In Search of Hope: A Personal Quaker Journey

by Joanna Godfrey Wood

Overview

In Search of Hope delves into our lived experience today to discover the fleeting moments of hope available to us and offers stories, as well as easy practical exercises, to give us paths into the self so that we might create a personal landscape in which hope can flourish. Inspired by the writings of one of the founders of Quakerism in the seventeenth century, Margaret Fell, In Search of Hope is an attempt to bring some of the first ideas of Quakerism into our lives in these challenging times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803415147
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	04/01/2024
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	5.45(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Joanna Godfrey Wood has been a Quaker all her life and she attended a Quaker school. She recently took the Equipping for Ministry course at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham, England, which gave her a chance to study the works of Margaret Fell. Joanna spent her working life as a book editor. Joanna lives in North London, UK.

Editorial Reviews

In Search of Hope is a vibrant, practical book, which draws on the deep roots of the Quaker tradition to provide immediate and useful spiritual help. Through story, example, personal reflection and history the reader is guided on an exploration of the living hope which was experienced by Margaret Fell and which we can experience today.

Rhiannon Grant