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Can you guess which Pendle Hill Pamphlets have been purchased most often in the past dozen years or so? Here’s our latest list:

• Four Doors to Meeting for Worship (PHP #306), Bill Taber’s explanation of what happens in a Quaker meeting for worship, is the most popular pamphlet by far, if sales figures are our guide. This pamphlet recognizes that Friends’ worship can be challenging to many and offers metaphors of a stream and four doors to further understanding and insight. Four Doors has been read and discussed in many adult classes in Quaker meetings.
• Next is Barry Morley’s Beyond Consensus: Salvaging Sense of the Meeting (PHP #307), another pamphlet which has proven useful in explaining Quaker practice. Decision making in a meeting for business is vibrantly described and clarified through Barry Morley’s stories of how it “works.”
• The third “most popular” pamphlet isn’t specifically Quaker; it’s Simone Weil’s The Iliad or The Poem of Force (PHP #91). This piece has been used for years in college classes.
• Mary Morrison wrote Without Nightfall Upon the Spirit: Reflections on Aging (PHP #311), when she was in her 80s. Many people have resonated with the thoughts in this pamphlet, and it has been widely read in retirement communities.
• George Peck wrote What Is Quakerism? A Primer (PHP #277), in response to the need for a brief, very basic introduction to Quaker faith and practice.

Rounding out the current “top 10” are:

• Spiritual Discernment: The Context and Goal of Clearness Committees, by Patricia Loring (PHP #305);
• Guide to Quaker Practice, by Howard Brinton (PHP #20), currently out of print, to be republished soon;
• Reflections on Simplicity, by Elaine Prevallet (PHP #244);
• The Testimony of Integrity, by Wilmer Cooper (PHP #296); and
• Gospel Order: A Quaker Understanding of FaithfulChurch Community, by Sandra Cronk (PHP #297).

These pamphlets are available from the Pendle Hill Bookstore at http://www.pendlehill.org/bookstore/pamphlets.php. We expect that these classic pamphlets will soon be joined by several recently published pamphlets as subscribers and other readers share what they find valuable.