we can...
Seeing the Tapestry — Companion to FWCC QuakerSpeak Video Series
As a companion to the Friends World Committee on Consultation (FWCC) QuakerSpeak video series, QREC has partnered with FWCC to produce this resource manual bridging the various traditions within local Friends' meetings and churches. The videos are wonderful places to...
Videos like…
QuakerSpeak videos, from Friends Journal, are excellent conversation starters. A few greatest hits
2020 QREC Participants: Leading Roles in Videos
Kenyan Quakers visit Dartmouth, 2016: Agneta Injairu and Marian Baker. Agneta describes the coming of the first Friends to Kenya. 350th Anniversary of New England Yearly Meeting (Quakers): Rebecca Leuchak (Clerk, New England Yearly Meeting Sessions Committee),...
QuakerSpeak Video Project
QuakerSpeak is a Quaker YouTube channel offering interviews with Friends of all different backgrounds, responding to the core questions of our faith. QuakerSpeak interviews are brief, personal and intimate, seeking to give viewers an experience that is entertaining,...
Book recommendations…
We lift up a few essential readings on Quaker Faith and Practice for individual or group study. These works can be purchased from Quaker sources. They may also be available in Meeting House libraries.
Beyond Consensus: Salvaging the Sense of the Meeting
The author, Barry Morely, discusses three essential components in discovering the sense of the meeting: release, long focus, and transition to light, all of which are nurtured by worship. Rich stories of life experiences, especially with adolescents, illustrate the...
Listening Spirituality, Volume I: Personal Spiritual Practices Among Friends.
This volume of personal spiritual practices, located within the context of Quaker spirituality, formations and transformation, if the first part of a longer work on Quaker spiritual formation. An important part of the underlying vision, however, is that personal...
Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey
Our Life is Love describes the transformational spiritual journey of the first Quakers, who turned to the Light of Christ within and allowed it to be their guide. Many Friends today use different language, but are still called to make the same journey. In our time...
Book lists…
Quaker literature is rich and deep. Beyond the books listed individually in this collection, you can browse the Quaker classics.
A Friendly Reading List
A weighted compilation of 929 current Quaker titles surveyed and ranked by Friendly Librarians through publication year 2007. The list is arranged according to the reader's experience with Quaker Meetings. Goals are to help Friends meetings without a Friendly...
