A Near Sympathy: The Timeless Wisdom of John Woolman Type:E-book (epub, not Kindle) the reader will meet men

the reader will meet men and women who have earned the right to talk about the importance of overcoming hurt and about the peace of mind they have found in doing so

Advice to elders and ministers among the people called Quakers

but also to look beyond that identity to that which we have in common with all of life

first-generation Friends

and Eva's letters to family in the US

A Near Sympathy: The Timeless Wisdom of John Woolman Type:E-book (epub, not Kindle) the reader will meet menToday's world cries out for lives of integrity, for Christian models that integrate the inward life of devotion and the outward life of the activist for justice and peace. We can find no better example than 18th century Quaker John Woolman. Birkel writes of the profound impact John Woolman has had on his own life. He invites readers to become acquainted with the spiritual disciplines and resources that nurtured John Woolman's empathy with the stranger