22.01 ‘Some fruits of solitude’, 1693, maxim 548, William Penn, A collection of the works, 1726, vol1, p843; Select works, 1782, vol5, p166.
22.02 Drafted by 1994 Revision Committee.
22.03 Sandra Cronk, Peace be with you, [1983], p16.
22.04 Elizabeth Seale Carnall, ‘Towards a new advice on personal relationships, including marriage’, in South East Scotland MM Peace & Social Responsibility Committee, A monthly meeting looks at love, friendship and the sexes, 1981, p8.
22.05 Damaris Parker-Rhodes, Truth: a path and not a possession (Swarthmore lecture), 1977, p64.
22.06 Christopher Holdsworth, Steps in a large room: a Quaker explores the monastic tradition (Swarthmore lecture), 1985, p65.
22.07 John Punshon, Encounter with silence, 1987, p38.
22.08 George Gorman, ‘Faith and fellowship in the light of experience’, Friends quarterly, vol22 (1980-1982), p547.
22.09 Douglas Steere, Where words come from (Swarthmore lecture), 1955, p1.
22.10 John Macmurray, ‘Ye are my Friends’, [1942], p3.
22.11 Drafted by 1994 Revision Committee.
22.12 Elizabeth Seale Carnall, ‘Towards a new advice on personal relationships, including marriage’, in South East Scotland MM Peace & Social Responsibility Committee, A monthly meeting looks at love, friendship and the sexes, 1981, p8.
22.13 Towards a Quaker view of sex, by a group of Friends, 1963, pp38-39.
22.14 Text by Bill Edgar submitted to Yearly Meeting 1994.
22.15 Towards a Quaker view of sex, by a group of Friends, 1963, p36.
22.16 Minute 9 of Wandsworth Preparative Meeting, 12 March 1989; the extract is taken direct from the manuscript minute book.
22.17 Gordon Macphail, ‘AIDS, sin and the Society of Friends’, Friends quarterly, vol26 (1990-1991), p129. The order of some sentences has been changed.
22.18 Towards a Quaker view of sex, by a group of Friends, 1963, p45.
22.19 Minute 48 of London Yearly Meeting, London YM Proc, 1994, p238.
22.20 Query 10, 1964.
22.21 Drafted by 1994 Revision Committee.
22.22 A journal of the life of...William Caton, 1689, p8; cf A R Barclay, ed, Journals of...William Caton and John Burnyeat, 1839, pp9-10 (entry for 1652).
22.23 Testimony of Hardshaw East MM concerning Amy Lewis, London YM Proc, 1952, p168.
22.24 Drafted by 1959 Revision Committee.
22.25 Ruth Fawell, Courage to grow, 1987, p15.
22.26 Written by Margaret McNeill for the 1994 Revision Committee, 1990.
22.27 Rachel Rowlands, ‘Space and freedom in a community’, The Friend, vol147 (1989), p955.
22.28 Letter from Margaret Glover, The Friend, vol146 (1988), p671.
22.29 Gordon Macphail, ‘The pastoral care of gay Friends’, The Friend, vol146 (1988), p1371.
22.30 Caroline E Stephen, Light arising, 1908, pp130-131.
22.31 Written by Jennifer Johnson for the 1994 Revision Committee, 1990.
22.32 Written by ‘Some Westminster Friends’ for the 1994 Revision Committee, 1990.
22.33 Drafted by 1994 Revision Committee.
22.34 Elise Boulding, One small plot of heaven: reflections on family life by a Quaker sociologist, 1989, pp2-3.
22.35 ‘Some fruits of solitude’, 1693, maxims 79, 100, 101, 103, 81, 97, 99; William Penn, A collection of the works, 1726, vol1, pp825-826; Select works, 1782, vol5, pp129-132.
22.36 Job Scott, Journal, New York, 1797, pp74-75; 1843 London edn, pp69-70: letter to his future wife Eunice Anthony, 22 January 1780.
22.37 Ruth I Midgley, Quakerism and family life, 1950, pp5-6.
22.38 Elizabeth Watson, ‘Each of us inevitable’: keynote address to the midwinter gathering of Friends Committee for Gay Concerns, 20 February 1977, New York, in Robert Leuze, ed, Each of us inevitable. Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns: some keynote addresses...1977-1989, 1989, p2.
22.39 Unpublished writing by William G Sewell, 1982.
22.40 Testimony of Worcestershire & Shropshire MM concerning Jessie Gadsden, London YM Proc, 1991, p139.
22.41 Harold Loukes, Christians and sex: a Quaker comment, 1962, pp26-27.
22.42 Donald A Green, ‘The transforming power of the love of God’ in Mary Green, ed, A part of my heart left here: renewal messages of Donald A Green, 1986, pp15-16.
22.43 Drafted by 1959 Revision Committee.
22.44 Text by Don Grimsditch & Doris Mitchell-Grimsditch submitted to Yearly Meeting 1994.
22.45 Minute 3 of Meeting for Sufferings, 4 July 1987, printed in The Friend, vol145 (1987), p880.
22.46 The first two paragraphs are taken from Alison Davis, ‘Let the revolution begin?’, Quaker monthly, vol73 (1994), pp144-145; omissions are not indicated in the text. The final paragraph was jointly written by Alison Davis & Mark Hughes.
22.47 Drafted by 1994 Revision Committee.
22.48 Drafted by 1959 Revision Committee.
22.49 Towards a Quaker view of sex, by a group of Friends, revised edn, 1964, p24. This passage does not appear in the 1st edn.
22.50 S Jocelyn Burnell, Broken for life (Swarthmore lecture), 1989, p40.
22.51 Elizabeth Seale Carnall, ‘Towards a new advice on personal relationships, including marriage’, in South East Scotland MM Peace & Social Responsibility Committee, A monthly meeting looks at love, friendship and the sexes, 1981, p8.
22.52 Peter Wallis, ‘Briefly’, The Friend, vol145 (1987), p786.
22.53 [Loraine Brown], ‘The family’, in QSRE, Human relationships and sexuality: a study pack, 1985.
22.54 Text by Anne Hosking submitted to Yearly Meeting 1994.
22.55 Written anonymously, 1990, for the 1994 Revision Committee.
22.56 Text by Jane Heydecker submitted to Yearly Meeting 1994.
22.57 Text by Pauline Condon submitted to Yearly Meeting 1994.
22.58 Text submitted anonymously to Yearly Meeting 1994.
22.59 Text submitted anonymously to Yearly Meeting 1994.
22.60 Drafted by 1959 Revision Committee.
22.61 Damaris Parker-Rhodes, The way out is the way in, 1985, p96.
22.62 Dorothy Steere, On listening to God and to each other, 1984, pp3-4.
22.63 Elizabeth Watson, ‘Parents and children in the Quaker home’, Quaker monthly, vol59 (1980), p70; repr from The Canadian Friend, vol 75, no5 (Sept-Oct 1979), pp14-15.
22.64 Juliet Batten, in Relative experience: a contemporary anthology of Quaker family life, collected and edited by Keith Redfern with Sue Collins, 1994, pp60-62.
22.65 Douglas & Jenny Butterfield, ‘Family feeling’, The Friend, vol144 (1986), p809.
22.66 [Rosalind Priestman], ‘Personal relationships’, QSRE, Human relationships and sexuality: a study pack, 1985.
22.67 [Caroline Jones], in Relative experience: a contemporary anthology of Quaker family life, collected and edited by Keith Redfern with Sue Collins, 1994, pp63-66; omissions are not indicated in the text.
22.68 Hugh Pyper, A sense of adventure, 1986, p17.
22.69 Arthur Hardy, ‘Helping parents to understand’, The Friend, vol147 (1989), p19.
22.70 Kenneth C Barnes, Discipline in the Quaker home, 1960, p23.
22.71 Anne Hosking, ‘A child’s gift of worship’, Friends quarterly, vol23 (1983-1985), p228.
22.72 Unpublished writing by William G Sewell, 1982.
22.73 Drafted by 1994 Revision Committee.
22.74 [Rosalind Priestman], ‘Personal relationships’, in QSRE, Human relationships and sexuality: a study pack, 1985; printed here with minor changes.
22.75 ‘Chris’, ‘Marriage breakdown in the Society’, The Friend, vol144 (1986), pp773-774.
22.76 Harold Loukes, Christians and sex: a Quaker comment, 1962, pp27-28.
22.77 Maria Bruce, report of a conversation, c1980.
22.78 ‘Janet’ [Jennifer Morris], in Anne Hosking & Alison Sharman, eds, Quakers in the eighties: what it’s like to be a Friend, 1980, p15.
22.79 New England YM Committee on Ministry & Counsel (Family Life Subcommittee), Living with oneself and others: working papers on aspects of family life, 1985, p42.
22.80 Ruth Fawell, Courage to grow, 1987, p81.
22.81 Written by Margery Still for the 1994 Revision Committee, 1990.
22.82 Robert Tod, ‘Where is your sadness?’, The Friend, vol 147 (1989), p266.
22.83 Sheila Bovell, ‘ “I wish it would always be Wednesday” ’, The Friend, vol146 (1988), p1013.
22.84 Rufus Jones, The luminous trail, 1947, pp163-164.
22.85 ‘A father’ [Peter Tatton-Brown], ‘The thread is not broken’, The Friend, vol147 (1989), p13.
22.86 Joan Fitch, Handicap and bereavement, 1988, p16.
22.87 Zoe White, A Quaker theology of pastoral care: the art of the everyday (Pendle Hill pamphlet 281), 1988, p9.
22.88 Text by Vivien Whitaker submitted to Yearly Meeting 1994.
22.89 Diana Lampen, Facing death, 1979, pp9-10, 17. The order of some sentences has been changed.
22.90 Margaret Torrie, Begin again: a book for women alone, 1975 edn, p146.
22.91 Unpublished writing by William G Sewell, 1982.
22.92 Drafted by 1994 Revision Committee.
22.93 Caroline E Stephen, Light arising, 1908, pp164-165.
22.94 ‘In memoriam’ (1905), in John Wilhelm Rowntree, Essays and addresses, 1905, pp417-418.
22.95 ‘Some fruits of solitude’, 1693, maxims 489, 490, 498-503, 505, and ‘More fruits’, 1693, maxims 127-134; William Penn, A collection of the works, 1726, vol1, pp841, 850-851; Select works, 1782, vol5, pp162-163, 183.
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