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Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

Select Blogs
Fager, Chuck. 2010. A New Addition: Online Archive of Print Issues of “A Friendly Letter”. A Friendly Letter, The Blog: Independent Quaker Journalism, Commentary, and More.

Hughes, Ian. 2012. The Evolutionary Potential of Quakerism. April 30. Australia: epoq.wikia.com

Manousos, Anthony. 2010. LA Quaker. laquaker.blogspot.com

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Select Books
Brinton, Howard. 1952. Friends for 300 Years. Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications.

Fager, Chuck. 1987. Quakers are Funny. Fayetteville, NC: Kimo Press.

Fox, George (Rufus M. Jones, ed.). 1908. (1694). George Fox: An Autobiography. Street Corner Society.

Kelly, Thomas. Testament of Devotion.

Oppenheimer, Elizabeth A (ed.). 2009. Writing Cheerfully on the Web: A Quaker Blog Reader. Lulu.com

Pacific Yearly Meeting. 2001. Pacific Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice. Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society Of Friends.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. 2002 (1955). Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Steere, Douglas V. and Elizabeth Gray Vining. 1983. Quaker Spirituality: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality). Paulist Press.

Woolman, John, and John Greenleaf Whittier (introduction). 1879. The Journal of John Woolman. Boston, MA: Houghton, Osgood and Company. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press.

Decision-Making

Sheeran, Michael. 1996 (1983). Beyond Majority Rule: Voteless Decisions in the Religious Society of Friends. (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Friendly Music

Blood, Peter (ed.), Annie Patterson (ed.), Kore Loy McWhirter (illus.) and Pete Seeger (foreword). 2004. Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook. (15th Anniversary Spiral edition). Philadelphia, PA: Sing Out Publications.

Friendly Hymnal.

Music - Quakers. 2012. http://archive.pym.org/pm/lib_comments-17657.php

Songs of the Spirit.

Young Friends and Quaker Children

Build It! A Toolkit for Nurturing Intergenerational Spiritual Community. 2012. [http://fgcquaker.org/toolkit Build It! A Toolkit for Nurturing Intergenerational Spiritual Community]. Philadelphia, PA: Friends General Conference.

Select Communities, Email lists, etc.
(See also editable World University and School's 'You at World University' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University).

Select Funding Sources
Mohr, Chris. 2010. San Francisco Friends Meeting starts a "Fund for Leadings". 7th month 15. QuakerQuaker.org

Select Journals, Serials, etc.
Friends Journal. Philadelphia, PA: Friends Journal.

Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, etc.
Earlham School of Religion. 2010. Earlham School of Religion 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). Richmond, IN: Earlham School of Religion.

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. 2012. Quaker & Special Collections. Haverford, PA: Haverford College.

Library of the Religious Society of Friends. 2012. Library of the Religious Society of Friends. (see, too: http://www.quaker.org.uk/category/tags/library-religious-society-friends). London, UK: Friends' House London.

The Pendle Hill Library. 2012. The Pendle Hill Library. (The collections of the Library are housed in three different buildings on the Pendle Hill campus: Firbank, Upmeads and Main House). Wallingford, PA: The Pendle Hill Library.

Swarthmore Friends' Historical Library. 1871. Swarthmore Friends' Historical Library. Swarthmore, PA: Swarthmore College.

Tripod. 2012. Tripod. (Tripod now searches for individual journal articles as well as the Tri-College libraries’ collection of books, journal titles, multimedia materials, databases and more - Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges). Bryn Mawr, PA: Tripod.

(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Maps
Bales, Micah and Jon Watts. 2010. Quakermaps.com: Mapping the Religious Society of Friends. Quakermaps.com

Select Museums
(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).

Select References
AFSC Board of Directors. 1994. AFSC Mission Statement. June 19. Philadelphia, PA: American Friends' Service Committee.

AFSC Speak Truth to Power. 1955. Speak Truth to Power. Philadelphia, PA: American Friends' Service Committee.

Alexander, George L. 2008. Separation of Church and State: The author reviews this key Constitutional concept and its significance for Friends. Philadelphia, PA: Friends' Journal.

Blackfield, Charlie. 2011. Meditations. charlieblackfield.com

Britain Yearly Meeting. 2011. Sustainability at Yearly Meeting Gathering in Canterbury. August 6. Selly Oak, Birmingham, UK: Woodbrooke Quaker Adult Study Centre.

Cresson, Os. 2007. Roots and Flowers of Quaker Nontheism. NontheistFriends.org. Jan 23. Accessed online: Dec 30, 2008. http://nontheistfriends.org.

Dandelion, Ben Pink (with Terence Handley MacMath). 2010. Interview: Ben Pink Dandelion, Professor of Quaker Studies, Birmingham. Birmingham, UK: Church Times.

de la Mare, Kate. 2011. Friends to join the great Ekta Parishad Walk in India. Cambridge, UK: Friends World Committee for Consultation.

Farnworth, Richard, William Dewsbury and others. 1656. The Epistle from the Elders at Balby, 1656: As in the copy in the Lancashire Records Office at Preston, from the papers of Marsden Monthly Meeting. Lancashire Records Office, Preston, England: Marsden Monthly Meeting.

Fisher, George R. 2012. Quakers: All Alike, All Different. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Reflections: Musings of a Philadelphia Physician who has served the community for six decades.

General Meeting for Scotland. 2011. General Meeting for Scotland. Scotland: quakerscotland.org.

Harris, Jason Craige. 2012. “An Exhortation and Caution to Friends”: A Short Analysis of a Quaker Antislavery Treatise. Cambridge, MA: The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2010.

Hughes, Ian. 2012. Quakerly Inquiry. April 30. Australia: mag.yerin.info/?p=71

Jahn, Gunnar. 1947. Nobel Peace Prize Address (1947) on behalf of Quakers in general. (Also here: http://www2.gol.com/users/quakers/nobel_prize_speech.htm). Stockholm, SE: Nobel Committee.

Kindertransport. 2012. Kindertransport. London, UK: Quakers in Britain.

Kovsky, Bob. 2012. Testimony of Freedom. quadnets.com/testimony/cultivate.html

Manouso, Anthony. 2011. Building a culture of peace, abolishing war: an interfaith effort. May 15. Los Angeles, CA: laquaker.blogspot.com.

Manouso, Anthony. 2011. New Priorities Network comes to San Francisco Friends. June 6. Los Angeles, CA: laquaker.blogspot.com.

Room of Silence/Raum der Stille. 2012. Raum der Stille. Berlin, Germany: Brandenburg Tor.

Ruth, Sibyl. 2011. Listen to Them Breathing. August 15. (about Quakers and poetry). London, UK: www.bbc.co.uk.

Urner, Kirby. 2009. Eclectic Crew: Quakers on Youtube. Feb. 24. Portland, OR: worldgame.blogspot.com

Quaker Clerking

Mohr, Chris. 2011. Tables, Chairs & Oaken Chests. March2. San Francisco, CA: chrismsf.blogspot.com.

Quaker Leadership

Fager, Chuck. 2011. Archive for the ‘Hard-Core Quaker’ Category. March 30. NC: A Friendly Letter, The Blog.

Hyzy, Kathy. 2012. Wanted: Stories from Quaker Leaders!. June 2012. Portland, OR: Western Friend.

Larrabee, Art. 2007. Leadership And Authority In The Religious Society Of Friends. Philadelphia, PA: Southeastern Yearly Meeting.

Leadership among Friends. 2012. Leadership among Friends. Philadelphia, PA: Quaker Books.

Quaker Poets

Hall, Donald.

Kenyon, Jane.

Stafford, William.

Whittier, John Greenleaf. 2010. John Greenleaf Whittier. kimopress.com/whittier.htm

Progressive Friends

Densmore, Christopher. 2005. Truth for Authority, Not Authority for Truth: The 150th Anniversary Celebration of the Longwood Progressive Friends Meetinghouse, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, May 22, 2005. May 22. Kennett Square, PA: The Kennett Underground Railroad Center.

Fager, Chuck. 20xx. Beyond the Age of Amnesia: Charting the Course of 20th Century Liberal Quaker Theology. Issue 3-4. quaker.org.

Exposition of Sentiments. 2010. Exposition of Sentiments. quakerpedia.org

Holmes, Jesse. 2003. "Our Christianity"?. Number 39, Fall & Winter 2003. The Journal of the Quaker Universalist Fellowship

Holmes, Jesse. 1992 (1928). To the Scientifically Minded. Philadelphia, PA: Friends Journal.

Progressive Friends. 2010. Progressive Friends. quakerpedia.org

Quaker Jobs

Quaker Information Center. 2010. Current Job Openings with Quaker and Other Organizations. Richmond, IN: Earlham School of Religion.

Quaker / Friendly delight, bliss, loving bliss

Helpsmeet, Mark Judkins. 2007. The Friendly FolkDancers: Dancing the World Together. Eau Claire, WI: infinitejoy.com/ffd/

MacLeod, Scott. 2008. Loving bliss and practices to elicit this. Canyon, CA: scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm

MacLeod, Scott. 2008. Loving bliss as friends. Canyon, CA: scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissFriends.htm

See Scott MacLeod's blog - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss - and also click on nontheist friend, Nontheist Friend, Quaker, & Quakers.

Young Friends and Quaker Children

Select Video and Audio
Harley, Bill. 2012. TEDxMosesBrownSchool - Bill Harley - Stories Out Loud. Providence, RI: TED Talks.

Urner, Kirby. 2009. Quakers 101 - Dance Party Erupts During Quaker Meeting for Worship & Eating Wasabi. Aug. 9. Portland, OR: mybizmo.blogspot.com

Select Websites
Helpsmeet, Mark Judkins. 2007. Friendly Folkdancers. Eau Claire, WI: Infinite Joy.

Quaker Universalist Fellowship. 2010. Quaker Universalist Fellowship. universalistfriends.org

Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology http://fcrp.quaker.org

Select Wikis
Penn, William. 2010. William Penn (in WikiQuotes). Wikiquotes.

Nontheist Friend. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Friend. Wikipedia.

Urner, Kirby. 2010. Mathematics for Quaker Schools in Oregon etc.. Pacific Northwest, US: Digital Mathematics.

Progressive Friends

Exposition of Sentiments. 2010. Exposition of Sentiments. quakerpedia.org

Progressive Friends. 2010. Progressive Friends. quakerpedia.org

World University and School Links
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Consensus Decision Making: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Consensus_Decision_Making

Nontheist Friends (atheist Quakers?): http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nontheist_Friends_%28atheist_Quakers%3F%29

Peace and Social Justice Studies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies

Quakers - Religious Society of Friends: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends

Academic Press at World University and School
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Admissions at World University and School
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Blog at World University and School
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Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at World University and School
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Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://crlt.indiana.edu/research/qa.html (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

ScienceSim. 2012. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php. Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.

Unity3D. 2012. unity3d.com/

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Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin

Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/

Universal Translator at WUaS
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