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The Ultimate Political Pamphlet Collection gathers eleven influential works of revolution, reform, socialism, anarchism, civil liberty, and political dissent. This collection presents political writing at its most urgent, polemical, and consequential.

For more than sixty years, Friends have used A Guide to Quaker Practice to demystify Friends’ activities. Howard Brinton wrote the guide assuming that somebody would improve on his work as the Religious Society of Friends grew and changed in the second half of the twentieth century. His guide proved more durable than he anticipated. It saw three printings during the 1940s. Following a thorough revision in 1950, it was reprinted ten times before its next revision in 1993. One explanation for its durability can be found in Brinton’s own writing.

S'il y a bien un truc qui m'agace, ce sont les romans à l'eau de rose sauce vampire. Mais qu'ont-elles, à la fin, ces amoureuses de Dracula d'opérette ? Ça ne tourne vraiment pas rond chez elles et ça commence à bien faire ; il est grand temps de rétablir la vérité : les vampires n'existent pas. Comment ça, "et s'ils existent ?" ? Eh bien, s'ils existent, je vais m'occuper de leur refaire le portrait, ça changera ! Je vais publier sur mon blog un pamphlet ; un pamphlet contre les vampires.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish philosopher, social commentator, satirical writer, essayist, mathematician, and historian. Latter-Day Pamphlets is a series of essays published in 1850, in which he harshly denounces the political, social, and religious injustices and stupidities of the period. The target of many of the essays is the effect of greed on the culture. Carlyle also attacked the British parliament, democracy and the prison system.

Reformer of the Franciscan Movement. Reformer of the Franciscans Come with us to Assisi and Siena,where St. Bernardine converted the people to adore Jesus in the Eucharist. See the symbol of the Eucharist in Siena and Florence as a result of evangelization by the Saint. Follow the Saint on his last journey which ended in the mountain town of L'Aquila, where he died and is buried.

Marie Antoinette has been tried for centuries: in pamphlets, caricatures, gossip, and myth. This is her life — and the autopsy of the reputation that consumed it. Sent from Vienna to Versailles at fourteen, Marie Antoinette became the most visible woman in France just as a nation began to fracture under debt, inequality, and hunger. As public anger rose, her clothes, friendships, foreign birth, and even her motherhood were turned into evidence of corruption. Long before the guillotine, she was executed in story — reduced to a symbol that made complex failures feel like the fault of one ...

The doctrine of The Trinity has long been recognized by Catholic and Protestant Christians to be a faithful reflection of the biblical data about God, as well as being an essential doctrine of the Christian faith. However, many heretical sects deny this teaching in one way or another. The WatchTower Society and their members, called Jehovah's Witnesses, hold to a form of Arianism which teaches that only God The Father is God. Jesus, on their view, is a mere creature, a mere human prophet, just as human and you and I, but certainly not divine. As for The Holy Spirit, they don't believe that ...

Clear Illustrations for Every Critical Technique When the ambulance is ten minutes away, the difference between life and death is you. Medical emergencies don’t wait for the right moment. They happen at home, on the road, at work, or while traveling. In those first critical minutes—before emergency services arrive—panic can take over. When that moment comes, will you freeze… or will you know exactly what to do? Many people think they know basic first aid. They rely on outdated advice, misinformation from movies, or techniques they learned years ago. But in a real emergency, guessing...

The Quaker Coalition for Uprooting Racism (QCUR) strives to support Quaker communities in addressing patterns of racial wounding and in adopting practices that support patterns of racial justice. In this pamphlet, two members of the QCUR steering committee, Lauren Brownlee and Zenaida Peterson, explore Quaker patterns of conflict avoidance, “guardians of the status quo,” denying oppression exists within Quakerism, performativity, and inattention to right relationship with time. They offer guidance on how to recognize and shift these harmful patterns. Discussion questions are included.

250 Years Later: A Pamphlet on the State of Our Union By Cato Americanus and Grok AI On the eve of America's 250th anniversary, one man’s questions sparked a deep examination of our founding principles. Drawing directly from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, and Ayn Rand’s philosophy of reason and rights, this modern pamphlet asks the hard questions our nation must face. Are we ruled by feelings or objective truth? What power have we surrendered in the social ...

‘Grimly fascinating … engrossing’ Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proceedings which promised not only gore, but...

Once in a while, someone says something that stops me in my tracks. Their words seem to encapsulate a truth, showing me a life very different from mine, or perhaps an idea new to me, an insight, or something we unexpectedly share. That truth seems to expand, in somewhat the same way that poetry expands, as we add imagination, empathy, experience. It seems to invite me in.

Praying with and for one another is a powerful way to engender spiritual vitality in our lives and meeting communities. Intercessory prayer—prayer for another person—comes in many forms. Friends often speak of it as “holding one another in the Light.” It may involve lifting up specific requests on behalf of someone else, or simply joining with God’s constant love for that person. It can be done when we are alone or with others. However we understand it and practice it, holding one another in the Light can bring us into deeper spiritual intimacy with each another, the world, and the Divine.

This essay concentrates on the communal and societal aspects of gospel order as the foundation of meeting – or church – community life. “Gospel” refers to the actual relationship with God. “Order” refers to the patterns of daily living which flow from God. PHP 297

This political pamphlet calls on Congress to reclaim its sovereign powers to declare war and make laws. Rules of Congress shall be reformed: To require Congress to vote upon Declaration of War whenever the President initiates unauthorized military actions, and if not adopted, to stop use of military force To require Congress to intervene with timely acts to stop Executive abuse of powers by its deliberate defiance of laws and the Constitution By its effect the proposed Rules of Conscience will initiate the necessary Constitutional confrontation to assert and test the sovereign ...

Setting Regency London, 1814: the Thames has frozen into a smoky, gingerbread-scented street of stalls, sermons, swings, and deeply suspect timber. Hook A woman selling dangerous jokes under the cover of moral pamphlets must decide whether the most hazardous thing on the ice is the cracking river, the missing copper plate, or the principled officer who keeps catching her at her cleverest. Promise A low-heat, sharp-tongued happy-for-now romance pairs with a clue-led historical mystery where saw marks, missing metal, loose tongues, and printed evidence all matter, even when London’s ...

A shout out to revive the prophetic message in Quaker worship and ministry and in Christianity.

A lifelong student of mysticism shares the experience of contemplative prayer in facing many forms of diminishment: birth defects, natural disasters, aging, and death itself.

The concept of the Stream, not original with Bill Taber, first appeared in his conscious mind during a Pendle Hill conference on the future of Quakerism about 1968 and has continued to have a powerful place in his consciousness ever since.

Coming to Light explores the practice and process of the clearness committee, a means of spiritual discernment used by Quakers that has also proved helpful to many others. The author shares her personal experience of clearness committees, first as a member of the Religious Society of Friends and then as a retreat leader for the Center for Courage & Renewal, which uses the clearness committee as the center of its practice. The pamphlet includes a sample format of a clearness committee and material that may be used as handouts.