If you missed oted teacher, writer, and theologian John Punshon in the classroom, this is the book to buy. 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 distinctives can play in the growth of the Friends Church in the twenty-first century's postmodern culture.