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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.

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

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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 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.

(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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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, loving bliss

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

Select Video and Audio
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

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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

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