What's New

On our way to the Gathering/Faith & Play Story Materials & Fit for Freedom Study Guide

PLEASE NOTE: The Bookstore and the rest of FGC are on the way to the Gathering in Blacksburg. Because of this, fulfillment of your orders will likely be delayed. We leave in the morning of Wednesday, June 24th and will not be answering the phone again until Thursday. Feel free to place orders and we will fulfill them, shipping the accumulated orders on Monday, June 29th. Thanks for your patience as we move through this transition. If you need something urgently while we're away, we recommend that you call us at 800-966-4556 beginning on Monday, June 29th.

Faith & Play Story Materials

We now offer completely assembled story materials for two Faith & Play stories, lovingly created by hand by Faith & Play Creations.

The Gifts story materials are created from felt with bright colors and a simple, elegant design. The Mary Fisher story materials include all characters, including the sultan, Mary Fisher, a wooden boat and felt to represent the places along her journey. George Fox's Big Discovery includes a tan felt underlay; four green pieces in stiff felt, each with a cutout attached (an off-white church, a blue and linen open book, a gray soldier, and bright yellow music notes; a wooden heart covered in red felt; a heart shape in green fabric; and a gray George Fox figure with felt hat. We also offer the companion curriculum in print or as a downloadable pdf.

Fit for Freedom Study Guide Now Available!

Quaker Press and the Committee for Ministry on Racism have released the Fit for Freedom, not for Friendship Study Guide in both a print version and as a downloadable pdf . The Study Guide offers ideas for exploring Fit for Freedom, not for Friendship further and relating it to current movements and issues among Friends.

Posted by QuakerBooks on April 23, 2009

Author Interviews

The Vocation and Soul of an Educator: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer

By Chel (Michel) Avery:I reached Parker Palmer by phone at his Wisconsin home after several false starts trying to schedule an interview. He travels much of the time. And I had been inconsistent about my readiness for our conversation. When Angelina at Quakerbooks first asked me to interview Parker Palmer, I was delighted. I had first encountered his voice in the 1980's, when a colleague recommended To Know As We Are Known (Harper), one of his early books that spoke to my interest in how to create meaningful learning environments for adults. Later, when I worked at Pendle Hill and when I became involved with Quaker schools, I found that his pamphlet Meeting for Learning (Friends Council on Education) was a classic, frequently-quoted guide among those involved in Friends education. I am always interested in accounts of how people's lives and vocations unfold, and I was quick to read and profit from his own personal story when Let Your Life Speak (Jossey-Bass) was published. So it was with high expectations that I purchased The Courage to Teach (Jossey-Bass) when it came out just over a decade ago. The book was stimulating much discussion among Quaker educators and I looked forward to reading it. Read more

Posted by QuakerBooks on April 12, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Book Musings

Waking to the Earth - March 2009

Posted by QuakerBooks on March 9, 2009 | Comments (0)

Living Prophetic Witness - December 2008

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Staff Picks

Graham Garner's Picks

These are a few books we stock that Friends haven’t seemed to notice yet... Read more

Posted by QuakerBooks on September 28, 2006 | Comments (0)

Laird Holby's Picks

Looking for language to illuminate the "inner light" and for the encouragement to live it. Read more

Posted by QuakerBooks on September 28, 2006 | Comments (0)