Truth's bright embrace: Essays and poems in honor of Arthur O. Roberts

Ordinary prophets, extraordinary lives / Howard R. Macy -- Resistance in a 'culture of permission' / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher -- The relation between content and experience / Paul N. Anderson -- William Penn and the Scriptures / Edwin B. Bronner -- Religion and ethics in the thought of John Bellers / T. Vail Palmer, Jr. -- The business of our lives / Tom Head -- Anthony Benezet, the true champion of the slave / Irv A. Brendlinger -- The Indians' friends / James D. Le Shana -- Rufus Jones and Quaker unity / Hugh Barbour -- The nature of mysticism / Gayle Beebe -- Thy obedience is perfect freedom / T. Canby Jones -- Christ is still the answer / Dean Freiday -- What future for evangelical Friends? / Charles Mylander -- Some reflections show more on Quakers and the evangelical spirit / John Punshon -- The mother tongue : acquiring language and being human / Rebecca Thomas Ankeny -- The anti theatrical prejudice and the Quakers / Michael P. Graves -- A nature nudge / Gary K. Fawver -- Poems / Ed Higgins -- Poems / Nancy Thomas -- Poems / Michael P. Graves -- Darkness at noonday / Ralph Beebe -- Abigail v. Harvey / Lee Nash -- Herbert Hoover as an enduring model for American leaders / Mark O. Hatfield -- Evangelical Quakers and public policy / Lon Fendall -- A basis for civility / Philip E. Smith -- Arthur O. Roberts, a select bibliography. show less