Kindling a Life of Concern: Spirit-Led Quaker Action
Pendle Hill is pleased to return to print this essay by Jack Kirk, originally published in 1987 under the title "Creaturely Activities or Spiritually Based Concerns?" in the anthology Friends Face the World, edited by Leonard Kenworthy. We find in this essay a deeply meaningful discussion of the role of "concerns" in the lives of Friends, as well as excellent guidance for the discernment and testing of leadings. The essay is presented substantially as it originally appeared. The author has introduced minor revisions to update the material, and has rewritten much of the final section on the call to wholeness for the Friends community in response to the state of the Religious Society of Friends in 2009.

Jack's focus on the value of bringing together divergent approaches to Quakerism leads him to embrace Convergent Quakerism, which combines "unprogrammed, programmed, liberal, evangelical, post-liberal, post-evangelical, emerging, postmodern, Christian, seekers, and young and old. We are people who've grown tired of the old categories and the lack of creativity our tradition has found itself in; we're bothered by the absence of a relevant Quaker message in the world and we like to use what ever means possible to share our ideas and connect."
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Kindling a Life of Concern: Spirit-Led Quaker Action
Pendle Hill is pleased to return to print this essay by Jack Kirk, originally published in 1987 under the title "Creaturely Activities or Spiritually Based Concerns?" in the anthology Friends Face the World, edited by Leonard Kenworthy. We find in this essay a deeply meaningful discussion of the role of "concerns" in the lives of Friends, as well as excellent guidance for the discernment and testing of leadings. The essay is presented substantially as it originally appeared. The author has introduced minor revisions to update the material, and has rewritten much of the final section on the call to wholeness for the Friends community in response to the state of the Religious Society of Friends in 2009.

Jack's focus on the value of bringing together divergent approaches to Quakerism leads him to embrace Convergent Quakerism, which combines "unprogrammed, programmed, liberal, evangelical, post-liberal, post-evangelical, emerging, postmodern, Christian, seekers, and young and old. We are people who've grown tired of the old categories and the lack of creativity our tradition has found itself in; we're bothered by the absence of a relevant Quaker message in the world and we like to use what ever means possible to share our ideas and connect."
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Kindling a Life of Concern: Spirit-Led Quaker Action

Kindling a Life of Concern: Spirit-Led Quaker Action

by Jack Kirk
Kindling a Life of Concern: Spirit-Led Quaker Action

Kindling a Life of Concern: Spirit-Led Quaker Action

by Jack Kirk

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Pendle Hill is pleased to return to print this essay by Jack Kirk, originally published in 1987 under the title "Creaturely Activities or Spiritually Based Concerns?" in the anthology Friends Face the World, edited by Leonard Kenworthy. We find in this essay a deeply meaningful discussion of the role of "concerns" in the lives of Friends, as well as excellent guidance for the discernment and testing of leadings. The essay is presented substantially as it originally appeared. The author has introduced minor revisions to update the material, and has rewritten much of the final section on the call to wholeness for the Friends community in response to the state of the Religious Society of Friends in 2009.

Jack's focus on the value of bringing together divergent approaches to Quakerism leads him to embrace Convergent Quakerism, which combines "unprogrammed, programmed, liberal, evangelical, post-liberal, post-evangelical, emerging, postmodern, Christian, seekers, and young and old. We are people who've grown tired of the old categories and the lack of creativity our tradition has found itself in; we're bothered by the absence of a relevant Quaker message in the world and we like to use what ever means possible to share our ideas and connect."

Product Details

BN ID: 2940158793288
Publisher: Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date: 09/01/2017
Series: Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #404
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 85 KB

About the Author

Jack Kirk grew up in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, where he was a member of Willistown Meeting. He attended West Chester Friends School, then Westtown School, where Thomas Brown’s Quakerism class first awakened him to “the exciting spiritual dynamics in Quakerism.”

At Earlham College he was further inspired by Landrum Bolling, Elton Trueblood, and Hugh Barbour. In 1965 he received the M.Div. degree from Christian Theological Seminary. He was recorded as a minister in Western Yearly Meeting during the 1960s.

He has served as pastor for Fairfield Meeting in Indiana, New Garden Meeting, Archdale Meeting, and Greensboro Meeting in North Carolina, University Friends in Kansas, and Bakersfield Meeting in California. He has served as director of the Quaker Hill Conference Center in Richmond, Indiana, as editor of Quaker Life magazine, and as field secretary for Friends United Meeting. He represented Friends United Meeting in the New Call to Peacemaking endeavor with the Brethren and Mennonites.

Jack Kirk and his wife, Janet Agan Kirk, live in North Carolina where they are members of Greensboro Meeting, “which truly embodies the Quaker testimony of community.” They have two children and five grandchildren.
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