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From the best-selling author of Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity comes Practicing Peace: A Devotional Walk through the Quaker Tradition, a guide to the Quaker discipline of practicing peace for spiritual seekers of any religious tradition. Stories of successful nonviolent movements throughout history are partnered with quotes mined from over 350 years of Quaker teachings on peace. Query questions lead readers on a journey to self-discovery and through the stages of practicing peace: first by focusing inwardly, then turning their eyes to practice peace in the world around us. Includes a brief biography of each Friend quoted in the book, a glossary of common Quaker terms as well as additional online resources.

Cathy Whitmire is donating the royalties from Practicing Peace to the African Great Lakes Initiative. This organization works to break the cycles of violence in Rwanda, Burrundi, the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania by working at the grassroots level to teach people to resolve their conflicts without resorting to violence and to heal the trauma from the years of conflict both on the personal and societal level.

From the bestselling author Whitmire comes this guide to the Quaker discipline of practicing peace. Stories of successful nonviolent movements throughout history are partnered with quotes mined from over 350 years of Quaker teachings on peace.

Quaker author Cathy Whitmire wrote Practicing Peace to share her tradition’s 350-year-old practice of peaceable living with spiritual seekers of all religions. Over the past thirty years Whitmire has served in many leadership roles in the Quaker community, including supervising community empowerment projects in New England for the American Friends Service Committee. She is an Alternatives to Violence trainer, and has nonviolent communication and mediation training.

Whitmire received a Masters of Divinity in 1987 from Harvard Divinity School. Since then, she has served as a Protestant chaplain and pastoral counselor on a psychiatric unit of an inner-city hospital in Boston. Whitmire attended the Shalem Institute's program in spiritual direction in 1997 and is currently writing, providing spiritual direction, and leading peace and nonviolence workshops and retreats.

She is also the author of Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity, a compilation of Quaker wisdom for achieving simplicity. The mother of a grown son and two stepsons, Zachary Hunter and Richard and Jonathan Ewell, Whitmire lives with her husband, Tom Ewell, in a home overlooking Puget Sound in Washington.

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