Reasons for Hope: The Faith and Future of the Friends Church

If you missed oted teacher, writer, and theologian John Punshon in the classroom, this is the book to buy. Reasons for Hope, is a mini-course in evangelical Friends theology, Church history, and philosophy. It is also a call for renewal. Punshon cites the biblical bases of the Friends distinctives -- open worship, decision-making under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, foregoing outward practice of the ordinances, and the Friends testimonies of simplicity, integrity, and nonviolence -- and builds a case for the role these distinctives can play in the growth of the Friends Church in the twenty-first century's postmodern culture.