This page provides or refers to materials that may be useful to you in exploring your spiritual journey, either on your own or with others. It is a miscellany drawn from Patapsco’s past or current study groups and from your suggestions. If you would like to suggest items to be added here, please use our contact form.
- General
- Quaker Practices and Process
- Quaker Testimonies & Concerns
- Materials from our Study Discussions
- Plays for First Day School
- Other Websites
General
- Reading List from the Newcomer Packet.
- Patapsco Friends Meeting Journal
Quaker Practices and Process
- On Worship Sharing
- On Clearness Committees
- On Membership
- Also see A Quaker Path: A Spiritual Journey From Visitor To Attender To Member (pdf) by Western Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice Excerpts:
- Queries
- On Business Procedure
- Principles of Organization and Conduct of Business
- Decision Making in Friends Meetings
- Threshing Sessions, or Meetings for Listening
- The Monthly Meeting
- On Intervisitation among Friends
- On Becoming a Monthly Meeting
Quaker Testimonies & Concerns
- Discussion Guide on Testimony of Integrity (pdf), prepared for Quakerism 101 class, 4/16/2006, by Ken Stockbridge
- Learnings from “Four Doors to Meeting for Worship”(pdf) by William Taber, Pendle Hill Pamphlet #306, 1992., prepared for worship sharing, 2/15/2009, by Jean Pfefferkorn.
- Patapsco’s page from 2001 on The Peace Testimony and 9/11
- Death & Dying Resources from 2005 discussion series (under development)
- Quakers Integrating Spirituality and Sexuality
Materials from our Study Discussions
- Discussion Guide on Testimony of Integrity (pdf), prepared for Quakerism 101 class, 4/16/2006, by Ken Stockbridge
- Learnings from “Four Doors to Meeting for Worship”(pdf) by William Taber, Pendle Hill Pamphlet #306, 1992., prepared for worship sharing, 2/15/2009, by Jean Pfefferkorn.
- Quaker Quotes: a selection of notable quotes initially developed by Ken Stockbridge for a February 2002 study group.
- Quotes from Ken’s Intervisitation Talk on Sunday, 5/15/2011
- Discussion Guides for Brinton’s Friends for 350 Years
Plays for First Day School
- Patapsco’s 10th Anniversary Play, 11/2006, by Ramona Buck (to be posted)
- A December Play on Quakers and the Environment, 12/14/2008, by Ramona Buck
- A Play on Quakers and Mental Health Concerns, 9/2010, for Chesapeake Quarterly Meeting, by Ramona Buck (to be posted)