INFORMATION ON HEALING PRAYER
A library of downloadable (.pdf) resources on the history and practice of Healing Prayer in the Manner of Friends, and other useful information assembled by Richard Lee. Click on the title to download the selected article.
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Introduction to Meeting for Worship with Attention to Healing
“Meeting for Worship for Healing” Richard K. Lee and Sarah M. Lloyd, Friends Journal, April 2018
“Healing Prayer Workshop” Merry Stanford and Richard Lee, Quaker Life, March 1997
“What is a Meeting for Healing” Buffy Curtis, The New England Friend, Spring 2002
“Meeting for Healing at Homewood Friends” — from the Internet, 2003
“Meeting for Worship for Healing: A Friendly Guide” by Richard Lee
Information by and/or about George Fox
The Gift of Healing in the Life of George Fox — Essay by Edmund Goerke
George Fox’s Teaching on the Place of Scripture, George Amoss (online)
“Fox and the Witches” — etching and quotation from George Fox’s Journal
From the Friends Fellowship of Healing — Great Britain
(www.quaker-healing.org.uk)
“Early Friends and Spiritual Healing” — Cecil W. Sharman, Toward Wholeness #72, Spring 1992
Prayer for Healing in the Experience of the Friends Fellowship of Healing, Pamphlet #8, 1989
“Towards a Quaker Healing Testimony” — David Hodges, Toward Wholeness #87, Spring 1997
“True Prayer” — Jack Dobbs, Toward Wholeness #90, Spring 1998
Starting a Healing Group, Friends Fellowship of Healing, Pamphlet #4
Information by and/or about Richard Lee
Quaker Healing Prayer: Comments on Process
Background on the Red Cedar Friends Meeting for Healing — compiled by Richard Lee
Healing: Early Friends — with Dates (but not a chronology)
Modified Worship Sharing/Talking Stick
Resource and Reading List — compiled by Richard Lee
Bible Study Resources on Healing
Memorial Minute for Richard Lee (January 19, 1949 – August 5, 2018) Approved by Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business, Red Cedar Friends Meeting, February 10, 2019
Memorial Program for Richard Lee (January 19, 1949 – August 5, 2018)
Information about Richard Lee’s approach to kenning
Kenning: An Introduction for Skeptics by Richard Lee
Kenning article from Wikipedia
“Witting and Kenning” — definitions relating to Richard Lee’s approach to kenning
A Kenning Poem by Carl Sandburg
Keening of the Dead — keening and kenning are related
More articles about Quaker Healing
“The Power of Suffering Love: James Nayler and Robert Rich” George Amoss Jr. 2002
“Healing Ministry” — Encouraging Calligraphy — Text by Anthony Dungey
Healing from Other Points of View
Pagan Healing — an online overview
“Alternative Medicine: Powwowing as Therapy in an Amish Family” Gregory Hartzler-Miller
“Amish Health: The Importance of Culture to Medical Treatment” — Jeremy Jones, 1993
“The Anabaptist Tradition,” chapter by Walter Klaasen
Jewish Healing Prayers — From Jewish Link, June 2007
Cornish Healing — “Charms and Charmers” from Cornish Witchcraft, 2009
Other Useful or Supporting Information — Quaker
“Spoken Ministry” — Quaker Home Service, 1988
“Deciding to Speak in Open Worship” — Quaker Life, July/August 1997
Worship Sharing Guidelines used by Red Cedar Friends Meeting
“Christ and Jesus in Early Quakerism” David K. Leonard, 2002
“Healing Chair” — poem by C. Michael Gibson, Friends Journal, August 1998
Other Useful Items
“Prayer Practices for Peacemakers” — Marlene Kropf for the Mennonite Church USA 2009
Red Cedar Friends Meeting 