Quakers live our faith with integrity. In religious education, community events, or study groups, with young and old alike, listen with your 'child's mind' to embody Quaker practice, curious to see what will happen. Consider Quaker roles of minister, steward, and witness; experiences of convincement and conviction; experimenting with the Living Spirit in our lives; and engaging in an ecology of essential Quaker practices: worship, spiritual companions, Monthly Meeting, meetings of ministers, stewards, or witnesses, Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice, and bearing witness.

This book and video series encourages Friends to move beyond a cognitive faith into an experiential, everyday, in-every-way kind of Quaker faith--walking in this world as a Friend. Beth Collea

Amazing work capturing the true essence of Quakerism in words that speak across various experiences--radical, unsettling, real. I like the insistence that talking about it is not the same as experiencing it. Marty Grundy

This is profound, brilliant work. Sita Diehl

Creating Cultures of Peace provides a toolbox of ideas and practices for citizen leaders creating loving, conscientious, peaceful homes, communities and societies.

WARNING: Small acts prove the most difficult yet powerful, so:

• Slow down and respect simple ideas and practices.

• Make both tiny and huge changes for love and conscience's sake.

• Do what is important, not what comes readily or easily.

• Remain teachable, let go of old ways and open to new possibilities.

Open to the slow, simple, transforming truths gained through spirals of stopping, opening, releasing, receiving, experimenting, reflecting and expressing. Each part of this book introduces vital areas of practice, which together form an ecology of practice:

• Part I. Get Started with an orientation to prepare for this work.

• Part II. Love Life with practices for peaceful private lives.

• Part III. Act on Conscience with practices for peaceful public lives.

• Part IV. Create Culture with practices for peaceful societies.