These are resources that we have found helpful in learning more about leadings, callings and both individual and corporate discernment. We hope they can help you prepare for attending the conference in May. If you are interested in purchasing any of these books, please visit Quaker Books of FGC (www.Quakerbooks.org) or Friends United Press (http://shop.fum.org/)

Articles and Books

“Learning to Listen,” by Sandra Cronk from Festival Quarterly, Winter 1987, pp. 7-10. Good Books (www.GoodBooks.com).

On Listening: To God and Each Other by Dorothy Steere
The Wider Quaker Fellowship, 1984. 10p.

Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life by Gregg Levoy
Three Rivers Press (CA), 1998. 352 p.

Answering the Call to Heal the World by Patience A. Schenck
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006. 34 PP.

Listening Hearts; Discerning Call in Community by Suzanne Farnham, et.al.
Morehouse, 1991. 143 PP.

Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
Jossey-Bass, 1999. 112 PP.

Nudged by the Spirit by Charlotte Fardelmann
Pendle Hill, 2001. 288 PP.

Practicing Discernment Together by Lon Fendall, Jan Wood, and Bruce Bishop
Barclay Press, 2006. 145 PP.

Pamphlets

Spiritual Discernment: The Context and Goal of Clearness Committees by Patricia Loring
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1992 32 PP.

Being Faithful as Friends by Deborah Fisch
Beacon Hill Friends House, 2006. 32 PP.

Expectant Listening by Michael Wajda
Pendle Hill Pamphlet, 2007. 32 PP.

There is A Hunger by Margery Larrabbee
Larrabee, 1994. 30 PP.

How Do I Know It’s A Leading? by Ruth Hyde-Paine
SEYM, 1992. 19 PP.

Leading and Being Led by Paul A. Lacey
Pendle Hill Pamphlet, 1985.

Web Resources

“Vocation: The Purposeful Life” by Gerald K. Hibbert at