Below is a list of notable Quaker literature available online and/or in the Vassalboro Friends Meeting library.  This page will be updated fairly frequently. Most descriptions of sites are from the sites themselves.

Pendle Hill Catalog [EXTERNAL LINK], publisher of the Pendle Hill pamphlet series, many volumes of which are available for reading in the Vassalboro Friends Meeting library.

Friends General Conference Library [EXTERNAL LINK], which provides resources and tools to assist in strengthening Monthly Meetings and deepening the quality of worship.

Quaker Electronic Archive [EXTERNAL LINK], which contains Quaker writings, as well as documents, such as minutes and resource guides, and basic information about Quakerism.

Quaker Heritage Press [EXTERNAL LINK], a database of historical Quaker texts.

Quaker Pamphlets [EXTERNAL LINK] on Quaker.org is an online collection of Quaker publications. The online archive of Pendle Hill Pamphlets [EXTERNAL LINK] is notable.

• Frederick B. Tolles: Quakerism and Politics [EXTERNAL LINK] “It was just two hundred years ago, in October 1756, that the Quakers abdicated their political control of Pennsylvania, and the “Holy Experiment” in government in the Valley of the Delaware came to a close…”

Street Corner Society [EXTERNAL LINK] refers to a common space where the historical experience of Friends and other groups connects with issues of our day, and where we as modern-day Friends and fellow-travellers may discover ourselves more clearly in a broader, historical context.

• George Fox: Epistle #137 [EXTERNAL LINK] “Then many, that have been unstable, may wish that they had kept their secrets in their bosoms, and in God’s wisdom sought to restore all, and not to scatter…”
• William Penn: Primitive Christianity Revived [EXTERNAL LINK] “… I write with humility towards God, though with confidence towards thee; not that thou shouldst believe upon my authority nothing less, for that’s not to act upon knowledge, but trust, but that thou shouldst try and approve what I write; for that is all I ask, as well as all I need for thy conviction and my own justification.”

Other Documents:

• Bob Reuman: Walls [DOC format] “One of the most curious features of contemporary times is to be found in the existence of walls. I am thinking, of course, of a certain kind of “political” wall, often constructed from stones and bricks, frequently of barbed wire, and usually patrolled by silent armed men…”
• John Yungblut: Quakerism of the Future [PDF format] “It is not our cherished Quaker institutions of Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly meetings that matter most in the end… it is the vital energy for which our institutions have provided reasonably effective conductors that is most precious to us.”
• Rufus Jones: Rethinking Quaker Principles [PDF format] “It is not often that something wholly new comes to our world. We can probably say that something absolutely new never happens. The newest form always bears some marks of the old out of which it sprung. The new, like the new moon, is born in the arms of the old. We have a new word for the breaking in of the new out of the existent old. We call it amutation.”