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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.

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

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.

Songs of the Spirit.

Select Collections
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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Quaker Clerking

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

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.

Select Websites
Quaker Universalist Fellowship. 2010. Quaker Universalist Fellowship. universalistfriends.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
Nontheist Friends: 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: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends

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In Virtual World
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