A tale of two Quakers -- Preface -- Introduction : "Convincement" -- How the Quakers invented America -- Faith versus feeling -- The meaning of the Light -- The significance of Jesus -- How Quakers approach the Bible -- The good Quaker -- The holy experiment -- Living in the light of eternity -- Why did the Quakers stop quaking? -- A peculiar people -- What Jesus learned in the desert and Thoreau learned in the woods -- To see the world in a grain of sand -- Conclusion : How the Quakers are reinventing America.