Table of Contents
Foreword vi
A Note about Bibles and Bible Translations viii
Part One: Faith 1
"He Must Increase . . ." 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, March 1998
A Confession of Faith 13
Guilford College, 2004
Wrestling with Our Faith Tradition 24
Southern Appalachian YM and Assoc., June 2003
Encounter with the Taproot 55
Lake Erie Yearly Meeting, 1997
Biblical Basis for Quaker Peacemaking 73
Knoxville, Tennessee, early 2004
"Why Do You Still Read That Old Thing?" 104
Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, spring 1996
Part Two: Practice 123
Gathered with One Accord 125
Illinois Yearly Meeting, July 2001
Friends Testimonies in the Marketplace 141
Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 1995
A Lively and Harmonious Exercise 162
North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 2004
How to Be Non-Egyptian in the Land of Pharaoh 176
New York Yearly Meeting, 1997
About the Author 230