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Reflection: Facing Fears of Shared Accountability among Friends Today
Why are Friends today so afraid to wrestle with each other about what they believe is right?
An earlier essay on the same subject is Holy Obedience: Corporate Discipline and Individual Leading. This 1998 essay grew out of a panel presentation at the Pendle Hill conference held at Haverford College on Friends and the Vietnam War. It explores the ways Friends reach unity on issues of social conscience and witness for change.
Throwing Open the Doors to My Heart
An address delivered at FGC Annual Gathering in Amherst MA in July 2004.
Firbank Fell's Challenge for 21st-Century Quakerism
Describes key challenges facing Friends today around issues of spiritual authority and readiness to draw in new people to the Quaker movement. Inspired by a late night hike Peter took with his son, Nate, to the isolated rural site in Yorkshire often considered the birthplace of Quakerism in 1652.
Nurturing the Gift of Vocal Ministry
Ways meetings have encouraged spirit-led ministry, historically and today.
Christ's Jubilee Challenge
Jesus proclaimed "good news to the poor" when he embarked on his ministry. Will this new millenium be good news for the poor & oppressed peoples of the world today?
The Harvest
A poem Peter wrote on his dreams for radical spiritual re-awakening at the change of the millenium.
Peter was active in the committee that drafted the influential Epistle of the 1985 World Gathering of Young Friends.
Peter was also on the epistle committee for the Epistle from Quakercamp at Stillwater
See also the area on Sexuality & Spirituality on this site.
Peter welcomes feedback or thoughts in response to any of these pieces. You can contact him at email Peter
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20th Anniversary (yes - Rise Up Singing is 20 years old!) Singalong Concerts & Workshops
June 27-July 4, 2010, Barnesville OH Quakerspring gathering (just prior to 2010 FGC summer gathering in Bowling Green OH)
See also swing performances Annie is doing with the
O-Tones
We urge you to check out the new website:
promoting efforts to secure a Nobel Peace Prize for legendary folk singer & environmental & peace activist, Pete Seeger. A new edition of Seeger's autobiography (which Peter edited) is coming out this spring.
There are some great quotes from Pete on the power of group singing in the recent New York Times article on community sings around the country, many of which use Rise Up Singing.
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