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

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 distictives can play in the growth of the Friends Church in the twenty-first century's postmodern culture.