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Bringing God Home

Exploring Family Spirituality - Php 362

BY MARY KAY REHARD
The L'Arche and Taize communities have influenced Quaker Mary Kay Rehard in her vocation as mother and religious educator. In this pamphlet, she writes of those influences and the insights and practices that help create healthy family environments and nurture the spirituality of children and their parents.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2002 39 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Broken English

Ohio Amish Mystery Series - #2

BY P. L. GAUS
The peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio, in the heart of Ohio's Amish country, is rocked by the vicious murder of one of its citizens at the hands of an ex-convict. When a local reporter covering the story ends up dead as well, with the convict already behind bars, suspicion falls on David Hawkins, father of the first victim. But Hawkins is nowhere to be found, not even among the protective Amish colony that had taken him in as one of its own regardless of his shadowy past. Professor Michael Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Cal Troyer set out to uncover the truth that seems so elusive in their otherwise quiet corner of the world. .

Ohio University Press 2000 214 PP. Paper

$12.95 (low stock)

Brother Outsider

The Life Of Bayard Rustin - Dvd

BY NANCY KATES AND BENNETT SINGER
"Brother Outsider" illuminates the life and work of Quaker Bayard Rustin, who has been described as "the unknown hero" of the civil rights movement. A tireless crusader for justice, a disciple of Gandhi, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and the architect of the legendary 1963 March on Washington, Rustin dared to live as an openly gay man during the fiercely homophobic 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Brother Outsider reveals the price that Rustin paid for this openness, chronicling both the triumphs and setbacks of his remarkable 60-year career. Five years in the making and the winner of more than 25 awards and honors.

Western Film Projects 2008 87 MINUTES Dvd

$24.95 (low stock)

Brotherly Love

A Poem About William Penn

BY DANIEL HOFFMAN
A long poem which evokes William Penn's luminous vision of America and shows what has become of it as the intractable conflicts of our history-struggles over land, keeping faith with the Indians, the uses and abuses of power-threaten Penn's ideal. "Though grounded firmly in historical fact, [this poem] is very original in conception and quite effectively expresses the dreams and despairs of those who lived this history as well as our own contemporary need to understand the past as 'we clatter down the rigid rails into the future.'" - Library Journal.

University of Pennsylvania Press 2000 178 PP. Paper

$15.95 (in stock)

Brothers And Sisters All

Special Projects For First Day Schools

EDITED BY MARTHA SMITH
Projects include: Who is My Family?, Caring for One Another in Families, Honoring Differing Gifts in Families, Resolving Conflicts in Families, and Celebrating the World Family of God. Grades 1-HS.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1997 40 PP. Paper

$9.50 (backorder)

The Brothers Doug

Chronicles Of Babylon, Volumes I & Ii

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY DOUG GWYN
This 2-CD set of original music will be welcomed by those who've heard the lighter side of Quaker author-teacher-pastor Doug Gwyn-and a surprise to those who haven't. Doug showers a mix of theology, Quakerism, and human frailty with humor in "Approach-Avoid-Dance," "Eighty-Weighty Friend," "My God," and 27 other titles. Seriously funny.

Doug Gwyn 2006 2 CD SET Audio

$16.00 (in stock)

Buddhism Without Beliefs

A Contemporary Guide To Awakening

BY STEPHEN BATCHELOR
The former monk gives here a solid, straightforward introduction that demystifies Buddhism and explains simply and plainly how its practice can enrich our lives. Avoiding jargon and theory, Batchelor concentrates on the concrete, making Buddhism accessible and compelling and showing how anyone can embark on this path-regardless of their religious background.

Penguin 1998 127 PP. Paper

$13.00 (low stock)

Building A Global Civic Culture

Education For An Interdependent World

BY ELISE BOULDING
"How will we find ways to occupy the common space and share the common resources and the common opportunities in this company of strangers which is the human race, without obliterating the differences or doing violence to deeply held values? Can we stay rooted in our own communities, retain the best of our national ways, and still develop strategies for meeting human needs everywhere, in a linked system of mutual aid that respects the integrity of other ways of life?"From the Introduction.

Syracuse UP 1988 197 PP. Paper

$19.95 (low stock)

Building Consensus

Conflict And Unity

BY MONTEZE SNYDER, ET AL
"Practical peacemaking is carried on in many ways, and consensus decision-making is a very important part of this endeavor. This book envisions a much wider application of the traditional Quaker business process and suggests ways in which all kinds of groups can make decisions without voting, without personal manipulation and with respect for everyone's wisdom." A fine pragmatic articulation of the process involved in building consensus.

Earlham Press 2001 92 PP. Paper

$21.50 (low stock)

Building Peace

Sustainable Reconciliation In Divided Societies

BY JOHN PAUL LEDERACH
Building peace is John Paul Lederachs's definitive statement on peacebuilding. He explains why we need to move beyond traditional diplomacy , ehich emphasises top level leaders and short term objectives, toward a holistic aproach that stresses amultiplicity of peacemakers, long term perspectives, and the need to create an infrastructure that empowers resources within asociety and maximises contributions from outside.

US Institute of Peace 1998 208 PP. Paper

$14.95 (low stock)

Building The Life Of The Meeting

BY FRAN & WILLIAM TABER
The 24th annual Michener lecture sheds light on creating and sustaining spiritual community.

SEYM 1994 21 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

The Burning One-ness Binding Everything

A Spiritual Journey - Php 332

BY BRUCE BIRCHARD
"This essay recounts my spiritual journey: experiences of the Spirit through beauty, love, and worship, as well as reflections on how I understand the nature of the Spirit. I am especially concerned about the transcendent and immanent qualities of the Spirit, the relation of the Spirit to suffering and evil, and the significance of the creation as an incarnation of the Spirit."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1997 38 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Bury The Chains

Prophets And Rebels In The Fight To Free An Empire's Slaves

BY ADAM HOCHSCHILD
In 1787, twelve men Quaker and Episcopalian gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. This talented group combined a hatred of injustice with uncanny skill in promoting their cause. By the 1830's they had seen the end of slavery in the British Empire.

Mariner 2005 468 PP. Paper

$16.00 (low stock)

But I Tell You

BY KAREN OBERST
Integrating a detailed discussion and the original text, this is a refreshing and modern study of The Sermon on the Mount - the most popular part of the bible for many Quakers. A good resource by a Quaker author from the evangelical tradition. For personal or group study.

Barclay Press 2007 244 PP. Paper

$19.00 (low stock)

But Once _ Limited Edition Print

BY EMILY BROWN
BUT ONCE. In an Edition of 14. "In 2008 I made a suite of prints based on Friends testimonies, each with an extract of text from PYM's Faith and Practice. My hope was to convey visually some qualities commonly found in Friends' writings and practices. There are five prints in limited editions. They are 15 x 22 inches on sturdy archival paper, signed and dated on the reverse side. Each print has both an original line etching on gampi paper and a digital print on which it is set. They are for sale unframed. Very suitable for offices, hospitals, retirement communities, colleges, schools, social service agencies, and homes." - - Emily Brown's web site: www.emilybrown.net

Emily Brown 2008 PRINT Blank

$600.00 Availability checked Feb 9th 2:39am CST

But One Race

The Life Of Robert Purvis

BY MARGARET HOPE BACON
Born in South Carolina to a wealthy white father and mixed race mother, Robert Purvis (1810-1898) was one of the nineteenth century's leading black abolitionists and orators. Margaret Hope Bacon uses his eloquent and often fierce speeches to provide a glimpse into the life of a passionate and distinguished man, intimately involved with a wide range of major reform movements, including abolition, civil rights, Underground Railroad activism, women's rights, Irish Home Rule, Native American rights, and prison reform.

State University of New York Press 2007 272 PP. Cloth

$35.00 (in stock)

But Seriously Folks

Audio Cd

BY FAITH & PRACTICE
The second album from this "irreverent group of Quaker musicians." Includes "Peace in our Time," "This Little Light of Mine," "Give Yourself to Love," "Wayfaring Stranger," and "Angel from Montgomery."

Faith & Practice 2008 50 MINS Audio

$15.00 (in stock)

The Butterfly

BY PATRICIA POLACCO
Ever since the Nazis marched into Moniques small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her, until the night Monique encounters the little ghost sitting at the end of her bed. She turns out to be a girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding from the Nazis in Moniques basement. Playing after dark, the two become friends, until, in a terrifying moment, they are discovered, sending both of their families into a nighttime flight.

Penquin 2009 32 PP. Paper

$7.99 (in stock)

Call Into The Future

1965 Rufus Jones L

JAMES, ROBERT L.

Paper

$0.50 (in stock)

The Call Of The Bell Bird

A Quaker Travels The World

BY JENNIFER KAVANAGH
In April 2001, Jennifer Kavanagh set off with her partner Stephen Petter for a year's journey to connect with old and new spiritual influences, and spend time away from the world of affluence helping where they could in social projects. They followed in the tradition of travelling Quakers, visiting others of like mind and heart, but they also learned about how different other Quakers can be, and made unexpected discoveries about themselves. The book is full of encounters with the most remarkable people of all faiths and none.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2004 204 PP. Paper

$8.50 (in stock)

The Call To Conversion

Why Faith Is Always Personal But Never Private

BY JIM WALLIS
Faced with a growing gap between the rich and poor, bombarded by national security alerts that ratchet up our stress levels, taxed by a government that spends billions of dollars on war - where do we find hope? In this revised and updated edition of his classic, Jim Wallis insightfully critiques contemporary culture and politics, inspiring us with stories to convert our way of thinking and point to a solution to our current social and political dilemmas.

HarperCollins 2005 224 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

The Call To Discernment In Troubled Times

New Perspectives On The Transformative Wisdom Of Ignatius Loyola

BY DEAN BRACKLEY
Dean Brackley is a leader in social justice movements and a professor of Theology and Ethics at the University of Central America in El Salvador. He takes us through the famous Ignatian exercises, showing that they involve not only private religious experience but also a social, moral dimension, including care for others. His "Foreword for Skeptics" deserves to be a book all on its own.

Crossroads 2004 288 PP. Paper

$19.95 (low stock)

Called Into Being

Beacon Hill Friends House, New Voices Series

BY KODY HERSH
One of the New Voices series of talks by Young Adult Friends (18-35): A member of FGC's Youth Ministries Committee, Kody gives an intense, personal, joyous report on being called into a life lived authentically in response to The Call to Ministry. In this pamphlet, Kody challenges us to explore what living into authenticity means for a member of the Society of Friends.

Beacon Hill Friends House 2007 20 PP. Paper

$4.00 (in stock)

Called To Question

A Spiritual Memoir

BY JOAN CHITTISTER
Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir is Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Following a moving prologue on the nature of faith, Called to Question is broken into six parts that explore key themes -- the inward life, immersion in life, resistance, feminist spirituality, ecology, dailiness. Within each theme is a wide array of topics that embody Sr. Joan's life's work as a sociologist, theologian, Benedictine nun, rights activist, and spiritual guide to countless people throughout the world. Alive with the raw energy of a journal each chapter is an engaging dialogue between Sr. Joan and many different sources of wisdom.

Shhed and Ward 2009 232 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Callings

Twenty Centuries Of Christian Wisdom On Vocation

EDITED BY WILLIAM PLACHER
This unprecedented anthology gathers select passages on work and vocation from the greatest writers of Christian history. William Placher has written insightful introductions to accompany the selections. While the vocational questions faced by Christians have changed through the centuries, the book demonstrates how the distilled wisdom of these saints, preachers, theologians, and teachers remain relevant to Christians today. Includes writing by Augustine, Thomas a Kempis, George Fox, Gerrard Winstanley, Teresa of Avila, Dostoevsky, Dorothy Day, Simone Weil, Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, among others.

Eerdmans 2005 459 PP. Paper

$24.00 (in stock)

Can You Say Peace?

BY KAREN KATZ
International Peace Day is September 21. On this day and every day throughout the year, children all over the world wish for peace. Karen Katz takes readers on a bright and colorful journey around the globe to meet some of these children and learn about the many ways to say peace! Karen Katz's bright and childlike illustrations are the perfect way to introduce the very young to the concept of peace and teach them how to say the word in twenty-two different languages.

Henry Holt 2006 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

Candles In The Darkness (31003)

BY E STJOHN CATCHPOOL
A good contender for "most bland cover" and "poorest binding" awards of 1966, but the contents - a biography of a very busy and well travelled Friend makes for interesting reading. Founder of the Youth Hostel Association, he was active in mediation in Russia, in disaster relief in Japan and had adventures in Africa and America as well. Illustrated Poor condition paperback, SECONDHAND COPY.

Bannisdale Press 1966 263 PP. Paper

$7.50 USED - availability checked Feb 9th 2:39am CST

Captain Paul Cuffe's Logs And Letters, 1808-1817

A Black Quaker's "voice From Within The Veil"

BY PAUL CUFFE, EDITED BY ROSALIND WIGGINS
Paul cuffe was one of the few black Quakers of his day. Editor Rosalind Wiggins has collected this remarkable man's correspondence and ship's logs. She presents original manuscripts that tell the story of Cuffe's efforts to undercut the slave trade by forming a trading cooperative in Sierra Leone, thus linking the United States, England, and small West African nations. Wiggins shows the obstacles Cuffe faced: the War of 1812, a trade embargo, the network of African American organizations that provided him with help; and his concern for education within the black community.

Howard University Press 1996 528 PP. Cloth

$10.00 (in stock)

The Captivity Of Elizabeth Hanson

A Quaker Kidnapped By Native Americans In 1725

BY SAMUEL BOWNAS
"On the 27th of the sixth month, called August, 1725, my husband and all our menservants being abroad, eleven Indians, armed with tomahawks and gun came furiously into the house." Thus begins the story of the captivity of Quaker Elizabeth Hanson, "taken in substance from her own mouth" by Samuel Bownas. This book contains the complete text of Bownas' 1760 edition, with a twenty page introduction and notes designed to explain the background to this true story.

Simon Webb 2007 40 PP. Paper